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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
 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
 71 - GBA BIOS: Fix INT_MIN/-1 crash
 72 - GBA Savedata: Update and fix Sharkport importing (fixes mgba.io/i/658)
 73 - OpenGL: Fix some shaders causing offset graphics
 74 - Qt: Fix game unpausing after frame advancing and refocusing
 75Misc:
 76 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
 77 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
 78 - Test: Add a basic test suite
 79 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
 80 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
 81 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
 82 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
 83 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
 84 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
 85 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
 86 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
 87 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
 88 - Util: Add size counting to Table
 89 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
 90 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
 91 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
 92 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
 93 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
 94 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
 95 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
 96 - All: Add C++ header guards
 97 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
 98 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
 99 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
100 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
101 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
102 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
103 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
104 - Core: Add generic checksum function
105 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
106 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
107 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
108 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
109 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
110 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
111 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
112 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
113 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
114 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
115 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
116 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
117 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
118 - Qt: Remove audio thread
119 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
120 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
121 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
122 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
123 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key
124 - Core: Restore sleep callback
125 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist
126 - Feature: Make -l option explicit
127 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels
128 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent
129 - VFS: Optimize expanding in-memory files
130 - VFS: Add VFileFIFO for operating on circle buffers
131 - Core: Move rewind diffing to its own thread
132 - Util: Tune patch-fast extent sizes
133 - Qt: Relax hard dependency on OpenGL
134 - GB Video: Improved video timings
135 - Core: List memory segments in the core
136 - Core: Move savestate creation time to extdata
137 - Debugger: Add mDebuggerRunFrame convenience function
138 - GBA Memory: Remove unused prefetch cruft
139 - GB: Trust ROM header for number of SRAM banks (fixes mgba.io/i/726)
140 - Core: Config values can now be hexadecimal
141
1420.5.2: (2016-12-31)
143Bugfixes:
144 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
145 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
146 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
147 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
148 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
149 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
150 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
151 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
152 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
153 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
154 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
155 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
156 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
157 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
158 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
159 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
160 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
161 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
162 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
163 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
164 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
165 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
166 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
167 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
168 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
169 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
170 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
171 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
172 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
173 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
174 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
175 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
176 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
177 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
178 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
179Misc:
180 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
181 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
182 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
183 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
184
1850.5.1: (2016-10-05)
186Bugfixes:
187 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
188 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
189 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
190 - GB: Initialize audio properly
191 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
192 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
193 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
194 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
195 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
196 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
197 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
198 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
199 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
200 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
201 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
202 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
203 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
204 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
205 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
206 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
207 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
208 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
209 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
210 - Qt: Fix patch loading
211 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
212 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
213 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
214 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
215Misc:
216 - All: Only update version info if needed
217 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
218 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
219 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
220 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
221 - GB Video: Improved video timings
222 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
223 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
224
2250.5.0: (2016-09-19)
226Features:
227 - Game Boy support
228 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
229 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
230 - Tile viewer
231 - Threaded rendering mode
232 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
233 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
234 - GUI: Add fast-forward
235 - Wii: 240p support
236 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
237 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
238 - Load specific files out of archives
239 - Automatic BIOS detection
240Bugfixes:
241 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
242 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
243 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
244 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
245 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
246 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
247 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
248 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
249 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
250 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
251 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
252 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
253 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
254 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
255 - PSP2: Fix VSync
256 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
257 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
258 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
259 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
260 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
261 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
262 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
263 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
264 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
265 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
266 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
267 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
268 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
269 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
270 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
271Misc:
272 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
273 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
274 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
275 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
276 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
277 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
278 - 3DS: 3D banner
279 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
280 - All: Faster memory read/write
281 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
282 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
283 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
284 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
285 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
286 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
287 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
288 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
289 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
290 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
291 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
292 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
293 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
294 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
295 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
296 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
297 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
298 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
299 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
300 - GUI: Add back logging
301 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
302 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
303 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
304 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
305 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
306 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
307 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
308 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
309 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
310 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
311 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
312 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
313 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
314 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
315 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
316 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
317 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
318 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
319 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
320 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
321 - SDL: More responsive rumble
322 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
323 - Util: Add rtrim
324 - Util: Add endswith
325 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
326 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
327 - Windows: Add native VDir support
328 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
329
3300.4.1: (2016-07-11)
331Bugfixes:
332 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
333 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
334 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
335 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
336 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
337 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
338 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
339 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
340 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
341 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
342 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
343 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
344 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
345 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
346 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
347 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
348 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
349 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
350 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
351 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
352 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
353 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
354 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
355 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
356 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
357 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
358Misc:
359 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
360 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
361 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
362 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
363 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
364 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
365 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
366 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
367 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
368 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
369 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
370 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
371 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
372 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
373 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
374
3750.4.0: (2016-02-02)
376Features:
377 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
378 - I/O viewer
379 - Booting of multiboot images
380 - Customization of GIF recording
381 - Libretro: Cheat code support
382 - Support for GLSL shaders
383 - ROM information view
384 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
385 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
386 - Key autofire
387 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
388 - OpenEmu core for OS X
389 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
390 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
391 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
392 - Cleaner, unified settings window
393 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
394 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
395 - Controller hotplugging
396 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
397Bugfixes:
398 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
399 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
400 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
401 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
402 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
403 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
404 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
405 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
406 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
407 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
408 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
409 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
410 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
411 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
412 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
413 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
414Misc:
415 - All: Improved PowerPC support
416 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
417 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
418 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
419 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
420 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
421 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
422 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
423 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
424 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
425 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
426 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
427 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
428 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
429 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
430 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
431 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
432 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
433 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
434 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
435 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
436 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
437 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
438 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
439 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
440 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
441 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
442 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
443 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
444 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
445
4460.3.2: (2015-12-16)
447Bugfixes:
448 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
449 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
450 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
451 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
452 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
453 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
454 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
455 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
456 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
457 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
458 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
459 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
460 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
461 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
462 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
463 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
464 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
465 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
466 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
467 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
468 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
469 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
470 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
471 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
472 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
473 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
474 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
475Misc:
476 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
477 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
478
4790.3.1: (2015-10-24)
480Bugfixes:
481 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
482 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
483 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
484 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
485 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
486 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
487 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
488 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
489 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
490 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
491 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
492 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
493 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
494 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
495 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
496 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
497 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
498 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
499Misc:
500 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
501 - All: Add --version flag
502 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
503 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
504 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
505 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
506 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
507 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
508 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
509 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
510 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
511 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
512 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
513
5140.3.0: (2015-08-16)
515Features:
516 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
517 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
518 - Palette viewer and exporter
519 - Volume control
520 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
521 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
522 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
523 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
524 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
525 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
526 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
527 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
528 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
529 - Memory inspector
530 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
531 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
532 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
533 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
534 - Finer control over FPS target
535 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
536 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
537 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
538 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
539 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
540 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
541 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
542 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
543 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
544 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
545 - Automatically load patches, if found
546 - Improved video synchronization
547 - Configurable audio output sample rate
548Bugfixes:
549 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
550 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
551 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
552 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
553 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
554 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
555 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
556 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
557 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
558 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
559 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
560 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
561 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
562 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
563 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
564 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
565 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
566 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
567 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
568 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
569 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
570 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
571 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
572 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
573 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
574 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
575 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
576 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
577 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
578 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
579 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
580 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
581 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
582 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
583 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
584 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
585 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
586 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
587 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
588 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
589 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
590 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
591Misc:
592 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
593 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
594 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
595 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
596 - All: Threads are now named
597 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
598 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
599 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
600 - GBA: Add status log level
601 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
602 - GBA: SIO logging layer
603 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
604 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
605 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
606 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
607 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
608 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
609 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
610 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
611 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
612 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
613 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
614 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
615 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
616 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
617 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
618 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
619 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
620 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
621 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
622 - Qt: Show version info in window title
623 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
624 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
625 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
626 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
627 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
628 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
629 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
630 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
631 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
632 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
633 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
634 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
635 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
636 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
637 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
638 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
639 - SDL: Clean up GL context
640 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
641 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
642
6430.2.1: (2015-05-13)
644Bugfixes:
645 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
646 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
647 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
648 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
649 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
650 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
651 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
652 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
653 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
654 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
655 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
656 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
657 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
658 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
659 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
660 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
661 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
662 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
663 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
664 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
665 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
666 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
667 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
668 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
669 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
670 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
671 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
672 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
673 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
674 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
675 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
676 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
677 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
678 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
679 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
680 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
681Misc:
682 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
683 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
684 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
685
6860.2.0: (2015-04-03)
687Features:
688 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
689 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
690 - Settings window
691 - Bilinear resampling option
692 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
693 - List of recently opened games
694 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
695 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
696 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
697 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
698 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
699 - Rewinding of emulation
700 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
701 - Support IPv6
702 - Save directory of last loaded file
703 - Support BPS patches
704 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
705 - Configurable game overrides
706 - Support loading 7-Zip files
707 - Drag and drop game loading
708 - Cheat code support
709 - Runtime configurable audio driver
710 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
711 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
712 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
713 - Local link cable support
714 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
715 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
716 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
717 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
718 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
719 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
720 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
721Bugfixes:
722 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
723 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
724 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
725 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
726 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
727 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
728 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
729 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
730 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
731 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
732 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
733 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
734 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
735 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
736 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
737 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
738 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
739 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
740 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
741 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
742 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
743 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
744 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
745 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
746 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
747 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
748 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
749 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
750Misc:
751 - All: Enable link-time optimization
752 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
753 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
754 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
755 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
756 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
757 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
758 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
759 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
760 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
761 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
762 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
763 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
764 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
765 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
766 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
767 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
768 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
769 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
770 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
771 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
772 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
773 - Qt: Remember window position
774 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
775 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
776
7770.1.1: (2015-01-24)
778Bugfixes:
779 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
780 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
781 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
782 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
783 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
784 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
785 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
786 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
787 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
788 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
789 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
790 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
791 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
792 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
793 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
794 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
795 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
796 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
797 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
798 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
799 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
800 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
801 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
802 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
803 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
804 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
805 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
806 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
807 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
808 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
809 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
810 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
811 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
812 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
813 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
814 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
815 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
816 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
817Misc:
818 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
819 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
820 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
821 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
822 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
823 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
824 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
825
8260.1.0: (2014-12-13)
827 - Initial release