08 April 2010

The 2.1.3 release that fixes some bugs of 2.1.2, increases game compatibility, and adds usability enhancements to the windows port and adds a GUI to the SDL port

Common

 * Fixed mappers 82, 25, 21, and 18. Games such as SD Kiji Blader, Ganbare Goemon Gaiden, and Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2, Jajamaru Gekimadden are now playable
 * Fixes for mappers 253 & 226 - fixes games such as Fire Emblem (J) and Fire Emblem Gaiden (J)
 * Fix crashing on game loading for any battery backed roms with mappers from MapInitTab (fixes Esper Dream 2 - Aratanaru Tatakai (J)
 * FDS - show name of missing bios file in error message
 * NewPPU - fixed sprite hit before 255 and for non transparent hits only, thanks to dwedit for providing the fix
 * .fm2 file format header now has an FDS flag

SDL

 * A GUI! A graphic user interface (using GTK) with many basic menu options
 * ported to SDL 1.3; compatibility maintained with 1.2
 * unix netplay is now functional; gtk network gui created
 * now prints the name of the mapper on ROM load
 * fixed dpad/joyhat support
 * VS unisystem keys now configable
 * changed default hotkeys and keys to match win32
 * disallow --inputcfg gamepad0 and gamepad5

Win32

 * Made savestate backups optional (config - enable - backup savestates)
Made savestate compression togglable (config - enable - compress savestates)
 * Cheats dialog - Pause while active checkbox
 * Cheats dialog - Toggling a cheat in the cheats list now updates the active cheats count
 * Debugger - added an auto-load feature
 * Debugger - Fix so it doesn't crash if unminimized with no game loaded
 * Closing minimized windows no longer moves them the next time they get opened
 * Lua console - added a menu
 * Lua console - filename updates when lua scripts are dragged to emulator or recent filenames invoked
 * Name Table Viewer - Fix for use with New PPU
 * Trace Logger - Trace logger now logs the values of the stack pointer register
 * If a .fm2 file is drag and dropped with no ROM load, the open ROM dialog will appear
 * disable movie messages menu item
 * Added more window positions bounds checks. Accounts for -32000 positions and less out-of-range too
 * TASEdit - Added interface functionality (save/load, running TASEdit mid-movie, etc.)

Lua

 * New lua functions: gui.parsecolor(), joypad.getup(), joypad.getdown(), emu.emulating()
 * Change gui.line, gui.box, joypad.get to function consistently with other lua emulators such as GENS rerecording
 * fixed zapper.read() to read movie data if a movie is playing. Also changed the struct values to x,y,fire. This breaks lua scripts that used it previous, sorry
 * gui.text() now has out of bounds checking
 * Lua no longer unpauses the emulator when a script is loaded