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SameBoy 0.8 released!

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Nobody included me knew about it. It was released last February 5, 2017.

SameBoy is a user friendly GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator for macOS. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers. In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters. An experimental SDL version is available to Windows and Unix-like systems.

Changes

Version 0.8

his version is not compatible with save states of older versions. This version ignores key bindings set by older versions

New/Improved Features

The debugger now includes a ticks command, to allow tick counting
The debugger now includes a palettes command, to allow dumping the palettes in CGB mode
General optimizations
Complete GameBoy Camera support in the Cocoa port, basic support in the SDL port
Debugger syntax improved, commands now allow modifiers
print/eval can now have a format modifier (e.g. print/d)
examine can now have a byte count modifier (e.g. x/4)
The debugger now includes a disassemble command
Added a VRAM viewer to the Cocoa port
GameBoy Printer emulation in the Cocoa port
New icon for GBC files, following Nintendo’s color-coding convention, fixed icon alignment for both GB and GBC icons
Quick Look support in Cocoa: GB and GBC files now display in-game screenshots on their cartridge icon
Accuracy Improvements/Fixes

The APU emulation was refactored, and is now faster and now longer dependent on the sampling rate
LCDC’s bit 0 is now properly emulated (Fixes: Krusty’s Fun House)
The HALT bug is now emulated
The user is now prevented from pressing opposite keys at the same time (Fixes Pocket Bomberman)
Fixed MBC2 RAM emulation
Corrected emulation of the palette registers in CGB mode
HUC1 is now partially emulated, sans the IR sensor
Basic HUC3 support, only the MBC is emulated
Implemented the STAT-write interrupt bug (Fixed: Road Rash and Zero no Densetsu; these games do not work on CGBs)
Limited the LY=144 interrupt to DMG mode, as hinted by MooneyeGB’s test ROMs
The following games now pass the automatic testing: > All-Star Baseball ‘99, Cave Noire, Daisenryaku, F-1 Race, Gameboy Camera, Hatris, Ironman, Konami Golf, Kwirk, Meitantei Conan, Nintendo World Cup, Pocket Bomberman (J), Puzzle Boy, SS Spinner, The Smurfs, Speedball 2, Tecmo Bowl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, Tsuri Sensei, Ultima, Ultra Golf, WordZap, Z - The Miracle of the Zone, Zerd no Densetsu

Bug Fixes

Fixed a deadlock in the Hex Editor/Viewer when viewing APU data
Fixed a crash when accessing MBC RAM on some ROMs that do not have MBC RAM
Multiple watchpoints did not function correctly
Improved the behavior and performance of the open dialog in Cocoa
Fixed dereferencing a non-banked address in the debugger
VRAM was not initialized
Fixed an edge case where the Hex Editor/Viewer crashed
Breakpoint and watchpoint conditions no longer trigger other watchpoints; fixed potential crashes
Better handling of input in the Cocoa port when the system has a non-ASCII keyboard layout
Minor fixes for the help debugger command
Misc Internal Changes

Added rumble API, but it is not actually used by any of the GUIs
Added serial API, but it is currently only used internally for the GameBoy Printer

For: Windows, and macOS


https://sameboy.github.io
 
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