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<h1>What's New? 2.1.6 (changelog)</h1>
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<p><span class="rvts17">What's New? </span><span class="rvts21">2.1.6</span></p>
<p>Released -- ???? 2012</p>
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<p>The 2.1.6 release fixes a lot of bugs and adds many new features to prior releases, <span class="rvts22">increasing game compatibility and enhancing usability of both Windows and SDL ports</span>. The most significant feature of Windows version is TAS Editor v1.0, created to boost efficiency and ease of Tool-Assisted Speedrunning. Debugging tools were also improved.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts23">Common </span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed crash when using machine with no sound card</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed long savestate messages containing path</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Soft reset and power switch messages</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">All onscreen messages are now logged to Message Log</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Improved HUD text rendering wrapping</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed wrong default palette entry</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed bug when loading UNF games</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts24">Emulation</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">PAL/NTSC noise bug fixed</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed newppu bug which prevented metroid from booting, CHR RAM was not getting initialized to anything</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Newppu - fix bug in scroll reg logic causing mis-scrolls in p'radikus conflict</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">A bit of latest mapper changes from fceu-mm</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed mappers 242, 227, 115, 248, 12, 164, 15, 253, 23, 178</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Added mappers 176, 116</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Straighten out bandai m159/m016 handling and add valid null-EEPROM emulation to get those games booting.</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Add ability for CNROM games to choose whether they have bus conflicts (fixes Colorful Dragon (Unl) (Sachen), since it flakes out if bus conflicts are emulated)</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed bus conflict emulation, no kage no densetsu bug anymore</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Datalatch mapper - fix bug where wramless games would be able to do something to unmapped host emulator memory</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts24">Movies</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed old bug in "Play Movie From Beginning"</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Added support for HUD recording in AVI dumping</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Rerecord counter display</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Config-&gt;Movie options-&gt;Always suggest Read-Only replay (for Replay dialog). No more accidental rewrites!</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Removed "Lag Counter Reset" hotkey, as it was obsolete since FCEUX 2.0.2</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts24">Lua</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed lua drawing alpha blending</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">New library: taseditor (Windows-only) - contains 24 functions, see taseditor.chm</span></li>
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<p><span class="rvts22">New Lua functions</span></p>
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<li><span class="rvts22">emu.paused()</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">joypad.getimmediate()</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts22"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts22">New scripts:</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">ButtonCount.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">RBIBaseball.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">SoundDisplay.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">SoundDisplay2.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\InputDisplay_for_Selection.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\InvertSelection.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\RecordBackwards.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\ShowNotes.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\Swap1P2P.lua</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">taseditor\TrackNoise.lua</span></li>
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<p><span class="rvts24">Win32</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Lua console now gets proper file path when selecting a file from the recent menu</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed crashes and bugs caused by 2.1.5 allowing hotkeys without ROM loaded</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed context menus to use rightclicks in context menus correctly</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Reload hotkey now also supports removing invalid filenames in Recent ROMs</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Replay dialog speedup, it doesn't search for movies in fceux root folder anymore</span></li>
</ul>
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<p><span class="rvts23">TAS Editor</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Completely rewritten tool with brand new architecture and design. Too many changes to enlist, see taseditor.chm</span></li>
</ul>
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<p><span class="rvts23">Debugger</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">General window layout cleanup; bigger font; "Load .DEB" can be switched off; etc</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed mysterious out of bounds condition while editing breakpoints</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed RAM peek by a rightclick on left pane</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Allow Frame Advancing when Debugger is in breakpoint state</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">When a breakpoint is triggered it becomes highlighed (selected) in breakpoints list</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Show the number of breakpoints (enabled and total) above the breakpoints list</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">"&gt;" shows current line in disassembly</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Improved stack display</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Added "CPU cycles" and "Instructions" counters (cumulative and delta) useful for profiling</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Added "Cycles counter exceeds N" and "Instructions counter exceeds N" type of breakpoints</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Doubleclick on the disassembly prompts "Add Execute breakpoint here" dialog</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
<p><span class="rvts23">Trace Logger</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Added "Use Stack Pointer for lines tabbing (nesting visualization)" option</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Added "To the left from disassembly text" option for log format customization</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed bug with trying to log to file without choosing a filename</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Tracer now also updates its window when user pauses the game, not just when Debugger snaps</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts23">Ram Watch / Ram Search</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Updating list when emulator is paused (on Power or when resetting search)</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed loading Data Size and Data Type from a .wch, now corrupted .wch won't crash</span></li>
</ul>
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<p><span class="rvts23">Cheats</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Don't lose cheat compare value when toggle cheat enables through UI</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Parse cheat files with non-ASCII characters properly</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="rvts24"><br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts23">GUI</span></p>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 24px; list-style-position: outside;">
<li><span class="rvts22">Support multibyte languages for opening files through drag&amp;drop (except Lua files)</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Loading TAS Editor projects (*.fm3) by drag&amp;drop</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed graphic tearing with vertical sync enabled in windowed mode</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Fixed bug with Input Config not displaying some key names</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Changed some checkboxes to radiobuttons in menu</span></li>
<li><span class="rvts22">Launch tools hotkeys shown in menu; general cleanup of menu/settings</span></li>
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