EmuNations

2.6.2 / 27-05-2021

Bizhawk

Accuracy

Performance

Features

BizHawk is a multi-platform emulator written in C# which focuses on core accuracy and power user tools. Its main features are TASVideo (Tool-Assisted Speedrunners) for full recording and debugging tools as well as Lua scripting. The consoles covered include but are not limited to Apple II, Atari 2600/7800, ColecoVision, DOS, Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Super Game Boy, MSX, Nintendo Entertainement System, Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Color, Sega Master, Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Sega GameGear,  ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600/7800, Commodore 64 and a few more!

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Windows: 7+ 

• .NET Framework 4.6.1, Visual C++ Redists (2010 SP1, 2012, 2015) & Direct3D 9 required.

• They provide a pre-requisite package

Linux: As stated by the authors, support is a work-in-progress

Most Recent Changes

Set all cores to update Frame counter post-emulation. NOTE: This is a sync breaking change for MGBA movies using RTC, as the time sent to the core was the pre-incremented time.

mGBA

• update to 0.9.1
  

Gambatte

• Fix RTC on Hard Reset
  MBC3 Fixes
  Support setting inital RTC state during a movie recording
  Fix layer masking
  Move layer masking to sync settings (these settings affect sync)
  Block toggle layer hotkeys when movie recording
  Update GBA modeswitch timing and testROM accuracy
  Fix autodetection of console mode
  Add wisdom tree mapper suport
  clarify sync settings (#2688)
  

GBHawk

• Fix OAM DMA Bus Conflict emulation (#2709)
  #2715 , still needs vram open bus fix but that's seperate
  

NesHawk

• Add missing mapper variable to state for some pirate games
  

O2Hawk

• Fix PAL time calculation (#2684)
  

PCE

• Fix default PCE gamepad bindings (fixes #2720)
  Fix crashes in PCE debugger
  

N64

• Add N64 plugin categories (#2729)
  Fix memory.read to allow addresses 0x80000000..0xFFFFFFFF (#1734)
  

GPGX

• Add missing menacer keys (#2718)
  

Intellivision

• Fix aspect ratio (#2670)
  

SMS

• Fix system Id (#2650)
  

C64

• Implement memory hooks (#2726)
  

EmuHawk

• Fix FormatException on startup on certain locales (#2716)
  Fix GB Layers not toggling (#2491)
  Add utvideo to ffmpeg dumper
  Movies - respect LogKey of loaded movie
  Firmware Config - don't treat known-but-bad as good (#2224)
  
  

Rewinder

• Fix bug where nothing happens on the first press when frame interval is 1 (#2667)
  Add delta compression option (Good size reduction for some cores, less useful for others)
  Ram Watch - fix autoload
  Hex Editor - .tbl file loading - clear table before loading a new one, ignore empty lines in file
  Debugger - Add rgbds syntax for GB/C disassembly (#2706)
  CDL - Fix SNES core crash on load (#2662)
  Fix Log Window (#2694)
  
  

Lua

• Accept all 4 colour formats in all Lua functions (#2602)
  Support swapping input using joypad.set() and joypad.get()
  client.seekframe - Prevent hangs from trying to go backwards
  lua socket fixes (#2194, #2671)
  MovieClock.lua - use cycle based time for Gambatte/SubGBHawk (#2708)
  
  

TAStudio

• Fix auto-restore bug where auto-restore position was not set correctly the first time using it after auto-restore usage earlier in the movie
  Fix broken tastudio when selecting "New from the File" menu item and saving changes when asked
  Fix autoload
  Fix Converting to bk2 resulting in unsaved changes never asterisk appearing (#2583)
  
  

Branches

• Fix branch loading (#2640)
  Fix hotkeys
  Fix right-clicking a branch when the contextmenu was already open would throw an exception
  Branch view will now scroll to the updated branch when using hotkeys to update a branch
  Fix exception, scroll to branch on updating branch and fix #2645
  Make load branch hotkey deselect all but one branch
  Add initial marker in frame 0 when loading older tasprojs (#2693)

--2.6.1--

Linux

• Fix trying to use DIrectInput (2607)
  

EmuHawk

• Fix single instance mode (#2577)

• Update default hotkey bindings to use new names (#2576)

• Limit attempts to dearchive to files with extension .zip, .7z, .rar. (#2587)

• Rename and clarify Alternate Sync (#1398)

• Fix clock throttle being 60fps for all systems (#2580)

• Fix multi-disk bundler

• Fix resizing controller config dialog
  

Tastudio

• Fix savestate corruption bug introduced in 2.6. This bug causes desync issues on most cores!

• Refresh view when pausing with middle-click
  
  

Lua

• Fix client.reboot_core()

• Fix drawing during onframeend() event handler (#2595)
  

Vectrex

• HawkReport 50fps in the Play Movie dialog
  

GPGX

• Fix VDP Viewer screenshot feature (#2596)
  

NesHawk

• Fix Wagyan Land 2 Graphical Bugs

• FIx mapper 90

--2.6.0--

New Core! Odyssey2 core is offically released

Update nyma cores to Mednafen 1.26.1

Saturnus

• Fix cart detection (#2513)

• Fix independence Day soft lock (Fixes #2162)

• Fix .xml loading Fixes #2557.
  

mGBA

• Update to 0.9
  

Gambatte

• Update libgambatte to r729+

• Support GB layer toggling

• Add GB object viewer

• Various updates from gambatte-speedrun
  

PSX

• Add System Bus memory domain

• Fix debugger window crashes when adding a breakpoint

• Use Octoshock's built-in disassembler

• Support memory execute callbacks

• Have memcbs include actual values

• Fix can't accept PSX rom converted from DiscoHawk (#2478)
  

GBHawk

• Accuracy improvements

• HDMA fixes

• Implement reads for GBC visualizer

• Change initial ram state

• Double Speed mode fixes

• Properly fade to white in GBC mode

• Mode 1 overhaul, fixes several bugs

• Update bad SRAM access emulation

• Open bus behaviour on locked SRAM

• Multi-cart check for bomberman selection

• Window timing bug fixes

• Sprite timing bug fix

• Add Game DB entry for Litti's Summer Sports

• Fix debugger disassembler

• Implement LCDC write glitch for gbc-acid-hell
  

SubGBHawk

• Save audio cycles in SubGBHawk where it's needed, fixes state integrity checker in TAStudio
  

bsnes

• Make ROM memory domain writeable (Use at your own risk)

• add CARTROM-DB and CARTROM-D blocks to CDL

• Fix PAL detection (#2503)
  

NES

• HawkChange NES framerates (#2460)
  

GPG

• XAllow writing to rom memory domains
  

EmuHawk

      Linux

• Fix Xbox one controller stops working, (#2429)

• Fix overlapping/duplicate controls in FirmwaresConfig's

• menu

• Fix crash when clicking on column headers in

• FirmwaresConfig

• Support Oem102 keyboards

• Fix alt-keyboard-layout mode crashes

• Add an option to capture the Lua without capturing the full OSD, when AV recording

• Don't clear input when changing ROM (#2453)

• Fix GBA Game Shark code conversion (#2545)

• Cheats - Fix Changing selected row with arrow keys doesn't update side pane (#2550)

• GB GPU Viewer - Bounds check tile drawing for OBJ window, seems to resolve random crashing

• Fix SyncSettings type cast error during Rom load

• Ram Search - fix crash when deleting addresses
  
  Lua

• Implement joypad.getwithmovie()

• Deprecate emu.getluacore in favour of new func client.get_lua_engine

• Fix reverting current directory

• Fix client.reboot_core() (#2571)

• Fix MovieClock.lua ui, also use current frame count instead of movie length
  
  TAStudio

• Support drive states

• Fix state gap when frame advancing and painting input

• StateManager fixes

• Do not attempt to report >100% seek progress (This could happen if the user starts a seek which results in loading a savestate past the frame previously being seeked)

• Fix scrollbar behavior

• Cell selection fixes

• Fix opening TAStudio after starting a .tasproj

• Undo history fixes

• Debugger: Fix scrolling in disassembly view

• Virtual Pad analog stick: Fix changing x axis name (#2467)
  
  Movies

• Pass SRAM to emulator before state is made

• Fix playing a movie when core is not specified and core is not one we support switching of (#2466)
  
  CDL

• Fix crash on GPGX

• Gambatte - fix 1st opcode byte. (#2551)

• GBHawk - Fix domain names (#2552)