[NES8] HalfNes 0.062

HalfNES 062 (3/25/2018)

• first release in 2 years
• fixed temp file creation issue
• fixed Micro Machines
• NSF and APU improvements

Changelog

Revision 249

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 25 marca 2018 23:49:32

• Release 062

Revision 248

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 25 marca 2018 23:24:42

• cosmetic changes that have been sitting around for a year

Revision 247

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 25 marca 2018 23:35:21

• cosmetic changes that have been sitting around for a year

Revision 246

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 25 marca 2018 22:05:18

• Merge pull request #40 from metteo/halfnes_issue_39
• Fixes deadlock when switching to full screen

Revision 245

Author: metteo | Date: czwartek, 22 marca 2018 16:23:55

• Fixes deadlock when switching to full screen
• Fixes #39

Revision 244

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: wtorek, 18 kwietnia 2017 14:19:52

• Merge pull request #38 from bryant1410/master
• Fix broken headings in Markdown files

Revision 243

Author: santiago.castro | Date: poniedziałek, 17 kwietnia 2017 03:53:47

• Fix broken Markdown headings

Revision 242

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: poniedziałek, 8 sierpnia 2016 08:02:05

• repeating myself a little less, but it still feels wrong

Revision 241

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: poniedziałek, 8 sierpnia 2016 07:59:21

• Remove unnecessary image object creation
• Really speeds up the NTSC filter because it turns out
• that making a new 1920x240 array every frame takes a while!
• Profiler couldn't see it because it happened in a system method.
• (this code is still more confusing than it should be, because I
• can't remember the way abstract classes work and the children
• need to change the width for the images in their own constructor
• which runs later.)

Revision 240

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: poniedziałek, 8 sierpnia 2016 07:20:22

• removed unnecessary event thread use
• also some comment cleanups

Revision 239

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: środa, 8 czerwca 2016 20:32:06

• CRC values need to end with L to actually be longs

Revision 238

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: środa, 8 czerwca 2016 20:30:44

• Misc APU cleanups from last few months

Revision 237

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: środa, 8 czerwca 2016 20:29:41

• fixed leaving lots of natives around by using same temp dir every time
• Hopefully I don't have any more race conditions between 2 copies
• of the emulator running at once.

Revision 236

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: poniedziałek, 4 kwietnia 2016 20:04:24

• VRC2 doesn't have single screen mirroring
• unfortunately no good way to detect this without using CRCs
• there's a proposal for submapper # but it's not finalized yet
• and of course no ROMs will use it anyway.

Revision 235

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 20 marca 2016 08:19:19

• PR#36 made a lot of things static that shouldn't be static
• we really don't want the same 4 channels shared among all APUs etc.
• So reverted and cleaned up the sound chips a bit while i was at it

Revision 234

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 20 marca 2016 07:49:10

• some variables didn't need to be instance variables
• Especially when used by only one method and are cleared at the start.

Revision 233

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: niedziela, 20 marca 2016 07:29:31

• ppu palette should not be static
• This caused problems in nrom games and the StarsSE demo.
• Also some code cleanups, fixed a spot where the autoformatter
• would cycle between 2 states every time it was run on this file.

Revision 232

Author: andrew.hoffman | Date: piątek, 11 marca 2016 00:24:06

• eliminate use of System.Exit
• now shuts down more cleanly BUT still doesn't delete the temp files

HalfNES 061 (2/16/2016)

• Minor speed improvements and code cleanups
• Improved VRC7 Envelopes again with values properly calculated from docs
• Audio output is done in stereo now (though no interface to pan channels)
• Build system changed to Maven
• Framework for unit tests is begun (incl work on headless mode)
• JavaFX UI for the RetroPi is included but not used by default. (It needs more work for desktop use.)

HalfNES 060 (8/29/2015)

• Fixed Battletoads and Battletoads: Double Dragon freezes on certain levels
• Reduced jerkiness of scrolling in 50 fps games (not eliminated entirely unless your monitor is also set to 50 FPS)
• Improved performance a bit, there was some slow cheat engine code constantly running

LaGrange Point (Konami Corporation, 26.04.1991)

HalfNES Release 059059 (7/28/2015)

• Fixed certain FDS NSFs that wanted to write to bankswitched areas
• Added PAL and Dendy (Hybrid PAL console that plays unmodified NTSC games) support
• Fixed negative scroll values (Galaxian, TMNT)
• Fixed envelope decay for VRC7 sound
• Deal with games that read $2004 (OAM address) during rendering

BoulderDash

HalfNES Release 059 b2 (7/10/2015)

• adds PAL and Dendy support
  

RoboCop in HalfNes. Photo@Project

HalfNES Release 058 (6/14/2015)

• Added support for FDS audio chip (for NSFs only)
• Improved loading of NSFs with nonstandard headers (should not crash on POCorGTFO example)
• Made Konami VRC and Sunsoft 5B and FME7 mappers cycle accurate
• MMC5 mapper is a little better

Tiny Toon Adventures (Konami, Inc., Dec, 1991)

HalfNES Release 057 (7/30/2014)

• PPU is now pixel accurate. Meaning that many glitchy games are now completely fixed. However it also means that performance is worse.
• MMC3 and MMC5 scanline counters have been rewritten to be more accurate.

Fixed games:

• Marble Madness
• Laser Invasion
• Mickey's Adventures in Letterland
• Rad Racer
• Slalom
• Tiny Toon Adventures (the status bar was off by one scan line before)
• Mega Man 3 (displays same glitchy lines as real hardware)
• Every Namco 163 game (scanline counter was broken)

Also passes several more of blargg's PPU and MMC3 tests. I haven't fixed all of the MMC3 based multicart mappers yet.

HalfNES Release 056 (7/17/2014)

First release hosted on GitHub.

• Multithreaded NTSC filter for better performance
• Rewrote CPU/PPU timing entirely (passes many timing tests that used to fail)
• Fixed VRC7 feedback (Lagrange Point now sounds almost completely correct)
• Fixed loading of large NSF files.
• Many other minor fixes over the past year.

Battle Chess (Data East USA, Inc., 1990)

055(9/7/2013)

• -Added support for NSF music files.
• -Added mapper for Super Spike V'Ball/Nintendo World Cup combo cartridge
• -Changed sprite DMA timings (fixes Battle Chess again)

054 (8/13/2013)

• -Changed NES color palette to match NTSC filter colors
• -Fixed VRC 7 Vibrato, no longer crackles
• -Improved speed of NTSC filter some more
• -General code cleanups (more are still necessary)
• -Provided a more helpful error on stdout when the jInput lirary is missing

053 (2/10/2013)

• Added Action Replay and Game Genie code support
• Now turning on sound filtering by default