No$gba 2.4F released

[gdmk]

17 September 2007 - version 2.4f
No$gba v2.4f couple of new details
- cheat: fixed conditional counter for cbds parameter lines (thanks Hiei Youkai)
- cheat: raised strnlen to 5kbytes for about 256 codes/line (thanks Hiei Youkai)
- nds/gba/help: added info on unknown add-ons (gba ir/wifi and nds memory exp)
- nds/help: added info on ds rumble option paks (thanks bottledlight ds wiki)
- gba/help: added some very basic info about the gameboy player (thanks flubba)
- gui: allows to resize debugmsg/cheat/fileslst windows (with anchored buttons)
- gba/help: added yoshi x/y-axis info (thanks flubba) (still incomplete though)
- gba/help: added warioware z-axis gyro info (thanks momo vampire for the cart)
- gba/help: added rumble and fram info (thanks momo vampire for warioware cart)
- gba/help: added notes on special meaning of 1st (and 4th) letter of gamecode
- nds/3d: emulates alpha blending master enable/test mode bit (disp3dcnt.bit3)
- gba/memfill: fixed memfill code (data step/repeat count) (thanks Hiei Youkai)
- nds/cheat: removed various ARDS checks (accepting addr with unknown offsets)
- gba/nds: corrected hblank durations (thanks sebastien), no-vblank in lastline
- gba/nds/help: notes on hblank=0 duration (1006/1606/1613 on gba/nds9/nds7)
- gba/nds/help: notes on no-vblank-flag in last line, and hblank in ALL lines
- nds/cheat: removed alignment check for [[X]+Z] (works with uninitialized [X])
- nds/cheat: changed ARDS enable-code detection (9 lines with specific 4th/9th)
- multi-cpu-timing: machine_switch_request processed AFTER all event_handlers
- nds/3d: emulates texture master enable bit in disp3dcnt (thanks peter schraut)
- nds/3d: emulates material-alpha (rather than only color-alpha) (thanks peter)
- nds: emulates hinge/unfold irq (additionally to hinge status) (thanks antonio)

http://nocash.emubase.de/no$gba-w.zip

[Zar'roc]

nice, will check out soon

[dreampeppers99]

Good news to start week

[maximumrisk2004]

Great News. I am gonna start testing too. Seems like there could be some Emulation improvements.

[cel123]

nice update

[Memulator91k]

Finally some 3d improvements

[leepyron]

Ha Ha , it is really awesome.. all dgmon world ds cheats work with this version. thanks for the developer !!!

[sigmax]

Nice

[maximumrisk2004]

So, I made a little testrun with the emu an looked if there was any good improvement in the game emulation. It seems all the same, Transparency Bug, Transformers- Autobots shows all 3D in black, Animal crossing only shows black screen. Altough, there is a new bug when selecting Boy/Girl in Pokemon Ranger(look at screenshots). Runefactory is Playable as far as I can see. It works on my machine with 30%, though Harvest Moon comes on this computer to a speed of 70% Max.

I am happy to see the new release, it doenst help me so much, but at least its progress. Good Job Martin.

[Dualscreenman]

To summarize:

-Improved cheat support
-Some 3D improvements
-Documentation improvements
-Better sleep mode implementation

[Zar'roc]

My test shows that there has been numerous speed increases as well. Overall very good release.

[Dualscreenman]

Which games were the speedups in? There's a good chance that things were sped up because of the recent 3D fixes since the changelog doesn't mention any CPU emulation bugfixes.

[dreampeppers99]

"Now the image of Samus on game Metroid Prime Hunters appears..."
P.A. Opnion

[Faehnchen]

I tried Pokemon Pearl, there is a spead improvemant. I still cant load the old save, I didn't try if I can load a game I saved on this version.

Fanchen

[RockmanForte]

Now you can closed it by minimized and it works fine for Trace Memory. It didnt frozen that it did on 2.4e! Now I can play it, yay!!!!

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Sounds like a good update, gonna try it just now.

[Andemon]

I don't notice any speed improvement.
I was just testing Pokemon Pearl before switching to v2.4f, and it seems to run just as slow as before. Same with the other games that I've tried.

Sleep mode works well now, though. That's good, I don't have to worry about accidentally minimizing the emu anymore. (...you wouldn't believe how many times I've done that recently... :/)

[teelow]

Originally Posted by Andemon

I don't notice any speed improvement.
I was just testing Pokemon Pearl before switching to v2.4f, and it seems to run just as slow as before. Same with the other games that I've tried.

Sleep mode works well now, though. That's good, I don't have to worry about accidentally minimizing the emu anymore. (...you wouldn't believe how many times I've done that recently... :/)

plz tell me megaman star force works plz plz

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Hmm I think we need Universe to create a new profile manager version, by the sounds of things as there's a new option.

Originally Posted by teelow

plz tell me megaman star force works plz plz

We already told you to go play it on a real DS or use iDeaS.

[ShakirMole]

nice work martin gr8 news on emulation side... will try games tomo
Seems Hiei really helped in this update good work too