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FCEUX 2.6.6 Maintenance Release

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26 August 2023

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+The 2.6.6 release is mainly a maintenance update for the mappers and emulation core with a few new features added in.
+Some of these new features apply only to the Qt/SDL version of the GUI. +

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Common

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Mappers

+Minor refactor of save game RAM code. Fixes UNROM-512 flash clearing bug during movie play.
+Mapper 354: Add CHR-RAM protect.
+Mapper 78: Add submapper support.
+Add mapper 174.
+Move mapper 205 to mapper 361/366, add proper mapper 205.
+Mapper 205: Fix for split-rom variant (UNIF).
+Mapper 227: Fix CHR-RAM protext check.
+Changed UNROM-512 to use 8kB of CHR RAM memory by default.
+Mapper 342 memory optimization.
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Lua

+Implemented LUA function memory.registerread
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Core

+Memory initialization settings are now also applied to nametable, palettes, and sprites.
+Fixed bug were write instructions didn't always update the databus.
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Qt/SDL

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Debugger

+Added ld65 debug file symbol loader feature.
+Added checkbox to Qt debugger menu to control trace logger auto start function on debugger open.
+Added code to stop the trace logger on debugger close if it was the debugger who started it in the first place.
+Added address validity checking to breakpoint editor dialog entry fields.
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Video

+Added a third video driver option that uses a QPainter object to render QImages to the viewport (uses pure Qt API)
+Fixed video transparency issue that has been seen on some platforms (Wayland) by forcing alpha bits to be set to full opaque
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GUI

+Added state recorder feature, periodically saves time history of game play states that can be recalled and played out from.
+Fixed bug regarding force grayscale or use custom palette settings change not updating PAL 3x filter appropriately.
+Added feature that allows loading of save state files via drag n drop file dialog operations.
+Fixed redundant window focus bug that would occur when attempting to open a pre-existing window.
+Added optional cross-platform libarchive interface to allow Qt GUI to open ROMs from 7zip archives.
+Minor improvements to the ROM selection from archive dialog.
+Improved frame scheduling timing precision.
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Build

+Build fixes for GCC 13.
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