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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
Trimmed whitespace, and set propper line endings for SVN.
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
2008-03-09 20:25:55 +00:00
New Project Homepage: vba-m.ngemu.com
2008-03-09 17:12:54 +00:00
Fixed several typos in docs
2008-03-09 20:25:18 +00:00
The Qt build uses icons from the KDE project:
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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
2008-01-14 21:58:24 +00:00
Multi-platform support.
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System Requirements
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OS: Windows 2000 - Vista (x86 or x64)
Updated docs
2008-03-22 02:50:00 +00:00
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
2008-01-14 21:58:24 +00:00
RAM: ~64MB free
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GFX: ~32MB VRAM, DirectX9 drivers
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File Dependencies
===================
Fixed several typos in docs
2008-03-09 20:25:18 +00:00
VBA-M requires the following files, in order to run.
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libpng13.dll
zlib1.dll
D3DX9_37.DLL
The first two are available from http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbacompiles/msvc2008/dll.7z,
Fixed several typos in docs
2008-03-09 20:25:18 +00:00
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
- 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
2008-03-09 17:23:18 +00:00
- Add device enumeration & buffer count selection for XAudio2
- Current buffer count: 4
2008-03-09 17:12:54 +00:00
Performance:
- Apply HQ3x/4x optimizations from C version to ASM version
- Apply pixel filter only to changed parts of the image
ADDED asm-filters thread-safe patches by chrono. ADDED maxCpuCores option to ini file and autodetect best value at first run.
2008-03-26 16:21:30 +00:00
- Make even more use of multi-core CPUs
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- Make use of 64 bit CPUs
Small documentation update
2008-03-11 16:06:12 +00:00
- Have a look at the liboil optimization library
- http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/
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====================
Currently Known Bugs
====================
Known Bugs:
- Linking: Doesnt work quite right yet.
Small documentation update
2008-03-11 16:06:12 +00:00
- Audio core: assertation error occurs when disabling sound in GB mode
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- 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)
updated buglist
2008-04-07 13:40:21 +00:00
- blargg's core implementation broke Dwedit's GBC emu.
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- 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.
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Credits
=================
VisualBoy and VisualBoy Advance Developers:
Forgotten
VisualBoy Advance-M Developers:
Mudlord
DJRobX
Nach
Jonas Quinn
Thread safety patch for HQ4x_32 filter. BIG THANKS to chrono for his work.
2008-03-25 19:16:26 +00:00
Spacy
Special Thanks go to:
ADDED asm-filters thread-safe patches by chrono. ADDED maxCpuCores option to ini file and autodetect best value at first run.
2008-03-26 16:21:30 +00:00
chrono:
ASM genius, fixed a bug in the HQ3x/4x filters.
Made HQ3x/4x and Bilinear filters (ASM versions) thread-safe