--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kega Fusion v3.6 (C) Steve Snake 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whats New ? ----------- Well it's been a long time. Lots of really bad things have happened, often working on Kega felt like the last thing I wanted to be doing. Still. Work on it I did. Lots of changes and additions over the last two years, most of which I've forgotten about again, but here's the stuff I can remember: * Fixed Sound/Timing Issue with Fahrenheit SCD/32X. * Fixed a typo which corrupted a register in the YM2612 SSG/EG section. * Removed a few pieces of test code that were not supposed to be left in, and affected timing of various things under certain conditions. * LOTS of behind-the-scenes fixes and improvements, which I've totally forgotten, but you will notice them and remind me at some point ;-) * Rewrote controller code, should fix problems with some USB controllers. * Rewrote Menacer emulation which made it easier to add Konami Justifier emulation. Just the first Justifier is emulated for now. You'll definitely want to calibrate it in games that use it. * Added SegaCD SaveStates that actually, you know, work. * Added support for more games that use custom SRAM, and fixed some that were already emulated, but got broken at some point. * Added support for all unlicensed Genesis games that I know of. * Added support for the Sega Virtua Processor (SVP). Thanks to the reverse engineering work by the amazing Tasco Deluxe, and the proof of concept emulator by Notaz, I was able to write and debug my ASM core for this in just two days. * Removed some filtering in YM2612 SuperHQ mode (you won't actually notice) and instead added a "Filter" option to the sound menu. This filter is very close to that in a real Model 1 Genesis/MegaDrive. Most people will want to leave this off (me included) but I know some people wanted it. * Removed 11025Hz option. It was causing me problems, doesn't work well on most newish hardware, and sucked anyway. * Added preliminary Sega Pico support. There's a lot more I plan to do with this. For now, just load as a Genesis ROM. Mouse is required for Pico, along with the following controls: START switches between StoryWare and trackpad, B is the pico red button, A and C turn pages, and U/D/L/R are, well, U/D/L/R. * Added ability to create 128K SegaCD RAM carts to keep SpinelSun happy ;-) * Added two controller sharing options for Netplay. Everybody can now share controller one, or all controllers. The latter isn't very useful, but why not. * Added "Nearest Multiple" option to the Video Menu. The various Aspect modes do what they have always done when this option is enabled, but now when it is disabled, they will allow non-multiple stretching while still keeping the aspect ratio correct. * Added "Use NTSC Aspect" option to the Video Menu. This used to be done automatically under certain conditions, now you have full control. * Added Pause Emulation feature. * Added Frame Advance feature. * Added No Frame Skipping feature. You should pretty much ignore this and let Kega do what is best. But it does also trigger a special case mode when you have VSync enabled, and you hit Fast Forward. Normally, VSync is ignored during Fast Forward, or else Fast Forward wouldn't actually do very much. With No Frame Skipping enabled, it will still do VSyncs. This might be useful to you if your video mode is running at some odd refresh rate. Note that the sound could well sound awful if you do this. * Added AVI Logging using custom Kega Game Video 1 lossless codec. This is needed because logging RAW video causes poor performance even on highend machines, and using any of the available codecs either doesn't compress well enough to fix that, or does compress well enough, but can't keep up with 60fps, so you get poor performance either way. The codec is able to use hints from the emulator to aid in compression, allowing pretty good compression while taking very little CPU time. The codec to allow you to play back and convert the files is included in the archive, and can be installed via right clicking on the INI file and telling the OS to continue with the install. Tested on XP and Vista64, should work fine on 9x and Vista32. Note that these AVI files are not really meant to be shared as they are, it's just a way for you to log video without horrible laggy gameplay. Convert them to Xvid or something using the excellent VirtualDub program (Google it.) I'll open up this codec sometime later incase it's useful for other purposes/programs. * Disabled BIOS use where possible during Netplay games, to prevent out of sync errors when people had different combinations of BIOS/NO BIOS/ Different BIOS. * Netplay Games should now automatically change your country code to that of the host. * Added Fast 32X Timing option. This is mainly for development. If you don't know what this is for, leave it disabled. * Added CartBoot option, which is enabled via INI file only. Again, if you don't know what this is for, leave it disabled. * Kega Fusion now runs beautifully under Vista. Kega Fusion was already more accurate than any other emulator, this time around, thanks to various internal tweaks, and removing of left-over test code, it SHOULD be more accurate than ever before :-) I don't think I broke anything, but there have been some very big changes and I have changed machines and build environments twice since the last version, so it's entirely possible. Please let me know if I have. I'll just add here that several people assumed Kega was 'dead' because I hadn't updated it for a long time. Rest assured, this is not the case. Nothing is 'dead' unless I say otherwise. I may well have some problems, or even other projects, that take all my time. But just like Arnie, I'll be back. Gotta go, busy busy busy... Snake. kega kat at gmail dot com (withnospacesanywhere) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kega Fusion v3.51 (C) Steve Snake 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whats New ? ----------- Quick Update: * Fixed Netplay Connection issue. * Fixed Netplay Dialogs in Fullscreen mode. * Config of Player 1 (the Host) is now copied to other players in Netplay. * Re-added another deleted line, the sound effects in Ecco work again. * Fixed a Timing issue, Street Racer works again. * Fixed DMA issue with Powermonger. * Fixed SMS NMI issue. That's all for now, Snake. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kega Fusion v3.5 (C) Steve Snake 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whats New ? ----------- Lots of stuff that I did months ago, and now have completely forgotten... However here is the stuff that I remember doing. * Rewrites to lots of Genesis and 32X side stuff. Should fix things I broke in 3.4, and is very slightly faster. Hopefully nothing is broken. * Re-added one line of ASM to the 32X emulation which must have gotten deleted a long time ago. Now disolveable objects in Chaotix work again. * Fixed the SegaCD Fader. * Fusion now supports more MP3 formats than Winamp does - i.e. all of them. 44100Hz Stereo is still recommended, but not neccessary. * Seeking within MP3s works now. Not sure about VBR files though. * Blackthorne 32X sound glitch fixed - it now performs exactly as on real hardware. * Controller config rewrite. You can now define directions for controllers as well as buttons. * VGM Log now logs VGM1.10 format files, which should be much smaller. You can change back to VGM1.01 if you need to by editing the VGM_Version setting in the INI file. (16,1 for VGM1.10, 1,1 for VGM1.01) * Added 'ForceSWBuffer' sound compatibility option. This is set to 1 by default because this is the preferred option. However if you are getting no sound (due to buggy drivers), or your framerate fluctuates for no reason, you can try setting this to 0. * Drag and drop support added. * Brighten option for those that prefer a slightly brighter palette. * Preliminary Netplay support. You MUST read the README.TXT to learn how to use this feature. LOTS more stuff - if you find something, please tell me ;) Happy new year! Snake. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kega Fusion v3.4 (C) Steve Snake 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whats New ? ----------- July 2nd, 2005: --------------- * Split this file into README.TXT and HISTORY.TXT and basically redid README.TXT. Some of the info in there was very out of date, and there is some very important info I needed to add for this version. * Fixed a minor sound issue I forgot to take care of last time. * Rewrote High Priority stuff, now sets the priority differently. * Added Keyboard Shortcut for CVBS TV Mode that I forgot to add before. * Fixed GameGear Zoom with Render Plugins. * Added option (set via ini file only) to disable the TV static effect. There isn't really any need to do this because it takes close to zero CPU time anyway. Still - StaticDisabled=1 turns it off. * Fusion now remembers it's window coordinates between sessions. * Added selectable (via ini file only) refresh rates for PAL and NTSC. See the section in README.TXT on EXPERT OPTIONS for more info. * Added...
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