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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
11Bugfixes:
12 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
13 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
14 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
15 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
16 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
17 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
18 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
19 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
20 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
21 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
22Misc:
23 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
24 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
25 - Test: Add a basic test suite
26 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
27 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
28 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
29 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
30 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
31 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
32 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
33 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
34 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
35 - Util: Add size counting to Table
36 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
37 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
38 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
39 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
40 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
41 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
42 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
43 - All: Add C++ header guards
44 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
45 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
46 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
47 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
48 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
49 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
50 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
51 - Core: Add generic checksum function
52 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
53 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
54 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
55 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
56 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
57 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
58
590.5.2: (2016-12-31)
60Bugfixes:
61 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
62 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
63 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
64 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
65 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
66 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
67 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
68 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
69 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
70 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
71 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
72 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
73 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
74 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
75 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
76 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
77 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
78 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
79 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
80 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
81 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
82 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
83 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
84 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
85 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
86 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
87 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
88 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
89 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
90 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
91 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
92 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
93 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
94 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
95 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
96Misc:
97 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
98 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
99 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
100 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
101
1020.5.1: (2016-10-05)
103Bugfixes:
104 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
105 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
106 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
107 - GB: Initialize audio properly
108 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
109 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
110 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
111 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
112 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
113 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
114 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
115 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
116 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
117 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
118 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
119 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
120 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
121 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
122 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
123 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
124 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
125 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
126 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
127 - Qt: Fix patch loading
128 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
129 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
130 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
131 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
132Misc:
133 - All: Only update version info if needed
134 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
135 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
136 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
137 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
138 - GB Video: Improved video timings
139 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
140 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
141
1420.5.0: (2016-09-19)
143Features:
144 - Game Boy support
145 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
146 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
147 - Tile viewer
148 - Threaded rendering mode
149 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
150 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
151 - GUI: Add fast-forward
152 - Wii: 240p support
153 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
154 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
155 - Load specific files out of archives
156 - Automatic BIOS detection
157Bugfixes:
158 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
159 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
160 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
161 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
162 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
163 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
164 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
165 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
166 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
167 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
168 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
169 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
170 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
171 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
172 - PSP2: Fix VSync
173 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
174 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
175 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
176 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
177 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
178 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
179 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
180 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
181 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
182 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
183 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
184 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
185 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
186 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
187 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
188Misc:
189 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
190 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
191 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
192 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
193 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
194 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
195 - 3DS: 3D banner
196 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
197 - All: Faster memory read/write
198 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
199 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
200 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
201 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
202 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
203 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
204 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
205 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
206 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
207 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
208 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
209 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
210 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
211 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
212 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
213 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
214 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
215 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
216 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
217 - GUI: Add back logging
218 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
219 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
220 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
221 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
222 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
223 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
224 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
225 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
226 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
227 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
228 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
229 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
230 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
231 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
232 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
233 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
234 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
235 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
236 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
237 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
238 - SDL: More responsive rumble
239 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
240 - Util: Add rtrim
241 - Util: Add endswith
242 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
243 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
244 - Windows: Add native VDir support
245 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
246
2470.4.1: (2016-07-11)
248Bugfixes:
249 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
250 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
251 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
252 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
253 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
254 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
255 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
256 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
257 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
258 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
259 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
260 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
261 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
262 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
263 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
264 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
265 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
266 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
267 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
268 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
269 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
270 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
271 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
272 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
273 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
274 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
275Misc:
276 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
277 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
278 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
279 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
280 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
281 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
282 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
283 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
284 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
285 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
286 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
287 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
288 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
289 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
290 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
291
2920.4.0: (2016-02-02)
293Features:
294 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
295 - I/O viewer
296 - Booting of multiboot images
297 - Customization of GIF recording
298 - Libretro: Cheat code support
299 - Support for GLSL shaders
300 - ROM information view
301 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
302 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
303 - Key autofire
304 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
305 - OpenEmu core for OS X
306 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
307 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
308 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
309 - Cleaner, unified settings window
310 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
311 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
312 - Controller hotplugging
313 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
314Bugfixes:
315 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
316 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
317 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
318 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
319 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
320 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
321 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
322 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
323 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
324 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
325 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
326 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
327 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
328 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
329 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
330 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
331Misc:
332 - All: Improved PowerPC support
333 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
334 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
335 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
336 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
337 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
338 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
339 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
340 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
341 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
342 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
343 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
344 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
345 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
346 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
347 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
348 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
349 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
350 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
351 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
352 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
353 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
354 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
355 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
356 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
357 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
358 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
359 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
360 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
361 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
362
3630.3.2: (2015-12-16)
364Bugfixes:
365 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
366 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
367 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
368 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
369 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
370 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
371 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
372 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
373 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
374 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
375 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
376 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
377 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
378 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
379 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
380 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
381 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
382 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
383 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
384 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
385 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
386 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
387 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
388 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
389 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
390 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
391 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
392Misc:
393 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
394 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
395
3960.3.1: (2015-10-24)
397Bugfixes:
398 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
399 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
400 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
401 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
402 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
403 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
404 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
405 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
406 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
407 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
408 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
409 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
410 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
411 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
412 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
413 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
414 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
415 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
416Misc:
417 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
418 - All: Add --version flag
419 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
420 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
421 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
422 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
423 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
424 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
425 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
426 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
427 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
428 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
429 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
430
4310.3.0: (2015-08-16)
432Features:
433 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
434 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
435 - Palette viewer and exporter
436 - Volume control
437 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
438 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
439 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
440 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
441 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
442 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
443 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
444 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
445 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
446 - Memory inspector
447 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
448 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
449 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
450 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
451 - Finer control over FPS target
452 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
453 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
454 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
455 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
456 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
457 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
458 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
459 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
460 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
461 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
462 - Automatically load patches, if found
463 - Improved video synchronization
464 - Configurable audio output sample rate
465Bugfixes:
466 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
467 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
468 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
469 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
470 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
471 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
472 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
473 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
474 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
475 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
476 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
477 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
478 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
479 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
480 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
481 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
482 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
483 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
484 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
485 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
486 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
487 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
488 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
489 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
490 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
491 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
492 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
493 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
494 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
495 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
496 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
497 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
498 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
499 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
500 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
501 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
502 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
503 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
504 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
505 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
506 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
507 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
508Misc:
509 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
510 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
511 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
512 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
513 - All: Threads are now named
514 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
515 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
516 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
517 - GBA: Add status log level
518 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
519 - GBA: SIO logging layer
520 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
521 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
522 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
523 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
524 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
525 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
526 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
527 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
528 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
529 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
530 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
531 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
532 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
533 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
534 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
535 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
536 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
537 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
538 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
539 - Qt: Show version info in window title
540 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
541 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
542 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
543 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
544 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
545 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
546 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
547 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
548 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
549 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
550 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
551 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
552 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
553 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
554 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
555 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
556 - SDL: Clean up GL context
557 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
558 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
559
5600.2.1: (2015-05-13)
561Bugfixes:
562 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
563 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
564 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
565 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
566 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
567 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
568 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
569 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
570 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
571 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
572 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
573 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
574 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
575 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
576 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
577 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
578 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
579 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
580 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
581 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
582 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
583 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
584 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
585 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
586 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
587 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
588 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
589 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
590 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
591 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
592 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
593 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
594 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
595 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
596 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
597 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
598Misc:
599 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
600 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
601 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
602
6030.2.0: (2015-04-03)
604Features:
605 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
606 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
607 - Settings window
608 - Bilinear resampling option
609 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
610 - List of recently opened games
611 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
612 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
613 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
614 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
615 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
616 - Rewinding of emulation
617 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
618 - Support IPv6
619 - Save directory of last loaded file
620 - Support BPS patches
621 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
622 - Configurable game overrides
623 - Support loading 7-Zip files
624 - Drag and drop game loading
625 - Cheat code support
626 - Runtime configurable audio driver
627 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
628 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
629 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
630 - Local link cable support
631 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
632 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
633 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
634 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
635 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
636 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
637 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
638Bugfixes:
639 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
640 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
641 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
642 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
643 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
644 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
645 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
646 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
647 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
648 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
649 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
650 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
651 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
652 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
653 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
654 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
655 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
656 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
657 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
658 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
659 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
660 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
661 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
662 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
663 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
664 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
665 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
666 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
667Misc:
668 - All: Enable link-time optimization
669 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
670 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
671 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
672 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
673 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
674 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
675 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
676 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
677 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
678 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
679 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
680 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
681 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
682 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
683 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
684 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
685 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
686 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
687 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
688 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
689 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
690 - Qt: Remember window position
691 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
692 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
693
6940.1.1: (2015-01-24)
695Bugfixes:
696 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
697 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
698 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
699 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
700 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
701 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
702 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
703 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
704 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
705 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
706 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
707 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
708 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
709 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
710 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
711 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
712 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
713 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
714 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
715 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
716 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
717 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
718 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
719 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
720 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
721 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
722 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
723 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
724 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
725 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
726 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
727 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
728 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
729 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
730 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
731 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
732 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
733 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
734Misc:
735 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
736 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
737 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
738 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
739 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
740 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
741 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
742
7430.1.0: (2014-12-13)
744 - Initial release