Multi-system emulator

0.8.A:

 

- NES: Cleaned up the iNES loading code a bit, and added support for WRAM on a few mappers that nominally shouldn't have WRAM, enabled if the battery-backed bit is set in the iNES header. Fixes "Family BASIC", and probably a few bootleg games as well.

 

- NES: Added partially-broken support for mapper 163.

 

- NES: Added support for mapper 241.

 

- Fixed string constant-to-(char *) problems in drivers/cheat.cpp

 

- Added setting "osd.state_display_time", to control the length of time, in milliseconds, the save state/movie screen is displayed after selecting a save state or movie.

 

- The most recently-saved save state slot will now be colored differently when selecting a save state slot. Increased the brightness of non-empty save state slots. Empty save state slots are now black instead of being partially transparent.

 

- PC-FX: Fixed bugs in "Play Audio Track Index" and "Read Subchannel" MMC commands, fixing the totally broken cinematic sequences in "Boundary Gate". There may still be bugs in these commands that don't cause any known problems with games, so I will need to run tests on a real system.

 

- GBA: An error loading the custom colormap file is now treated as fatal.

 

- Win32: The German and Russian translation files are now included in the Win32 precompiled binary distribution ZIP file. Note that Mednafen always assumes the locale to be UTF-8, so the stdio.txt file will need to be opened with a viewer that can handle UTF-8(though filenames with non-7-bit-ASCII components will appear fubar). (I am aware that assuming the locale's character encoding to always be UTF-8 is a design flaw with various insidious consequences when the encoding is not UTF-.

 

- Updated the Russian translation with the translation done by rubicon.

 

- Added configure script option "--enable-altivec/--disable-altivec (default: enabled)" for compiling on PowerPC architectures where AltiVec is not supported, or causes problems. This configure script option is untested, however.

 

- Input for the virtual device on virtual port N will be disabled when the buttons on the virtual device on virtual port N are being configured. The last button pressed when in button configuration may still be taken as virtual device input, however(a fix for this would be too invasive, and so will be done in the 0.9.x unstable tree).

 

- PCE: Added several missing input-related state variables to save states, fixing several netplay/movie desynchronization issues under certain situations.

 

- Fixed a bug when creating an SDL source surface, whose negative effects(clipping rightmost columns) could be triggered when the "sdl" vdriver setting was used with certain xscale and yscale settings that would cause a 1:1 pixel copy operation.

 

- PC-FX: Improved PSG LFO emulation again(Tyoushin Heiki Zeroigar uses it for some sound effects, other games likely use it as well in similar roles).

 

- PCE: Improved PSG LFO emulation again(Hanii in the Sky, Juuouki, and Flash Hiders use LFO).

 

- PCE: Altered the Street Fighter 2 autodetection code to be data-agnostic. The SF2 mapper will now be enabled for any ROM images 2MiB and over in size.

 

- Fixed a call to putenv(), to pass a static character array initialized to a string constant instead of a string

constant directly.

 

- Fixed a few argument descriptions(invoked with the -help command-line switch) that weren't properly gettextized.

 

- Debugger: Fixed a bug in the trace log code. It would cause the emulator to lock up if the user pressed Enter/Return in the prompt popup without any text in the input field.

 

- SMS: Removed the old unused Z80 emulator code from when SMS Plus was assimilated.

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TG16 / PCE emulator

2008/10/28 1.57 released

- The interrupt processing of the CD-ROM access was brought close to the movement of a real machine. In "Mahjong Lemon Angel", the bug sometimes freezed (generated from v1.37) was solved.

- The timing of the raster interrupt processing was brought close to the movement of a real machine.

-- In the battle scene of "Tengai Makyou II", the problem that the background had shaken (generated from recent version) was solved.

-- In the battle scene of "Dragon Slayer - The Legend of Heroes", the problem that the message window had shaken was solved.

-- In "Ramma 1/2 Toraware no Hanayome", the problem that the upper part of the message window has blinked was solved.

-- I think that other games for the operation of the raster interrupt (line scroll) also approached a real machine.

- In the game start of "Super Darius", when a fast CD drive is used, the problem that the introduction music became interrupted occasionally was solved.

- In the stage clear of "Don Doko Don", the problem that the scroll part under the screen has fallen into disorder by one line was solved.

- At the customizing setting of full-screen mode ("Screen"->"FullScreen Customize" menu), when setting it to a special resolution, in the settings other than "Non-Stretch", the bug to which the screen had not been occasionally displayed was corrected.

- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

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Atari 7800 emulator for PSP

Hi All,

 

Here is a new version of PSP7800 the Atari 7800 console emulator !

 

For those who haven't seen previous versions, ProSystem is the best emulator of Atari 7800 game console, running on Windows system. It has been written by Greg Stanton, see Greg's site for details.

 

What's new in version 1.2.0 :

 

- Improve global emulation speed !

- New render modes

- Add vertical shift feature

- Finally fix issue with "Home -> Exit" !

- Add documentation for settings in help menu

- The virtual keyboard is now usable in the file requester menu to choose the first letter of the game you search !

- Improve file requester with virtual keyboard to choose sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter

- Text editor to write your own comments on games

- Display first comment line while browsing game files

- Cheat support !

- Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code !

- Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file

- Zip rom files are now decompressed in memory (much faster !)

- Add option to disable auto fire in settings menu

- Add eboot music (see http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/nexus)

- Source code can now be compiled to build a linux version

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SNES emulator

2008-10-27 - A minor update

 

Unfortunately, a few minor issues slipped into bsnes v037. I've fixed these and posted v037a. Note that if you are using the English Windows build, absolutely nothing has changed, and you can keep the version you have already downloaded.

 

I was hesitant to post this, as there's nothing news-worthy about this update; but it may be a while before the next release, and I'd hate to leave these issues outstanding.

 

Also, there were some missing strings in the v037 template locale file. I'm updating the ones that were already submitted to me and will post them shortly.

 

Changelog:

 

- fixed a Linux listbox bug that left action buttons disabled when there was only one item [tukuyomi]

- fixed a few strings that were not being translated by locale.cfg before [diminish]

 

 

2008-10-26 - bsnes v0.037 released

 

This release adds support for the SNES mouse, Super Scope and Justifier peripherals. It also simplifies cartridge loading and refines the user interface. Lastly, GZ and ZIP archives can now contain non-ANSI characters (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, ...) This support existed in the last release for all uncompressed files. Together, this means only JMA support on Windows lacks support for loading non-ANSI filenames. This is due to the library itself (really, it's more Windows' fault), and licensing issues prevent me from patching libjma as I did with zlib (bsnes is not GPL compatible.) I'm planning to work with Nach to fix this in a future release.

 

About the cartridge loading changes ... the emulator now determines what kind of cartridge is being loaded (eg normal, BS-X BIOS, Sufami Turbo cart, etc) by looking inside the file itself. If it detects a cart type that requires more than one ROM image to load, it will present you with the appropriate specialized load menu automatically. Aside from being more intuitive, this method also allows loading of BS-X and Sufami Turbo games from the command-line or via file association.

 

Changelog:

 

- added mouse support to DirectInput and SDL input drivers

- up to 96 buttons per controller; 8 buttons per mouse (5 per mouse on Linux) can be mapped now

- added SNES mouse support (does not support speed setting yet)

- added Super Scope support

- added Justifier support (supports both Justifiers)

- input management system almost completely rewritten to support new controllers

- "Load Special" menu removed, all cart loading merged to "Load Cartridge ..." option

- replaced "Power Cycle" and "Unload Cartridge" with "Power" -> "On" / "Off"

- when video exceeds screen size and is scaled down, aspect ratio is now maintained [Ver Greeneyes]

- zlib modified to support non-ANSI characters

- cheat code count was limited to 1,024 codes before; it now supports unlimited codes per game

- added sort by description setting for cheat code list

- polished listbox control interaction (disable buttons when nothing selected, etc)

- cleaned up OBC-1 chip emulation (code is functionally identical to v036)

- added option to toggle fullscreen mode to settings menu

- added advanced mode options to toggle base unit (none, Satellaview) and system region (Auto-detect, NTSC, PAL)

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