Cet émulateur multi-systèmes a été mis à jour. Les améliorations sont les suivantes:
New System: Arcade
- We have added support for Sega SG-1000 based arcade hardware; hopefully the first of many arcade cores within ares (well, technically second because we had the Neo Geo, but that was focused on the console variant, the AES).
- Due to the nature of arcade boards, Arcade cores use MAME format roms, and a game list rather than traditional rom files. You can set a path for arcade roms in "Settings -> Paths".
- Arcade games will be grouped under one "Arcade" system, regardless of what system the Arcade hardware may be based on.
- Please note that ares does not currently resolve parent-child relationships, so arcade rom zip files must contain every file required for that game; in MAME terminology, this is usually referred to as a "Non-Merged" set.
User Interface
A homebrew mode has been added to the settings panel; this is intended to enable features that are useful to homebrew devs but would harm performance for general gameplay. This setting is currently only used in the Nintendo 64 core; more information on this later.
- Auto save settings when closing the settings dialog.
- Add hot keys for volume control and mute
- Refactor the log system to allow more control over log output
- Restore the ability to hide cores from the menu
- Add a "Scan" button to firmware settings; this autodetects supported firmware from a configured Firmware directory
Update the "Color Bleed" option to work for all non-HD cores, rather than just the SNES
- Correct the description of Weave Deinterlacing (horizontal -> vertical)
- Improve auto-detection of CD-ROM based games, drag/drop and command line loading are now more reliable
Debugging
- Added support for debugging emulated systems via GDB, currently only the Nintendo 64 core supports this, but this will be expanded in future releases.
Atari - Atari 2600
- Improve CPU timing in relation to WSYNC
- Improve TIA timing, although still far from perfect
- Implement latching of the current playfield pixel
- Include "current cycle on this scanline" in CPU trace output to aid debugging
- Improve RESMP behaviour and implement NUSIZ for missiles
- Improve HMOVE object positioning
- Fix RIOT timer and timer interrupt bit
- Improve detection of PAL roms by looking for the (PAL) string as well as the (Europe) string in the rom filename
- Support loading .bin format roms instead of just .a26
Bandai - WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color
- Properly implement INT_BASE port
- Implement sound DMA hold
- Fix sound DMA readout values when disabled
- Fix sound DMA source/length shadowing
- Fix loading of trimmed roms
- Fix ENTER/PREPARE opcode implementation and timing
- Fix interrupt return address on division by zero
- Improve ROM/SRAM bus timings
Microsoft - MSX / MSX2
- Fix conflicts between ROM space and SCC with the KonamiSCC mapper
- Allow loading of .rom format roms, rather than only .msx/.msx2
NEC - PC Engine
- Add support for "color emulation" (non-linear RGB)
Nintendo - NES / Famicom
- Lowered colour saturation to 1.5 to match most other emulators
- Implement UNROM-512 mapper
- Implement Action53 mapper
- Implement mappers 31 and 218 (inl-nsf, magicfloor)
- Fix MMC5 program mode 1
- Fix support for NES2.0 extended PRG/CHR size variables
- Implement self-flashing support to UNROM-512 and GTROM
- Remove "GAMMA" adjustment when "Color Emulation" is enabled
- Implement PPU open bus behaviour
- Serialize controller state in save states: fixes input glitches when using run ahead
- Support more variants of the Famicom Disk System Bios
- Preliminary support for the EPSM expansion module
Nintendo - Game Boy
- Fix MBC3 RTC Overflow/Register handling
- Fix MBC3 RAMbank register width
Nintendo - SNES / Super Famicom
- Fix support for the PAL Super GameBoy
- Separate black level crush from color emulation, it's now exposed as "Deep Black Boost"
- Fix PLB wrapping in emulation mode (based on hardware testing, all emulators seem to have gotten this wrong)
Nintendo - Nintendo 64 / 64DD
- Implement RSP VU pipeline timings
- Fix some incorrect game database entries (Beetle Adventure Racing (J), Chameleon Twist 2, J.League Live 64 Quake 64, Star Fox 64)
- Implement RSP duel-issue restrictions for CFC2/CTC2
- Fix RSP zero register locking
- Clamp the analog stick range to an octagon shape
- Implement RDP clock counter
- Fix VI line interrupt to trigger post-increment
- Fix an issue where instructions in icache would consume two cycles rather than one
- Fix an off-by-one error in mul/div instruction timing
- Preliminary implementation of FPU delays
- Improve idle loop detection in the recompiler
- Fix an issue where the recompiler would only advance the physical address and not the virtual address
- Added support for the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak
- Fix a regression in the n64-systemtest relating to the TLB
- Add support for "Homebrew Mode": this enables ISViewer debug output, and a cache coherency check to aid homebrew developers.
- Add support for .D64 disk images
- Add support for 64DD disk swapping
- Implement the "Controller Config" portion of the Advanced Homebrew Rom Header
- Clamp X/Y values from the N64 Mouse (prevents jittery input)
- Fix broken RTC emulation for the 64DD
- Fix broken RTC emulation for Doubutsu No Mori (Animal Forest)
- Improve CIC detection algorithm to not rely on a database, allowing support for custom/homebrew IPL3
Sega - Master System / Game Gear
- Added support for the Pak4 mapper
- Added support for the Hicom mapper
- Added support for the Hap2000 mapper
- Added support for the K118in1 mapper
- Rename MSX mapper to Zemina mapper to properly represent its origin/purpose
- Add support for "color emulation": non-linear blue bias
- Improve detection for Japanese roms (Games not containing "TMR SEGA" are only compatible with Japanese systems)
- Force ".sms" extension roms to run in Master System Mode when loaded on the Game Gear core
Sega - Mega Drive / CD / 32X
- Add support for runtime disc swapping, allowing multi-disc games to be played
- Add support for the Mega Mouse when running Mega CD titles
- Synchronize on every cycle when the 32X is not in use
- Maintain 32X code cache allocation across resets
- Fix audio overflow when titles restart the YM2612 (Fixes audio issues in Shining Force)
- More performance tuning to the 32X core
- Improve CDC emulation (ares now passes the CDC REGS test in mcd-verificator)
- Fix a hang in "The Terminator (USA)"
- Immediately update YM2612 key on/key-off on write, fixes Puyo Puyo Tsuu music
- Update YM2612 key state on phase tick
- Add 32X framebuffer mirror emulation, fixes SoulStar X
- Tighten synchronisation between audio components
- Improve bus-arbiter delays for z80->m68k communication (fixes audio in Overdrive 2)
- Improve refresh and bus timings
SNK - Neo Geo
- Use YMFM for YM2610 emulation, fixes audio issues in many titles
Sony - Playstation
- Implement GTE interrupt bug (if an interrupt is triggered when a GTE instruction is next, the GTE instruction is erroneously executed), fixes spiky polygons in many titles.
- Fix an issue where the CD-ROM SetLoc command was erroneously resetting the 'reading' flag
- Fix an issue where the Digital Pad would not de-assert /ACK on an invalid command
- Improve /ACK timing and behaviour, fixes broken input in many (but not all) games
- Implement Dual Shock controllers, required for Ape Escape
- Add support for runtime disc swapping, allowing multi-disc games to be played
- Add support for half-speed XA-ACPDM, fixes high-pitched audio in many titles
- Update ADSR envelopes immediately on write, fixes alert sounds in Metal Gear Solid
- Implement muting of data tracks when played as CD-DA
- Perform color modulation in RGB555 space, fixes Silent Hill's loading screen
- Fix an issue where fast-load hooks would trigger at runtime, causing some games to crash at boot
- Simulate an infinitely long cpu write fifo: fixes an issue where many games ran too slow.
- Various timing tweaks to improve overall accuracy
- Fix an issue where timers would update too slowly when using the recompiler
MOS 6502
- Implement support for more undocumented opcodes
Other
- Fix system-wide installations on Linux, this fixes database and shaders not loading.
- Add support for SDL2 as an input driver on all platforms.
- Allocate code cache at early startup for the recompiler: boosts performance on macOS, roughly doubling performance on M1 in some cases
- Added support for SDL2 as an audio driver
- Use DwmFlush on Windows for vsync, bypassing OpenGL driver bugs
- Fix relative time in CD-ROM pregap Q subchannel
- Move CD-ROM loading to a separate thread to speed up loading CD-ROM content
- Avoid allocation of code buffers in the recompiler
- More robust code cache allocation in the recompiler
- Added "Games" category to macOS app bundle to allow Sonoma's Game Mode to function with ares
- Added support for the risc-v architecture
- Added preliminary emulation of the Intel 8080 cpu: not currently used but for future expansion
- Fix an issue where the WASAPI driver would cause sync issues when fast-forwarding |
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