Audio Overhaul Edition

I am now happy with the audio emulation. There have been a lot of improvements to the audio and there will be more audio features to come! Now on to the changes.

Core:

• The core can now do panning of different hardware channels between the left and right output channels.
• The core no longer returns single audio samples and instead returns whole arrays of audio data at once.
• There is now the option for a high quality sampling mode utilizing a full fledged Decimator.(Performance is roughly halved using it and the difference is quite hard to hear. So only use it if you want the very best!)
• More sampling rates are now supported. Lower sampling rates slightly increase performance when not using high quality sampling.
• A change was made to the triangle channel so that it doesn't output very high pitched frequencies.
• Various balancing changes between the different hardware channels.
• Massive clean up of the audio internals for easier maintainability. Despite the added audio processing there is no real performance loss.

UI:

• The display is no longer scaling images. Resulting in a small performance bump.
• Full per channel control of audio panning is available in the audio settings.
• Control of audio latency is now available in the audio settings.

Improvements.

Changes:

UI:

• BugFix: More steps taken to prevent crashes with Jinput.
• First steps to input recording and playback.
• Added hotkeys for quick save/load savestate.
• Added hotkeys for input recording and playback.
• Redesigned controller configuration window.
• Tab for the NSF Player was added to audio settings. Allowing you to set default track length.

Core:

• BugFix: Small timing issue with the MMC5 mapper.
• Added support for nsfe files!

Bug Fix

Fix for a crash on startup.

Name Edition.

This project final has a name. Now I can stop call it just "my emulator."

New Features:

• Colored keys on the piano keyboard!
• Help menu with an option to open the github issue submission webpage.
• About page is added!

Bug Fixes:

• Audio sampling rate wasn't updating properly.
• Change to NSF Player to fix banking.

NTSC

New Features:

• NTSC filter! Its a port of blarggs nes library that I found in the nintaco source code.
• Added a new tab in graphics settings that allows you to configure the different aspects of the filter.
• There is also now an option to enable scanlines.

Core:

• Many new palettes have been added!

Controllers!

This release adds controllers via Jinput!

Small Release

UI:

• A small very early graphical debugger has been added.

Project:

• Increased separation of core and UI.
• More documentation in general.

API:

• New functions for handling different settings.

A Musical Release

The update has finally arrived!

New Features:

• NSF Player support!
• Controllable sampling rate for audio.
• Two interfaces to allow for the development of alternate GUIs with ease.
• Audio Visualizer with an oscilloscope, keyboard, and readout for currently playing notes!
• The application will now match the look and feel of the system it is running on.

Mapper Support:

• More variants of MMC1, 13, 19, 24, 26, 71, 75, and 210.
• MMC5 Audio Support!
• VRC6 Audio Support!
• Namco Audio Support!
• Improvements to the mapper design to increase performance.

Bug Fixes:

• Numerous bugs in the DMC. Result is improved audio!
• MMC5 saves were broken. They are now fixed.
• Other bugs.

NES API:

• First release of headless version of the nes core. Two interfaces are provided that enable access to nes functions as well as enforcing callback availability inspired by liberto cores.

A minor release

This release sees various internal clean ups boosting performance.

New Features:

• VRC6 support. Specifically Akumajou Densetsu. The other two games have some problems I need to fix.
• Expansion Audio is now supported so that means the mappers that use it will have it!

Hotfix

I broke punch out. This fixes it. Also MMC4 support. Though only 3 games use it.