What's New? 2.6.2

Released -- 4 February 2022


The 2.6.2 release is a maintenance update that adds a couple minor features and fixes a few bugs for the Qt/SDL port.


Common


Core

  • Fixed VROM size calculation error from NES header.


Mappers

  • Added WRAM support for OneBus mapper (mapper 256).



Qt/SDL


GUI Improvements and Bug Fixes

  • Added an auto hide main menu on fullscreen option.
  • Added an option to disable display of video overlayed GUI messages.
  • Fixed default setting for max sprites per scanline to be 8 (matching win32 port).


Hex Editor Improvements and Bug Fixes

  • Fixed logic to move cursor to next line when editing hits end of line.
  • Fixed inconsistent display behavior of vertical scroll bar. Viewport line offset and vertical scroll position are now always synchronized.
  • Fixed draw layering of cursor row/column coloring when in ROM view.
  • Added protections to prevent crash when editing addresses past the end of a ROM file.
  • Improved cursor blink rate to be consistent regardless of viewport refresh rate.


SDL Sound

  • Fixed sound issue on FreeBSD 13. Force audio sample size to always be a power of 2 per SDL documentation


Build Improvements and Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a build errors when compiling against Qt6 (6.2.2).
  • Removed usage of a few Qt6 deprecated function calls.

Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Free help authoring environment