all repos — mgba @ 4bd35550455e74a870a52c611d8e39d4dde20015

mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

CHANGES (view raw)

  10.3.0: (Future)
  2Features:
  3 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
  4 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
  5 - Palette viewer and exporter
  6 - Volume control
  7 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
  8 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
  9 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
 10 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
 11 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
 12 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
 13 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
 14 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
 15 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
 16 - Memory inspector
 17 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
 18 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
 19 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
 20 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
 21 - Finer control over FPS target
 22 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
 23 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
 24Bugfixes:
 25 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
 26 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
 27 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
 28 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
 29 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
 30 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
 31 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
 32 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
 33 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
 34 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
 35 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
 36 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
 37 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
 38 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
 39 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
 40 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
 41 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
 42 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
 43 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
 44 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
 45 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
 46 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
 47 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
 48Misc:
 49 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
 50 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
 51 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
 52 - GBA: Add status log level
 53 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
 54 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
 55 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
 56 - Qt: Show version info in window title
 57 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
 58 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
 59 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
 60 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
 61 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
 62 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
 63 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
 64 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
 65 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
 66 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
 67 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
 68 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
 69 - GBA: SIO logging layer
 70 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
 71 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
 72 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
 73 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
 74 - All: Threads are now named
 75 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
 76 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
 77
 780.2.1: (2015-05-13)
 79Bugfixes:
 80 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
 81 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
 82 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
 83 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
 84 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
 85 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
 86 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
 87 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
 88 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
 89 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
 90 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
 91 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
 92 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
 93 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
 94 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
 95 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
 96 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
 97 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
 98 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
 99 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
100 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
101 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
102 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
103 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
104 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
105 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
106 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
107 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
108 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
109 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
110 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
111 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
112 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
113 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
114 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
115 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
116Misc:
117 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
118 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
119 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
120
1210.2.0: (2015-04-03)
122Features:
123 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
124 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
125 - Settings window
126 - Bilinear resampling option
127 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
128 - List of recently opened games
129 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
130 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
131 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
132 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
133 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
134 - Rewinding of emulation
135 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
136 - Support IPv6
137 - Save directory of last loaded file
138 - Support BPS patches
139 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
140 - Configurable game overrides
141 - Support loading 7-Zip files
142 - Drag and drop game loading
143 - Cheat code support
144 - Runtime configurable audio driver
145 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
146 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
147 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
148 - Local link cable support
149 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
150 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
151 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
152 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
153 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
154 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
155 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
156Bugfixes:
157 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
158 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
159 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
160 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
161 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
162 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
163 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
164 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
165 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
166 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
167 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
168 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
169 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
170 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
171 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
172 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
173 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
174 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
175 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
176 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
177 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
178 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
179 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
180 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
181 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
182 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
183 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
184 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
185Misc:
186 - All: Enable link-time optimization
187 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
188 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
189 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
190 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
191 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
192 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
193 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
194 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
195 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
196 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
197 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
198 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
199 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
200 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
201 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
202 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
203 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
204 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
205 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
206 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
207 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
208 - Qt: Remember window position
209 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
210 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
211
2120.1.1: (2015-01-24)
213Bugfixes:
214 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
215 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
216 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
217 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
218 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
219 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
220 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
221 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
222 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
223 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
224 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
225 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
226 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
227 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
228 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
229 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
230 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
231 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
232 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
233 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
234 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
235 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
236 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
237 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
238 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
239 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
240 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
241 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
242 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
243 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
244 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
245 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
246 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
247 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
248 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
249 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
250 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
251 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
252Misc:
253 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
254 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
255 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
256 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
257 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
258 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
259 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
260
2610.1.0: (2014-12-13)
262 - Initial release