VisualBoyAdvance-M

Important:

• Many games show emulation warnings in the log window (unaligned read, bad read/write address), due to inaccuracies in the core.

• Test: Metroid Fusion & Advance Wars

 

• Linking doesn't work quite right yet, due to core changes.

-> Cross platform linking might be a possibility under new Qt system

 

• Gb_Apu audio core: assertation error occurs when disabling GB sound

 

• Improve automatic 64k/128k flash save detection

 

• HQ3x/4x ASM implementation produces wrong interpolation on the image's border

See http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=32

 

• Remove 16 bit hack for filters

-> Not compatible to software motion blur (display corruption)

 

• Add selection for compressed archives with more than one ROM in them

 

 

 

Less important:

 

• Improve AVI recording (produces asynchronous files)

 

• Enable audio stream compression for AVI files

 

• Add stereo upmixing support to OpenAL

 

• Verify BIOS files by checksum instead by file extension

-> XySSL is a nice compact hash library. We need a DB of correct BIOSes though.

 

• Merge HQ2x/LQ2x C code into code for HQ3x/4x

 

• Apply pixel filter to sprites and BG seperately for better image quality

 

• Create Visual Studio project using SDL makefile

 

• VisualBoyAdvance Color Edition implementation

 

 

Performance:

• Apply HQ3x/4x optimizations from C version to ASM version

 

• Apply pixel filter only to changed parts of the rendered image

 

• Make use of multi-core CPUs

-> To really make use of these, we need to multithread more parts of the core.

-> Could be a focal point on major Qt release

 

• Make use of 64 bit CPUs

-> Need to rewrite x86 ASM into x64 assembly

-> Could use YASM?

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I would like to add in more issues:

 

• Cairo video backend does not properly render the gfx

• Filters does not yet work with Cairo and OpenGL backend

• An suspicious warning ** PortAudio : buffer underflow **

The Cairo output module shows wrong colors when using filters. Known issue.

Filters work with OpenGL when using the GTK port. Try again.

PortAudio : buffer underflow means that the emulation does not go fast enough to feed the sound card. There will be blanks. That warning should be disabled.