Here it is folks -- A brand new Cocoa port! This is a complete remake from the ground up, and constitutes about a year's worth of coding and testing, so enjoy! This log entry only includes a summary of the new features compared to v0.9.7. Due to the number of changes that have taken place, any bug fixes and developer-related details will not be reported here.
User Experience:
- Added many icons throughout the application to improve the visual appearance and provide easier visual cues.
- Added a toolbar and a sound volume slider to the emulation window.
- Added mouseover tooltips for most of the controls.
- Added the ability to change the emulation window display mode. The user can choose to display only the main screen, only the touch screen, or both screens.
- Added the ability to rotate the emulation window display to any arbitrary rotation angle.
- Added a bilinear filtering option for the display output.
- Added support for using video filters on the display output.
- Added the ability to copy a screenshot to the clipboard using Edit > Copy.
- ROM Info now provides much more ROM information in a better organized panel.
- The emulation window's status bar now gives more user feedback.
- In the emulation window, you can now click close to unload ROMs and quit the application.
- Externally loaded save states now behave more like typical document files: they ask to save upon close/quit, behave properly using Save and Save As, and support revert.
Emulation System:
- A modernized program architecture brings substantial performance improvements, especially on multiprocessor/multicore machines. This brings the Cocoa port much closer to the Windows port in terms of performance.
- Exposed all emulation, firmware, SPU, and SoftRasterizer options in the user interface. This should help users in configuring DeSmuME to work with many ROMs that were unusable before.
- Added support for using BIOS and firmware images.
- Added support for completely disabling GPUs (Tools > View Layers > Main GPU and Tools > View Layers > Sub GPU menu options).
- Added the ability to change the number of 3D rendering threads.
- Added support for using an ADVANsCEne database to autodetect the ROM save type.
Cheat System:
- Added a cheat manager, which allows the user to use cheat codes. DeSmuME internal cheats and Action Replay cheats are both supported.
- Added the ability to run a cheat search.
- Added the ability to import Action Replay cheats from an R4 Cheat database.
Input System:
- Any non-modifier key on the keyboard may now be used for the controller input.
- Added support for using USB HID devices for the controller input. Yes, you can use your favorite gamepads and joysticks now.
- All emulated controls can now be mapped, including Lid and Debug.
- Microphone input is now partially supported. Internal and white noise samples can now be generated for certain ROMs that require microphone input. For now, this should help the user complete certain games that rely heavily on microphone input, such as "The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks".
File Handling:
- Added a file migration assistant to help the user migrate their old files to the current version of DeSmuME.
- Added support for importing and exporting ROM save files in RAW and No$GBA formats.
- Added the Tools > Show Support Folder in Finder menu option, which opens DeSmuME's Application Support folder. This exists as a convenience for Lion users.
- Added new icons for DeSmuME's files.
Note: The XCode Legacy project is now deprecated, and should only be used to make unofficial Tiger builds. Any new builds should use the XCode 3 project.
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