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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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  10.3.0: (Future)
  2Features:
  3 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
  4 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
  5 - Palette viewer
  6 - Volume control
  7 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load, solar sensor)
  8Bugfixes:
  9 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
 10 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
 11 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
 12 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
 13 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
 14 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
 15 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
 16 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
 17 - GBA Memory: Ensure changing the timing of a DMA reschedules it
 18 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
 19 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
 20Misc:
 21 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
 22
 230.2.0: (2015-04-03)
 24Features:
 25 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
 26 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
 27 - Settings window
 28 - Bilinear resampling option
 29 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
 30 - List of recently opened games
 31 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
 32 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
 33 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
 34 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
 35 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
 36 - Rewinding of emulation
 37 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
 38 - Support IPv6
 39 - Save directory of last loaded file
 40 - Support BPS patches
 41 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
 42 - Configurable game overrides
 43 - Support loading 7-Zip files
 44 - Drag and drop game loading
 45 - Cheat code support
 46 - Runtime configurable audio driver
 47 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
 48 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
 49 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
 50 - Local link cable support
 51 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
 52 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
 53 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
 54 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
 55 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
 56 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
 57 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
 58Bugfixes:
 59 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
 60 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
 61 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
 62 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
 63 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
 64 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
 65 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
 66 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
 67 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
 68 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
 69 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
 70 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
 71 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
 72 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
 73 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
 74 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
 75 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
 76 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
 77 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
 78 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
 79 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
 80 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
 81 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
 82 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
 83 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
 84 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
 85 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
 86 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
 87Misc:
 88 - All: Enable link-time optimization
 89 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
 90 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
 91 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
 92 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
 93 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
 94 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
 95 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
 96 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
 97 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
 98 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
 99 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
100 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
101 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
102 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
103 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
104 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
105 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
106 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
107 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
108 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
109 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
110 - Qt: Remember window position
111 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
112 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
113
1140.1.1: (2015-01-24)
115Bugfixes:
116 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
117 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
118 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
119 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
120 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
121 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
122 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
123 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
124 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
125 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
126 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
127 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
128 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
129 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
130 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
131 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
132 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
133 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
134 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
135 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
136 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
137 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
138 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
139 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
140 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
141 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
142 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
143 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
144 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
145 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
146 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
147 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
148 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
149 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
150 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
151 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
152 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
153 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
154Misc:
155 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
156 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
157 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
158 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
159 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
160 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
161 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
162
1630.1.0: (2014-12-13)
164 - Initial release