PS2ME v1.4.0

Changed

• Games run faster: the CLDC bytecode interpreter now keeps its hottest state — the frame,
  stack, program-counter and locals pointers — pinned in dedicated MIPS registers
  ("global-reg") instead of memory, cutting per-bytecode overhead. Measured Zombie Infection
  18 → 23 FPS, crossing the 20 FPS mark, and validated on real hardware.
• The screen present path now converts pixels four at a time (SWAR), about 73% faster.

Fixed

• The event wait could sleep past its deadline; the receive nap is now clamped to the frame
  deadline, recovering a few milliseconds per frame.

PS2ME v1.3.0

Added

• Configurable control layouts, Simple and Complete, with analog-stick support and
  per-game overrides, selectable from Settings and the per-game details panel.
• An on-screen controls guide with a live button tester.
• A first-run control-layout picker shown once after the splash.

Changed

• Games run much faster: the CLDC bytecode interpreter is now built at -O2 -fwrapv
  instead of -O0, and the game framebuffer flips without blocking on vblank
  (measured roughly 3.5x higher in-game FPS).
• The Java heap cap was raised to 8 MB so heavier games finish loading.
• The Settings tab dropped its alphabet rail and centers its list.
• The boot splash is held a little longer so slow displays do not miss it.

Fixed

• Menu background music stayed silent on real hardware.
• Zombie Infection and other titles froze right after loading when a game drew an image
  onto its own off-screen buffer's Graphics; this self-blit is now allowed, matching
  real handsets.

PS2ME v1.1.0

Changed

• Returning from a game restores the grid cursor onto the game you just exited.
• The memory-card "Saving" spinner label is now in English (the UI is fully en-US).

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Note: this release ships the standalone .elf only (the .zip drop-in package was introduced in v1.2.1). Place it at mass:/PS2ME/PS2ME-v1.1.0.elf with your MIDlets in mass:/PS2ME/games/.

PS2ME v1.0.0

First tagged release. A self-contained PlayStation 2 ELF that boots into a native launcher and runs J2ME (CLDC 1.1 / MIDP 2.0) MIDlets through a ported phoneME Feature VM.

Added

• Native launcher (runs from main() before the VM): a full-screen 640×448 "console dashboard" with a 4×5 icon grid decoded from each JAR, tabs (All Games / Favorites / Settings), an alphabet sidebar, a game-details panel, favorites and recents, per-game canvas resolution/orientation overrides, sorting, and a friendly loading screen with an optional debug split view.
• USB storage: games are loaded from <boot>/PS2ME/games/, with a background, SIF-serialized icon worker and an on-disk icon cache.
• Memory-card integration: launcher config plus a proper per-game RecordStore save, each shown in the console OSD browser with its own icon and title.
• Audio (SPU2): an audio foundation over audsrv, a shared SIF lock with a mixer thread, the Nokia Sound API (tone / OTA melody / WAV), and MMAPI playback with an offline-built HL4MGM wavetable MIDI synth (per-voice low-pass, cubic interpolation).
• Game-compatibility APIs: Nokia UI (com.nokia.mid.ui) and Nokia Sound (com.nokia.mid.sound).
• Semantic versioning (ps2/version.h + version.sh) and 1-bit icon transparency.

Fixed

• Double buffering in the display path to eliminate tearing on hardware.
• Unaligned 64-bit field access and framebuffer stores on the EE (R5900).
• A multi-game crash caused by a use-after-free of the RAM filesystem backing store.

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Note: this release ships the standalone .elf only (the .zip drop-in package was introduced in v1.2.1). Place it at mass:/PS2ME/PS2ME-v1.0.0.elf with your MIDlets in mass:/PS2ME/games/.

PS2ME v1.2.1

Added

• A boot splash screen, shown once at startup and fading in and out with an ease-in-out
  curve before the menu appears. Its VRAM texture is freed as soon as the splash ends.
• An author credit ("by Wellinator") beside the launcher wordmark in the header.
• A project website (docs/) with a feature overview, a screenshot carousel, and a
  releases list generated live from the GitHub API.

Changed

• The launcher's version number moved from the header to the bottom-right of the footer.
• The "no games found" screen now shows a friendly empty state by default; the raw
  storage diagnostics (device probes and resolved paths) appear only with Debug mode on.

PS2ME v1.2.0

Added

• Looping menu background music, played straight from the SPU2 as a hardware ADPCM
  voice (built offline by tools/mkbgm.sh), so it costs zero EE CPU and RAM.
• Opt-in in-game FPS counter (Settings toggle, default off), drawn outside the game
  canvas on the pillarbox bar.
• A "Menu music" toggle in Settings (default on) to enable or mute the background music,
  applied immediately and persisted to the memory card.

Changed

• The Settings list now scrolls: it shows the rows that fit and follows the selection,
  with up/down chevrons, so new options no longer overflow into the footer.

Removed

• Dead Milestone A scaffolding (src/, root Makefile, build.sh) that predated the
  phoneME MIDP pipeline. Remaining boot log strings were rebranded to PS2ME.