FCEUX Changelog

What's new in FCEUX 2.2.3

Jul 29, 2016

Common"
Customizable overclocking
Dendy mode
Fixed rerecord counting broken outside taseditor
Emulation:
Added mappers: 29, 30
Fixed mappers: 225, 119, 4, 35, 31, 69, 212, 45
Fixed mmc5 IRQ handling
Fixed mmc1 reg#3 masking
Fixed vrc7 sound savestates
Added CoolBoy, KS7010, SB200, UNIF 158B, UNIF DRAGONFIGHTER, UNIF BMC-10-24-C-A1, UNIF EH8813A, UNIF HP898F, UNIF F-15, UNIF RT-01, UNIF UNL-KS7017, UNIF BMC-81-01-31-C, UNIF UNL-8-IN-1
NES 2.0 support
Fixed UNIF BMC 12 IN 1, UNIF OneBus
Movies:
Fixed a bug with FDS flag being always set when converting a FCM
Video:
Prescale filter for 2x, 3x and 4x resolutions
Made NTSC filter internal resolution closer to 4:3
Palette:
Support 512 color palettes
Added external palettes: SONY_CXA2025AS_US.pal, RP2C03.pal (and its versions), Unsaturated-V6.pal
Option to swap deemphasis bits
Sound:
Option to swap duty cycles
NSF can be set to Dendy mode
Input:
Fix Mouse input implementation
Support for SNES mouse
PEC-586 russian keyboard support
Lua:
Removed speed notification per script reload, if it remained 100%
Fixed lua drawings in NSF
Proper halo for lua font
Fixes to sound.get() region consistency and frequency/midikey detection for Noise and DPCM channels
New Lua functions:
emu.getpath()
emu.loadrom()
rom.writebyte()
gethash()
Win32:
Added -dumpinput and -playinput functions
Support for SNES pad
Added onscreen messages when region changes
Debugger:
Added debuggerPageSize config variable which lets you pick whether 8KB physical PRG pages are used, or 16KB (the original). It defaults to 14 (1

New in FCEUX 2.2.2 (Sep 24, 2013)

Common
Properly savestate NSF files
"Auto-resume old play session" now also works with NSFs
Emulation
Fixed mappers 178, 28, 53, 154, 43, 253, 19, 2
Mapper 012 - added hardware dip for language select
UNIF PEC-586 - fixed render, added 512K cartridges suppport
Fixed UNIF 8157, UNIF T-262, UNIF DANCE2000
Palette RAM reading fix for Old PPU
Bring some improvements to New PPU from BizHawk, fix vtoggle5/6 back to vtoggle
Fixed mmc5 savestates
Lua
Fix wrong frequency calculation in sound.get() function
New Lua functions:
tobitstring()
memory.readword()
memory.readwordsigned()
debugger.hitbreakpoint()
debugger.getcyclescount()
debugger.getinstructionscount()
debugger.resetcyclescount()
debugger.resetinstructionscount()
New scripts:
JumpingFCEUXWindow.lua
Win32
Added "Square pixels" option to Video Config
"TV Aspect" ratio can be customized, by default it's 4:3
Changed "Disable hardware acceleration" checkbox to a drop-down list with 3 options
Movie recording: remember last Author name when creating a new movie
Movie recording: added ability to record "Insert coin" command (for VS games)
When no script is currently running, Shift+L loads the most recent Lua script
Dynamic link to lua51.dll instead of static linking, because some external libraries might crash without lua51.dll
Updated 7z.dll to v9.22
A couple of fixes which deal with "multiple ROMs in a single archive" case
Auto-disable "Game Genie ROM" feature when no "gg.rom" file is found
Fixed "Single Instance Mode"
TAS Editor
Comply with Lua movie.rerecordcounting() setting
Fixed workflow with "Auto-adjust Input according to Lag" disabled
Debugger
Smart scrolling up/down by whole instructions - ported from an obscure version of FCEUXD 1.1
Scrolling maintains relative position of the ">" pointer inside the Disassembly window
Highlight PC pointer line when a breakpoint is hit
debuggerFontSize can be specified in fceux.cfg
Fixed storing and loading .deb files when working with archived ROMs
Fixed Cycles counter reset when loading an earlier savestate
Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address or name
Symbolic names behave the same way as usual addresses
Newly created Bookmarks inherit existing symbolic name by default
Added CDL data column to the left from Disassembly, to distinguish executed branches of code from not executed
Added 'T' condition for breakpoints (it checks the bank of the accessed data, see docs)
Trace Logger
The dialog window can be resized
Do not clear window log when stopping the logging
Added "Log Cycles count" and "Log Instructions count" options
Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address or name
Clicking any address select the address
Double-clicking any address brings Debugger at the address
Added mouse wheel support
Only output "from $XXXX" when the subroutine was called by JSR
PPU Viewer
Added "Mask unused graphics" feature (needs Code/Data Logger running)
Fixed window layout when using big fonts
Hex Editor
Added "Highlighting" submenu and "Highlight Activity" feature
Added Symbolic Debug naming by right-clicking any address
Specify Data bank condition when adding a Breakpoint by context menu
Fixed bugs when saving files while working with ROMs in archives
hexeditorFontSize can be specified in fceux.cfg
RAM Search/RAM Watch
Added "Hex Editor" button to RAM Search (right-clicking an address works as well)
Fixed RAM Watch bug when contents of old .wch file were mixed with the newly saved data
SDL
"--periodicsaves" command line option
"--4buttonexit" command line option
"--loadstate X" and "--savestate X" command line options
Added Unity desktop support
Added otion to use system-provided LUA library instead of statically linked LUA
Fix issue where battery backup save was not being saved when using "Quit" hotkey
Fixed bug where FCEUX would take exclusive grab of input in windowed mode when resuming from pause

New in FCEUX 2.1.5 (Jun 6, 2011)

New in FCEUX 2.1.4a (May 30, 2011)

New in FCEUX 2.1.0a (Jun 3, 2009)

Major Bug / Crash Bug Fixes
Fixed throttling problems that resulted on AMD Dualcore processors. (Caused FCEUX to appear to be in turbo mode).
Fix major crash issue where NROM game (such as SMB) savestates were writing erroneous information if a non NROM game was loaded prior.
Fixed a bug that caused a new sav file to not get created when loading a 2nd battery backed game.
Fix Directory Overrides so to allow users to have no override. Also fixes directory override reset bug.
Minor Bug fixes
Hotkeys - prevent "Hotkey explosion" where some laptop keys set off all unassigned hotkeys
Timing - "disable throttling when sound is off" now only affects FCEUX when sound is off
Clip Left and Right sides taken into account when drawing on screen (record/play/pause, lag & frame counters, messages, etc)
Fixed bug where having sound off and Mute turbo caused chirps when toggling
Video settings - fixed bug when both aspect ratio correction and special scaling 3x are set, video was getting resized incorrectly
Auto-save cleanup -prevent loading an auto-save from previous session. Added flags for enabling auto-save menu item.
Fixed issues related to big endian compiling.
Fix bug so that Escape can now be assigned as a hotkey
Fixed bug in screenshot numbering that caused numbering to not reset when changing games.
SDL
SDL Movie subtitle support and subtitle toggle hotkey added.
SDL Added fcm to fm2 converter tool to SDL version.
SDL Improved the SDL sound code; drastically improves quality of sound.
SDL Savestate slots are now mappable.
SDL Major updates to SDL documentation
SDL Added Shift+M for toggling automatic movie backups.
SDL Added option to mute FCEUX for avi capturing, check the documentation for more details.
SDL Added --noconfig command line option
SDL Frame Advance Skip Lag frames toggle implemented
New Features Win32
The latest mappers and mapper fixes from FCEU-mm. Adds support for many new games such as Warioland II (Unl), Shu Qi Yu, and Street Dance
Full screen mode fixed! Also, Alt+Enter properly toggles full screen.
Individual control for sound channels! (See sound config for details).
Undo/Redo Savestate/Loadstate features installed! No more loss of data to unintentional presses. (See getting started for details).
Movie subtitles can now be included in .fm2 files. See .fm2 documentation for details and Movie options for details on customizing.
Auto-backup for movie files. (See movie options for details).
A Ram change monitor for the Memory watch dialog. (see memwatch for details).
Frame counter works even without a movie loaded.
AVI Directory Override option.
GUI / Menu Enhancements
A right-click context menu added! Includes many commonly used items for a variety of situations.
Menu items that are hotkey mappable now show their current hotkey mapping
Major overhaul to the Menu organization.
All FCEUX features are now accessible in the menu
Alt Menu Shortcuts properly configured
Menu items are properly grayed when not useable
All movie related menu items moved to a Movie options dialog
Removed hard-coded Accel keys and replaced with re-mappable hotkeys (Open & Close ROM)
Drag & Drop for .fm2 and .lua files
Many new functions added to the context menu (See context menu for details)
New Mappable Hotkeys: Open Cheats, Open ROM, Close ROM, Undo/Redo save state, Toggle Movie Subtitles
Lua
Added input.get() ! Returns the mouse info and all keyboard buttons pressed by the user.
Fixed joypad.set(). False now sets a button to off. Nil does not affect the button at all (allowing the user to still control it).
gui.text() Increased height (to approx. 7 lines).
speedmode("turbo") now turns on turbo (which employs frame-skipping) rather than max speed.
memory.readbyte will recognize frozen addresses (cheats).
movie.framecount() always return a number, even when no movie is playing (since the frame counter is implemented without a movie loaded).
Added FCEU.poweron()
Added FCEU.softreset()
Added FCEU.lagged()
Added FCEU.lagcount()
Added FCEU.getreadonly()
Added FCEU.setreadonly()
Added FCEU.fceu_setrenderplanes(sprites, background)
Added movie.active()
Added movie.rerecordcount()
Added movie.length()
Added movie.getname()
Added movie.playbeginning()
Added -lua command line argment, loads a Lua script on startup
Added zapper.read() - returns the zapper (mouse) data. (Currently does return zapper data in movie playback).
Added joypad.write and joypad.get for naming consistency.
Added rom.readbyte()
Added rom.readbytesigned()
Sound Config
Turning sound off disabled sound config controls
Re-enabled sound buffer time slider control
Hex Editor
Freezing ram addresses automatically updates the Cheats dialog if it is open.
Added prevention from freezing more than 256 addresses at once (doing so caused crash bugs).
Dialog remembers window size.
Dump Rom & Dump PPU to file Dialogs use ROM to build default filename
Maximize and minimize buttons added.
Help menu item added
Memory Watch
Dialog now includes Ram change monitoring. (see memwatch for details).
Dialog is now collapsible to 1 column.
No longer crashes when attempting to load an invalid file from the recent file menu.
Cancel option added to the save changes dialog.
Memory address values that are frozen by the debugger or hex editor are displayed in blue.
Fixed bug that caused dialog to "disappear" due to saving -32000 as its window position.
Save as dialog uses ROM name to build a default memory watch filename if there was no last used memory watch filename
Drag and drop for .txt (memory watch) files.
Minor menu and hotkey fixes.
Watch values now compatible with custom windows dialog colors.
Debugger
Shows scanlines and PPU pixel values
Shows scanlines even while in VBlank
Added a Run Line button (runs 1 scanline per click)
Run 128 Lines button (runs 128 scanlines per click)
Number of active cheats listed.
Cheats list automatically updated if ram addresses are frozen in the hex editor.
Fixed bug that caused dialog to "disappear" due to saving -32000 as its window position.
Debugger now has a minimum valid size
Added "Restore original window size" button
PPU Viewer
Default refresh value set to 15
Refresh value stored in the .cfg file
Nametable Viewer
Default refresh value set to 15
Refresh value stored in the .cfg file
Trace Logger
Fixed bug where user can't scroll the log window while it is auto-updating.
Changed message about F2 pause (left over from FCEUXDSP) to display the current hotkey mapping.
Text Hooker
Saving a .tht file no longer crashes
Dialog updates every frame
Initialization error checking reinstalled,
Dialog remembers window position
Fixed bug where canceling save as produces an error message.
Save As produces default filename based on the current ROM
Message Log
Remembers X,Y position
Resized width and height
Allowed more lines of text to appear on the screen at once.
Metadata
Remembers window position
Can be called from the context menu if a movie is loaded (see context menu for details).
TASEdit
added help menu item
disabled menu items that are not currently implemented.
Turbo
Turbo now employs frame skip, greatly increasing its speed
The mute turbo option completely bypasses sound processing (another big speed boost)
Turbo now works with the Lazy wait for VBlank sync setting