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10.7.0: (Future)
2Misc:
3 - GBA Timer: Use global cycles for timers
4
50.6.0: (Future)
6Features:
7 - GBA: Support printing debug strings from inside a game
8 - GBA: Better cheat type autodetection
9 - GB: Tile viewer
10 - Sprite viewer
11 - Debugging console
12 - Improved memory viewer
13 - GB: LR35902/GB-Z80 disassembler
14 - Configuration of gamepad hats
15 - Qt: Spanish translation (by Kevin López)
16 - Add option for whether rewinding restores save games
17 - Qt: German translation (by Lothar Serra Mari)
18 - Savestates now contain any RTC override data
19 - Command line ability to override configuration values
20 - Add option to allow preloading the entire ROM before running
21 - GB: Video/audio channel enabling/disabling
22 - Add option to lock video to integer scaling
23 - Video log recording for testing and bug reporting
24 - Library view
25 - Debugger: Segment/bank support
26 - GB: Symbol table support
27 - GB MBC: Add MBC1 multicart support
28 - Implement keypad interrupts
29 - LR35902: Watchpoints
30 - Memory search
31 - Debugger: Execution tracing
32Bugfixes:
33 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
34 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
35 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
36 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
37 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
38 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
39 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
40 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
41 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
42 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
43 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)
44 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches
45 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library
46 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing
47 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept
48 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed
49 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN
50 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind
51 - SDL: Fix game crash check
52 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting
53 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly
54 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding
55 - Qt: Fix crash when changing audio settings after a game is closed
56 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan sign in HLE BIOS
57 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 sign in HLE BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/689)
58 - GBA Video: Don't update background scanline params in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/377)
59 - Qt: Ensure CLI backend is attached when submitting commands (fixes mgba.io/i/662)
60 - Core: Fix crash with rewind if savestates shrink
61 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
62 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
63 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
64 - GBA: Fix multiboot loading resulting in too small WRAM
65 - Test: Don't rely on core for frames elapsed
66 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
67 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
68 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
69 - Qt: Disable "New multiplayer window" when MAX_GBAS is reached (fixes mgba.io/i/107)
70 - LR35902: Fix decoding LD r, $imm and 0-valued immediates (fixes mgba.io/i/735)
71 - GB: Fix STAT blocking
72 - GB MBC: Fix swapping carts not detect new MBC
73 - GB Timer: Fix DIV batching if TAC changes
74 - GB Video: Reset renderer when loading state
75 - GBA BIOS: Fix INT_MIN/-1 crash
76 - GBA Savedata: Update and fix Sharkport importing (fixes mgba.io/i/658)
77 - OpenGL: Fix some shaders causing offset graphics
78 - Qt: Fix game unpausing after frame advancing and refocusing
79 - GB Timer: Fix sub-M-cycle DIV reset timing and edge triggering
80 - Core: Fix interrupting a thread while on the thread (fixes mgba.io/i/692)
81 - Core: Fix directory sets crashing on close if base isn't properly detached
82 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched
83 - Qt: Fix data directory path
84Misc:
85 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
86 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
87 - Test: Add a basic test suite
88 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
89 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
90 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
91 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
92 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
93 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
94 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
95 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
96 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
97 - Util: Add size counting to Table
98 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
99 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
100 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
101 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
102 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
103 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
104 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
105 - All: Add C++ header guards
106 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
107 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
108 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
109 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
110 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
111 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
112 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
113 - Core: Add generic checksum function
114 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
115 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
116 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
117 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
118 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
119 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
120 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
121 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
122 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
123 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
124 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
125 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
126 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
127 - Qt: Remove audio thread
128 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
129 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
130 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
131 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
132 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key
133 - Core: Restore sleep callback
134 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist
135 - Feature: Make -l option explicit
136 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels
137 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent
138 - VFS: Optimize expanding in-memory files
139 - VFS: Add VFileFIFO for operating on circle buffers
140 - Core: Move rewind diffing to its own thread
141 - Util: Tune patch-fast extent sizes
142 - Qt: Relax hard dependency on OpenGL
143 - GB Video: Improved video timings
144 - Core: List memory segments in the core
145 - Core: Move savestate creation time to extdata
146 - Debugger: Add mDebuggerRunFrame convenience function
147 - GBA Memory: Remove unused prefetch cruft
148 - GB: Trust ROM header for number of SRAM banks (fixes mgba.io/i/726)
149 - Core: Config values can now be hexadecimal
150 - GB: Reset with initial state of DIV register
151 - GB MBC: New MBC7 implementation
152 - Qt: Better highlight active key in control binding
153 - Core: Improved threading interrupted detection
154 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers
155
1560.6 beta 2: (Future)
157Bugfixes:
158 - Qt: Fix memory search close button (fixes mgba.io/i/769)
159 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched
160 - Qt: Fix initial window size (fixes mgba.io/i/766)
161 - Qt: Fix data directory path
162 - Qt: Fix controls not saving on non-SDL builds
163 - GB Video: Fix LYC regression
164Misc:
165 - Qt: Add language selector
166 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers
167
1680.6 beta 1: (2017-06-29)
169 - Initial beta for 0.6
170
1710.5.2: (2016-12-31)
172Bugfixes:
173 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
174 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
175 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
176 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
177 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
178 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
179 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
180 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
181 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
182 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
183 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
184 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
185 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
186 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
187 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
188 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
189 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
190 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
191 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
192 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
193 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
194 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
195 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
196 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
197 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
198 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
199 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
200 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
201 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
202 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
203 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
204 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
205 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
206 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
207 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
208Misc:
209 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
210 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
211 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
212 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
213
2140.5.1: (2016-10-05)
215Bugfixes:
216 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
217 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
218 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
219 - GB: Initialize audio properly
220 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
221 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
222 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
223 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
224 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
225 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
226 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
227 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
228 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
229 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
230 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
231 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
232 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
233 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
234 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
235 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
236 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
237 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
238 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
239 - Qt: Fix patch loading
240 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
241 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
242 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
243 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
244Misc:
245 - All: Only update version info if needed
246 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
247 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
248 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
249 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
250 - GB Video: Improved video timings
251 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
252 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
253
2540.5.0: (2016-09-19)
255Features:
256 - Game Boy support
257 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
258 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
259 - Tile viewer
260 - Threaded rendering mode
261 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
262 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
263 - GUI: Add fast-forward
264 - Wii: 240p support
265 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
266 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
267 - Load specific files out of archives
268 - Automatic BIOS detection
269Bugfixes:
270 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
271 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
272 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
273 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
274 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
275 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
276 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
277 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
278 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
279 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
280 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
281 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
282 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
283 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
284 - PSP2: Fix VSync
285 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
286 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
287 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
288 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
289 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
290 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
291 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
292 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
293 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
294 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
295 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
296 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
297 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
298 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
299 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
300Misc:
301 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
302 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
303 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
304 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
305 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
306 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
307 - 3DS: 3D banner
308 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
309 - All: Faster memory read/write
310 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
311 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
312 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
313 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
314 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
315 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
316 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
317 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
318 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
319 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
320 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
321 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
322 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
323 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
324 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
325 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
326 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
327 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
328 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
329 - GUI: Add back logging
330 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
331 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
332 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
333 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
334 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
335 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
336 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
337 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
338 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
339 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
340 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
341 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
342 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
343 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
344 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
345 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
346 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
347 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
348 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
349 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
350 - SDL: More responsive rumble
351 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
352 - Util: Add rtrim
353 - Util: Add endswith
354 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
355 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
356 - Windows: Add native VDir support
357 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
358
3590.4.1: (2016-07-11)
360Bugfixes:
361 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
362 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
363 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
364 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
365 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
366 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
367 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
368 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
369 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
370 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
371 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
372 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
373 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
374 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
375 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
376 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
377 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
378 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
379 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
380 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
381 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
382 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
383 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
384 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
385 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
386 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
387Misc:
388 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
389 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
390 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
391 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
392 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
393 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
394 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
395 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
396 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
397 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
398 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
399 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
400 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
401 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
402 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
403
4040.4.0: (2016-02-02)
405Features:
406 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
407 - I/O viewer
408 - Booting of multiboot images
409 - Customization of GIF recording
410 - Libretro: Cheat code support
411 - Support for GLSL shaders
412 - ROM information view
413 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
414 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
415 - Key autofire
416 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
417 - OpenEmu core for OS X
418 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
419 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
420 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
421 - Cleaner, unified settings window
422 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
423 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
424 - Controller hotplugging
425 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
426Bugfixes:
427 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
428 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
429 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
430 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
431 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
432 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
433 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
434 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
435 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
436 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
437 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
438 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
439 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
440 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
441 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
442 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
443Misc:
444 - All: Improved PowerPC support
445 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
446 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
447 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
448 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
449 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
450 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
451 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
452 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
453 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
454 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
455 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
456 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
457 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
458 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
459 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
460 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
461 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
462 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
463 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
464 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
465 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
466 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
467 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
468 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
469 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
470 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
471 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
472 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
473 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
474
4750.3.2: (2015-12-16)
476Bugfixes:
477 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
478 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
479 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
480 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
481 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
482 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
483 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
484 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
485 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
486 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
487 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
488 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
489 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
490 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
491 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
492 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
493 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
494 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
495 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
496 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
497 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
498 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
499 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
500 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
501 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
502 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
503 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
504Misc:
505 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
506 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
507
5080.3.1: (2015-10-24)
509Bugfixes:
510 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
511 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
512 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
513 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
514 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
515 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
516 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
517 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
518 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
519 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
520 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
521 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
522 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
523 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
524 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
525 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
526 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
527 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
528Misc:
529 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
530 - All: Add --version flag
531 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
532 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
533 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
534 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
535 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
536 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
537 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
538 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
539 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
540 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
541 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
542
5430.3.0: (2015-08-16)
544Features:
545 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
546 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
547 - Palette viewer and exporter
548 - Volume control
549 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
550 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
551 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
552 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
553 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
554 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
555 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
556 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
557 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
558 - Memory inspector
559 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
560 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
561 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
562 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
563 - Finer control over FPS target
564 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
565 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
566 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
567 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
568 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
569 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
570 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
571 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
572 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
573 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
574 - Automatically load patches, if found
575 - Improved video synchronization
576 - Configurable audio output sample rate
577Bugfixes:
578 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
579 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
580 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
581 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
582 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
583 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
584 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
585 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
586 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
587 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
588 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
589 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
590 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
591 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
592 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
593 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
594 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
595 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
596 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
597 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
598 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
599 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
600 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
601 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
602 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
603 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
604 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
605 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
606 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
607 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
608 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
609 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
610 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
611 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
612 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
613 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
614 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
615 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
616 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
617 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
618 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
619 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
620Misc:
621 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
622 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
623 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
624 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
625 - All: Threads are now named
626 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
627 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
628 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
629 - GBA: Add status log level
630 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
631 - GBA: SIO logging layer
632 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
633 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
634 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
635 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
636 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
637 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
638 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
639 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
640 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
641 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
642 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
643 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
644 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
645 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
646 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
647 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
648 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
649 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
650 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
651 - Qt: Show version info in window title
652 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
653 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
654 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
655 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
656 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
657 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
658 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
659 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
660 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
661 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
662 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
663 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
664 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
665 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
666 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
667 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
668 - SDL: Clean up GL context
669 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
670 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
671
6720.2.1: (2015-05-13)
673Bugfixes:
674 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
675 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
676 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
677 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
678 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
679 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
680 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
681 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
682 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
683 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
684 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
685 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
686 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
687 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
688 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
689 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
690 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
691 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
692 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
693 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
694 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
695 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
696 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
697 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
698 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
699 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
700 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
701 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
702 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
703 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
704 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
705 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
706 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
707 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
708 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
709 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
710Misc:
711 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
712 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
713 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
714
7150.2.0: (2015-04-03)
716Features:
717 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
718 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
719 - Settings window
720 - Bilinear resampling option
721 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
722 - List of recently opened games
723 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
724 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
725 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
726 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
727 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
728 - Rewinding of emulation
729 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
730 - Support IPv6
731 - Save directory of last loaded file
732 - Support BPS patches
733 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
734 - Configurable game overrides
735 - Support loading 7-Zip files
736 - Drag and drop game loading
737 - Cheat code support
738 - Runtime configurable audio driver
739 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
740 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
741 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
742 - Local link cable support
743 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
744 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
745 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
746 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
747 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
748 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
749 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
750Bugfixes:
751 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
752 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
753 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
754 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
755 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
756 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
757 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
758 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
759 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
760 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
761 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
762 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
763 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
764 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
765 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
766 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
767 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
768 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
769 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
770 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
771 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
772 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
773 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
774 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
775 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
776 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
777 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
778 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
779Misc:
780 - All: Enable link-time optimization
781 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
782 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
783 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
784 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
785 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
786 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
787 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
788 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
789 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
790 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
791 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
792 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
793 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
794 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
795 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
796 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
797 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
798 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
799 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
800 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
801 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
802 - Qt: Remember window position
803 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
804 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
805
8060.1.1: (2015-01-24)
807Bugfixes:
808 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
809 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
810 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
811 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
812 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
813 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
814 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
815 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
816 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
817 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
818 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
819 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
820 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
821 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
822 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
823 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
824 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
825 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
826 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
827 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
828 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
829 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
830 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
831 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
832 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
833 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
834 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
835 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
836 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
837 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
838 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
839 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
840 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
841 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
842 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
843 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
844 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
845 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
846Misc:
847 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
848 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
849 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
850 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
851 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
852 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
853 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
854
8550.1.0: (2014-12-13)
856 - Initial release