What's New? 2.1.6

Released -- ???? 2012

The 2.1.6 release fixes many bugs and adds new features to the prior 2.1.5 release. The most significant feature is new TAS Editor v1.0, created to boost efficiency and ease of Tool-Assisted Speedrunning.

Common

• Fixed crash when using machine with no sound card
• Fixed long savestate messages containing path
• Soft reset and power switch messages
• All onscreen messages are now logged to Message Log
• Improved hud text rendering wrapping
• Fixed wrong default palette entry

Emulation

• A bit of latest mapper changes from fceu-mm
• PAL/NTSC noise bug fixed
• Fixed bus conflict emulation, no kage no densetsu bug anymore
• Straighten out bandai m159/m016 handling and add valid null-EEPROM emulation to get those games booting.
• Fixed newppu bug which prevented metroid from booting, CHR RAM was not getting initialized to anything
• Newppu - fix bug in scroll reg logic causing mis-scrolls in p'radikus conflict
• Datalatch mapper - fix bug where wramless games would be able to do something to unmapped host emulator memory
• fixed mappers 242, 227, 115, 248, 12, 164

Movies

• Fixed old bug in "Play Movie From Beginning"
• Added support for HUD recording in AVI dumping
• Rerecord counter display
• Config->Movie options->Always suggest Read-Only replay (for Replay dialog). No more accidental rewrites!
• Removed "Lag Counter Reset" hotkey, as it was obsolete since FCEUX 2.0.2

Lua

• Fixed lua drawing alpha blending
• New library: taseditor (Windows-only) - contains 24 functions, see taseditor.chm

New Lua functions

• emu.paused()
• joypad.getimmediate()

New scripts:

• ButtonCount.lua
• RBIBaseball.lua
• SoundDisplay.lua
• SoundDisplay2.lua
• taseditor\InputDisplay_for_Selection.lua
• taseditor\InvertSelection.lua
• taseditor\RecordBackwards.lua
• taseditor\ShowNotes.lua
• taseditor\Swap1P2P.lua
• taseditor\TrackNoise.lua

Win32

• Lua console now gets proper file path when selecting a file from the recent menu
• Fixed graphic tearing with vertical sync enabled in windowed mode
• Fixed crashes and bugs caused by 2.1.5 allowing hotkeys without ROM loaded
• Fixed context menus to use rightclicks in context menus correctly
• Reload hotkey now also supports removing invalid filenames in Recent ROMs
• Replay dialog speedup, it doesn't search for movies in fceux root folder anymore

Debugger

• Fixed mysterious out of bounds condition while editing breakpoints

Cheats

• Don't lose cheat compare value when toggle cheat enables through UI

Ram Watch / Ram Search

• Updating list when emulator is paused (on Power or when resetting search)
• Fixed loading Data Size and Data Type from a .wch, now corrupted .wch won't crash

TAS Editor

• Completely rewritten tool with brand new architecture and design. Too many changes to enlist, see taseditor.chm

GUI

• Loading TAS Editor projects (*.fm3) by Drag & Drop
• Fixed bug with Input Config not displaying some key names
• Changed some checkboxes to radiobuttons in menu
• Launch tools hotkeys shown in menu

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