RockNES v3.10
posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Dec 10th, 2003The DOS version of RockNES, a great NES emulator by Fx3 was updated today! The last version was back in early August. Expect a Mac version by Richard Bannister in the near future. There's lots new in this version, so the whole list:
- Fixed the unreported (!) broken pAPU stereo sound effect
- Fixed pAPU sound driver, correct reset and envelope/sweep emulation
- Fixed pAPU volume levels to something near enough
- Added pAPU volume decay for the mixed sample output
- The fast forward now silents the sound output
- Fixed FDS state loading, plus its IRQ disk timing (or almost)
- Fixed PRG-ROM/WorkRAM data identification on bank 3 (savestates)
- Changed nametable/color RAMs to be saved in separated tagged block (NAM), hence older RSx states are no more compatible
- Fixed a bug in the disassembler (relative branch address)
- In the disassembler windows, the actual CPU bank was incorrectly set
- Added ability to disassemble CPU 5000h-7FFFh regions
- A couple of CPU fixes, such as IRQs, and a few opcodes now parsed as NOP
- PPU timing tweaked once again, and rendering slightly optimized
- Fixed two PPU rendering bugs (of max. fine x-scroll value and color RAM)
- NMI timing tweaked once again, might be imperfect though
- CHanged sprite DMA transfer behavior on 4014h writes
- Removed mappers 6, 8 and 17 support (hacked stuff, gone nowadays)
- Improved VRCVI/MMC5/mapper91 IRQ timing
- Fixed frame-IRQ somewhat (sound in Dragon Quest games is okay again)
- Fixed a bug saving files (filename related)
- Fixed a stretched blitter plot ('-blitter 4' option in the rocknes.INI file)
- Removed that vsync option for awhile
- Mouse pointer fixed to start at GUI bar, instead of screen centered
- Changed 'ROM cheat' label to 'ROM patch' for your best safeness
- Up to date unzip code/ZLIB library
- Added a few C tweaks to speed up the emulation a bit
- PPU frame rendering optimized
- Optimized filters Pixelated and EAGLE, hence a very nice speed up
- Usual minor fixes and cosmetic changes