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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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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
 15Bugfixes:
 16 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
 17 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
 18 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
 19 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
 20 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
 21 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
 22 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
 23 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
 24 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
 25 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
 26 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)
 27 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches
 28 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library
 29 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing
 30 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept
 31 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed
 32 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN
 33 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind
 34 - SDL: Fix game crash check
 35 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting
 36 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly
 37 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding
 38Misc:
 39 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
 40 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
 41 - Test: Add a basic test suite
 42 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
 43 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
 44 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
 45 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
 46 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
 47 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
 48 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
 49 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
 50 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
 51 - Util: Add size counting to Table
 52 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
 53 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
 54 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
 55 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
 56 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
 57 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
 58 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
 59 - All: Add C++ header guards
 60 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
 61 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
 62 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
 63 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
 64 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
 65 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
 66 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
 67 - Core: Add generic checksum function
 68 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
 69 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
 70 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
 71 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
 72 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
 73 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
 74 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
 75 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
 76 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
 77 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
 78 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
 79 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
 80 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
 81 - Qt: Remove audio thread
 82 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
 83 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
 84 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
 85 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
 86
 870.5.2: (2016-12-31)
 88Bugfixes:
 89 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
 90 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
 91 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
 92 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
 93 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
 94 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
 95 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
 96 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
 97 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
 98 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
 99 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
100 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
101 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
102 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
103 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
104 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
105 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
106 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
107 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
108 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
109 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
110 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
111 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
112 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
113 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
114 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
115 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
116 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
117 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
118 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
119 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
120 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
121 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
122 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
123 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
124Misc:
125 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
126 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
127 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
128 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
129
1300.5.1: (2016-10-05)
131Bugfixes:
132 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
133 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
134 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
135 - GB: Initialize audio properly
136 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
137 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
138 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
139 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
140 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
141 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
142 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
143 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
144 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
145 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
146 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
147 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
148 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
149 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
150 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
151 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
152 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
153 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
154 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
155 - Qt: Fix patch loading
156 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
157 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
158 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
159 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
160Misc:
161 - All: Only update version info if needed
162 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
163 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
164 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
165 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
166 - GB Video: Improved video timings
167 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
168 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
169
1700.5.0: (2016-09-19)
171Features:
172 - Game Boy support
173 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
174 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
175 - Tile viewer
176 - Threaded rendering mode
177 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
178 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
179 - GUI: Add fast-forward
180 - Wii: 240p support
181 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
182 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
183 - Load specific files out of archives
184 - Automatic BIOS detection
185Bugfixes:
186 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
187 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
188 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
189 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
190 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
191 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
192 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
193 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
194 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
195 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
196 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
197 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
198 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
199 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
200 - PSP2: Fix VSync
201 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
202 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
203 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
204 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
205 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
206 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
207 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
208 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
209 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
210 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
211 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
212 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
213 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
214 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
215 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
216Misc:
217 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
218 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
219 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
220 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
221 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
222 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
223 - 3DS: 3D banner
224 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
225 - All: Faster memory read/write
226 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
227 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
228 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
229 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
230 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
231 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
232 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
233 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
234 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
235 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
236 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
237 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
238 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
239 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
240 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
241 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
242 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
243 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
244 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
245 - GUI: Add back logging
246 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
247 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
248 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
249 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
250 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
251 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
252 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
253 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
254 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
255 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
256 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
257 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
258 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
259 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
260 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
261 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
262 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
263 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
264 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
265 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
266 - SDL: More responsive rumble
267 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
268 - Util: Add rtrim
269 - Util: Add endswith
270 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
271 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
272 - Windows: Add native VDir support
273 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
274
2750.4.1: (2016-07-11)
276Bugfixes:
277 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
278 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
279 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
280 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
281 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
282 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
283 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
284 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
285 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
286 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
287 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
288 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
289 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
290 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
291 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
292 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
293 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
294 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
295 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
296 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
297 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
298 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
299 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
300 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
301 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
302 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
303Misc:
304 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
305 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
306 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
307 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
308 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
309 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
310 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
311 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
312 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
313 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
314 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
315 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
316 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
317 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
318 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
319
3200.4.0: (2016-02-02)
321Features:
322 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
323 - I/O viewer
324 - Booting of multiboot images
325 - Customization of GIF recording
326 - Libretro: Cheat code support
327 - Support for GLSL shaders
328 - ROM information view
329 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
330 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
331 - Key autofire
332 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
333 - OpenEmu core for OS X
334 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
335 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
336 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
337 - Cleaner, unified settings window
338 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
339 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
340 - Controller hotplugging
341 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
342Bugfixes:
343 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
344 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
345 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
346 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
347 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
348 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
349 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
350 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
351 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
352 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
353 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
354 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
355 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
356 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
357 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
358 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
359Misc:
360 - All: Improved PowerPC support
361 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
362 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
363 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
364 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
365 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
366 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
367 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
368 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
369 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
370 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
371 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
372 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
373 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
374 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
375 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
376 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
377 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
378 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
379 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
380 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
381 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
382 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
383 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
384 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
385 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
386 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
387 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
388 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
389 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
390
3910.3.2: (2015-12-16)
392Bugfixes:
393 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
394 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
395 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
396 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
397 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
398 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
399 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
400 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
401 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
402 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
403 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
404 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
405 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
406 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
407 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
408 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
409 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
410 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
411 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
412 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
413 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
414 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
415 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
416 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
417 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
418 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
419 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
420Misc:
421 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
422 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
423
4240.3.1: (2015-10-24)
425Bugfixes:
426 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
427 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
428 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
429 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
430 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
431 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
432 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
433 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
434 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
435 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
436 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
437 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
438 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
439 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
440 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
441 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
442 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
443 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
444Misc:
445 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
446 - All: Add --version flag
447 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
448 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
449 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
450 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
451 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
452 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
453 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
454 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
455 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
456 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
457 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
458
4590.3.0: (2015-08-16)
460Features:
461 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
462 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
463 - Palette viewer and exporter
464 - Volume control
465 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
466 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
467 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
468 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
469 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
470 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
471 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
472 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
473 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
474 - Memory inspector
475 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
476 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
477 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
478 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
479 - Finer control over FPS target
480 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
481 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
482 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
483 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
484 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
485 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
486 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
487 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
488 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
489 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
490 - Automatically load patches, if found
491 - Improved video synchronization
492 - Configurable audio output sample rate
493Bugfixes:
494 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
495 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
496 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
497 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
498 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
499 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
500 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
501 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
502 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
503 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
504 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
505 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
506 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
507 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
508 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
509 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
510 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
511 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
512 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
513 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
514 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
515 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
516 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
517 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
518 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
519 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
520 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
521 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
522 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
523 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
524 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
525 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
526 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
527 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
528 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
529 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
530 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
531 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
532 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
533 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
534 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
535 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
536Misc:
537 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
538 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
539 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
540 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
541 - All: Threads are now named
542 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
543 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
544 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
545 - GBA: Add status log level
546 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
547 - GBA: SIO logging layer
548 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
549 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
550 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
551 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
552 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
553 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
554 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
555 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
556 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
557 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
558 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
559 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
560 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
561 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
562 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
563 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
564 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
565 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
566 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
567 - Qt: Show version info in window title
568 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
569 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
570 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
571 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
572 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
573 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
574 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
575 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
576 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
577 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
578 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
579 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
580 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
581 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
582 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
583 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
584 - SDL: Clean up GL context
585 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
586 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
587
5880.2.1: (2015-05-13)
589Bugfixes:
590 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
591 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
592 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
593 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
594 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
595 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
596 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
597 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
598 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
599 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
600 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
601 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
602 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
603 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
604 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
605 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
606 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
607 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
608 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
609 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
610 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
611 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
612 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
613 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
614 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
615 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
616 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
617 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
618 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
619 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
620 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
621 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
622 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
623 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
624 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
625 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
626Misc:
627 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
628 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
629 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
630
6310.2.0: (2015-04-03)
632Features:
633 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
634 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
635 - Settings window
636 - Bilinear resampling option
637 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
638 - List of recently opened games
639 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
640 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
641 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
642 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
643 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
644 - Rewinding of emulation
645 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
646 - Support IPv6
647 - Save directory of last loaded file
648 - Support BPS patches
649 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
650 - Configurable game overrides
651 - Support loading 7-Zip files
652 - Drag and drop game loading
653 - Cheat code support
654 - Runtime configurable audio driver
655 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
656 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
657 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
658 - Local link cable support
659 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
660 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
661 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
662 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
663 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
664 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
665 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
666Bugfixes:
667 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
668 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
669 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
670 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
671 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
672 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
673 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
674 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
675 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
676 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
677 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
678 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
679 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
680 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
681 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
682 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
683 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
684 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
685 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
686 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
687 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
688 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
689 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
690 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
691 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
692 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
693 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
694 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
695Misc:
696 - All: Enable link-time optimization
697 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
698 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
699 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
700 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
701 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
702 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
703 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
704 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
705 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
706 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
707 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
708 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
709 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
710 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
711 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
712 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
713 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
714 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
715 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
716 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
717 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
718 - Qt: Remember window position
719 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
720 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
721
7220.1.1: (2015-01-24)
723Bugfixes:
724 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
725 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
726 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
727 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
728 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
729 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
730 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
731 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
732 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
733 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
734 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
735 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
736 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
737 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
738 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
739 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
740 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
741 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
742 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
743 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
744 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
745 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
746 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
747 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
748 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
749 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
750 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
751 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
752 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
753 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
754 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
755 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
756 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
757 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
758 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
759 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
760 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
761 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
762Misc:
763 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
764 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
765 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
766 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
767 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
768 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
769 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
770
7710.1.0: (2014-12-13)
772 - Initial release