Saturnin 0.30

posted in Emulator Release by hcs on Dec 25th, 2004

The Sega Saturn emulator Saturnin was updated to version 0.30 yesterday. A massive list of changes follows:

General
- corrected a bug occuring during binary file loading
- removed language dll, replaced by plain text files
- help and FAQ are now in chm format
GUI
- added cd drive selection
- clicking on "next" before start won't crash the emulator anymore
- game title is now displayed in the status bar
Debug
- added a memory debug window
- added general register modifications in the sh2 debug windows
Memory

LUTs added (deactivated for now)
rewritten memory handler (less memory space used)

VDP1
- various optimizations
- added LOAR and COAR handling
- added 24 bits color mode
VDP2
- corrected the bitmap mode display
- corrected the "Couleur cell mode non autorisÃ©e" message
- corrected the offset color calculation function
- added scrolling, it's not perfect yet
- added VRAM cycle pattern handling (thanks to Mariusz Wojcieszek from Mame)
- added 24 bits color mode
SH2
SMPC
- full rewrite that makes start button working in more ST-V games, and controls behaving normally in the Saturn bios
- backup ram support added
CD-Block
- Saturn game cds supported
- region is auto selected for each game
- added BYTE transfer
Various
- almost all function declarations are now C++ compliant

You can get Saturnin on the Sega Saturn Emulators page. Thanks to Borisz for the news.

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