Strawberry v1.7.1

v1.7.1 — 2026-10-06

The shared UI crates update to fruit-basket v0.5.0. Games, save files and save states from v1.7.0
work unchanged.

• Built on fruit-basket v0.5.0. The library re-reads each game once after updating.
• gba-ffi, a new workspace crate: Strawberry's core behind the Fruit Basket iOS C ABI v1
  (fb_gba_*, contract in fruit-basket-ios/docs/CORE-ABI.md). The iOS app's fbcore staticlib
  pins it by git rev (10de245). It is an rlib that depends on gba-core alone, and the desktop player
  doesn't use it. The release archives don't change.

Strawberry v1.7.0

v1.7.0 — 2026-10-04

Fruit Basket launcher support and a dependency refresh. Games, save files and save states from
v1.6.x work unchanged (savestate format 5).

• Pictures for the launcher. Every save state also writes <rom stem>.s<N>.png (the 240x160
  picture) beside the .state file, deleted with it, and every title capture is copied to
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\strawberry\covers\<rom stem>.png. For a zipped ROM the stem is the zip's.
• --no-resume (needs a ROM) is accepted for the launcher's Start fresh. Strawberry never
  resumes on its own, so it starts from power-on exactly as a plain launch does.
• Built on fruit-basket v0.4.0: minifb 0.29, tiny-skia 0.12, cpal 0.18, png 0.18, toml 1, dirs 7.
  Settings, library cache and save paths are unchanged.
• Rust edition 2024; building from source needs Rust 1.89 or later. zip 8 for zipped ROMs.

Strawberry v1.6.1

v1.6.1 — 2026-10-03

Documentation only; the player is the same as v1.6.0.

• QUICKSTART (included in the release archives): the = / - sun keys and the pause menu's SUN
  row, a Clock and sunlight section, the 16 bytes clock games add to their .sav, and the note
  that save states from before v1.6.0 show CAN'T LOAD.
• README: the Settings screenshot shows the new emulator keys.

Strawberry v1.6.0

v1.6.0 — 2026-10-03

Cartridge hardware: the GPIO port in the ROM chip, with the two devices the library needs.

• Real-time clock. The ten carts that carry one (found by the RTC library string in the ROM):
  Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald (no more "The internal battery has run dry"; berries and
  timed events work), Rockman EXE 4.5, Sennen Kazoku, both Legendz titles and the three Boktai
  games. The clock reads the computer's local time; a time the game sets is kept as an offset
  and saved with the game: RTC carts' .sav files gain a 16-byte trailer after the save data
  (plain .sav files from before load as usual).
• Boktai's solar sensor (Boktai 1 and 2, Shin Bokura no Taiyou). Sunlight is a level from 0
  (dark) to 10 (the gauge fills): the pause menu has a SUN row on these carts (LEFT/RIGHT), and
  = / - change it while playing with a toast; both are rebindable and the level is
  remembered in settings (sun_level, default 5).
• Save states from earlier versions no longer load (core state format 5); the slots show
  CAN'T LOAD and can be deleted. .sav files are unaffected.
• The pause menu's page marker in the slot submenu now draws its left arrow (the 5x5 font had no
  glyph for it).
• gba-test: --rtc "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM[:SS]" (default 2026-01-01 00:00:00, so goldens stay
  deterministic), --sun N, and { frame, sun = N } input-script steps. New compat rows for
  Pokémon Emerald and Boktai.

Strawberry v1.5.0

v1.5.0 — 2026-10-03

Couch mode, for launchers that start games on a TV (the Fruit Basket convention, shared with
ps2emu and Crabapple):

• --fullscreen: a borderless window covering the primary display, for that run only (the
  window size in settings.toml is left alone). It cannot be combined with --scale. Where the
  display size cannot be read, Strawberry warns and opens a normal window.
• --exit-on-quit: the pause menu's QUIT flushes the save and exits with code 0 instead of
  returning to the library.
• Gamepads reach the pause menu: the Guide button, or Select+Start held for one second (once
  per hold; the game still sees both buttons). Either one closes the menu again.

Strawberry v1.4.0

v1.4.0 — 2026-10-02

• --slot N (1–8) starts the ROM from that save-state slot before the first frame is shown,
  for launchers (Fruit Basket couch mode's Load button). --slot needs a ROM; an empty or
  unreadable slot prints one line to stderr and the game plays on from a fresh boot. The slot
  files are unchanged.
• Developer tooling: tools/mgba-ref.exe (built by scripts/build-mgba.ps1) captures mGBA's
  pictures, memory, registers, IO changes and instruction traces headless, and
  scripts/compare-trace.py diffs instruction timing against ours. gba-test gained --png-at,
  --regs, --poll, --trace-frames and --trace-cycles.
• Checked against mGBA: the Initial D garage's blank phone and technique screens and the "0"
  under the NES Zelda file name are pixel-identical (game content, not bugs). The music start
  offsets of the audio comparison come from mGBA's own timing: it scores 1768/2020 on the
  hardware-recorded timing tests that Strawberry passes in full.
• scripts/build-mgba.ps1: quote the CMake policy argument (PowerShell split it at the dot).

Strawberry v1.3.1

v1.3.1 — 2026-10-02

fruit-basket. The frontend's console-independent half (renderer and design tokens, fonts,
audio, pacing, saves, save-state slots, settings file, library, gamepads, window icon) moved to
the shared crates of the new public repo 0x000NULL/fruit-basket (v0.1.0), which the Crabapple
NES emulator uses too. Nothing a player sees changes: every screen, the slot files, settings.toml
and the library index are byte-identical to v1.3.0 (pinned by gba-frontend/src/pinned.rs).

• README: the lockup follows the reader's light or dark theme, a Screens section shows every
  screen (docs/screenshots/), and a Name and mark section describes the brand; stale status
  text brought up to v1.2.0.
• The settings file's header comment names Strawberry (it still said Advance).
• Release workflow: actions/checkout v7, upload-artifact v7, download-artifact v8 and
  action-gh-release v3, all on the Node 24 runtime the self-hosted runners already provide.

Strawberry v1.3.0

v1.3.0 — 2026-10-02

Strawberry. The player has a name and a mark (docs/branding/: a 16x16 four-colour
sprite, Fruit Basket No. 2).

• The window is titled Strawberry and carries the mark as its icon on Windows and X11; the
  Windows exe has the icon and a version block too (macOS and Wayland take no runtime icon).
• The binary and the release archives are strawberry / strawberry-vX.Y.Z-<os>.
• Settings and the library cache live in strawberry/ under the user's config and cache
  folders; an existing gba-advance/ is moved there once on first start.
• The empty Library is the brand screen from board 05: three rows of placeholders, the
  Strawberry cartridge in the handheld with the mark on its screen, and Open <folder> (Z) /
  Settings buttons. Settings is now reachable from the Library.

GBA Emulator v1.2.0

v1.2.0 — 2026-10-02

Player

• Gamepad buttons can be rebound. The Controls page shows a second keycap for every GBA button;
  click it and press a pad button (a button already in use swaps, like the keyboard). The map is
  stored as [gamepad] in settings.toml; the left stick stays a D-pad. The default shoulder
  buttons are the bumpers (LB/RB; earlier docs called them LT/RT).

Tooling

• scripts/build-mgba.ps1 builds tools/mgba-wav.exe, a headless libmgba audio capture, and
  scripts/compare-audio.py records a title set with both emulators and reports level, balance
  and alignment figures (tools/audio-ref/report.md); scripts/compare-wav.py now uses the
  same analysis. gba-test --mute-channels MASK silences PSG or FIFO channels in a capture.
• Finding, no change: our FIFO and PSG levels follow GBATEK's stated maxima; mGBA 0.10.5 mixes
  about 3 dB lower overall and its PSG another 3.5 dB lower relative to FIFO (PROGRESS.md
  "Reference audio comparison").

GBA Emulator v1.1.0

v1.1.0 — 2026-10-01

Accuracy

• The BIOS sound driver is emulated (SWI 1A-1E, 28, 29, 2A and the 36 SoundGetJumpList
  routines): the six library titles that were silent without a BIOS file (Atari Anniversary
  Advance, Lizzie McGuire: On the Go!, Pocket Professor: Kwik Notes, Rampage: Puzzle Attack,
  X-Men: Reign of Apocalypse, Saibara Rieko no Dendou Mahjong) now play music; 1,528 of 1,543
  library titles boot with sound. Save states made by 1.0.0 are not loadable (format 4).

Player

• Save-state slots written by an older format are shown as CAN'T LOAD and can be deleted;
  the library, settings and .sav files are unaffected.