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- Prereq Installer
- BizHawk 2.2
- BizHawk 2.1.1
- BizHawk 2.1.0
- BizHawk 2.0.1
- BizHawk 2.0
- BizHawk 1.13.1
- BizHawk 1.13.0
- BizHawk 1.12.2
- BizHawk 1.12.1
- BizHawk 1.12.0
- BizHawk 1.11.9.1
- BizHawk 1.11.8.2
- BizHawk 1.11.7
- BizHawk 1.11.6
- BizHawk 1.11.5
- BizHawk 1.11.4
- BizHawk 1.11.3
- BizHawk 1.11.2
- BizHawk 1.11.1
- BizHawk 1.11.0
- BizHawk 1.10.0
- Older Releases
Prereq Installer
- Windows users, don't forget to run the prereq installer first!
- Anybody upgrading from 1.x to 2.0 MUST run the 2.0 prereq installer.
- Anybody trying to run 1.x must run the latest 1.x installer
BizHawk 2.2
- Released August 5, 2017
- Windows binary
- New Core: A7800Hawk
- Intended to replace the EMU7800 core for Atari 7800 emulation (though EMU7800 is still available as an option)
- EmuHawk
- SMS (various cores)
- Fix Andre Agassi Tennis (fix Z80 interrupts)
- NesHawk
- Fixes hard Drivin'
- Implement $2004 write glitch
- PPU: Fix OAMADDR
- Fix Warioland 2 (unl)
- Fix Don Doko Don 2
- PSX
- Add some more PSX bioses in firmware manager (#941)
- N64
- Fix crash in axis constraints application when not connecting any n64 controllers (fixes #946)
- Snes9x
- Fix crash when rebooting while paused
- Add CARTROM memory domain (#943)
- 32X
- Fix file chooser opening on unknown .32x files
- Fix auto-picking a .32x file when it is the only one in an archive
- Atari2600
- Fix bitmap demo atext.bin
- SGB
- Allow hiding of borders (#938)
- Saturn
- Fix Y axis of the 3D controller virtual pad
BizHawk 2.1.1
- Release July 23, 2017
- Windows binary
- SGB
- Switch from Pizza Boy to Sameboy for the GB emulations parts, fixes a number of sound bugs and other things
- mGBA
- Update to 0.6
- Saturn
- Add the Ultraman Cartridge Hash/Checksum.
- 32X
- Add region select. fixes #929
- Vboy
- allow loading savestates made with different non-sync settings
- PC-FX
- Implement Pro Pixel mode
- EmuHawk
BizHawk 2.1.0
- Released July 16, 2017
- Windows binary
- New Cores:
- 32X (using PicoDrive)
- PC-FX (using Mednafen)
- Uzebox (using Uzem)
- SGB
- Improved support
- Atari 2600
- Paddle support
- Saturn
- Multi-disc support
- Better error message when user tries to load a .bin file directly
- SNES
- bsnes - Ignore the "crop SGB frame" setting if SGB is not active
- Fix some games that require extra bios files by routing them to the bsnes core, fixes Megaman X2 & X3
- Lua
- Convert to NLua, fix memory leaks and corruption
- Allow LuaInterface as an option (Customize -> Advanced) and revert its behavior to what 1.12.2 had
- Add support for Lua scripts via the command line
- implement forms.pictureBox()
- Lua canvas
- add setLocation()
- implement getMouseX & Y functions
- createcanvas now takes additional parameters that specify where the window should be created
- EmuHawk
- TraceLogger - Turn off trace logging when closing the tool, fixes #911
- Fix crash in SNES virtualpad when mouse is used
- Capture Game Gear flag in movies (fixes tasvideos submisison parser detection)
- GB
- Make DualGB run again (been broken since GB bios files were added)
- Fix pocket monsters
BizHawk 2.0.1
- Released June 29, 2017
- Windows binary
- Saturn
- Fix aspect ratio correction logic
- SNES
- snes9x - port byuu's s-cpu fix
- Make it clear that Game Genie codes are not currently supported
- SMS
- Fix various graphical issues in some games, fixes #893
- Genesis
- Fix memory domains
- Fix Sega-CD
- Virtual Boy
- Fix frame 0 size
- Neo-Geo Pocket
- Correct mark this core as released
- EmuHawk
- Fix NES and GBA core picker menus
- TAStudio - Fix crash loading bitmap thumbnails
- Lua - add new SQL lua library see documentation for details
BizHawk 2.0
- Released June 25, 2017
- Windows binary
- Upgrade to .Net 4.6.1, You must run the new 2.0 prereq installer!
- Upgrade to 64-bit only
- Windows OS pre-Windows 7 no longer supported
- New Core: Neo Geo Pocket
- New Core: VirtualBoy
- Saturn
- Replace Yabause with the Mednafen saturn core
- Peripheral support
- SNES
- Replace performance profile with Snes9x 1.54 (Same nags as before, bsnes is preferred for movie recording!)
- Deterministic hacks removed, (compatibilty profile is no longer slower than native bsnes, emulation bugs gone)
- Reliable savestates
- Genesis/Sega-CD
- Savestate instability fixed
- N64
- GLideN64 update
- Jabo dropped (unfortunate consequence of going 64-bit)
- Cxd64-rsp-lle plugin support dropped (possibly temporarily)
BizHawk 1.13.1
- Released June 25, 2017
- Windows binary
- EmuHawk
- Fix exception when A/V capturing at custom sizes
- Fix exception when selecting Reboot core with no rom loaded, Fixes #865
- Lua - add more drawing methods for Lua canvas
- Update statusbar on Loadstate Slot 7
- Hotkeys for toggling Gameboy Obj and Bg layers
- NESHawk
- Fix numerous unlicensed games
- Improve loading headerless ROMs
- Fix APU triangle channel (passes APU mixer tests)
- Fix APU Length counter (passes test_apu_2 tests)
- Fix a PPU timing bug
- Code cleanup (~5% faster)
- SNES
- Add 'crop SGB frame' option, #871
- C64
- Fix mnemonics for previous and next disk buttons
- Dual GB
- Fix input
BizHawk 1.13.0
- Released June 3, 2017
- Windows binary
- Commodore 64 core officially released!
- EmuHawk
- Hex editor - Find box - remember Hex vs Text radio selection
- Fix problems where keybindings arent automatically applied when loading a configfile. Fixes #851
- When key priority is Hotkey over input, account for special hotkeys such as frame advance, turbo, fast forward, rewind
- Add Toggle Key Priority hotkey
- Drag & drop - default unknown file extensions to ROM
- Fix rewind crash when cancelling out of archive file picker dialog
- Check if save ram exists before writing it (Fixes TAStudio Ctrl+S crash)
- Lua
- Fix memory leak causing crash after a few dozen script loads/resets
- Implement emu.getboardname
- Add lua canvas methods to documentation
- TAStudio
- Fully replicate taseditor behavior when editing input by clicking column header
- Don't draw column reordering icon when clicking column header (happened when several rows were selected)
- Don't record marker edits to history when branch backup is created
- NesHawk
- Support some headerless Roms
- Fix Tagin Dragon
- Fix Faimly Basic
- Fix Armadillo (J) graphics Fixes #848
- UNIF_BMC_FK23C - Dipswitch support
- SNES
- Fix frame 0 loadstating
- Support Trace logging GB and SMP cores
- Disable trace logger on the Performance profile
- Code-Data Logger support for SGB
- PSX
- Fix multitap flaking out after reboot core
- Atari 2600
- Fix Ram tools not updating after Hard Reset Fixes #838
- Apple II
- Add default binding for the Return key
- Remove default bindings for keys that don't exist
- Genesis
- Disassembler fix
- Add missing buttons on the menacer
- Colecovision
- Virtualpad support for peripherals
- Mnemonic names for peripheral buttons
- SMS
- Fixes to Korean boards
- Fix Xyzolog
- PCE
- Fix frame 0 loadstate window size bug
BizHawk 1.12.2
- Released May 3, 2017
- Windows binary
- mGBA
- Update mgba to latest 0.5.2 (71ee4a64b36b1256dbf6193b1087ff60a4656369)
- Virtual Pad - support tilt controls (Fix #830)
- Fix broken GB sound channels
- Limited debugger support
- Intellihawk
- Sound emulation improvements
- Debugger support
- Capture mapper info into movie headers
- SNESHawk
- fix bug savestating SA1 hung in STP or WAI. fixes panic bomber.
- Multitap support
- Peripheral support
- PSXHawk
- Multitap support
- NeGcon support
- GPGX
- NesHawk
- Apply changes to MMC5 specified by https://sourceforge.net/p/fceultra/bugs/787/
- Fix more then 8 sprites option
- AV Super Real Pachinko (Unl)
- Atari 7800
- Fix savestates made on frame 0 (fix #815)
- EmuHawk
- Allow rewinding during movie recording
- Stop hotkeys from getting sucked up by absent tool windows when hotkey-over-game priority is enabled
- Fix flickering when toggling vsync on/off (e.g. while fast forwarding).
- Flush saveram hotkey
- TAStudio - Tweak editing selection by clicking column header instead of reverting every button state, apply the reverted state of the first selected frame to all the selection
- Lua
- Add horizalign and vertalign parameters to gui.drawText()
- Implement tastudio.getselection(), tastudio.insertframes(), tastudio.deleteframes()
- Implement client.saveram() (flushes save ram to disk)
BizHawk 1.12.1
- Released April 2, 2017
- Windows binary
- IntelliHawk
- Major sound emulation improvements
- General emulation improvements
- Add Power/Reset buttons
- Fix aspect ratio
- NESHawk
- Timing and audio emulation improvements
- Fix Micro Machines
- Fix Huge Insect
- QuickNES
- Fix Ms. Pac Man (Tengen)
- ColecoHawk
- Turbo controller support
- N64Hawk
- Use mupen64plus built-in debugger to avoid major slowdowns when breakpoints are set
- Fix audio in AVI recording
- Genesis+GX
- Add options for "Always double size"
- EmuHawk
- hex editor: add import binary tool (quick and dirty way to effect .sav importing in many cases)
- add a toggle all cheats hotkey
- Cheats - Set default compare type to "equal" not NOTHING, fixes NES game genie codes generated through the cheat converter
- fix Tools -> External Tools menu item throwing an exception
- TAStudio
- Add branch undo feature
- Add jump to branch frame
- Fix autohold not being latched when recording frames
- Fix #534 (Disabling autohold is halfworking)
- Dynamically resize usertext column
- Make branch screenshot popup fade in and out
- Allow exporting a named state
- Branch text edit popup follows mouse pointer
- When reopening tastudio and restoring its position, tolerate slight offscreen by resetting to 0 instead of ignoring the saved pos
- Fix input being erased when frames are added
- Fix rewinding that was turning rec mode off
- Lua
- tastudio.getrecording()
- tastudio.setrecording()
- tastudio.togglerecording()
BizHawk 1.12.0
- Released February 21, 2017
- Windows binary
- New Core: Intellivision!
- NesHawk
- When a Game Genie code is turned off, remove the effects immediately, fixes #770
- PPU timing fixes
- Improve DPCM glitch emulation
- Fix more the "8 sprites per scanline" option
- Implement Mapper 190
- Force Cybernoid to run in NesHawk
- Fix Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen (J)
- Fix Aladdin SuperGame
- Support mapper 002-00 submapper with WRAM if the header specifies it
- Lightgun emulation improvements
- disable VS settings menu item if current NES rom is not a VS rom
- ColecoHawk
- Fix controller 2
- Fix controls for Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress (USA), fixes #754
- Add no skip flag to some games, fixes #752
- GBA
- mGBA - Fix some of the audio channel disables not working, fix audio channel disables not being restored on reboot core
- GPU Viewer - Don't draw a sprite if its size + tile index combined make it go past the end of VRAM
- Game Gear
- Fix Shining Force Gaiden II (J) and Shining Force II (J)
- Emu7800
- compile in release mode, fixes #795
- Pick Palette correctly, fixes #757 (Mat Mania Challenge PAL)
- Gameboy
- Fix System Bus memory domain when game uses CartRAM, fixes #760
- Genesis
- Display interlaced mode as 480i (weaved), stretch width as well
- Put more of VDP context to savestates, fixes interlaced mode
- EmuHawk
- TAStudio
- Recording mode doesn't erase input during seeking anymore
- Fix recording mode disabling itself (#806)
- Stop crashing upon movie platform mismatch
- Smoother rewind
- Stop latching user input in playback mode if new frames are generated
- Fix #800 (row count cap)
- make ToggleReadOnly() toggle read-only (allows movie.getreadonly() return valid value)
- Hide columns starting with "Key " by default
- Fix #788 (bsnes rerecording performance mode warning not in front of tastudio)
- Fix #785 (ArgumentOutOfRangeException in StateToRemove) and branch loads wiping greenzone states
- Prevent cropping of branch screenshot popups if they are wider than TasView
- Fix .bk2 import
- List all available file extensions on File Open
- Show maker text popup when double-clicking existing marker in tasview, at cursor position, if called from tasview
- Fix and tweak clipboard and selection display
- Only load branch markers if they are bound to input
- Move Greenzone (State History) saving to the end of .tasproj saving. Hopefully it won't erase other elements anymore if it crashes during saving.
- Fix a crash caused by adding a marker
- Fix columns setup on regular movie conversion
- Fix double-click on the empty area throwing an exception
- Reload the tasmovie if it was loaded outside tastudio and then tastudio was opened, also go to current emulator frame
- Lua
- Fix luasockets support
- When toggling a script on, immediately run, and immediately update on-screen drawing
- Fix the edit button to account for relative vs absolute paths
- gui.text() - "new line" support
- add emu.totalexecutedcycles()
- add tastudio.setplayback()
- add forms.setdropdownitems()
- input.getMouse() - add scroll wheel, fixes #790
- gui.clearGraphics() - immediately update the screen
- tastudio.setmarker() - make marker message optional
- Fix client.bufferwidth() and client.bufferheight()
- Open File Dialog improvements
- Fix emu.getdisplaytype() that has been broken for a long time
- Fix movie.getinput() to correctly return float values instead of passing "False" no matter what
- Ram Search
- Update Size and Display type dropdowns on restart, fixes #762
- Show restored/removed messages when undoing/redoing, fixes #749
- Ram watch - fix rebooting core with a current watch listthe core, the check was always failing
- Hotkey to toggle the "Frame Advance Skips Lag Frames" option
- Hex Editor - Fix #761, exception when using "Find..." before selecting an address
- Apply FF&RW volume when unthrottled.
- D3D display method: fix 2nd ctrl alt del
- Fix fast-forward when using audio throttle and XAudio2 or OpenAL.
- Improve FPS smoothing
- Multi-disk Bundler - Fix DPI scaling issues and improve control positioning.
- Fix exception when loading a file that has no extension
- Fix exception when hovering over Config -> Cores -> Snes when the user has never opened a SNES game
- TAStudio
BizHawk 1.11.9.1
- Released December 2nd, 2016
- Windows binary
- mGBA
- Fix memory domain crashes
- NesHawk
- Add support for VS
- Fix Seicross (J) (PRG1)
- Support U-Force Power Games (U)
- Implement mappers 106, 162, 170, 220
- Fix mapper 176
- Various obscure game support and fixes
- N64
- Fix crash when picking 1440p or higher resolutions with glide64mk2 and glide64 plugins
- Use traditional GPR names for debugger
- Fix disassembler output for Goldeneye 007 (#717)
- SNES
- hook up SGB saveram
- When importing SNES .lsmv movies, add an extra input frame (fixes #721)
- Add a bsnes profile picker to the Core menu (#179)
- Atari 2600/7800
- Add console buttons for toggling difficulty switches
- PCE
- Fix PCECD Lemmings audio (fixes #665)
- SMS
- z80 accuracy improvements
- Fix Shining Force games ( #600 and #335 )
- EMU7800
- Added a few ROM Hacks into the Database.
- EmuHawk
- Input Display - hide neutral analog values for cores with neutral position other than 0 too
- Cheats - when editing a cheat's domain, if the address is out of range, don't update, rather than create a separator (fixes #539)
- Ram Search - when reseting an empty box to a default value, select the value (fixes #685)
- Fix the Mute Frame Advance option
- Lua
- Fix endless locked emu surface errors when re-opening the lua console
- Default the memory library to System Bus, if available (warning: change your scripts to use whatever domain was default before)
- forms library - Run the checkbox click callback after the event not before (fixes #545)
- TAStudio
- Improvements to analog editing
- Autorestore after every drag edited change
- Increase the mouse move step to 3 from 4
- Mouse dragging during analog edit mode updates the displayed value
- Enter key exits analog edit mode after applying the resulting value, while Escape cancels all changes
- Typing past max digits overwrites existing value
- Adding selection (Ctrl/Shift+LeftClick) while in analog editing mode spreads the mode to selected rows (that change simultaneously)
- Move functionality of arrows to hotkeys
- Stop displaying neutral analog values
- Fix loading/autoloading projects to properly set up columns and scrollbars
- Fix crashes when
- Setting 0 space for disk states
- Rightclicking on selection if a bunch of selected frames contains the last frame
- Cutting the last frame
- Paste: Fix clipboard input having an extra empty line after splicing
- Fix crash caused by seek progressbar
- Fix < button while seeking is paused
- Improvements to analog editing
BizHawk 1.11.8.2
- Released October 25, 2016
- Windows binary
- N64
- GLideN64 video plugin support
- Added cxd4 to the RSP options
- Fix Donkey Kong 64 bone displacement issues
- Perfect Dark fixed
- Fix trace callback
- NesHawk
- Accuracy Improvements
- Fix and implement numerous obscure boards and games
- Fix bug in NES BG evaluation - fixes a long standing bug in micro machines
- Option to override initial WRAM pattern
- Fix path exception when loading Ironman Stwart's Super Off-Road
- Fixes to FDS audio, fixes damage sounds in kid icarus and Zelda II, and sword sounds in Zelda 1
- GBA
- Upgrade to mGBA 0.5
- SMS
- Fix Micro Machines
- EmuHawk
- Smoother FPS Counter calcuations
- Fix filename generation when there are colons in the game name, fixes #661
- Cheats - Fix behavior when loading a new rom when a cheat is loaded, fixes #550
- Virtual Pads - Analog Sticks - check min and max range before setting the value. Fixes #686
- Lua
- Close a lua instance before creating a new one, fixes #455
- Clear the OSD before doing loadstate callbacks, fixes #635
- Ram Search
- Don't throw excpetions when Diff column displayed, fixes #637
- Fix toolbar enabling disabling when selecting rows, fixes #629
- Fix Slow Select All (Ctrl+A), fixes #630
- TAStudio
- Preserve branch text per update (unless default text has changed)
- Add a show cursor hotkey
- Paste from OS clipboard
- Fixed TAStudio crash when deselecting "Show Player X"
- Fixed bug with selected rows drawing hidden columns.
- Fixed bug with right click selection.
- Crash fixes
- Refresh when seeking is done
- Don't pause on green arrow if seeking past it
- Removed ability to keep drawing while the view is scrolling, fixes scrolling recursion
- ClearLeftMouseStates() before Save dialog pops up
- Pasting input beyond movie length extends it
- History - properly fix recording
- Display invalidated color consistently
- Fix removal of states near lag frames
- Hex Editor
- When switching to a domain where highlighted addresses are out of range, clear the highlighted addresses, #710
- Fix exception when pasting beyond the range of the domain, #708
- Fix a minor bug with displaying the selected address, fixes #709
- Basic Bot
- Fix logic for determining the best attempt, no longer thinks every new attempt is better, fixes #603
- Prevent empty Change dropdown style to DropdownList to avoid empty and invalid choices. Fixes #602
- Update Run button status when loading a bot file
BizHawk 1.11.7
- Released September 01, 2016
- Windows binary
- NesHawk
- Numerous accuracy improvements, passes many more accuracy tests now
- See Accuracy Tests for more details
- Fix Micro Machines
- Fix Time Lord
- Fix Saint Seiya
- Correctly boot all the HVC-SNROM Board ROMs now.
- Support UNIF DripGame http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/drip/
- Fix shaking in Little Ninja Bros (E)
- Support SNES controllers
- VRC2 - only support V\H mirroring - fixes Wai Wai World issue
- Mapper 011 - fix mirroring on some boards
- Numerous accuracy improvements, passes many more accuracy tests now
- Atari 2600
- Major core overhaul that includes many accuracy improvements, bug fixes, sound improvmeents, timing improvements, and game compatibility
- Fixes compumate mapper
- implement mapper m4A50
- Add sega mapper mod
- Pick the correct mapper for Tapper and Congo Bongo based off SHA1 hash
- Saturn
- Trace Logger support
- PSX
- Trace Logger support
- Patch for "Fantastic Pinball Kyutenkai" lockup (not likely to affect sync but could in principle)
- N64
- Trace Logger support (Interpreter/Pure Interpreter core type only)
- Implement memory execute callbacks (Interpreter/Pure Interpreter core type only)
- Fix crash & memory leak when opening hex editor with the N64 core loaded
- SNES
- Fix crash when advancing after tracer was disabled
- System Bus map has been extended to read mapped ROM space
- Fix SNES trace logging to not lose information
- SMSHawk
- Overscan display option
- Genesis
- Improve disassembler
- Fix bug in genesis z80 CDL that made addresses in mirrored z80 ram region crash
- Output and input hex values in Settings
- GBA
- Add SRAM memdomain to both VBANext and mGBA
- mGBA - fix bug where hard reset caused memorydomains to get permanently wrecked
- Coleco
- Add Venture to list of no skips
- PCEHawk
- Don't crash when loading PCE-CD and SGX games
- Fix PCE-CD virtual pads
- Wonderswan
- Support settings to change colors
- EmuHawk
- Make direct3d9 prereq check non-fatal and make d3d display method initialization fail non-fatal, falling back to gdi+
- D3D display method - survive ctrl+alt+del (fix #522)
- Fix flashes of garbage while changing vsync toggle (includes when fast-forwarding) on D3D display method
- Fix crashes when sending fullscreen windows to other monitors sometimes
- Fix deleting recent roms when missing
- Fix #615 - Garbage on the screen when starting paused with d3d
- Don't allow user to add more then 2 GB/GBC ROMs into the Bundler (#472)
- Fix the Apple IIe being labeled as PlayStation in the title
- Ram Tools - fix usability issues with negative numbers (#669)
- Ram Search - fix for unhandled exception when entering . in to the specific address box
- Allow independent sound volume control during Fast-Forward and Rewind
- Lua
- Fix #595 - movie.getinput() exception, and movie.mode() confusion
- Remove background color parameter from gui.text() function
- Lua text - display trailing spaces
- Fix regressions in lua's support for UTF-8 strings
- Add gui.DrawFinish() which will let you choose when to finish drawing; and add optional argument to gui.DrawNew which when set to false lets you keep it from being cleared
- Movie subtitles
- Trim trailing spaces
- Sort by frame and then by Y pos (to properly order multiline subs)
- Concat multilines (optionally) on export
- Option to skip color tag on export
- Tastudio
- Recording mode (works with TAStudio checkbox and global ReadOnly hotkey)
- Autosave and backup features
- Option to set the gap between states to be saved to .tasproj
- Overhaul of seek and restore logic: navigation seeking no longer resets Restore frame
- Make < and > PlaybackBox buttons act identically to FrameAdvance and Rewind hotkeys
- Properly set input while unpaused
- Fix all errors related to doing actions while seeking and saving
- Replace Saving progressbar with hourglass cursor and status bar report
- Fix N64 crash that happened when capturing states
- Fix #515 again - TAStudio ignores ClientSettings.json
- Allow 2 more digits for FramesPrompt
- Fix #597 - Selecting a lot of frames + Copying throws an error
- Fix crash when pasting input beyond movie length
- Set SeekingCutoffInterval to VisibleRows
- Set ScrollSpeed to 6
- Fix rerecord counting
- Ability to load .tasproj with corrupted GreenZone
- Hide more columns by default (GBA, PSX)
- Optimize column width
- Ignore InputRoll hotkeys and numeric branch hotkeys during float editing mode
- bk2 export: stop endlessly appending extensions
- Stop recording marker history edits to history
- Unpausing with the Pause hotkey ignores seek frame
- Make Rewind hotkey work the same as outside TAStudio (step'n'run)
- "Esc" key cancels seeking
- Global hotkeys for AutoRestore, TurboSeek, FollowCursor, Insert/Delete/Clone/Clear
- Option to trigger AutoRestore on MouseDown
- Show user text instead of timestamp in BranchView
- Fix #672 - Not Showing Analog Up, Down, Left, Right for N64
- Don't pass Ctrl+C hotkey to MainForm
- Stop copying nothing on Cut command
- Stop seeking when movie stops
- Fix to how Undo/Redo works with recording frames
- Trace Logger
- Log file segmentation
- Spacing unification for all cores
- Fix GB trace logger
- Fix logging to window and saving to file
- File->Save Log menu item in Trace Logger window
- Fix an unhandled exception when saving a log from the window
- Fixed the bug where if a tracelog line contains more than one "[", everything after the second [ will be mistakenly thrown out
- Debugger
- Add address mask setting for breakpoints
- Indicate breakpoint hit
- Code-Data Logger
- Add auto-start and auto-save to CDL
- Fix copypaste bug in GB for some games with large cartram
- support GB link
- VirtualPads
- Fix polar coord when center is non-zero
- Fix automation of virtualpad analogsticks from movie playback
BizHawk 1.11.6
- Released March 07, 2016
- Windows binary
- Genesis
- Disassembler support
- Trace Logger support
- Sprite Layer toggles, and custom backdrop color
- Add "M68K BUS" and "S68K BUS" domains
- Capture Sega CD flag in movie files
- Enable low-pass filter
- Atari2600
- Double and quad size players are now correctly delayed an extra pixel.
- Added an R to the State output to indicate when the RDY signal is false.
- Use the RDY flag to halt the CPU instead of a loop in the TIA.
- mGBA
- Capture SRAM in savestates, ALL PREVIOUS SAVESTATES are now incompatible
- Update to the latest mGBA
- Layer toggle
- Saturn
- fix bug in GLManager causing yabause in opengl mode to not work unless frameadvancing
- TI-83
- Implement Trace Logger
- Colecovision
- Implement Trace Logger
- EmuHawk
- Fix ramwatch crashing bug involving core reboots and watchlist hanging on to stale emulator instances
- Hex Editor - fix exception when pressing "Ok" on the "Go to Address" input prompt in the Hex Editor with an empty string
- GameShark tool - layout improvements
- Make Screenshot Raw to Clipboard and Screenshot Client to Clipboard into configurable hotkeys instead of hardcoded shortcut keys in the menu items
- Cheats - comparison type column
- Lua
- add emu.disassemble(uint pc, string name)
- Set file watchers on lua session autoload
- Better auto-complete for Sublime Text 2
- Call the lua loadstate callback before redrawing the screen and other updates
- Trace Logger
- Capture headers in log files
- Separate Disassmbly and Registers in separate columns
- Remember column widths
- Add an Open button
- Use .log extention (allows extension based user syntax highlight)
- Debugger
- Don't update when unpaused. only update PC when we really need it.
- Add a Run button
- Registers - format reg names on launch, smarter spacing.
- Return address in hex when copying.
- Fix how Seek To determines the PC register
- Update when maximized
- Multi-disk bundler
- Fix ROM path generation
- Add a remove button
- TAStudio
- Fix some savestate bugs
- Don't allow saving while saving.
BizHawk 1.11.5
- Released February 13, 2016
- Windows binary
- Revision 3f711e2
- GBA
- Update mGBA to 0.4.0
- Fix #563 - mGBA Combined WRAM not working
- Nes
- QuickNes - trace logger support
- NesHawk - properly emulate JAM/KIL
- Support the unif board UNIF_BMC-42in1ResetSwitch
- NSF player - limit track number to legal range and print current track number to console
- PSX
- Add "determine lag from GPU frames" option
- Support memory callbacks
- N64
- Fix per game settings for DK64 + Glide64mk2
- VirtualPad - Add polar coordinates to Analog stick
- GB
- Add GB layer toggles
- EmuHawk
- Try catching some missing prereqs in emuhawk startup and print a report about it
- Better error handling in shader compiling, fixes some startup issues
- Cheats - New Feature - cheat comparison types
- Game Shark tool - Added Multiline Cheat Code handling for all supported cores. Added GBA Slide code handling.
- Make current windows size a per system setting
- Fix #561 - can't set the xpad right stick
- Ability to save/load specific config files
- External Tools - Allow several tools running simultaneously
- Fix selections in HexEditor text columns
- Lua
- Add emu.setislagged()
- Add movie.save()
- Add client.displaymessages()
- Add gui.defaultpixelfont()
- Add memory.getmemorydomainsize()
- Fix #565 - bugs in lua's memorysavestate APIs
- Make fceux font monospace
- Fix #57 - Allow "#aarrggbb" as Color parameter to forms.setproperty()
- forms.textbox() - Added a scrollbars argument
- Lua Console
- Add option to detect changes in scripts and automatically reload them. Have this option off by default for now
- Fix exception when reloading a lua script with registered functions while the registered functions dialog is open
- Remember column widths
- Refresh the lua console when a script exits
- When a lua exception occurs, also want to update the script status icons
- Fix current directory bugs
- Tastudio
- Fix upward drawing.
- Fix null reference errors with the splitter controls
- Don't clear selection on Cut
- Don't mindlessly unpause the emulator if autorestore is off and we're editing input via menu
- Account for loading files with "All Files" filter.
- Implement SeekingCutoffInterval
- Seek progress bar, ignore if seeking closer than 2 frames ahead
- History form - report marker operations, canonical colors, show the current item better
- Markers - adding markers updates dialog
- Don't ever remove marker 0
- Ram Watch
- Ram Watch - fix "Display watches on Screen" feature
- Ram Watch - fixed saving of separators
- Movies
- Save to Disk option (intended for large movies)
- Fix OutOfMemory when saving states
- When automatic movie backups are enabled, take a backup when the movie is closed without saving
- Save as menu item
- Flag for SG-1000 movies, fixes TASVideos submission parser
- Ram Search
- Fix "Exclude Ram Watch" option
- Fix leadings zeros in the Difference and Differnet By boxes
- Basic Bot
- Compare To feature
- Clear button clears out the attempts and frames values
BizHawk 1.11.4
- Released December 20, 2015
- Windows binary
- Revision 41ba4b6
- New prereq installer may be needed: prereq installer
- EmuHawk
- Add libretro player, compatible with selected cores (check wiki)
- Add External Tool system for c#-based tool plugins
- Support Code-Data Logger for GB/GBC, SMS/GG, SNES, and Genesis
- Cheat Dialog: Fix flakiness in value-editing
- Add custom exception display box, so exception info can be clipboarded out
- Improve main OSD font
- Validate user shaders at selection time
- Support user custom AR selection
- Add --load-state commandline
- Fix --fullscreen and fullscreenOnLoad options
- Streamline editing RAM Watches
- Tidy main form context menu
- Add more options for U+D/L+R forbid/mutex
- Fix Ram Search, Ram Watch, Cheats recent file lists
- Fix ffmpeg path for AV writer broken a couple of releases ago
- Add menu command to record avi skipping av writer selection
- Remember codec selection between program sessions
- Fix toolbox
- Improvements to Retro shader compatibility
- DispMethod D3D: Stop FP precision conflicts with lua scripts
- DispMethod D3D: More leniency in compilation of optional shaders (so it's able to run on more low spec systems)
- Fix #525 - Memorywatch hex textbox now remembers values across memdomain switches
- Fix #526 - Hex editor repainting fails and garbage rendering
- Fix #535 - domain list does not update when changing cores
- Fix #537 - Annoyance with "always on top"
- Fix #541 - Heavy CPU usage when emulation is paused
- Fix #546 - Incorrect Lua Documentation
- Cheats
- Add GameShark converter for N64, GB/GBC, Saturn, GBA, PSX
- Add Action Replay converter for SMS, SNES, Genesis, GBA
- Add Game Genie converter for Genesis, SNES, GG, NES
- Tastudio
- Color stated frames on WasLag too
- Don't truncate LagLog if the branch's one is shorter, but input is the same
- Clean up garbage lua text and drawings in branches
- Default scroll speed to 3
- Put branch states to a separate greenzone file
- Save/load TasSession variables (current frame and branch) in .tasproj
- Fix scrolling when loading a branch
- Account for mouse speed when advancing/rewinding
- Fix ALT+ hotkeys
- Update columns on every file load
- ScreenshotControl tweaks and fixes
- UserText in branches, available from lua and menu, is printed in ScreenshotControl
- Add GUI buttons to branch view and marker view
- Rightclick selects rows in branch and marker views
- Hotkeys and shortcuts for input view and branch view
- Add seeking progressbar
- Saving progressbar reports progress gradually
- Allow going to frame 0 for savestate-anchored movies
- Fix #515 - Save and load column settings in projects
- Fix #520 - An item with the same key has already been added
- Fix #504 - TAStudio opened several thousand Set Markers dialogs
- Basic Bot
- Monospaced input display
- Get smarter
- Lua
- Add two new fonts (gens/snes9x and fceux) and text rendering options
- Fix gameExtraPadding coordinate translation
- Fix (or at least temporarily banish) floating point math errors when running n64
- Add CloseEmulatorWithCode (for returning exe process return code from script)
- Clarify script pause/stop state in UI and logic
- Autoload recent scripts (unless there's a recent session to autoload)
- Fix forms.destroyall() and call it when lua console closes
- Fix error in sizing of lua draw buffers with SetGameExtraPadding (and probably ClientExtraPadding) use
- Fix #538 - Ability to pass memory domain to memory read/write functions
- PSX
- Fix #530 "AV Resizing shows black screen with PSX"
- SNES
- Fix crashes in GFX debugger (including fix #529)
- Recommend proper SNES PAR
- Build dlls without msvcrt14 dependencies (to run on more systems)
- Option to turn off savestate-every-frame (desyncs can happen!)
- Genesis
- Add missing scrollbars in VDP viewer
- Fix #543 (support up to 32MB roms)
BizHawk 1.11.3
- Released October 14, 2015
- Windows binary
- Revision 105cd1c
- PSX
- Repair lag counter
- Fix massively broken controller config dialog which was making controllers seem effectively disconnected or malfunctiony
- EmuHawk
- Fix Direct3D display method sleep/ctrl+alt+del crashes
- Fix built-in shaders
- Reduce shader level requirements for basic d3d display method functionality
- Fix Ram Search/Ram Watch recent files menu
- Import PJM and PXM movies
- Sequentially number screenshots taken in the same second without crashing after the 3rd one
- Lua
- Add client.SetClientExtraPadding; fix client.SetGameExtraPadding window scaling
- Add client.GetSoundOn and client.SetSoundOn
BizHawk 1.11.2
- Released October 10, 2015
- Windows binary
- Revision a44cf5a
- PSXHawk
- Update to mednafen 0.9.38.7
- Support 0-2 pads/shocks and 0-2 memcards
- Fix loading of some .psf files
- Add overscan clipping and deinterlacer options
- Fix resolution management and PAR stuff for some PAL modes
- Support .xml disc bundling tool as alternative to .m3u
- Save PAL information in movies, and fix reported PAL movie times
- Fix #460 - overlapping OSD elements
- Support mednafen's emulation of disc error correction (optionally) and graceful sector-out-of-bounds reading
- N64
- Compatibility hack for Jabo vs some Intel GPUs on Windows8+
- SNES
- Handle interlarced modes differently
- mGBA
- Fix #507 - Add "Combined WRAM" memory domain
- GBHawk
- Add LY to trace log
- NESHawk
- Improve .unf loading (header parsing, Open ROM dialog, vram inference logic) and support more UNIF boards
- Add ines mappers: 6, 51, 53, 90, 136, 147, 202, 204, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216, 235, 244, 17; fix mappers 31, 60, 79, 91, 164, 243, 245, 119, 90, 197
- Support many misc ROMs that are bad/over dumps, wrong/unusual header info, having trainers
- Auto-select region from iNESv2 header
- Fix some graphical corruptions in the PPU for Dragon Warrior 4 and others
- Support 512-entry palettes (QuickNES too)
- GPGX
- Handle AR/resolution-changing more correctly and add option to pad screen out to prevent window resizes
- Fix #494 - cheat decoder unhooked
- EmuHawk
- Direct3D Display Method support
- New Tool: Basic Bot
- Make throttle vs unthrottled vs frame advance behaviour better and add 400% speedlevel
- Add toggles for screen and hud display for true maximum turbo performance
- Add option to suppress double-click fullscreen toggling behaviour
- Don't reorder cheats list when editing cheats
- Fix some crashes on Play Movie dialog
- Support IPCKeyInput (for automation from external program)
- Support xbox pad guide button
- Sequentially number screenshots taken in the same second
- Finetune hotkey config dialog
- Leniency fixes to cue loading
- Make on-screen watches position editable
- Fix crash when minimizing window in gdi+ display method
- Fix some bugs in gdi+ display method with screenshots and prescaling
- Aboutbox more gitified
- Fix #461 - Repair autofire patterns
- Fix #477 - Support key input over IPC for automation
- Fix #490 - Ampersands in hex editor flakeout
- Fix #493 - Add option to hide OSD messages
- Fix #491 - Tool window sizes get whacked out sometimes
- Movies
- Ability to create/load SaveRam-anchored movies
- Ability to import movies from commandline
- Fix out of memory when using the Play Movie dialog
- Tastudio
- Add Branches feature
- Fix rerecord counting
- Various UI improvements and bug fixes
- Ability to move markers by alt+click dragging them
- Fix various out of memory and other greenzone crashes
- Hide Power and Reset columns by default.
- Optional icons for states and markers.
- Support creating a savestate anchored movie from another savestate anchored movie
- Support creating a new movie from current saveram
- Lua
- Fix graphics rendering in GDI+ mode
- Add client.exit() and client.SetGameExtraPadding
- Add movie.startsfromsavestate() and movie.startsfromsaveram(), movie.getheader(), movie.getcomments(), and movie.getsubtitles()
- Add memorysavestate library for making and loading savestates in memory, with save, load, remove, and clearall methods
- Fix bizstring.split() (make 1-based)
- Fix crashes removing callbacks
- Fix #469 - forms.newform() : add an onclosed callback optional parameter
- Fix #463 - memory.readbyterange off-by-one
- Fix #498 - fix quicknes lua rendering being offset incorrectly sometimes
- Hex Editor
- When saving memory domains to file, account for roms in archives
- Fix some UI scrambling on memory domain change / data size changing
- Fix ampersand escaping output
- Change copy/paste behaviour and add 'export' option to all generally make more sense.
- Fix #481 - keep scroll bar position when resetting the current rom as opposed to changing to a new one
- Cheats
- Refresh list when toggling the status of a cheat
- Fix up open and save file dialog file/directory logic
BizHawk 1.11.1
- EmuHawk
- Hide Mouse Cursor on Full Screen
- Allow Creating movies from a Savestate
- RAM Watch
- Only show the Read/Write Breakpoints context menu if they are on the System Bus
- LUA
- Now Case Insenstive
- Added Spatterhouse 2 LUA Collision Viewer
- Virtual Pad's analog sticks now properly behaves for N64 and PSX.
- Added support for .img.ecm files
- Show PSX Path options
- NESHawk
- Music Ripper added
- PSX
- Fixed loading of the pirate version of Looney Tunes Sheep Raiders (PAL)
- PSF Support
- Saturn
- Fix disc booting
- TAStudio
- Added an option for faster mouse wheel scrolling on the TASView
- Fixed bugs
BizHawk 1.11.0
- New Core: PSX
- Ported from mednafen
- Genesis
- fix some missing data in savestates
- GBA
- When loading a movie, load it in the core it was recorded on
- GB
- core update from gambatte
- Apple II
- Debugger - Breakpoints, Ability to set CPU registers and stepping ability
- Fix default path being the lynx folder
- Support monochrome option
- Don't warn about sync settings when loading a movie
- Add Trace logging support
- Add support for lua event.oninputpoll()
- EmuHawk
- Play Movie dialog - fix exceptions on load
- Debugger - fix duplicate breakpoints and clear Breakpoints properly when removed
- Multi-Disk bundler - fix various issues with the form, most significantly the wrong system Id for AppleII
- fix failing importing firmwares when target directory doesn't exist
- When adding to ram watch from another tool, don't ask to save changes
- Ram Watch - Fix moving up and down separators and identical watches
- Virtual pads - fix issue #422 - When sticky option is off, don't reset the pad back to 0 until the mouse button is released
- Lua
- run lua scripts when turboing, add an option in customize to revert this behavior
- Add a split container to LUA console window
- Implement emu.setlag()
- fix a small issue where any callback generating an exception would crash the emulator
- fix issue #405 - relative path changes from form click events
- tastudio library
- implement events: onqueryitemtext, onqueryitembg, onqueryitemicon, ongreenzoneinvalidated
- implement tastudio.setlag()
- implement the userdata library, a place to store dynamic data that will be saved and loaded into savestates
- implement gui.drawAxis
- TAStudio
- fix issue #446 - don't greenzone between the mouse down and mouse up events when editing input
- fix autoload
- account for a button name of "P" rather than assume it is a player number indicator, fixes issue #431
- fix right-click mousewheel rewinding on platforms with larger savestates
- Count rerecords
- markers: fix input roll context menu command removing Markers
- fix crash when loading a .tasproj file with a different controller configuration that what is currently loaded
- scroll to frame appended by offscreen dragging
- apply autohold to appended frames
BizHawk 1.10.0
From revision 9415
- New Core and Platform
- Apple II (ported from the virtu)
- New Core
- mGBA
- provided as an alternative to vba-next
- SNESHawk
- fix XML loading
- Fix RAM Leak when Load states
- GBHawk
- fix behavior for MBC5 when bank == 0 is written. Thanks Dabomstew for pointing this out.
- fix infinite recursion in loadrom for unsupported GB games
- PCEHawk
- tweak VDC register commit logic
- NES
- fallback from quicknes to neshawk for Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure since quicknes is not able to run it
- ColecoHawk
- fix sound which had gotten unhooked
- EmuHawk
- Movies
- fix crash when loading a state on the last frame of a movie in read-only (issue #429)
- fix importing of GBC .bkm files
- Compress movies regardless of savestate compression level
- Platform picker - don't ask twice for the users choice twice
- Fix SNES Game Genie Add button (issue #420)
- On startup, respect the show status bar flag, fixes issue #421
- Movies
- New Tool - Multi-Disk Bundler
- (Replaces the DualGB tool)
- Used to bind multiple disks for Apple II and Dual Gameboy
- Lua
- add client.CreateInstance() which receives a type name available to EmuHawk and will construct and return the given object (currently limited to objects with parameterless constructors)
- add client.getavailabletools() which returns a list of tools available to the currently loaded core
- add client.gettool() - returns a currently available tool, if the tool isn't open, it loads it
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