- Added new UI components for the emulator, including dedicated panels for CPU and APU debugging, improving user interaction and debugging capabilities.
- Implemented a caching mechanism for rendered objects in the DungeonCanvasViewer to optimize performance and reduce rendering time.
- Updated the CMake configuration to include new UI source files, ensuring proper organization and build management.
- Enhanced the theme manager with improved color definitions for better visibility and consistency across the UI.
- Refactored the emulator interface to delegate rendering tasks to the UI layer, streamlining the codebase and improving maintainability.
- Introduced a new input management system utilizing SDL2 for continuous polling of SNES controller states, enhancing responsiveness and gameplay experience.
- Replaced the previous ImGui-based event handling with a more robust input manager that supports multiple backends and configurations.
- Added a dedicated input backend for SDL2, allowing for flexible key mapping and improved input handling.
- Updated the Emulator class to integrate the new input manager, ensuring seamless interaction with the emulator's UI and game logic.
- Refactored keyboard configuration UI to facilitate easy remapping of SNES controller buttons, improving user accessibility.
- Introduced a new audio backend system with SDL2 support, allowing for flexible audio management and improved performance.
- Added APU handshake tracking capabilities to monitor CPU-APU communication during audio program uploads, enhancing debugging and transfer diagnostics.
- Updated the Emulator class to integrate the new audio backend, ensuring compatibility with existing audio handling.
- Implemented an APU Debugger UI for real-time monitoring of handshake status, port activity, and transfer progress, improving user experience for debugging audio issues.
- Refactored audio-related code to streamline audio sample queuing and management, enhancing overall emulator performance.
- Introduced BreakpointManager and WatchpointManager classes to manage CPU breakpoints and memory watchpoints, respectively.
- Implemented functionality for adding, removing, enabling, and disabling breakpoints and watchpoints.
- Added support for conditional breakpoints and logging memory access history for watchpoints.
- Enhanced the Emulator class to integrate breakpoint and instruction logging callbacks for improved debugging capabilities.
- Updated DisassemblyViewer to record executed instructions and manage instruction limits for performance optimization.
- Implemented a Cleanup method in the Emulator class to manage resources effectively during shutdown.
- Added auto-pause functionality to the emulator when the window loses focus, optimizing CPU and battery usage.
- Updated the DoRender method in the Controller class to include frame timing management and a gentle frame rate cap.
- Enhanced texture processing in the Arena class to batch process up to 8 texture commands per frame, improving rendering efficiency.
- Updated Emulator to support optional lazy initialization of the renderer, enhancing flexibility during runtime.
- Introduced a new method in IRenderer for creating textures with specific pixel formats, improving texture management for the emulator.
- Refactored texture command processing in Arena to handle empty queues more gracefully.
- Enhanced SDL2Renderer to support the new texture creation method, ensuring compatibility with emulator requirements.
- Updated the testing guide to clarify the testing framework's organization and execution methods, improving user understanding.
- Refactored CMakeLists to include new platform-specific files, ensuring proper integration of the rendering backend.
- Modified main application files to utilize the new IRenderer interface, enhancing flexibility in rendering operations.
- Implemented deferred texture management in various components, allowing for more efficient graphics handling and improved performance.
- Introduced new methods for texture creation and updates, streamlining the rendering process across the application.
- Enhanced logging and error handling in the rendering pipeline to facilitate better debugging and diagnostics.
- Introduced a new editor type for the emulator, allowing users to access emulator functionalities directly from the editor manager.
- Updated the editor selection dialog to include the emulator option with appropriate descriptions and shortcuts.
- Enhanced the emulator interface with modern theming and improved layout for better user experience.
- Implemented various UI components for performance monitoring, AI agent integration, and save state management, enriching the emulator's capabilities.
- Added frame rate tracking to the emulator, calculating and displaying current FPS in the UI.
- Enhanced audio management by monitoring queued audio frames and ensuring the audio buffer is filled appropriately.
- Updated texture handling to align with the PPU output format, improving visual consistency.
- Refactored timing management to cap time accumulation, preventing performance issues during frame processing.
- Updated Emulator::Run method to accept a Rom* parameter, improving flexibility in ROM handling.
- Refactored texture creation and ROM data initialization to utilize the new parameter.
- Enhanced logging in Snes class to provide detailed information during initialization, reset, and frame processing, aiding in debugging and performance monitoring.
- Introduced cycle tracking in Apu and Spc700 classes for accurate synchronization and debugging.
- Added unit tests for APU DSP functionality and IPL ROM handshake to ensure reliability and correctness of audio processing.
- Removed the Windows ARM64 configuration from the GitHub Actions release workflow to streamline the build process.
- Deleted the generate-vs-projects.py script as it was no longer needed for project setup, simplifying the codebase.
- Updated the OverworldEditor header to improve clarity by renaming a method parameter for better understanding.
- Refactored the Emulator class to enhance the rendering interface, improving the user experience in the emulator's GUI.
- Updated Emulator class to remove inheritance from SharedRom and streamline ROM handling.
- Refactored memory access methods in Emulator and Snes classes to use consistent naming conventions.
- Enhanced DungeonObjectRenderer to utilize the updated Snes class for CPU and memory operations, improving clarity and maintainability.
- Cleaned up unnecessary comments and improved code formatting for better readability.
