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10.3.0: (Future)
2Features:
3 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
4 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
5 - Palette viewer
6 - Volume control
7 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
8 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
9 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
10 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
11 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
12 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
13 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
14 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
15 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
16 - Memory inspector
17 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
18 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
19 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
20 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
21 - Finer control over FPS target
22Bugfixes:
23 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
24 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
25 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
26 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
27 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
28 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
29 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
30 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
31 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
32Misc:
33 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
34 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
35 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
36 - GBA: Add status log level
37 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
38 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
39 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
40 - Qt: Show version info in window title
41 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
42 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
43
440.2.1: (2015-05-13)
45Bugfixes:
46 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
47 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
48 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
49 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
50 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
51 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
52 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
53 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
54 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
55 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
56 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
57 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
58 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
59 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
60 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
61 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
62 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
63 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
64 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
65 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
66 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
67 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
68 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
69 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
70 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
71 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
72 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
73 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
74 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
75 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
76 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
77 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
78 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
79 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
80 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
81 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
82Misc:
83 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
84 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
85 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
86
870.2.0: (2015-04-03)
88Features:
89 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
90 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
91 - Settings window
92 - Bilinear resampling option
93 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
94 - List of recently opened games
95 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
96 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
97 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
98 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
99 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
100 - Rewinding of emulation
101 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
102 - Support IPv6
103 - Save directory of last loaded file
104 - Support BPS patches
105 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
106 - Configurable game overrides
107 - Support loading 7-Zip files
108 - Drag and drop game loading
109 - Cheat code support
110 - Runtime configurable audio driver
111 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
112 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
113 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
114 - Local link cable support
115 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
116 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
117 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
118 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
119 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
120 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
121 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
122Bugfixes:
123 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
124 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
125 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
126 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
127 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
128 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
129 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
130 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
131 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
132 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
133 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
134 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
135 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
136 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
137 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
138 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
139 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
140 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
141 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
142 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
143 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
144 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
145 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
146 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
147 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
148 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
149 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
150 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
151Misc:
152 - All: Enable link-time optimization
153 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
154 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
155 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
156 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
157 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
158 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
159 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
160 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
161 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
162 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
163 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
164 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
165 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
166 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
167 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
168 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
169 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
170 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
171 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
172 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
173 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
174 - Qt: Remember window position
175 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
176 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
177
1780.1.1: (2015-01-24)
179Bugfixes:
180 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
181 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
182 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
183 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
184 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
185 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
186 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
187 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
188 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
189 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
190 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
191 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
192 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
193 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
194 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
195 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
196 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
197 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
198 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
199 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
200 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
201 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
202 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
203 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
204 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
205 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
206 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
207 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
208 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
209 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
210 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
211 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
212 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
213 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
214 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
215 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
216 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
217 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
218Misc:
219 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
220 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
221 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
222 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
223 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
224 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
225 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
226
2270.1.0: (2014-12-13)
228 - Initial release