June 30, 2011

Emulation News 091: Updates for 6-30-11


So it's the end of the month! Yay! Lots of news to finish up this month strong such as new versions of PCSX Reloaded, MESS, Altirra, Dolphin, and QMC2. There are also other interesting news so check them out.


MESS SVN r12122

"r12122
[C64] Added expansion port slot interface. [Curt Coder]"

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Mameinfo.dat v0.143

"- Updated to MAME 0.143.
- Added 0.143 Source/Listinfo changes.
- Newest Bugs (29th Jun).
- Added description changes from MAME 0.89u1 - 0.100 and 0.124u1 - 0.132.
- Fixed Mameinfo.dat infos."

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Dolphin SVN r7654


"r7650
OGL/Depalettizer: cast the ints to float

Fixes shader errors from nvidia-driver:
0(12) : error C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
0(13) : error C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
r7651
DSP/Jit: Combine clrp memory writes back to two 32bit writes

This time without the (char*)/(u64*) confusion.
r7652
JIT: Add support for memory accesses with scaled index register but without base register

This is mostly useful for removing SHLs by constant 1, 2, 3, which this
commit implements in one place.
r7653
use same region memcards as the nand title that is being launched
... this patch has been sitting in my working copy for ages :O
fixes issue 4657.
r7654
Fix some texture glitches in DX11 from my last commit"

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RomManager MAME Dats v0.143

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PCSX Reloaded SVN r68249

"r68249
gte: fix MAC0 shift (pcsxr issue #8874, shalma)

fixes missing elements in Soul Reaver and Spyro."

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USB Loader GX v2.2

"USB Loader GX Release V2.2
New:
- Added game categories and filter games list by categories (Can be imported
from WiiTDB).
- Wiinertag support.
- Supporting arguments from meta.xml on boot (--ios=xxx and --usbport=x)
(Requires Homebrew Channel 1.0.7+ or
UNEO Forwarder v3.0).
- New ehci modules by Rodries with better drive compatibility.
- Added two new video modes to force progressive video mode, 'FORCE PAL480p' and
'FORCE NTSC480p'.
- Added Sneek Video Patch mode.
- Added new 'Inherit' setting for game settings named "Use global". If that
option is set then the main loader
setting is used.
- Full d2x cIOS support with it's new features (Block IOS Reload, Return To,
Sector Sizes > 512).
- Support for sector sizes > 512B with FAT32/NTFS (Requires d2x v6+)
- Real support for simultanious use of both USB ports without switching the 2nd
drive temporary off. (Requires
Hermes cIOS or Rodries MOD of the Hermes cIOS (recommended))
- Added two new settings menus
- Added saving of game browser position when returning to USB Loader GX

Changes:
- Improved several GUI controls/navigations
- Changed settings menu layout and sorted the items to their correct place (HDD
menu, features menu)
- Set games settings to use the global setting by default, set to "use global"
to use the main loader settings.
- Use TinyXML instead of MXML (better XML support)
- Updated to new libs (libogc, libfat, libext2fs, libntfs)

Fix:
- "Return to" option now work for all games, even problematic games like Prince
of Persia. (Requires d2x v4+)
- Xflip setting fixed.
- Fix the parental lock of Individual game settings (Thanks to NJ7)
- Fix Theme downloader
- Fixed reset of the loader when loading game with IOS reload and disabled
WiiTDB titles
- Fixed timeout timer on startup to count correctly.
- Fixed reversed disc image download when Custom/Original option is selected
- Fixed reload of game list after a game rename
- Fixed horizontal text scrolling
- Fixed booting games by arguments (headless id feature)
- Fixed We Dare game boot (thx oggzee)



R1099 Change Log:
*Added IOS225 from Rodries cIOS Installer MOD to Hermes IOS types

New Forwarder V3.0 Changes:
*added support for ext partitions
*added support for arguments from xml
*clean up of source"

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QMC2 v0.2.b20

"- Many improvements on MESS: Added information about the terminal, ability to customize the software folder ...
- New command line option:-qmc2_config_path. It allows to overwrite the path where QMC2 reads and stores its settings.
- Updated the format of the models (0.2.4) to support the selection lists pre-defined and populated dynamically, also to support floating-point values ​​used by multi-parties of the new options HLSL PixelShader 3.0.
- Support of different versions of Windows to launch.
- QMC2 can now be compiled using MinGW (GCC) on Windows.
- The user can now decide whether the status icons ROMs will be displayed or not in any view game-/machine-list.
- Research of a game or machine can be operated by entering a part of a name.
- Added a number of tools to help force the removal of game-/machine- caches and software-list at runtime.
- Fixed a deadlock possible when calling external programs synchronized (emulator).
- Fixed crash on Mac OS X. Phonon
- Add a Youtube video player integrated.
- Ongoing work: Improvement of the software listings."

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WolfMame v0.143

"WolfMame v0.143 is released. WolfMAME is a build which is optomised for MARP - MAME Action Replay Page, where literally thousands of MAME fans play, save and upload highscore attempts. WolfMAME does not allow the player to pause games, use cheats, change DIP switches etc to gain an unfair advantage. "

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Altirra 2.0 Test 9

"Fixes for NV-RAM saving with IDEPlus, and more importantly, a fix in the display code that speeds up the emulator by about 5%."

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Fceux SVN r2210

"r2210
Add AVI-HeadsUpDisplay lua script which is a script that allows the input display & frame counter to be captured into AVIs"

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FB Alpha Suffle v2.0.0 Test 4

"FBA Features
- added AVI recorder and input macro. [Gangta, emufan]
- added support translated game name list in game selection dialog. [Sho, 800]
you can import game names from mamep.lst while exporting gamelist. (put mamep.lst under fbas.exe or config dir)
- added IPS v4 support from MAMEPlus!. (Thanks to Emuman, emufan)
- added image menu from MAMEPlus!. (Thanks to Emuman, kkez)
- added select background image and select random image functions.
- added set misc paths and improved UI for game selection dialog.
- added save preset and save default input mapping, file is saved in config/presets.
- added some custom images in .\res folder, you can replace these images with what you like.
- added display score, select, gameover, boss snapshot to game selection dialog.
(http://www.progettoemma.net/snaps/)
- added support archived preview image (zip or 7z).
(name it: snap, titles, flyers, score, select, boss, gameover. ext = zip/7z).
- added load cheat from archive file (name it: cheat.zip/7z), also added cheat select/reload.
- added filters in game selection dialog. (it also can filter the custom translated game names)
(type "lamer" in the filter and it will show unavailable/missing sets)
you can edit "user-filter" value in fbas.xml to define your filter string, separate with semicolon.
- added save favorite games (the file is in config/favorites.ini).
- added "Undo" for input recordings, "Rewind" for input recording playback. [blip]
- added adjustable emulation speeds (shift + +/-) and frame counter display. [blip]
- added a simple jukebox for neogeo, cps1/2 games. (Thanks to CaptainCPS-X, iq_132)
(put sound.dat of caname in .\config folder with UTF-8 encode)
- added 7-Zip support. (http://www.7-zip.org/)
- added XAudio2 sound output. (need install new DirectX runtime/SDK)
- added OpenAL sound output.
- added OpenGL, GDI, Direct2D video output.
- added select audio device and select display adapter.
- added autofire support, you can set the autofire delay value in input mapping dialog.
(autofire only affects normal buttons, doesn't support direction and macro buttons)
- added custom button feature. (Map Game Inputs ==> Custom buttons)
- added configurable hotkeys. (Thanks to mauzus)
- changed the emulator will not depend on kailleraclient.dll.
You can put kailleraclient.dll in the same directory as the emulator if you want to netplay.
- changed all romsets to match MAME Plus!.
- removed many rarely-used features from official FBA.
- Many thanks to OopsWare (http://oopsware.googlepages.com/) for porting PGM, CPS3 and many other drivers to FBA."

"- changed fba shuffle version to 2.0.0.
- separated burn library to dll. (you can select different dll from "Help" menu)
- separated pixel filters to dll.
- added Lord of Gun and Alien Challenge driver. [iq_132]
- added Success Joe driver. [iq_132]
- added Varia Metal driver. [iq_132]
- made oldsplus working.
- corrected fps for some pgm games.
- fixed demo of olds.
- fixed game running after window reactive if pause manually.
- fixed cpu usage after exit game if filter is enabled.
- fixed create kaillera game list.
- fixed image scale in fake fullscreen mode.
- added custom button feature. (Map Game Inputs ==> Custom buttons)
- added log window to show emulation debug information. (change log="true" in fbas.xml to enable log)
- added GDI video output.
- added Direct2D video output. (require win7 or vista sp2)
- adjusted config file structure.
- changed cheat, game config, favorite, gamelist file to xml.
(you can use banunu, a tool of fba shuffle to convert old ini files)
- changed some default settings.
- improved frameskip on windows 7 when aero is enabled for direct3d driver.
(Thanks to Dante for testing)
- improved autofire, support custom buttons, settings will be saved in game config file.
- improved keyboard focus for gamelist dialog.
(press F3 in gamelist will set focus to the filter combobox)
- mamep.lst must be saved as utf8(bom) for exporting local gamelist.
- removed unstable simple jukebox, M1 is the best choice to play sounds of games.
- updated libpng library to 1.5.3. (http://libpng.sourceforge.net)
- source code cleanup & optimization.
- updated romsets to match MAME 0.143."

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