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 33 machines suivantes:
– Atari 2600
– Famicom + Famicom Disk System
– Super Famicom + Super Game Boy
– Nintendo 64/64DD
– 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
A noter qu’un pack de shaders est disponible ici.
Des packs MSU-1 sont disponibles ici.
Voici les informations depuis la dernière version d’ares:
Atari 2600
– Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now implemented
– Improve handling of the HMOVE register
– Refactor of TIA; fixes many emulation issues but still imperfect
– Implement correct 6502 reset timing
Bandai – WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color
– Minor fixes to v30mz CPU emulation
– Emulate 32KB SRAM for ‘8KB’ type cartridges
– Implement Sound Test register bits 1,2 and 3
Nintendo – NES / Famicom
– Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now supported
– Fix APU frame counter emulation
– Various improvements to APU emulation
– Implement correct 6502 reset timing
Nintendo – Nintendo 64
– Fix an issue where saved data from the current game could be duplicated into the next
– Fix an issue where the Real Time Clock may not function correctly depending on the user’s local time zone
Nintendo – Game Boy Advance
– Implement that the last cycle of the prefetcher cannot be interrupted
– Implement correct ROM mirroring for Famicom Mini / Classic NES series
– Improve handling of SRAM/Flash bus
– Fix the timing of initial DMA wait cycles
Sega Mega Drive / CD / 32X
– Lower sync interval between MD and 32X: improves emulation accuracy but does reduce performance
Sony – PlayStation
– Update the blitter to operate on a copy of the framebuffer; fixes potential threading issues
ruby (Audio/Video/Input abstraction layer)
– Added a native Metal backend for macOS with VRR support
– Implemented latency selection in SDL audio driver
– Removed the built-in Blur shader, using the bilinear slang shader is preferred
– Removed non-hardware accelerated video drivers (any platform capable of running ares should at least have OpenGL, D3D or Metal available)
– Reduce CPU usage on the video thread by using a condition variable rather than a spinlock
– Add support for connecting a Mouse on macOS (for emulating SNES mouse, etc)
– Remove tight loops in SDL and OpenAL drivers, reducing CPU usage when using these drivers.
User Interface
– Fix an issue where nested slang shaders were not available in the UI
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