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How to add filters? The only thing I miss is the lack of filters! I've tried .CPG files and I get errors! Thanks in advance! Great emulator, incredible work!
Post subject: BizHawk 2.6.2 released!
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Windows binary Release notes Bit late on the post for this one as the site was taking care of migrating away from Freenode, sorry about that! This version is mainly a bugfix release, though it also contains an updated mGBA core and an experimental core for the latest BSNES, which needs to be tested thoroughly.
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In the menu strip in Bizhawk. Display Configuration -> Scaling & Filtering tab -> User -> Select You can try some from here https://github.com/libretro/common-shaders/tree/master/hqx https://github.com/aybe/RetroArch-shaders acb10, a lot of the filters/shaders don't work for whatever reason in Bizhawk. Many will display a blank screen or will load but they won't look right either. Grayscale and Negative are the only ones of about 6 or 7 that worked properly. But any video editing software has video filters that could do that. The User Prescale comes into play as well. If the window size is 1x then have it as 1x. 2x then select 2x. etc. hq4x would be great but it does not work as of a couple months ago when I messing with this.
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There is an option under "Configure AVI" where you can write your own FFMPEG command. What is a good example of an FFMPEG script on BizHawk?
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Post subject: Re: BizHawk 2.6.2 released!
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Samsara wrote:
and an experimental core for the latest BSNES, which needs to be tested thoroughly.
Just curious, whats different in that version?
Post subject: Re: BizHawk 2.6.2 released!
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RGL wrote:
Samsara wrote:
and an experimental core for the latest BSNES, which needs to be tested thoroughly.
Just curious, whats different in that version?
BizHawk's current BSNES core is v109 I believe, this core is the latest release (v115), so the differences are whatever was changed in BSNES from v110 to v115.
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It's even v87 currently.
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Can Bizhawk run 32X games accurately and easily? I heard that the other emulators such as Gens and Fusion while they are good may not be up to snuff.
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I consolidated some notes on maintaining bizhawk bk2s since 2.2.2 for console verifiability. https://pastebin.com/ShLmxM6L
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Guernsey wrote:
Can Bizhawk run 32X games accurately and easily? I heard that the other emulators such as Gens and Fusion while they are good may not be up to snuff.
Some games still have issues, on all available emulation cores. BC Racers for example is not able to play certain sound effects produced by the 32X sound output. Tested it on Picodrive in Bizhawk and Retroarch and also on KegaFusion
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I have restored functionality to Basic Bot (a tool that can be used to random guess check small sections of a TAS) in dev builds. It's somewhat simpler to use then a lua script for simple tasks, and there was a video tutorial made for it by CoolHandMike: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21184
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RGL wrote:
Guernsey wrote:
Can Bizhawk run 32X games accurately and easily? I heard that the other emulators such as Gens and Fusion while they are good may not be up to snuff.
Some games still have issues, on all available emulation cores. BC Racers for example is not able to play certain sound effects produced by the 32X sound output. Tested it on Picodrive in Bizhawk and Retroarch and also on KegaFusion
Is that so? That is disheartening to hear. From what I heard, 32X emulation is still in limbo and that accuracy is still up in the air. Looks like I will have to stick with Fusion for now.
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Does Bizhawk support Sega CD 32X games that required both of those?
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Is it OK that every Moorhuhn on PSX doesn't let any input when neGcon is connected? I guess, it refers to GunCon light gun.
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Post subject: Yo new biz just dropped
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BizHawk 2.6.3 has been released! Lots of updates and fixes to EmuHawk and cores, most notably Gambatte. See full changelog: http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/ReleaseHistory.html#Bizhawk263 Grab Windows and Linux binaries here: https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/releases/tag/2.6.3
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no BIOS accuracy improvements and HLE of CGB-DMG colors (restoring to original Gambatte behavior of hacking in the post BIOS state)
What does this mean exactly? The improvements got reverted for sync or something?
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Accuracy improvements for emulator without bios is the first one. Second one... I dunno.
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Ah, pretty awful misreading on my part. Thanks.
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Fixed it to say "no-BIOS improvements".
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PPLToast wrote:
no BIOS accuracy improvements and HLE of CGB-DMG colors (restoring to original Gambatte behavior of hacking in the post BIOS state)
What does this mean exactly? The improvements got reverted for sync or something?
The meaning is more the approach was changed for no BIOS. Originally Gambatte had no bios option, which simply set the state to (about) the post BIOS state. When BIOS support got properly added, no BIOS support got removed. Eventually no BIOS support was put back in, but instead of doing the original hack in post BIOS state, instead BizHawk was simply providing a homebrew BIOS. This is problematic due to Gambatte's testsuite, which will fail many of its tests if it does not get the exact same post BIOS state as a real GB/C. In 2.6.3, the original approach was put back in, along with being closer to the post bios state than original Gambatte behavior. In GB mode, the exact same state is put in, which also makes it so movies made without a BIOS can always be resynced to having BIOS (assuming ELF isn't being used). GBC mode ends up having hundreds of possible post BIOS states just from the header, so the state is taken off the header data in Gambatte's testroms, and will not be right for many games. GBC-GBA mode is the same deal as GBC mode. Confusing mostly since this was just taking off a commit message/pr iirc, hope this clears this up.
Post subject: TAStudio issues
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TAStudio cannot open .bk2 movies of different versions of SNES
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Should I switch to the BSNES core as opposed to SNES9x core?
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Guernsey wrote:
Should I switch to the BSNES core as opposed to SNES9x core?
Yes, you should.
my personal page - my YouTube channel - my GitHub - my Discord: thunderaxe31 <Masterjun> if you look at the "NES" in a weird angle, it actually clearly says "GBA"
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So you can switch cores? Does this apply to the GBA one as well?
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Guernsey wrote:
So you can switch cores?
Yes. On the top menus where you see File, Emulation, View, Config, etc., go to Config > Cores > SNES and choose BSNES.
Guernsey wrote:
Does this apply to the GBA one as well?
No, because there is only one GBA core in BizHawk now. So if you have BizHawk 2.5 or newer, you are already using mGBA.