VisualBoyAdvance-M 2.1.6 has now been released!

New to the builds is arm64 builds for Windows.

Windows 64bit Windows 32bit Windows arm64 Mac OS

There are debug builds available too, which are available here

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[2.1.6] - 09.07.2023

• 7561ca97 - Fix Discord streaming for OpenGL [danialhorton]
• 24b92462 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• ffec5aba - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 882957a2 - Override SetCurrent() in GLDrawingPanel [rkitover]
• 5b65066b - build: on mac install trans into debug builds too [rkitover]
• 79061810 - builder: bump SDL2 2.24.0 -> 2.28.0 [rkitover]
• 9331dbf9 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 6f68bfcf - Create the config directory at first launch [steelskin]
• 7b8c4242 - builder: macOS build updates [rkitover]
• df84f2b0 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• d08c9137 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 7aafce06 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• e26f8073 - [bios] Fix lz77 and add BIOS_SndDriverVsyncOn [steelskin]
• 4c8b54de - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• bad388e0 - Move the GB ROM Info dialog to its own class [steelskin]
• d1f65000 - Refactor accelerator / global shortcuts handling [steelskin]
• fda429fc - [GBA] Do not draw BG tiles from outside of BG VRAM [steelskin]
• b1395724 - Convert wxJoyKeyCtrl to UserInputControl [steelskin]
• b9694e19 - build: fixes for mac Homebrew [rkitover]
• 5aa3ea92 - Properly initialize wxAcceleratorTable [steelskin]
• 7b5d4a82 - Remove unused code and use explicit type coercions [steelskin]
• 1f57d5f7 - Remove global variables for ROM data [steelskin]
• 0e29be87 - Support multiple RAM sizes for MBC7 [steelskin]
• 75b79d91 - Change MBC7 reported RAM size to 512 bytes [steelskin]
• 52c05c71 - Simplify battery save / load [steelskin]
• d8d6991c - Refactor the save/load state and battery code [steelskin]
• 36e88faf - Fix dsound looping when moving/resizing window [rkitover]
• 93fbb561 - build: add arm64 VS build configs [rkitover]
• 6a1be5d4 - build: update VS build configs [rkitover]
• 23aa083c - build: support RelWithDebInfo for vcpkg [rkitover]
• 40711fa5 - build: lowercase vcpkg package names [rkitover]
• 86bef62f - Move more options to g_owned_opts [steelskin]
• 928a6170 - Move directory options to g_owned_opts [steelskin]
• 019fcda9 - Sanitize and improve the GB header parsing (#1109) [Steelskin]
• 7005b928 - Sanitize allocations in the Game Boy emulator (#1105) [Steelskin]
• e91e4dcf - Add nanosvg library dependency for vcpkg static builds [steelskin]
• 88b07df3 - build: add pkgconf to vcpkg deps [rkitover]
• 3cef52b7 - Fix pause/next-frame [rkitover]
• d3f8cc17 - Option to suspend the X11 screensaver when running [2306079+multiSnow]
• df819598 - builder: update macOS build to 10.10, Wx 3.2.2.1 [rkitover]
• 0132c761 - Move GB/GBC header parsing to gbCartData [steelskin]
• e505236e - Merge remote-tracking branch 'libretro/master' [rkitover]
• 785af394 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• f15b09f8 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 1ab46f70 - Update SIOCNT when the link driver is disconnected [steelskin]
• 9889ef4f - Move GameBoyConfig dialog to its own class [steelskin]
• 1d7e8ae4 - build: fix build with new OpenAL [rkitover]
• 892527e5 - Move ConfigManager to SDL [steelskin]
• bd7eac6c - Add options shared with sdl to wx g_owned_opts [steelskin]
• efffe7c3 - Add the repology badge to the readme. [zachbacon]
• a529ddfe - remove non-working override. [danialhorton]
• 9a8a0774 - Lets fix Stuart Little 2 properly (maybe?) [danialhorton]
• a9284b3d - workaround for Stuart Little 2 crashing when set to none [danialhorton]
• 166299cd - Implements Read/Writes for HUC3 [danialhorton]
• 1a63a27c - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 640ce453 - Change SOUND_CLOCK_TICKS to 280896 cycles - ~1074 samples per frame [reallibretroretroarch]
• 83d24828 - build: fix default debug build for vscode [rkitover]
• f1d3f631 - Fix automatic dynamic frame skipping [steelskin]
• d1733c45 - [ConfigManager] Move wx options to g_owned_opts [steelskin]
• d37a3a32 - Move remaining options used by core to CoreOptions [steelskin]
• 3f507b6c - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• e560efb0 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• ca841e9b - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 4b605b4b - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• d756f671 - translations: fix some source strings [stanley.udr.kid]
• 49140fe5 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 5d4f1bd0 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 91873254 - Add INI file versioning [steelskin]
• ae09ae7d - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 950a4070 - Move display options to owned_opts [steelskin]
• 216bf4d7 - Restore "Fullscreen at startup" handler [steelskin]
• f0fd9208 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 31e17c1b - Add less verbose proxy object accessor [steelskin]
• 2b950e28 - [Option] Add Proxy template class for Option [steelskin]
• f84a1640 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 60568d26 - Move core options to a struct [steelskin]
• 64921c65 - translations: fix some source strings [stanley.udr.kid]
• 257150f4 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 61046c76 - translations: rebuild source .pot [rkitover]
• fad2e7a3 - Fix issues with the DisplayConfig dialog (#1066) [Steelskin]
• 2cec46f8 - Clean-up ConfigManager options (#1067) [Steelskin]
• dc665985 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 1c2a62f0 - Include cstdint for wx [rkitover]
• 7d9cb2b5 - Default GBA LCD filter to off. [rkitover]
• 5385b477 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• aabb70cb - Followup on be1e5ca1, wrong ref var declaration [rkitover]
• 266512fb - translations: move ru trans to ru_RU, delete ru [rkitover]
• be1e5ca1 - Check for wx < 3.2.2 for EGL move fix backport [rkitover]
• 1fb18b32 - Rename appdata to metainfo [polynomial-c]
• 561d6e1a - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 78724bc8 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• addd53b6 - Remove all warnings in gba/bios.cpp [steelskin]
• 2e3ce863 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 4c4ce3cf - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• ca7ae336 - Fix regression in bios, port DMA fix from libretro [danialhorton]
• 25bcf2e4 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• b34448c9 - Fix record/play dialogs for native recordings [danialhorton]
• 3989146f - build: enable severe warnings for MSVC release [rkitover]
• 0a96d845 - build: make release build quieter [rkitover]
• 6a4115ca - ci: fix macOS runner [rkitover]
• 6307348c - build: support MSVC arm64 cross build on x86 [rkitover]
• 77f1235a - build: update Windows dependencies submodule [rkitover]
• 9963b815 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 7a45c165 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 87bdc93e - Revert "translations: use %% instead of percent" [rkitover]
• ab4ae96e - Clarify/set condition: wayland && !wayland_egl [rkitover]
• 8e4acfc9 - Fix build w/wxUSE_GLCANVAS_EGL=0, on Fedora [rkitover]
• 3c41b68d - Fix the Windows ARM64 build [steelskin]
• e10bf7bc - installdeps: check for newest wx on Fedora [rkitover]
• 8329ba96 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 7aa1f591 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• a16dd2c9 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 26818177 - translations: transifex pull [rkitover]
• 22578d02 - Increase MAX_CART_SIZE from 32MiB to 128MiB [rkitover]