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