Yabause 0.5.0 Released

[Keith]

Category: <b>Saturn</b><br><br>Our buddies over at the Yabause development team have released a new version of their open source Saturn emulator Yabause. Here is a rundown on the changes for version 0.5.0.

cd block:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> bug fixes
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> improved timing
cart:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added Action Replay emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added 8/32 Mbit dram emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added 4/8/32 Mbit backup ram emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added 16 Mbit rom emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added very early Netlink emulation
scsp:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added Stephane Dallongeville's SCSP's core. Thanks again Stef!
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed a couple of bugs that were causing movies to lock up.
68k:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added Stephane Dallongeville's 68k's core. Thanks again Stef!
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed a few endian related bugs
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added debugger(still need disassembler though)
scu:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added dsp emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added dsp debugger
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added indirect dma emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added timer0 emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> bug fixes
smpc:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added very basic SH2 direct peripheral mode
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added clock change commands
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added slave sh2 off/on commands
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed intback command timing
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> bug fixes
sh2:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added FRT, WDT, and partial UBC emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed a couple of opcode bugs
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> re-added debugger
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added some early dynarec code
vdp1:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added sprite priorities
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added color offset
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> bug fixes
vdp2:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added basic rbg0 emulation(no rotation, etc.)
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added backscreen emulation
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added caching
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added color offset
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added video mode changing
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added screen scrolling
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fix caching bug
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> other bug fixes
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added early software video rendering. It's still pretty much unuseable at this point
general:
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added binary execution
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> rewrote entire code in C for portability and speed
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed a number of configure bugs, added a few more command-line options
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> fixed code so it's 64-bit friendly
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added iso and bin/cue files support
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> changed several parts of yabause to allow for multiple implementations of video, sound, and peripheral code.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> added save states(currently broken unfortunately)

Head on over to the official site for more information. Nice release guys keep up the great work.

:: Yabause Official Site
:: Yabause 0.5.0