Previously, the DVD variant NTSC/PAL modes used the horizontal blanking
interval calculation algorithm used by digital video modes, which
shouldn't be used and also rounding error check was neglected.
Added the DVD variant modes to the list in analog video mode finder
subroutine. This should impact timing/vertical synchronization in PSX
games significantly.
Previously, the calculation for the size of data to be loaded was done
based on the rendering target buffer size and scaling multiplier, which
was totally wrong. This led to different resolutions having different
load sizes while the size of the real GS memory is common regardless of
the scaling variancies.
Hence use the default rendering target buffer size for the load size
independent of the scaling values. I've also removed a buffer height saturation
code which seemed unreliable.
Note: The accurate version of the code can be enabled using the macro
provided in config.h (which is more intensive on resources), the current
code goes along with the approach of maintaining a decent performance
level along with a formidable accuracy.
Avoid using the IOCTL_DVD_START_SESSION and IOCTL_DVD_END_SESSION ioctls
- it's not necessary to obtain an Authentication Grant ID (AGID) before
requesting the DVD physical format layer descriptor.
Adjust region id for BT2.
Move the sky texture(depth) hack back to Partial level only for the EU
regions. Effect is still not rendered correctly and causes a half
screen bottom issue.
Add R&C3 EU to Automatic Mipmapping.
Previously the limit was 1000, now 10000 in the GUI. It should help in
some rare cases where a higher number is needed without the need of ini
editing and value reset issues caused by the GUI.
The XPad plugin has been superseded by the LilyPad plugin, and is known
to cause control issues.
The USBqemu plugin is an dead plugin with no functionality.
Close#106Close#2293
This adjusts the copy bytes command format from
5aaaaaaa nnnnnnnn
00000000 bbbbbbbb
to
5aaaaaaa nnnnnnnn
bbbbbbbb 00000000
so that it matches the copy bytes command format used by PS2 cheat
devices (GS/CB/XP/AR2).
Switch to using vector for the dump sector table, and also fix a bug
where memory was not allocated when writing to a v2 format block dump,
causing a null pointer dereference.
Also switch to using the v2 block dump format, which generally produces
smaller dump files (the dumps also seem smaller than the ones generated
by cdvdiso, which seems to repeat sectors).
- Adds tooltip for Convert memory card button in the memory card dialog
- Updates several memory card console writes.
- Adds 2018 copyrights to the updated files
Changes the file extension used by PSX memory cards to the common .mcr
instead of using the same (.ps2) extension used by PS2 memory cards.
Updates the extension listed in Create memory card dialog when a PSX or
PS2 memory card is selected.
Replaces the awkward checkbox for a PSX memory card in the bottom left
of the Create Memory Card dialog with a radio button like the other
memory card types.
Rearranged/updated many GUI elements.
Reduce height of window to make it more appealing for laptop users.
Add OpenGL HW/SW options to Renderer Override.
[skip ci]
Instead of faffing around with strings and having to handle a lot of
edge cases when trying to override the renderer, just let
WritePrivateProfileString do all the hard work for us instead.
The workaround was used to prevent macro substitution occuring on paths
containing "linux", but it's no longer necessary since "linux" is not
set as a predefined macro when a "-std=" option is passed to gcc.
Fixes#2268.
Previously if HW hacks were enabled Merge Sprite was active(if checked) on
native resolution even if the GUI option was disabled, which in result
caused glitches in games on native resolution.
This should address that issue.
Remove Aggressive CRC hacks for SSX 3. Was used to remove the red lines
on older versions but no longer needed since the issue has been fixed.
Offered 1fps or less speed bump but it's not worth keeping for such a
minimal increase.
Merge all FFX CRC hacks in to one. They share the same code so it's
better to have one to avoid duplicate code.
Move CRC hack for Bleach Blade Battlers to Aggressive. It removes the
character shading. It can be used as a speed hack since the gains are
quite good from it. Around 15-30%.
Add missing CRC ids for Soul Calibur 2 and 3.
Move CRC hacks to DX level. They are not needed anymore on OpenGL since
Depth Emulation fixes depth issues (shadows).
I found it might be useful for looking into issues at certain cases
where users provide a screenshot covering the titlebar, so we can easily
identify which video mode is being used.
Especially useful for looking into PCRTC issues.
The assembler was previously assembling instruction "b i" as an alias to "j I".
This caused unexpected behavior when attempting to assemble an
unconditional branch. The previous behavior would cause
position-independent code to fail due to the distinction between
the absolute address of a jump vs. the offset of a branch.
- Added proper clamping/rounding modes for Star Wars Bounty Hunter
- Added VIF FIFO hack for Petz - Horsez 2 to resolve hang at loading screen
- Update to compatibility status of few games
[skip ci]
Move CRC hack to Partial that fix the half screen
bottom issue since the effect is not rendered correctly.
Move CRC hack to Aggressive. These hacks are only
needed when running upscaled resolution. They skip the
blur effect which cause ghosting and some other screen issues.
Side effect is they also remove the channel effect on OpenGL
which is emulated correctly so let's put them on Aggressive.
Comment out a hack, it's unknown what the hack does atm.
If there are new issues then it will be added back.
Added comments what the hacks do.
Partial port for channel shuffle effect to Direct3D for Tekken5.
The effect is skipped and not rendered but now the top left
screen glitch has been resolved.
Note: At least Minimum CRC level is required for this to work.
Add hidden option "UserHacks_DisableNVhack" to disable
the Nvidia hack on Direct3D which added black lines on the right
and bottom of the screen. Could be useful for Intel and AMD GPUs.
A better solution would be to add Vendor Id detection instead,
but this will do for now.
To disable the Nvidia hack add UserHacks_DisableNVhack=1 in GSdx.ini
Fixes memcard access in Final Fantasy VIII, and likely in other PSX
games supporting the Pocketstation peripheral. This makes inserted PSX cards show up as PocketStation devices in the PS2 browser, which is okay for now.
Akash