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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 prereq installer
- BizHawk versions starting from 2.0 require 64-bit Windows 7 or newer
- BizHawk version compatible with 32-bit Windows XP is provided here
- Never mix different versions of BizHawk. Keep each version in its own folder.
BizHawk 2.3.1
- Released January 6, 2019
- Windows binary
- N64
- mGBA
- Update to latest 0.6 (as of 10 Sep 2018)
- Fix #1195 - Audio Keeps Playing Notes after Rewind
- Fix savestates created at frame 0 when BIOS is enabled
- NesHawk
- Fix VRC IRQ timing
- VRAM write timing glitch
- GenesisPlus-GX
- Tracer fixes
- GBHawk
- Pass many more tests
- CDL Support
- Add default bindings
- Fix autosaving saveram
- Fix Virtual Pad
- Fix DMG sprite evaluation (fixes Oh! Demo bug)
- Audio fixes/crash
- Wisdom tree Mapper
- HuC1 support
- Fix firmware load crash
- Fix Lego Racers, Slugfest, Ken Griffy Jr., 3-D Pool
- HuC3 Support
- MBC2 proper Bank masking
- Z80
- Performance Optimizations (affects many z80 based cores)
- ZXHawk
- DCFilter implementation
- Ability to distinguish *.dsk for ZX or AppleII
- Do not fire tape/disk inserted OSD messages on LoadState, #1250
- Added non-sync setting to change core background color - #1263
- Fix input display for some keys
- Support Code/Data Logger
- +3/+2a writes to 0x1ffd and 0x7ffd decoded more faithfully
- DeterministicEmulation to be overridden (TRUE) when recording a movie -#1290
- Support double-sided *.dsk images and throw an exception if the images are not 42 track disks
- Starting on UDI and IPF disk image support (although neither are fully working or hooked up yet)
- Added GameDb
- Fix Tape and Disk media submenus opening at 0,0
- Pentagon initialisation
- Fix exception thrown randomly by tape player subsystem
- Gambatte
- A7800
- Change 'trigger' to 'button'
- Audio Overhaul
- Fix unplugged controller
- Fix Pokey sound
- Pokey support for SGE mapper
- Fix Sirius
- Expand cart size for some demos
- ColecoHawk:
- Add SGM memory domain,
- Fix super action controller
- SMSHawk
- Fix PowerOn Z80 SP init - stops some games from crashing/not loading
- Fix pause button, fixes #1236
- PCE
- Fix regressions #1333 #1303 #1287 #1231 #1203 #1266
- Fix crash due to invalid DMA #1363
- Mask only when addr attached to vram
- NGP
- Added GameDb and homebrew detection
- A2600
- MegaBoy special frame setting
- EmuHawk
- Multi-disk Bundler - handle archive files properly (#764)
- Fix minimized emulator causes speedup, #1279
- Messages config - change label "Last Frame Input" to "Previous Frame Input" to avoid confusion
- Fix Snes9x Code Converter #1293
- Commandline support for config location (#1404)
- Ram Watch - Move to Top option, ability to add notes to Separators (#1257)
- Cheats - Toggle shortcut key
- Hex Editor - Remember Memory domain choice - #1345, #508
- Code/Data Logger - Fix auto-load (#1346)
- Basic Bot - fix failure to fully use selected memory domain (fixes #1305)
- Movies
- Warn when recording a quicknes movie (but allow the user to continue), #1353
- Allow snes9x movies to be recorded (still warn, but allow the user to continue)
- Ensure DeterministicEmulation is enforced whenever a movie is queued - #1290
- Fix System ID for SG1000 and GG - #1246
- Better anchor items in Play Movie dialog
- Show last movie frame input in the HUD
- Lua
- Video dumping
- Fix #1244 - Dumping Issues
- ffmpeg updates
- Update to ffmpeg-20181118-529debc-win64-static
- Make all formats editable (only custom is saved tho)
- Deduce extension (since -f is required)
- Make segment numeration the same as VfW has
- Firmwares config
- Stop indiscriminate importing
- Added 'allow unknown import' checkbox
- Set customization file chooser now incorporates ArchiveChooser - if an inside file is selected this is copied to the global firmwares folder
- TAStudio
- Fix major crash issues and exceptions
- Branch loading now can behave as it does for regular rerecording (Old Control Scheme For Branches menu item, details here)
- States decay - fix logic for last edited frame
- Select newly created branch (makes button action experience smoother)
- Fix #1221 - TAStudio.OnQueryItemBg transparency color problem
- Make current branch track its new pos upon reordering
- Fix performance bug from 2.2.2 (#1310)
- Prevent exceptions with small window size
- Show branch screenshot on the right if it's offscreen, #1311
- Keys menu
- Hide a few computer columns by default
- Don't create player menus if we don't have players
- Make state-save hotkeys usable if the slot is empty, just add a branch
- Allow to disable Load Branch On Doubleclick
- Fix rec mode dying when appending movie frames
- Fixes inability to use '<'to get to frame 0
- Allow to actually unbind markers from input, and unbind by default
- Don't use branch greenzone after loading it. It's useless because we invalidate it needed anyway.
- WARNING: If you load a branch that's inside the invalid greenzone area, FrameAdvance or ">" button won't recreate greenzone. Rewind or use Right Mouse Button + Wheel.
- Fix crashes during seeking
- Capture greenzone state after loading a branch
BizHawk 2.3
- Released June 24, 2018
- Windows binary
- New Core: ZX Spectrum
- New Core: GBHawk (Gameboy and Gameboy Color)
- EmuHawk
- Fix #1159 - memory callbacks - active changed only invoked on first add
- Fix #1088 - Filter out forward slashes game names to fix games such as "Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt"
- Fix #1075 - Fix Rom Status Icon not loading on Saturn
- Fix xpad triggers to be full rigger instead of half trigger
- Multidisk Bundler - fix exception when file is in an archive
- Fix bug where autodump and lua-instructed client exits would vanish the window but linger the process
- Fix #1168 - Rebooting some cores with Hex Editor open can cause crashes
- Fix #1156 - Ram Watch - Clear Changes does not refresh changes counter
- Hex Editor - Speedup FindPrev/FindNext
- Update to newer 7z
- TAStudio
- Make current branch track its new position upon reordering
- Select newly created branch
- Makes button action experience smoother
- Don't drop state above last edited frame
- Fix greenzone decay failing to drop states
- Increase Subtitle Maker frame limit
- Lua
- PCEHawk
- mGBA
- N64
- Update to latest GLideN64
- Update to the latest RSP-HLE plugin
- Disable Cache Size option in GLideN64, but display the value it forces internally
- NESHawk
- Fix mapper 219
- SMS/GG
- Implement SMS compatibility mode for Game Gear games
- Add Port5 variable (link cable) - Fixes Pac Attack
- GG Terminator needs SRAM for background display
- Gambatte
- Fix some mising data in savestates, WARNING - This breaks compatibility with previous savestates!
- Implement new IRQ behaviors
- Timing fixes
- Make initial colors grey scale
- Make equal length frames false by default, #1176
- Implement TotalExecutedCycles
- bsnes
- Add H and V registers to register lists
- A2600Hawk
- Fix special reset cases
- Add special cases for games that turn off screen to do calculations
- GPGX
- Fix #1167 - Move some settings into sync settings
- Z80 Cpu Core
- Fix Reset behavior (fixes Aerial Assault)
- Many accuracy and timing improvements
- Many cores affected - SMS/GG/SG-1000/Coleco/TI-83
BizHawk 2.2.2
- Released March 16, 2018
- Windows Binary
- EmuHawk
- Fix Reboot Core crashing after Close ROM
- Cheats - Fix 2 byte return values. Fixes #1060
- Allow binding xpad triggers as analog controls. Fixes #1054
- Fix movie backup saving path
- Hex Editor - ability to swap bytes on multi-byte
- Core Config - dynamically resize description field to fit text
- ffmpeg writer - lossless avi command (ffv1, dolphin style)
- Hotkeys dialog - move autofire closer to autohold
- Fix #1126 (Autofire Hotkey broken)
- Improve 6502 trace logging
- Fix PXM converter #1109
- Ram Watch
- Lua
- When capturing OSD in A/V, capture gui.text() messages. Fixes #799
- Fix lua sockets, #1077
- Fix for #1094 lua mainmemory.readbyterange() issue
- Implement client.isturbo() and client.isseeking()
- Implement tastudio input functions and branch callbacks
- Fix multiline gui.text()
- Implement emu.getluacore()
- Fix #1119 (Lua with TAStudio (two host threads bug))
- Add context menus to Lua Functions window 1122
- New libraries for communicating with other programs #1080
- Fix client.openrom()
- TAStudio
- Smart greenzone decay algorithm
- Smart initial state gap for greenzone. Fixes #915
- Update input every new frame we capture greenzone
- Stop shrinking branch screenshot popup
- Fix #1072 (TAStudio savestate history settings error)
- Fix #1090 (Annoyance with follow cursor)
- Scroll to new marker and new branch
- Don't kill selection per marker removal
- Stop supporting branch greenzone
- Fix #916 (A last edited frame Greenzone)
- Fix #913 (Don't save Greenzone in backup files or when auto-saving)
- Add tooltips to playback control buttons
- Enable paste menu items when clipboard is available
- Fix analog values getting stuck in input port for new frames
- Macros: don't die from colons in paths when saving to file
- Fix greenzone not being created after you insert right on current frame
- Allow scrolling/jumping to marker 0
- TASEditor style controls
- Alt + column click draws pattern
- Alt + drawing pattern
- Selection - taseditor logic
- Shift/Ctrl keys restructure to taseditor
- Shift + PageUp/PageDown - move frame courser to next/previous marker
- Ctrl + Left/Right - add/remove selection at last selected row
- Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right - add/remove selection at first selected row
- Shift + clicking draws input from first selected row to clicked cell
- Lua columns
- Don't update float edit stuff or cell changes when its not needed
- N64Hawk
- Update GLideN64 video plugin to release 3.0, fixes #1053
- NESHawk
- FDS - IRQ timing fixes
- APU IRQ fixes
- APU Fix Triangle Channel
- FDS - Fix Behaviour of disk status bit
- Silva Saga to not think there are existing save games
- Implement Mapper 63
- Implement Mapper 43 and UNIF_UNL-SMB2j
- Fix Mapper 114
- Fix Kart Fighter (Mapper 116)
- Fix Pocahontus and Super Donkey Kong (Mapper 182)
- Various fixes to some unlicensed games
- Raise cap on cheats to include entire bus size. Fix #1127
- SMSHawk
- Add Korea BIOS support
- Disassembler fixes
- Fix SP display in debugger/lua hooks
- Savestate fixes
- QuickNES
- Blacklist Joe and Mac (#993)
- Fix mapper selection
- C64
- Fix Scanline IRQs
- Fixes 4-in-1
- Fix leaderboard Golf, but Serial Port interrupts need to be done correctly
- Fix mapper F
- Updated colour palette values to use the new (Feb 2017) Pepto Colodore values
- Explain sync settings in the C64 config dialog. Fixes #1091
- GBA
- Update mGBA to 0.6.1
- Support palette settings in mgba, fixes #1042
- SG-1000
- Keyboard support for Mark III
- ColecoVision
- Add Super Game Module Support
- Add Mega Cart Support
- Implement graphics mode 1
- Fix Turbo Controller
- Fix noise channel audio
- Fix audio quality
- PC Engine
- Add Cropping Option
- Fix Display Offset Register Function
- Gambatte
- Restore GPU Viewer Functionality
- Improve emulation and BIOS support
- A2600
- Add Driving Controller
BizHawk 2.2.1
- Released October 29, 2017
- Windows binary
- SMS
- Use the new Z80 core
- Support EEPROM (93c46) for SMS
- Add perhipherals Support for Paddle, Light Phaser, Sports Pad
- Colecovision
- Use the new Z80 core
- Add support for the reset button #992
- SG-1000
- Use the new Z80 core
- Overscan support
- NesHawk
- Core improvements and speedups
- Fix Action 52
- Support mapper 114 (Aladdin Super Game)
- FDS Timer IRQ's
- Update FCEUX palette to FCEUX 2.2.0
- Fix Mapper 36, (Strike Wolf) #953
- PSX
- Fix bug where saving the state cleared the memcard dirty flags, Fixes #1031
- TI-83
- Use the new Z80 core
- Fix power on Behaviour
- Fix cycle timing
- Fix timer interrupt frequency
- PC-FX
- Improved detection of PC-FX discs
- bsnes
- fix SGB mode creates two entries for the WRAM domain (#1012)
- N64
- GB/SGB
- Printer support
- Gambatte
- Always update half carry flag
- Atari 2600
- Always end frames on vsync boundary
- Atari7800Hawk
- Implement POKEY support
- Remove Emu7800
- Saturn
- Port fix from Mednafen to fix Super Tempo
- Fix savestate hash match issue
- Fix exception when auto-loading a Saturn game
- Genesis
- Display lowpass filter range and backdrop color in hexadecimal
- Finetune lowpass value to 40%, which is what MegaDrive1 has
- EmuHawk
- MDS/MDF Disc format support
- Add an Auto SaveRAM feature (in Config -> Customize)
- Lua - Implement memory.hash_region()
- Hex Editor - Fix Cheat display, fixes #1026
- Cheats - Fix endianess display #1025
- Fix broken Jump List (#1015)
- Tastudio
- Don't trigger right button up events if left button is still held down
- Don't break if user cancels movie conversion on file open
- Fixes failure to color greenzone if a branch without input diff was loaded
- Do normal seeking while recording
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 1.13.2
- Released June 9, 2018
- Windows binary
- It is a maintenance release of an old BizHawk version, compatible with Windows XP 32-bit
- EmuHawk
- Account for linebreaks when measuring the OSD message string
- Fix single-line OSD messages
- Fix crashes when dumping AVI with OSD captured
- Lua
- Fix crashes caused by lua
- Capture Lua messages to AVI
- Add client.isturbo() and client.isseeking()
- N64
- Update GLideN64 to latest master
- Disable Cache Size option in GLideN64, but display the value it forces internally
- GBA
- mGBA - Update to the latest 0.6 branch (past 0.6.3 release)
- SNES
- bsnes - Send vcounter and hcounter among registers
- bsnes - Use hdot instead of hcounter in regs output. Fixes #1183 - List SNES scanline position registers in lua
- TAStudio
- Do normal seeking while recording. If you go to a frame while recording and unpaused, it will seek to that frame (not touching input since rec mode is suspended), and after it reaches it, it will unpause and restore Rec mode
- Always assign branch's LagLog when it's loaded. Fixes failure to color GreenZone if a branch without input diff was loaded
- Unbreak things if user cancels movie conversion on File Open
- Don't trigger Right Button Up events if Left Button is still held down
- Update input every new frame we capture. Fixes input recording
- Stop shrinking branch screenshot popup
- Smart state gap for GreenZone. Fix #915
- Disable disk capacity setting
- Fix #1072 - TAStudio Savestate History Settings Error
- Fix crash when loading .tasproj with bitmap thumbnails
- Fix Recent menu #920
- Remove ability to edit the platform ID when editing the header
- Scroll to new marker and new branch
- Don't kill selection per marker removal
- MarkerView.ShrinkSelection()
- Fix #1090 - annoyance with follow cursor
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