SameBoy 1.0

[Felipe]

Changes​

Version 1.0​

This version is backwards compatible with save states from SameBoy 0.14.3 and newer, as well as save states from any BESS compliant emulator

New/Improved Features​

• SameBoy for watchOS is now available:
  • Transfer ROMs and saves to and from the iOS frontend (App Store only)
  • Two customizable control schemes optimized for a small screen
  • Fast Forward and Rewind support
  • Settings and synced from the paired iPhone
  • Available to active supporters or via a one-time payment
• The Cocoa frontend is now digitally signed and notarized
• SameBoy on Open Desktop platform can now generate thumbnails in file browsers via theXDG Thumbnails API
• Improved AirPlay Mirroring support in the iOS frontend
• Full-screen mode is now supported in the iOS frontend if a controller is used
• The Cocoa and SDL frontends now support automatic model selection
• Cheat Search is now available from the Cheats menu in the Cocoa frontend
• The user interface for the Cheats window has been improved in the Cocoa frontend
• The Cocoa and SDL frontends can now associate keyboard or joypad buttons with Rapid A or Rapid B
• Game Boy Printer can now be emulated in the iOS frontend
• Cheats can now be used in the iOS frontend
• iCloud support was added to the iOS frontend (App Store release only)
• The palette editor was added to the iOS frontend; it can now import, export and create its own palettes
• 7 new palettes were added to all frontends
• The horizontal layout on iPhones that have a notch has been improved
• 3 new interface themes were added to the iOS frontend (App Store release only)
• Improved ISX file compatibility
• The Cocoa frontend and now select a monospace font to be used in the debugger and other development windows
• The cartridge icons have been retouched and visually improved
• The SDL frontend on Windows can now associate itself with supported ROM files, and provide them with icons
• The box filter used for audio downsampling has been replaced with band-limited synthesis, vastly improving audio quality in all frontends
• A warning is now shown when loading a ROM with a RAM size smaller than a single bank
• iPhones that have x4 and x5 cameras can now pick a virtual x2 zoom factor when emulating a Game Boy Camera
• Improved the OAM viewer in the Cocoa frontend so it correctly show objects even when the object palette is all set to a single color
• Quick Look has been updated to support the newer thumbnailing and previewing APIs, required by macOS Sequoia

Accuracy Improvements/Fixes​

• Improvements to OAM accessibility timings
• Improvements to PPU timings in CGB revisions 0 to C
  • These revisions are no longer marked as “Experimental”
• More accurate emulation of SCX write conflicts on all models
• More accurate PPU fetcher timings, fixes visual glitches in in “Mr. Chin’s Gourmet Paradise” and “Turrican”
• Improved accuracy of cases where WX is 166 on pre-CGB models
• Improved accuracy of window edge cases, including emulation of a newly-discovered CGB window glitch, and improved accuracy in double speed mode
• Improved accuracy of LYC edge cases when emulating CGB revisions 0 to C in double speed mode
• Improved emulation of LCDC OBJ_EN write conflicts

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed a bug that caused the Mute menu item to incorrectly appear marked while a ROM is paused in the Cocoa frontend
• Fixed a bug that made keyboard shortcuts affect the wrong ROM in certain cases where multiple ROMs and debug windows were open in the Cocoa frontend
• Fixed a bug that prevented macOS 10.13 and older from using Link Cable emulation in the Cocoa frontend
• Fixed a bug that made importing palettes in the Cocoa frontend glitchy
• Fixed a bug that made Game Boy Camera emulation in the Cocoa frontend sometime incorrectly stretch the camera input to incorrect aspect ratios
• Fixed a bug that made audio output too low in the iOS frontend under certain conditions
• Fixed a bug that caused the Library in the iOS frontend to crash if ROMs were modified in the Files app while it was open

Misc Internal Changes​

• The core now supports outputting 2MHz audio (without downsampling)
• The Quick Look plugin and the main application now share the same code on disk, making the Cocoa frontend slightly smaller
• Fixed a bug that caused certain APIs to return success values despite failing
• Improved thread and context safety assertions in the core
• make lib builds SameBoy as a dynamic library now, in addition to the previously available static library
  • This includes Windows support, which remains unsupported for static libraries
• Improvements to the core APIs. The API is now stable and documented

SameBoy

A Friendly and Powerful Game Boy Emulator

sameboy.github.io

 

[ATenderLad]

Love to see it, been using this for years now.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

It's great to be a GB and GBC emulator alternative.