It kind of sucks that we don't emulate some behaviors properly, but there is
very little ROI for some of these features and I'm not going to spend time
implementing them any time soon. Making the PanicAlerts optional allows for
more testing of the core features on more games while "just" breaking less
important features like reverb.
On older versions there is no such concept of a "back buffer" since positional
audio is not supported. These buffers are just used for temp mixing, and while
it would be really nice if we could support more of that inter-buffer mixing
(TODO :) ) it does not warrant a PanicAlert at this time.
Fails ingame because it mixes to some buffers that are considered the back
buffers for Dolby games. That check might need to be less restrictive for games
that don't use Dolby mixing.
Add a flag for UCodes that only have four non-Dolby mixing destinations
(instead of the standard six destinations).
NTSC IPL is still hopelessly broken.
Used by a few titles (Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing) as well as the GameCube
IPL/BIOS.
Note that the IPL does not work yet because it mixes to unknown buffers.
Very close to the TWW version of the UCode, haven't determined any differences
yet (but I'm sure that will come soon). Works well enough to reach ingame
without any errors other than a few volume issues.
Zelda Twilight Princess (GC) seems to push null words into the command buffer.
The command handler in the UCode ignores initial command mails that do not have
the MSB set.
I was under the wrong impression that std::array's default constructor
performed value initialization. Turns out it does not, so an array of POD will
not be initialized.
While these are not really unrecoverable errors, while Zelda HLE is in a
testing / development phase it is useful to notice these "unexpected" cases (or
expected without known ways to reproduce) by making them as hard as possible to
ignore.
Now renders some of the cutscene audio in Zelda TWW. Most of the work around
sample sources is in a good enough state, even though it is still missing
features like Dolby mixing, IIR, etc.
Now accurate control flow for DAC. Voice rendering is not implemented yet, but
framing seems correct. Not expected to work for anything than DAC UCode games.
Push the mail at UCode boot time, not after the first update. This avoids a lot
of crazy busy-looping on the CPU side while waiting for the DSP to be
initialized.
This change is meant to solve the following problem: how to translate the
following snippet to DSPHLE:
SendInterruptAndWaitRead(MAIL_A);
SendAndWaitRead(MAIL_B);
SendInterruptAndWaitRead(MAIL_C);
This should cause the following actions on the CPU side:
---> Woken up by interrupt
Reads MAIL_A
Reads MAIL_B
<--- Exits interrupt handler
---> Woken up by interrupt
Reads MAIL_C
<---
But with the current DSPHLE mail support, the following would happen because
the "AndWaitRead" part is not supported:
---> Woken up by interrupt
Reads MAIL_A
Reads MAIL_B
<--- Exits interrupt handler
[Never gets the second interrupt since it was triggered at the same time as
the first one! Misses MAIL_C.]
This changes fixes the issue by storing two values in the mail queue on the DSP
side: the value of the mail itself, and whether a read of that mail should
trigger a DSP interrupt. If nothing is in the queue yet and an interrupt is
requested, just trigger the interrupt. In the present example, the queue will
look like this:
Mail value Interrupt requested
MAIL_A No <-- Interrupt was triggered when
pushing the mail to the queue.
MAIL_B Yes
MAIL_C No
When the CPU will read MAIL_B, this will cause MailHandler to trigger the
interrupt, which will be handled by the CPU when coming back from the exception
handler. MAIL_C is then successfully read.
This improves performance pretty much across the board for games.
The increase in performance is mainly from removing some code from the main JIT blocks of code (pushing and popping millions of registers) and
throwing them in farcode where it doesn't pollute the icache.
This is required to make sure two code spaces are relatively close to one another.
In this case I need the AArch64 JIT codespace and its farcode space to be within 128MB of one another for branches.
When the emulation is paused and the ALSA backend is used, make the audio
thread wait on a condition variable instead of busy-waiting. This commit
fixes bug #7729
Since the ALSA API is not thread-safe, calls to snd_pcm_drop() and snd_pcm_prepare()
in AlsaSound::Clear() are protected by the same mutex as the condition variable in AlsaSound::SoundLoop()
to make sure that we do not call these functions while a call to
snd_pcm_writei() is ongoing.
This fixes a race condition:
Before this commit, there was a race condition when starting a game:
Core::EmuThread(), after having started (but not necessarily completed)
the initialization of the audio thread, calls Core::SetState() which calls
CCPU::EnableStepping(), which in turns calls AudioCommon::ClearAudioBuffer().
This means that SoundStream::Clear() can be called before
AlsaSound::AlsaInit() has completed.
If the selected audio backend fails to Start() (which could happen for
example if there is no audio device), we currently still use the backend
anyway. This can lead to crashes on some platforms (such as Windows) and
is outright wrong anyway.
This commit fallbacks to the Null audio backend if the selected backend
couldn't be started.
This fixes bug #6001
The last heuristic wasn't quite smart enough and had a few
false positives in Mario Kart: Double Dash and Metroid prime 2.
Now we only activate if the game is rendering a 16:9
projection to a 4:3 viewport.
Someone suggested on IRC that we should make a database of memory
locations in GameCube games which contain the 'Widescreen' setting
so we can automatically detect if the game is in 4:3 or 16:9 mode.
But that's hardly optimal, when the game actually tells the gpu
what aspect ratio to render in. 10 min and 6 lines of code later,
this is the result. Not only does it detect the correct aspect ratio
it does so on the fly.
I'm a little suprised nobody thought about doing this before.
When calculating the size of the undisplayed margin in the case where
fbWidth != fbStride for RealXFB for displaying in the output window,
we do not scale by IR - RealXFB is implicitly 1x.
Pierre Bourdon