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Alex Duchesne b998549f79 Launcher: Reduced memory usage 
Currently all the images we load are cached after they're first loaded. As we've added more and more tabs over the years, the memory usage has become unreasonable. After a user has cycled through all the tabs, we have very small amounts of memory left, causing all kinds of stability issues.

This commit now frees background images as the tab is left, as they're the biggest offenders by far.

But this causes slower tab switching, so in the future we should either:

- Always cache a compressed copy of the unloaded images with a very fast compression algo
- Or at least cache the raw PNG data when it is loaded from SD Card...
2024-06-05 20:32:24 -04:00

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Retro-Go 1.42 (2024-??-??)

  • PCE: Fixed out-of-bounds VCE regs access (Crash in Raiden, probably others)
  • NES: Fixed panic in some games (Snow Brothers, Chip'n'Dale, probably others)
  • Launcher: Fixed stability issues when cycling through all tabs

Retro-Go 1.41 (2024-04-16)

  • MSX: Added fMSX emulator
  • COL: Added virtual keyboard so that more games work
  • COL: Fixed savestates not working
  • All: Improved scaling; you can now zoom to any size you want!
  • All: Eliminated battery icon flicker
  • All: Added overclock option in the debug menu (need feedback before making it permanent)

Retro-Go 1.40 (2024-02-27)

  • NES: Added sound emulation to mapper 19 (Pacman Championship Edition)
  • NES: Added 2KB CHR support to mapper 64 (Rolling Thunder)
  • NES: Fixed Battletoads (now works past level 2 but there's still occasional jitter)
  • NES: Fixed Battletoads Double Dragon (freezing)
  • NES: Fixed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (HUD jumping around in level 2)
  • NES: Fixed other minor glitching in mapper 4 (MMC3) games
  • NES: Fixed text garbled in Gun-Nac
  • COL: Added palette selector (also for SG-1000)
  • COL: Added support for SGM
  • All: Added support for custom scaling dimensions
  • All: Added border support (to replace black bars when not using full screen scaling)
  • All: Fixed savestate wouldn't be loaded on next boot after saving
  • All: Fixed partial screen updating sometimes caused artifacts
  • Launcher: Long file names are now working correctly (though still not recommended)

Retro-Go 1.39 (2023-??-??)

  • Launcher: Reject names that are too long instead of being weird
  • Theming support is now tested and documented
  • Added DAC pinout for ODROID-GO

Retro-Go 1.38.1 (2023-04-02)

  • GBC: Added switch to disable RTC sync with system time
  • Launcher: Fixed crash when files without extensions were present

Retro-Go 1.38 (2023-03-28)

  • GBC: Added support for MBC30 (For Pokemon Crystal romhacks)
  • Launcher: Added a new scroll behavior (Options -> Scroll mode)

Retro-Go 1.37 (2022-12-30)

  • SNES: Fixed controls menu labels
  • GEN: Small performance improvement
  • Launcher: Added tool to download updates

Retro-Go 1.36.3 (2022-12-14)

  • SNES: Fixed freeze in controls menu (hopefully for real this time...)

Retro-Go 1.36.2 (2022-12-07)

  • SNES: Fixed crash in controls menu
  • Launcher: Start wifi access point

Retro-Go 1.36.1 (2022-11-29)

  • Fixed MRGC/esplay builds

Retro-Go 1.36 (2022-11-28)

  • GBC: Fixed Pokemon Trading Card Game
  • SNES: Added support for ROMs with extra headers
  • SNES: Added low pass filter toggle
  • GEN: Added support for interleaved ROMs
  • Lynx: Changed samplerate to fix some audio issues
  • Launcher: Fixed recently played list
  • Wifi and WebUI improvements
  • Improved recovery mode reliability

Retro-Go 1.35 (2022-10-18)

  • SNES: New Snes9x port (based on 2005 version) with sound!
  • GEN: Improved compatibility (updated from bzhxx's upstream)
  • GW: Added Game & Watch emulator by bzhxx
  • Lynx: Fixed crash when opening options menu
  • Launcher: Added web file manager
  • Launcher: Added network time sync
  • Launcher: Increased max filename length to ~72 characters
  • All: Fixed some crash recovery issues
  • Releases are now built with esp-idf 4.3

Retro-Go 1.34 (2022-09-18)

  • SNES: Fixed crash when opening menu
  • NES: Implemented mapper 185
  • PCE: Fixed crash when quitting emulator
  • PCE: Improved stability and compatibility
  • GBC: Fixed Resident Evil Gaiden not showing test (thanks to ddrsoul)
  • All: Improved SD Card compatibility

Retro-Go 1.33 (2022-08-01)

  • Added Genesis/Megadrive emulator
  • Added multiple save state support (per game)
  • DOOM: Added IWAD selector when launching a mod (PWAD)
  • Launcher: Fixed buttons not responding during CRC32...

Retro-Go 1.32.1 (2022-05-21)

  • Launcher: Fixed savestate screenshot using the wrong file name (#13)

Retro-Go 1.32 (2022-04-27)

  • Launcher: Added subfolder navigation (there are still some sorting issues)
  • Launcher: Improved responsiveness when covers are enabled but not installed
  • All: Speedup mode improvements: More granularity, added 0.5x mode, working audio, DOOM is now supported
  • All: Moved saves on retro-go to be in line with other devices (a notice will be displayed on first boot)
  • All: Added .img generator, to use with esptool.py
  • All: Pressing start+select will open options menu (on devices with no option button)

Retro-Go 1.31.1 (2022-03-08)

  • All: Fixed sound on MRGC-G32

Retro-Go 1.31 (2022-02-15)

  • Launcher: Fixed occasional crash when changing tab
  • GBC: Fixed high cpu usage / slowdowns
  • GBC: Fixed RTC format in SRAM
  • All: Fixed crash when changing audio sink in game
  • All: Fixed occasional settings reset if a panic occurred while a key held down
  • All: Improved panic handling, more detailed crash.log

Retro-Go 1.30 (2022-02-02)

  • NES: Fixed Lagrange Point
  • NES: Added support for a few untested mappers
  • NES: State files are now smaller (faster load/save)
  • PCE: Many sprites issues fixed by Macs75
  • PCE: New save state format (incompatible with old saves, but extensible going forward...)
  • Added key repetition in dialogs (when holding an arrow key, for example)
  • We now have continuous integration thanks to tomzx

Retro-Go 1.29.1 (2021-12-23)

  • Fixed settings not remembered per emulator
  • Fixed recent/favorites should be cleared on settings reset
  • Added back "Reboot to firmware" in about dialog
  • Fixed other minor bugs

Retro-Go 1.29 (2021-12-20)

  • Launcher: New look and feel
  • NES: Show when NSF is playing
  • DOOM: Added Toggle Map in the DOOM menu
  • DOOM: Fixed issues affecting the MRGC-G32 (sound and image)
  • Replaced LuPng/zlib with lodepng

Retro-Go 1.28 (2021-11-23)

  • GBC: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (and probably others)
  • GBC: Fixed SRAM saving not working correctly (thanks to Jarrad Edwards!)
  • NES: Added basic NSF support
  • NES: Added support for mapper 30
  • SMS: Performance improvement
  • DOOM: New PrBoom port included. (DOOM I, II, SIGIL, and Freedoom work well but occasional OOM crashes remain)
  • Launcher: Got rid of the occasional SPI mutex error
  • MRGC G32 (GBC) is now fully supported (Hopefully)

Retro-Go 1.27.2 (2021-10-13)

  • SMS: Enabled SG-1000 support
  • GBC: Hide palette option when running GBC game
  • Launcher: Adapt cover art size to screen resolution
  • Fixed multiple display corruption issues with dialogs

Retro-Go 1.27 (2021-09-27)

  • NES: Implemented mappers 76 and 206
  • NES: Optimized mappers 9 and 10
  • GBC: Fixed Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong
  • Minor menu reorganization
  • First alpha build for MRGC-G32 (GBC) devices

Retro-Go 1.26.3 (2021-08-29)

  • Fixed typo resulting in corrupt PNG decoding

Retro-Go 1.26.2 (2021-08-25)

  • PCE: Performance improvement
  • GBC: Performance improvement
  • GBC: Fixed score not shown in Donkey Kong
  • Launcher: Improved PNG support
  • All: Replaced miniz by zlib which should resolves all save-related crashes

Retro-Go 1.26.1 (2021-07-31)

  • Launcher: Fixed subdirectory display (again)

Retro-Go 1.26 (2021-07-29)

  • GBC: Experimental BIOS support (put your files in /bios/gb_bios.bin /bios/gbc_bios.bin)
  • NES: Added Mesen roms database to patch wrong headers
  • All: Option to disable partial screen updating (it seems to cause glitches for some people)
  • Launcher: Option to enable/disable any tab
  • Launcher: Fixed subdirectory display
  • Launcher: Fixed sorting bugs
  • Launcher: Recently played list
  • Dev: Now able to build on esp-idf 4.1 and 4.2

Retro-Go 1.25.3 (2021-05-30)

This is a bug fix release that fixes the following issues:

  • Occasional crash when saving a game
  • Corrupted or missing save screenshot
  • Menu dialog sometimes cut off with big fonts (now can scroll)
  • Games in subfolders now shown in the launcher (still no sub navigation but everything will be listed at least)

Retro-Go 1.25.1 (2021-04-28)

  • Fixed: dialog multiline text mangling one character
  • Fixed: font selection not wrapping around correctly
  • Fixed: occasional crash when saving state (it might still crash but the save will at least finish first)

Retro-Go 1.25 (2021-04-11)

  • All: Proportional fonts support with correct alignment
  • All: Crash log is now saved to the SD Card if possible. Please share it if you encounter a non-obvious crash.
  • All: The settings format has changed to allow more flexibility (some of your settings will be lost, sorry!)
  • GG/COL/SMS: Now have independent settings, you can set different filters and scaling per console!
  • Launcher: Idle CRC32 caching, just let your GO sit for a while to never see "CRC32..." again!
  • Launcher: Improved responsiveness

Retro-Go 1.24 (2021-02-26)

  • NES: Implemented Mapper 19 IRQ counter (fixes Pacman Championship Edition (still sound issues))
  • NES: Significant performance improvement in some games
  • NEX: Fixed Ninja Gaiden 3
  • PCE: Fixed a rare crash when saving state on large games
  • PCE: Added option to force 8bit audio
  • GBC: Emulation is now running closer to real speed (60fps instead of 59, real is 59.7)
  • GBC: Fixed Kirby Dreamland 2
  • GBC: Fixed Fatass
  • GBC: Fixed the harsh flicker when starting some games
  • GBC: Hopefully improved how SRAM is handled
  • SNES: Save states now working
  • SNES: Fixed wrong colours in some games
  • SNES: Choice of controls style
  • SNES: 24Mbit ROMs support
  • SNES: Performance improvements (still very slow)
  • ALL: Fixed dialog sometimes crashing when pressing the wrong button
  • ALL: Show emulation speed in status bar instead of just FPS
  • ALL: Added soft reset option
  • ALL: Enabled exFAT support
  • ALL: Debug menu is now easier to access (currently pretty useless): press start when main menu is open
  • ALL: Option to use LED to show disk activity (also fairly useless)

Note: You should backup your GBC saves before trying this build.

(See 1.19 to download cover art.)

Retro-Go 1.23 (2021-01-19)

  • GBC: Fixed palette and rtc not always reset correctly
  • GBC: Fixed uninitialized values when loading/saving states (fixes minor glitches)
  • NES: Compatibility improvement (fixes Dragon Warrior IV)
  • SMS and GBC and NES: Small performance improvements and misc. bug fixes
  • SNES: First preview! (Please don't report bugs, it is not playable yet)

Retro-Go 1.22 (2020-12-31)

  • GBC: Significant performance improvement (greatly improves Mario Tennis, Super Mario Land DX, Radikal Bikers, and more)
  • GB: Fixed Link's Awakening glitch
  • PCE: Small performance improvement

Retro-Go 1.21.1 (2020-12-26)

  • PCE: Improved emulation accuracy and performance
  • PCE: DDA emulation now mostly works (sound effects, voices)
  • PCE: Option to crop overscan
  • NES: Small performance improvement
  • Launcher: A screenshot of your saved game will be shown if no cover found (configurable, not available in PCE yet)
  • Tuned the auto frame skipping to reduce stutter in Pokemon

Retro-Go 1.20.2 (2020-11-02)

  • PCE: Fixed missing enemy sprites in Bonk
  • PCE: Audio should be better in games like Bonk
  • GBC: SRAM always generated when saving state and file now compatible with VisualBoyAdvance

Retro-Go 1.20.1 (2020-11-01)

  • PCE: Workaround for glitch in Splatterhouse (CRC D00CA74F)
  • PCE: Fixed cropping offset for high res games
  • PCE: Greatly improved performance for all games

Retro-Go 1.19 (2020-10-01)

  • LYNX: Rotation support
  • LYNX: Added cover art
  • ALL: New "medium" font size
  • ALL: Slightly faster boot

Also some internal changes:

  • SMS: Refactored the z80 emulation for more performance and smaller code size
  • GBC: Misc cleanup for smaller code size
  • ALL: Python build scripts, mkfw and gcc are no longer necessary
  • ALL: Implemented a basic profiler based on GCC function instrumentation

Retro-Go 1.18 (2020-08-24)

  • RETRO: Favourites support (let me know if it can be improved)
  • RETRO: Fixed misc navigation bugs
  • NES: New MMC1 implementation to improve compatibility (eg: Dragon Warrior 4 now boots but crashes for other reason)
  • NES: Battletoads "fixed" (workaround. still glitches, but it seems playable)
  • GBC: Fixed garbled tiles in some games (eg: Speedy Gonzalez)
  • PCE: Fixed horizontal lines in some games
  • SMS/GG: Improved performance, 25% less frameskip
  • ALL: Fixed stutter when changing a setting (on slow SD Card)
  • ALL: Better panic handling that might show the crash reason now

2020-08-01

  • NES: Compatibility hack to fix glitches in Zen Intergalactic, Power Blade, Kirby, SMB3
  • NES: Fixed volume issues above level 5
  • Launcher: Misc UI improvements
  • Settings are now stored on the SD card
  • Retro-Go is now compiled with esp-idf 4.0

2020-06-29

  • Added file property dialog (press B)
  • Minor UI tweaks
  • Fixed crash on some devices when the battery is full or charging
  • Fixed stuttering in GB/GBC emulation
  • Fixed most scaling issues (some games still have horizontal bars in PCE)

2020-06-13

  • NES: Fixed palette not applied
  • NES: Fixed some bugs with auto crop
  • PCE: Fixed US encoded roms
  • PCE: Fixed Legend of Hero Tonma
  • PCE: Fixed scaling bug causing black screen in many games (eg Salamander)
  • PCE: Implemented Street Fighter 2 mapper
  • Lynx: Lynx is now playable (rotation support still missing)

2020-05-30

  • NES: New option to detect and crop the blank leftmost column in some games (eg SMB3)
  • NES: Implemented Mapper 193 (War in the Gulf)
  • NES: Fixed shadows in Aussie Rules Footy
  • NES: Fixed games relying on 32K banks
  • NES: Fixed more Chinese bootlegs
  • NES: Improved sound on PAL games (speed is still a bit off in some games)
  • NES: New save/load code that will soon be compatible with saves from popular emulators
  • GB: Fixed Donkey Kong statistics not showing (Game-specific hack)
  • GBC: Fixed Fushigi no Dungeon - Fuurai no Shiren GB2 text not showing (Game-specific hack)
  • PCE: Cover art improved
  • All: Saves are now atomic, an interruption while saving (crash/battery/sd error/etc) will no longer corrupt your save file
  • All: Battery and FPS indicators when you open in-game menu
  • All: Option to select startup app (always launcher vs last used game)
  • All: Firmware size is back to a mere 2.56MB (including PCE and Lynx!)

2020-05-04

  • PCE: Improved performance, all tested games run at 100% speed with higher refresh rate
  • PCE: Save states fully implemented
  • NES: Enabled support for mappers 41, 42, 46, 50, 73, 93, 160, 229 (bootlegs/multicarts)
  • NES: Implemented mappers 162 and 163 (A dozen of Nanjing games)
  • Smaller firmware size (3.5 to 3MB)

2020-04-27

  • PC Engine emulation!
  • Colecovision no longer needs a BIOS
  • Smaller binary sizes (though the .fw is padded to the same as before)
  • License is now GPL2 for all components in the project
  • NES: Option to disable overscan
  • GB: DMG GREEN palette by 8xpdh
  • GB: GBC's game-specific colorization support
  • GB: Option to save/load SRAM automatically (careful: causes stuttering in many games)

Known issues:

  • Save states support in PCE is experimental. Loading is also manual only (start a game -> Reload).

2020-03-20

  • NES: PAL games support
  • NES: Fixed Cheetahmen 2 (Impl. Mapper 228)
  • GB: Fixed Altered Space 3-D Adventure
  • GB: Fixed Faceball 2000
  • GB: Performance improvement

2020-03-13

  • NES: Color palette support (FirebrandX)
  • NES: Option to disable sprite limit (sprite flicker)
  • NES: Fixed SMB3 (Broken in 2020-03-10)
  • NES: Fixed The Simpsons (Broken in 2020-03-10)
  • NES: Fixed Owlia (Broken in 2020-02-29-exp)
  • NES: Fixed Castlevania III (It's playable but there are issues) (Never worked before)
  • NES: Fixed Choplifter (Never worked before)
  • All: Fixed filter alignment issue (mostly visible in GB)

2020-03-10

  • New: Bilinear filtering available for all emulators
  • Launcher: Fix SPI conflicts that froze the application
  • NES: Fix crash during save/load in some games
  • GBC: Fixed Worms Armageddon
  • GBC: Fixed Metal Gear Solid
  • NES: Fixed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle III
  • NES: Fixed Felix the Cat
  • NES: Fixed Tetris 2 + Bombliss
  • Misc bug fixes

2020-02-23

  • Display code optimization with 5-10% FPS throughput increase
  • Friendlier in-game fatal errors that allow to return to launcher
  • Many bug fixes

2020-02-19

  • GB/GBC: More of the ROM is preloaded to fix stuttering in some games
  • GB/GBC: Now using partial screen updates, allowing 60fps in many games
  • Turbo speed support in all emulators
  • Removed interlacing. The replacement method looks better (or at least equal) and works for all three systems
  • Launcher: File extensions are now hidden

2020-02-11

  • New scaling options
  • 8MB GBC game support
  • Significant size reduction
  • Bug fixes

2020-02-05

  • Fixed Game Gear aspect ratio
  • PNG support for cover art
  • Option to reduce cover art loading delay
  • Experimental ZIP support for NES/SMS/GG ROMS

2020-02-01

  • Initial release