bsnes v0.055 released

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Originally Posted by Kékidi

Super Game Boy emulator ?
There are also the GB/GBC emulators that emulate the Super Game Boy. For example, BGB emulate the GameBoy, GameBoy Color et Super GameBoy. But, it does not emulate fully the game Space Invaders.

Yes..But this is essentially a Super Gameboy Cart in an SNES running a Gameboy game.

[byuu]

There are also the GB/GBC emulators that emulate the Super Game Boy.

I did cover this already, but maybe more detail will help.

There are many reasons to use a Game Boy emulator instead:
- lower input latency
- lower system overhead (no need to emulate the SNES, with bsnes of all emulators)
- Game Boy Color support
- some SGB features can be faked

And many where only true SNES-based SGB emulation will suffice:
- Space Invaders arcade mode does not work at all in Game Boy emulators
- SNES-enhanced sound effects (Bomberman 2, Donkey Kong, Contra 3, etc) require the SNES DSP
- the SGB borders can be animated (Castlevania Adventure ending), or change while playing / after beating the game
- the SGB borders can vary based upon the SGB BIOS used
- the SGB has built-in colorization palettes for dozens of popular DMG-only games
- the SGB BIOS allows you to manually edit the color palette, draw your own custom borders (even on top of the Game Boy video) with a mouse, etc
- and there's about a dozen other obscure SGB commands that Game Boy emulators don't simulate, but they're very uncommon

bsnes' SGB support is true emulation wile bgb's is a simulation. My quick observations:
- Zelda DX border doesn't show up in CGB+SGB mode
- Bomberman 2 bomb sound effect doesn't work
- Bomberman 2 multi-player doesn't work

It's up to you what you want to use, but both the CGB+SGB Game Boy only emulators and the SNES+SGB emulators have a purpose.

With the new version of supergameboy 0.011, I can play Bomberman 2 in multi-player. But I can not play in multi-player with the normal GameBoy games, such as Tetris, or Hunt for Red October, etc. This is normal ?

Yes, most 2-player Game Boy games are referring to the link cable where you hook two Game Boys together, and each get their own screen. SNES+SGB only works on games that are designed for it, and where all players share the same screen.

I may support the link cable some day, but it'll be very tough.

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