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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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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
 32 - Qt: Italian translation (by theheroGAC)
 33Bugfixes:
 34 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns
 35 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior
 36 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state
 37 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack
 38 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing
 39 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading
 40 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)
 41 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one
 42 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0
 43 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors
 44 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)
 45 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches
 46 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library
 47 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing
 48 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept
 49 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed
 50 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN
 51 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind
 52 - SDL: Fix game crash check
 53 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting
 54 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly
 55 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding
 56 - Qt: Fix crash when changing audio settings after a game is closed
 57 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan sign in HLE BIOS
 58 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 sign in HLE BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/689)
 59 - GBA Video: Don't update background scanline params in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/377)
 60 - Qt: Ensure CLI backend is attached when submitting commands (fixes mgba.io/i/662)
 61 - Core: Fix crash with rewind if savestates shrink
 62 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
 63 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
 64 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
 65 - GBA: Fix multiboot loading resulting in too small WRAM
 66 - Test: Don't rely on core for frames elapsed
 67 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file
 68 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware
 69 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file
 70 - Qt: Disable "New multiplayer window" when MAX_GBAS is reached (fixes mgba.io/i/107)
 71 - LR35902: Fix decoding LD r, $imm and 0-valued immediates (fixes mgba.io/i/735)
 72 - GB: Fix STAT blocking
 73 - GB MBC: Fix swapping carts not detect new MBC
 74 - GB Timer: Fix DIV batching if TAC changes
 75 - GB Video: Reset renderer when loading state
 76 - GBA BIOS: Fix INT_MIN/-1 crash
 77 - GBA Savedata: Update and fix Sharkport importing (fixes mgba.io/i/658)
 78 - OpenGL: Fix some shaders causing offset graphics
 79 - Qt: Fix game unpausing after frame advancing and refocusing
 80 - GB Timer: Fix sub-M-cycle DIV reset timing and edge triggering
 81 - Core: Fix interrupting a thread while on the thread (fixes mgba.io/i/692)
 82 - Core: Fix directory sets crashing on close if base isn't properly detached
 83 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched
 84 - Qt: Fix data directory path
 85Misc:
 86 - SDL: Remove scancode key input
 87 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers
 88 - Test: Add a basic test suite
 89 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache
 90 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data
 91 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled
 92 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles
 93 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger
 94 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks
 95 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional
 96 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)
 97 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG
 98 - Util: Add size counting to Table
 99 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini
100 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved
101 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code
102 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples
103 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints
104 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c
105 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing
106 - All: Add C++ header guards
107 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers
108 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers
109 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support
110 - Qt: Expose configuration directory
111 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3
112 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)
113 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs
114 - Core: Add generic checksum function
115 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7
116 - All: Move time.h include to common.h
117 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string
118 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options
119 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in
120 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in
121 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader
122 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied
123 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support
124 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"
125 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently
126 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks
127 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator
128 - Qt: Remove audio thread
129 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt
130 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows
131 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open
132 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P
133 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key
134 - Core: Restore sleep callback
135 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist
136 - Feature: Make -l option explicit
137 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels
138 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent
139 - VFS: Optimize expanding in-memory files
140 - VFS: Add VFileFIFO for operating on circle buffers
141 - Core: Move rewind diffing to its own thread
142 - Util: Tune patch-fast extent sizes
143 - Qt: Relax hard dependency on OpenGL
144 - GB Video: Improved video timings
145 - Core: List memory segments in the core
146 - Core: Move savestate creation time to extdata
147 - Debugger: Add mDebuggerRunFrame convenience function
148 - GBA Memory: Remove unused prefetch cruft
149 - GB: Trust ROM header for number of SRAM banks (fixes mgba.io/i/726)
150 - Core: Config values can now be hexadecimal
151 - GB: Reset with initial state of DIV register
152 - GB MBC: New MBC7 implementation
153 - Qt: Better highlight active key in control binding
154 - Core: Improved threading interrupted detection
155 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers
156
1570.6 beta 2: (Future)
158Features:
159 - Qt: Italian translation (by theheroGAC)
160 - Qt: Updated German translation
161Bugfixes:
162 - Qt: Fix memory search close button (fixes mgba.io/i/769)
163 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched
164 - Qt: Fix initial window size (fixes mgba.io/i/766)
165 - Qt: Fix data directory path
166 - Qt: Fix controls not saving on non-SDL builds
167 - GB Video: Fix LYC regression
168 - Qt: Fix translation initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/776)
169 - PSP2: Use custom localtime_r since newlib version is broken (fixes mgba.io/i/560)
170 - GBA SIO: Improve SIO Normal dummy driver (fixes mgba.io/i/520)
171 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
172 - Qt: Fix shader selector on Ubuntu (fixes mgba.io/i/767)
173Misc:
174 - Qt: Add language selector
175 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers
176 - Qt: Minor test fixes
177 - PSP2: Update toolchain to use vita.cmake
178 - Qt: Move shader settings into main settings window
179
1800.6 beta 1: (2017-06-29)
181 - Initial beta for 0.6
182
1830.5.2: (2016-12-31)
184Bugfixes:
185 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored
186 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended
187 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized
188 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata
189 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable
190 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties
191 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel
192 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games
193 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded
194 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0
195 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0
196 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes
197 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer
198 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs
199 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared
200 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE
201 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2
202 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads
203 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch
204 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches
205 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written
206 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads
207 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable
208 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms
209 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS
210 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS
211 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio
212 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer
213 - Qt: Fix setting overrides
214 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer
215 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown
216 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian
217 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations
218 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed
219 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling
220Misc:
221 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs
222 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values
223 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM
224 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble
225
2260.5.1: (2016-10-05)
227Bugfixes:
228 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
229 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
230 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
231 - GB: Initialize audio properly
232 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
233 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
234 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
235 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
236 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
237 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock
238 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
239 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
240 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
241 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
242 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
243 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
244 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
245 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
246 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
247 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
248 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view
249 - Qt: Fix saving overrides
250 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
251 - Qt: Fix patch loading
252 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded
253 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
254 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
255 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG
256Misc:
257 - All: Only update version info if needed
258 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
259 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
260 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
261 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
262 - GB Video: Improved video timings
263 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
264 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions
265
2660.5.0: (2016-09-19)
267Features:
268 - Game Boy support
269 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats
270 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)
271 - Tile viewer
272 - Threaded rendering mode
273 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)
274 - GUI: Add UI control remapping
275 - GUI: Add fast-forward
276 - Wii: 240p support
277 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening
278 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame
279 - Load specific files out of archives
280 - Automatic BIOS detection
281Bugfixes:
282 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)
283 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints
284 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared
285 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames
286 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up
287 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves
288 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games
289 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}
290 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer
291 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present
292 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch
293 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN
294 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN
295 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting
296 - PSP2: Fix VSync
297 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range
298 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting
299 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction
300 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return
301 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0
302 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling
303 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire
304 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing
305 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong
306 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
307 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table
308 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z
309 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive
310 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown
311 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup
312Misc:
313 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement
314 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames
315 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D
316 - 3DS: Use system font for menus
317 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads
318 - 3DS: Adjustable filering
319 - 3DS: 3D banner
320 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake
321 - All: Faster memory read/write
322 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR
323 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR
324 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability
325 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub
326 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb
327 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+
328 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks
329 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination
330 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS
331 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP
332 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior
333 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple
334 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM
335 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted
336 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback
337 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing
338 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering
339 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly
340 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through
341 - GUI: Add back logging
342 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved
343 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed
344 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure
345 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform
346 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build
347 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation
348 - Qt: Thread startup improvements
349 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable
350 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code
351 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings
352 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate
353 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath
354 - PSP2: Use system font for menus
355 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV
356 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode
357 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor
358 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames
359 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery
360 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing
361 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples
362 - SDL: More responsive rumble
363 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer
364 - Util: Add rtrim
365 - Util: Add endswith
366 - VFS: Improve zip file detection
367 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter
368 - Windows: Add native VDir support
369 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z
370
3710.4.1: (2016-07-11)
372Bugfixes:
373 - All: Fix several file handle leaks
374 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes
375 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC
376 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty
377 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set
378 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value
379 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions
380 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM
381 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize
382 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates
383 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms
384 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice
385 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize
386 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping
387 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios
388 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD
389 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble
390 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build
391 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio
392 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers
393 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows
394 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses
395 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first
396 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories
397 - Wii: Fix tilting direction
398 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8
399Misc:
400 - All: Allow use of external minizip library
401 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached
402 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu
403 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents
404 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku
405 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values
406 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds
407 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4
408 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers
409 - Qt: Remove use of NaN
410 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games
411 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing
412 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings
413 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X
414 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time
415
4160.4.0: (2016-02-02)
417Features:
418 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
419 - I/O viewer
420 - Booting of multiboot images
421 - Customization of GIF recording
422 - Libretro: Cheat code support
423 - Support for GLSL shaders
424 - ROM information view
425 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes
426 - Savestates now store creation timestamps
427 - Key autofire
428 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input
429 - OpenEmu core for OS X
430 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro
431 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal
432 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering
433 - Cleaner, unified settings window
434 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus
435 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches
436 - Controller hotplugging
437 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates
438Bugfixes:
439 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH
440 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters
441 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb
442 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates
443 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype
444 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet
445 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version
446 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian
447 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior
448 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early
449 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio
450 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping
451 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file
452 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
453 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG
454 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline
455Misc:
456 - All: Improved PowerPC support
457 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
458 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
459 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors
460 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading
461 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM
462 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset
463 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
464 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING
465 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
466 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types
467 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues
468 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame
469 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading
470 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies
471 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
472 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
473 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core
474 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
475 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
476 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
477 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked
478 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input
479 - Qt: Optimize log viewer
480 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger
481 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind
482 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
483 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
484 - Util: Use VFile for configuration
485 - Util: Add MutexTryLock
486
4870.3.2: (2015-12-16)
488Bugfixes:
489 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT
490 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions
491 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T
492 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off
493 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
494 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members
495 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses
496 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign
497 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*
498 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball
499 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses
500 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM
501 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM
502 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads
503 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs
504 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color
505 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization
506 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early
507 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
508 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
509 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
510 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer
511 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer
512 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes
513 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate
514 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows
515 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused
516Misc:
517 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
518 - Qt: Add mute option to menu
519
5200.3.1: (2015-10-24)
521Bugfixes:
522 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
523 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
524 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
525 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
526 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
527 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
528 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
529 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
530 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
531 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
532 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
533 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
534 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
535 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
536 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
537 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
538 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
539 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
540Misc:
541 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
542 - All: Add --version flag
543 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
544 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
545 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
546 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
547 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
548 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
549 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
550 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
551 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
552 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
553 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
554
5550.3.0: (2015-08-16)
556Features:
557 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
558 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
559 - Palette viewer and exporter
560 - Volume control
561 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
562 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
563 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
564 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
565 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
566 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
567 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
568 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
569 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
570 - Memory inspector
571 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
572 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
573 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
574 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
575 - Finer control over FPS target
576 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
577 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
578 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
579 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
580 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
581 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
582 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
583 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
584 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
585 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
586 - Automatically load patches, if found
587 - Improved video synchronization
588 - Configurable audio output sample rate
589Bugfixes:
590 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
591 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
592 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
593 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
594 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
595 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
596 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
597 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
598 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
599 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
600 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
601 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
602 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
603 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
604 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
605 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
606 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
607 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
608 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
609 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
610 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
611 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
612 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
613 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
614 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
615 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
616 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
617 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
618 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
619 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
620 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
621 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
622 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
623 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
624 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
625 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
626 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
627 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
628 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
629 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
630 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
631 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
632Misc:
633 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
634 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
635 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
636 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
637 - All: Threads are now named
638 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
639 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
640 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
641 - GBA: Add status log level
642 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
643 - GBA: SIO logging layer
644 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
645 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
646 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
647 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
648 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
649 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
650 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
651 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
652 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
653 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
654 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
655 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
656 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
657 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
658 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
659 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
660 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
661 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
662 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
663 - Qt: Show version info in window title
664 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
665 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
666 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
667 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
668 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
669 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
670 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
671 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
672 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
673 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
674 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
675 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
676 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
677 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
678 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
679 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
680 - SDL: Clean up GL context
681 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
682 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
683
6840.2.1: (2015-05-13)
685Bugfixes:
686 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
687 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
688 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
689 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
690 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
691 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
692 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
693 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
694 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
695 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
696 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
697 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
698 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
699 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
700 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
701 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
702 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
703 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
704 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
705 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
706 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
707 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
708 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
709 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
710 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
711 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
712 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
713 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
714 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
715 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
716 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
717 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
718 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
719 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
720 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
721 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
722Misc:
723 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
724 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
725 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
726
7270.2.0: (2015-04-03)
728Features:
729 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
730 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
731 - Settings window
732 - Bilinear resampling option
733 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
734 - List of recently opened games
735 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
736 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
737 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
738 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
739 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
740 - Rewinding of emulation
741 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
742 - Support IPv6
743 - Save directory of last loaded file
744 - Support BPS patches
745 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
746 - Configurable game overrides
747 - Support loading 7-Zip files
748 - Drag and drop game loading
749 - Cheat code support
750 - Runtime configurable audio driver
751 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
752 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
753 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
754 - Local link cable support
755 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
756 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
757 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
758 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
759 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
760 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
761 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
762Bugfixes:
763 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
764 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
765 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
766 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
767 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
768 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
769 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
770 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
771 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
772 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
773 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
774 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
775 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
776 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
777 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
778 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
779 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
780 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
781 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
782 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
783 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
784 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
785 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
786 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
787 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
788 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
789 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
790 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
791Misc:
792 - All: Enable link-time optimization
793 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
794 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
795 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
796 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
797 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
798 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
799 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
800 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
801 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
802 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
803 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
804 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
805 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
806 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
807 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
808 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
809 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
810 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
811 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
812 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
813 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
814 - Qt: Remember window position
815 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
816 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
817
8180.1.1: (2015-01-24)
819Bugfixes:
820 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
821 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
822 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
823 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
824 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
825 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
826 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
827 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
828 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
829 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
830 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
831 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
832 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
833 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
834 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
835 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
836 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
837 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
838 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
839 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
840 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
841 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
842 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
843 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
844 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
845 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
846 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
847 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
848 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
849 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
850 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
851 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
852 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
853 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
854 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
855 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
856 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
857 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
858Misc:
859 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
860 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
861 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
862 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
863 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
864 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
865 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
866
8670.1.0: (2014-12-13)
868 - Initial release