Un émulateur de GameBoy Advance écrit en langage C par Jeffrey Pfau (endrift) et basé (sensiblement) sur GBA.js et qui a comme objectif d’être un émulateur de haute qualité. Disponible pour Windows (Vista et +), Linux et Mac OSX.
Les changements:
Features:
- Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
- Ability to mute individual audio channels
- Palette viewer and exporter
- Volume control
- More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
- Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
- Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
- Add “Step backwards” item for single increment rewind
- Deadzone estimation for game controllers
- Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
- Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
- Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
- Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
- Memory inspector
- Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
- Load/save the most recent savestate slot
- Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
- Ability to cap fast forward speed
- Finer control over FPS target
- Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
- Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
- Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
- Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
- Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
- Undo-able savestate loading and saving
- Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
- Default controller profiles for several common controllers
- Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
- Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
- Automatically load patches, if found
- Improved video synchronization
- Configurable audio output sample rate
Bugfixes:
- ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
- ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
- ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
- ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
- Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
- GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
- GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
- GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
- GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
- GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
- GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
- GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
- GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
- GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
- GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
- GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
- GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
- GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
- GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
- GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
- GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
- GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
- GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
- GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
- GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
- GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 – 5
- GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
- Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
- Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
- Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
- Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
- Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
- Qt: Fix a missing
va_end
call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
- Qt: Fix passing command line options
- Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
- SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
- Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
- VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
- VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
- Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
- Util: Fix formatting of floats
Misc:
- All: Add –help flag for command line programs
- All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
- All: Enable static linking for Windows
- All: Enable static linking for OS X
- All: Threads are now named
- All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
- ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
- ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
- GBA: Add status log level
- GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
- GBA: SIO logging layer
- GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
- GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
- GBA: Don’t include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
- GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
- GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
- GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
- GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
- GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
- GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
- GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
- GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
- GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
- GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
- GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
- GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
- Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
- Qt: Handle saving input settings better
- Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
- Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
- Qt: Show version info in window title
- Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
- Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
- Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn’t have been
- Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
- Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
- Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
- Qt: Rename “Fullscreen” to “Toggle fullscreen”
- Qt: Don’t save window size when entering fullscreen
- Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
- Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
- Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
- Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
- Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
- Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
- SDL: Properly check for initialization
- SDL: Clean up initialization functions
- SDL: Clean up GL context
- Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
- VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing