What's New? 2.2.2

Released -- 23 September 2013

The 2.2.2 release fixes a number of emulation bugs and adds many new features, most of which are related to debugging and reverse engineering.

Common

• Properly savestate NSF files
• "Auto-resume old play session" now also works with NSFs

Emulation

• Fixed mappers 178, 28, 53, 154, 43, 253, 19, 2
• Mapper 012 - added hardware dip for language select
• UNIF PEC-586 - fixed render, added 512K cartridges suppport
• Fixed UNIF 8157, UNIF T-262, UNIF DANCE2000
• Palette RAM reading fix for Old PPU
• Bring some improvements to New PPU from BizHawk, fix vtoggle5/6 back to vtoggle
• Fixed mmc5 savestates

Lua

• Fix wrong frequency calculation in sound.get() function

New Lua functions:

• tobitstring()
• memory.readword()
• memory.readwordsigned()
• debugger.hitbreakpoint()
• debugger.getcyclescount()
• debugger.getinstructionscount()
• debugger.resetcyclescount()
• debugger.resetinstructionscount()

Win32

• Added "Square pixels" option to Video Config
• "TV Aspect" ratio can be customized, by default it's 4:3
• Changed "Disable hardware acceleration" checkbox to a drop-down list with 3 options
• Movie recording: remember last Author name when creating a new movie
• Movie recording: added ability to record "Insert coin" command (for VS games)
• When no script is currently running, Shift+L loads the most recent Lua script
• Dynamic link to lua51.dll instead of static linking, because some external libraries might crash without lua51.dll
• Updated 7z.dll to v9.22
• A couple of fixes which deal with "multiple ROMs in a single archive" case
• Auto-disable "Game Genie ROM" feature when no "gg.rom" file is found
• Fixed "Single Instance Mode"

TAS Editor

• Comply with Lua movie.rerecordcounting() setting
• Fixed workflow with "Auto-adjust Input according to Lag" disabled

Debugger

• Smart scrolling up/down by whole instructions - ported from an obscure version of FCEUXD 1.1
• Scrolling maintains relative position of the ">" pointer inside the Disassembly window
• Highlight PC pointer line when a breakpoint is hit
• debuggerFontSize can be specified in fceux.cfg
• Fixed storing and loading .deb files when working with archived ROMs
• Fixed Cycles counter reset when loading an earlier savestate
• Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address or name
• Symbolic names behave the same way as usual addresses
• Newly created Bookmarks inherit existing symbolic name by default
• Added CDL data column to the left from Disassembly, to distinguish executed branches of code from not executed
• Added 'T' condition for breakpoints (it checks the bank of the accessed data, see docs)

Trace Logger

• The dialog window can be resized
• Do not clear window log when stopping the logging
• Added "Log Cycles count" and "Log Instructions count" options
• Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address or name
• Clicking any address select the address
• Double-clicking any address brings Debugger at the address
• Added mouse wheel support
• Only output "from $XXXX" when the subroutine was called by JSR

PPU Viewer

• Added "Mask unused graphics" feature (needs Code/Data Logger running)
• Fixed window layout when using big fonts

Hex Editor

• Added "Highlighting" submenu and "Highlight Activity" feature
• Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address
• Specify Data bank condition when adding a Breakpoint by context menu
• Fixed bugs when saving files while working with ROMs in archives
• hexeditorFontSize can be specified in fceux.cfg

RAM Search/RAM Watch

• Added "Hex Editor" button to RAM Search (right-clicking an address works as well)
• Fixed RAM Watch bug when contents of old .wch file were mixed with the newly saved data

SDL

• "--periodicsaves" command line option
• "--4buttonexit" command line option
• "--loadstate X" and "--savestate X" command line options
• Added Unity desktop support
• Added otion to use system-provided LUA library instead of statically linked LUA
• Fix issue where battery backup save was not being saved when using "Quit" hotkey
• Fixed bug where FCEUX would take exclusive grab of input in windowed mode when resuming from pause

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