core:

- fixed Master Brightness (this is fix games with black screens ex. "Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End");

desmume/ChangeLog

@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
  - Added transparency and fixed material alpha support and alpha testing on the 3D core [shash]
  - Changed how depth initial values are calculated (fixes SM64DS skybox) [shash] 
  - Added SSE2 version for some matrix routines [CrazyMax]
- - Some fixes in core (New SMB don't freeze now) [CrazyMax]
+ - Fixes in IPC FIFO [CrazyMax]
+ - Add Geometry FIFO simulation (New SMB and others games not freeze now) [CrazyMax]
+ - Fix in capture display (many games with both 3D screen not blinking now) [CrazyMax]
+ - Fix in master brightness (this is fix games with black screens) [CrazyMax]
  - Some optimizations in code [CrazyMax]
  - Make matrix 4x4 multiply routines use W-coordinate. [zeromus]
  - Add many matrix and vector functions to matrix.cpp [zeromus]

desmume/src/GPU.cpp

@@ -277,9 +277,7 @@ static void GPU_resortBGs(GPU *gpu)
 
 void GPU_setMasterBrightness (GPU *gpu, u16 val)
 {
-	u8 temp = (val&31);
-
-	gpu->MasterBrightFactor = (temp > 16 ? 16 : temp);
+	gpu->MasterBrightFactor = (val & 0x1F);
 	gpu->MasterBrightMode	= (val>>14);
 }
 
@@ -2244,11 +2242,12 @@ static INLINE void GPU_ligne_DispCapture(u16 l)
 	}
 }
 
-static INLINE void GPU_ligne_Brightness(NDS_Screen * screen, u16 l)
+static INLINE void GPU_ligne_MasterBrightness(NDS_Screen * screen, u16 l)
 {
 	GPU * gpu = screen->gpu;
 	u8 * dst =  GPU_screen + (screen->offset + l) * 512;
 	u16 i16;
+	if (!gpu->MasterBrightFactor) return;
 #ifndef HAVE_LIBGDKGLEXT_X11_1_0
 // damdoum :
 //   brightness done with opengl
@@ -2412,7 +2411,7 @@ void GPU_ligne(NDS_Screen * screen, u16 l)
 
 	if (gpu->core == GPU_MAIN) 
 		GPU_ligne_DispCapture(l);
-	GPU_ligne_Brightness(screen, l);
+	GPU_ligne_MasterBrightness(screen, l);
 }
 
 void gpu_savestate(std::ostream* os)

desmume/src/MMU.cpp

@@ -1670,6 +1670,14 @@ static void FASTCALL _MMU_ARM9_write16(u32 adr, u16 val)
 			
             case REG_POWCNT1 :
 				{
+// TODO: make this later
+#if 0			
+					u8	_LCD = (val) & 0x01;
+					u8	_2DEngineA = (val>>1) & 0x01;
+					u8	_2DEngineB = (val>>9) & 0x01;
+					u8	_3DRender = (val>>2) & 0x01;
+					u8	_3DGeometry = (val>>3) & 0x01;
+#endif
 					if(val & (1<<15))
 					{
 						LOG("Main core on top\n");
@@ -2187,6 +2195,13 @@ static void FASTCALL _MMU_ARM9_write32(u32 adr, u32 val)
 				break;
 			}
 
+			case REG_DISPA_MASTERBRIGHT:
+				GPU_setMasterBrightness(MainScreen.gpu, val & 0xFFFF);
+				break;
+			case REG_DISPB_MASTERBRIGHT:
+				GPU_setMasterBrightness(SubScreen.gpu, val & 0xFFFF);
+				break;
+
 			case REG_DISPA_BLDCNT:
 			{
 				GPU_setBLDCNT   (MainScreen.gpu,val&0xffff);