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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
19 - Video log recording for testing and bug reporting
20 - Library view
21 - Debugger: Segment/bank support
22 - GB: Symbol table support
23 - GB MBC: Add MBC1 multicart support
24 - Implement keypad interrupts
25 - LR35902: Watchpoints
26 - Memory search
27 - Debugger: Execution tracing
28Bugfixes:
29 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
30 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
31 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
32 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
33 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
34 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
35 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
36 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
37 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
38 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
39 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)
40 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches
41 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library
42 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing
43 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept
44 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed
45 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN
46 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind
47 - SDL: Fix game crash check
48 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting
49 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly
50 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding
51 - Qt: Fix crash when changing audio settings after a game is closed
52 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan sign in HLE BIOS
53 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 sign in HLE BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/689)
54 - GBA Video: Don't update background scanline params in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/377)
55 - Qt: Ensure CLI backend is attached when submitting commands (fixes mgba.io/i/662)
56 - Core: Fix crash with rewind if savestates shrink
57 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
58 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
59 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
60 - GBA: Fix multiboot loading resulting in too small WRAM
61 - Test: Don't rely on core for frames elapsed
62 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
63 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
64 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
65 - Qt: Disable "New multiplayer window" when MAX_GBAS is reached (fixes mgba.io/i/107)
66 - LR35902: Fix decoding LD r, $imm and 0-valued immediates (fixes mgba.io/i/735)
67 - GB: Fix STAT blocking
68 - GB MBC: Fix swapping carts not detect new MBC
69 - GB Timer: Fix DIV batching if TAC changes
70 - GB Video: Reset renderer when loading state
71Misc:
72 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
73 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
74 - Test: Add a basic test suite
75 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
76 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
77 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
78 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
79 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
80 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
81 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
82 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
83 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
84 - Util: Add size counting to Table
85 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
86 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
87 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
88 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
89 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
90 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
91 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
92 - All: Add C++ header guards
93 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
94 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
95 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
96 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
97 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
98 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
99 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
100 - Core: Add generic checksum function
101 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
102 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
103 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
104 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
105 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
106 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
107 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
108 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
109 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
110 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
111 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
112 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
113 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
114 - Qt: Remove audio thread
115 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
116 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
117 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
118 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
119 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key
120 - Core: Restore sleep callback
121 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist
122 - Feature: Make -l option explicit
123 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels
124 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent
125 - VFS: Optimize expanding in-memory files
126 - VFS: Add VFileFIFO for operating on circle buffers
127 - Core: Move rewind diffing to its own thread
128 - Util: Tune patch-fast extent sizes
129 - Qt: Relax hard dependency on OpenGL
130 - GB Video: Improved video timings
131 - Core: List memory segments in the core
132 - Core: Move savestate creation time to extdata
133 - Debugger: Add mDebuggerRunFrame convenience function
134 - GBA Memory: Remove unused prefetch cruft
135
1360.5.2: (2016-12-31)
137Bugfixes:
138 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
139 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
140 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
141 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
142 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
143 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
144 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
145 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
146 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
147 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
148 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
149 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
150 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
151 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
152 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
153 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
154 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
155 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
156 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
157 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
158 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
159 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
160 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
161 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
162 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
163 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
164 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
165 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
166 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
167 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
168 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
169 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
170 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
171 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
172 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
173Misc:
174 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
175 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
176 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
177 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
178
1790.5.1: (2016-10-05)
180Bugfixes:
181 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
182 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
183 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
184 - GB: Initialize audio properly
185 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
186 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
187 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
188 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
189 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
190 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
191 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
192 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
193 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
194 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
195 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
196 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
197 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
198 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
199 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
200 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
201 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
202 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
203 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
204 - Qt: Fix patch loading
205 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
206 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
207 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
208 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
209Misc:
210 - All: Only update version info if needed
211 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
212 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
213 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
214 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
215 - GB Video: Improved video timings
216 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
217 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
218
2190.5.0: (2016-09-19)
220Features:
221 - Game Boy support
222 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
223 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
224 - Tile viewer
225 - Threaded rendering mode
226 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
227 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
228 - GUI: Add fast-forward
229 - Wii: 240p support
230 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
231 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
232 - Load specific files out of archives
233 - Automatic BIOS detection
234Bugfixes:
235 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
236 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
237 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
238 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
239 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
240 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
241 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
242 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
243 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
244 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
245 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
246 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
247 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
248 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
249 - PSP2: Fix VSync
250 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
251 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
252 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
253 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
254 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
255 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
256 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
257 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
258 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
259 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
260 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
261 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
262 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
263 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
264 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
265Misc:
266 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
267 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
268 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
269 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
270 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
271 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
272 - 3DS: 3D banner
273 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
274 - All: Faster memory read/write
275 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
276 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
277 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
278 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
279 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
280 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
281 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
282 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
283 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
284 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
285 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
286 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
287 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
288 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
289 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
290 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
291 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
292 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
293 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
294 - GUI: Add back logging
295 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
296 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
297 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
298 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
299 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
300 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
301 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
302 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
303 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
304 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
305 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
306 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
307 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
308 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
309 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
310 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
311 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
312 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
313 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
314 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
315 - SDL: More responsive rumble
316 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
317 - Util: Add rtrim
318 - Util: Add endswith
319 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
320 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
321 - Windows: Add native VDir support
322 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
323
3240.4.1: (2016-07-11)
325Bugfixes:
326 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
327 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
328 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
329 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
330 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
331 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
332 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
333 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
334 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
335 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
336 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
337 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
338 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
339 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
340 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
341 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
342 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
343 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
344 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
345 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
346 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
347 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
348 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
349 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
350 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
351 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
352Misc:
353 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
354 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
355 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
356 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
357 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
358 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
359 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
360 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
361 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
362 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
363 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
364 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
365 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
366 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
367 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
368
3690.4.0: (2016-02-02)
370Features:
371 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
372 - I/O viewer
373 - Booting of multiboot images
374 - Customization of GIF recording
375 - Libretro: Cheat code support
376 - Support for GLSL shaders
377 - ROM information view
378 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
379 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
380 - Key autofire
381 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
382 - OpenEmu core for OS X
383 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
384 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
385 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
386 - Cleaner, unified settings window
387 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
388 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
389 - Controller hotplugging
390 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
391Bugfixes:
392 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
393 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
394 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
395 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
396 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
397 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
398 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
399 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
400 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
401 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
402 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
403 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
404 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
405 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
406 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
407 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
408Misc:
409 - All: Improved PowerPC support
410 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
411 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
412 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
413 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
414 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
415 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
416 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
417 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
418 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
419 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
420 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
421 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
422 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
423 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
424 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
425 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
426 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
427 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
428 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
429 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
430 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
431 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
432 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
433 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
434 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
435 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
436 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
437 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
438 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
439
4400.3.2: (2015-12-16)
441Bugfixes:
442 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
443 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
444 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
445 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
446 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
447 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
448 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
449 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
450 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
451 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
452 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
453 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
454 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
455 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
456 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
457 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
458 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
459 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
460 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
461 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
462 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
463 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
464 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
465 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
466 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
467 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
468 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
469Misc:
470 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
471 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
472
4730.3.1: (2015-10-24)
474Bugfixes:
475 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
476 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
477 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
478 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
479 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
480 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
481 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
482 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
483 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
484 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
485 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
486 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
487 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
488 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
489 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
490 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
491 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
492 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
493Misc:
494 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
495 - All: Add --version flag
496 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
497 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
498 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
499 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
500 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
501 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
502 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
503 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
504 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
505 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
506 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
507
5080.3.0: (2015-08-16)
509Features:
510 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
511 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
512 - Palette viewer and exporter
513 - Volume control
514 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
515 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
516 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
517 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
518 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
519 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
520 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
521 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
522 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
523 - Memory inspector
524 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
525 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
526 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
527 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
528 - Finer control over FPS target
529 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
530 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
531 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
532 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
533 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
534 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
535 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
536 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
537 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
538 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
539 - Automatically load patches, if found
540 - Improved video synchronization
541 - Configurable audio output sample rate
542Bugfixes:
543 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
544 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
545 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
546 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
547 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
548 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
549 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
550 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
551 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
552 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
553 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
554 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
555 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
556 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
557 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
558 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
559 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
560 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
561 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
562 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
563 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
564 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
565 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
566 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
567 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
568 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
569 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
570 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
571 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
572 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
573 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
574 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
575 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
576 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
577 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
578 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
579 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
580 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
581 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
582 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
583 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
584 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
585Misc:
586 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
587 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
588 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
589 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
590 - All: Threads are now named
591 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
592 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
593 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
594 - GBA: Add status log level
595 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
596 - GBA: SIO logging layer
597 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
598 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
599 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
600 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
601 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
602 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
603 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
604 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
605 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
606 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
607 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
608 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
609 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
610 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
611 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
612 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
613 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
614 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
615 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
616 - Qt: Show version info in window title
617 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
618 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
619 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
620 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
621 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
622 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
623 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
624 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
625 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
626 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
627 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
628 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
629 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
630 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
631 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
632 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
633 - SDL: Clean up GL context
634 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
635 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
636
6370.2.1: (2015-05-13)
638Bugfixes:
639 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
640 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
641 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
642 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
643 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
644 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
645 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
646 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
647 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
648 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
649 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
650 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
651 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
652 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
653 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
654 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
655 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
656 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
657 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
658 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
659 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
660 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
661 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
662 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
663 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
664 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
665 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
666 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
667 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
668 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
669 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
670 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
671 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
672 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
673 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
674 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
675Misc:
676 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
677 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
678 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
679
6800.2.0: (2015-04-03)
681Features:
682 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
683 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
684 - Settings window
685 - Bilinear resampling option
686 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
687 - List of recently opened games
688 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
689 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
690 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
691 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
692 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
693 - Rewinding of emulation
694 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
695 - Support IPv6
696 - Save directory of last loaded file
697 - Support BPS patches
698 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
699 - Configurable game overrides
700 - Support loading 7-Zip files
701 - Drag and drop game loading
702 - Cheat code support
703 - Runtime configurable audio driver
704 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
705 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
706 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
707 - Local link cable support
708 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
709 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
710 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
711 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
712 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
713 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
714 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
715Bugfixes:
716 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
717 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
718 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
719 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
720 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
721 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
722 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
723 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
724 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
725 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
726 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
727 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
728 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
729 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
730 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
731 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
732 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
733 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
734 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
735 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
736 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
737 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
738 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
739 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
740 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
741 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
742 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
743 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
744Misc:
745 - All: Enable link-time optimization
746 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
747 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
748 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
749 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
750 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
751 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
752 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
753 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
754 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
755 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
756 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
757 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
758 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
759 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
760 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
761 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
762 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
763 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
764 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
765 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
766 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
767 - Qt: Remember window position
768 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
769 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
770
7710.1.1: (2015-01-24)
772Bugfixes:
773 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
774 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
775 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
776 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
777 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
778 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
779 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
780 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
781 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
782 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
783 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
784 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
785 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
786 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
787 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
788 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
789 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
790 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
791 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
792 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
793 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
794 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
795 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
796 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
797 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
798 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
799 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
800 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
801 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
802 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
803 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
804 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
805 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
806 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
807 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
808 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
809 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
810 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
811Misc:
812 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
813 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
814 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
815 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
816 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
817 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
818 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
819
8200.1.0: (2014-12-13)
821 - Initial release