8 Task List

Vicki Pfau edited this page 2023-04-03 03:13:39 -07:00

Table of Contents

• Scheduled
• mGBA 0.11
• mGBA 0.12
• mGBA 1.0 blockers
• mGBA 1.1
• Unscheduled
• Core
• Qt
• Debugger
• Platform support
• Enhancements
• GB
• GBA
• Etc
• Infrastructure
• Website
• medusa
• medusa alpha 3
• medusa 0.1
• medusa 0.2
• medusa 2.0
• medusa 3.0

Scheduled

mGBA 0.11

• Scripting
  • input API
  • storage API
  • canvas API
  • emu Debug API
  • Timer callbacks
  • Python frontend
• Core
  • Input revamp
    • Modernize Qt API
    • Add multi-mapping to mCore API
    • Revise Qt UI for remapping
    • Revise mGUI UI for remapping
  • Canvas API
    • SDL integration
    • Qt integration
    • mGUI integration
    • Custom borders #1124
  • Game-specific configs
  • Modularize/plugin-ize larger features (e.g. scripting languages, video recording, etc)?
  • Library cleanup
• Updater
  • Add changelog support
  • Add mGUI support
• Debugger
  • Revamp API
  • Code data logging
  • Enhanced frame viewer that lets you tweak more parameters (good beginner task)
  • Profiling
• GB
  • More bootleg mappers
    • GBX mappers #2437
    • #2688
    • #2689
  • Pixel FIFO
  • SGB-on-GBC reboot fake mode
  • TAMA5 alarm support
  • MBC6 flash write support
• GBA
  • e-Reader improvements
• Qt
  • Forwarders
    • Base implementation
    • Finish testing
    • Mark stable version as usable before tagging
  • Fix video sync issues
  • Qt6 support
  • Cheat code assembler/disassembler
• mGUI
  • Auto-updater
• mNP
  • Revamp linking in the GBA core
  • mNP surface API
  • Netplay/mNP network protocol
• Other
  • Port more shaders from SameBoy
  • Subroutine profiling framework
  • Fix savestate bugs (how many are even left?)
  • WebAssembly port (help wanted)
  • Backport enough stuff from medusa to make merging less painful
  • Investigate switching to meson

mGBA 0.12

• mGUI2
• Visual debugger
• Wireless Adapter
• More GBA enhancements
  • MSU-1 alike
  • Expansible SRAM region
  • 64 MiB ROM hack support (either WS1 or banking?)
• GB
  • Infrared (both GBC and HuC-1/3)
• GBA
  • HLE MP2K ("XQ") audio fixing
• More peripherals
  • Power Antenna/Bug Sonar
  • Soul Doulz
• Whatever gets bumped from 0.11

mGBA 1.0 blockers

• Scripting
• Stable-ish API
• Actual documentation, including inline
• Actual netplay (mNP)
• mGUI2
• Actual debugging UI

mGBA 1.1

• TAS tools
• Orca?
• More "enhancement" features
• ???

Unscheduled

Core

• Overhaul sync?
• Exporting patched ROMs
• Investigate if BPS has bugs
• Saves based on patch name?
• Scripting-like cheat system
• mVL filtering/processing
• Generic ARM core for testing
• API cleanup
• Move optional (compile time) struct fields to sub-structs that can be nulled (for API reasons)
• CIneplex

Qt

• Redo save state viewer

Debugger

• DWARF support
• DS I/O port names
• DS FIFO viewer
  • Allow tweaking the FIFO state and replaying it
• Multi-CPU debugging support
• Improve CLI help

Platform support

• Better per-platform support for audio APIs
• Better per-platform support for game controller APIs
• Generate PDBs on Windows

Enhancements

GB

• Tile replacement/upscaling

GBA

• MSU-1 alike
• Expansible SRAM region
• 64 MiB ROM hack support (either WS1 or banking?)
• Widescreen support of some sort (canvas integration?)
• "Unclocked"/"overclocked" code regions for faux OCing
• DLDI
• Tile replacement/upscaling

Etc

• Savestate testing
• Cheat database integration
• An Android port would be nice but I'm not gonna do it alone (#1660)[https://mgba.io/i/1660]

Infrastructure

• Get buildbot working for approved PRs
• Move bugzilla to new server
• Set up a wiki of some sort (not this one, maybe)
• Automate updating the patron list

Website

• Add pages for per-version scripting APIs
• Automatically add dev version scripting API

medusa

medusa alpha 3

• Fix up regressions from merging master
  • Clean up Timers
• Separate out GBA and NDS RTCs
• Fix some crashes and more bugs
• Input revamp

medusa 0.1

• Add a bunch of the hardware that's missing now (more 3D stuff)
• Maybe revamp the renderer?
• Savestates!
• Proxy renderers for GX and the two renderers
• mVL support
• Threaded rendering

medusa 0.2

• DLDI support
• xdelta support

medusa 2.0

• Good DS emulation!

medusa 3.0

• DSi emulation