Saturnin v0.20

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 18th, 2004

Saturnin, a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows, has also been updated recently. Here is what's new:

General : Possibility to choose any bios (Saturn or ST-V). (no more need to rename them)
General : Possibility to choose any path for ST-V roms
General : XP style using manifest files (thanks to Zydio)
ST-V : zipped roms supported
ST-V : Mame naming standard used for roms
ST-V : controls not dependant of the OpenGL window anymore
ST-V : F8 key added to bypass the ST-V bios
ST-V : F6 key added as a work-around to force the test menu
ST-V : rewritten the way roms are loaded into memory
VDP1 : corrected a transparency problem on polygons, the starfield is showing in the Saturn bios
VDP1 : corrected the color calculation mode for all the sprites
VDP1 : added a texture cache (preliminary)
VDP1 : F9 reloads the texture cache
VDP1 : added a disable check for all the sprite types
VDP1 : added the normal 32768 colors sprites
VDP1 : added the scaled sprites
VDP1 : added the 16 and 256 colors sprites
VDP1 : corrected the horizontal inversion for scaled sprites
VDP2 : various corrections, flip modes added
VDP2 : added 2x2 cell modes
VDP2 : code clean up
VDP2 : added a disable check for all the planes
VDP2 : added the color offset function
VDP2 : corrected the way planes start address is calculated (the doc is really wrong about this :D)
SH2 : corrected LDCSR in assembly mode
SH2 : corrected a bug that launched twice the NMI
SCU : corrected a bug in indirect mode
SCU : corrected the way transfers are done depending on the bus used
CD-Block : added Satourne code, disabled for now
SCSP : added Turbo68K (created by Bart Trzynadlowski)
SCSP : added Stef core, no sound for now
SCSP : removed sound hacks not needed anymore => more games are playable
Logs : C++ compliant, no more printf :)
Language : added italian (by Zydio)
Language : added polish (by Shocker)
Language : added german (by Ramuh)
Language : added spanish (by Gkstein)
Language : added dutch (by Alex3305)
Language : added simplified chinese (by Fiendpro)
Language : added traditional chinese (by Fiendpro)
Language : added portuguese (by Ricardo Costa)
Language : added indonesian (by Arifnmp)
Language : added french warez lord :P (by Ben.J)
and many other things ...

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