This uses BSON as savestate format, to allow external tools to parse it
(so that we can add proper test of the states). The BSON is not 100%
correct according to spec (no ordered keys) but can be parsed by most
libraries.
This fixes also a bug in the savestate palette color recalculation that
was wrongly overwritting the original palette (which could cause some
problems on some games).
Also fixes some potential issues by serializing some more stuff and
cleans up unused stuff.
Testing shows that states look good and there's only minor differences
in audio ticks, related to buffer sizes (since buffer flushes are
de-synced from video frames due to different frequency).
This improves the existing on-demand ROM paging and also breaks down ROM
buffers into 1MB blocks for platforms with memory fragmentation issues.
Fixed some potential RTC reg issue in said platforms too.
Fixed page pinning on interpreter (would crash due to LRU evictions).
Cleans up a ton of whitespace in cpu.c (like 100KB!) and improves
readability of some massive decode statements.
Added an optimization for PC-relative loads (pool load) in ROM (since
it's read only and cannot possibily change) that directly emits an
immediate load. This is way faster, specially in MIPS/x86, ARM can be
even faster if we rewrite the immediate load macros to also use a pool.
This saves a few cycles in MIPS and simplifies a bit the core.
Removed the write map, only affects interpreter performance very
minimally. Rewired ARM and x86 handlers to support direct access to
I/EWRAM (and VRAM on ARM) to compensate. Overall performance is slightly
better but code is cleaner and allows for further improvements in the
dynarecs.
Add options to select whether to boot from BIOS (default is no, as it is
now) and whether to use the original bios or the builtin one (default is
auto, which tries to use the official but falls back to the builtin if
not found).
Added a more thorough cache cleanup for reset/mode-change too.
Fixed the mmap initialization that ends up leaking memory.
Minor x86 asm fixes for Android.
This is not really necessary since it can share area with ROM.
Performance impact should be very minimal (haven't noticed it myself)
and could be compensated (even by a positive offset) if we bump the ROM
cache area size.
Tested with several dynarecs.
This removes libco and all the usages of it (+pthreads).
Rewired all dynarecs and interpreter to return after every frame so that
libretro can process events. This required to make dynarec re-entrant.
Dynarecs were updated to check for new frame on every update (IRQ, cycle
exhaustion, I/O write, etc). The performance impact of doing so should
be minimal (and definitely outweight the libco gains). While at it,
fixed small issues to get a bit more perf: arm dynarec was not idling
correctly, mips was using stack when not needed, etc.
Tested on PSP (mips), OGA (armv7), Linux (x86 and interpreter). Not
tested on Android though.
- Removing RETRO_SYSTEM_MEMORY from retro_get_memory_data/size
since its incompatible for 2 reasons:
1. gba uses at least 2 blocks of memory, which is not supported
2. the way gpsp's memory block are not contiguous (see memory
descriptors)
- Adds core option to allow battery saves using the libretro api
(retro_get_memory_data/size)
- Initial save size set at 128KB and actual size is automatically
determined internally by gba.
- This will always assume that a save file is supported since save
size or type cannot be determined until gba tries to write to backup memory.
- A 128KB block of memory is used as buffer, similar method to VBA
Next/Beetle GBA workarounds.
Fix https://github.com/libretro/gpsp/issues/72
Similar fix to https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/pull/390. The
Nintendo svcBackdoor can cause stack corruption if an interrupt
happens during it, this uses Luma3DS/Rosalina's svcCustomBackdoor instead.
David Guillen Fandos
jdgleaver
negativeExponent
twinaphex
negativeExponent
bmaupin
hizzlekizzle
Justin Weiss
Francisco Javier Trujillo Mata
Sven
Hedonium
Tatsuya79
Gregor Richards
Francisco José García García
aliaspider
radius
Alcaro