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jEnesisDS 0.7 + ApprenticeMinusDS 0.2.6

2008-05-18 17:26


	I decided to release a little update, although most of the things I wanted to do for the next version are not done yet. jEnesisDS 0.7.4 has no new features, but I think it's still worth the update, as the speed is improved by up to 30% and the sound is substantially better, too, in my opinion ;)


	jEnesisDS 0.7 was released a while ago, together with a preview version of ApprenticeMinusDS, a SMS/GameGear emulator (also for the NintendoDS), which is just a side project at the moment and developed out of testing the ARM Z80 core for jEnesisDS.


	Thanks to qt_dragoon, who donated a DS in late November, i could continue working on the sound part of jEnesisDS and finally release a first sound enabled version. The sound is not perfect, but i am working on impproving it. It will never have the quality a PC emulator can provide though, because i have to take many shortcuts that lower the accuracy. If you are wondering about scaling, it is not easily possible at the moment. jEnesisDS uses a hardware renderer and needs all 4 DS background layers to emulate the Genesis' backgrounds, just 2 of those layers can be scaled in hardware. This is not comparable with an emulator that uses a software renderer and simply renders to a framebuffer, that can be displayed on one or two scaled backgrounds. (This fact doesn't change, if you call it zooming or stretching) Also please try changing the "H-INT Emulation" and "Autofix checksum" options first, if a game doesn't work. Most incompatibility problems i read about can be fixed by that. Last but not least, i also want to thank mellowman, who helped me by testing while i didn't have a DS.