Mednafen 0.9.44.1

Description

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously. Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken, in the PNG file format, at the press of a button. Mednafen can record audiovisual movies in the QuickTime file format, with several different lossless codecs supported.

The following systems are supported(refer to the emulation module documentation for more details):

Atari Lynx
Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
WonderSwan
GameBoy (Color)
GameBoy Advance
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
Virtual Boy
PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)
SuperGrafx
PC-FX
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis/Megadrive
Sega Master System
Sega Saturn (experimental, x86_64 only)
Sony PlayStation

Mednafen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.

Due to the threaded model of emulation used in Mednafen, and limitations of SDL, a joystick is preferred over a keyboard to play games, as the joystick will have slightly less latency, although the latency differences may not be perceptible to most people.

Changelog

Notable changes since 0.9.43:

Added command-line option "-which_medium", to specify which CD to start with when using multi-CD M3U sets.
SNES: Fixed "Tractor Beam" spell graphical glitches in "Star Ocean".
SNES: Fixed emulator hang when saving state in "Panic Bomber W".
SNES_FAUST: Added PAL support.
SNES_FAUST: Made minor optimizations to the BG rendering code.
SNES_FAUST: Added setting "snes_faust.correct_aspect", default value of "1".
SS: Fixed broken input in "Primal Rage"(a 0.9.43 regression).
SS: Added support for a 16MiB RAM cart mapped into the A-bus CS1 area(for "Heart of Darkness" and homebrew).
VB: Added support for custom palettes.
VB: Reworked how LED on-state duration is translated into RGB values and added setting "vb.ledonscale"; the default value of "vb.ledonscale" is set such that the overall brightness will be lower than in previous versions of Mednafen, to reduce white crush, but the user can set it to a value of "1.9921875" to approximate the old brightness level.
WonderSwan: Removed setting "wswan.rotateinput", and added a new device("gamepadraa") that can be selected on virtual input port 1 to automatically rotate inputs when the display is rotated.