VisualBoyAdvance v1.7

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Dec 11th, 2003

Forgotten has updated his great GB/GBA emulator. It is officially no longer in beta and has a ton of new changes to it. Here's a listing:

Core Changes:

added fixes to video filters done by Flea for Mac OS X
added/fixed ArcTan/ArcTan2 emulation
added sound volume .25 and.50
added hq2x/lq2x filters
added global cheat disable
some code clean up
fixed some CBA cheat support
fixed ARM/Thumb instruction timing, including memory access
fixed minor bugs in STMDx ARM instructions
fixed ARM LDRx instructions when base equals dest

Gameboy:

added support for 8M roms
(re)added support for 2-4 players in SGB mode
added sprite limit emulation (thanks Ricky of KiGB)
cancel pending EI when imediately followed by DI
implemented DI/HALT bug
implemented STAT write bug during VBLANK or HBLANK when in GB mode
implemented GDMA delay in GBC mode (thanks TM of GEST)
fixed priority between OBJ and Window
fixed some SGB border problems
fixed window rendering problems in some cases
fixed CGB initial background palette to white
fixed initial save memory value to 0xFF instead of 0x00 (thanks TM of GEST)
fixed LCD interrupts to only occur once per line
fixed incorrect display when BG is off
modified interrut delay to 6 clock ticks instead of 2
moved scanline update to beginning of HBLANK

Windows:

added predefined Gameboy palettes (thanks Kojote)
added GBA IO Viewer to view/modify GBA hardware registers
added menu entry to load most recent save state
added menu entry to save state into oldest slot
added option to auto load the most recent save state upon loading
added fullscreen max scale option
changed the bug report option to be a little more friendly
enhanced save state submenus to show date/time of when save was made
enhanced logging window to capture data even if not being displayed
fixed Direct3D/OpenGL "green" bug with Motion Blur Interframe Blending
fixed Direct3D full screen with Gameboy roms
fixed minor bugs when saving images in the different viewers
fixed power management disabling: should avoid monitor turning off now
improved cheat input to be more flexible and easy to enter
migrated whole GUI code to MFC

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