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fixed VSync & TripleBuffering behaviour workaround: VSync will be disabled when the menu is opened in full screen mode dynamic size for text messages image will not be rendered to backbuffer but to textured triangle strip fullScreenStretch will be applied immediately bBilinear filter was not applied at initialization minor fixes
2007-12-01 10:19:06 +00:00
VisualBoyAdvance-M
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2007-11-14 12:28:27 +00:00
Nintendo Game Boy / Game Boy Advance Emulator
2007-12-02 12:57:59 +00:00
Based on official VBA
fixed VSync & TripleBuffering behaviour workaround: VSync will be disabled when the menu is opened in full screen mode dynamic size for text messages image will not be rendered to backbuffer but to textured triangle strip fullScreenStretch will be applied immediately bBilinear filter was not applied at initialization minor fixes
2007-12-01 10:19:06 +00:00
Original Project Homepage: vba.ngemu.com
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New Project Homepage: vbam.ngemu.com
The Qt build uses Icons from the KDE project:
http://kde.org/
svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/pics/oxygen
fixed VSync & TripleBuffering behaviour workaround: VSync will be disabled when the menu is opened in full screen mode dynamic size for text messages image will not be rendered to backbuffer but to textured triangle strip fullScreenStretch will be applied immediately bBilinear filter was not applied at initialization minor fixes
2007-12-01 10:19:06 +00:00
Trimmed whitespace, and set propper line endings for SVN.
2007-11-14 12:28:27 +00:00
This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
fixed VSync & TripleBuffering behaviour workaround: VSync will be disabled when the menu is opened in full screen mode dynamic size for text messages image will not be rendered to backbuffer but to textured triangle strip fullScreenStretch will be applied immediately bBilinear filter was not applied at initialization minor fixes
2007-12-01 10:19:06 +00:00
Aim:
Combine the best features of the VBA forks in one build.
IMPROVE icon USE new icon for x64 CLEAN resource file REMOVE useless files
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Multi-platform support.
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System Requirements
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OS: Windows 2000 - Vista (x86 or x64)
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CPU: 700MHz minimum for GBA emulation, CPU requirements increase if Filters are to be used.
IMPROVE icon USE new icon for x64 CLEAN resource file REMOVE useless files
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RAM: ~64MB free
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GFX: ~32MB VRAM, DirectX9 drivers
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File Dependencies
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VBA-M Requires the following files, in order to run.
libpng13.dll
zlib1.dll
D3DX9_37.DLL
The first two are available from http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbacompiles/msvc2008/dll.7z,
While the last requires an update to DirectX, you can use the following tool to update - http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbacompiles/msvc2008/Directx_9c_webupdater.zip
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To Do List
==============
Important:
- Many games show emulation warnings in the log window (unaligned read, bad read/write address)
- Test: Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars 2
- Gfx.cpp/h optimization
- Test: Final Fantasy 4 airship intro
- Improve automatic 64k/128k flash save detection
- HQ3x/4x ASM implementation produces wrong interpolation on the image's border
- This has already been fixed in the C version; look at hq_base.h / line 343 - 372. The ASM version most likely only has something like skipLine instead of skipLinePlus and skipLineMinus, which is however necessary in order to work correctly.
- Fix OpenGL issues
- Remove 16 bit hack for filters
- Not compatible to software motion blur (display corruption)
- Add selection for compressed archives with more than one ROM in them
Less important:
- Add GBA cheat editing support (GB already has)
- Look at Cheats.cpp (Core) and GBACheats.cpp (GUI)
- Support D3DFMT_A2R10G10B10 (10 bit per color component) color format
- Add documentation for VBA-M (configuration guide)
- Improve AVI recording (produces asynchronous files)
- Enable audio stream compression for AVI files
- Add stereo upmixing support to OpenAL
- Verify BIOS files by checksum instead by file extension
- Merge HQ2x/LQ2x C code into code for HQ3x/4x
- Apply pixel filter to sprites and BG seperately for better image quality
- Create Visual Studio project using SDL makefile
Small update
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- Add device enumeration & buffer count selection for XAudio2
- Current buffer count: 4
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Performance:
- Apply HQ3x/4x optimizations from C version to ASM version
- Apply pixel filter only to changed parts of the image
- Make use of multi-core CPUs
- Make use of 64 bit CPUs
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Currently Known Bugs
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Known Bugs:
- Linking: Doesnt work quite right yet.
- OpenGL: Custom fragment/vertex shaders do not work quite as well as original test build (Mudlord)
- OpenGL: Custom fullscreen resolutions will not work when filters are enabled.
- Since other fullscreen OGL reses are disabled, I should disable custom OGL resolution
switching (Mudlord).
- OpenGL: Various context handling issues with OGL mode. The emulator should restart whenever is
enabled, thus eliminating these issues when switching graphics APIs. I don't why this didnt happen
in the first place, when it should. (Mudlord)
- Audio core: assertation error occurs when disabling GB sound
- I think its best we mute sound instead, since some games rely on audio for timing.
Plus, blargg's GB_Snd_Emu is extremely optimized stuff. (Mudlord)
- Wrong bit depth image is displayed for 2 frames when switching from/to HQ3x/4x ASM
- This is caused by the 16bit hack which does not re-process the emulated image.
It results in the display devices treating the image at pix with the wrong bit depth.
Small update
2008-03-09 17:23:18 +00:00
- Opening the OpenAL configuration dialog while using XAudio2 results in a crash.
- This issue seems to be related to OpenAL and nothing can be done about it.
- Caused by: OALConfig.cpp: line 41: "ALFunction.alcGetString( NULL, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER );"
- Does not happen with DirectSound for some reason.
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Credits
=================
VisualBoy and VisualBoy Advance Developers:
Forgotten
VisualBoy Advance-M Developers:
Mudlord
DJRobX
Nach
Jonas Quinn
Spacy