PCSX2 v0.5

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Nov 24th, 2003

The long awaited release of the next version of PCSX2 comes to an end today. For those who don't know, this is one of the most popular up-and-coming PS2 emulators out there. There's lots new in this release. Changes in this version:

General

A release that make you look things more promising. Several games can boot now and plenty of them can reach even ingame. There are still big issues with graphics, but many improvements have been made from v0.41. Some games that now can reach ingame:
-Wild Wild Racing PAL (with patches)
-Street Fighter EX3 PAL (with patches)
-Le Mans 24 Hours (24 Heures Du Mans) PAL (with patches)
-V-Rally 3 PAL (with patches)
-And probably a lot more :)

CPUs

Fixes to VUs
Handle for the EDI flag at ERET(cop0)
New improved CPU detection routine
Commented D/T flags for VUmicro
Fixed some FPU bugs in recompiler
Fixed PCPYLD in interpreter
Add compiler blocks for vu0, vu1 and few instructions
Several other fixes in CPU cores
Reg caching recompiler (not enabled in v0.5)

Debugger

Fixed Debugger/rdebugger (there are still some issues)

Memory

Added TLB exceptions
Fixed IOP mem accesses from EE memory
New memory routines

VIF

Fixed VIF Transfers to include MARK reg in VIF0 as well
FIFO for VIF0/1 now works
More improvements to VifDma
Improved VIF for transfers in parts
FIFO VIF1 can read data now

IPU

Fixed IDEC bitstream decoding. Now all *.ipu files should work fine
Bug fixes to IPU

Hardware

Fixed clock in BIOS
Fixed MFIFO for GS DMA
CDVDgetTD function need a 2nd parameter (new cdvd plugins needed!!)
cdgetTOC + cdReadSubq
HSync stuff, and better CSR/IMR handling
Implemented mskpath3 / m3r flags
Fixed VU memory64 writes masks
Implemented INTC_STAT/MASK and DMAC_STAT for 64bits
Added/fixed SCMDs (2, 3, 1A) in cdvd
VIF0/1 regs are now mapped to hardware
Fixes in sio, sio2
Destination Chain for SPR0 DMA and added VIF masking
Now pad2 works in lle mode [tested with bios browser]
New SCMDs and MC commands
Fixed dmaIrqs for Source Chain mode
Fixed ret DMA op
Added a base interrupt delay for the dma7 (spu2)
Fixed pads. Now it should work okay most of the time
Changed the way we handle SPR TTE transfers

Misc

Added the possibility to load the System.map from ps2linux
Added patching system. *pnach files are used now
Added dev9 plugins
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