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<p><span class="rvts17">What's New? </span><span class="rvts20">2.1</span></p>
<p>Released March 29, 2009</p>
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<p>This release includes a multitude of new features, major fixes, and enhancements.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">New Features Win32</span></p>
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<p>*The latest mappers and mapper fixes from FCEU-mm. Adds support for many new games such as Warioland II (Unl), Shu Qi Yu, and Street Dance</p>
<p>*Full screen mode fixed! Also, Alt+Enter properly toggles full screen.</p>
<p>*Individual control for sound channels! (See <a class="rvts18" href="SoundOptions.html">sound config</a> for details).</p>
<p>*Undo/Redo Savestate/Loadstate features installed! No more loss of data to unintentional presses. (See <a class="rvts18" href="Gettingstarted.html">getting started</a> for details).</p>
<p>*Movie subtitles can now be included in .fm2 files. See <a class="rvts18" href="fm2.html">.fm2 documentation</a> for details and <a class="rvts18" href="MovieOptions.html">Movie options</a> for details on customizing.</p>
<p>*Auto-backup for movie files. (See <a class="rvts18" href="MovieOptions.html">movie options</a> for details).</p>
<p>*A Ram change monitor for the Memory watch dialog. (see <a class="rvts18" href="MemoryWatch.html">memwatch</a> for details).</p>
<p>*Frame counter works even without a movie loaded.</p>
<p>*AVI Directory Override option.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Major Bug / Crash Bug Fixes</span></p>
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<p>*Fixed throttling problems that resulted on AMD Dualcore processors. (Caused FCEUX to appear to be in turbo mode).</p>
<p>*Fix major crash issue where NROM game (such as SMB) savestates were writing erroneous information if a non NROM game was loaded prior.</p>
<p>*Fixed a bug that caused a new sav file to not get created when loading a 2nd battery backed game.</p>
<p>*Fix Directory Overrides so to allow users to have no override. Also fixes directory override reset bug.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Minor Bug fixes</span></p>
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<p>*Hotkeys - prevent "Hotkey explosion" where some laptop keys set off all unassigned hotkeys</p>
<p>*Timing - "disable throttling when sound is off" now only affects FCEUX when sound is off</p>
<p>*Clip Left and Right sides taken into account when drawing on screen (record/play/pause, lag & frame counters, messages, etc)</p>
<p>*Fixed bug where having sound off and Mute turbo caused chirps when toggling</p>
<p>*Video settings - fixed bug when both aspect ratio correction and special scaling 3x are set, video was getting resized incorrectly</p>
<p>*Auto-save cleanup -prevent loading an auto-save from previous session. Added flags for enabling auto-save menu item.</p>
<p>*Fixed issues related to big endian compiling. </p>
<p>*Fix bug so that Escape can now be assigned as a hotkey</p>
<p>*Fixed bug in screenshot numbering that caused numbering to not reset when changing games.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">GUI / Menu Enhancements</span></p>
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<p>*A right-click context menu added! Includes many commonly used items for a variety of situations.</p>
<p>*Menu items that are hotkey mappable now show their current hotkey mapping</p>
<p>*Major overhaul to the Menu organization. </p>
<p>*All FCEUX features are now accessible in the menu</p>
<p>*Alt Menu Shortcuts properly configured</p>
<p>*Menu items are properly grayed when not useable</p>
<p>*All movie related menu items moved to a<a class="rvts18" href="MovieOptions.html"> Movie options</a> dialog </p>
<p>*Removed hard-coded Accel keys and replaced with re-mappable hotkeys (Open & Close ROM)</p>
<p>*Drag & Drop for .fm2 and .lua files</p>
<p>*Many new functions added to the context menu (See <a class="rvts18" href="ContextMenuItems.html">context menu</a> for details)</p>
<p>*New Mappable Hotkeys: Open Cheats, Open ROM, Close ROM, Undo/Redo savestate, Toggle Movie Subtitles</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Lua</span></p>
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<p>*Added input.get() ! Returns the mouse info and all keyboard buttons pressed by the user.</p>
<p>*Fixed joypad.set(). False now sets a button to off. Nil does not affect the button at all (allowing the user to still control it).</p>
<p>*gui.text() Increased height (to approx. 7 lines).</p>
<p>*speedmode("turbo") now turns on turbo (which employs frame-skipping) rather than max speed.</p>
<p>*memory.readbyte will recognize frozen addresses (cheats).</p>
<p>*movie.framecount() always return a number, even when no movie is playing (since the frame counter is implemented without a movie loaded).</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.poweron()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.softreset()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.lagged()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.lagcount()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.getreadonly()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.setreadonly()</p>
<p>*Added FCEU.fceu_setrenderplanes(sprites, background) </p>
<p>*Added movie.active()</p>
<p>*Added movie.rerecordcount()</p>
<p>*Added movie.length()</p>
<p>*Added movie.getname()</p>
<p>*Added movie.playbeginning()</p>
<p>*Added -lua command line argment, loads a Lua script on startup</p>
<p>*Added zapper.read() - returns the zapper (mouse) data. (Currently does return zapper data in movie playback).</p>
<p>*Added joypad.write and joypad.get for naming consistency. </p>
<p>*Added rom.readbyte()</p>
<p>*Added rom.readbytesigned()</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Sound Config</span></p>
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<p>*Turning sound off disabled sound config controls</p>
<p>*Re-enabled sound buffer time slider control</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Hex Editor</span></p>
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<p>*Freezing ram addresses automatically updates the Cheats dialog if it is open.</p>
<p>* Added prevention from freezing more than 256 addresses at once (doing so caused crash bugs).</p>
<p>*Dialog remembers window size.</p>
<p>*Dump Rom & Dump PPU to file Dialogs use ROM to build default filename</p>
<p>*Maximize and minimize buttons added.</p>
<p>*Help menu item added</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Memory Watch</span></p>
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<p>*Dialog now includes Ram change monitoring. (see <a class="rvts18" href="MemoryWatch.html">memwatch</a> for details).</p>
<p>*Dialog is now collapsible to 1 column.</p>
<p>*No longer crashes when attempting to load an invalid file from the recent file menu.</p>
<p>*Cancel option added to the save changes dialog.</p>
<p>*Memory address values that are frozen by the debugger or hex editor are displayed in blue.</p>
<p>*Fixed bug that caused dialog to "disappear" due to saving -32000 as its window position.</p>
<p>*Save as dialog uses ROM name to build a default memory watch filename if there was no last used memory watch filename</p>
<p>*Drag and drop for .txt (memory watch) files.</p>
<p>*Minor menu and hotkey fixes.</p>
<p>*Watch values now compatible with custom windows dialog colors.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Debugger</span></p>
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<p>*Shows scanlines and PPU pixel values</p>
<p>*Shows scanlines even while in VBlank</p>
<p>*Added a Run Line button (runs 1 scanline per click)</p>
<p>*Run 128 Lines button (runs 128 scanlines per click)</p>
<p>*Number of active cheats listed.</p>
<p>*Cheats list automatically updated if ram addresses are frozen in the hex editor.</p>
<p>*Fixed bug that caused dialog to "disappear" due to saving -32000 as its window position.</p>
<p>*Debugger now has a minimum valid size</p>
<p>*Added "Restore original window size" button</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">PPU Viewer </span></p>
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<p>*Default refresh value set to 15</p>
<p>*Refresh value stored in the .cfg file</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Nametable Viewer</span></p>
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<p>*Default refresh value set to 15</p>
<p>*Refresh value stored in the .cfg file</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Trace Logger</span></p>
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<p>*Fixed bug where user can't scroll the log window while it is auto-updating.</p>
<p>*Changed message about F2 pause (left over from FCEUXDSP) to display the current hotkey mapping.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Text Hooker</span></p>
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<p>*Saving a .tht file no longer crashes</p>
<p>*Dialog updates every frame</p>
<p>*Initialization error checking reinstalled,</p>
<p>*Dialog remembers window position</p>
<p>*Fixed bug where canceling save as produces an error message.</p>
<p>*Save As produces default filename based on the current ROM</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Message Log</span></p>
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<p>*Remembers X,Y position</p>
<p>*Resized width and height</p>
<p>*Allowed more lines of text to appear on the screen at once.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Metadata</span></p>
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<p>*Remembers window position</p>
<p>*Can be called from the context menu if a movie is loaded (see <a class="rvts18" href="ContextMenuItems.html">context menu</a> for details).</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">TASEdit</span></p>
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<p>*added help menu item</p>
<p>*disabled menu items that are not currently implemented.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Turbo</span></p>
<p>*Turbo now employs frame skip, greatly increasing its speed</p>
<p>*The mute turbo option completely bypasses sound processing (another big speed boost)</p>
<p>*Turbo now works with the Lazy wait for VBlank sync setting</p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">SDL </span></p>
<p>*SDL Movie subtitle support and subtitle toggle hotkey added.</p>
<p>*SDL Added fcm to fm2 converter tool to SDL version.</p>
<p>*SDL Improved the SDL sound code; drastically improves quality of sound.</p>
<p>*SDL Savestate slots are now mappable.</p>
<p>*SDL Major updates to SDL documentation</p>
<p>*SDL Added Shift+M for toggling automatic movie backups.</p>
<p>*SDL Added option to mute FCEUX for avi capturing, check the documentation for more details.</p>
<p>*SDL Added --noconfig command line option</p>
<p>*SDL Frame Advance Skip Lag frames toggle implemented</p>
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