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1.50-WIP
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Shell:
Additions:
- Added ability to output data from homebrew module (Phil Smith)
Core:
Additions:
- Homebrew module (Phil Smith)
- Support for mapper 31 (rainwarrior)
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1.49
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Shell:
Additions:
- Added more palettes to extras
- Game-specific custom palettes
- Scale factors up to 8x
- Added option to enable overclocking
- Added rewind controls to gamepad
- Famicom Mic support
- Optional JACK Audio support (McKayJT)
- Added .wav sample loading
Changes:
- Separated GTK+ and SDL input settings
- Removed deprecated functions from UI
- Use GTK+ OpenGL widget for GUI (Wayland support)
- Reworked Alternate Speed/Fast-Forward
- Allow mapping more than 9 joysticks (Lou-Cipher)
- Restructured build system, separated SDL and GTK builds
- Cursor options split int normal and special cursor options
Fixes:
- Fixed automatic ROM patching, improved patching function (hugoarpin)
libretro:
Additions:
- Add support for multiline cheats and raw cheats (iLag)
- Add adapter autoselect using NstDatabase.xml (hunterk)
- Famicom Mic support
- Cheevos ram access support (meepingsnesroms)
- Add .wav sample loading
Fixes:
- Fixed heap corruption bug with crosshair (Arto Vainiolehto)
- Fixed black screen when non-existent custom palette is selected
- Fixed crosshair and overscan with blargg filter
Core:
Additions:
- Added support for overclocking (meepingsnesroms)
Fixes:
- Fixed NSF and FDS in Dendy mode (Eugene.S)
- Fixed coding mistake in PPU (zeromus)
- Modified submappers for VRC2/VRC4 games (GeneralFailer)
- Fixed compilation error in SetRamPowerState (Arto Vainiolehto)
- Fix for McAcc games (joepogo)
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1.48
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Shell:
Additions:
- Remember previous ROM directory (fabiengb)
- Added an option to disable the cursor
- Added ability to load custom palettes
- Added many palettes to extras (FirebrandX, BMF, others)
- Added monochrome blargg NTSC filter
- Added new build systems: CMake and Autotools (David Seifert)
Changes:
- TV Aspect Ratio changes depending on region
Fixes:
- Made the region selector more coherent
- Fixed a bug that switches video modes rapidly
- Revamped region selector code
- Fixed fullscreen switching too fast
- Fixed region selector when the XML database is not present
libretro:
Additions:
- Added ability to load custom palettes
- Added many palettes (Monroe88)
- Added monochrome blargg NTSC filter (dalter)
- Added Turbo A/B buttons
Core:
Additions:
- RAM Power-on State setting
- Support for mapper 23.10
Fixes:
- VRC2 Mirroring bug (koitsu, lidnariq)
- Dendy timing and audio fixes (FHorse, Eugene.S)
- Removed unused code in APU
- Properly initialize RAM - fixes F-1 Race (koitsu)
- Silenced many build warnings (orbea)
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1.47
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Shell:
Additions:
- On-screen text when saving/loading states
- Basic NSF player
- PNG Screenshots
- Quick State Save/Load menu items
- Open Recent menu item
- Ability to pause games when configuration dialog is open
- Customizable NTSC filter options
- Support for Mac OS X
Changes:
- Updated to modern OpenGL (version 3.2 minimum)
Fixes:
- Empty audio buffer when volume is set to 0
- Input config now accepts joystick buttons over 10
libretro:
Additions:
- Game Genie Sound Distortion option
- Region selection core option
Changes:
- Default to "consumer" palette
- Vertical and Horizontal overscan options separated
Fixes:
- Fixed FDS save path
Core:
Additions:
- Added support for MC-ACC (perilsensitive)
- Added NstDatabase.xml entries (clobber)
- Added support for NES 2.0 submappers
- Added support for mapper 4.1
- Added support for mapper 4.3
- Added support for mapper 23.15
- Added support for mapper 25.15
- Added support for mapper 32.1
- Added support for mapper 68.1
- Added support for mapper 71.1
- Added support for mapper 78.1
- Added support for mapper 78.3
Fixes:
- Reverted fix for Mapper 79
- Fixed Burai Fighter status area (perilsensitive)
- FME-7 IRQ Fix (lidnariq)
- Disabled buggy audio sync
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1.46.1/1.46.2
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Unix Shell:
Fixes:
- Input config bugfixes
- Only go fullscreen when the game is actually playing
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1.46
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Unix Shell:
Additions:
- Mask Overscan option
- Disable GUI option
- Command line interface
- Scale Factor and Filters can be changed while playing
- Zapper support
- Palette and Picture options
- Ability to turn Vsync on/off
- Alternate emulation speed
- libao audio output (handles ALSA, OSS, Pulse, etc)
- More volume controls
- Turbo Buttons A and B
Changes:
- Ported to SDL 2.0
- Completely rewrote config file handling
- Completely rewrote input config and input handling
- Completely rewrote cheats
- Removed ALSA and OSS audio output
Windows Shell:
Fixes:
- xBR dialog now updates video output when options change
libretro:
Additions:
- Ability to load NstDatabase.xml (needed for some games)
- Overscan masking (themaister)
- Palette options
- Zapper support
Changes:
- Region detection based on NstDatabase.xml
Core:
Additions:
- Game Genie sound distortion option
- Mapper 210 (NAMCOT-175, NAMCOT-340)
Fixes:
- Hard Drivin' now playable (dragon2snow)
- Kaettekita Mario Bros. fix (dragon2snow)
- Fix for rewinder sound issue (steelywing)
- Typos and syntax error fixes (lioncash)
- Fix for Mickey's Safari in Letterland (joepogo, james)
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1.45
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Unix Shell:
Additions:
- Added the ability to switch FDS disks for multi-disk games
- xBR filter options
- Support for more archive formats through libarchive
- Differentiated Soft/Hard Reset
Changes:
- Removed internal zip and 7zip decoders in favour of libarchive
- Replaced gtk_key_snooper with key_press_event and key_release_event
Fixes:
- 7zip CRC check segfault
Windows Shell:
Additions:
- xBR filter options
Changes:
- Redundant TV Aspect checkbox removed from NTSC filter dialog
- Modified default sound settings to avoid desync
libretro:
Additions:
- blargg's NTSC filter core option
- L/R now insert coins on Vs. System games
Core:
Additions:
- xBR filter added - Hyllian, notBald
Fixes:
- Triangle volume bug in Dendy mode - emu-russia
- NTSC filter background colour fix - blargg
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Unix Shell:
Additions:
- Support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD
- TV Aspect Ratio option added
- 2xSaI filter option exposed
Changes:
- Renamed Linux port to Unix port
- Removed status bar
- General UI improvements
- Stop warning about unused results
- SDL is the default sound API on Linux, the only one on the BSDs
- Drag and Drop re-enabled
Fixes:
- Fixed SDL sound crashes
- Fixed Movie Record crash
- Loading a state when none exists no longer resets
- Fixed bug that causes "Enter" to toggle fullscreen
- GUI responsiveness glitches when failing to output sound fixed
Windows Shell:
Fixes:
- TV Aspect is more accurate - W.M. Martinez
libretro:
Additions:
- libretro port done by Themaister and twinaphex
Core:
Fixes:
- Merged a fix for Mapper 79 that affects "Puzzle (Unl)" - shalma
- Fixed a PPU bug that causes problems in "The Young Indiana Jones
Chronicles" - Art Vandelae, plasturion, and James
- Mapper 143 fix that affects "Dancing Blocks (Unl)" - shalma
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Linux Shell:
Additions:
- Fullscreen defaults to native screen resolution
Changes:
- Completely rewrote the GUI (except for Cheat Manager and Archive Selector)
- More traditional look and feel
- Improved input configuration
- Keyboard shortcuts
- More functionality exposed directly through GUI
- Better looking icons
Windows Shell:
Changes:
- Updated icons, about dialog, copyright
- Merged the remaining features from Unofficial 1.41.1
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Linux Shell:
Additions:
- Added native support for D-pads (Hat Switches)
- Added an About dialog box
- Added icons and a desktop menu entry
Fixes:
- Fixed the 100% CPU usage bug
- Fixed the "Error writing setting!" bug (patch from Arch Linux)
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1.41
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Linux shell:
Fixes:
- Fixed a braindead SRAM path issue
Windows Shell:
Changes:
- Merged win32 fixes from Unofficial Build 1.41.1
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1.40-undead
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Linux Shell:
Additions:
- Added install/uninstall targets to Makefile
Changes:
- Ported to GTK+3
- Changed default sound API to ALSA (SDL audio has problems on some computers)
- Changed default renderer to OpenGL with a scale factor of 2
- Changed binary name to "nestopia"
- SRAM now saves to ~/.nestopia/save (for people who have roms on a read-only network share)
- Automatically install a new nstcontrols file to ~/.nestopia if it doesn't exist
- Install NstDatabase.xml to a proper location on the filesystem instead of forcing the user to manually copy it to ~/.nestopia
Fixes:
- Fixed numerous compiler warnings.
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Unofficial 1.41.1 - by Geestarraw (geestarraw@gmail.com) (May 17, 2011)
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Shell:
Changes:
- Added fullscreen support for non-primary monitor displays.
- Modified Video Options dialog component layout and added device index to
identify mutiple monitors.
- Refactoring.
- Code documentation.
Fixes:
- Fixed so menu is still displayed after fullscreen monitor to monitor switch.
Project:
Changes:
- Converted solution and projects to Visual Studio 2010.
- Improved version enumeration previously locked to x.xx (exactly 3 digits) to
be anything from y.y, y.y.y, and y.y.y.y (where y can be up to 4 digits).
- Changed build output target to nestopia.exe.
Fixes:
- Fixed bug in version enumeration always excluding highest version number.
- Moved unofficial 1.41 release notes to official changelog file.
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Unofficial 1.41 - by Keith Kelly (c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com) (March 29, 2010)
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This is an unofficial maintenance release I created to fix an annoying joystick lag issue.
This lag was particularly bad when VSync was enabled. The original Nestopia author (Martin
Freij) appears to have abandoned the official Nestopia project on SourceForge and has not
responded to any of my e-mails, so I am left with no choice but to provide this unofficial
release as a public service to the emulation community.
Changes:
1. Removed manual option to set priority of Nestopia's main emulation loop thread. Instead,
Nestopia now boosts its own process base priority AND its own main emulation thread priority
whenever it is the active foreground window (and/or running in full-screen mode). This brings
Nestopia much closer to real-time performance and responsiveness.
2. Removed some screwy input polling logic, and added some calls to input.Poll(), to ensure
that the input devices are always polled immediately before the input state is utilized.
This was the key change that got rid of most of the lag.
3. Removed some screwy input timing logic that was causing input polling to work only on
certain clock intervals, rather than allowing it to work every time it was called.
(As far as I can tell on my own hardware configuration, these three changes taken together
have completely eliminated the lag problems that have been present in Nestopia for several
releases. Your mileage may vary.)
4. Updated the Visual Studio solution/project to build successfully under Visual C++ 2008
Express Edition.
5. Added this releasenotes.txt file and bumped the version number to 1.41.
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1.40 Release A-H - by R. Belmont
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Linux Shell:
Additions:
- XML ROM support
- More flexible video configuration including OpenGL hardware scaling
- Input mapping in the GUI
- Cheat Manager with flexible support and import/export capability (win32 compatible format)
- Core logging is now enabled to the terminal you start NEStopia from for easier diagnosis of problems
- Automatic soft-patching added
- Coin inputs added for Vs. system
- Audio filters added for fun
- [Release C] Proper default nstcontrols file included
- [Release E] Added SDL audio driver, should be most compatible
- [Release G] Cheat Manager now shows descriptions on imported XML files. Also fixed a CM crash.
Changes:
- Complains more if it's unable to write to the settings file
- Archive browser comes up automatically if you select a zip or 7zip archive with multiple NES files in it
- Option to select favored console
- [Release E] Refactored to get UI code out of main.cpp
- [Release G] Settings window auto-hides during emulation [enik]
Fixes:
- Fixed bug where keyboard input could stick
- [Release B] Cleaned up some crashy issues with the control configurator
- [Release D] Fixed ability to remap "meta" keys (keys that control NEStopia itself), fixed documentation on defaults.
- [Release E] Fixed quicksave/quickload
- [Release F] Fixed keyboard to ignore numlock/capslock
- [Release G] Taskbar description is set properly for the game window [enik]
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1.40
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Shell:
Additions:
- New cheat dialog features and improvements.
- Automatic cheat load/save support in Paths dialog.
- Option to mute sound when running in alt. speed mode.
Changes:
- Icon improvements by Pongbashi.
- Default fullscreen resolution depending on monitor's aspect ratio.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Various minor things.
Core:
Additions:
- Preliminary Dendy console support. Fixes Magistr (Subor) and
some other 'clone exclusives'. Info from Flamer and HardWareMan.
- DMC DMA read conflicts. Info from blargg and bunnyboy.
- Mapper 177, 179, 219 and 221. Info from CaH4e3.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- Better and more flexible PPU address line implementation at the
expense of some speed.
- Database entries.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Wrong palette sometimes when switching to/from VS images.
- Wrong image information sometimes, e.g. battery when there isn't any.
- Save state NTSC/PAL mode saving.
- Minor save state inaccuacy fix with tape recording.
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Shell:
Additions:
- "Don't show again" checkbox in DIP switches popup window.
- Soft-patching status in image info dialog.
Changes:
- More descriptive error messages.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Netplay file opening error leading to crash.
- Recent files locking bug on exit.
- Last visited image file directory bug on exit.
- Esc not working sometimes when disabling dialog
controls (Windows quirk).
- Crash on cancel when exporting to AVI.
- Correct screen height with NTSC filter when exporting to AVI.
- Typos in GUI.
Core:
Additions:
- Core API documentation in HTML through cppdoc.
- UPS patching format support.
- Database lookup on soft-patching.
- Database entries. Info from Bootgod.
- More recognized boards. Info from Bootgod.
Changes:
- FDS saves through UPS instead of IPS.
- Database entries. Info from Bootgod.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- FDS file saving bug.
- NTSC burst phase incrementing bug.
- Potential memory leak in database loader.
- UTF16 to wchar_t portability fix in XML parser.
- Const-correctness bug caught by GCC 4.0.
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Shell:
Additions:
- Option to select favored console in preferences dialog.
Changes:
- Some video filtering work offloaded to the GPU.
- Most settings now stored in XML format.
- Misc launcher dialog display properties.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Netplay input communication.
- Netplay movie recording bug (menu item accidently grayed).
Core:
Additions:
- ROM sets and external database support using new XML format
co-developed with Bootgod.
- Mapper 36, 103, 104, 106, 120, 126, 175, 176, 223 and 224.
Info from mad dumper, CaH4e3 and Temryu.
- UNIF boards GS-2013 and BS-5. info from CaH4e3.
- Emulation of bus conflicts for certain boards.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- PPU power/reset timing and register states. Info from blargg.
- Misc IRQ/NMI/BRK/DMA special-case behavior. Info from blargg.
- NTSC/PAL switch during emulation will now force a hard-reset.
- Misc mapper emulation improvements. Info from Bootgod.
- NES-EVENT board timer more accurate.
- Board names. Info from Bootgod.
- Refactoring and mapper codebase overhaul.
- Speed optimizations (accuracy NOT compromised!).
- Mappers 21, 23, 25 and 185 no longer supported using plain iNES
files because of format restrictions.
Fixes:
- MMC3 soft-reset IRQ bug.
- Database entries.
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Shell:
Additions:
- Menu option for DIP switch window popup on file load.
- Movie recording now supported during netplay.
Changes:
- Smaller netplay data packets.
- Minor GUI adjustments.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Scaling artifacts with NTSC filter on certain resolutions.
- Auto NTSC/PAL window resize bug.
- Sound stuttering on window clicks.
- Netplay bugs/quirks.
- Joystick auto-calibration bug.
Core:
Additions:
- Mapper 63.
- Mapper 121 and 134. Info from CaH4e3.
- Mapper 136 for Sachen board SA-002 3011. Info from Enri.
- Mapper 178 for "San Guo Zhong Lie Zhuan (Ch)". Info from temryu.
- UNIF boards: AX5705, T-230, CTC-65 and 190IN1. Info from CaH4e3.
- Adaptive sound streaming synchronization.
- More optimization hints for GCC.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- Movie file format rewritten. Older files will no longer work (sorry, had to
be done sooner or later). New format is much more flexible and extendable.
- Lower memory consumption.
- APU speed optimizations.
- Most DIP switches are now configurable through dialogs instead being
soft-reset-triggered.
- Board names. Info from Pongbashi and Bootgod.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Mapper 41 and 43.
- Mapper 112. Fixes "Fighting Hero III". Info from temryu.
- Minor save state inaccuracy.
- FDS sound emulation inaccuracy.
Fixes "Nazo no Magazine Disk - Nazoraa Land Dai 3 Gou".
- Small rewinder bug.
- Database entries.
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Additions:
- Joystick calibrate button in the input dialog.
Changes:
- Now possible to make save states (slots only) during netplay.
- Some error messages more descriptive.
- Log file now enabled by default.
- Lazy loading of some resources, notably the launcher file database.
- Various aesthetic GUI fixes and improvements.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Lightgun trigger no longer registered if screen is occluded by a window.
- Various things, subtle and not-so-subtle.
Core:
Additions:
- Power Glove peripheral support.
- Mapper 38, 108 and 173. Info from CaH4e3.
- UNIF boards: TF1201, KS7038 and GS-2004. Info from CaH4e3.
- Mapper 150 reset-triggered DIP switch toggling.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- Speed optimizations (NO accuracy trade-off).
- blargg's nes_ntsc updated to version 0.2.2.
- HSB/RGB calculation method.
- 8bit video mode rendering removed.
- 2xSaI filters removed. Use hqx or ScaleX instead.
- Even stricter ANSI/ISO compliance.
- More compiler options and detections through the preprocessor. Refer
to "NstApiConfig.hpp" as starting point for porting work.
- Board names. Info from Pongbashi.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Mapper 234.
- Mapper 242. Fixes "Dragon Quest VIII (Ch)".
- Database entries.
- Various things, subtle and not-so-subtle.
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Additions:
- Memory pool select for sound buffers.
- Famicom and NES four player adapter select in menu.
- More cartridge info in image file dialog.
Changes:
- Better sound synchronization.
- Launcher fixes and improvements.
- Workaround for bugs in E-MU sound drivers.
- Workaround for bug in ::D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile() using D3DXIFF_BMP.
- MBC strings now passed in netplay chat.
- Aspect ratio option now preserved on ALT+S in fullscreen mode.
- VSync now disabled by default.
Fixes:
- Settings for compressed palette and FDS BIOS files now properly saved on exit.
- AVISTREAMINFO::fccHandler.
- Relative paths in Paths dialog.
Core:
Additions:
- Preliminary support for NES 2.0 file headers.
- R.O.B / Famicom Robot peripheral support.
- Mapper 14, 196, 214 and 169 (partially). Info from CaH4e3.
- Mapper 171 (KAISER KS7058) for "Tui Do Woo Ma Jeung".
- Mapper 172 (IDEA-TEK CNROM +SECURITY) for "1991 Du Ma Racing" (unaltered version).
- Database entries.
Changes:
- PAL APU noise channel rates and frame sequencer steps. Info from Blargg.
- Emphasis color calculations on user palettes.
- Better board type detection for several mappers, particulary 1 and 4.
- Board names. Info from Pongbashi.
- Removed worthless mapper 100.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Mapper 12 to use MMC3A revision. Fixes "Dragon Ball Z 5".
- Mapper 15, 147 and 222. Info from CaH4e3.
- Mapper 99, PRG-ROM bank switching. Fixes "VS Gumshoe".
- Mapper 115 and moved "Bao Qing Tian" to it.
- Mapper 156. Fixes "Ko Ko Eo Deu Ben Ce" and "Metal Force".
- Mapper 163. Info from CaH4e3 and tpu.
- Mapper 230. Fixes "Contra" in "22-in-1".
- Mapper 232. Fixes the Quattro games.
- Right mouse button for light gun firing off-screen.
- Minor sound volume control bug.
- AbsX 3-byte NOP instruction timing.
- Database entries.
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Changes:
- Better method for CPU/GPU frame synchronization. Disabled when triple
buffering is enabled.
- Suitable default settings for auto frame skip, triple buffering and
clock source based on system info.
- Blargg's nes_ntsc back again with new version 0.2.1.
- AVISTREAMINFO::szName no longer used since its presence seem to cause
loading failures in some AVI file editors.
Fixes:
- Frame timing bug. Could cause severe slowdown on some systems.
- Wrong speed at higher refresh rates.
- Non-blocking input key commands.
Core:
Fixes:
- "Quattro Sports: BMX Simulator" now responds to input again.
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Fixes:
- Removed use of DirectInput8 event notifications. Caused too much
problems and some joysticks refused to work with it.
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Additions:
- Adjustable screen curvature.
- Auto scale option for Hqx and ScaleX video filters.
- Auto color settings option for NTSC filter.
- 'Condition' column in launcher.
- Hex and current entry view in palette editor.
- Fast way to supply a missing FDS BIOS file on disk image loading.
- 'Default' button in FDS dialog.
- More FDS info in log file and image info dialog.
Changes:
- Reduced input latency and improved overall frame flow by rearranging
wait loops and making use of Direct3D9 query events (or dummy texture
locks if unsupported) to force CPU/GPU sync on each frame.
- Improved emu input granularity with use of DirectInput8 event notification.
Fixes "BMX Simulator" in "Quattro Sports".
- Reclaim of ::Sleep() time on timed intervals in frame timer.
- Warning message now issued whenever the database corrects a nes file with bad header.
- Filelist controls now accept double clicks.
- Pressing ESC now closes most dialogs.
- No menu check marks when disk is ejected.
- WMM timer now used by default because of QPF/QPC unsafety on dual-core CPUs.
- Refactoring.
Fixes:
- Wrong HSB values in palette editor.
- Speed throttle bug when vsync was enabled.
- Incorrect window size on startup after a previous exit with a PAL sized window.
- Auto cursor hiding (didn't always work).
Core:
Additions:
- Hq4x video filter.
- Support for extended 512*3 byte palettes (for emphasis colors).
- FDS screen text for disk reads/writes.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- Better RGB to YUV conversion for VS System.
- Better VS System detection strategy.
- VS DIP switch descriptions for "Battle City", "RBI Baseball", "Super Sky Kid"
and "Super Xevious".
- Rewinder optimizations. Faster but more memory consuming.
- More accurate FDS disk drive emulation. Fixes "Aspic-Majaou no Noroi",
"Hao Kun no Fushigina Tabi" and possibly others.
- Switched to Blargg's snes_ntsc in order to make it work with custom palettes.
- Refactoring and optimizations.
Fixes:
- Mapper 117. Fixes "La Bi Xiao Xin". Info from tpu.
- Change side bug for single sided FDS disks.
- Game Genie decoder bug when using certain compare values.
- Database entries.
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Additions:
- Language plugin system using compiled resource DLLs. LDK included in the source.
- Date and time for last state slot write now displayed in the menu.
- Most option dialogs now carry a cancel button.
- Launcher window size preserved and optionally saved on exit.
- More detailed info in some error messages.
Changes:
- Various aesthetic fixes and improvements to the GUI.
- Alternative screen font for a few selected countries.
- Many hardcoded strings moved to the resource string table.
- No default directory creation if already user specified.
- Swapped load/save state keys (N/SHIFT+N) for a more standard setup.
- Different meaning to the SHIFT+0/0 key for save/load state slots.
SHIFT+0 to overwrite oldest slot, 0 to load from newest slot.
- Auto monitor frequency option in video dialog now enabled by default.
- Updated to newer version of unrar.dll.
- unrar.dll and kaillera.dll now only loaded on demand.
- Lots of refactoring.
- Cleaned up tabs and spaces in source files via internal utility.
- Cleaned up HTML in readme file.
Fixes:
- More menu/dialog items grayed out when not applicable.
- Menu disappearance sometimes after exiting menus/dialogs in fullscreen mode.
- Filter settings now properly reset on 'Default' button clicks in the video options dialog.
- Display of the 'Name' and 'Maker' launcher column entries now in proper ANSI code page.
- Directory string parsing bug if failed to create a default directory.
- Auto window sizing quirk.
- Incorrect image file properties in some of the database corrected entries in the launcher dialog.
Refresh your file list to force the fix to take effect.
Core:
Additions:
- Pachinko (via mouse wheel) and Hori Track (via mouse) controllers. Info from Enri.
- Nantettatte Baseball Double Cassette System for mapper 68. Info from CaH4e3 and Enri.
- Mapper 170 for "Fujiya Thinking Games". Info from Enri.
- Mapper 197 for "Super Fighter III". Info from CaH4e3.
- Backup-switch for the Family BASIC and Playbox BASIC cartridges (DIP Switches dialog). Info from Enri.
- RP2C04 VS Unisystem palettes. Info from Quietust and Kevtris.
- New entries for auto-detection of controllers.
- Database entries.
Changes:
- Moved "Subor (Russian)" to mapper 166.
- Moved "Seicross (J)" back to mapper 185.
- Controller names. Info from Pongbashi.
Fixes:
- DIP switch setting for "VS.Bomb Jack".
- Lightgun in "VS.Duck Hunt" and "VS.Hogan's Alley" now works again.
- Database entries.
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Fixes:
- NSF text info bug from v1.30.
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