Multi System Emulator
ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.
Changelog:
Bandai - WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color
- Improve EEPROM emulation accuracy
Nintendo - NES / Famicom
- Fix DMA interrupt
- Various PPU improvements: most (all?) current PPU accuracy test roms now pass!
- Improve emulation of MMC3: fixes test roms and crashes in Mickey's Safari & Incredible Crash Dummies
- Fix missing scanlines in Burai Fighter (USA) (last known rendering bug!)
- Fix MC-ACC IRQ timing
- Add support for mapper 150 (UNL-SACHEN-74LS374N)
- Add support for mapper 229 (UNL-BMC-31-IN-1)
- Add support for mapper 225/255 (UNL-BMC-128)
- Add support for mapper 172 (TXC-22211B)
- Add support for mapper 132/173 (TXC-22211A/C)
- Add support un-headered roms with the .unh extension (note: uses internal database; unknown roms will not work, headered roms are still preferred)
Nintendo 64 / Nintendo 64 DD
- Disable run-ahead for 64DD; fixes an issue that caused 64DD games to fail to boot.
Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
- Improve VRAM mirroring in bitmap background modes
- Implement 1-cycle timer latch behavior
- Improve BIOS open bus edge case emulation
- Increase synchronisaton between comonents: slight performance loss for measurable accuracy gain in irq dma tests
- Improve video capture DMA such that it only runs if enabled on scanline 162 of previous frame
Sega - Mega Drive / Genesis / CD / 32X
- Implement correct SH2 clocks for PAL/NTSC 32X
- Improve 32X PWM volume/mixing by taking configured cycle rate into account
User Interface
- Improve driver settings and full-screen behavior on macOS
- Fix an issue where IPS patches that extend the rom would fail to apply
- Fix an issue where changing the video driver may not correctly apply settings
- Support "Default" as a device with the WASAPI driver on Windows (Win10 only)
- FIx an issue where some settings would not persist on non-english locales
