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10.6.0: (Future)
2Features:
3 - GBA: Support printing debug strings from inside a game
4 - GBA: Better cheat type autodetection
5 - GB: Tile viewer
6 - Sprite viewer
7 - Debugging console
8 - Improved memory viewer
9 - GB: LR35902/GB-Z80 disassembler
10 - Configuration of gamepad hats
11 - Qt: Spanish translation (by Kevin López)
12 - Add option for whether rewinding restores save games
13 - Qt: German translation (by Lothar Serra Mari)
14 - Savestates now contain any RTC override data
15 - Command line ability to override configuration values
16 - Add option to allow preloading the entire ROM before running
17 - GB: Video/audio channel enabling/disabling
18 - Add option to lock video to integer scaling
19Bugfixes:
20 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
21 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
22 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
23 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
24 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
25 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
26 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
27 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
28 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
29 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
30 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)
31 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches
32 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library
33 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing
34 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept
35 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed
36 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN
37 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind
38 - SDL: Fix game crash check
39 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting
40 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly
41 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding
42 - Qt: Fix crash when changing audio settings after a game is closed
43 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan sign in HLE BIOS
44 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 sign in HLE BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/689)
45 - GBA Video: Don't update background scanline params in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/377)
46 - Qt: Ensure CLI backend is attached when submitting commands (fixes mgba.io/i/662)
47 - Core: Fix crash with rewind if savestates shrink
48Misc:
49 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
50 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
51 - Test: Add a basic test suite
52 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
53 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
54 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
55 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
56 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
57 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
58 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
59 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
60 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
61 - Util: Add size counting to Table
62 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
63 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
64 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
65 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
66 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
67 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
68 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
69 - All: Add C++ header guards
70 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
71 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
72 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
73 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
74 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
75 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
76 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
77 - Core: Add generic checksum function
78 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
79 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
80 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
81 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
82 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
83 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
84 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
85 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
86 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
87 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
88 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
89 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
90 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
91 - Qt: Remove audio thread
92 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
93 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
94 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
95 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
96 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key
97 - Core: Restore sleep callback
98 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist
99 - Feature: Make -l option explicit
100 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels
101 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent
102
1030.5.2: (2016-12-31)
104Bugfixes:
105 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
106 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
107 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
108 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
109 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
110 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
111 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
112 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
113 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
114 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
115 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
116 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
117 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
118 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
119 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
120 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
121 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
122 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
123 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
124 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
125 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
126 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
127 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
128 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
129 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
130 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
131 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
132 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
133 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
134 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
135 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
136 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
137 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
138 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
139 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
140Misc:
141 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
142 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
143 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
144 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
145
1460.5.1: (2016-10-05)
147Bugfixes:
148 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
149 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
150 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
151 - GB: Initialize audio properly
152 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
153 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
154 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
155 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
156 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
157 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
158 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
159 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
160 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
161 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
162 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
163 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
164 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
165 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
166 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
167 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
168 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
169 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
170 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
171 - Qt: Fix patch loading
172 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
173 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
174 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
175 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
176Misc:
177 - All: Only update version info if needed
178 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
179 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
180 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
181 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
182 - GB Video: Improved video timings
183 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
184 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
185
1860.5.0: (2016-09-19)
187Features:
188 - Game Boy support
189 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
190 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
191 - Tile viewer
192 - Threaded rendering mode
193 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
194 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
195 - GUI: Add fast-forward
196 - Wii: 240p support
197 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
198 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
199 - Load specific files out of archives
200 - Automatic BIOS detection
201Bugfixes:
202 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
203 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
204 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
205 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
206 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
207 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
208 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
209 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
210 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
211 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
212 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
213 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
214 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
215 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
216 - PSP2: Fix VSync
217 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
218 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
219 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
220 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
221 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
222 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
223 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
224 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
225 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
226 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
227 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
228 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
229 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
230 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
231 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
232Misc:
233 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
234 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
235 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
236 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
237 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
238 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
239 - 3DS: 3D banner
240 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
241 - All: Faster memory read/write
242 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
243 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
244 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
245 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
246 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
247 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
248 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
249 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
250 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
251 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
252 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
253 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
254 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
255 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
256 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
257 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
258 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
259 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
260 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
261 - GUI: Add back logging
262 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
263 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
264 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
265 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
266 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
267 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
268 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
269 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
270 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
271 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
272 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
273 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
274 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
275 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
276 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
277 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
278 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
279 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
280 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
281 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
282 - SDL: More responsive rumble
283 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
284 - Util: Add rtrim
285 - Util: Add endswith
286 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
287 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
288 - Windows: Add native VDir support
289 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
290
2910.4.1: (2016-07-11)
292Bugfixes:
293 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
294 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
295 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
296 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
297 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
298 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
299 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
300 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
301 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
302 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
303 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
304 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
305 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
306 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
307 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
308 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
309 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
310 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
311 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
312 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
313 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
314 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
315 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
316 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
317 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
318 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
319Misc:
320 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
321 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
322 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
323 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
324 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
325 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
326 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
327 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
328 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
329 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
330 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
331 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
332 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
333 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
334 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
335
3360.4.0: (2016-02-02)
337Features:
338 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
339 - I/O viewer
340 - Booting of multiboot images
341 - Customization of GIF recording
342 - Libretro: Cheat code support
343 - Support for GLSL shaders
344 - ROM information view
345 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
346 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
347 - Key autofire
348 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
349 - OpenEmu core for OS X
350 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
351 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
352 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
353 - Cleaner, unified settings window
354 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
355 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
356 - Controller hotplugging
357 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
358Bugfixes:
359 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
360 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
361 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
362 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
363 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
364 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
365 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
366 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
367 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
368 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
369 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
370 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
371 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
372 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
373 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
374 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
375Misc:
376 - All: Improved PowerPC support
377 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
378 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
379 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
380 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
381 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
382 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
383 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
384 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
385 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
386 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
387 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
388 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
389 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
390 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
391 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
392 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
393 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
394 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
395 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
396 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
397 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
398 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
399 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
400 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
401 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
402 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
403 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
404 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
405 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
406
4070.3.2: (2015-12-16)
408Bugfixes:
409 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
410 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
411 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
412 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
413 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
414 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
415 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
416 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
417 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
418 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
419 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
420 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
421 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
422 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
423 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
424 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
425 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
426 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
427 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
428 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
429 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
430 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
431 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
432 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
433 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
434 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
435 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
436Misc:
437 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
438 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
439
4400.3.1: (2015-10-24)
441Bugfixes:
442 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
443 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
444 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
445 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
446 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
447 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
448 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
449 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
450 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
451 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
452 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
453 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
454 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
455 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
456 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
457 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
458 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
459 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
460Misc:
461 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
462 - All: Add --version flag
463 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
464 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
465 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
466 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
467 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
468 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
469 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
470 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
471 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
472 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
473 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
474
4750.3.0: (2015-08-16)
476Features:
477 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
478 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
479 - Palette viewer and exporter
480 - Volume control
481 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
482 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
483 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
484 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
485 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
486 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
487 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
488 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
489 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
490 - Memory inspector
491 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
492 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
493 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
494 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
495 - Finer control over FPS target
496 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
497 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
498 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
499 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
500 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
501 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
502 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
503 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
504 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
505 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
506 - Automatically load patches, if found
507 - Improved video synchronization
508 - Configurable audio output sample rate
509Bugfixes:
510 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
511 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
512 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
513 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
514 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
515 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
516 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
517 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
518 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
519 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
520 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
521 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
522 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
523 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
524 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
525 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
526 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
527 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
528 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
529 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
530 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
531 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
532 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
533 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
534 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
535 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
536 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
537 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
538 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
539 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
540 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
541 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
542 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
543 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
544 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
545 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
546 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
547 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
548 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
549 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
550 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
551 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
552Misc:
553 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
554 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
555 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
556 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
557 - All: Threads are now named
558 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
559 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
560 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
561 - GBA: Add status log level
562 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
563 - GBA: SIO logging layer
564 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
565 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
566 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
567 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
568 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
569 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
570 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
571 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
572 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
573 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
574 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
575 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
576 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
577 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
578 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
579 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
580 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
581 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
582 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
583 - Qt: Show version info in window title
584 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
585 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
586 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
587 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
588 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
589 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
590 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
591 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
592 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
593 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
594 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
595 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
596 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
597 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
598 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
599 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
600 - SDL: Clean up GL context
601 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
602 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
603
6040.2.1: (2015-05-13)
605Bugfixes:
606 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
607 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
608 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
609 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
610 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
611 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
612 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
613 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
614 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
615 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
616 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
617 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
618 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
619 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
620 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
621 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
622 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
623 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
624 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
625 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
626 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
627 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
628 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
629 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
630 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
631 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
632 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
633 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
634 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
635 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
636 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
637 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
638 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
639 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
640 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
641 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
642Misc:
643 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
644 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
645 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
646
6470.2.0: (2015-04-03)
648Features:
649 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
650 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
651 - Settings window
652 - Bilinear resampling option
653 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
654 - List of recently opened games
655 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
656 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
657 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
658 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
659 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
660 - Rewinding of emulation
661 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
662 - Support IPv6
663 - Save directory of last loaded file
664 - Support BPS patches
665 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
666 - Configurable game overrides
667 - Support loading 7-Zip files
668 - Drag and drop game loading
669 - Cheat code support
670 - Runtime configurable audio driver
671 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
672 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
673 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
674 - Local link cable support
675 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
676 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
677 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
678 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
679 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
680 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
681 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
682Bugfixes:
683 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
684 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
685 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
686 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
687 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
688 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
689 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
690 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
691 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
692 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
693 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
694 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
695 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
696 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
697 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
698 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
699 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
700 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
701 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
702 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
703 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
704 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
705 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
706 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
707 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
708 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
709 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
710 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
711Misc:
712 - All: Enable link-time optimization
713 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
714 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
715 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
716 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
717 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
718 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
719 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
720 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
721 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
722 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
723 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
724 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
725 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
726 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
727 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
728 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
729 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
730 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
731 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
732 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
733 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
734 - Qt: Remember window position
735 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
736 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
737
7380.1.1: (2015-01-24)
739Bugfixes:
740 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
741 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
742 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
743 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
744 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
745 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
746 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
747 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
748 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
749 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
750 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
751 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
752 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
753 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
754 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
755 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
756 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
757 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
758 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
759 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
760 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
761 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
762 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
763 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
764 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
765 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
766 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
767 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
768 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
769 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
770 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
771 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
772 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
773 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
774 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
775 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
776 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
777 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
778Misc:
779 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
780 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
781 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
782 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
783 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
784 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
785 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
786
7870.1.0: (2014-12-13)
788 - Initial release