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10.3.2: (Future)
2Bugfixes:
3 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
4 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
5 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
6 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
7 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
8 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
9 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
10 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
11 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
12 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
13 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
14 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
15 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
16Misc:
17 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
18
190.3.1: (2015-10-24)
20Bugfixes:
21 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
22 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
23 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
24 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
25 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
26 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
27 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
28 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
29 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
30 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
31 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
32 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
33 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
34 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
35 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
36 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
37 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
38 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
39Misc:
40 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
41 - All: Add --version flag
42 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
43 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
44 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
45 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
46 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
47 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
48 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
49 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
50 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
51 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
52 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
53
540.3.0: (2015-08-16)
55Features:
56 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
57 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
58 - Palette viewer and exporter
59 - Volume control
60 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
61 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
62 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
63 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
64 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
65 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
66 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
67 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
68 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
69 - Memory inspector
70 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
71 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
72 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
73 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
74 - Finer control over FPS target
75 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
76 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
77 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
78 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
79 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
80 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
81 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
82 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
83 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
84 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
85 - Automatically load patches, if found
86 - Improved video synchronization
87 - Configurable audio output sample rate
88Bugfixes:
89 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
90 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
91 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
92 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
93 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
94 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
95 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
96 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
97 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
98 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
99 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
100 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
101 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
102 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
103 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
104 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
105 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
106 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
107 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
108 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
109 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
110 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
111 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
112 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
113 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
114 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
115 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
116 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
117 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
118 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
119 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
120 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
121 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
122 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
123 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
124 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
125 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
126 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
127 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
128 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
129 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
130 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
131Misc:
132 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
133 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
134 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
135 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
136 - All: Threads are now named
137 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
138 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
139 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
140 - GBA: Add status log level
141 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
142 - GBA: SIO logging layer
143 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
144 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
145 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
146 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
147 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
148 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
149 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
150 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
151 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
152 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
153 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
154 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
155 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
156 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
157 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
158 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
159 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
160 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
161 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
162 - Qt: Show version info in window title
163 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
164 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
165 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
166 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
167 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
168 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
169 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
170 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
171 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
172 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
173 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
174 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
175 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
176 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
177 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
178 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
179 - SDL: Clean up GL context
180 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
181 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
182
1830.2.1: (2015-05-13)
184Bugfixes:
185 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
186 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
187 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
188 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
189 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
190 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
191 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
192 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
193 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
194 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
195 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
196 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
197 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
198 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
199 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
200 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
201 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
202 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
203 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
204 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
205 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
206 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
207 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
208 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
209 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
210 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
211 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
212 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
213 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
214 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
215 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
216 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
217 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
218 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
219 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
220 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
221Misc:
222 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
223 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
224 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
225
2260.2.0: (2015-04-03)
227Features:
228 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
229 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
230 - Settings window
231 - Bilinear resampling option
232 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
233 - List of recently opened games
234 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
235 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
236 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
237 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
238 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
239 - Rewinding of emulation
240 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
241 - Support IPv6
242 - Save directory of last loaded file
243 - Support BPS patches
244 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
245 - Configurable game overrides
246 - Support loading 7-Zip files
247 - Drag and drop game loading
248 - Cheat code support
249 - Runtime configurable audio driver
250 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
251 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
252 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
253 - Local link cable support
254 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
255 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
256 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
257 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
258 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
259 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
260 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
261Bugfixes:
262 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
263 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
264 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
265 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
266 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
267 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
268 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
269 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
270 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
271 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
272 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
273 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
274 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
275 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
276 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
277 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
278 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
279 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
280 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
281 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
282 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
283 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
284 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
285 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
286 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
287 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
288 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
289 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
290Misc:
291 - All: Enable link-time optimization
292 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
293 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
294 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
295 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
296 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
297 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
298 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
299 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
300 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
301 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
302 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
303 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
304 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
305 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
306 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
307 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
308 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
309 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
310 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
311 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
312 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
313 - Qt: Remember window position
314 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
315 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
316
3170.1.1: (2015-01-24)
318Bugfixes:
319 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
320 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
321 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
322 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
323 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
324 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
325 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
326 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
327 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
328 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
329 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
330 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
331 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
332 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
333 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
334 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
335 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
336 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
337 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
338 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
339 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
340 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
341 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
342 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
343 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
344 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
345 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
346 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
347 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
348 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
349 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
350 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
351 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
352 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
353 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
354 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
355 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
356 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
357Misc:
358 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
359 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
360 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
361 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
362 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
363 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
364 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
365
3660.1.0: (2014-12-13)
367 - Initial release