v0.6.1

A few new features and a few bugfixes this release.

New features:

• VGZ (gzip-compressed VGM) support.
• 2x Game Boy VGM support. Tested to work on 2x Game Boy modules in Furnace.
• Support for passing a custom engine rate and timer TMA offset to the VGM converter.

Changes/fixes:

• Fixed logic errors in the GUI code that made it difficult to create 2x LSDj renders.
• Refreshed the GUI a bit to look cleaner.
• Made the visualizer configuration panel collapsible to save space on smaller displays (#7).
• Updated Slint to 1.3.2.

v0.6.0

This is probably going to be the one of the longest release notes I'll ever write. Here goes!

New features:

• Full support for all stable versions of LSDj from 3.1.5 onwards.
• 2x LSDj support with automatic sync configuration.
• Experimental support for internal render resolutions that aren’t 16:9 aspect.
  • That means you can post on platforms that require square or vertical videos without needing to edit.
  • Feel free to try all sorts of wonky resolutions - I am expecting things to crash every so often. Please file a bug report if something goes wrong - I'd like to try and fix it!
• Added TOML configuration files just like in NSFPresenter v0.6.0.
  • You can now save your favorite color schemes and reload them without needing to enter everything in again.
  • Several parameters previously only available in RusticNES' visualizer configuration are now supported.

Changes/fixes:

• Completely rewrote the sameboy crate to provide a more stable and more feature-complete safe abstraction for SameBoy. I'm currently still debating whether or not I want to isolate it into a separate repo, but the bindings should be good enough to use in other projects now.
• Completely rewrote the visualizer for performance - the biggest change is switching the rendering crate from raqote to tiny-skia. On the systems I've tested on, I've found that the new visualizer is between 1.5x to 2x faster.
• Tweaked the default visualizer parameters to be more consistent with the default look-and-feel of NSFPresenter.
• Lots of tweaks to both the CLI and GUI frontends to accommodate 2x LSDj support and configuration file support.
• Updated Slint to 1.3.0.
• Updated FFmpeg to 6.0 in the Windows pre-built binaries.

v0.5.0

Bigger release with some bugfixes and new features.

New features:

• Automatic M3U searcher to get metadata for GBS rips like many players do.
• Experimental support for LSDj 3.x and 4.x. If you encounter any bugs, please open an issue so I can fix them!
• Light UI tweaks for better readability.

Changes/fixes:

• The piano roll slices now render with finer temporal resolution.
• Encoder tweaks from SPCPresenter - renders should now be faster and there shouldn't be any issues uploading to Twitter.
• Some internal rework (esp. the visualizer) for new features later on
• VGM imports should be a lot more solid now - previously, certain VGMs could cause panics during conversion, or would hang during playback.

v0.4.1

Quick followup release to rectify a couple of issues with v0.4.0.

Changes:

• Added option to the CLI to allow rendering VGMs.
• Added options to the CLI to allow passing custom video/audio codec parameters to FFmpeg.
• Fixed a bug where rendering H.264 QuickTime videos would spit out a warning and process very slowly.
• Fixed buggy ETA calculation.
• Expanded the oscilloscope vertical window to prevent clipping at high volumes.
• Fixed a bug in the new noise channel piano roll mapping.

v0.4.0

This is supposed to be a sort of intermediary release while I work on some extra LSDj support features but it has enough new stuff to justify a bigger release.

New features:

• Support for VGM imports. This allows you to render songs created with Furnace.
• Support for customizing channel colors.

Changes/fixes:

• Default console is now CGB-E to increase compatibility.
• Channel dividers were added to the oscilloscope displays.
• The noise channel's piano roll key mapping was tweaked to better represent the sound output and increase the range (#6).

v0.3.0

Big release for those doing editing/compositing work with GBPresenter.

New features:

• Support for background images/videos on renders.
  • Note: Video backgrounds must be 60 fps or they will play at the wrong speed. This is a known issue; a fix is already planned.
• Videos can now be exported in QuickTime format (MOV).
• Videos exported in QuickTime format can now be encoded with ProRes 4444 for use in video editors.
• Renders can now be cancelled without having to close and reopen GBPresenter.

Fixes:

• Slint update brings better spinbox widgets that can be edited directly. (#4)

v0.2.0

A more substantial release that fixes some stuff under the hood to make the visualizer more reliable and adds a bit of customization to the emulation.

Changes:

• Switch back to upstream SameBoy since my APU monitor API PR was merged.
• Internal improvements to the sameboy crate.
• Fix sameboy-sys builds on GNU toolchains.
• Allow for the selection of the emulated Game Boy model/revision.

Fixes:

• Revamped LSDj macro system to be much more reliable and work on the latest stable LSDj (#3).

v0.1.1

This is just a quick hotfix release to squash some easy bugs while I work on new features.
Summary of changes:

• LSDj ROMs and GBSes are no longer misidentified if the extension is not lowercase (#1)
• LSDj version is now validated to ensure support
• GBS metadata encoded with Shift-JIS is now properly supported (#1)
• File dialogs now filter by all supported extensions by default
• Various documentation fixes

v0.1.0

The first release. Expect bugs!