RockNES v3.10

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Dec 9th, 2003

The DOS version of RockNES, a great NES emulator by Fx3 was updated today! The last version was back in early August. Expect a Mac version by Richard Bannister in the near future. There's lots new in this version, so the whole list:

Fixed the unreported (!) broken pAPU stereo sound effect
Fixed pAPU sound driver, correct reset and envelope/sweep emulation
Fixed pAPU volume levels to something near enough
Added pAPU volume decay for the mixed sample output
The fast forward now silents the sound output
Fixed FDS state loading, plus its IRQ disk timing (or almost)
Fixed PRG-ROM/WorkRAM data identification on bank 3 (savestates)
Changed nametable/color RAMs to be saved in separated tagged block (NAM), hence older RSx states are no more compatible
Fixed a bug in the disassembler (relative branch address)
In the disassembler windows, the actual CPU bank was incorrectly set
Added ability to disassemble CPU 5000h-7FFFh regions
A couple of CPU fixes, such as IRQs, and a few opcodes now parsed as NOP
PPU timing tweaked once again, and rendering slightly optimized
Fixed two PPU rendering bugs (of max. fine x-scroll value and color RAM)
NMI timing tweaked once again, might be imperfect though
CHanged sprite DMA transfer behavior on 4014h writes
Removed mappers 6, 8 and 17 support (hacked stuff, gone nowadays)
Improved VRCVI/MMC5/mapper91 IRQ timing
Fixed frame-IRQ somewhat (sound in Dragon Quest games is okay again)
Fixed a bug saving files (filename related)
Fixed a stretched blitter plot ('-blitter 4' option in the rocknes.INI file)
Removed that vsync option for awhile
Mouse pointer fixed to start at GUI bar, instead of screen centered
Changed 'ROM cheat' label to 'ROM patch' for your best safeness
Up to date unzip code/ZLIB library
Added a few C tweaks to speed up the emulation a bit
PPU frame rendering optimized
Optimized filters Pixelated and EAGLE, hence a very nice speed up
Usual minor fixes and cosmetic changes

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