Créé par Near (ex byuu) et continué par Luke Usher (PolyBlast / CxBx-Reloaded) et d’autres, Ares est un émulateur multi-systèmes dont le développement a commencé le 14 octobre 2004. C’est un descendant de higan et bsnes. Il se concentre sur la précision et la préservation.
Ares émule les 34 machines suivantes:
– Atari 2600
– Famicom + Famicom Disk System
– Super Famicom / SuFami Turbo / Satellaview / Super Game Boy
– Nintendo 64/64DD + SETA Aleck64 (arcade)
– Game Boy + Game Boy Color
– Game Boy Advance + Game Boy Player
– SG-1000 (+ Arcade version) + SC-3000
– Master System + Game Gear
– Mega Drive + Mega 32X + Mega CD
– Nichibutsu – My Vision
– Playstation
– PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
– MSX + MSX2
– ColecoVision
– Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color
– Neo Geo AES / MVS
– Sinclair Zx Spectrum
– WonderSwan + WonderSwan Color + SwanCrystal + Pocket Challenge V2
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Voici les informations depuis la dernière version d’ares:
This release’s highlights include steady improvements to the Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan, and Nintendo 64 cores, as well as a selection of application bug fixes, behaviour improvements and updates to third-party libraries.
ARM7TDMI (Game Boy Advance CPU, ST018 Super Famicom coprocessor)
– Fixed disassembler mnemonic for CMP
– Fixed R15 read offsets on many instructions = Fixed miscalculated carry flags in Thumb mode
– Disallowed writing 0 to the uppermost bit of PSR mode
– Added an idle cycle to instructions that perform shifts by register values
NEC V30MZ (WonderSwan CPU)
– Improved interrupt timing accuracy
– Improved timing of I/O port accesses
Bandai – WonderSwan
– Added color emulation support to the original “mono” WonderSwan.
– Note that WS games on WS are displayed using linear gamma, as opposed to WS games on WSC.
– Fixed bugs involving cartridge-side RTC protocol emulation
– Improved APU emulation accuracy
– Improved interrupt timing accuracy
– Added support for emulating cartridges using an 8-bit ROM bus width
– Fixed color zero not being writable on translucent PPU palettes
– Fixed UART IRQs not being cleared by disabling the UART
Nintendo – Game Boy / Game Boy Color
– Tick timer on the falling edge of DIV bits
– Implemented PCM12 and PCM34 registers for APU
Nintendo – Game Boy Advance
– Latch lower address lines when accessing ROM during burst transfer
– Improved background VRAM access timings
– Updated cartridge database
– Fixed handling of mid-scanline writes to linear background scroll registers
– Fixed some bugs that occurred when pixel accuracy was disabled
Nintendo – Famicom Disk System
– Added delay to disk state when swapping disks, resolving issues with multiple games where a disk swap was happening too quickly
Nintendo 64 / Aleck 64
– Fixed an issue that could cause an application hang under certain titles that deactivate the VI
– Add support for the unreleased port “O.D.T. – Escape… Or Die Trying” to the internal DB
– Fixed ID in internal DB for Rampage 2, so controller pak and rumble pak should now work correctly
– Added compile-time accuracy flag to bypass IPL2 checksum validation for development purposes
– Improved error messaging if the Aleck 64 Pif ROM is missing when trying to load an Aleck 64 game.
– Added support for configurable Controller Pak storage sizes
– Applied a fix to allow booting ROMs with non-standard PI DOM1 parameters in headers
– Disabled super-sampled RDP readbacks: fixes some accuracy issues/passes more test cases in the official RDP test suite.
Nintendo – SNES / Super Famicom
– Fixed loading of some games that require additional firmware for chips included in the cartridge
Sega – Master System
– Updated PAL only entries in the local DB so that they play at the correct 50Hz
Sega – Mega Drive / Genesis / CD / 32X
– Fixed incorrect hash for Wonder Boy in Monster World (USA, Europe) that allows for correct EEPROM detection, making the game playable
– Fixed YM2612 LFO ‘AM’ bit emulation (Fixing broken audio in Kid Chameleon and others)
– 32X: In H32 mode, the display is offset by approximately 3.25 pixels to the right
– 32X: Fix registers and machine state on reset
– CD: Fixed an issue where resetting the system while a game was running would result in the BIOS locking up on reboot.
– 32X: Improve synchronisation between MD/32X: fixes H/V tests in testpico when running in 32X mode.
– Improved VDP IRQ delay emulation
– Improve YM2612 timer emulation
Sony – PlayStation
– Fixed an assertion in Lunar disc 1 when walking into Alex’s house or the barn to the right of it, preventing a crash.
UI / Program
– Fixed a runtime crash on arm64 Linux with builds compiled with GCC
– Improved compatibility inside sandboxed environments
– Fixed passing relative paths for ROMs when launching ares on the command line
– Fixed an issue with the displayed release version name on Windows
– Fixed an issue causing malformed save directory names when a custom save path was specified
– Fixed an issue causing the “missing firmware” error to appear twice
– Fixed an issue that could cause runaway memory use on startup under the SDL input driver
– Fixed an issue affecting compatibility with macOS versions before 12.0
Dependencies
– Updated SDL to version 3.2.10 (SDL3)
– Updated librashader to version 0.6.3
– Updated slang-shaders to ref 25311dc
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