0.9.7 to 0.9.8 (r3812-r4228)

Yes, it´s been a while since the last release, but we haven´t been completely idle. There´s a brand new top shelf Cocoa frontend to make life far more pleasant for OSX users, and a host of compatibility fixes.

General/Core:

• bug: fix more IPC FIFO errors
  
• bug: import more save files correctly
  
• bug: don´t autopatch already-patched roms
  
• bug: fix bugs in piano and guitar grip
  
• bug: fix ARM7´s VRAMSTAT register
  
• bug: fix memory leaks on compact flash emulation
  
• bug: fix reading of rom from low header area
  
• bug: spu: fix some poppy interpolation audio quality issues
  
• bug: improve timing of dma operations by running through normal mem cycle accounting; fixes an annoying number of games and graphical glitches
  
• bug: fix opcode MRC and fake bios CRC16
  
• enh: jitter some related register and irq events to simulate pipeline effects and stimulate some race conditions to other outcomes
  
• enh: fake (deterministic) some tiny jitter from human´s hand holding stylus; some games were accidentally depending on this
  
• enh: support nocash-stylep rints from arm
  
• enh: add lua apis for accessing vram
  
• enh: platforms other than windows receive threading optimizations
  
• enh: provide diagnostics when system powers off (useful for homebrewers returning from main())
  
• enh: clarify handling of different console types within the family (ds,dslite,debug)
  
• enh: vfat support for slot-1 devices
  
• enh: emulate temperature register
  
• enh: add paddle emulation

Graphics:

• bug: fix occasional crash from uninitialized blending table
  
• bug: fix some 2d alpha blending cases resulting in white screens
  
• bug: fix VRAM_I B_OBJ mirroring and fix sprites rendering across the end of vram
  
• bug: fix rotoscaled sprites wrapping around screen
  
• bug: dont fix rotscaled bitmap sprites with alpha==0
  
• bug: opengl: fix degradation of toon rendering during loadstate
  
• bug: opengl: alpha blending fixes
  
• bug: many refinements to opengl renderer
  
• bug: opengl: support rear-plane/ClearImage emulation (fixes many graphics)
  
• bug: rasterizer: fix some rare alpha blending cases
  
• bug: fix bug in environment mapping introduced after 0.9.6
  
• bug: fix totally glitched out 3d graphics with several improvements involving matrix stack
  
• bug: fix memory overflows in epx filter
  
• bug: prevent backdrop from blending with ???
  
• enh: opengl: better depth buffering emulation
  
• enh: better support for line segment "polys" by detection and special rendering logic
  
• enh: opengl: support quad primitives directly
  
• enh: add hq4x filter

Windows:

• bug: fix a long-standing loadstate crash
  
• bug: fix lag frame accounting
  
• bug: fix glitches in cheat entry menu
  
• bug: stop compact flash emulation from accidentally scanning c: sometimes
  
• enh: add support for game database for improved save type detection
  
• enh: hotkey for limit framerate toggle
  
• enh: remove stop and reset toolbar buttons which were accidentally getting used
  
• enh: additional complexification to desmume´s behaviour run from a console prompt. whether it´s better is uncertain.
  
• enh: add support for cheats databases
  
• enh: improvements to ram search tool
  
• enh: preliminary support for varying stylus pressure
  
• enh: add [Display] Show Console=1 to ini file
  
• enh: more graceful cheat parsing and add some hotkeys
  
• enh: add 5x window size
  
• enh: add big endian and 20.12 toggle to memview and ramwatch
  
• enh: improve FPS throttle feedback and granularity
  
• enh: add lua menu API
  
• enh: hud font switching
  
• enh: add optional file association for .nds to path config dialog

Cocoa:

• enh: Big update to cocoa frontend. Pretty much entirely new. (rogerman)

Linux:

• bug: gtk: glitches in rom and recent rom loading
  
• bug: glade: normalize savestate slot to hotkey mapping
  
• enh: support soundtouch for use by metaspu
  
• enh: gtk: add SPU mode selection (Tobias Jakobi)
  
• enh: cli: better fps limiting (Thomas Jones)

Wx:

• bug: some small fixes here and there (Jan Bücken)
  
• enh: lot of code cleanup (Jan Bücken)