[multi] BizHawk 1.3.0

Cratermaze (NEC Home Electronics (U.S.A.) Inc., 1990)

BizHawk 1.3.0 November 1, 2012

• Scheduled for Release (tentatively): December 1, 2012
• Revision Range 3525 - 4026
• New Core: ColecoVision!

Multiclient

• New input config dialog
• Ability to map meny console buttons such as reset and power as controller keys
• Fix cases where Statusbar pause icon didn't appear when paused
• Tracelogger - fix bug that was pausing some NES games
• Move virtualpads from TAStudio to its own tool dialog
• Move all remaining .dll files to dll folder
• Fix - Force stop av capture on loading a new rom core, to avoid crashes.
• Fix - Fixes weird input behavior in frame advance when using things like joypad.set()
• Input/Hotkeys - Support mapping to Ctrl/Alt/Shift
• Make the rom open filter remember its last option used in this bizhawk session
• Fix crash on Joypad unplug
• Tracelogger: copy to clipboard
• AV dump - support resizing everything to a single resolution.

Lua

• Fix savestate.loadslot()
• Implement client.screenshot(), client.setscreenshotosd(), client.screenshottoclipboard()
• Fix Lua scripts to use their folder as the default folder for that script
• Fix movie.setrerecordcounting()

Movies

• Fix recording from savestate
• Fix loading of sync depending GB menu items.
• Sync dependent movie header items now force the emulator settings when the movie is loaded
• When switching from record to play, write movie to disk
• Add Save Movie hotkey and menu item

TAStudio

• Only go to Movie 'Finished' mode if Tastudio is not engaged.
• Make sure Movie log and savestates are updated correctly so that tastudio still works correctly when you play through the end of the movie in read-only mode.
• Fix Rewind To Frame
• Fix - Minor tweaks to make tasstudio not run out of memory so easily
• Fixed ListView double-click to run forward to the selected frame.
• Fixed the ListView highlighting for the current frame.

NESHawk

• 20% Faster!
• FDS Emulation
• PAL Support
• Implmented Power Cycle (Hard reset) emulation, including in movie recording
• Implemented mappers 19, 20, 28, 36, 103, 171, 249, 250
• Fix Robocop 3 scroll glitches
• Mapper "TENGEN-800008". support Tetris (Tengen)
• Add identifier for TENGEN-800030. fixes bootgod identified dumps of various tengen (U) games
• VRC 2 - fix Contra (J), Ganbare Goemon 2 (J)
• Fix Nametable Viewer in some games
• Fix Dragon Ball - Dai Maou Jukkatsu, Rokudenashi Blues, Dragon Ball Z - Kyoushuu! Saiya Jin, SD Gundam Gaiden, Magical Taruruuto Kun 1, 2
• Namco163 Audio
• MMC5 - add ExRAM memory domain
• Gxrom board - fix possible crash on 64K prg carts
• Add 256K prg option for ACCLAIM-MC-ACC. fixes "Simpsons, The: Bart vs. The World" and "Simpsons, The: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man"
• Fix Mapper 27 based on new understandings from fceumm - fixes World Hero
• Change memory initialization pattern, fixes Huang Di.
• NESPPU view: implement ctrl+C copy on mouseover
• Fix Mappers 74 and 192

GBHawk

• Added a GPU Viewer tool
• System Bus memory domain - fixed to read deterministically
• Tracelogging support
• implement GBC palette selection

AtariHawk

• a CPU timing fix - breaks movie sync! (Most movies will need 2 less frames at the beginning of the movie to sync)
• Implement mapper E7
• Fix glitches with Frostbite.
• Add Graphics Layer toggling
• Fixed graphics on games including Enduro and Activision Boxing
• Fixed issue with vsync which caused flashing in Pleaides and Enduro

SNESHawk

• Fix potential desyncs with some games (like Super Star Wars)
• Log core firmware requests to console
• SNES GFX Debugger
• preliminary sprite visualizing
  • display OBJ tiles
  • add ctrl+c to clipboard capability, and reflect user choice of backdrop color in debugger window
  • support rightclick freezing
  • hookup UI for color palette selection

SMSHawk

• put islag variable into savestates

PCEHawk

• Fix dumb error in display-off background color calculation, fixes soldier blade flashing wrong color

DiscoHawk

• ECM support