[SNES] SSNES 0.9.5

SSNES v0.9.5 2012-04-02

Console

- PlayStation 3 port quite complete (Squarepusher).
- Lots of work on XBox 360 port (Squarepusher).
- Add SSNES-Salamander for PS3 and 360 (Squarepusher).

General

• Add experimental audio rate control. This will dynamically adjust input rate on the fly to possibly eliminate all stuttering in video if enabled.
• Add new SSE-optimized windowed sinc resampler for improved audio quality.
• If SSNES is built on 32-bit x86 and sinc is used,
  it is recommended to compile with SSE enabled for major speedup.
  Old hermite resampler is still available in compile time (--disable-sinc).
  32-bit Windows build still uses hermite by default. 64-bit Windows build has sinc enabled as availability of SSE can be guaranteed.
• Add resampler test cases to objectively verify quality and correctness.
• Add IPS patching support.
• Add --no-patch option to disable all rom patching.
• Add compatibility layer for legacy network implementations.
• kp_plus/kp_minus detected properly again.
• Add fixes to C++ build.
• Fix regression with screenshots (Mziab).
• Bump maximum players to 8 to accomodate possible needs in future.
• Add SET_VARIABLES extension interface to libsnes. Cores can advertise support for very obscure settings that cannot be supported generically.
• Add SET_ROTATION interface to allow implementations to defer screen rotation to hardware if available.
• Add audio batch callback that improves performance of certain libsnes implementations.
• Add *_equal semantics to state tracker. Allowing checking for multiple buttons pressed at once. Useful for certain shaders.
• Fix bug with XAudio in nonblock mode.
• .cgp shaders can take absolute paths for shaders. Mostly useful on consoles.
• Add code to be able to cleanly reinit Cg.
• If output sample rate is not supported in OSS, do not fail, and use the given rate.
• Fixup compatibility with very recent FFmpeg. Should now work seamlessly with v52/v53/v54 libav*.
• Add option to use FFV1 instead when support for H.264 recording is compiled in.
• If loading a library fails on Windows, the more precise error code is logged.
• Movie playback doesn't fail if the recording and playing core doesn't match. A warning will be logged instead.
• Allow stopping movie playback early.
• Add device selection to XAudio2 and DirectSound.
• BSV movie error handling is more lenient, and tries to give warnings about possible incompatibilities rather than throw an error. (AlexFolland).
• Savestates that have path appended with ".auto" will be automatically loaded on startup. Useful for arcade-style games.
•  Lots of minor bug fixes and cleanups allround.

GUI

• Make the updater more intuitive to use by adding dedicated buttons for using and downloading libsnes cores.
• Fix bug where torrentzipped archives were crashing the GUI.