Emulator ares v138 released

[admin]

ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendant of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.

https://ares-emu.net/compatibility

Changelog:

Atari 2600

• Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now implemented
• Improve handling of the HMOVE register
• Refactor of TIA; fixes many emulation issues but still imperfect
• Implement correct 6502 reset timing

Bandai - WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color

• Minor fixes to v30mz CPU emulation
• Emulate 32KB SRAM for '8KB' type cartridges
• Implement Sound Test register bits 1,2 and 3

Nintendo - NES / Famicom

• Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now supported
• Fix APU frame counter emulation
• Various improvements to APU emulation
• Implement correct 6502 reset timing

Nintendo - Nintendo 64

• Fix an issue where saved data from the current game could be duplicated into the next
• Fix an issue where the Real Time Clock may not function correctly depending on the user's local time zone

Nintendo - Game Boy Advance

• Implement that the last cycle of the prefetcher cannot be interrupted
• Implement correct ROM mirroring for Famicom Mini / Classic NES series
• Improve handling of SRAM/Flash bus
• Fix the timing of initial DMA wait cycles

Sega Mega Drive / CD / 32X

• Lower sync interval between MD and 32X: improves emulation accuracy but does reduce performance

Sony - PlayStation

• Update the blitter to operate on a copy of the framebuffer; fixes potential threading issues

ruby (Audio/Video/Input abstraction layer)

• Added a native Metal backend for macOS with VRR support
• Implemented latency selection in SDL audio driver
• Removed the built-in Blur shader, using the bilinear slang shader is preferred
• Removed non-hardware accelerated video drivers (any platform capable of running ares should at least have OpenGL, D3D or Metal available)
• Reduce CPU usage on the video thread by using a condition variable rather than a spinlock
• Add support for connecting a Mouse on macOS (for emulating SNES mouse, etc)
• Remove tight loops in SDL and OpenAL drivers, reducing CPU usage when using these drivers.

User Interface

• Fix an issue where nested slang shaders were not available in the UI

ares