Hello everyone, I've now launched the first official release of ares!
It can be downloaded now at: https://ares.dev
The big feature in this release is complete PC Engine CD emulation (including Super System Card and Arcade Card support.) It's of course not perfect, but is very compatible for a first release, running almost all titles well.
The Nintendo 64 emulation core is not compiled in at this time because I am not happy with the performance requirements yet (30-50fps on a modern desktop CPU), and I want first impressions to be more favorable, which means making the emulation core faster first. I did however release the source code for it now for other developers.
Here is the changelog from higan v110:
- restructuring:
- the project and core library is now called ares
- the simplified user interface is now called lucia
- the advanced user interface is now called luna
- the game analyzer is now called mia
- Nintendo 64: added incomplete emulation (not compiled by default; no RDP renderer included)
- PC Engine CD: added complete emulation (including Super System Card and Arcade Card support)
- PC Engine: added suport for Populous save RAM
- Super Famicom: added missing SA1 board definition (for boards without BWRAM)
- SG-1000 + SC-3000: $c000-ffff maps to system RAM, not cartridge RAM
- Game Boy Advance: fixed a bug with keypad interrupt handling (keypad array was marked static)
- Famciom: merged Board and Chip classes together
- Famicom: emulated MMC5 audio and MMC5A timer IRQs
- nall/cdrom: added split-file CUE sheet support
- nall/cdrom: added WAV support
- nall/cdrom: added ISO support
- lucia: added a debugger interface (tracing, memory editing, graphics viewing, properties)
- lucia: added PNG screen capture support
- lucia: added tool to mute individual component audio streams
- lucia: support multiple input bindings per virtual input
- ruby/input: added FreeBSD UHID driver for gamepad hotplugging and Xbox 360 hat support
As always, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support!
If you'd like (it's completely optional of course), feel free to join the ares Discord server here: https://discord.gg/hRQf9uS
I have set up a $1 tier that will grant any patron a special role on the server, and access to a patron-only channel as appreciation.
Thanks again!
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