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mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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  10.4.0: (Future)
  2Features:
  3 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita
  4 - I/O viewer
  5 - Booting of multiboot images
  6 - Customization of GIF recording
  7Bugfixes:
  8 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order
  9 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController
 10 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs from BIOS while not in BIOS
 11 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games
 12 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash
 13 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms
 14Misc:
 15 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
 16 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
 17 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
 18 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
 19 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
 20 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
 21 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
 22 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied
 23 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration
 24 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context
 25 - All: Improved PowerPC support
 26 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings
 27 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register
 28
 290.3.1: (2015-10-24)
 30Bugfixes:
 31 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts
 32 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
 33 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
 34 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2
 35 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
 36 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
 37 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian
 38 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian
 39 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
 40 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency
 41 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites
 42 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops
 43 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
 44 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
 45 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
 46 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
 47 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
 48 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write
 49Misc:
 50 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt
 51 - All: Add --version flag
 52 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
 53 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
 54 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
 55 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks
 56 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high
 57 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
 58 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers
 59 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
 60 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
 61 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled
 62 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now
 63
 640.3.0: (2015-08-16)
 65Features:
 66 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
 67 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
 68 - Palette viewer and exporter
 69 - Volume control
 70 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
 71 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
 72 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
 73 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
 74 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
 75 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
 76 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
 77 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
 78 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
 79 - Memory inspector
 80 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
 81 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
 82 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
 83 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
 84 - Finer control over FPS target
 85 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
 86 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
 87 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
 88 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
 89 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
 90 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
 91 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
 92 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
 93 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
 94 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
 95 - Automatically load patches, if found
 96 - Improved video synchronization
 97 - Configurable audio output sample rate
 98Bugfixes:
 99 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
100 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
101 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
102 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
103 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
104 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
105 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
106 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
107 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
108 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
109 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
110 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
111 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
112 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
113 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
114 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
115 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
116 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
117 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
118 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
119 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
120 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
121 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
122 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
123 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
124 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
125 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
126 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
127 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
128 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
129 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
130 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
131 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
132 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
133 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
134 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
135 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
136 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
137 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
138 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
139 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
140 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
141Misc:
142 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
143 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
144 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
145 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
146 - All: Threads are now named
147 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
148 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
149 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
150 - GBA: Add status log level
151 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
152 - GBA: SIO logging layer
153 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
154 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
155 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
156 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
157 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
158 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
159 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
160 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
161 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
162 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
163 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
164 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
165 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
166 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
167 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
168 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
169 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
170 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
171 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
172 - Qt: Show version info in window title
173 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
174 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
175 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
176 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
177 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
178 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
179 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
180 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
181 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
182 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
183 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
184 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
185 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
186 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
187 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
188 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
189 - SDL: Clean up GL context
190 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
191 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
192
1930.2.1: (2015-05-13)
194Bugfixes:
195 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
196 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
197 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
198 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
199 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
200 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
201 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
202 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
203 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
204 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
205 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
206 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
207 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
208 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
209 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
210 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
211 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
212 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
213 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
214 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
215 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
216 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
217 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
218 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
219 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
220 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
221 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
222 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
223 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
224 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
225 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
226 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
227 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
228 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
229 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
230 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
231Misc:
232 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
233 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
234 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
235
2360.2.0: (2015-04-03)
237Features:
238 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
239 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
240 - Settings window
241 - Bilinear resampling option
242 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
243 - List of recently opened games
244 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
245 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
246 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
247 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
248 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
249 - Rewinding of emulation
250 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
251 - Support IPv6
252 - Save directory of last loaded file
253 - Support BPS patches
254 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
255 - Configurable game overrides
256 - Support loading 7-Zip files
257 - Drag and drop game loading
258 - Cheat code support
259 - Runtime configurable audio driver
260 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
261 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
262 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
263 - Local link cable support
264 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
265 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
266 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
267 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
268 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
269 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
270 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
271Bugfixes:
272 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
273 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
274 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
275 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
276 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
277 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
278 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
279 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
280 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
281 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
282 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
283 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
284 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
285 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
286 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
287 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
288 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
289 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
290 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
291 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
292 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
293 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
294 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
295 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
296 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
297 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
298 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
299 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
300Misc:
301 - All: Enable link-time optimization
302 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
303 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
304 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
305 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
306 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
307 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
308 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
309 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
310 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
311 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
312 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
313 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
314 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
315 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
316 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
317 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
318 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
319 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
320 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
321 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
322 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
323 - Qt: Remember window position
324 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
325 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
326
3270.1.1: (2015-01-24)
328Bugfixes:
329 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
330 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
331 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
332 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
333 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
334 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
335 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
336 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
337 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
338 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
339 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
340 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
341 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
342 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
343 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
344 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
345 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
346 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
347 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
348 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
349 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
350 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
351 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
352 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
353 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
354 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
355 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
356 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
357 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
358 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
359 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
360 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
361 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
362 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
363 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
364 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
365 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
366 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
367Misc:
368 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
369 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
370 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
371 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
372 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
373 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
374 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
375
3760.1.0: (2014-12-13)
377 - Initial release