(MD) Regen v0.97 and v0.97D - 模擬器

2009.10.17

Regen 0.97 and 0.97D released

Finally, after many months, Regen 0.97 and 0.97D have finally been
released. Regen 0.97 is the normal fast build while Regen 0.97D has
the debuggers enabled (thus its slow). This release is a HUGE update
on the previous 0.96 release. It includes lots of changes and new
stuff (way too much stuff to mention here). So see the included
“History.txt” in the download package to see all the new stuff and
changes. And speaking of download packages, I’ve built two different
normal builds. One has some video stuff optimized using SSE2 and
other is not. So if you are using a processor newer than the Pentium
4 (except AthlonXP) you should download SSE2 one as it is much faster
than the non-SSE2 build. The non-SSE2 optimized will run on anything.
Also, if someone wants, I can make 64-bit builds of Regen as well.
Just post a request at the forums or mail me.

* Preliminary Genesis/Megadrive VDP Mode 4 (SMS mode) support.
Although there is no game that uses it, I′ve been asked by many
homebrew developers/hackers to add support for this. Note that
Mode 4 in MD is a bit different than in SMS. These little details
are detailed in Charles MacDonald′s SMS/MD docs. Due to time
contraints, this feature isn′t very havily tested so expect some
bugs . Also note that this DOES NOT put the hardware in Mark III
compatibility mode. The ports will still be unuseable.
* Hopefully fixed Sonic And Knuckles and other SRAM issues. The main
problem is that I haven′t been able to reproduce these problems
at my end so thats why I can′t be sure.
* Fixed Micro Machines 2 showing incorrect stage start screen when
booth EEPROM and J-Cart are enabled.
* Hooked up EPPROM to some more games.
* Fixed Plan A/Window initialization bug. Thanks to Eke for reporting
the bug (and fix!).
* Improved PSG. It should sound more accurate now. Levels have also
been changed a bit. Thanks to Shadow for reporting very detailed
bugs and information about it.
* Added support for RPI plugin scalers of 3x and 4x. Previoulsy Regen
only supported 2x scaler, now it supports all of them. In short,
all of Kega plugins will now work. :)
* Added the option to boost PSG noise to make some people happy .
* Added SMS border emulation.
* Improved SMS emulation. Should be more accurate now.
* Fixed "Output 4:3 aspect" not working in SMS games.
* Modified the NTSC filter plugin. Now you can instantly see the
changes you make (like Hue, Contrast etc..) in the NTSC
configuration dialog.
* Removed the old on screen text display engine and added new one.
The new one has the following advantages over the old one:

- Support for Unicode.
- Allows translation of the on-screen messages.
- Works when fullscreen is enabled.
- Hopefully doesn′t have the problem of displaying garbage on
some video cards.

* Added reconfigurable overdrive factor support. Previously, this
was set to overdrive the final sound output by 2. Now yo can
control is fom 1.0 to 5.0.
* Added featue to control the volume levels of FM and PSG separately.
PSG Boost feature has been removed. This setting is mainly for
those who are very picky about the volume levels between FM and PSG.
But another factor in this is the game itself. Sound in some games
may get clipped if the respective volume amplification is too much.
So this needs a lot of tweaking before it can be used perfectly. My
recommendation is to keep the settings between 1 and 2.5 and then
use the overdrive factor setting to further amplify the sound.
* Scanlines effects added. Four predefined settings are given (25%,
50%, 75% and 100%). There is also the option to set the intensity
to whatever value you want (for example 12%). Note however that
the predefined scanlines setting are much faster than custom one.
So its foolish to set custom intesity at 50% for example.
* Added "Power Saving mode" to increase laptop/notebook/netbook
battery life while playing. In this mode, Regen won′t use 100%
CPU. But this can cause a little bit of jumpiness in FPS/video.
* Removed picture being a bit blurry even if nearst neighbour filter
was selected (in non-stretch mode). Strecthing will still cause
blurrines however.
* Fixed palette problem when brighten was enabled in Game Gear games.
Note that brighten may not have much of an effect on Game Gear
games since the dynamic, extrapolated color range of Game Gear
is close to 16-bit 565 colors.
* Added support to take screenshots in PNG format. This setting can
be controlled in "Paths and Preferences" dialog. Support for taking
screenshot in BMP is still present.
* Fixed support for 12-in-1 and 4-in-1 cartridges.
* Added support for following unlicensed games:

- Super Mario 2 1998
- Super Mario Bros.
- King of Fighter 98
- Super 19-in-1
- Super 15-in-1

* Changed the detection of unlicensed games. Now you need to disable
"Autofix Checksum" in order for unlicensed games to work.
* Fixed cheat editor bug in "Cheats" dialog. Previously, it would
ask for more values than required.
* Fixed BallZ 3D locking up by default.
* Fixed Regen crashing when editing cheats in the "Cheats" dialog by
double-clicking an empty place.
* SuperHQ option now works at whatever sound rate is selected. This
means it is now supported by both 44100 and 48000 output sampling
rates.
* Fixed cheat searching. Newly searched and added cheats now work.
After adding a newly found cheat, they will appear in the "Cheats"
dialog. After being added, they are turned on by default.
* Removed support for reconfigurable shortcuts using the INI. But
you can still reconfigure shortcuts using another way. See the
next change.
* Fixed bugs related to brighten. In some games, enabling disabling
birghten would cause some colors to turn black.
* Completely new localization support. Now, you not only translate
the menus but translate the dialogs, message box text and even the
on screen text to your language. Using this, you can also
reconfigure the shortcuts. See "Localization.txt" in "Languages"
subdirectory to see how to translate.
* Added "Alternate Timing" mode. This will fix jumpy FPS/stuttering
video/audio for some poeple.
* Corrected mid-frame CRAM writes handling. Mega Turrican′s
background sky gradient is now displayed properly.
* Added option to increase ROM space from 4 MB to 8 MB. This can only
be changed by modifying the INI file and setting "LargeROMSpace"
setting to "1" (LargeROMSpace = 1).
* Heavily refined path configuration dialog. Also contains other
preferences as well so it has been renamed to "Paths and Preferences".
* Fixed up UPS patching support. Now it works (finally). If you click
"System->Patch", it will first search for a corresponding UPS patch
in the configured Patch directory and apply that patch. If not
found, it will give UPS patch selection dialog to select some patch.
For automatic searching of patches, the UPS patches must be of
the same name as the ROM file but with a ".ups" extension.
* Option to automatically patch up a ROM if a corresponding UPS patch
is found in the configured patches directory. If it is not found,
it does *NOT* pop up an error message and will silently continue
the game UNPATCHED. It was done because popping an error upon
loading of every game without a patch is rather annoying. For
automatic searching of patches, the UPS patches must be of the
same name as the ROM file but with a ".ups" extension.
* Option to ignore the CRC errors that were encountered during the
patching of ROM.
* Added feature to enable/disable the autoamtic loading of cheat files.
* Small refinement to the menus. The menu items which start a dialog
box now end with "...".
* Improvements to the command line and drag-drop code. Now its case
insensitive and now you can load SMS/GG files by drag-dropping.
* Fixed the bug whereby loading a SMS game with fullscreen option
given on the command line didn′t go into fullscreen.
* Added support for SMS cheats. Note that only hex cheats are supported.
* Added ROM browser. Now you select the file inside 7z/Zip archives.
* Fixed a bug whereby loading a game after another caused the new game
to be ran at the refresh rate of the previous game. This caused
problems when, for example, one loaded PAL game after NTSC or vice
versa.
* Fixed a bug which would caused Sonic Crackers to crash Regen while it
locked up the hardware.
* Fixed a bug which caused a system lock up by a previously loaded
game to not clear up while loading a new ROM.
* Input recording and replaying feature. Now you can record movies
in Regen record format. Then you can exchange movies with other
users. But most importantly, you can now record the movie without
lagging and then later replay it in Regen while re-recording it as
an AVI, to upload it on video sites like Youtube etc..
* Added option to slow down emulation speed. Various speed settings
are also given. From 3% to 100% settings. Useful for TASing.
* Added frame advance feature to the menu item. This feature was
present in many previous versions as well but people are too lazy
to read the manuals and asked me to add it when it is already there.
* Added links to docs and some important websites to the "Help" menu.
* Some other stuff as well which now I′ve forgotten >_> .
* Now with a serious Read Me. :D

Debugger Build:

Most of these bugs reports and suggestions were made by Wiz and
BigNailCow from Shinning Force II (and Sonic) hacking scene. A few
of the requested couldn′t be added becuase of my laziness. Sorry.

* Added spectrum analyzer. Useful for some music makers and it just
looks damn cool .
* Fixed overclocking feature which got broken in 0.95.
* Fixed mismatch between displayed PC and the starting PC in
diassesmbly window after pressing any of the stepping buttons.
* Now the 68000 debugger shows the exact address of breaking when
breaking using "Breakpoint Range" mode.
* Fixed YM2612 debugger bug where Sustain level was being displayed
as Release rate (Thanks to Tiido for reporting).
* Added "Go to Address" feature in the ROM browser to go to a specific
address.
* Added tracing feature to the 68k debugger. Its a bit unstable right
now but traces are created perfectly (but may cause Regen to crash
sometimes). So its recommended to create a savestate before
using that feature. Tracing will make Regen very slow and if you
don′t know how to use it correctly, you will find yourself
running out of hard disk space .
* Made VDP layer selection dialog non-modal.
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下載：http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/regen/Regen097.zip

SSE2 optimized (Pentium 4 and new only. Except AthlonXP)
http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/regen/Regen097SSE2.zip

Debugger
http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/regen/Regen097D.zip

官方：http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/index.htm

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