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1.10 - Finished NetPlay v1 - allows up to five networked machines to play multi-player SNES games, one player on each machine. - Switchable full-screen mode added to Linux X11 port, some code and ideas nicked from Maciej Babinski's original Snes9x XFree86 DGA Linux port, the UAE Amiga emulator, plus lots of my own code. 1.08 - Increased maximum ROM image size that can be loaded from 32Mbit to 48Mbit. 1.07 - More DSP1 work. Mario Kart is now playable! The character projection code is still broken so the opponents and obstacles aren't positioned correctly on screen and you keep bumping into them, but I can still come first! - Started work on NetPlay support. - Decreased sound card DMA buffer size on DOS port to improve sound generation and sound CPU synchroniastion in some games. - Included Linux joystick driver patches from Vojtech Pavlik so port can use the new v1.x joystick drivers. 1.06 - Extended code to allow support for multiple 16-bit screen formats, switchable at run-time, rather just supporting one, selectable at compile time. - Added XFree86 DGA Linux port - code from Maciej Babinski. - More fixes to the X11 image format conversion and setup code. - The asm SetByte routine wasn't wrapping writes to S-RAM correctly, allowing some ROMs to think they were running on a copier and put up an error screen. Thanks to Nu of #rom for the report. - Added 'TV-Mode' support (interpolation and scan-lines) to the DOS and UNIX ports from code based on John Stiles work. - Added v-sync option to the DOS port. - Added fix to Pro Action Reply support, thanks to Paul Shoener III. - Added ggi support (untested) to Linux port using patches from Alexander Larsson (alla@lysator.liu.se). - Added 16 to 24/32 bit image conversion routines to the UNIX X11 code. - The SPC700 OR1 instruction was broken. Thanks to Pyrgopolinices for the report. - DOS port was having trouble splitting and joining path names - caused problems when specifying the full path name of a ROM when the ROM image was on another drive. - If a ROM reset the sound DSP and then turned on echo effects but kept the same echo delay setting, then the echo effects could not be heard. Thanks to madec@mclink.it for the bug report and freeze file that made it easy to find the problem. - MS-DOS port was always using stereo sound setting, if sound card supported it, regardless of the user preference. - Linux port X11 port could crash if window was resized while transparency effects were enabled. - The colour subtraction accelerator look-up table was slightly wrong, causing one bit of red, green blue values to 'spill' into the next field. - Allowed colour window to cut a hole in the main-screen and show the sub- screen underneath. The effect is used by Illusion of Gaia. - Added support for colour subtraction, with the halve-the-result flag set. - Included DSP1 code from _Demo_. Now you can see the track in Mario Kart and the ground in Pilot Wings - still can't play the games though due to other missing commands. - Added an NMI hack to work around a code bug in Battle Toads: BATTLEMANIACS, its only by chance that the game works on a real SNES - And disabled it again because it causes problems for Chrono Trigger. - A frame skip of zero was actually still skipping one frame. Thanks to Marius Fodor for the info. - And yet more X-OR window bug fixes - now the effects during some of the more 'posh' spells look correct in Chrono Trigger. - Yet another window area inversion bug - off by one pixel on right-hand edge. - Forgot to put dummy start and end points for XOR window combination modes - now Uniracers looks correct and Sailor Moon looks like it does on a real SNES. - Window clip code was using wrong index into a 2-dimensional array when the whole of the main or sub-screens were clipped. 1.05 - The master volume disable code was looking that the wrong variable! - Fixed crash bug in newer sound code if a ROM tried to start a sample playing who's data went past the end of SPC700 memory. (Cannon Fodder) 1.04 - Fixed DSP1 ROM header detection bug. - More DSP1 work; still nothing works, although I know the multiply command is correct because I've compared the results against a real DSP1. 1.03 - Oops, the multi-player 5 disable code change broke the multi-player 5 being the default controller. - Implemented the colour window on the main screen - now Zelda's oval zoom window displays correctly and Krusty's Super Fun House clips the left-most 8 pixels as it does on the real SNES. - TERRANIGMA didn't like me returning a random value when it attempted to read a channel's current sample byte. - Hacked in initial support for mode 7 priority-per-pixel - the priority bit doesn't actually change the priority of the pixel but the two games that I know of that use the feature look OK. (Winter Extreme Skiing and the intro of Tiny Toons Adventures). - Colour addition/subtraction code now uses RGB565 rather than RGB555 calculations - helps a little with the loss of the bottom bit of SNES colour data. - DSP1 emulation started - nothing works yet. 1.02 - Switched to adding back drop colour rather than fixed colour when sub-screen addition is enabled but there's nothing on the sub-screen. Uniracers seems to need it. - DISABLED it again. Causes problems for other ROMs and Uniracers itself on later screens. - Fixed XOR window logic combination mode and area inversion code, now Uniracers works correctly. - Oops, if colour window and half colour addition/subtraction were both switched on, area outside colour window was still being halved, it shouldn't. Hacky fix at the moment until I implement the correct fix. - Fixed several bugs with the mosaic effect and 16x16 tiles and a few possible background scroll offset bugs and the mosaic effect. - Optimised the sound sample generation code for cases when the SNES sample playback frequency was higher than the sound card playback rate. - Fixed possible click sound when a sample was first started to be played. 1.01 - Corrected scanline count for PAL games - should be 312 lines verses 262 for NTSC. Was causing slow music on PAL games. - Added error correction code to the SPC700 timer update code - the SPC700 timers are updated using the emulated h-blank handler which is called every emulated 63.6 microseconds (15.720KHz) but the SPC700 timers need to be updated at multiples of 8KHz, hence the error. Was causing music to be played slightly too fast. - Switched back to using C SPC700 code - the old SPC700 asm code was lacking several optimisations that the C version had. It also had multiple speed hack cycle skipping bugs. Plus I hadn't even finished optimising all the code from the last time I converted the C compiler output. - Optimised SPC700 memory access routines a little. - Disabled code that prevented ROMs updating SPC700 timer values while the timer was running - it seems like it is allowed, even though docs on the 'net I've seen say its not. 1.0 - Fixed SuperScope support. - Added hi-res. option to my DOS port. - Fixed 4, 6, and 8 button standard PC joystick support. - Changed some types the source code was using BYTE -> uint8, WORD -> uint16, DWORD -> uint32 and BOOL -> bool8, types were clashing Windows typedefs but sizes didn't always match. 0.99 - 8-bit double height and/or width tile rendering was missing every other group of 4 pixels - screen pointer advance count was wrong. - Asm SPC700 emulation was ignoring the Shutdown flag - the result is its not possible to turn off cycle skipping for the SPC700 emulation. 0.98 - CPU to ROM address decoding code rewritten - used by Game Genie cheat codes, orginal code might have been the cause of some Game Genie codes not working. - Started to remove printf calls and replace them with calls to S9xMessage, port code can then dicide what to do with message. 0.97 - Re-enabled decompressed sample caching, still has a possible click problem but the sound code is a lot faster with it enabled. Added command line option to disable it if required. - Added '7' key support to rotate through available controller options, in the order multi-player5, mouse on #1, mouse on #2, superscope, standard controller and then back to multi-player5. - Hi-res. (512x448) support fixed. - Mouse support completed - Lemmings 2 and Mario Paint working a treat. - More colour window fixes. - Fixed freeze game problem when ZSNES SuperFX code is being used - ZSNES 'FX state was not being saved and restored. - ZSNES SuperFX asm emulation code plugged in to Snes9x. 0.96 - Looks like if the colour window is not enabled at all and the colour window selector is defined to only allow colour effects inside the colour window, then no effects should be visible. - Offset-per-tile rendering code didn't support width 64 screen size, which Chrono Trigger used on its title screen. - Contra 3 seems to prove that defining the clip window area to be 'outside' a window that covers the whole screen is not an area with no range. - No it doesn't. It proves that I shouldn't have initialised the right window edges to 255! Contra 3 enables clipping windows without first defining their range. - Debug frame advance feature was being prevented from forcing the next frame to be rendered by SyncSpeed which was being called after the debugger returned to the main loop. - H-DMA code was allowing ROMs to manually start H-DMA during the v-blank period, ROMs shouldn't be allowed to do this. - Asm code would not push the correct CPU status onto the emulated stack if returning from an NMI immediately triggered an IRQ - fixes Mortal Kombat 1 and War of the Gems. - 'd' dump memory debug command was not preserving the CYCLES count. - C versions of SNES memory access code had same problem as asm code on the DOS port except it didn't cause a crash just ROMs failed to work correctly. - Asm i386 code was using signed compares to check for special case memory areas - it was causing crash problems on the DOS port which was sometimes returning valid address values with the top bit set - i.e. they seemed like negative values! - Changed event reschedule code to always allow h-blank start events, used to disable them during v-blank period. - Added code to HDMA when end of visible lines reached. - Changed register 4212 code not to always return h-blank when in v-blank. - Clipping fixed colour addition to background area was off by one pixel on the right-hand edge. - HDMA: Finially worked out how the real SNES operates when ROMs manual start H-DMA during the frame - ROMs must set up the H-DMA line count and address values before H-DMA is started. - Fixed the asm code to remove all hard-wired structure offsets - one offset into the IPPU structure was wrong in the code because the structure had changed size. - Added colour window support and allowed graphic window settings to be different on the main screen and sub screen, just like a real SNES. - SuperFX LJMP instruction had bank and address values swapped. - Fixed possible memory overwrite problem because OBJList array was one element too short. - Added AND multi-graphic window combo support. - ROM image memory allocation allocates an extra 32K of RAM, then moves the pointer forward by that amount - stops the SuperFX emulation from accessing unallocated memory, possibly causing a crash. - SuperFX emulation now stores sign and zero flags in separate variables so the MERGE instruction can set flags correctly. - Added 65c816 instruction skipping to i386 asm code when 65c816 waiting in a simple loop for some 'event' to happen e.g. end of frame NMI. - Finally fixed the APU instruction skipping problem with the i386 asm code when the WAI instruction is used - caused slow music on some ROMs. - Offset-per-tile modes don't seem to support screen size - Mario All Stars Super Mario 2 requires this on title screen. Doesn't seem to effect Tetris Attack or Puzzle Bobble. - Changed SNES select and start keys from shift and control to space and enter - allows shift-fn key to save game positions without the SNES ROM also getting a select joypad button press. - Multiplayer5 support for controllers 3+ was broken for ROMs that used automatic hardware joypad reading rather than reading joypads serially. - ResetPPU was not clearing tile caches and marking OBJ as need recomputing. - Cached OBJ positions and sizes were not being recomputed if ROM changed global OBJ sizes during frame. - Fixed brightness multiplication problem on 16-bit code for green. - SPC700 emulation now uses one variable to store ZERO and NEGATIVE flags. - SPC700 emulation now only increments PC once at end of instruction. - New ROM type and interleaved detection code. - Reading sound DSP register ENDX also clears the value. The docs on the 'net said that only writing to the register cleared its value. Fixes sound in Zoop. - Fixed mode 4 colour palette problem on background #2 in tile-based graphics code. - Fixed graphics mode 4, offset-per-tile support. Only one set of offset data that is switchable between horizontal and vertical, unlike modes 2 and 6 which allow separate horizontal and vertical offsets per tile. - Modified the APU timer code again, if the timer is enabled, a write to the timer target register is only allowed if a value hasn't been written yet. Fixed Donkey Kong Country 1 and Earth Worm Jim 1 & 2. - Attack rate of 0ms changed from 1ms back to 0ms because of a group of ROMs that change from attack mode to decay mode in real-time. Will change back when I've added better SPC700 CPU and sound generation sync code. - Added support for ROMs set a new sound timer value while the timer is enabled (EWJ 1 & 2). - Added support for ROMs that read the sound envelope height (MK1, MK2, etc). - ROMs writing to the H-DMA enable register during visible scan-lines were restarting H-DMA for that frame causing random screen effect corruption. - Echo feedback seems to be after the FIR filter, not before as a diagram I've seen suggests. - Sound pitch modulation added. - Memory access routines changed to pass a single 24-bit address rather than the previous separate 8-bit bank and 16-bit address parameters. 0.3 - Updates to A-Bus address during a frame must not update H-DMA address. Fixes Actraiser 2 and Pacman 2. - Removed sound volume mangling - with echo support enabled it doesn't seem to be required. - Attack rate of 0ms changed to 1ms to help prevent click sound with sudden start of a sample playing. - Sample caching of samples that looped using part of the original sample created a click on the sound output. Caching disabled for the moment. Would require 512K of cache RAM to fix sample caching. - Colour addition/subtraction support added - but still a little buggy in places and very slow. - 16-bit colour support added. - Sustain sound volume was not being set if a sample using ADSR was started with both the attack rate and decay rate set to zero - resulted in missing sound samples on with some games. - Sound echo support added. - Sound channel mixing code was not completely clearing a channel's sound buffer when a channel finished playing a sample. - Sound mixing code rewritten to use one buffer, rather than writing each channel into a separate buffer then combining them into one buffer. - Memory access routines rewritten to use an 8K block lookup table rather than dedicated code for each ROM memory map - it was getting difficult to support the new types of SNES ROM memory maps becoming apparent. - Sound sample decoding wasn't decoding sound samples correctly if a previously cached sample was only partially overwritten by the ROM as opposed to being completely replaced. - Sound sample decoding wasn't clipping generated sample values correctly. - Changed H-DMA to start in the current frame only if enable register is written to during v-blank, h-blank or while the screen is blanked. - The SPC700 seems to start executing instructions before the 65c816 - shorter reset pulse? (NO - forgot the SPC700 executes instructions while DMA is taking place). - ROMs that reset the H-IRQ position so another IRQ would be triggered on the same scan-line where not supported - Super Off-Road: The Baj needs it. - $4212 bit 7 needs to go high at the end of h-blank at line 224 not at the start of h-blank - Bubsy needs it. - Sample decoding routine could write to memory outside sample cache area if address of block to decode was greater than $0x10000 - 9. - Walking mario can be seen on map screen of MarioWorld - needed sprite priority rotation working. ROM sets bit 7 of $2103 then sets rotation in $2102. Reset rotation at start of v-blank not at end. 0.24 - Fixed reading of DMA register values - now Ms Pacman works. - Saved sprite memory address being restored on the wrong scan-line - caused corrupt sprites on at least one game (GANBARE GOEMON 2). - Screen colour palette not being updated if ROM only wrote to low byte of palette register. - Possible memory corruption fixed if a ROM tried to write to an invalid sprite address via PPU registers. - X11 port support quick load and save by pressing function keys to load or shift + function keys to save. 0.23 - Added option to disable graphic window effects - T2: The Arcade Game doesn't seem to like them. - Mode 7 "outside screen area" register interpretation fixed - now the Actraiser map screen looks a lot better. - Old DMA code hack for Battle Toads: Double Dragon removed as it was no longer required and it was causing problems for Ys III. - Lowered max volume level of 16-bit sound mixing code to help with sound clipping problems is lots of SNES sound channels are playing. 0.22 - Crash bug fixed in mode 7 graphics windows code 0.21 - Fixed a noise channel volume bug - noise waveform was getting clipped. - Fixed 24bit X Window System server support on the Solaris port. - Sprites in priority level 1 on mode 7 were being drawn incorrectly behind graphics screen. - BG 3 priority 1 tiles sometimes not drawn dependent on the $2105 bit 3 setting. - Added graphic window support the tile redraw code. - Added mosaic support to tile redraw code. - Tile redraw code was drawing one line too many on screen-splits. - Tile-based redraw code made more intelligent about when a background should be displayed or not. - Added wrap within bank support to large DMAs just to support Rock 'n' Roll racing. 0.20 - DMA routines added lots of special cases and removed most calls to GetByte, using a pointer instead. - Multiple using PPU registers is now only computed when first byte of result is actually read. - Sound enabled by default if compiled without DEBUGGER defined. - Tile redraw method made the default. - Fixed CPU_SHUTDOWN so SPC700 continues to execute even if main CPU is "skipping" cycles waiting for an event to happen. - More command line options added. - Default cycles-per-scan-line to execute lowered to 90% from 100%. - +/- keys now work even if auto-frame rate adjust was enabled. - SPC700 emulation partially rewritten in assembler. - Asm 65c816 code change to use same speed up techniques as the C++ code. - Minor speed tweaks to the sound decoding and mixing code. - C++ SPC700 emulation changed to use same method as 65c816 emulation for computing and storing emulated CPU flags. - Mode 7 code rewritten and several scrolling offset bugs fixed. - Lo-ROM S-RAM memory map bug fixed - now Uniracers works. - Multiple speed ups and changes to the tile and line-based redraw code. - Tile and line redraw code changed to cache converted tiles between frames. - Variable cycle length timing made compile-tile switchable. - C++ 65c816 emulation changed to use several opcode jump tables to avoid a register size comparison test on most emulated instructions. - C++ 65c816 emulation changed how is computes and stores emulated CPU flags. - Fixed high frequency sound playback bug - the sample rate calculation was blowing the range of an unsigned long. - Fixed V-RAM reading so DKC3, Addams Family, Aladdin and Pacman all work. - Fixed sound code so ROMs can change from ADSR mode to decrease mode - fixes lots of ROMs. 0.12 released - Added dynamic speed regulation. - TCALL vector calculation change from n to 15 - n. - Fixed crash bug if ROM writes to sound DSP register numbers greater than 127. - Fixed DOS memory locked for interrupt code. - Added long name versions of command line switches. - Added command line switch for SPC700_SHUTDOWN code and WAI cycle skipping code. 0.1 released - All DOS memory is now locked from being swapped. - Fixed DOS port keyboard polling code - could get confused if a keyboard interrupt happened while keys were being checked. - SPC700 ADC instruction never cleared Overflow or Carry flags! - Changed selection of playback speeds for Solaris port. - Sample caching code was broken - cached samples were never used. - Added code speed ups for ROMs that use a lot of DMA to VRAM. - More cpu code asm speed up. - Fixed 16x16 size tiles on tile-based redraw code. - Fixed sound gain-mode increase and decrease volume envelopes. - Added code to support ROMs that reuse sprites in the same frame. - Fixed processing of negative volume levels. - Fixed SPC700 EOR1 instruction. - Added SPC700 shutdown code to stop executing SPC700 instructions if in a tight loop waiting for a timer or for the 65C816 to respond. - DOS playback rate was being forced to 16KHz by Allegro - fixed. - Fixed bug in SPC700 MOV1 C,bit, address. - Fixed a off-by-one loop sample pointer bug in MixSamples. - Added command line flags for cached-tile based drawing and sub-screen background layers priority swapping. - NOPE, got encoding of the OR1/EOR1,AND1 range of correct originally - got duff information from an "SPC700" programmer. - More SPC700 fixes: got the encoding of the OR1/EOR1,AND1 range of instructions wrong - I guessed wrong originally. - Sample looping bug fix on mono sound mixing code. - Sound pitch value no-longer clipped to 14 bits - apparently FF3 needs this. - Followed Paradox's suggestion and changed graphics code to place sub-screen background layers below main-screen background layers. Helps lots of games that use sub-screen addition/subtraction - now you don't have to toggle background layers on and off so often just to see hidden text, characters, or maps, etc. Made it switchable. Acts as a good intermediate solution until sub-screen addition/subtraction is actually implemented. - Modified sound skipper code to return random values when ROM is stuck waiting for the SPC700 CPU to respond - helps several ROMs that previously don't work with the currently selection of APU skippers. - Improved sound mixing code so volume is not attenuated so much, giving better results on 8bit sound cards. - Changed the frequency at which the joystick polling routine is called - now called every-other frame rather than every 3rd frame. - Recompiled Linux and DOS ports with the Pentium optimising version of gcc - gives a few percent speed increase. - Changed V-RAM increment count from 64 to 128 - apparently Final Fantasy 3 needs this as well. - Fixed sprite priority bug with Mode 7 - apparently Final Fantasy 3 needs this. - Fixed a screen clipping problem with the S-VGA mode. - Fixed bug that had crept in with -m 2 S-VGA mode (Linux version). - Fixed S-VGA Linux version with sound enabled. - The SPC700 ADC (X),(Y) instruction was broken - with all these SPC700 fixes now many more ROMs work with sound enabled. - The SPC700 Pop PSW instruction was not resetting the direct page location. - The SPC700 instruction MOV A,[DP+X] was incorrectly doing a MOV A,DP+X. - Got the SPC700 SETx and CLRx instruction encoding swapped around. - Fixed #define problem that was stopping DOS snapshot saving from working. 0.72 released - Fixed the DOS filename handling - old Unix code was screwing up with ROM filenames that contained backslashes (\) - the ROM would load but S-RAM loading and saving would fail and the default filename for snapshots wouldn't work. - This time really fixed Allegro library keyboard handling (DOS port); it was missing key some presses/releases (was stopping Chrono Trigger Left + Right + A button combo from working). - Added code to automatically remove headers off S-RAM save files with 512 byte headers. - 32Mbit ROMs in interleaved format are now automatically detected and converted. - Added -ss 3 sound skip method support to the asm version - now NBA Live '96 works again. - Added support for multi-part ROM images. 0.71 released - Made libgz.so statically linked (again) on Linux port - sorry. - Made writing to $4200 also clear any pending IRQs. This finially allows Battle Toads: Double Dragon, Spawn and Sieken 3 all the work with the same IRQ logic (but Sieken 3 still gets stuck in sound download code). - Fixed a H-DMA wobble bug - some frames could randomly miss a line of H-DMA causing the F-Zero screen to wobble, and slight text character corruption on games like DKC3. - Interleaved format ROM images are now swapped in-place, without the need for a temp 4Mb buffer (saves lots of disk swapping on a 16Mb Windows 95 machine). 0.7 released - Fixed Allegro library keyboard handling (DOS port); it was missing key some presses/releases. - DOS port had a different MAX_PATH value which moved the location of the SRAM size variable when using the asm CPU emulation core. This, in turn, caused the SRAM emulation to fail on the DOS port. Donkey Kong County 2 & 3 were reporting a ROM copier was connected to the SNES and refused to run. - Fixed assembler version of XCE - it was always leaving the carry flag clear - caused Killer Instinct and Super Punchout to think a ROM copier was fitted to the SNES and they all refused to run. - Fixed assembler versions of MVN/MVP - they weren't setting the data bank register to the destination bank of the instruction. - Fixed joystick detection on MS-DOS port - a single 2 or 4 button joystick in port 1 was being ignored if a second joystick was not present in port 2. - Fixed an uninitialized variable in graphics code - was causing random missing scan lines on Mode 7 screens. - Joysticks now scanned every 3rd frame (joystick scanning is slow in the PC). - Double-whoops, Metriod 3 had stopped working in v0.6 - fixed it (memory map bug). - Made bit 6 of $4211 set if v-counter == v-timer-position. - Made reading of $4200 read $4212 instead. - Adjusted DMA timing to always access ROM memory at slow speed - this seems to fix Battle Toads. - Added code to automatically clear pending IRQs when the horizontal line is no longer equal to the horizontal timer line - this fixes Seiken 3, it now just gets stuck in the sound CPU wait code - oh well. - Moved NMI back to its original pre-0.65 behaviour, now Puzzle Bobble works. - More graphics speed ups - the code to render background tiles with their priority bits set is only called if there are actual priority-bit tiles. - Changed default frame skip rate from 1 to 2 - its seems most people don't bother to read the docs, so I thought I'll help them out a bit! - Speeded up Mode 7 graphics on games like F-Zero that rewrite the matrix registers on each scan line using H-DMA. - Reorganised the graphics code and did a slight speed up - graphics code will be the next thing to rewrite in assembler. - Rewrote CPU core in assembler for Intel platforms - gives a very noticeable speed increase. - Fixed several problems with the APU sound CPU emulation - its now getting stable enough to try and implement sound. - Fixed bug that caused 1 byte of S-RAM to be emulated when ROM didn't expect any - it was enough to stop Street Fighter 2 and others from working - thanks Lord ESNES. - The TXS and TCS instructions shouldn't set the Z and N flags. - Looks like MVP/MVN instructions should ignore accumulator size - change code to always use all 16 bits and exit with accumulator set to 0xffff. - Whoops, accidently left some test code in which was causing the V-BLANK flag, bit 8 in register $4212, to be miss-calculated. - Fixed palette in mode 0. - Speeded up graphics drawing a little by skipping groups of 4 pixels that were all transparent. 0.65 released - S-VGA and MS-DOS ports now have a VGA mode command line flag. - Improved the fading code - should be much more smooth now. - Fixed second joy-pad support and re-mapped keys and joysticks to actually make a match between what my docs said and a real SNES (SNES docs I'd seen were wrong!). - Fixed a bug in Relative Long CPU addressing mode. - Ported Snes96 to MS-DOS. - Snapshot loading and saving no longer uses external gzip binary. - Added support for registers at $21c2 and $21c3. - Made reading the software latch for the horizontal and vertical counters also clear any pending IRQ. - Added sprite priority rotation. - Rewrote parts of the graphics routines to fix a sprite-to-sprite priority bug. - NMI flag changed again - now back to being reset by reading $4210 but actual NMI is delayed. - Made mode 7 background colour 0 transparent - this fixed several sprite priority problems a few games where having. - Finally worked out how sprite "Object Name Select" works and emulated it - this fixes many (if not all) of the corrupted sprites some games experienced. - Delayed NMI activation for one instruction to give time for loops that wait for bit 7 of $4210 to go high. - Special-cased line count of 128 on H-DMA to mean repeat previous data with a line count of 128 and not just terminate H-DMA on that channel. - APU sound CPU emulation added - just need to debug the thing. - Fixed Overflow flag setting in ADC and SBC instructions - it was never being set. - Rewrote how CPU instructions are fetched and how values are pushed and pulled from the stack - it gave a very large increase in emulation speed. - H-DMA was being started one scan-line too late. - Added CG-RAM reading support. - Added "Full Graphic" V-RAM reading. - Speeded up C version of CPU emulation quite a bit - could speed it up a little more before rewriting in assembler. - Fixed bugs in 16x16 tile drawing on 2bit and 8bit deep screens. 0.6 released - Speeded up 16x16 tile background rendering by removing a temp tile buffer it was using. The speed up also fixed a vertical scroll bug. - Fixed slight window clipping on 16x16 tile backgrounds. - Added automatic PAL/NTSC mode switching. - Fixed background and sprites so only visible if on main-screen or on sub-screen under correct circumstance. - Fixed lockup bug in DMA. - Stopped NMI flag from being reset by reading $4210 - was causing a couple of games to get stuck. - Whoops, got horizontal and vertical Mode 7 flip bits around the wrong way! - Fixed MIT shared memory pixmap support for X11 version (it was always turned off). - Fixed minor bug - first sprite in priority group was drawn twice. Didn't cause any visual bugs, it just slowed down redrawing a little. - Fixed DMA bug - transfer byte count should be 0 after DMA has finished. - Fixed a scaling bug if width < height. - Interleaved ROM image support added. - 16bit and 24bit X11 server support added - with scaling. - Added window scaling on X11 version. - Partial clip windows added - the only window overlap option implemented at the moment is OR, it seems it good enough for all the ROMs I've tested it with. - Partial Mosaic effect added (pixels only growing vertically). - Missing Mode 7 "outside screen area" option added. - Fixed mode 7 screen wrap "outside screen area" option. - Used new event processing to finally fix H-IRQ so it triggers at the correct position on the scan line. - New event processing added. - Linux version now statically links libgz.so (sorry). 0.5 released - Linux S-VGA version changed from using a 320x240 ModeX screen (slow) to a 256x256 chunky screen (faster) - thanks to Phillip Ezolt (pe28+@andrew.cmu.edu) for information on how to do this. - Mode 7 screen flipping added. - Included Snes97's CPU emulation code into Snes96. Didn't fix any bugs but slowed down the emulation some what and I couldn't compile it optimised because it was so large - so I removed it again. - Added a few extra features available via the keyboard. - Fixed a H-DMA transfer mode - bad documentation. - Fixed H-DMA indirect addressing (it was using the wrong CPU memory bank). - The Linux slow down bug is my crappy laptop enabling battery saving features ! - Changed graphics code to perform true line-by-line screen updates. - Fixed sprite drawing bugs. - Ported Snes97's graphics code to Snes96. - Fixed memory map for HiROM save RAM area. - Fixed HiROM memory map - now Killer Instinct and Donkey Kong County work ! - OK the slow down bug is just actually my laptop trying to save battery power by slowing the CPU clock! - The Linux slow down bug shows itself on DOS emulators running under DOSEMU so it must be a kernel problem (or feature). - Fixed H-DMA (again) to be complete emulation - all I need now is line-by-line screen update... - Fixed DMA to not copy too many bytes if byte count was not a multiple of the transfer mode quantity (caused corruption on Super Mario World map screen). - Changed mapping of keyboard to joy-pad buttons and added additional direction keys for joy-pad one so player one's right hand doesn't have to obscure player two's keyboard joy-pad buttons. - Changed joystick button layout to match SNES if using a 6 button joy-pad. - Changed snapshot format so I can easily use libgz on Linux. - Added few speed up tweaks that will be lost again when I add line-by-line screen update. - First visible scan-line changed from 8 to 1 to match with new docs. - New SNES information source found; fixed partial H-DMA emulation to include indirect addressing support. - Snapshot files are now compressed. - Compressed ROM images now supported on Linux. - Snapshot loading and saving added. - Joystick support for Linux added. One 2, 4 or 6 button joystick, or two 2 button joysticks supported (PC hardware limitation). - SVGA full screen support added for Linux. Still has the X11 slow down bug so can't blame the X11 server any more! Must be a kernel bug or a very odd emulator bug. - Added emulation of two joy-pads on the PC/Sun keyboard. - Removed -i command line flag as it is no longer used. -h value range has also changed: now 1 - 100 (percentage). - Actuate cycle counting rather than instruction counting now added including fast and slow ROM timing - should give much better timing information when line-by-line screen update added. - Bug fixed old-style joy-pad access used by some ROMs - Mario All Stars still gives problems if enabled and I don't know why; but at least Super Bomberman now works ! - Looks like if both horizontal and vertical IRQ are enabled then IRQ should only be triggered once per frame and not once per scan line - looking at the IRQ handler of a couple of ROMs seems to confirm this. - Added initial cycle counting - not accurate enough for some ROMs though. - Finally worked out how the odd VRAM address increments should work but only found one ROM, so far, that actually uses it. - Debugged the odd slow down problem with the Linux port - it seems to be a bug in the X Window System server - starve the X server of keyboard presses or mouse clicks or movement and the X server slows down, slowing down the emulator with it ! 0.4 released - Fixed sprite vertical clipping at top of screen. - No need to invert the Mode 7 transformation matrix before use - the ROM coder already had to! - Fixed Mode 7 scrolling offset when using special effects. - Added Mode 7 rotation, enlargement and reduction emulation. - DMA shouldn't zero the byte count value after a DMA has completed. - Added DMA reading (Addams Family was using it) - Fixed V-RAM read function - returned data should lag behind the V-RAM address by one byte/word. - Added mode 7 graphics only. 0.3 released - Speeded up the main CPU loop a bit. - Add more command line options: -f <frame skip> (default 1) -i <no instructions between polling X> (default 32768) -h <number instructions per scan line> (default 45, some games allow a lower setting resulting in a increased emulated frame rate) -t enable CPU tracing -ss <sound CPU skip wait method> (default 0, more methods to be added) -H disable H-DMA emulation -F Force Hi-ROM memory map - Modified planar to chunky conversion to use look up tables. - But now Mario All Stars won't start. Made emulation of $4016 optional with -o command line switch. - Thanks to Carlos (calb) of ESNES fame, I've added correct $4016 & $4017 joy-pad register processing - now several more ROMs will start once a button is pressed and can be controlled. - DMA wasn't updating DMA registers with the final CPU address used after the DMA had completed (caused sprite and background corruption with some ROMs). Still suspect another DMA side effect isn't being emulated correctly though. - Fixed setting of CPU overflow flag in ADC and SBC instructions in decimal mode. - Fixed MVP/MVN CPU instructions to leave X and Y values correct at end of loop - several more ROMs now work. Still don't know if MVP/MVN instructions should ignore the accumulator size flag or not. - Rewrote background drawing code - gives a large increase in speed. - Flag to only update X Windows colour palette when necessary was missing a case - caused some ROMs to start with a black screen. - Code to only update background tiles when changed wasn't working so I disabled it. - CPU WAI instruction needed to trigger on hardware IRQ even when interrupt enable flag was false. - DMA was not transferring 65536 bytes when byte count was 0. - Fixed matrix 16bit x 8bit multiplication (old debug code was causing junk value to be returned). - Fixed Makefile so version.h header file change recompiles file that shows version number in window title. - Added more reporting of used but unimplemented missing hardware features to debug command. - New ROM loading code from Jerremy included, can now cope with ROM images with no 512 byte header. - Speeded up emulated memory access a little bit. 0.2 released - Added matrix 16bit x 8bit multiplication for Super Off-Road Racer. - Added initial H-DMA emulation - visual effects using it will not be seen correctly until screen is updated line-by-line rather than the whole screen at end-of-frame. - Fixed horizontal sprite clipping (vertical clipping still has a problem). - Integrated large sprite bug fixes and new background drawing code from Jerremy. - Fixed large size per-sprite flag; always stayed true after sprite size was changed to large. - Rewrote the planar to chunky pixel conversion routines (still need more work). - Made registers $4016 & $4017 always return $ff - lots of ROMs that previously wouldn't go beyond the title screen thought old-style joy-pads were connected and were waiting for the user to press a button on them. - Frame skip rate now set to 1 instead of 5 on my P166 laptop! - Fixed NMI v-blank flag being incorrect set, caused some ROMs to lock. - X keyboard autorepeat now switched off when emulator has keyboard focus. - Added number key options to toggle backgrounds 1 to 4 and objs (sprites) on and off. - Fixed sprite clipping problems at edge of left hand side of screen. - Corrected Hi-ROM memory map (I think) (no I didn't) - Fixed most of the sprite-to-sprite priority problems. - Added sprite debug command, 'S'. - Added a debug command to show what missing hardware features a ROM was using. - Added horizontal and vertical beam position IRQ - horizontal always triggers at start of line at the moment. - Fixed SBC instruction to set carry flag the correct way around. Initial release 0.1 - Ported Windows 95 version of Snes96 to Linux on a PC and Solaris on a SparcStation. - Corrected work RAM memory map.