Snes9x v1.42

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Dec 4th, 2003

A new version of Snes9x is out! This is a fantastic SNES emulator that has been around a long time. It's open source and has many different ports available. This release gives us a Windows and Linux binary for now. Lots of changes:

Added 8-bit rendering filters
Added Sanity Checks for the Display Dialog
New Layout for the Joypad Dialog
Fixed that annoying Joypad dialog bug. Now check to see if the axis exists before asking for the info from it
Added full POV support
Fixed SRAM sizes for SuperFX games
Stopped saving SRAM for games with no battery
Killed the gray line and slightly optimized Win32 GL
Stack wrapping fix in C core
Removed some dead hacks (Oda Nobunaga and Dezaemon)
Fixed some DMA and HDMA modes
Improved HDMA timing
Cleaned up load and deinterleave code
Removed old UI DLL
New cheat dialogs
Started Unicode preparation in Win32 UI
Implement odd sprite sizes, sprite priority rotation
RTO code that hopefully works. MK's #define is "MK_DEBUG_RTO" to try to debug the RTO code
SDD1 decompression support for Linux. Also added a new command line option -sdd1-pack
Added correct VRAM read logic. #define CORRECT_VRAM_READS if you want it
Removed the non-VAR_CYCLES path
Changed access timing map to be address-based
DSP-1 updates
S-DD1 compression support
Optimized S-DD1 code
More work on Exhaust Heat 2
Separated ROM detection from file reading
Fixed a mirroring bug in LoROMs
Cleaned up some mapping issues
ST018 games now boot before locking up
SA-1 state was not completely reset, crashed Marvelous
Removed sample caching. It caused problems, and was not noticably faster
Fixed interlace without breaking the displays for MK
Fixed a PPU OpenBus hack
Moved SPC7110 and S-DD1 regs to speed up the general case of reading the $4xxx registers
Altered Hi/Lo ROM detection to fix a few misdetects
Implemented RTO flags. With MK's implementation of $213F's interlace bit, we now pass the SNES Test Cart's Electronics Test
Fix sprite windowing bug
Way back in v1.40, MK changed the Windows port to default to default to a plain old joypad instead of the MP5. And then we removed the hacks for games that dislike the MP5. So we need to change the defaults elsewhere too...
Cleaned up the hacks section somewhat
Removed some interleave hacks
Fixed a bug in KartContents
Transparency fix for Jurassic Park
A hidden Win32 feature
Kludged Mark Davis until I get stable APU timing
Win32 renders overscan always, fixes some jumpy games
Fixed an FMOD bug
Cosmetic tweaks
Fixed 2 special chip bugs in the C core
Added some sanity fixes to the C core, fixes MLBPA Baseball for C core users
Updated zlib source (includes 1.1.4-1 patch)
Compiler warning fixes
Updated the SuperFX ASM core
Kludged Unix compilation to produce working SuperFX with the ASM core
Kludged VC to deal with optimization weirdness
Hacked Robocop vs. Terminator using Daffy Duck hack. Stops flashing
Added some defines to the ASM core
Added possibility to take screenshots on Unix
Initialize the C SuperFX core better
Kludge a Japanese golf game until the APU timing is fixed

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Thanks to Kiwert for the news!

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