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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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  10.4.0: (Future)
  2Features:
  3 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
  4 - I/O viewer
  5 - Booting of multiboot images
  6 - Customization of GIF recording
  7 - Libretro: Cheat code support
  8Bugfixes:
  9 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
 10 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
 11 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
 12 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
 13 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
 14 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
 15 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
 16 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
 17 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
 18 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
 19 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
 20 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
 21 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
 22 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
 23 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
 24 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
 25 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
 26 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
 27 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
 28 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
 29 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
 30 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
 31 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
 32 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
 33 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
 34 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
 35 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
 36Misc:
 37 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
 38 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
 39 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
 40 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
 41 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
 42 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
 43 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
 44 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
 45 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
 46 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
 47 - All: Improved PowerPC support
 48 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
 49 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
 50 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
 51 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
 52 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
 53 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
 54 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
 55
 560.3.1: (2015-10-24)
 57Bugfixes:
 58 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
 59 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
 60 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
 61 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
 62 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
 63 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
 64 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
 65 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
 66 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
 67 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
 68 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
 69 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
 70 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
 71 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
 72 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
 73 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
 74 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
 75 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
 76Misc:
 77 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
 78 - All: Add --version flag
 79 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
 80 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
 81 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
 82 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
 83 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
 84 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
 85 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
 86 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
 87 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
 88 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
 89 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
 90
 910.3.0: (2015-08-16)
 92Features:
 93 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
 94 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
 95 - Palette viewer and exporter
 96 - Volume control
 97 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
 98 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
 99 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
100 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
101 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
102 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
103 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
104 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
105 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
106 - Memory inspector
107 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
108 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
109 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
110 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
111 - Finer control over FPS target
112 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
113 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
114 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
115 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
116 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
117 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
118 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
119 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
120 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
121 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
122 - Automatically load patches, if found
123 - Improved video synchronization
124 - Configurable audio output sample rate
125Bugfixes:
126 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
127 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
128 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
129 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
130 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
131 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
132 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
133 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
134 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
135 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
136 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
137 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
138 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
139 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
140 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
141 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
142 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
143 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
144 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
145 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
146 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
147 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
148 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
149 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
150 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
151 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
152 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
153 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
154 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
155 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
156 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
157 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
158 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
159 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
160 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
161 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
162 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
163 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
164 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
165 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
166 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
167 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
168Misc:
169 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
170 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
171 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
172 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
173 - All: Threads are now named
174 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
175 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
176 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
177 - GBA: Add status log level
178 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
179 - GBA: SIO logging layer
180 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
181 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
182 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
183 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
184 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
185 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
186 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
187 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
188 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
189 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
190 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
191 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
192 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
193 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
194 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
195 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
196 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
197 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
198 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
199 - Qt: Show version info in window title
200 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
201 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
202 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
203 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
204 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
205 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
206 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
207 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
208 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
209 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
210 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
211 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
212 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
213 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
214 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
215 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
216 - SDL: Clean up GL context
217 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
218 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
219
2200.2.1: (2015-05-13)
221Bugfixes:
222 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
223 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
224 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
225 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
226 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
227 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
228 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
229 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
230 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
231 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
232 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
233 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
234 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
235 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
236 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
237 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
238 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
239 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
240 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
241 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
242 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
243 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
244 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
245 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
246 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
247 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
248 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
249 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
250 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
251 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
252 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
253 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
254 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
255 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
256 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
257 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
258Misc:
259 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
260 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
261 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
262
2630.2.0: (2015-04-03)
264Features:
265 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
266 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
267 - Settings window
268 - Bilinear resampling option
269 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
270 - List of recently opened games
271 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
272 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
273 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
274 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
275 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
276 - Rewinding of emulation
277 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
278 - Support IPv6
279 - Save directory of last loaded file
280 - Support BPS patches
281 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
282 - Configurable game overrides
283 - Support loading 7-Zip files
284 - Drag and drop game loading
285 - Cheat code support
286 - Runtime configurable audio driver
287 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
288 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
289 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
290 - Local link cable support
291 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
292 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
293 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
294 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
295 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
296 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
297 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
298Bugfixes:
299 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
300 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
301 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
302 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
303 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
304 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
305 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
306 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
307 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
308 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
309 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
310 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
311 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
312 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
313 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
314 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
315 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
316 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
317 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
318 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
319 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
320 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
321 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
322 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
323 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
324 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
325 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
326 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
327Misc:
328 - All: Enable link-time optimization
329 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
330 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
331 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
332 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
333 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
334 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
335 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
336 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
337 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
338 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
339 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
340 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
341 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
342 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
343 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
344 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
345 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
346 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
347 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
348 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
349 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
350 - Qt: Remember window position
351 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
352 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
353
3540.1.1: (2015-01-24)
355Bugfixes:
356 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
357 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
358 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
359 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
360 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
361 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
362 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
363 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
364 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
365 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
366 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
367 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
368 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
369 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
370 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
371 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
372 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
373 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
374 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
375 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
376 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
377 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
378 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
379 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
380 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
381 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
382 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
383 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
384 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
385 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
386 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
387 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
388 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
389 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
390 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
391 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
392 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
393 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
394Misc:
395 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
396 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
397 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
398 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
399 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
400 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
401 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
402
4030.1.0: (2014-12-13)
404 - Initial release