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--0.9.0--

After the seemingly longest year possible, mGBA 0.9.0 is finally here. It’s been a difficult year for the entire world and that definitely had an impact on development this cycle too. While progress marched on with mGBA for the first few months of last year, I was able to release 0.8.1 through 0.8.3 picking up most of the bug fixes I made along the way towards 0.9. After several months there were lots changed under the surface, but not many user visible new features. In the interest of releasing an properly exciting new version of mGBA I decided to hold onto releasing 0.9 until it was polished and featureful. During the latter half of the year I finally started a push for features, and released 0.8.4 as the last of the 0.8 line. Remember, mGBA currently only has one major developer, so things can take quite a long time to finish, and if I’m not actively working on it any given week then there isn’t progress made that week. While this did lead to 0.9 being effectively “coming soon” for many, many months in a row, it has led to what I believe to be an extremely polished release, so I’m now happy to announce that mGBA 0.9.0 is done and out.

Though it has dozens and fixes and tweaks under the hood, there are some pretty major features to announce, including full e-Reader support, some new enhanced utilities such as a save type converter and a bug report tool, and more. The most exciting features added in this release are detailed after the cut, along with a full change log.

Fully functional e-Reader support

mGBA now has a fully functional e-Reader implementation, making it only the second emulator, after NO$GBA, to have a full implementation. While VBA has had a partial implementation for years, that implementation is based on parsing the cards outside of the emulated ROM and then jamming the parsed cards into the emulated state. This approach requires per-game hacks for each of the 3 versions of the e-Reader ROM, and completely bypasses emulation of the scanning itself. As an accuracy-focused emulator, this type of bodge was completely unacceptable to me so I decided to dive in and do it right.

Work on e-Reader support in mGBA actually started several years ago, but hit a roadblock when I couldn’t figure out how exactly the dotcode images appeared when scanned by the game. Documentation was somewhat sparse, and as with a lot of the GBA documentation out there tended to gloss over many of the fine details. I assumed figuring this out would require writing difficult hardware tests, so I decided to push it off until the next release when I’d have time to write those tests. And then when I didn’t write those tests in time for the next release it got pushed out again. And again. And again. Unfortunately this meant that in the meantime work on the feature languished despite a significant amount already being done.

I decided to make a hard push for e-Reader support in mGBA 0.9 so I looked into what was left to get it all working, and realized some mistakes in my assumptions about how it would appear when scanned. After mocking up various tools for manipulating the card data formats I got something that actually worked, and from there things just fell into place. Though linking with e-Reader supported titles such as Super Mario Advance 4 was initially buggy that is now also supported, meaning you can do almost everything that the original e-Reader could now in emulated form! Just boot the e-Reader ROM and use the “Scan e-Reader dotcodes” option in the File menu to send one or more cards to the emulated e-Reader to load. Though I cannot link to card scans for legal reasons, I do intend to release tools for parsing high quality card scans for those of you with good scanners sometime in the future.

Improved user tools

mGBA 0.9 also introduces several new and improved tools for users. Though most users may never need any of these mGBA strives to provide a great experience for everyone from first time GBA gamers to seasoned ROM hackers, speedrunners, and even game and homebrew developers. So I’m glad to announce there are some new and improved tools in this release to fill some gaps I’d observed in user experience.

Bug report tool

One of the most important parts of guaranteeing a good user experience is to keep mGBA as free from bugs as possible, which users facilitate by reporting bugs they do find. Unfortunately, one of the most frustrating parts of guaranteeing a good user experience is getting bug reports from users that do not contain nearly enough information to fix the bug. Often there’s a back and forth of requesting more info from the user, who may or may not reply, and even if they do it can drag out for weeks as enough information is gathered to finally track down the root cause of the bug. But what if mGBA could automatically gather all of the pertinent information for you and stuff it into one easy to attach file in the bug report?

In the interest of easing along the process for everyone involved there is now a tool that does just that: it gathers a bunch of information about the computer in question, what games are running, and the user’s configuration, zips it up and directs you to the bug reporting page where you can file a new bug with the zip attached. It also can optionally include the save game and a current save state of the currently loaded game. Further, in the interest of privacy, it automatically strips out the name of the home directory and lets you review and edit the information it collects before it creates the zip, just in case you have more information you wish to redact for whatever reason. Hopefully this new tool will expedite fixing bugs since the back and forth of requesting info will be mostly eliminated! Though this tool is not yet available on homebrew ports, I hope to add support there too in future releases.

Save converter

Have a save game that works in mGBA and want to use it in a 3DS VC injection? What about a save state that you want to extract the save game from to use outside of mGBA? Or maybe you want to move your Final Fantasy Legend save between emulators? Using the new save converter tool it’s possible to manipulate save data in various ways, including converting save game files between various incompatible formats, and extracting the “battery” save game out of an mGBA emulator save state. All you need to do is select a compatible file, select one of its guesses for what file type it is, and it’ll tell you which types it can convert it into. Future releases should add support for more formats, such as NO$GBA battery saves.

WebP and APNG recording

In previous versions of mGBA there were two tools for recording videos of gameplay: one which could record a range of different formats such as MP4s and WebMs, and one that could only record GIFs. While this may have been a neat feature several years ago, in the meantime browsers have added support for formats that compress better and play smoother. As such, the old GIF recording dialog has been refreshed and now supports recording as WebP and APNG as well. It also now has an option to toggle if the recorded video should loop or not.

More debugging improvements

This release adds a lot of enhancements to debugging and even some new tools. Though the visual debugger isn’t done yet, a bunch of changes have happened behind the scenes in preparation for future work on it. Here’s a quick explanation of several of the bigger additions and changes.

First and foremost, initial support for stack frame tracking was added by first-time contributor ahigerd. This functionality is currently not heavily optimized and is therefore off by default and must be enabled per session. To enable it, first open the command line debugger (in the Qt version this is under Tools > Open debugger console), and type stack to see the list of supported tracing modes. Currently there are five, though at this time they are only supported on the GBA:

• off, the default, disables stack tracing entirely.

• trace-only collects information on the stack frames as you run through the game.

• break-call will break into the debugger when a function is called.

• break-return will break into the debugger when a function returns.

• break-all will break into the debugger on both call and return.

The feature is somewhat experimental still and bug reports are appreciated.

Another feature ahigerd added is the ability to run simple scripts in the debugger. Though nothing like what the eventual scripting system will be, this lets you put several commands you can type into the command line debugger into a file with a name ending with .mrc and then run them using the source command. Currently some commands don’t work when run this way but that will be fixed in future releases.

Further, while you could previously use symbols loaded for a game as addresses in the debugger, the disassembler now also will resolve addresses back to symbol names. This means that branches will now say what function it’s calling, and global variable accesses will show up as well. In future releases I would like to add richer support for debugging symbols, letting you access local variables, line numbers, and more, but that’s still pending.

One of the goals I had for mGBA 0.9 was to bring Game Boy debugging up to snuff. For a long time it had languished behind Game Boy Advance debugging in terms of which debugging tools were supported and how well they worked. Now the I/O register viewer and frame viewer, which had previously been restricted only to GBA, work on GB too. They still need some polish for both systems but this is still a huge step up from where things were before.

Another new feature on the command line debugger is the ability to print the list of pending events. In version 0.6 mGBA added an event queue system to replace its older timing subsystem, and one of the pieces of this system was that every individual type of event had its own name. These names are human readable strings, but they were never exposed to a user since they were originally intended for debugging the emulator itself. The new events command in the command line debugger prints out the entire queue and how many cycles until the individual events are scheduled to occur.

Oh yes, and another often requested feature…

One of the criteria that I’ve wanted to knock out before releasing a proper version 1.0.0 was to have major feature parity with other widely used Game Boy Advance emulators. To outshine NO$GBA I want to add a visual debugger and tons of helpful debugging tools. To complement BizHawk, which already uses mGBA for its GBA emulation, I want to add integrated scripting. And to obsolete VBA there are still a few things left to do. This release adds e-Reader emulation, which removes one of the final remaining items from that list, but there’s one other big one left. What was it again? Oh right.

For a long time the only way to play GameCube games that linked with GBA games was by using newer versions of VBA, like VBA-M. However, it doesn’t even work in the latest version of VBA-M (at the time of writing, 2.1.4), so with mounting complaints from all sides I bit the bullet and finally polished up the long-stagnant Dolphin linking branch. Much like with e-Reader support work on this started several years ago but stalled out when I hit roadblocks. In this case it could connect in some cases but seemed generally unreliable in comparison to VBA-M’s connection. Somewhat disappointed by how VBA-M had been handling updates and attempts to fix the link I decided that I should try to revive the branch and see if I could get it working well. Much to my surprise many of the issues that had plagued it previously just seemed to have resolved in the meantime, pointing to the issues being Dolphin-side and not mGBA-side.

After polishing the feature until it practically sparkled it’s now merged and ready for general usage. You will need a copy of the GBA boot ROM (sometimes known as the “BIOS”) for this feature to work with most games. There are several ways to obtain this file, though I can’t provide it for legal reasons. Once you have the file you can set it up under Settings > BIOS and you’ll be ready to go. Then just go to File > Connect to Dolphin, hit connect, and if Dolphin is running and waiting for a GBA connection it’ll connect. You can also enter the IP address of a computer if Dolphin is running on another computer on the local network, and there’s a check box that lets you reset mGBA when it connects, which is useful for connecting to games like Pokémon Colosseum which requires you to turn on the GBA with the game inserted already.

While working on this feature I also discovered several shortcomings in the protocol Dolphin uses to communicate with GBA emulators. I patched some some of these the best I could and submitted the improvements to Dolphin, but some of them will need much more thorough changes. I plan to investigate ways to go about doing this in the future, but for now such changes were beyond the scope of this release. As such some games still have some connection issues or can be glitchy, but there will be fixes coming down the line.

• Single Pak game linking now works with most games.

• Accuracy and speed improvements for the OpenGL enhancement renderer.

• Running mGBA for Wii as an injected Wii U VC title now supports the game pad.

• Preliminary support for Game Boy cartridges with MBC6 flash memory (for Net de Get @ 100) and additional unlicensed mappers.

• A bug compatibility mode for ROM hacks that were only tested in VBA enables many broken ROM hacks to work in mGBA now, too. This mode is enabled by default for FireRed ROM hacks and must be manually enabled in overrides for other games.

• Dozens and dozens of bug fixes.

Features

• e-Reaer card scanning

• New tool for converting between different save game formats

• WebP and APNG recording

• Separate overrides for GBC games that can also run on SGB or regular GB

• Game Boy Player features can be enabled by default for all compatible games

• Frame and I/O viewer support for Game Boy

• Bug report tool for gathering information helpful for reporting bugs

• Mute option in homebrew ports

• Status indicators for fast-forward and mute in homebrew ports

• VBA bug compatibility mode for ROM hacks that don’t work on real hardware

• Read-only support for MBC6 flash memory

• New unlicensed GB mappers: Pokémon Jade/Diamond, BBD, and Hitek

• Stack tracing tools in ARM debugger (by ahigerd)

• Command scripts for CLI debugger (by ahigerd)

• Scheduled event dumping in CLI debugger

• ARM disassembler now resolves addresses to symbol names

• Add Game Boy Player feature support to ports

• Individual window types can now be toggled in debugging views

• Support for the Wii U GamePad when running as an injected VC title

Emulation fixes

• ARM: Fix ALU reading PC after shifting

• ARM: Fix STR storing PC after address calculation

• ARM: Fix Addressing mode 1 shifter on rs == pc (fixes #1926)

• ARM: Fix long multiply-and-accumulate register write order (fixes #1956)

• ARM: Fix long and accumulate multiply timing

• GB: Partially fix timing for skipped BIOS

• GB: Downgrade DMG-only ROMs from CGB mode even without boot ROM

• GB: Fix marking BIOS as unmapped when skipping BIOS (fixes #2061)

• GB Audio: Fix serializing sweep time

• GB Audio: Fix some channel 4 timing edge cases

• GB MBC: Fix MBC1 mode changing behavior

• GB MBC: Fix some MBC3 bit masking

• GB Video: Fix state after skipping BIOS (fixes #1715 and #1716)

• GBA: Fix timing advancing too quickly in rare cases

• GBA: Clear GBP connection on reset

• GBA Audio: Revamp FIFO emulation (fixes #356, #875, #1847)

• GBA BIOS: Implement dummy sound driver calls

• GBA BIOS: Improve HLE BIOS timing

• GBA BIOS: Fix reloading video registers after reset (fixes #1808)

• GBA BIOS: Make HLE BIOS calls interruptable (fixes #1711 and #1823)

• GBA BIOS: Fix invalid decompression bounds checking

• GBA DMA: Linger last DMA on bus (fixes #301 and #1320)

• GBA DMA: Fix ordering and timing of overlapping DMAs

• GBA I/O: Green swap register should be readable

• GBA I/O: Ignore high bits on IME

• GBA Memory: Improve gamepak prefetch timing

• GBA Memory: Stall on VRAM access in mode 2 (fixes #190)

• GBA Memory: Improve robustness of Matrix memory support

• GBA Memory: Mark Famicom Mini games 22 through 28 as non-mirroring

• GBA Memory: Return correct byte for odd ROM open bus addresses

• GBA Memory: Improved AGBPrint emulation of edge cases (fixes #1867)

• GBA Memory: Fix masking of misaligned jumps

• GBA Serialize: Fix alignment check when loading states

• GBA SIO: Fix copying Normal mode transfer values

• GBA SIO: Fix Normal mode being totally broken (fixes #1800)

• GBA SIO: Fix deseralizing SIO registers

• GBA SIO: Fix hanging on starting a second multiplayer window (fixes #854)

• GBA SIO: Fix Normal mode transfer start timing (fixes #425)

• GBA Timers: Fix toggling timer cascading while timer is active (fixes #2043)

• GBA Video: Latch scanline at end of Hblank (fixes #1319)

• GBA Video: Fix Hblank timing

• GBA Video: Implement green swap (fixes #1609)

• GBA Video: Emulate sprite cycle limits in OpenGL renderer (fixes #1635)

• GBA Video: Fix OBJWIN erratic rendering in OpenGL renderer

• GBA Video: Fix x offset in 256-color BG mosaic (fixes #1684)

• GBA Video: Fix transposed BG mosaic parameters in GL renderer

• SM83: Emulate HALT bug

• SM83: Improve mid-M-cycle interrupts

• SM83: HALT should not consume an extra T-state

Other fixes

• 3DS: Fix thread cleanup

• All: Improve export headers (fixes #1738)

• Cheats: Fix indirect write cheats (fixes #2026)

• CMake: Fix build with downstream minizip that exports incompatible symbols

• CMake: Link with correct OpenGL library (fixes #1872)

• Core: Ensure ELF regions can be written before trying

• Core: Fix threading improperly setting paused state while interrupted

• Core: Fix loading ELF files that have unexpected empty program headers

• Core: Fix destroying an mVL with an invalid channel count

• Debugger: Don’t skip undefined instructions when debugger attached

• Debugger: Close trace log when done tracing

• Debugger: Fix change watchpoints (fixes #1947)

• Debugger: Call CLI debugger system init

• FFmpeg: Fix some small memory leaks

• FFmpeg: Fix encoding of time base

• GB: Fix crash when changing ROM while in banked address space

• GB: Fix loading model overrides

• GB MBC: Force minimum SRAM size on rare MBCs that always have SRAM

• GB Serialize: Fix crash when loading pre-0.7 SGB savestates

• GB Video: Fix SGB video logs

• GB Video: Discard SGB packets in non-SGB mVLs

• GB Video: Fix deserializing negative LX state

• GB Video: Don’t rendering negative batches

• GBA: Fix loading multiboot ELF files (fixes #1949)

• GBA: Fix loading subsequent save files (fixes #2067)

• mGUI: Don’t attempt to preload files larger than can fit in RAM

• Qt: Force OpenGL paint engine creation thread (fixes #1642)

• Qt: Fix static compilation in MinGW (fixes #1769)

• Qt: Fix a race condition in the frame inspector

• Qt: Load/save bytes from memory viewer in the order visible (fixes #1900)

• Qt: Fix running proxied video if it gets pushed to the main thread

• Qt: Fix game display sometimes disappearing after closing load/save state screen

• Qt: Fix cancelling pausing before the frame ends

• Qt: Fix gamepad event dispatching (fixes #1922)

• Qt: Pre-attach GDB stub when launching with -g (fixes #1950)

• Qt: Fix crash when editing shortcuts with none selected (fixes #1964)

• Qt: Fix crashing when no OpenGL context can be obtained

• Qt: Fix issues with I/O viewer not properly synchronizing state

• Qt: Fix loading a new game crashing on Wayland (fixes #1992)

• Qt: Fix inability to clear hat bindings

• SM83: Simplify register pair access on big endian

• SM83: Disassemble STOP as one byte

• Switch: Fix GB game height in pixel accurate mode (fixes #2073)

• Wii: Fix crash on unloading irregularly sized GBA ROMs

Miscellaneous

• 3DS: Use “wide mode” where applicable for slightly better filtering

• 3DS: Batch directory reads

• Core: Add savedataUpdated callback

• Core: Add shutdown callback

• Core: Rework thread state synchronization

• Core: Improve support for ROM patch cheats, supporting disabling overlapping patches

• Core: Adding to library is now recursive

• GB: Allow pausing event loop while CPU is blocked

• GB: Add support for sleep and shutdown callbacks

• GB: Redo double speed emulation (closes #1515)

• GB: Support loading CGB-on-AGB boot ROM

• GB Audio: Add channel 4 batching back (fixes #1313)

• GB Core: Return the current number of banks for ROM/SRAM, not theoretical max

• GB I/O: Implement preliminary support for PCM12/PCM34 (closes #1468)

• GB MBC: Remove unused SRAM size

• GBA: Allow pausing event loop while CPU is blocked

• GBA BIOS: Division by zero should emit a FATAL error

• GBA Cheats: Allow unlimited ROM patch-type codes per set

• GBA Video: Convert OpenGL VRAM texture to integer

• GBA Video: Skip attempting to render offscreen sprites in OpenGL

• GBA Video: New GL palette approach, no more batch splitting on palette edits

• GBA Video: Avoid integer division using reciprocal tricks

• Debugger: Keep track of global cycle count

• FFmpeg: Add looping option for GIF/APNG

• FFmpeg: Add CRF support for applicable codecs

• mGUI: Show battery percentage

• mGUI: Skip second scan loop when possible

• mGUI: Improve loading speed (fixes #1957)

• Qt: Renderer can be changed while a game is running

• Qt: Add hex index to palette view

• Qt: Add transformation matrix info to sprite view

• Qt: Memory viewer now supports editing decimal values directly (closes #1705)

• Qt: Add copy button to GB printer dialog

• Qt: Window title updates can be disabled (closes #1912)

• Qt: Redo OpenGL context thread handling (fixes #1724)

• Qt: Discard additional frame draws if waiting fails

• Qt: Unify monospace font usage

• Qt: Add button to jump to log settings

• Qt: Use relative paths in portable mode when applicable (fixes #838)

• Qt: Better initial shortcut editor column sizes

• SDL: Fall back to sw blit if OpenGL init fails

• Switch: Optimize font rendering (fixes #2078)

• Switch: Allow switching between CPU and GPU renderers without reloading

• Util: Reset vector size on deinit

• VFS: Change semantics of VFile.sync on mapped files (fixes #1730)

--0.8.4--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.8.4, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, an issue in the 3DS version that would lead to the 3DS crashing when exiting the emulator, and an issue that would lead mGBA to appearing in a language other than English by default on macOS despite the system language being set to English, have been fixed. The previously mentioned bug with Advance Wars is still present in 0.8.4. It has also been discovered to affect Final Fantasy I. This can be worked around by using a dump of the official BIOS, or using a development build, also available on the download page, which has the bug fixed. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes

• GB Audio: Fix initial sweep state

• GB Audio: Fix deserializing audio channels 2 and 3

• GB Audio: Fix deserializing while audio was disabled (fixes #1305)

• GB Video: Fix drawing background when window is force-disabled by frontend

• GB, GBA Video: Copy disable flags when drawing scanlines in proxy when not blocking

• GBA Audio: Fix deserializing SOUNDCNT_L

• GBA Audio: Fix stereo in XQ audio

• GBA Audio: Fix volume/mute in XQ audio (fixes #1864)

• GBA Hardware: Fix GB Player detection on big endian platforms

• GBA Video: Invalidate map cache when modifying BGCNT (fixes #1846)

• GBA Video: Don’t draw sprites using unmapped VRAM in GL renderer (fixes #1865)

• GBA Video: Fix rare regression blending semitransparent sprites (fixes #1876)

• GBA Video: Do not affect OBJ pixel priority when writing OBJWIN (fixes #1890)

• GBA Video: Fix deferred blending when OBJWIN matches window (fixes #1905)

• GBA Video: Fix mode 4 transparency in OpenGL (fixes #1907)

Other fixes

• 3DS: Redo video sync to be more precise

• 3DS: Fix crash with libctru 2.0 when exiting

• ARM Decoder: Fix decoding pre-indexed writeback instructions (fixes #1915)

• Core: Fix reported ROM size when a fixed buffer size is used

• Core: Fix memory leak loading ELF files

• GBA: Disable more checks when loading GS save with checks disabled (fixes #1851)

• GBA: Fix endianness issues in renderer proxy

• GBA Core: Fix memory leak when loading symbols

• GBA Serialize: Ensure program counter is aligned when loading

• Qt: Add dummy English translation file (fixes #1469)

• Qt: Fix Battle Chip view not displaying chips on some DPI settings

• Qt: Fix camera image being upside-down sometimes (fixes #829 again)

• Qt: Fix drawing on macOS break when using OpenGL (fixes #1899)

• Qt: Fix stride changing when toggling SGB borders (fixes #1898)

• Qt: Fix aliasing on background logo (fixes #1886)

• mGUI: Fix closing down a game if an exit is signalled

• mGUI: Fix cycling through config setting states with accept button

• mVL: Fix injecting accidentally draining non-injection buffer

• VFS: Fix directory node listing on some filesystems

Misc

• GBA Video: Improve speed of window texture generation on AMD

• Vita: Clear both buffers when loading a game

--0.8.3--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.8.3, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, an issue leading to stuttered rendering and eventually a crash, mostly on AMD GPUs, has been fixed. However, there is an outstanding bug in all 0.8 versions that causes flickering in Advance Wars games. This can be worked around by using a dump of the official BIOS, or using 0.7.3 until it is fixed. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

 - ARM: Fix LDM^ writeback to user-mode register

 - ARM: Fix LDM^ {pc} differences (fixes mgba.io/i/1698)

 - ARM: Fix edge case with Thumb SBC flags (fixes mgba.io/i/1818)

 - GB MBC: Fix MBC1 RAM enable bit selection

 - GB MBC: Fix MBC2 bit selection

 - GB Memory: Fix OAM DMA from top 8 kB

 - GB Video: Always initialize palette

 - GBA Savedata: Fix potential corruption when loading a 1Mbit flash save

 - GBA Video: Fix invalid read in mode 4 mosaic

 - GBA Video: Fix color of disabled screen

 - SM83: Fix flags on little endian PowerPC

Other fixes:

 - 3DS: Fix garbage on borders of scaled screens

 - All: Correct format strings for some numbers on Windows (fixes mgba.io/i/1794)

 - All: Correct more format strings on Windows (fixes mgba.io/i/1817)

 - ARM: Fix decoder detection of branches with ALU and LDR instrctions

 - CMake: Fix build with libzip 1.7

 - CMake: Add missing dllexports.h file to dev installation

 - GB Core: Fix extracting SRAM when none is present

 - GBA: Fix leak if attempting to load BIOS multiple times

 - GBA Memory: Fix instability on Wii when using AGBPrint

 - GBA Savedata: Fix extracting save when not yet configured in-game

 - Qt: Fix file handle leak on opening an invalid ROM

 - Qt: Fix Italian RTC translation (fixes mgba.io/i/1798)

 - Qt: Add missing option for Wisdom Tree in overrides list

 - Qt: Fix stability regression on AMD drivers (fixes mgba.io/i/1791)

 - Util: Fix crash if PNG header fails to write

 - Vita: Fix flickering when using frameskip (fixes mgba.io/i/1822)

 - Wii: Fix pixelated filtering on interframe blending (fixes mgba.io/i/1830)

Misc:

 - FFmpeg: Use range coder for FFV1 to reduce output size

 - Qt: Add per-page scrolling to memory view (fixes mgba.io/i/1795)

 - Qt: Add setting to display ROM filename in title (closes mgba.io/i/1784)

--0.8.2--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.8.2, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, several rendering edge cases were fixed in both the default renderer and the OpenGL renderer. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

 - ARM: Fix timing on Thumb shift instructions

 - GB: Fix GBC game registers after skipping BIOS

 - GB MBC: Support 4MB MBC30 ROMs (fixes mgba.io/i/1713)

 - GB Video: Fix BGPS value after skipping BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/1717)

 - GBA: Add missing RTC overrides for Legendz games

 - GBA BIOS: Reset renderer when RegisterRamReset called (fixes mgba.io/i/1756)

 - GBA SIO: Fix Multiplayer busy bit

 - GBA SIO: Fix double-unloading active driver

 - GBA Timers: Fix deserializing count-up timers

 - GBA Video: Fix mosaic objects drawing past the end (fixes mgba.io/i/1702)

 - GBA Video: Fix disabling OBJWIN in GL renderer (fixes mgba.io/i/1759)

 - GBA Video: Add missing parts of 256-color mode 0 mosaic (fixes mgba.io/i/1701)

 - GBA Video: Fix double-size OBJ wrapping in GL renderer (fixes mgba.io/i/1712)

 - GBA Video: Simplify sprite cycle counting (fixes mgba.io/i/1279)

 - GBA Video: Fix sprite/backdrop blending regression

Other fixes:

 - 3DS: Fix framelimiter on newer citro3d (fixes mgba.io/i/1771)

 - ARM: Fix disassembling of several S-type instructions (fixes mgba.io/i/1778)

 - ARM Debugger: Clear low bit on breakpoint addresses (fixes mgba.io/i/1764)

 - CMake: Always use devkitPro toolchain when applicable (fixes mgba.io/i/1755)

 - Core: Fix ELF loading regression (fixes mgba.io/i/1669)

 - Core: Fix crash modifying hash table entry (fixes mgba.io/i/1673)

 - GB Video: Fix some cases where SGB border doesn't draw to multi-buffers

 - GBA: Reject incorrectly sized BIOSes

 - GBA: Break infinite loop for 0-frame mVLs (fixes mgba.io/i/1723)

 - Qt: Fix OpenGL 2.1 support (fixes mgba.io/i/1678)

 - Qt: Fix unmapping zipped ROM (fixes mgba.io/i/1777)

Misc:

 - 3DS: Clean up legacy initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/1768)

 - GBA Serialize: Only flunk BIOS check if official BIOS was expected

 - Qt: Disable Replace ROM option when no game loaded

 - Qt: Defer texture updates until frame is drawn (fixes mgba.io/i/1590)

 - Qt: Set icon for Discord Rich Presence

 - Qt: Show a warning when save file can't be opened

--0.8.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.8.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, many Qt frontend bugs have been fixed, and the SDL version was updated. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

 - GB Serialize: Fix timing bug loading channel 4 timing

 - GBA: Fix multiboot entry point while skipping BIOS

 - GBA BIOS: Fix undefined instruction HLE behavior

 - GBA DMA: Fix invalid audio DMA parameters

 - GBA Memory: Misaligned SRAM writes are ignored

 - GBA Serialize: Fix serializing DMA transfer register

 - GBA Serialize: Fix audio DMA timing deserialization

 - GBA Video: Fix OAM not invalidating after reset (fixes mgba.io/i/1630)

 - GBA Video: Fix backdrop blending on lines without sprites (fixes mgba.io/i/1647)

 - GBA Video: Fix OpenGL sprite flag priority

Other fixes:

 - Core: Fix race condition initializing thread proxy

 - Core: Fix integer overflow in ELF loading

 - FFmpeg: Fix crash when -strict -2 is needed for vcodec or container

 - FFmpeg: Disallow recording video with no audio nor video

 - GBA: Automatically skip BIOS for multiboot ROMs

 - Qt: Only dynamically reset video scale if a game is running

 - Qt: Fix race condition with proxied video events

 - Qt: Fix color selection in asset view (fixes mgba.io/i/1648)

 - Qt: Fix missing OSD messages

 - Qt: Fix crash unloading shaders

 - Qt: Fix toggled actions on gamepads (fixes mgba.io/i/1650)

 - Qt: Fix extraneous dialog (fixes mgba.io/i/1654)

 - Qt: Fix window title not updating after shutting down game

 - Qt: Fix GIF view not allowing manual filename entry

 - Qt: Fix non-GB build (fixes mgba.io/i/1664)

 - Qt: Fix pausing Qt Multimedia audio (fixes mgba.io/i/1643)

 - Qt: Fix invalid names for modifier keys (fixes mgba.io/i/525)

 - SDL: Refresh stale pointers after adding a joystick (fixes mgba.io/i/1622)

 - Util: Fix crash reading invalid ELFs

 - VFS: Fix handle leak when double-mapping (fixes mgba.io/i/1659)

Misc:

 - FFmpeg: Add more presets

 - Qt: Fix non-SDL build (fixes mgba.io/i/1656)

 - SDL: Use DirectSound audio driver by default on Windows

 - Switch: Make OpenGL scale adjustable while running

--0.8.0--

A little late (okay, a lot late), mGBA 0.8.0 is finally available as a stable release. This is a major feature release and includes some highly anticipated features. Notably, the high-resolution OpenGL renderer for GBA games, BattleChip Gate support, interframe blending, and much more. Additionally, it includes over 50 bug fixes and hundreds of other changes. A preview of the features follows after the cut, along with a full list of changes.

Features:

 - Improved logging configuration

 - One-Player BattleChip/Progress/Beast Link Gate support

 - Add Game Boy Color palettes for original Game Boy games

 - Debugger: Add unary operators and memory dereferencing

 - GB: Expose platform information to CLI debugger

 - Support Discord Rich Presence

 - Debugger: Add tracing to file

 - Enhanced map viewer, supporting bitmapped GBA modes and more displayed info

 - OpenGL renderer with high-resolution upscaling support

 - Experimental high level "XQ" audio for most GBA games

 - Interframe blending for games that use flicker effects

 - Frame inspector for dissecting and debugging rendering

 - Switch: Option to use built-in brightness sensor for Boktai

 - Ports: Ability to enable or disable all SGB features (closes mgba.io/i/1205)

 - Ports: Ability to crop SGB borders off screen (closes mgba.io/i/1204)

 - Cheats: Add support for loading Libretro-style cht files

 - GBA Cheats: Add support for loading EZ Flash-style cht files

 - Support for unlicensed Wisdom Tree Game Boy mapper

 - Qt: Add export button for tile view (closes mgba.io/i/1507)

 - Qt: Add recent game list clearing (closes mgba.io/i/1380)

 - GB: Yanking gamepak now supported

 - Qt: Memory range dumping (closes mgba.io/i/1298)

Emulation fixes:

 - GB: Fix using boot ROM with MMM01 games

 - GB Audio: Only reset channel 3 sample in DMG mode

 - GB Audio: Sample inactive channels (fixes mgba.io/i/1455, mgba.io/i/1456)

 - GB Audio: Fix channel 4 volume (fixes mgba.io/i/1529)

 - GB I/O: Filter IE top bits properly (fixes mgba.io/i/1329)

 - GB Memory: Better emulate 0xFEA0 region on DMG, MGB and AGB

 - GB Video: Delay LYC STAT check (fixes mgba.io/i/1331)

 - GB Video: Fix window being enabled mid-scanline (fixes mgba.io/i/1328)

 - GB Video: Fix mode 0 window edge case (fixes mgba.io/i/1519)

 - GB Video: Fix color scaling in AGB mode

 - GBA: All IRQs have 7 cycle delay (fixes mgba.io/i/539, mgba.io/i/1208)

 - GBA: Reset now reloads multiboot ROMs

 - GBA BIOS: Fix multiboot entry point (fixes Magic Floor)

Other fixes:

 - Core: Improved lockstep driver reliability (Le Hoang Quyen)

 - FFmpeg: Drain recording buffers

 - GB: Fix reading ROM immediately after unmapping BIOS

 - GB SIO: Fix lockstep failing games aren't reloaded

 - GBA Cheats: Fix value incrementing in CB slide codes (fixes mgba.io/i/1501)

 - Libretro: Fix crash changing allowing opposing directions (hhromic)

 - Qt: Fix some Qt display driver race conditions

 - Qt: Fix menu bar staying hidden in full screen (fixes mgba.io/i/317)

 - Qt: Only show emulator restart warning once per settings saving

 - Qt: Fix LibraryController initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/1324)

 - Shaders: Fix gba-color shader resolution (fixes mgba.io/i/1435)

 - Switch: Fix audio when video rate desyncs (fixes mgba.io/i/1532)

Misc:

 - CMake: Don't use libzip on embedded platforms (fixes mgba.io/i/1527)

 - Core: Add keysRead callback

 - Core: Create game-related paths if they don't exist (fixes mgba.io/i/1446)

 - Core: Add more memory search ops (closes mgba.io/i/1510)

 - Debugger: Make tracing compatible with breakpoints/watchpoints

 - Debugger: Print breakpoint/watchpoint number when inserting

 - Feature: Switch from ImageMagick to FFmpeg for GIF generation

 - FFmpeg: Support audio-only recording

 - GB Memory: Support running from blocked memory

 - GBA BIOS: Add timings for HLE BIOS math functions (fixes mgba.io/i/1396)

 - GBA BIOS: Fix clobbered registers in CpuSet (fixes mgba.io/i/1531)

 - GBA Savedata: EEPROM performance fixes

 - GBA Savedata: Automatically map 1Mbit Flash files as 1Mbit Flash

 - Debugger: Add breakpoint and watchpoint listing

 - mGUI: Remember name and position of last loaded game

 - OpenGL: Only resize textures when needed

 - Qt: Don't unload ROM immediately if it crashes

 - Qt: Support switching webcams

 - Qt: Cap window size on start to monitor size

 - Qt: Open a message box for Qt frontend errors

 - Qt: Increase maximum magnifications and scaling

 - Qt: Add native FPS button to settings view

 - Qt: Improve sync code

 - Qt: Add option to pause on minimizing window (closes mgba.io/i/1379)

 - Qt: Scale pixel color values to full range (fixes mgba.io/i/1511)

 - Qt: Remove What's This icon from dialogs

 - Qt: Printer quality of life improvements (fixes mgba.io/i/1540)

 - Qt: Add copy and QoL improvements to graphic views (closes mgba.io/i/1541)

 - Qt: Show list of all sprites in sprite view

 - Qt: Add option for disabling OSD messages

 - Qt, OpenGL: Disable integer scaling for dimensions that don't fit

 - SM83: Support PC-relative opcode decoding

 - Switch: Dynamic display resizing

 - Switch: Support file associations

 - Vita: L2/R2 and L3/R3 can now be mapped on PSTV (fixes mgba.io/i/1292)

Changes from beta 1:

Emulation fixes:

 - ARM: Fix STR writeback pipeline stage

 - ARM: Partially fix LDM/STM writeback with empty register list

 - ARM: Fix stepping when events are pending

 - GBA DMA: Fix case where DMAs could get misaligned (fixes mgba.io/i/1092)

 - GBA Memory: Fix open bus from IWRAM (fixes mgba.io/i/1575)

 - GBA Timers: Improve timer startup emulation

 - GBA Video: Fix OpenGL renderer 512x512 backgrounds (fixes mgba.io/i/1572)

 - GBA Video: Fix BLDY for semitransparent sprite on non-target-2 backgrounds

 - GBA Video: Fix effects blending improperly in some non-last windows

 - GBA Video: Copy higher priority target 1 flag

Other fixes:

 - 3DS: Fix screen darkening (fixes mgba.io/i/1562)

 - Core: Fix uninitialized memory issues with graphics caches

 - Core: Return null for out of bounds cached tile VRAM querying

 - GBA Video: Fix OpenGL fragment data binding

 - GBA Video: Fix mosaic in modes 1-5 in OpenGL (fixes mgba.io/i/1620)

 - Debugger: Fix tracing skipping instructions (fixes mgba.io/i/1614)

 - OpenGL: Only invalidate texture if dimensions change (fixes mgba.io/i/1612)

 - Qt: Fix fast forward mute being reset (fixes mgba.io/i/1574)

 - Qt: Fix scrollbar arrows in memory view (fixes mgba.io/i/1558)

 - Qt: Fix several cases where shader selections don't get saved

 - Qt: Fix division by zero error in invalid TilePainter state

 - Qt: Fix "restart needed" dialog after first config (fixes mgba.io/i/1601)

 - Qt: Fix undesired screen filtering when paused (fixes mgba.io/i/1602)

 - Qt: Fix sprite view using wrong base address (fixes mgba.io/i/1603)

 - Qt: Fix inability to clear default keybindings

 - Qt: Release held actions if they get rebound

 - Qt: Fix crash double-clicking menus in shortcut settings (fixes mgba.io/i/1627)

 - Qt: Fix record A/V window not updating resolution (fixes mgba.io/i/1626)

 - Vita: Fix analog controls (fixes mgba.io/i/1554)

 - Wii: Fix game fast-forwarding after slowing down

 - Wii: Improve audio buffering (fixes mgba.io/i/1617)

Misc:

 - GB Memory: Support manual SRAM editing (fixes mgba.io/i/1580)

 - GBA: Trim non-movie ROMs to 32 MiB if applicable

 - GBA Audio: Redo channel 4 batching for GBA only

 - GBA I/O: Stop logging several harmless invalid register reads

 - GBA Video: Changing OpenGL scaling no longer requires restart

 - Debugger: Separate aliases from main commands

 - Debugger: Print break-/watchpoint ID when breaking in CLI

 - Debugger: Minor interface cleanup

 - SDL: Use controller GUID instead of name

 - SM83: Rename LR35902 to SM83

 - Tools: Allow using threaded renderer in perf.py

 - Tools: Clean up unused argument in mgba-perf

--0.8 beta 1--

After far too long in development, mGBA 0.8.0 is almost ready for release. While there are still a few missing features left to finish, I didn’t want to hold up 0.8 that much longer. While I’m working on those last features I’m hoping a final push for testing will help flatten out any more serious issues before the final release of mGBA 0.8.0, so I’m releasing the first beta for mGBA 0.8.

Some notable new features of mGBA 0.8 include:

 - A high-resolution hardware renderer for enhanced GBA graphics

 - Discord Rich Presence support

 - BattleChip Gate emulation

--0.7.3--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.7.3, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, sprites that are broken at the top of the screen are fixed. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

 - GB: Fix savedata initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/1473, mgba.io/i/1478)

 - GB: Fix SGB controller incrementing (fixes mgba.io/i/1104)

 - GB Audio: Improve channel 4 supersampling

 - GB Printer: Reset printer buffer index after printing

 - GB Audio: Deschedule channel 3 when disabled (fixes mgba.io/i/1463)

 - GB Audio: Deschedule channel 1 when disabled by sweep (fixes mgba.io/i/1467)

 - GB Video: Increment BCPS/OCPS even in mode 3 (fixes mgba.io/i/1462)

 - GBA Memory: Fix STM to VRAM (fixes mgba.io/i/1430)

 - GBA Memory: Fix STM/LDM to invalid VRAM

 - GBA Video: Fix wrapped sprite mosaic clamping (fixes mgba.io/i/1432)

 - GBA Audio: Fix channel 4 aliasing (fixes mgba.io/i/1265)

Other fixes:

 - Core: Fix crashes if core directories aren't set

 - Core: Fix crash when exiting game with cheats loaded

 - GBA: Set up GPIO mapping on null and ELF ROM regions (fixes mgba.io/i/1481)

 - GBA Cheats: Fix PARv3 Thumb hooks

 - GBA Cheats: Fix value incrementing in CB slide codes (fixes mgba.io/i/1501)

 - Qt: Fix FPS target maxing out at 59.727 (fixes mgba.io/i/1421)

 - Qt: Cap audio buffer size to 8192 (fixes mgba.io/i/1433)

 - Qt: Fix race conditions initializing GDB stub

 - Qt: Improve cheat view UX

 - Libretro: Fix crash changing allowing opposing directions (hhromic)

 - mGUI: Fix crash if last loaded ROM directory disappears (fixes mgba.io/i/1466)

 - Switch: Fix threading-related crash on second launch

Misc:

 - Qt: Make mute menu option also toggle fast-forward mute (fixes mgba.io/i/1424)

 - Qt: Show error message if file failed to load

--0.7.2--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.7.2, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, the 3DS version no longer hangs on non-CFW New 3DSes. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

 - GB: Fix HALT when IE and IF unused bits are set (fixes mgba.io/i/1349)

 - GB Timer: Fix timing adjustments when writing to TAC (fixes mgba.io/i/1340)

 - GB Video: Fix window y changing mid-window (fixes mgba.io/i/1345)

 - GB Video: Fix more window edge cases (fixes mgba.io/i/1346)

 - GBA: Fix RTC on non-standard sized ROMs (fixes mgba.io/i/1400)

 - GBA DMA: Fix DMA0-2 lengths (fixes mgba.io/i/1344)

 - GBA Memory: Fix writing to OBJ memory in modes 3 and 5

 - GBA Memory: Prevent writing to mirrored BG VRAM (fixes mgba.io/i/743)

 - GBA Video: Fix scanline cache with scale factor change edge cases

 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mosaic clamping (fixes mgba.io/i/1008)

 - GBA Video: Implement mosaic on transformed sprites (fixes mgba.io/b/5)

Other fixes:

 - 3DS: Ensure core 2 can be used for threaded renderer (fixes mgba.io/i/1371)

 - All: Fix several memory leaks

 - GB Core: Fix toggling WIN and OBJ being swapped

 - GBA: Fix skipping BIOS on irregularly sized ROMs

 - CMake: Fix .deb imagemagick dependencies

 - FFmpeg: Improve initialization reliability and cleanup

 - FFmpeg: Fix audio conversion producing gaps

 - LR35902: Fix disassembly of several CB-prefix instructions

 - LR35902: Fix trailing whitespace in disassembly

 - Qt: More app metadata fixes

 - Qt: Fix load recent from archive (fixes mgba.io/i/1325)

 - Qt: Fix overrides getting discarded (fixes mgba.io/i/1354)

 - Qt: Fix saved scale not getting set on resize (fixes mgba.io/i/1074)

 - Qt: Fix crash in sprite viewer magnification (fixes mgba.io/i/1362)

 - Qt: Fix adjusting magnification in tile viewer when not fitting to window

 - Qt: Fix bounded fast forward with Qt Multimedia

 - Qt: Fix saving settings with native FPS target

 - Wii: Fix aspect ratio (fixes mgba.io/i/500)

Misc:

 - Qt: Add missing HEVC NVENC option (fixes mgba.io/i/1323)

 - Qt: Improve camera initialization

 - Vita: Improved frame drawing speed

--0.7.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.7.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. Notably, the new Switch port no longer crashes on second load and the dreaded save bug in the Vita port is now fixed. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - 3DS: Work around menu freezing (fixes mgba.io/i/1294)

 - GB: Fix crash when accessing SRAM if no save loaded and cartridge has no SRAM

 - GB Serialize: Fix loading states with negative pixel x (fixes mgba.io/i/1293)

 - GB, GBA Serialize: Fix loading two states in a row

 - GBA: Fix video timing when skipping BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/1318)

 - GBA DMA: Fix Display Start DMAs

 - GBA DMA: Fix DMA start/end timing

 - GBA DMA: Fix invalid DMA handling (fixes mgba.io/i/1301)

 - GBA Memory: Fix a few AGBPrint crashes

 - GBA Memory: Fix OOB ROM reads showing up as AGBPrint memory

 - GBA SIO: Prevent writing read-only multiplayer bits

 - GBA Video: Fix enabling layers in non-tile modes (fixes mgba.io/i/1317)

 - Python: Fix crash when deleting files owned by library

 - Python: Make sure GB link object isn't GC'd before GB object

 - PSP2: Fix file descriptors dying on suspend (fixes mgba.io/i/1123)

 - Qt: Fix tile and sprite views not always displaying at first

 - Qt: Fix audio context holding onto closed game controller

 - Qt: Fix color picking in sprite view (fixes mgba.io/i/1307)

 - Qt: Fix window icon on X11

 - Qt: Fix quick load recent accidentally saving (fixes mgba.io/i/1309)

 - Switch: Fix final cleanup (fixes mgba.io/i/1283)

 - Switch: Fix gyroscope orientation (fixes mgba.io/i/1300)

Misc:

 - GBA Video: Improve sprite cycle counting (fixes mgba.io/i/1274)

 - Qt: Updated Italian translation (by Vecna)

--0.7.0--

After an extended incubation period mGBA 0.7.0 is now available. This is a major feature release. It features a brand new Nintendo Switch port, vastly improved Game Boy support, dozens of bugfixes and accuracy improvements, and more debugging features. A full list of changes follows after the cut.

Features:

 - ELF support

 - Game Boy Camera support

 - Qt: Set default Game Boy colors

 - Game Boy Printer support

 - Super Game Boy support

 - Customizable autofire speed

 - Ability to set default Game Boy model

 - Map viewer

 - Automatic cheat loading and saving

 - GameShark and Action Replay button support

 - AGBPrint support

 - Debugger: Conditional breakpoints and watchpoints

 - Ability to select GB/GBC/SGB BIOS on console ports

 - Optional automatic state saving/loading

 - Access to ur0 and uma0 partitions on the Vita

 - Partial support for MBC6, MMM01, TAMA and HuC-1 GB mappers

 - GBA: ARMIPS/A22i-style and ELF symbol table support

 - Initial Switch port

Bugfixes:

 - ARM: Fix MSR when T bit is set

 - Core: Fix audio sync breaking when interrupted

 - Core: Fix ordering events when scheduling during events

 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding audio/video queue issues

 - GB: Revamp IRQ handling based on new information

 - GB: Fix IRQ disabling on the same T-cycle as an assert

 - GB Audio: Make audio unsigned with bias (fixes mgba.io/i/749)

 - GB Audio: Clock frame events on DIV

 - GB Audio: Fix channel 3 reset value

 - GB Audio: Fix channel 4 initial LFSR

 - GB Audio: Fix channel 1, 2 and 4 reset timing

 - GB I/O: DMA register is R/W

 - GB MBC: Improve multicart detection heuristic (fixes mgba.io/i/1177)

 - GB, GBA Savedata: Fix savestate loading overwriting saves on reset

 - GB, GBA Savedata: Fix unmasking savedata crash

 - GB Serialize: Fix audio state loading

 - GB Serialize: Fix game title check

 - GB Serialize: Fix IRQ pending/EI pending confusion

 - GB Timer: Minor accuracy improvements

 - GB Video: Fix dot clock timing being slightly wrong

 - GB Video: Fix loading states while in mode 3

 - GB Video: Fix enabling window when LY > WY (fixes mgba.io/i/409)

 - GB Video: Fix SCX timing

 - GB, GBA Video: Don't call finishFrame twice in thread proxy

 - GBA: Reset WAITCNT properly

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BitUnPack final byte

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BitUnPack narrowing

 - GBA DMA: Fix invalid DMA reads (fixes mgba.io/i/142)

 - GBA DMA: Fix temporal sorting of DMAs of different priorities

 - GBA Hardware: Fix RTC overriding light sensor (fixes mgba.io/i/1069)

 - GBA Hardware: Fix RTC handshake transition (fixes mgba.io/i/1134)

 - GBA Memory: Fix Vast Fame support (taizou) (fixes mgba.io/i/1170)

 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata modified time updating when read-only

 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading channel 3 volume (fixes mgba.io/i/1107)

 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading states in Hblank

 - GBA SIO: Fix unconnected SIOCNT for multi mode (fixes mgba.io/i/1105)

 - GBA Timer: Fix timers sometimes being late (fixes mgba.io/i/1012)

 - GBA Video: Don't mask out high bits of BLDY (fixes mgba.io/i/899)

 - GBA Video: Add delay when enabling BGs (fixes mgba.io/i/744, mgba.io/i/752)

 - GBA Video: Start timing mid-scanline when skipping BIOS

 - GBA Video: Improve sprite cycle counting (fixes mgba.io/i/1126)

 - GBA Video: Make layer disabling work consistently

 - PSP2: Fix more issues causing poor audio

 - Qt: Fix GL display when loading a game from CLI (fixes mgba.io/i/843)

 - Qt: Improve FPS timer stability

 - Util: Fix wrapping edge cases in RingFIFO

Misc:

 - 3DS: Remove deprecated CSND interface

 - All: Make FIXED_ROM_BUFFER an option instead of 3DS-only

 - Core: Remove broken option for whether rewinding restores save games

 - Feature: Added loading savestates from command line

 - FFmpeg: Support libswresample (fixes mgba.io/i/1120, mgba.io/b/123)

 - FFmpeg: Support lossless h.264 encoding

 - FFmpeg: Support lossless VP9 encoding

 - GBA Cheats: Allow multiple ROM patches in the same slot

 - GB: Skip BIOS option now works

 - GB: Fix VRAM/palette locking (fixes mgba.io/i/1109)

 - GB Audio: Improved audio quality

 - GB, GBA Audio: Increase max audio volume

 - GB MBC: Remove erroneous bank 0 wrapping

 - GB Video: Darken colors in GBA mode

 - GBA: Extend oddly-sized ROMs to full address space (fixes mgba.io/i/722)

 - GBA: Implement display start DMAs

 - GBA: Improve multiboot image detection

 - GBA Memory: 64 MiB GBA Video cartridge support

 - GBA Savedata: Remove ability to disable realistic timing

 - GBA Timer: Use global cycles for timers

 - Libretro: Add frameskip option

 - mGUI: Add fast forward toggle

 - PSP2: Use system enter key by default

 - Python: Integrate tests from cinema test suite

 - Qt: Redo GameController into multiple classes

 - Qt: Prevent window from being created off-screen

 - Qt: Add option to disable FPS display

 - Qt: Options to mess around with layer placement

 - Qt: Add load alternate save option

 - Qt: Allow pausing game at load (fixes mgba.io/i/1129)

 - Qt: Clean up FPS target UI (fixes mgba.io/i/436)

 - Test: Restructure test suite into multiple executables

 - Util: Don't build crc32 if the function already exists

 - Wii: Move audio handling to callbacks (fixes mgba.io/i/803)

Changes from beta 1:

Features:

 - Libretro: Add Game Boy cheat support

 - Qt: Separate fast forward volume control (fixes mgba.io/i/846, mgba.io/i/1143)

 - Switch: Rumble support

 - Switch: Rotation support

 - Switch: Screen stretching options

 - Qt: State file load/save menu options

 - Windows installer

 - Tile viewer now has adjustable width

 - Python: Experimental audio API

Bugfixes:

 - 3DS: Fix unused screens not clearing (fixes mgba.io/i/1184)

 - Core: Remember to deinit proxy ring FIFO

 - Core: Reroot timing list when (de)scheduling

 - GB, GBA: Fix broken opposing button filter (fixes mgba.io/i/1191)

 - GB MBC: Fix MBC30 SRAM

 - GB, GBA Savedata: Fix leaks when loading masked save (fixes mgba.io/i/1197)

 - GB Video: Fix SGB border hole size

 - GB Video: Changing LYC while LCDC off doesn't affect STAT (fixes mgba.io/i/1224)

 - GBA: Fix GB Player features

 - GBA I/O: SOUNDCNT_HI is readable when sound is off

 - GBA Savedata: Fix EEPROM writing codepath when savetype is not EEPROM

 - GBA Video: Fix caching with background toggling (fixes mgba.io/i/1118)

 - Libretro: Fix adding codes with hooks

 - PSP2: Fix audio crackling after fast forward

 - PSP2: Fix audio crackling when buffer is full

 - Qt: Fix jumbled background when paused

 - Qt: Fix FPS counter on Windows

 - Qt: Fix focus issues with load/save state overlay

 - Switch: Fix incorrect mapping for fast forward cap

 - Wii: Fix drawing caching regression (fixes mgba.io/i/1185)

 - PSP2: Fix tearing issues (fixes mgba.io/i/1211)

 - Qt: Fix mapping analog triggers (fixes mgba.io/i/495)

 - Qt: Grab focus when game starts (fixes mgba.io/i/804)

 - Qt: Ensure FATAL logs reach log view

 - SDL: Fix handling of invalid gamepads (fixes mgba.io/i/1239)

Misc:

 - CMake: Fix libswresample version dependencies (fixes mgba.io/i/1229)

 - Debugger: Minor text fixes

 - Debugger: Readability improvements (fixes mgba.io/i/1238)

 - GB: Improved SGB2 support

 - GB Audio: Skip frame if enabled when clock is high

 - Libretro: Reduce rumble callbacks

 - mGUI: Add SGB border configuration option

 - mGUI: Add support for different settings types

 - Python: Minor API improvements

 - Qt: Ensure camera image is valid

 - Qt: Debugger console history

 - Qt: Detect presence of GL_ARB_framebuffer_object

 - Qt: Minor memory view tweaks

 - Res: Improve modeling of AGB/AGS screen in shaders

 - Wii: Define _GNU_SOURCE (fixes mgba.io/i/1106)

 - Wii: Expose stretch configuration in settings

 - Wii: Stretch now sets pixel-accurate mode size cap

--0.7 beta 1--

While it’s been long enough since mGBA 0.6.0 came out that the release of mGBA 0.7.0 has seemed like it may never happen, I’m glad to say we’re finally reaching the end of mGBA 0.6’s time. Due to significant life changes, not the least of which is getting a new job with a long, tiring commute, I’ve not has as much time to do serious feature work. However, there have been plenty of changes, fixes, improvements under the hood. Though mGBA 0.7.0 is almost ready I’d like to see a signficant wave of testing and bugfixes before I deem it stable. As such, mGBA 0.7 beta 1 is now available, and hopefully the release of mGBA 0.7.0 will be out within a week or two.

--0.6.3--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.6.3, is available. This version is a bugfix release to address some major audio and video regressions that snuck into 0.6.2. As such, all users of 0.6.2 are encouraged to update, especially if they are playing Game Boy games.

Bugfixes:

 - GB Audio: Revert unsigned audio changes

 - GB Video: Fix bad merge (fixes mgba.io/i/1040)

 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ blending regression (fixes mgba.io/i/1037)

--0.6.2--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.6.2, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - Core: Fix ROM patches not being unloaded when disabled (fixes mgba.io/i/962)

 - 3DS: Fix opening files in directory names with trailing slashes

 - LR35902: Fix watchpoints not reporting new value

 - GB MBC: Fix MBC2 saves (fixes mgba.io/i/954)

 - GB Memory: HDMAs should not start when LCD is off (fixes mgba.io/i/310)

 - GB Memory: Fix OAM DMA blocking regions (fixes mgba.io/i/1013)

 - GB Video: Only trigger STAT write IRQs when screen is on (fixes mgba.io/i/912)

 - GBA: Fix some GBA ROM misdetection (fixes mgba.io/i/978)

 - GBA: Fix SharkPort saves for EEPROM games

 - GBA Audio: Increase PSG volume (fixes mgba.io/i/932)

 - GBA BIOS: Fix incorrect exit condition in LZ77

 - GBA Cheats: Fix PARv3 slide codes (fixes mgba.io/i/919)

 - GBA Cheats: Fix slide codes not initializing properly

 - GBA DMA: ROM reads are forced to increment

 - GBA Hardware: RTC accuracy improvements

 - GBA I/O: Fix writing to DISPCNT CGB flag (fixes mgba.io/i/902)

 - GBA Memory: Fix copy-on-write memory leak

 - GBA Memory: Partially revert prefetch changes (fixes mgba.io/i/840)

 - GBA Savedata: Fix crash when resizing flash

 - GBA Video: Force align 256-color tiles

 - GBA Video: OBJWIN can change blend params after OBJ is drawn (fixes mgba.io/i/921)

 - PSP2: Fix issues causing poor audio

 - Python: Fix package directory

 - Qt: Fix locale being set to English on settings save (fixes mgba.io/i/906)

 - Qt: Fix opening in fullscreen (fixes mgba.io/i/993)

 - Wii: Fix screen tear when unpausing

 - Wii: Fix various setup and teardown drawing issues (fixes mgba.io/i/988)

Misc:

 - 3DS: Scale font based on glyph heights (fixes mgba.io/i/961)

 - GB MBC: Remove erroneous bank 0 wrapping

 - GBA: Improve multiboot image detection

 - PSP2: Use system enter key by default

--0.6.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.6.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - GB, GBA: Fix crashes when attempting to identify null VFiles

 - GB, GBA: Fix sync to video with frameskip

 - GB, GBA Savedata: Fix savestate-related save overwriting (fixes mgba.io/i/834)

 - GB Audio: Fix NRx2 writes while active (fixes mgba.io/i/866)

 - GB Core: Fix palette loading when loading a foreign config

 - GB MBC: Pocket Cam memory should be accessible without enabling

 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM sizes 4 and 5

 - GB MBC: Fix RTC initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/825)

 - GB MBC: Fix RTC loading when file size is off

 - GB Memory: Initialize peripheral pointers

 - GB Memory: Prevent accessing empty SRAM (fixes mgba.io/i/831)

 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA count starting in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/855)

 - GB Memory: Actually load latch time from savestate

 - GB Serialize: Fix deserializing video STAT

 - GB Video: Fix 16-bit screenshots (fixes mgba.io/i/826)

 - GB Video: Fix potential hang when ending mode 0

 - GB Video: Fix read mode when enabling LCD

 - GBA: Reset active region as needed when loading a ROM

 - GBA: Fix keypad IRQs not firing when extra buttons are pressed

 - GBA BIOS: Use core's VRAM variable instead of renderer's

 - GBA Cheats: Fix PARv3 multiline blocks (fixes mgba.io/i/889)

 - GBA I/O: Fix reading from a few invalid I/O registers (fixes mgba.io/i/876)

 - GBA Savedata: Fix 512 byte EEPROM saving as 8kB (fixes mgba.io/i/877)

 - GBA Savedata: Fix size of SRAM saves (fixes mgba.io/i/883)

 - GBA Video: Fix broken sprite blending hack (fixes mgba.io/i/532)

 - Python: Fix importing .gb or .gba before .core

 - Qt: Fix command line debugger closing second game

 - Qt: Fix LOG argument order

 - Qt: Fix timezone issues with time overrides

 - Qt: Fix sprite export pausing game indefinitely (fixes mgba.io/i/841)

 - SDL: Fix potential race condition when pressing keys (fixes mgba.io/i/872)

Misc:

 - CMake: Fix CPack dependencies for libpng 1.6

 - GBA: Detect hardware for Pokémon FireRed ROM hacks

 - GBA Cheats: Improve detection of raw cheats

 - Qt: Don't rebuild library view if style hasn't changed

 - Qt: Allow overrides to be saved before a game is loaded

 - Qt: Hide mouse immediately when loading

 - SDL: Fix 2.0.5 build on macOS under some circumstances

 - VFS: Make VFile.truncate work growing files on PSV (fixes mgba.io/i/885)

--0.6.0--

After many months of delays mGBA 0.6.0 is finally available. This is a major feature release. Some of the more prominent features include a library view, translations to German, Spanish and Italian, and many new debugging features. A full list of changes follows after the cut.

Features:

 - Library view

 - Sprite viewer

 - Debugging console

 - Improved memory viewer

 - Memory search

 - Command line ability to override configuration values

 - Add option to allow preloading the entire ROM before running

 - Add option for whether rewinding restores save games

 - Savestates now contain any RTC override data

 - Add option to lock video to integer scaling

 - LR35902: Watchpoints

 - LR35902/GB-Z80 disassembler

 - GB: Tile viewer

 - GB: Video/audio channel enabling/disabling

 - GB: Symbol table support

 - GB MBC: Add MBC1 multicart support

 - GBA: Support printing debug strings from inside a game

 - GBA: Better cheat type autodetection

 - Implement keypad interrupts

 - Configuration of gamepad hats

 - Video log recording for testing and bug reporting

 - Debugger: Segment/bank support

 - Debugger: Execution tracing

 - Qt: German translation (by Lothar Serra Mari)

 - Qt: Spanish translation (by Kevin López)

 - Qt: Italian translation (by theheroGAC)

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix MLA/*MULL/*MLAL timing

 - Core: Fix crash with rewind if savestates shrink

 - Core: Fix interrupting a thread while on the thread (fixes mgba.io/i/692)

 - Core: Fix directory sets crashing on close if base isn't properly detached

 - FFmpeg: Fix overflow and general issues with audio encoding

 - GB: Fix flickering when screen is strobed quickly

 - GB: Fix STAT blocking

 - GB MBC: Fix ROM bank overflows getting set to bank 0

 - GB MBC: Fix swapping carts not detect new MBC

 - GB Timer: Improve DIV reset behavior

 - GB Timer: Fix DIV batching if TAC changes

 - GB Video: Reset renderer when loading state

 - GBA: Fix multiboot ROM loading

 - GBA: Fix multiboot loading resulting in too small WRAM

 - GBA BIOS: Implement BitUnPack

 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan sign in HLE BIOS

 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 sign in HLE BIOS (fixes mgba.io/i/689)

 - GBA BIOS: Fix INT_MIN/-1 crash

 - GBA Hardware: Fix crash if a savestate lies about game hardware

 - GBA I/O: Handle audio registers specially when deserializing

 - GBA Memory: Improve initial skipped BIOS state

 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata unmasking (fixes mgba.io/i/441)

 - GBA Savedata: Update and fix Sharkport importing (fixes mgba.io/i/658)

 - GBA Video: Fix wrong palette on 256-color sprites in OBJWIN

 - GBA Video: Don't update background scanline params in mode 0 (fixes mgba.io/i/377)

 - Libretro: Fix saving in GB games (fixes mgba.io/i/486)

 - LR35902: Fix core never exiting with certain event patterns

 - LR35902: Fix pc overflowing current region off-by-one

 - LR35902: Fix decoding LD r, $imm and 0-valued immediates (fixes mgba.io/i/735)

 - OpenGL: Fix some shaders causing offset graphics

 - GB Timer: Fix sub-M-cycle DIV reset timing and edge triggering

 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched

 - Qt: Fix data directory path

 - Qt: Fix timing issues on high refresh rate monitors

 - Qt: Fix linking after some windows have been closed

 - Qt: Fix crash when changing audio settings after a game is closed

 - Qt: Ensure CLI backend is attached when submitting commands (fixes mgba.io/i/662)

 - Qt: Disable "New multiplayer window" when MAX_GBAS is reached (fixes mgba.io/i/107)

 - Qt: Fix game unpausing after frame advancing and refocusing

 - SDL: Fix game crash check

 - SDL: Fix race condition with audio thread when starting

 - SDL: Fix showing version number

 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file

 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file

 - Test: Don't rely on core for frames elapsed

 - Test: Fix crash when loading invalid file

 - Test: Fix crash when fuzzing fails to load a file

 - Tools: Fix recurring multiple times over the same library

 - Util: Fix overflow when loading invalid UPS patches

 - Util: Fix highest-fd socket not being returned by SocketAccept

 - Windows: Fix VDir.rewind

Misc:

 - All: Add C++ header guards

 - All: Move time.h include to common.h

 - 3DS, PSP2, Wii: Last directory loaded is saved

 - CMake: Add ability to just print version string

 - Core: New, faster event timing subsystem

 - Core: Clean up some thread state checks

 - Core: Add generic checksum function

 - Core: Cores can now have multiple sets of callbacks

 - Core: Restore sleep callback

 - Core: Move rewind diffing to its own thread

 - Core: Ability to enumerate and modify video and audio channels

 - Core: List memory segments in the core

 - Core: Move savestate creation time to extdata

 - Core: Config values can now be hexadecimal

 - Core: Improved threading interrupted detection

 - Debugger: Modularize CLI debugger

 - Debugger: Make building with debugging aspects optional

 - Debugger: Add functions for read- or write-only watchpoints

 - Debugger: Make attaching a backend idempotent

 - Debugger: Add mDebuggerRunFrame convenience function

 - Feature: Move game database from flatfile to SQLite3

 - Feature: Support ImageMagick 7

 - Feature: Make -l option explicit

 - FFmpeg: Return false if a file fails to open

 - FFmpeg: Force MP4 files to YUV420P

 - GB: Trust ROM header for number of SRAM banks (fixes mgba.io/i/726)

 - GB: Reset with initial state of DIV register

 - GB MBC: New MBC7 implementation

 - GB Audio: Simplify envelope code

 - GB Audio: Improve initial envelope samples

 - GB Audio: Start implementing "zombie" audio (fixes mgba.io/i/389)

 - GB Video: Improved video timings

 - GBA: Ignore invalid opcodes used by the Wii U VC emulator

 - GBA, GB: ROM is now unloaded if a patch is applied

 - GBA DMA: Refactor DMA out of memory.c

 - GBA DMA: Move DMAs to using absolute timing

 - GBA I/O: Clear JOYSTAT RECV flag when reading JOY_RECV registers

 - GBA I/O: Set JOYSTAT TRANS flag when writing JOY_TRANS registers

 - GBA Memory: Support for Mo Jie Qi Bing by Vast Fame (taizou)

 - GBA Memory: Support reading/writing POSTFLG

 - GBA Memory: Remove unused prefetch cruft

 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers

 - GBA Video: Clean up unused timers

 - GBA Video: Allow multiple handles into the same tile cache

 - GBA Video, GB Video: Colors are now fully scaled

 - GBA Video: Optimize when BLD* registers are written frequently

 - OpenGL: Add xBR-lv2 shader

 - Qt: Move last directory setting from qt.ini to config.ini

 - Qt: Improved HiDPI support

 - Qt: Expose configuration directory

 - Qt: Merge "Save" and "OK" buttons in shader options

 - Qt: Automatically load controller profile when plugged in

 - Qt: Rename "Resample video" option to "Bilinear filtering"

 - Qt: Remove audio thread

 - Qt: Remove audio buffer sizing in AudioProcessorQt

 - Qt: Re-enable QtMultimedia on Windows

 - Qt: Make "Mute" able to be bound to a key

 - Qt: Add .gb/.gbc files to the extension list in Info.plist

 - Qt: Relax hard dependency on OpenGL

 - Qt: Better highlight active key in control binding

 - SDL: Remove scancode key input

 - SDL: Automatically map controllers when plugged in

 - Test: Add a basic test suite

 - Util: Add size counting to Table

 - Util: Add 8-bit PNG write support

 - Util: Tune patch-fast extent sizes

 - VFS: Call msync when syncing mapped data

 - VFS: Allow truncating memory chunk VFiles

 - VFS: Fix some minor VFile issues with FILEs

 - VFS: Optimize expanding in-memory files

 - VFS: Add VFileFIFO for operating on circle buffers

Changes from beta 1:

Features:

 - Qt: Italian translation (by theheroGAC)

 - Qt: Updated German translation

Bugfixes:

 - GB Audio: Fix incorrect channel 4 iteration

 - GB Audio: Fix zombie mode bit masking

 - GB Serialize: Fix timer serialization

 - GB Video: Fix LYC regression

 - GBA SIO: Improve SIO Normal dummy driver (fixes mgba.io/i/520)

 - GBA Timer: Fix count-up timing overflowing timer 3

 - PSP2: Use custom localtime_r since newlib version is broken (fixes mgba.io/i/560)

 - Qt: Fix memory search close button (fixes mgba.io/i/769)

 - Qt: Fix window icon being stretched

 - Qt: Fix initial window size (fixes mgba.io/i/766)

 - Qt: Fix data directory path

 - Qt: Fix controls not saving on non-SDL builds

 - Qt: Fix translation initialization (fixes mgba.io/i/776)

 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running

 - Qt: Fix shader selector on Ubuntu (fixes mgba.io/i/767)

 - Core: Fix rewinding getting out of sync (fixes mgba.io/i/791)

 - Qt: Fix GL-less build

 - Qt: Fix Software renderer not handling alpha bits properly

 - Qt: Fix screen background improperly stretching

 - SDL: Fix cheats not loading

Misc:

 - GB Serialize: Add MBC state serialization

 - GBA Memory: Call crash callbacks regardless of if hard crash is enabled

 - GBA Timer: Improve accuracy of timers

 - PSP2: Update toolchain to use vita.cmake

 - Qt: Add language selector

 - Qt: Minor test fixes

 - Qt: Move shader settings into main settings window

 - Qt: Dismiss game crashing/failing dialogs when a new game loads

 - Qt: Properly ship Qt translations

 - SDL: Remove writing back obtained samples (fixes mgba.io/i/768)

--0.6 beta 1--

mGBA 0.6.0 has been long delayed. It’s dense with new features and unfortunately not all of those features are hugely well-tested. However, it’s almost ready for release. Before a stable release, more comprehensive testing is needed. In the getting out what’s already working and promoting testing, mGBA 0.6 beta 1 is now available. The final release of mGBA 0.6.0 should be out within a few weeks.

--0.5.2--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.5.2, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many stability and accuracy fixes. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - All: Fix fullscreen config option being ignored

 - ARM7: PSR mode bits should not get sign extended

 - GB: Fix audio not being deinitialized

 - GB: Fix crash when masking savedata

 - GB: Properly initialize sramRealVf variable

 - GB Audio: Fix serialization of channel 3 and NR52 properties

 - GB Audio: Reset envelope timer when reseting sound channel

 - GB MBC: Fix SRAM dangling pointer with RTC games

 - GB MBC: Fix initializing MBC when no ROM is loaded

 - GB Memory: Fix patching ROM bank 0

 - GB Memory: Fix starting HDMAs during mode 0

 - GB Memory: Fix HDMA5 value after DMA completes

 - GB Video: Initialize LCDC in renderer

 - GB Video: Hblank IRQs should mask LYC=LY IRQs

 - GBA: Fix IRQs firing after already being cleared

 - GBA: Only unhalt CPU if appropriate bit is set in IE

 - GBA: Add savegame override for Crash Bandicoot 2

 - GBA BIOS: Fix MidiKey2Freq BIOS reads

 - GBA BIOS: Fix invalid CpuSet not setting BIOS prefetch

 - GBA Cheats: Fix GameShark ROM patches

 - GBA I/O: Mask off WAITCNT bits that cannot be written

 - GBA Memory: Fix misaligned BIOS reads

 - GBA Memory: Fix VCOUNT being writable

 - GBA Video: Fix out of bounds sprite transforms

 - Libretro: Fix unterminated SET_INPUT_DESCRIPTORS

 - Libretro: Fix disabling BIOS

 - Libretro: Fix Game Boy savestates and audio

 - Qt: Fix changing resolution of software renderer

 - Qt: Fix setting overrides

 - Qt: Fix cut off tiles and alignment issues in tile viewer

 - Qt: Only reset window dimensions when first shown

 - Qt: Fix Qt Multimedia audio driver on big endian

 - Qt: Fix Apply button for key and controller configurations

 - VFS: Fix resizing memory chunks when not needed

 - Windows: Fix Unicode directory handling

Misc:

 - GB, GBA: Prevent loading null ROMs

 - GB Audio: Initialize wave RAM to GBC values

 - GB Memory: Reset ROM bank when loading a ROM

 - PSP2: Improved controller rumble

--0.5.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.5.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which fixes many issues that weren’t caught before the release of 0.5.0. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - Core: Fix importing save games as read-only

 - FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC

 - GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color

 - GB: Initialize audio properly

 - GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds

 - GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM

 - GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off

 - GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified

 - GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded

 - GB SIO: Don't auto-clock external shift clock

 - GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ

 - GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off

 - GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off

 - GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated

 - GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats

 - GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving

 - GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior

 - GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values

 - GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves

 - LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active

 - Qt: Fix "close" button on Overrides view

 - Qt: Fix saving overrides

 - Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM

 - Qt: Fix patch loading

 - Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn't loaded

 - Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)

 - SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend

 - Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG

Misc:

 - All: Only update version info if needed

 - All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu

 - FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup

 - GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM

 - GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC

 - GB Video: Improved video timings

 - Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better

 - Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions

--0.5.0--

After a long dry spell, a new release of mGBA, version 0.5.0, is available. This is a major feature release, and includes, among other features, Game Boy and Game Boy Color support. There are other enhancements and bugfixes across the board, and an extensive list follows after the cut.

Features:

 - Game Boy support

 - Support for encrypted CodeBreaker GBA cheats

 - Emulation of Vast Fame protected GBA carts (taizou)

 - Tile viewer

 - Threaded rendering mode

 - Libretro: Memory map and achievement support (leiradel)

 - GUI: Add UI control remapping

 - GUI: Add fast-forward

 - Wii: 240p support

 - 3DS: Adjustable screen darkening

 - Ability to temporarily load a savegame

 - Load specific files out of archives

 - Automatic BIOS detection

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix decoding of Thumb ADD (variants 5 and 6)

 - Debugger: Fix GDB breakpoints

 - GBA: Fix losing IRQs when CPSR I bit isn't cleared

 - GBA: Fix filehandle leak with savegames

 - GBA: Timer 0 cannot be count up

 - GBA: Count up timers should not count themselves

 - GBA Memory: Fix mirror on non-overdumped Classic NES games

 - GBA Memory: Fix ldm {pc}

 - GBA Savedata: Fix savedata sync timer

 - GBA Savedata: Only unmap savedata if present

 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now properly store prefetch

 - GBA Video: WIN0/1 take priority over OBJWIN

 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-order OBJWIN

 - PSP2: Fix GPU crash while exiting

 - PSP2: Fix VSync

 - PSP2: Fix accelerometer range

 - PSP2: Actually load screen mode setting

 - PSP2: Fix gyroscope direction

 - PSP2: Delete threads after they return

 - PSP2: Fix mapping/unmapping from not at 0

 - Qt: Fix bug in software renderer scaling

 - Qt: Fix hanging key press after disabling autofire

 - Qt: Fix being unable to pause manually when using auto-pausing

 - SDL: Fix axes being mapped wrong

 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8

 - Util: Fix inserting too many items into a hash table

 - VFS: Fix uninitialized varaible reading from 7z

 - VFS: Fix reading multiple files from a 7z archive

 - Wii: Fix framelimiting after a slowdown

 - Wii: Fix garbage flash at startup

Misc:

 - 3DS: Use blip_add_delta_fast for a small speed improvement

 - 3DS: Allow UTF-16 filenames

 - 3DS: Port to using citro3D

 - 3DS: Use system font for menus

 - 3DS: Attempt to use Core 2 for threads

 - 3DS: Adjustable filering

 - 3DS: 3D banner

 - All: Add QUIET parameter to silence CMake

 - All: Faster memory read/write

 - ARM7: Support forcing Thumb mode via MSR

 - ARM7: Flush prefetch cache when loading CPSR via MSR

 - ARM7: Clean up instruction decoding for future expandability

 - Debugger: Support register and memory writes via GDB stub

 - Debugger: Add software breakpoint support to gdb

 - FFmpeg: Full support for libavcodec 56+

 - GBA: Better debug logging if event processing breaks

 - GBA Audio: Force audio DMAs to not increment destination

 - GBA BIOS: Use custom ArcTan, not relying on OS

 - GBA Hardware: Clean up dead code in GBP

 - GBA Memory: Optimize stalling behavior

 - GBA Memory: Optimize Load-/StoreMultiple

 - GBA Savedata: Add realistic timing for EEPROM

 - GBA Serialize: Savestates now store if CPU was halted

 - GBA Video: Remove old slow path fallback

 - GBA Video: Optimize sprite drawing

 - GBA Video: Optimize mode 0 rendering

 - GBA Video: Optimize compositing cases slightly

 - GUI: Screenshot dimensions are now passed through

 - GUI: Add back logging

 - GUI: Only reload config if manually saved

 - GUI: Increase scrolling speed

 - OpenGL: Log shader compilation failure

 - OpenGL: Add texSize uniform

 - Qt: Make -g flag work in Qt build

 - Qt: Simplify OpenGL context creation

 - Qt: Thread startup improvements

 - Qt: Make audio channel/video layer options shortcut mappable

 - Qt: Remove some C99isms from C++ code

 - Qt: Remove default autofire mappings

 - Qt: Make reseting when pasued frame-accurate

 - Qt: Rearchitect game closing codepath

 - PSP2: Use system font for menus

 - PSP2: Add rumble for PS TV

 - PSP2: Add fit-to-height screen mode

 - PSP2: Sync files per descriptor

 - PSP2: Allow UTF-8 filenames

 - PSP2: Screenshots are now saved into the Photo Gallery

 - PSP2: Stop underclocking when menuing

 - SDL: Increase default audio buffer size to 1024 samples

 - SDL: More responsive rumble

 - Util: Add Vector GetConstPointer

 - Util: Add rtrim

 - Util: Add endswith

 - VFS: Improve zip file detection

 - Wii: Add pixelated resample filter

 - Windows: Add native VDir support

 - Util: Add PRIz macro for libc versions that don't support %z

--0.4.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.4.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - All: Fix several file handle leaks

 - All: Fix instruction tables getting zeroed when linking sometimes

 - ARM7: Fix flags on SBC/RSC

 - ARM7: Fix setting spsr privilege bits when spsr is empty

 - GBA Audio: Reset audio FIFO DMA if an invalid destination is set

 - GBA BIOS: Fix RegisterRamReset setting DISPCNT to the wrong value

 - GBA BIOS: Fix ArcTan2 accuracy and boundary conditions

 - GBA Memory: Fix executing code from OBJ region of VRAM

 - GBA Serialize: Fix memory corruption bug in GBAExtdataSerialize

 - GBA Serialize: Fix loading savegames from savestates

 - OpenGL: Correct boolean vector strcmp strings for uniforms

 - Qt: Fix sending gameStopped twice

 - Qt: Fix hang if audio sync is enabled and audio fails to initialize

 - Qt: Fix initial state of key mapping

 - Qt: Initialize m_useBios

 - SDL: Fix joystick initialization on BSD

 - SDL: Fix potential joystick crash in games with rumble

 - SDL: Fix SDL 1.2 build

 - SDL: Fix sporadic crash when deinitializing audio

 - Shaders: Fix AGS-001 shader with some bad drivers

 - Util: Use closesocket on Windows

 - Util: Fix socket bind addresses

 - VFS: Fix reading 7z archives without rewinding first

 - VFS: VFileFromFD should not open directories

 - Wii: Fix tilting direction

 - Util: Fix realloc semantics in utf16to8

Misc:

 - All: Allow use of external minizip library

 - Debugger: CLI debugger now exits when end-of-stream is reached

 - FFmpeg: Update dependencies on Ubuntu

 - GBA: Slightly optimize GBAProcessEvents

 - GBA: Add overrides for DBZ: Legacy of Goku II and Ueki no Housoku

 - GBA Video: Null renderer should return proper register values

 - Libretro: Disable logging game errors, BIOS calls and stubs in release builds

 - Qt: Add preset for DualShock 4

 - Qt: Update 360 input profile on OS X to reflect newer drivers

 - Qt: Remove use of NaN

 - Qt: Canonicalize file paths when loading games

 - Qt: Add refresh button to controller editing

 - SDL: Remove default gamepad mappings

 - Util: Fix intermittent build failure on OS X

 - VFS: VFile.sync now updates modified time

--0.4.0--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.4.0, is available. This is a major feature release. Some of the more prominent features include official ports to the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita, shader support, an official OpenEmu core for OS X users, and controller hotplugging. An extensive list follows after the cut.

Features:

 - Officially supported ports for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and PlayStation Vita

 - I/O viewer

 - Booting of multiboot images

 - Customization of GIF recording

 - Libretro: Cheat code support

 - Support for GLSL shaders

 - ROM information view

 - Support for VBA-style cheat codes

 - Savestates now store creation timestamps

 - Key autofire

 - Libretro: Allow blocking opposing directional input

 - OpenEmu core for OS X

 - Libretro: Settings for using BIOS and skipping intro

 - Libretro: Customizable idle loop removal

 - Implemented cycle counting for sprite rendering

 - Cleaner, unified settings window

 - Added a setting for pausing when the emulator is not in focus

 - Customizable paths for save games, save states, screenshots and patches

 - Controller hotplugging

 - Ability to store save games and active cheats within savestates

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix sign of unaligned LDRSH

 - ARM7: Fix decoding of some ARM ALU instructions with shifters

 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints in gdb

 - GBA: Fix warnings when creating and loading savestates

 - GBA: Fix Iridion II savetype

 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned CpuSet

 - GBA Cheats: Fix cheats setting the Action Replay version

 - GBA Hardware: Fix GPIO on big endian

 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA register writing behavior

 - GBA Memory: Fix DMAs triggering two cycles early

 - Libretro: Fix aspect ratio

 - Qt: Fix some potential crashes with the gamepad mapping

 - Qt: Fix keys being mapped incorrectly when loading configuration file

 - Util: Fix PowerPC PNG read/write pixel order

 - Util: Fix excessive memory allocation when decoding a PNG

 - VFS: Fix VFileReadline and remove _vfdReadline

Misc:

 - All: Improved PowerPC support

 - All: Fix some undefined behavior warnings

 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size

 - Debugger: Convert breakpoints and watchpoints from linked-lists to vectors

 - GBA: Implement bad I/O register loading

 - GBA: Allow jumping to OAM and palette RAM

 - GBA BIOS: Finish implementing RegisterRamReset

 - GBA Config: Add "override" layer for better one-time configuration

 - GBA Input: Consolidate GBA_KEY_NONE and GBA_NO_MAPPING

 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory

 - GBA Memory: Implement several unimplemented memory access types

 - GBA Memory: Add GBAView* functions for viewing memory directly without bus issues

 - GBA RR: Starting from savestate now embeds the savegame

 - GBA RR: Add preliminary SRAM support for VBM loading

 - GBA RR: Add support for resets in movies

 - GBA Video: Remove lastHblank, as it is implied

 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory

 - Libretro: Add install target for libretro core

 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported

 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper

 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window

 - Qt: Gray out "Skip BIOS intro" while "Use BIOS file" is unchecked

 - Qt: Allow use of modifier keys as input

 - Qt: Optimize log viewer

 - Qt: Added button for breaking into the GDB debugger

 - Qt: Add box for showing duration of rewind

 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2

 - SDL: Allow GBASDLAudio to be used without a thread context

 - Util: Use VFile for configuration

 - Util: Add MutexTryLock

--0.3.2--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.3.2, is available. This version is a bugfix release. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix STRT/STRBT

 - ARM7: Implement undefined STRH/LDRH/LDRSH/LDRSB versions

 - ARM7: Fix bank switching with LDR[B]T/STR[B]T

 - Libretro: Fix problems with rumble not turning off

 - GBA: Fix idle skip state being retained between games

 - GBA: Initialize uninitialized pristineRom and pristineRomSize members

 - GBA BIOS: Fix CpuSet on 0x01XXXXXX addresses

 - GBA BIOS: Fix Sqrt sign

 - GBA BIOS: Fix misaligned RLUnCompReadNormalWrite*

 - GBA Hardware: Fix Game Boy Player rumble in Pokemon Pinball

 - GBA Memory: Fix DMA behavior for SRAM accesses

 - GBA Memory: Fix Store8 to OBJ VRAM

 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of LDM/STM on SRAM

 - GBA Memory: Fix unaligned out-of-bounds ROM loads

 - GBA Memory: Fix timing of DMAs

 - GBA Video: Fix _mix for 15-bit color

 - GBA Video: Fix OAM and palette initialization

 - OpenGL: Fix fast-forward on some OpenGL drivers where it may block early

 - Qt: Use safer isLoaded check in GameController

 - Qt: Fix a race condition in PainterGL that could lead to a crash

 - Qt: Fix clear button/analog buttons in gamepad mapper on some platforms

 - Qt: Fix font size in memory viewer

 - Qt: Fix a crash in the memory viewer

 - Qt: Add additional checks in CheatModel to prevent crashes

 - Qt: Fix race condition with setting sample rate

 - Qt: Fix crash when closing multiplayer windows

 - Qt: Fix resetting while paused

Misc:

 - GBA Audio: Implement missing flags on SOUNDCNT_X register

 - Qt: Add mute option to menu

--0.3.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.3.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix instruction decoding of Thumb shifts

 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM

 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian

 - GBA: Fix autodetect problems with some bad dumps of Super Mario Advance 2

 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers

 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time

 - GBA Memory: Fix bad BIOS Load16 on big endian

 - GBA Memory: Fix bad Load8 on big endian

 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded

 - GBA Video: Fix edge case with sprite blend modes and semitransparency

 - GBA Video: Fix objwin and blending interaction on sprites

 - GBA Video: Fix OBJ semitransparency improperly interacting with other blending ops

 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer

 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch

 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR

 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows

 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs

 - VFS: Fix return values of VFileFILE.read and .write

Misc:

 - All: Reset next event to cycles instead of zero to interrupt

 - All: Add --version flag

 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug

 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng

 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates

 - GBA: Additional savestate sanity checks

 - GBA: Check for cycle count being too high

 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback

 - GBA BIOS: Implement RegisterRamReset for SIO registers

 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs

 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer

 - Qt: Disable menu items in multiplayer that don't make sense to have enabled

 - Qt: Dropping multiplayer windows works more cleanly now

--0.3.0--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.3.0, is available. This is a major feature release. Some of the more prominent features include the addition of support for rotation and tilt sensors on controllers with analog sticks, default controller profiles for some of the more common controllers, improved synchronization, the beginning of the debug suite, and much more. An extensive list follows after the cut.

Features:

 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs

 - Ability to mute individual audio channels

 - Palette viewer and exporter

 - Volume control

 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)

 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding

 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots

 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind

 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers

 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts

 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels

 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors

 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)

 - Memory inspector

 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running

 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot

 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble

 - Ability to cap fast forward speed

 - Finer control over FPS target

 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time

 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS

 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running

 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder

 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL

 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving

 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings

 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers

 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor

 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode

 - Automatically load patches, if found

 - Improved video synchronization

 - Configurable audio output sample rate

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings

 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing

 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles

 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit

 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code

 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override

 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization

 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading

 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading

 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs

 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores

 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers

 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative

 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit

 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size

 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3

 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency

 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together

 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior

 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate

 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates

 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached

 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied

 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic

 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites

 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5

 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline

 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes

 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats

 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows

 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override

 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen

 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor

 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped

 - Qt: Fix passing command line options

 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls

 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing

 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM

 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail

 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values

 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames

 - Util: Fix formatting of floats

Misc:

 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs

 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root

 - All: Enable static linking for Windows

 - All: Enable static linking for OS X

 - All: Threads are now named

 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths

 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode

 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table

 - GBA: Add status log level

 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound

 - GBA: SIO logging layer

 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias

 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips

 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed

 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written

 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary

 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B

 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary

 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core

 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key

 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present

 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode

 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread

 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file

 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files

 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering

 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints

 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better

 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread

 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu

 - Qt: Show version info in window title

 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp

 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location

 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been

 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen

 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic

 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files

 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"

 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen

 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter

 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key

 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper

 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes

 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM

 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch

 - SDL: Properly check for initialization

 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions

 - SDL: Clean up GL context

 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely

 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing

--0.2.1--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.2.1, is available. This version is primarily a bugfix release. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Bugfixes:

 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself

 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms

 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3

 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb

 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register

 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code

 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion

 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register

 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions

 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers

 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled

 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access

 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access

 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio

 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases

 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB

 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space

 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM

 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5

 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start

 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window

 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies

 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning

 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window

 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started

 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change

 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying

 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size

 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile

 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments

 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps

 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use

 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code

 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key

 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail

 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames

Misc:

 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM

 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title

 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set

--0.2.0--

A new release of mGBA, version 0.2.0, is available. Two years to the day since mGBA started development, 0.2.0 marks a major feature release. Some of the more prominent features include the addition of support for local link cable multiplayer, cheat code support, the Solar Sensor (as used in Boktai), configuration options, and much more. An extensive list follows after the cut.

Features:

 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers

 - Add scale presets for up to 6x

 - Settings window

 - Bilinear resampling option

 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen

 - List of recently opened games

 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor

 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf

 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values

 - Support for games using the tilt sensor

 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad

 - Rewinding of emulation

 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter

 - Support IPv6

 - Save directory of last loaded file

 - Support BPS patches

 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops

 - Configurable game overrides

 - Support loading 7-Zip files

 - Drag and drop game loading

 - Cheat code support

 - Runtime configurable audio driver

 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends

 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers

 - Ability to lock aspect ratio

 - Local link cable support

 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance

 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input

 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called

 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command

 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory

 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions

 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage

 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads

 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)

 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers

 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null

 - GBA: Fix timer initialization

 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio

 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset

 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses

 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads

 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core

 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores

 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie

 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive

 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync

 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start

 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded

 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game

 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game

 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running

 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server

 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)

 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running

 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch

 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows

Misc:

 - All: Enable link-time optimization

 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions

 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing

 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop

 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling

 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)

 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)

 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints

 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values

 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands

 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing

 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input

 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware

 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory

 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core

 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)

 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples

 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width

 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out

 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first

 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing

 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread

 - Qt: Remember window position

 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen

 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values

--0.1.1--

A bugfix release of mGBA, version 0.1.1, is released. Please note that this is a bugfix release only and does not include any new features. It aims to increase the compatibility and stability over the previous version.

Bugfixes:

 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written

 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly

 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly

 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)

 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels

 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses

 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI

 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory

 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length

 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS

 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions

 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent

 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging

 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses

 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses

 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state

 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly

 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers

 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)

 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)

 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic

 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic

 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range

 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height

 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running

 - Qt: Fix window focus issues

 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings

 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately

 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted

 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown

 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset

 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb

 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late

 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits

 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames

 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording

 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong

 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro

Misc:

 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it

 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM

 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default

 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing

 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN

 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus

 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost

--0.1.0--

The initial release of mGBA, version 0.1.0, is here! mGBA aims to be a high-quality Game Boy Advance emulator, and I look forward to getting feedback from the community to make it even higher quality in the future.