RockNES v1.700
posted in Emulator Release by swampgas on Jan 20th, 2001
As promised, a new version of RockNES was released...lots of changes (most notably ZIP support and the addition of mappers 5, 33, 43 and 48):
Added ZIP support
Small changes in the rom loading
Movie support slightly improved
Added support for mapper #67 (no games are playable)
Mapper #5 improved somewhat (only CastleVania3 and MetalSladerGlory work)
Mapper #33 improved somewhat (support FlintStones)
Mapper #43 (1xx-in-1) changed to number #235
Mapper #48 (SMB2j (LF36)) changed to number #43
Fixed mapper #4 IRQ timing
Fixed mapper #21 (Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2 has correct gfx)
Fixed mapper #68, more games are playable
Fixed mapper #160 (Aladdin -- preliminary IRQ timing control)
Fixed mapper #235, thanks to Takeda/nester
Fixed VS Atari RBI Baseball patch on reads
Fixed pAPU timing (was completly wrong), output is better
Fixed a PCM decoding bug, plus removed IRQ and cycle eating on queue
Fixed sprite DMA transfer
Fixed state loading (of RSx files)
Fixed PPU state at 'power on' (starts at scanline zero)
Fixed pattern table dumping, thanks snowbro for the bug report!
Small PPU optimizations/tweaks
ROM images larger than the header spec may be loaded again
Game screen is no more cleared when video resolution dialog is closed
Added horizontal screen centering using LFB blitter
Added directories setup for everything
Added FPS (frames-per-second) display. Just press F1 to display/hide
Added current video resolution display in the Help->System specs dialog
Mapped F11 key to 'quit to OS' directly
A couple of non-emulation related problems were squashed, plus cleanups
Documentation updated, plus big english errors fixed
A Windows port isn't available yet, but you can grab the DOS version from the
NES emulators. Thanks to Luis and Gyromite for the news.