Bsnes 0.018 released

[Robert]

SNES emulator

 

10/14/2006 - bsnes v0.018 released

I began working on bsnes on October 14th, 2004. I am releasing bsnes v0.018 today to celebrate bsnes' two year anniversary. Please note that this release incurs a ~15% speed reduction since v0.017, due to IRQ and S-SMP timing improvements.

 

Changelog:

* Fixed many critical errors in IRQ timing, should be *very* close to real hardware now

* Corrected major CPU timing bug involving CPU I/O condition 4

* Corrected bug with generic HiROM / LoROM memory maps

* Corrected bug involving HDMA indirect channel termination [anomie]

* OAM address reset now occurs when screen display is enabled, per recent research

* Readded full DMA, HDMA and HDMA init bus sync timing

* Added preliminary emulation of S-SMP $00f0 TEST register (6 of 8 bits are supported)

* Readded emulation of known timing differences between CPU revisions 1 and 2

* Config file can now control scanline-based PPU render position. This will only be needed until a proper dot-based PPU renderer is added

* Removed core debugging hooks so that debugging console can remain in public releases, it now functions as a tracer and memory editor

* Config file paths once again work correctly even if missing trailing backslash

* Video configuration simplified, sorry in advance to those who enjoyed the profile mode used before

* Added new configuration screen to control some emulation settings

* Replaced bsnes program icon with a much nicer one [FitzRoy]

* Optimized memory speed detection algorithm

* Preliminary UPS soft-patching support (do not use this yet!)

* Decreased memory usage and optimized generic libraries used by bsnes (/src/lib)

* Now caching OAM by one line, somewhat similar to a real SNES. Fixes Winter Gold, but causes line rendering error in Mega lo Mania

* Lots more, as usual

 

The following games have been fixed since v0.017 by the above bugfixes:

 

* Battle Blaze (J, U)

* Circuit USA (J)

* F1 Grand Prix (J)

* Funaki Masakatsu no Hybrid Wrestler - Tougi Denshou (J)

* Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One (J)

* Mahjongg Taikai II (J)

* RPG Tsukuru - Super Dante (J)

* Robocop Versus The Terminator (U, E)

* Sink or Swim (U, E)

* Street Racer (J)

* Touge Densetsu Saisoku Battle (J)

* Winter Olympics (U, E)

>> Get it HERE.

[GodPigeon]

EHHH...for now il stick with ZNES

[Agozer]

bsnes is already moreaccurate than ZSNES or Snes9x. The only thing that might keep people from using it over the other two emulators is the fact that it lacks support for the more complex SNES chips.