RockNES 5.01 released

[Robert]

NES emulator. Get it HERE.

 

Saturday, July 18th 2009

Sorry for the delay. RockNES 5.01 has been released!

It's stable and with lots of crucial bug fixes.

 

What's new for version 5.01 (07/18/2009)

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- Reworked 6000h-7FFFh CPU handling.

- Reworked/increased sound caching and playback.

- Fixed system reset sequence.

- Fixed MMC3 IRQs, plus added WRAM control (mapper 4).

- Fixed load state error message in the GUI.

- Fixed a few typos in the GUI messages.

- Fixed internal iNES header/data patching by CRC32.

- Fixed three bugs in the savestate code, no more gray screens.

- Fixed APU reset timing.

- Mapper fix: 4, 33, 87.

- Mapper new: 5 (preliminary MMC5), 48.

- Changed a few mapper board names.

- Changed default value on NSF "invalid" reads (thanks jsr).

- Changed system RAM dump filename to gametitle.ram.

- Changed color RAM dump filename to gametitle.pal.

- Changed pattern table (CHR RAM) dump filename extension from .chr to .pat.

- WAV file record is now possible to schedule before the first game run.

- The mapper savestate block is no more saved with zero-length (unused).

- The song start number from NSF header is now used, instead of always 1.

- For safety reasons, the emulator quits on savestate loading error.

- Removed the CPU timeslice with Allegro's rest(1) to avoid deadlocks.

- Compiled with newer versions of GCC and Allegro, fixes a few things.

- Other important fixes here and there.