openMSX 0.15.0 released

The openMSX Team released openMSX 0.15.0.

openMSX 0.15.0—Sinterklaasphemy—is a release which was due because we did quite a lot! This time the major new stuff is support for ColecoVision (including Super Game Module and MegaCart mapper), Musical Memory Mapper and Carnivore 2. And we have fixed a lot of long-standing OPL4 emulation issues, thanks to Valley Bell. Furthermore, we overhauled the Android port, but you'll mostly notice the scale factor 2 there. And several other (sometimes very long standing) issues were fixed.Together with openMSX an updated version of Catapult, our user-friendly GUI, was released. We again made a small amount of improvements:

disable controls for joystick/printer port if the machine doesn't have them
fix trashing the replay at time 0 (when reversing back to time 0)
added the .hdd extension when browsing for harddisk images
and made the test machine for extensions C-BIOS_MSX2+ (if available).

Please read the release notes for details of the openMSX changes.

Relevant link: openMSX

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Comments (38)

By ray2day

Paladin (732)

09-12-2018, 22:03

respect!

By Grauw

Ascended (10707)

09-12-2018, 22:12

With the addition of Musical Memory Mapper support, if you also plug in the Yamaha SFG-05, you can now play Sega MegaDrive VGMs on an emulated turboR with VGMPlay!

By santiontanon

Paragon (1770)

09-12-2018, 23:36

nice!!! Thanks a lot for the continuous support of openMSX!!!

By TheKid

Paragon (1238)

10-12-2018, 16:02

Nice! Which script do I need to edit to adjust the F9 speed (It used to be fast, but now it's only a bit faster then normal speed).

By meits

Scribe (6534)

10-12-2018, 17:43

TheKid wrote:

Nice! Which script do I need to edit to adjust the F9 speed (It used to be fast, but now it's only a bit faster then normal speed).

Oh, so that's not just me? I was already a bit worried
I remember when throttling a recording, I scaled the window as small as possible. That went fast.

By wouter_

Champion (508)

10-12-2018, 17:44

@TheKid: try increasing the maximum allowed frame skip. Either execute the command 'set maxframeskip 99' in the openMSX console. Or increase the slider in the 'Misc Controls' tab in catapult.

By Vampier

Prophet (2409)

10-12-2018, 19:38

also try: set renderer sdl

By TheKid

Paragon (1238)

10-12-2018, 19:41

Thanks wouter_, did the setting in catapult and now F9 is as fast as lightning again.
@Meits: I use F9 a lot, so noticed it instantly. In fact, I use it so often, I even tried it on my nms 8250
Didn't work but the way

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

10-12-2018, 20:23

TheKid: did you upgrade from 0.13.0 or from 0.14.0?

By TheKid

Paragon (1238)

10-12-2018, 20:51

0.13.0

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

10-12-2018, 22:52

We changed the default renderer from SDL to SDLGL-PP in 0.14.0; the latter uses vsync on many systems, limiting the framerate. That's why you may need to increase the maximum frameskip.

By TheKid

Paragon (1238)

11-12-2018, 07:51

Okay, thanks for clearing that up

By ren

Paragon (1932)

11-12-2018, 09:50

Grauw wrote:

With the addition of Musical Memory Mapper support, if you also plug in the Yamaha SFG-05, you can now play Sega MegaDrive VGMs on an emulated turboR with VGMPlay!

Gotta try that!
(Didn't you say (something along the lines of) a lot of the PJ2612 packs aren't in fact properly ripped, giving issues on slower hardware/decoders?)

Congrats team on another release! Things planned for 2019? I was about to say 'making the move to SDL2 probably?' - I see you just created a branch for that

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

11-12-2018, 11:07

We already had a branch for that for a few years. But now we actually merged that branch, which means we are now on SDL2. It also means the Android and Windows builds are broken for now.
We could really use some help to fix them!

By sd_snatcher

Prophet (3645)

12-12-2018, 00:14

Very welcome! Thanks!

By Samor

Prophet (2168)

12-12-2018, 07:17

Glad to read that you managed to keep supporting the Android build as well

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

12-12-2018, 10:38

It took me many hours of effort to get it back to work... and now we have to start over again due to the migration to SDL2... again: help would be most appreciated.

Thanks for all your positive remarks!

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6932)

12-12-2018, 19:37

Thanks for adding colecovision sgm and megacart!!

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

12-12-2018, 23:38

You're welcome, I hope it's useful to you!

By iamweasel2

Paladin (709)

13-12-2018, 01:16

This is a great release, Thanks a Lot!

But why is SDL 2 so important ?

By Grauw

Ascended (10707)

13-12-2018, 13:56

Staying on SDL1 was holding openMSX back. SDL1 hasn’t been updated for a long time (last release was in 2012), and it’s slowly breaking down. E.g. on macOS with the latest XCode version it doesn’t render anymore. Several issues and features related to display, keyboard input, etc. are dependent on SDL2.

By ren

Paragon (1932)

14-12-2018, 20:01

Grauw, did you read my post? (Not) eligible for response (I wonder)?

Just set it up real quick but getting silence.
It maps the DCSG to the MMM, but the YM2612 isn't being mapped. It should get mapped to the SFG-05?

Tested Sorcerian X1 real quick (and Bosco X64 Flash Flash Flash!), those are working alright (latter no drums o/c.. (would that be possible?)) Cool to hear 'em coming from VGMPlay MSX (first time I'm running it actually)

By Grauw

Ascended (10707)

14-12-2018, 20:16

Ah sorry . They're not always particularly well ripped but generally it's fine. Just try 'em, if there are problems you will notice soon enough.

Note that you do need a recent development build of VGMPlay, the 1.2 release didn't contain YM2612 support yet. I sometimes upload one here: http://www.grauw.nl/etc/msx/vgmplay.com

By ren

Paragon (1932)

14-12-2018, 21:15

Ha! I suspected there to be a dev. build, couldn't find it in the forum thread real quick, thanks!

Loading 02-ACT~1.VGZ...

Name: Act 1: The Void of Space
Game: Verytex
System: Sega Mega Drive
Author: Hitoshi Sakimoto

All systems go, awesome, sounding great, smile on face! (Now go check out that pack yourself )
Great job on the software Grauw. Would be much cooler if I had the actual hardware.. but who knows in due time..(?)

Unfortunately other tracks from packs I checked (Gauntlet IV, Alisia Dragoon & Thunder Force) all have their share of issues (some minor, other more severe).

Small thing: pressing q to exit doesn't work anymore, must use CTRL+STOP, is that correct?

(Sorry for the OT, could take this the the VGMPlay forum thread.)

By Grauw

Ascended (10707)

14-12-2018, 22:47

Glad you like it! Used to be any key I think, but now you have to press space to exit. (Or joystick button, by request from Louthrax for SofaRun.) Ctrl-c is fine too though.

Alisia Dragoon and Thunder Force work fine for me, but maybe I don't know the music well enough to notice any issues.

By Popolon_fr

Expert (72)

01-01-2019, 03:22

Thank you for adding it.

By GhostwriterP

Paladin (683)

02-01-2019, 12:40

Quote:

fixed a lot of long-standing OPL4 emulation issues

I hope 4-op is next on the list . Some of the "The best of Hamaraja Night" songs still do not sound as it should.

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

15-01-2019, 07:48

GhostwriterP: please submit bug reports for issues you know. You can't expect that we find all the bugs ourselves....

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

15-01-2019, 07:50

Manuel wrote:

Windows build running again, but seems to have issues... Still working on it, but anyone is of course invited to help testing.

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6932)

01-05-2019, 23:21

Question: how can I add a breakpoint on the change of a given VRAM area?

By Huey

Prophet (2694)

22-08-2019, 14:53

OMG! How could I have missed this release!

The addition of the Musical Memory Mapper extension will save me a lot a time while testing/debugging. More time to .

By gdx

Enlighted (6108)

14-01-2020, 09:41

I noticed that mirrors of the ASCII mappers are not emulated. (These are the same mirrors as for 32KB ROMs, see link below.)
https://www.msx.org/wiki/ROM_mappers#ASC8_.28ASCII.29

Here is an example that uses a mirror:
https://mon-partage.fr/f/Xq66Asmd/
That is a multiROM patched to also use joystick in the menu and to run Sparkie, but as it use mirrors to run, it don't work on OpenMSX and BlueMSX. (Works fine on real MSX with a MAB from Repro-factory if the cartridge is inserted in a primary slot)

By Grauw

Ascended (10707)

14-01-2020, 10:48

Could it not be that the MAB is an incorrect ASCII mapper implementation, rather than openMSX?

Do games with real ASCII8 mappers mirror?

By gdx

Enlighted (6108)

14-01-2020, 12:18

Grauw wrote:

Could it not be that the MAB is an incorrect ASCII mapper implementation, rather than openMSX?

I don't think. These mirrors are present on all 32kB ROMs (4000h-BFFFh) I have, and also on all Konami megaroms.

Grauw wrote:

Do games with real ASCII8 mappers mirror?

I think this is the case for all Roms that use the /CS12 signal.

By gdx

Enlighted (6108)

14-01-2020, 13:59

I verified now on a Megasram made with an original Megarom, and the mirrors are also present.

New link for the megarom test:
https://mon-partage.fr/f/y97esInT/
(I had forgotten to remove unnecessary routine.)

By shram86

Expert (110)

14-01-2020, 17:56

Can we get the default_type_proc of type() (or just type_from_file) to be type_from_keybuf instead, or have this added as an option in the console?

type_via_keyboard will ignore non-standard roman characters (ie <>A-Z,a-z,0-9) and therefore using it to type in non-English programs won't work.

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

14-01-2020, 21:24

shram86: um, it works fine here.... Which MSX are you emulating when testing that?

You can set the default with that setting and then save your settings.

By Manuel

Ascended (19303)

14-01-2020, 22:03

gdx: please see https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/issues/1213
If you post a ticket in GitHub, it's more likely I notice your comments/issue and we can discuss there. I hope that's OK for you.

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