2006-02-07

 

CPU:  Optimized Thumb emulation

CPU:  Added support for mode changes on MOVS

CPU:  The IntrWait SWI can now be interrupted even when IME=0 (as it would on a real DS)

GPU:  Added support for main memory (FIFO) display mode

GPU:  Modfied reference coordinate calculation for rotoscale OBJs

GPU:  Fixed vertical OBJ clipping

GPU:  Fixed a problem with 1D bitmap OBJ mapping

GPU:  Fixed a bug where BGs would not be drawn if the VRAM selection bits in DISPCNT were non-zero

MMU: Fixed 16- and 32-bit writes to VRAMCNT_*

MMU: VRAM banks mapped to extended palettes are no longer accessible

GUI:  Added an OBJ viewer

GUI:  Added a map viewer (does not yet support all types of maps)

GUI:  Improved the tile viewer (VRAM bank selection)

GUI:  Changed the screenshot keyboard shortcuts to Ctrl+1..Ctrl+3 so as to not interfere with dialogs were entering numbers is needed

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3 versions a day, impressive!

No changelog for 5.54 and 5.55

6th January 2006 - GameEx 5.53

 

Please wait animation now does a VSYNC (no longer flickers)

Fixes please wait animation when GameEx windowed

Please wait animation can now be turned off

Added twelve new radio stations (thanks to forum member 'wastedmind')

5.51 and 5.52 had minor fixes to the theme picker.

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0.104

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Exidy Sorcerer (diskless) [Robert]

- Sony Playstation (scph3000 J v1.1 01/22/95) [incog]

- Sony Playstation (scph3500 J v2.1 07/17/95) [incog]

- Turbo Grafix-16 [Rob Bohms]

- Acorn Electron [Wilbert Pol]

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [AT] Cleaned up A20 gating.  [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO3] Fixed a timing bug in video rendering.  (bug #743) [Nate Woods]

 

- [PC] Fixed PC keyboard ESC char code (it is now 27; used to be 26).  [Nate Woods]

 

- [EXIDY] Fixed keyboard, printer and video speed.  Added natural keyboard support.  (bug #615) [Robert]

 

- [PCE] Various improvements, updated renderer and removed GAME_NOT_WORKING flag.  [Rob Bohms and Charles MacDonald]

 

- [VTECH1] Fixed key definitions.  (bug #835) [Robert]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows] Fixed a bug that caused crashes if a dialog was presented, the emulation reset, and a subsequent dialog presented.  (bug #834) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a bug that caused zip files where the file extension was not all lowercase to not be recognized as such.  (bug #831) [Oliver Stoenberg]

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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- [OS9] Removed a limitation that prevented images from loading that have allocation bitmaps larger than 1024 bytes.  (bug #825) [Nate Woods]

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.104.  This incorporates all features of the update to this core.  [MAME team]

 

- Changed how devices are specified.  The new system resembles how MAME CPU and sound cores are specified.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Added a "input" command to the debugger.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Cleaned up natural keyboard code.  No longer have QUEUE_CHARS/ACCEPT_CHARS and CHARQUEUE_EMPTY; callbacks are now installed at runtime.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed a file manager memory allocation bug.  [brian Sturk]

 

- Moved MESS validity code into a separate file.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Enhanced error reporting when loading images.  (bug #827)  [Nate Woods]

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NDS Bios Dumper 6 February 2006

I compiled a NDS bios dumper, credits must go to Loopy, Costis, CaithSith & Martin Korth for finding the hole/code example to dump the ARM7 bios.

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