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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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  10.3.0: (Future)
  2Features:
  3 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
  4 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
  5 - Palette viewer
  6 - Volume control
  7 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
  8 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
  9 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
 10 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
 11 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
 12 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
 13 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
 14Bugfixes:
 15 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
 16 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
 17 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
 18 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
 19 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
 20 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
 21 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
 22 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
 23 - GBA Memory: Ensure changing the timing of a DMA reschedules it
 24 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
 25 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
 26 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
 27 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
 28 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
 29 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
 30 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
 31 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
 32 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
 33 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
 34Misc:
 35 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
 36
 370.2.0: (2015-04-03)
 38Features:
 39 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
 40 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
 41 - Settings window
 42 - Bilinear resampling option
 43 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
 44 - List of recently opened games
 45 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
 46 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
 47 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
 48 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
 49 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
 50 - Rewinding of emulation
 51 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
 52 - Support IPv6
 53 - Save directory of last loaded file
 54 - Support BPS patches
 55 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
 56 - Configurable game overrides
 57 - Support loading 7-Zip files
 58 - Drag and drop game loading
 59 - Cheat code support
 60 - Runtime configurable audio driver
 61 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
 62 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
 63 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
 64 - Local link cable support
 65 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
 66 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
 67 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
 68 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
 69 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
 70 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
 71 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
 72Bugfixes:
 73 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
 74 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
 75 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
 76 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
 77 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
 78 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
 79 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
 80 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
 81 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
 82 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
 83 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
 84 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
 85 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
 86 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
 87 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
 88 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
 89 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
 90 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
 91 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
 92 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
 93 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
 94 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
 95 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
 96 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
 97 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
 98 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
 99 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
100 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
101Misc:
102 - All: Enable link-time optimization
103 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
104 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
105 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
106 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
107 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
108 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
109 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
110 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
111 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
112 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
113 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
114 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
115 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
116 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
117 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
118 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
119 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
120 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
121 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
122 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
123 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
124 - Qt: Remember window position
125 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
126 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
127
1280.1.1: (2015-01-24)
129Bugfixes:
130 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
131 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
132 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
133 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
134 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
135 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
136 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
137 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
138 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
139 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
140 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
141 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
142 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
143 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
144 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
145 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
146 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
147 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
148 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
149 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
150 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
151 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
152 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
153 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
154 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
155 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
156 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
157 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
158 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
159 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
160 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
161 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
162 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
163 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
164 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
165 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
166 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
167 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
168Misc:
169 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
170 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
171 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
172 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
173 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
174 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
175 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
176
1770.1.0: (2014-12-13)
178 - Initial release