Table of contents
Upgrade Notes and Prerequisites
- The readme on GitHub has more instructions, and is usually more up-to-date than this page.
- Never mix different versions of BizHawk. Keep each version in its own folder.
- Windows users: Don't forget to run the prereq installer first!
- Due to how BizHawk has evolved, earlier releases (1.x and 2.x before 2.4) might not work unless you also run an older version of the prereq installer.
- BizHawk versions starting from 2.0 require a 64-bit OS. A "backport" release, 1.13.2, is available for users of Windows XP, 7, or 8.1 32-bit.
- Linux users: Distro-specific build instructions / packages are linked from the readme. A list of known bugs affecting the latest release can be found in issue #1430.
BizHawk 2.11.1
- Windows download
- Linux download
- Released May 1st, 2026
- New experimental core:
- PPSSPP for PlayStation Portable
- Ares64
- Merged #4438 - ares64 core: Add basic support for the SC64 SD card interface
- Merged #4611 - Add analog keybinds for Ares64
- Enhancement #3871 - Ares64 does not have the analog stick controls unlike Mupen64Plus
- Fixed #3991 - Ares64: viewing System Bus address 0x04800000 in Hex Editor causes BizHawk to hang
- BSNES
- Fixed #4656 - [F.Rq.] Update BSNESv115+ core from upstream
- DOSBox-X
- Merged #4527 - [Dosbox-X] Adding sync settings to calibrate absolute mouse positions
- Merged #4595 - [DOSBox-x Core] Fix for data+audio cds
- Fixed #4297 - [DOS] CD music is not played during the gameplay
- Fixed #4521 - [DOSBox-X] Capitilize the R and the L for Keyboard Keys in the Piano Roll.
- Fixed #4509 - DOS load error: Unknown cue file type
- DSDA-Doom
- Add Lua script that combines Automap functionality with XDRE heads-up-displays and advanced logging (
Lua\Doom\doom.lua) - fix analog weapon selection not working
- Fixed desyncs coming from resolution changes with wipe enabled by making resolution settings sync related
- Add walking camera controls
- Support using doom2 as firmware
- Fixed #4234 - Rom loading improvements for DOOM
- Doom-specific lua callbacks:
-
doom.on_prandom() -
doom.on_use() -
doom.on_cross() -
doom.on_intercept()
-
- play for any of the 4 players alone (stop crashing when first player is absent and when POV player is missing)
- Input columns visible in TAStudio by default match XDRE controls
- New memory domains:
- Internal core memory as System Bus
- Players
- Sectors
- expose map trail
- disable damage palette when full vision is on
- Import Boom demos
- fix analog flylook
- Fixed #4596 - [DOOM] cannot load with path including cyrillic
- Fixed #4488 - DSDA core errors silently crash BizHawk
- Fixed #4487 - DSDA core crashes when loading a UDMF map
- Fixed #4340 - [DSDA-Doom] Missing Support for Chex Quest Series.
- Add Lua script that combines Automap functionality with XDRE heads-up-displays and advanced logging (
- Encore
- Gambatte
- Fixed #3293 - Gambatte Sound Inaccuracy
- Genplus-gx
- mGBA
- MAME
- fix clashes by adding tags to all the input dupes
- Fixed #4443 - [MAME] Disable Crosshair on Screenshots/Capture
- melonDS
- Mupen64Plus
- NeoPop
- Fixed #4590 - [NGP/NGPC] Core rejected the saveram / File with name SAV.flash already mounted
- NesHawk
- Nymashock
- Opera
- Fixed #4493 - 3DO (Opera): “Next Disc” skips multiple discs and “Previous Disc” causes crash
- Virtu
- Fixed #4500 - Virtu: any-key-down flag not restored when loading a savestate
- EmuHawk
- Merged #4512 - Fix video filename with ffmpeg writer
- Merged #4490 - Small fix for crashing log window when written from other thread
- Merged #4485 - Do not default bind two hotkeys to the same key combination.
- Merged #4480 - Improved menu keyboard navigation
- Merged #4552 - Controller backend improvements
- Fixed #4550 - New extra trailing `|` in input LogEntry for handheld consoles.
- Fixed #4712 - Cheats are no longer saved properly
- Fixed #4662 - Emulation menu QoL
- Fixed #4559 - Mouse Locked on BizHawk
- Fixed #4492 - Could Not Freeze Ram Addresses in Ram Watch or Hex Editor
- Fixed #4461 - [2.11] Controller/D-Pad Inputs using Axis Dropping R after U+R/D+R
- Fixed #4012 - Update/add more default input mappings
- Fixed #2115 - Save roms to recents even if they fail to load
- Fixed #1942 - Re-implement white noise for NullHawk (NullVideo)
- TAStudio
- don't process regular hotkeys while in axis edit mode
- Merged #4621 - Make branch load lua event more useful
- Merged #4589 - Create a TAStudio settings dialog
- Merged #4583 - TAStudio: better axis editing
- Merged #4475 - Do not disable recording mode when loading a branch.
- Merged #4661 - implement a multitrack recording/editing feature
- Merged #4530 - TAStudio: valid blank frames for OOB input indexes
- Fixed #4529 - Cloning frames silently breaks for the last movie "frame"
- Fixed #4700 - TAStudio lacks tool tips
- Fixed #4691 - Rotate breaks piano roll for computer-based systems
- Fixed #4568 - [TAStudio] "Analog incr./decr." and "Analog Incr./Decr. by 10" hotkeys do not work properly
- Fixed #4560 - Basic Bot + TAStudio Recording Mode issue (2.11)
- Fixed #4537 - Enabling "Hide Lag Frames" in TAStudio (N64) causes rows to not load
- Fixed #4528 - TAStudio load: greenzone restore broken sometimes (new regression in 2.11)
- Fixed #4477 - New crash from undoing branch loads
- Fixed #3584 - When TAStudio is focused, keybinds that include Alt don't work
- Fixed #2301 - TAStudio's undo/redo code probably needs a rewrite
- Fixed #2143 - In TAStudio recording mode, input can't be easily undone
- Hex Editor
- Fixed #4456 - [🐧] Hex editor memory highlighter shows incorrectly on Linux
- Basic Bot
- Fixed #4560 - Basic Bot + TAStudio Recording Mode issue (2.11)
- Lua Console
- "Clear output" button moved to the erase drawings button, because they're logically similar
- Old "Clear output" icon was cut off so you couldn't see the red cross so it was unclear why a bunch of lines means something gets cleared. just clear terminal icon should be more obvious what it does?
- Update "edit script contents" icon
- Lua API/scripting
- Include LuaCATS definition files for BizHawk in
Lua/_docs_luacats - Doom-specific lua callbacks:
-
doom.on_prandom() -
doom.on_use() -
doom.on_cross() -
doom.on_intercept()
-
- Merged #4598 - Lua: Show a future frame
- Merged #4497 - Add IsRewinding tool/Lua API
- Merged #4501 - Support passing bytes as Lua strings
- Enhancement #3035 - [Lua request] Read bytes as string (memory.read_bytes)
- Merged #4581 - Improve handling of Lua script callbacks
- Enhancement #4442 - Lua scripts' callbacks aren't always cleared
- Fixed #4585 - Lua accepts non-table value when table is expected, crashes
- Fixed #4575 - Request: Feature/Enhancement Allow LUA Console to Remap Keybindings
- Fixed #4564 - Lua accepts nil as value for non-optional parameters
- Fixed #4543 - Lua Console stack trace in `print` when a table has keys of different types
- Fixed #4385 - event.onframestart callback fired irregularly during TAStudio rewind
- Fixed #4290 - Add docs to the `tastudio` Lua functions with none
- Include LuaCATS definition files for BizHawk in
- Libretro
- RetroAchievements
- Merged #4508 - Use a virtualized FlowLayoutPanel for the rcheevos achievments form
- Fixed #4479 - Refactor RCheevosAchievementListForm and RCheevosLeaderboardListForm to not use a separate form for each respective item
- Fixed #4478 - Crash with RetroAchievements active
- Fixed #4603 - Logging into RetroAchievements currently breaks Dev Builds
- Merged #4508 - Use a virtualized FlowLayoutPanel for the rcheevos achievments form
- Multiplatform
BizHawk 2.11
- Windows download
- Linux download
- Released September 20th, 2025
- New cores
- DSDA-Doom for Doom/Heretic/Hexen
- Warning: Analog Weapon Selection does not work at all! Wait for 2.11.1!
- DOSBox-X for DOS and early Windows
- Opera for 3DO
- DSDA-Doom for Doom/Heretic/Hexen
- Atari2600Hawk
- Fixed #4176 - [C64, 6502] Incorrect behavior for "undocumented" CPU functions
- A7800Hawk
- Fixed #4176 - [C64, 6502] Incorrect behavior for "undocumented" CPU functions
- BSNES
- C64Hawk
- Encore
- Fixed local timezone being used to offset RTC (UTC is now always used)
- Prevent "Update" CIAs being booted
- Update/DLC CIA installation exception is now friendlier (simply states the Update/DLC CIA was successfully installed)
- System Bus domain is added (super important for pointers!)
- Loading a savestate will restore the framebuffer again
- Fixed #4374 - Encore fails to create savestate
- Faust
- Fixed #4278 - Earthbound (SNES) crashes in Faust when trying to record input
- Gambatte
- Fix minor sound issues in GBA mode (non-sync change, purely audio output fix)
- Enhancement #3813 - Value from mem address is not passed to read callback
- Fixed #4394 - BizHawk crashes when using FFmpeg writer
- GBHawk
- Enhancement #3813 - Value from mem address is not passed to read callback
- Genplus-gx
- Update to commit 956fdba
- Enable PC address error checks for gpgx. Needed for a speedrun glitch in Spider-Man that allows for skipping to the next level
- Enhancement #3813 - Value from mem address is not passed to read callback
- Fixed #4206 - [Genplus GX] Sega CD game, After Armageddon Gaiden malfunctions in 2.10
- Fixed #4371 - XJ220 Sega CD doesn't run in Bizhawk 2.10.
- Fixed #4324 - [GEN/MD] BizHawk crashed without error reporting after opening Demons of Asteborg newer versions
- Fixed #4293 - Crash without error when Loading MegaCD Games in EU
- Fixed #4229 - Demons of Asteborg does not work in 2.10
- Fixed #3862 - Weird mem callback issue with high address locations under genplus-gx
- MAME
- melonDS
- Updated to post 1.0 (commit 8a6fa3a
- Loading a savestate will restore the framebuffer again
- melonDS JIT is now supported
- DLDI and DSi SD Card is partly now supported (for a simple blank SD card given, required for some homebrew)
- DSi NAND apps that are not DSiWare can now be loaded in (considered DSiWare for purposes of the movie header)
- Enhancement #3813 - Value from mem address is not passed to read callback
- Fixed #4414 - System.NullReferenceException upon loading NDS ROM
- Fixed #4344 - DS games unable to save, saveram overwritten upon reloading game
- Fixed #4317 - MelonDS game printf is formatted weirdly
- Fixed #3840 - DSiware games do not works
- mGBA
- Update to commit cef7dde
- Mupen64Plus
- NesHawk
- Nymashock
- Fixed #3436 - Bizhawk stops working in about half an hour of playing
- O2Hawk
- Fixed #4391 - '.' key mnemonic in .bk2 is indistinguishable from "not pressed"
- PicoDrive32x
- Fixed #4419 - The SEGA 32x Games don't work on Bizhawk, the screen is always Black. Please fix it (I prefer the Kega Fusion core, better than gen-plus).
- QuickNes
- Merged #4211 - QuickerNES NES 2.0 header read fix
- Fixed #4186 - Crash when loading Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
- Merged #4429 - [Fix] Adding a fix to QuickerNES to support certain games with submapper > 0
- Fixed #4368 - QuickerNES only loads MiG-29 by codemasters on a black screen
- Fixed #4402 - Glitched graphics in NES Beauty and the Beast
- Fixed #4246 - QuickNES crashed when I tried to switch games (Bizhawk 2.10)
- Fixed #4244 - Incorrect MMC5 emulation on QuickNES on Bizhawk 2.10.
- Fixed #4243 - [quickerNES] Blacklist FDS Titles.
- Fixed #4240 - Glitched battle screen in Lagrange Point English Translation on QuickerNES
- Fixed #4239 - Super Mario All-Stars NES does not work on quickerNES core.
- Merged #4211 - QuickerNES NES 2.0 header read fix
- SameBoy
- Saturnus
- Fixed #4314 - Saturnus runs FMV sequences slow on Linux
- Snes9x
- Stella
- TIC-80
- UAE
- Virtu
- DiscoHawk
- Sped up chd writing by an order of magnitude
- EmuHawk
- Support relative mouse input (
RMouse)- To bind to analog input, just bind regular mouse input (
WMouse) twice. - Does not work in frame-by-frame mode!
- To bind to analog input, just bind regular mouse input (
-
Toggle Stay on Tophotkey - Fix crashes on startup with certain old Intel iGPUs
- Fixed JumpList (Task bar recent items list) items not launching correctly
- Merged #4452 - Ensure absolute paths in HawkFile
- Merged #4403 - Fix input/hotkey bugs
- Merged #4337 - usable movie sram
- Merged #4210 - Add more courier font sizes instead of upscaling the 16px one
- Merged #4191 - Update author/source metadata for several cores where it's missing
- Merged #4450 - Fix libretro "no game" loading
- Enhancement #3573 - [F.Rq.] Mouse cursor capture toggle (bound to Middle-Click by default)
- "Mouse Capture Forces Topmost" option (Config -> Display -> Window)
- Enhancement #4325 - [Suggestion] Update OpenAL-related dlls may bring better performance.
- Enhancement #3734 - Savestate/bk2 `Framebuffer` isn't easily user-accessible
- Enhancement #4168 - Unreleased cores aren't included in
Help>About... - Enhancement #4081 - OOTB haptic feedback binds for GB, GBA, and PSX
- Enhancement #4009 - Option for double sized Messages
- Enhancement #3960 - Preferred Cores picker is opaque and inflexible
- Enhancement #3707 - Rewind should increment rerecords
- Enhancement #3419 -
sync -fafter every.SaveRAMand.bk2backup write - Enhancement #3309 - Confusing "Desired frame length" option name in Rewind configuration
- Enhancement #2926 - [Feature Req.] Play sound when movie playback is finished
- Enhancement #2308 - StatusBar icon when Rewind is active
- Fixed #4448 -
config.ReplaceKeysInBindingsisn't taking effect until binding a new key or restarting - Fixed #4436 - Rare access violation when loading a rom while RamWatch is open
- Fixed #4396 - [🐧] Hang when playing Need for Speed Carbon - Own the City
- Fixed #4379 - [🐧] Open [anything] in Browser button does not work, instead closing the app.
- Fixed #4376 - [🐧] Label for SOCD setting cut off in Controller Config dialogue
- Fixed #4358 - Latest dev build win 64. Can not change preferred core
- Fixed #4346 - Movie fails to switch to record after loading a last-frame save state.
- Fixed #4339 - doesn't recognize L and R of controller
- Fixed #4312 - CLI launch fails with RCheevos-Hardcore Mode + Autosave
- Fixed #4281 - Arch Linux - Sound not working
- Fixed #4277 - xml games are loaded twice
- Fixed #4208 - Use
IDialogParent(instead ofCoreComm) for UI inRomLoader - Fixed #4202 - Attempting to record movie with Libretro core throws NRE
- Fixed #4197 - Play Movie dialog crashes with
OverflowException: "unable to convert from decimal..." when a MAME movie is present - Fixed #4182 - "Autostart RetroAchievements" crashes emuhawk when offline
- Fixed #4116 - Having "Input cycle" axis input set to 0 in SubGBHawk core with Audio Throttle with Unthrottled option enabled while using the XAudio2 output crashes BizHawk
- Fixed #4082 - XMLGame file generated in Windows fails to load in Linux
- Fixed #3989 - TAStudio modifies global "On Movie End" setting
- Fixed #3962 - Auto-generated (sync-)settings descriptions are cut off
- Fixed #3582 - Loading movies with nonexistent core name header doesn't fall back
- Fixed #3496 - NRE from
IGL_SlimDX9.FreeRenderTarget - Fixed #3053 - Rewinding while the emulator is paused has much worse performance.
- Fixed #2907 - v2.6.1 or Latest - Fail to play with 2 controllers simultaneously
- Fixed #2741 - LogWindow something causes crash on Mono
- Fixed #2090 - BizHawk crashes when trying to load a savestate made with different sync settings
- Fixed #1930 - [🪟] Windows' UI scale still causes problems w/ WinForms
- Support relative mouse input (
- TAStudio
- position restore logic was missing when drawing analog
- Merged #4433 - Seek fixes
- Merged #4382 - Undo redo
- Merged #4381 - Fix a situation where copy/paste hotkeys don't work.
- Merged #4377 - Add some hotkeys for markers, and display them in tool tips.
- Merged #4347 - Fixes to seeking and auto restore
- Merged #4341 - Don't save when the user says no.
- Merged #4330 - Respect the user's "ancient" savestate interval
- Merged #4319 - Make the number of frames per TAStudio rewind configurable.
- Merged #4272 - TAStudio marker lua
- Enhancement #4172 - TAStudio export to bk2: specify name
- Enhancement #3376 - TAStudio "new project" (Ctrl+N) cannot be rebound
- Enhancement #2449 - QoL suggestion for Columns menu in TAStudio
- Enhancement #2373 - TAStudio: scroll to a specific numbered frame
- Fixed #3401 - TAStudio projects for the wrong game can be loaded, crashing on loadstate
- Fixed #4430 - [TAStudio] Exception when truncating with markers
- Fixed #4375 - [🐧] TAStudio "Clone # Times" doesn't work
- Fixed #4184 - Cannot stop Bizhawk advance in TAStudio
- Fixed #4103 - TAStudio child dialogs aren't parented correctly, and will be shown behind when "Always On Top" enabled
- Fixed #3708 - TAStudio horizontal layout problems
- Fixed #2622 - Make "Autopause at end of Movie" work in TAStudio
- Fixed #2332 - [TAStudio] Certian error window prevents bizhawk from closing.
- Fixed #2329 - Clicking the left column in TAStudio should pause when it reaches the target frame
- Lua Console
- Fixed #4271 - BizHawk crashes when opening lua console on Void Linux
- Fixed #4252 - Apparent Lua bug, something about the call stack when using
pcall - Fixed #4248 - [🐧] Lua Console: select all, Clear Output leads to NRE in Mono WinForms internals
- Fixed #4167 -
genesisLua library not included in autodocs until core loaded
- RAM Search
- Enhancement #2974 - Don't reset RAM search results when changing value size
- Log Window
- Fixed #2741 - LogWindow something causes crash on Mono
- Lua API/scripting
- Merged #4335 - Add more Lua functions for TAStudio markers
- Fixed #1161 - TAStudio branches/markers lua functions
- Merged #4445 - Fix error when creating empty Lua form dropdowns
- Merged #4188 - Add a method to the
commLua library to allow settingExpectContinue- Fixed #4187 - Lua
Comm.httpPostfails when posting to servers that don't supportExpect: 100-Continue
- Fixed #4187 - Lua
- Merged #4256 - implement
emu.setrenderplanesinEmulationApifor snes9x - Merged #3821 - Memory hook improvements (GPGX)
- Merged #4283 - Memory Hook Improvements (Return value)
- Enhancement #3035 - [Lua request] Read bytes as string (
memory.read_bytes) - Fixed #4387 - IndexOutOfRangeException with Virtu core and Lua
joypad.get()/joypad.getimmediate() - Fixed #4356 - Lua
memory.write_bytes_as_arraymay not preserve order, keeps non-integer keys - Fixed #4252 - Apparent Lua bug, something about the call stack when using
pcall - Fixed #4219 -
tastudio.onqueryitembg,tastudio.onqueryitemiconbroken in release 2.10 and latest build - Fixed #3796 - Lua script sees different working directory when re-entered via callback
- Fixed #2310 - Lua
joypad.setanalogsets analog indefinitely
- Merged #4335 - Add more Lua functions for TAStudio markers
- APIHawk
- Multiplatform
- Movie importers
- gamedb
- RetroAchievements
- Fixed #4182 - "Autostart RetroAchievements" crashes emuhawk when offline
- Libretro
BizHawk 2.10
- Windows download
- Linux download
- Released January 7th, 2025
- New cores
- Encore (Citra) for 3DS
- UAE for Amiga
- Based on libretro-uae 5.0.0
- Stella for Atari2600
- ChannelFHawk
- A7800Hawk
- Fixed #3895 - Change A7800Hawk's default peripherals to 2xProLine (from 2xJoystick)
- Ares64
- Fixed #3710 - Pull Ares64 from upstream to fix Rareware games
- BSNES (v115)
- provide proper OAM memory domain
- update to latest upstream commit
- update included sameboy (used for SGB emulation) to ~0.16.5
- C64Hawk
- Warning: SaveRAM is incompatible to previous versions!
- Merged #4162 - Fix Domark/HES/MagicDesk cartridge mapper bank loading
- Merged #4161 - Fix filter stage passing sound when no filters are enabled
- Fixed #4153 - SID: Filtered voices are audible when no filter output is selected
- Merged #4160 - EasyFlash overhaul
- Merged #4152 - Fix memory performance issues
- Fixed #4151 - DeltaSerializer allocates tons of memory with disk drive active
- Genplus-gx
- update to latest upstream version
- implement paddle controller
- disasm: limit pc to 24 bits, not just disasm address
- Merged #3889 - Update Genesis Plus GX Core
- Merged #3902 - Wiring up GPGX as core for SMS, GG, and SG
- Fixed #3955 - Jeopardy for Sega CD crash
- Fixed #3942 - SMS - Pause button missing in controller config
- Fixed #3919 - SMS Paddle games don't load and use SMSHawk instead
- Fixed #3906 - Enabling BIOS does not launch the game after the startup sequence.
- Fixed #3850 - SegaCD: Dungeon Explorer broken in Bizhawk
- Fixed #3662 - CRAM memorydomain is scrambled
- Fixed #2901 - Manually editing CRAM in Genesis does not work correctly
- Enhancement #4120 - Unable to shoot outside the screen to reload (Menacer et al. for MD)
- Enhancement #4069 - swap A and D regs in gpgx_getregs()
- Enhancement #3905 - option for overscan
- Enhancement #3917 - "VDP mode" option (to eliminate region lockups / megakey behavior)
- Enhancement #2230 - Add TMSS to Genesis Core
- MAME
- Add soft reset input
- add driver source code file to dump info
- mnemonics for Robotron 2084, Jurassic Park, defender
- Fixed #3721
- Allow view selection
- Enhancement #3715 - option to hide the gear hud in certain games
- Fixed #3704 - crashes when trying to record some games that have duplicate / mirrored controls
- melonDS
- Add many more missing TMDs
- Fixed #4028 - Can't launch 2 iQue DSiWare Titles due to missing TMD
- Fixed #3535 - Error when creating any NDS cheats
- Fixed #3534 - MelonDS: screen rotate doesn't work correctly with window size 2x and higher and "Maintain aspect ratio" set
- Fixed #3397 - Hotel Dusk - Room 215, Chapter 8 puzzle is impossible
- Add many more missing TMDs
- mGBA
- Mupen64Plus
- NesHawk
- Merged #3964 - Neshawk Tracelogger no longer prints incorrect addresses if a branch would overflow/underflow the PC
- Fixed #3963 - Tracelogger shows a 32 bit address when a branch wraps around address $FFFF
- Fixed #3856 - NESHawk initial RAM pattern override length must be a multiple of 2, otherwise changes cannot be applied
- Fixed #3664 - NullReferenceException on Gimmick! (JP) (NesHawk, Mapper 69)
- Enhancement #3854 - NESHawk: missing palette RAM memory domain
- Merged #3964 - Neshawk Tracelogger no longer prints incorrect addresses if a branch would overflow/underflow the PC
- QuickerNes
- Sameboy
- Update sameboy to ~0.16.5
- Snes9x
- SubGBHawk
- SubNesHawk
- Fixed #3949 - SubNesHawk doesn't recognize FDS disk operations
- TIC-80
- TurboNyma
- Fixed #3663 - pce bug Lady Sword - Ryakudatsu Sareta 10-nin no Otome (Japan) (Unl)
- DiscoHawk
- Fixed #3859 - Discohawk About Page has Google Code link
- EmuHawk
- various performance improvements related to movie recording
- fixed subtitles button in the Play Movie dialog
- fixed movie loading duplicating subtitles in movies
- allowed editing subtitles and comments from the Play Movie dialog
- optimized the lsmv importer (other importers may also be faster)
- include debug information in binary: this will improve reported exception messages
- fixed a possible crash when savestating while recording a movie by disabling savestates past movie end
- updated core preferences picker
- prefer ideal over acceptable firmware when both exist
- improved axis input value calculation (420cf323a)
- fixed some default axis controls incorrectly having deadzone
- fixed potential exception when an invalid path was set in the Path Configuration
- fixed middle mouse button input bind not working
- rework firmware icons, better tooltip for ideal bind
- video dumper: mention dependency for AVC AVI (x264vfw or ffmpeg based decoder)
- fixed GmvImport's six button controller handling
- Add support for game controller touchpads (i.e. on PS4/PS5 controllers)
- Fixed #4144 - SaveRAM filename collision when using Libretro
- Fixed #4159 - Movies preserve old input text
- Fixed #3966 - Config > Save Config doesn't save core settings
- Merged #4087 - order firmware groups in the dialog and in the code
- Merged #4029 - Main window auto-size fixes
- Fixed #2850 - Window Size & position incorrectly adjusted when exiting Fullscreen
- Merged #4027 - Cheat load/save fixes
- Fixed #3085 - tool savefile paths doesn't track current rom
- Merged #4024 - Fix Sega CD/Saturn disc hashing
- Merged #4022 - Disk Drive Activity LED ToolTip enhancement
- Merged #4011 - Add option to disable automatic resize of main window
- Fixed #1560 - Window is spontaneously moved/recreated during Yoshi's island's opening
- Fixed #3039 - N64 Graphics Plugin's "graphics resolution" shouldn't govern the size of the application Window
- Fixed #3410 - Nymashock changes emulator window size between each game resolution change, no matter the settings
- Merged #4010 - Fix movie header values being potentially outdated upon starting a movie record
- Fixed #3980 - GB: Default settings don't properly save the boot ROM in movie settings
- Merged #4008 - Change OnMovieEnd default to 'Pause' instead of 'Finish'
- Fixed #4007
- Merged #3987 - Make external tools path independent of working directory
- Merged #3981 - movies: normalize loaded hashes to upper case
- Fixes #3979 - Hashes in movie headers should not be case-sensitive
- Merged #3975 - Fix Uzebox framerate
- Merged #3751 - Dispose disks in Nyma cores
- Fixed #3750 - EmuHawk 2.9.1 doesn't release file after closing game
- Merged #3935 - Refactor IControlMainform handling in Mainform
- Merged #3914 - Expanded color palette object inside Nes PPU Viewer
- Merged #3913 - Updated Amstrad CPC Non-Sync Settings name
- Fixed #3845 - CPCHawk - Incorrect Text Label Under "Other Non-Sync Settings"
- Merged #3869 - Replace SortedSet with SortedList<T> in InputRoll (better performance)
- Merged #3876 - Remove DInput input adapter
- Merged #3872 - Add some larger sizes to View -> Window Size
- Enhancement #3826 - Add more window size option?
- Merged #3747 - Set inputdisplay correctly on LoadState
- Fixed #3741 - Input display doesn't update when loading states in read-only mode
- Merged #3733 - Allow migrating non-SHA1 hashes on movie import
- Fixed #3727 - BizHawk handles imported SNES9x CRC32 incorrectly
- Merged #3728 - Change Odyssey 2 framerate
- Enhancement #3709
- Merged #3691 - Update CurrentlyOpenRom before Tools.Restart
- Fixed #3527 - Hex editor shows wrong "File on Disk" when switching games
- Merged #3690 - Add StringFormat to pixeltext DrawString parameters
- Fixed #3669 - gui.pixeltext is misaligned when message starts with too many spaces
- Merged #3684 - Sanitize text pasted into hex text boxes
- Enhancement #3682 - Allow pasting 0xHHHH-formatted numbers in a HexTextBox (e.g. in WatchEditor)
- Fixed #4136 - Duplicate firmware filenames
- Fixed #4086 - Auto-Hide Mouse Cursor Doesn't work
- Fixed #3986 - GameInfo is not cleared when rom loading fails
- Fixed #3983 - Opening/closing tools from Lua can crash BizHawk
- Fixed #3957 - N64 Background analog input being read even when turned off
- Fixed #3842 - Key priority setting doesn't compare individually mapped keys to key combinations
- Fixed #3833 - Freezing many values in hex editor, then choosing not to freeze will still freeze the first value (Bizhawk 2.8)
- Fixed #3779 - fm2 movies for FDS games cause an IndexOutOfRangeException
- Fixed #3776 - Problems when adding padding to the EmuCore drawing surface
- Fixed #3679 - FFmpeg custom commands can mess up video output extension
- Fixed #3567 - NES cheats compare byte changes every core reboot
- Fixed #3523 - Cheat serialisation is borked
- Fixed #3341 - Crash when any of cropping parameters are set to very high negative value (ex. -1000000)
- Enhancement #4132 - Display keyboard keys at the end of input OSD
- Enhancement #4108 - Mapping Analog to dpad gives too narrow diagonals when using XInput controllers
- Enhancement #4070 - Rename "AVI/WAV" in menus
- Enhancement #4017 - When Dumping Create a Warning if/when Closing the Program
- Enhancement #3915 - Bump up FFmpeg Writer above AVI Writer
- Enhancement #3900 - Restore Default Current Tab in Hotkeys
- Enhancement #3835 - Make the Admin privs warning less useless for the user
- Enhancement #3763 - Movie creation: GB firmware defaulting is unintuitive
- Enhancement #3737 - EmuHawk consumes extra GPU while paused
- Enhancement #3644 - BizHawk does not inhibit display or system sleep while running
- Enhancement #3570 - Movie importing requires a rom to be loaded
- Enhancement #3532 - "IOException: The device is not ready" when loading .cue
- Enhancement #3481 - Hotkey to accept background input
- Enhancement #3177 - [import Movie] .smv import on BSNES Core, when Snes9X core selected
- Enhancement #2605 - OSD not affected by system UI scale
- Enhancement #1879 - Add low-level support for the Nintendo GameCube Controller Adapter drivers (on host)
- Enhancement #1482 - Request: CHD file format support
- EmuHawk Linux port
- Fixed #4145 - Host audio stops when MainForm dragged
- Fixed #4021 - BizHawk 2.9.1 crashes when trying to encode with FFmpeg
- Fixed #3972 - Hang when using "Hide Lag Frames" on Linux
- Fixed #3912 - Problems on drag-and-drop of lua script
- Fixed #3843 - Random crashes when playing PS1 games on Manjaro Linux
- Fixed #3828 - Crashing when open any rom file
- Fixed #3678 - LUA Console instant crash on startup
- Debugger
- Hex Editor
- Merged #3998 - HexEditor "File on Disk" fixes
- MultiDisk Bundler
- Lua Console
- Lua
- improved bundled input display script's handling of unsupported systems
- Fixed #3897 - Script using tastudio.onqueryitemtext gets IndexOutOfRangeException after updating from 2.8
- Enhancement #3651 - Lua functions search filter doesn't search through description
- Enhancement #2600 - Unable to fully display two .lua scripts at the same time in 2.6
- Ram Search
- Ram Watch
- Fixed #4044 - 8 character limit when poking a 4 byte binary value
- Fixed #4045 - Invalid input produces no error when poking 4 byte binary values
- Fixed #4001 - "Changes" column is broken in certain cases in RAM watch
- Enhancement #4046 - "New watch" window layout
- Enhancement #4051 - Context menu for RAM Watch separator rows has split, poke, and un/freeze options
- Enhancement #3688 - Input display seems to use hardcoded 0 instead of AxisSpec.Neutral when under specific circumstances
- Enhancement #3802 - Add setting to control what happens when double-clicking RAM watch
- RetroAchievements
- TAStudio
- bump default undo count to 1000
- removed unused tastudio menus and config params
- use normal control BG color for tastudio color editor
- don't let branch screenshot appear below screen edge
- allowed TAStudio to save cycle count in bk2 export
- optimized performance and reduced memory allocations
- sped up the state history integrity checker by more than an order of magnitude
- improved autofire / autohold handling (15ff0ec2c)
- Fixed #4068 - TAStudio does not handle movie start failures gracefully
- Fixed #4065 - TAStudio will save even when you press "no" in certain cases
- Fixed #3675 - Deleting too many frames is massively inefficient
- WIP #3708 - TAStudio horizontal layout problems
- fix axis value editing logic: specifically allow typing without immediately clamping to the min value when the user isn't finished
- Fixed #4115 - GunCon unable to type any aY value besides 16X (and 16)
- Merged #3936 - Fix possible TAStudio NRE
- Fixed #3499 - TAStudio NullReferenceException after movie playback
- Fixed #4125 - Right-clicking TAStudio Frame# column header causes exception
- Fixed #4058 - Recording mode gets extremely slow for longer movies
- Fixed #3968 - Opening a .tasproj file and reordering branches would cause exception
- Fixed #3933 - TAStudio suggests to save tasproj changes on every bk2 import
- Fixed #3899 - Marker changes to branches can save even when the branch itself isn't saved
- Fixed #3870 - Loading a tasproj does not dispose the rewind buffer
- Fixed #3685 - TAStudio axis cell is set to 0 instead of AxisSpec.Neutral under specific circumstances
- Fixed #3500 - TAStudio recording mode may get toggled on erroneously
- Fixed #3478 - Max Undo Level keeps resetting to 100
- Fixed #3220 - Possible Bug With Lag Log / Follow Cursor / TASProj Loading
- Fixed #2292 - TAStudio records extra frames at the end during playback
- Fixed #2081 - Turbo seek doesn't render the proper frame
- Fixed #734 - Auto-adjust input according to lag
- Enhancement #3992 - Add a hotkey for "Clone # Times" in the TAStudio tab
- Enhancement #3969 - Improved Clear Frame performance
- Enhancement #3714 - marker edit dialogue box spawns in bad locations
- Enhancement #3504 - TAStudio .bk2 export is disabled until a .tasproj is saved
- Enhancement #3124 - Add tooltip to TAStudio column headers w/ full name of button/axis
- Enhancement #2369 - context menu spawns a bit too close to the cursor
- Enhancement #2144 - Painting input on TAStudio's tiles should disable recording mode
- ApiHawk
- meta: The .NET 8 SDK is now required for working with BizHawk. The VS installer will automatically include this with VS2022 updates.
- Fix confusing failures when an
ApiContainerprop is accidentally marked with[RequiredApi]/[OptionalApi] - Ext. tools now receive
ToolFormUpdateType.Generalevents regularly while paused (and while unpaused! you should have been checking the enum anyway)- If you're subclassing
ToolFormBase, this will have no impact on your existing code, but you can choose to overrideGeneralUpdateto make use of it
- If you're subclassing
- Fix signature of
IMemoryApi.WriteFloat(the value param is now float and not double—the implementation was converting it to a float anyway) - Add an overload
IGuiApi.WithSurface(DisplaySurfaceID, Action<IGuiApi>)and deprecate the old one- For the time being, there will be no difference between using the lambda parameter as instructed, and discarding it and continuing to make calls to whatever
IGuiApiinstance you were using.
- For the time being, there will be no difference between using the lambda parameter as instructed, and discarding it and continuing to make calls to whatever
- Remove the deprecated
IGameInfoApilibrary - Remove the deprecated attributes
[RomWhitelist],[SingleRom(CoreSystem, string)], and[SingleSystem(CoreSystem)] - Rewrite most of
GuiApi(the implementation ofIGuiApi). Parity with the old implementation is a goal, but there may be bugs