Raise the number of cells to 16.
Cache existence of saved state files, and invalidate the cache when saving or deleting a saved state.
CATSFC/system/gui: Make the unselected and selected cells more visibly different, while also leaving full and empty cells visibly different.
Currently, tapping a cell representing a saved state slot in the menu will load it, regardless of the current option, save or load. So the save option only accepts Left, Right and A.
I know ds2_setBacklight(unsigned int) needs a delay before it, otherwise if done too close to another call, it crashes.
This partially reverts commit 8951fdff1a.
User-selected frameskip causes slowdowns if the game runs slower than the resulting frame rate, but synchronises correctly if the game runs faster.
Automatic frame skipping is still the default. It now only skips up to 8 frames, but in some games still skips that entire 8 frames. What's needed is an algorithm that averages frame latencies over a few seconds and skips while the latency is LOWER than the average.
Clean up the names of messages. Mark those that are unused as such in code comments. Raise the CPU level while loading a message file, because it really does take half a second to load a 16 KB file on the lowest frequency (what the eff?).
This was the entire reason I created the fork, and I finally did it! It syncs the controls every scanline of a frame, which costs about 60,000 MIPS instructions per frame to deal with. Luckily, the processor runs at 396 MHz, which means the cost of checking the controls is 1% of the CPU's power.
* gui.c: Simplify row and column checks when handling touch events.
* draw.c, err_msg: Use ConsoleInit instead of a custom drawstring function when an initialisation error that is NOT related to DS2 I/O occurs. This allows \r\n to work.
* gui.c, initialisation: Remove the Engrish in the "initial <subsystem name> error" messages. Make them appear in English and French. Unfortunately, the console doesn't support Chinese characters, and I don't know Chinese.
SNES Open Bus is a quirk of the memory subsystem that allow reads of invalid addresses to return the last byte read from memory. However, it is seldom needed by a game, and it costs 1 to 3 MIPS instructions per SNES instruction to emulate.
If you need SNES Open Bus, you can remove -DNO_OPEN_BUS from the Makefile.
EN:
* bdf_font.c: Add support for having a main font, [0], of more than 128 characters. Refactor character width checks into a new function, BDF_width16_ucs.
* bdf_font.h, draw.h, gui.c: Use UTF-8 for all strings to allow more translations. Use BDF_width16_ucs where possible.
FR:
* bdf_font.c: Prendre en charge une police principale, [0], de plus de 128 caractères. Diriger les vérifications de la largeur d'un caractère vers une nouvelle routine, BDF_width16_ucs.
* bdf_font.h, draw.h, gui.c: Utiliser le codage UTF-8 pour toutes les chaînes pour permettre d'autres traductions. Utiliser BDF_width16_ucs là où c'est possible.
