Software Update: VisualBoyAdvance 1.7

VisualBoyAdvance is the Nintendo GBA emulator for the PC platform. The name is of course derived from Gameboy Advance and is abbreviated as VBA. The development team recently released version 1.7 with the following changes:

Core changes:

• added fixes to video filters done by Flea for Mac OS X
• added/fixed ArcTan/ArcTan2 emulation
• added sound volume .25 and .50
• added hq2x/lq2x filters
• added global cheat disable
• some code clean up
• fixed some CBA cheat support
• fixed ARM/Thumb instruction timing, including memory access
• fixed minor bugs in STMDx ARM instructions
• fixed ARM LDRx instructions when base equals dest

gameboy:

• added support for 8M roms
• (re)added support for 2-4 plays in SGB mode
• added sprite limit emulation (thanks Ricky of KiGB)
• cancel pending EI when imediately followed by DI
• implemented DI/HALT bug
• implemented STAT write bug during VBLANK or HBLANK when in GB mode
• implemented GDMA delay in GBC mode (thanks TM or GEST)
• fixed priority between OBJ and Window
• fixed some SGB border problems
• fixed window rendering problems in some cases
• fixed CGB initial background palette to white
• fixed initial save memory value to 0xFF instead of 0x00 (thanks TM of GEST)
• fixed LCD interrupts to only occur once per line
• fixed incorrect display when BG is off
• modified interrupt delay to 6 clock ticks instead of 2
• moved scanline update to beginning of HBLANK

Windows:

• added predefined Gameboy palettes (thanks Kojote)
• added GBA IO Viewer to view/modify GBA hardware registers
• added menu entry to load most recent save state
• added menu entry to save state into oldest slot
• added option to auto load the most recent save state upon loading
• added fullscreen max scale option
• changed the bug report option to be a little more friendly
• enhanced save state submenus to show date/time of when save was made
• enhanced logging window to capture data even if not being displayed
• fixed Direct3D/OpenGL “green” bug with Motion Blur Interframe Blending
• fixed Direct3D full screen with Gameboy roms
• fixed minor bugs when saving images in the different viewers
• fixed power management disabling: should avoid monitor turning off now
• improved cheat input to be more flexible and easy to enter
• migrated whole GUI code to MFC

[break]The following downloads are currently available:
Linux – SDL glibc22
Linux – Source
MacOS X
MacOS X – Source
Windows
Windows – Development
Windows – SDL
Windows – Source