Profiling GameBoyAdvance::frame shows that it spends way too much time idleing
on SoundController::update & Gpu::step waiting for the cycle count to
reach to the next event, Consuming cpu time for the Arm7tdmi core.
This commit changes the implementation of the main loop functions so
that the CPU will run as many cycles as possible and the peripherals
will only be updated when needed.
The is a performance improvement of roughly 50% in fps in some games!
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This module is written purely and always breaks when changes are being
made into the 'core' module, so as long as I don't use it, I don't feel
like maintaining it.
Former-commit-id: f5b18ba54a27d22e8a195dd0912ec9c8f29fa830
1) Decouple SysBus from Gpu
2) Split Gpu rendering function into separate modules
3) Cleanup
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This was apparent in Dragon Ball Z - Legacy of Goku II, where the save
point sprites were not rendered at all.
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The symptom of the problem was in the form of a rythmic click sound popping in the left channel.
Diving deep into Kirby's binary, I found out that channel B and channel
A are playing too different pcm buffers simultationsly: A is enabled for
the right channel and B is enabled for the left.
I found out that the game's sound driver was using VCOUNT in order to syncornize the audio,
but in some occassions the fifo DMA was not disabled in time, causing the DMA to
fill the fifo in additional 16 bytes of garbage residing next to channel
B's pcmBuffer.
After a thorough check-up of the GPU state machine, I find out that I
stay in VBLANK for 1 line too long, and that's what caused the audio
buffer to de-sync with the gpu emulation.
This commit fixes this issue.
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Cleanup timer.rs
run cargo fmt
restore debugging continue&frame commands
Fix bug introduced in previous commit causing the bios animation to
hang
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This commit removed the dummy iomem buffer, and the bios busy waits on
REG_SOUNDBIAS in order to proceed.
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This solve many graphical glitches with normal sprites in:
- Kirby - Nightmare in Dreamland
- DragonBall Advanced Adventure
- DragonBall Supersonic Warriors
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- Bad LSR emulation caused an edge-case making allmost all of the game I tested fail to boot past intro.
- Incorrect sign extension of offset5 in THUMB caused bad address calculation.
Kirby boots with rendering glitches, I played past the first 2 boses
without crashes.
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According to GBATEK:
The SAD, DAD, and CNT_L registers are holding the initial start
addresses, and initial length. The hardware does NOT change the content
of these registers during or after the transfer.
The actual transfer takes place by using internal pointer/counter
registers. The initial values are copied into internal regs under the
following circumstances:
Upon DMA Enable (Bit 15) changing from 0 to 1: Reloads SAD, DAD, CNT_L.
Upon Repeat: Reloads CNT_L, and optionally DAD (Increment+Reload).
Former-commit-id: 1e606dc88603a4600a79a341ef17fe8ccb482871
- Add tracing of opcodes and potentially more stuff
- Add option to run a script file at the beginnig (I use it to redirect
traces to a file)
- Support breakpoints again
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This fixes the glitch in dma_demo.gba where the rendering of the circle
was off by a scanline.
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Fix tons of bug and reimplemented some of the core code.
Add a neat feature for debug builds:
When the cpu "swi 0x55" instruction, a breakpoint is triggered on the
host.
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I have fought very hard against the rust ownership model,
In the end for DMA to play nice with my code, I had to resort to use
unsafe code for now..
The DMA implementation itself is not accurate to say the least, but will
have to do for now.
Tonc's dma_demo.gba plays but with a visual glitch.
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Long story short, I've been hunting this bug for a while now.
While passing armwresteler tests, I still had an emulation bug which
causeed libgcc's iprintf to produce bugged strings.
In order to find it, I've used https://github.com/fleroviux/NanoboyAdvance/
And patched it to produce a formatted log of every step of the execution
of iprintf:
{OPCODE} {PC} {R0} {R1} ... {R14} {FLAGS}
Did the same on my emulator and searched for differences.
Found out the a "CMP r3, #0x0" instruction turned off the carry flag
when it shouldn't. Found this sad function, the check I'm using for
carry flag is meaningless when done on signed integers. :sigh:
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The way cycles were counted up untill now was not accurate enough,
I've avoided doing so because the instruction implementation looks
bloated this way, but I've had problems with cycle accuracy with tonc's
timer demo.
This is not entirely correct though, and I'm 100% sure there are some
mistakes, but works good enough for now.
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This commit refactors the ioregs:
* Use bitfield crate to implement the GPU ioregs.
* IoRegs are stored in their own variables bindings (i.e, Gpu related ioregs are now fields of the Gpu struct)
- This optimize performance quiet alot from my testings - since every scanline was accessing deseralizing ioregs from sysbus. (Getting constant 59fps now)
* For now, comment out DMA model
Also, cleaned the code up to eliminate rustc warnings.
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Not going through the memory mapping anymore.
Also, this commit wraps the gpu pixeldata with a struct
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