no$gba 2.4 released

**JKKDARK** · March 22nd, 2007, 11:54

New update of the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator for MS-DOS and Windows.

- xboo: retested all xboo functions, re-fixed gba-bios dump, faster nds-download
- nds/2d: fixed crash on empty/unallocated extended-obj-palette-slot (spiderman)
- nds/3d/help: added various important notes in polygon light parameters chapter
- nds/3d: recurses directional matrix (as on real nds, instead of gl_normalize)
- nds/3d: skinning support (by soft_mul_vector, instead opengl modelview matrix)
- nds/cart/help: added new info on first 2K of secure area (fixed bytes, crc16)
- nds/gba/xboo: includes cmd/length in checksums (rather than raw data-checksum)
- nds/xboo: get_info shows nds-backup type (chip-id and status-register bits)
- nds/2d: fixed unrotated 512x256/512x512 bitmap sizes (thanks Kevin Keeling)
- nds/dma: prevents dma from accessing tcm (for compatibility with downhill jam)
- nds/xboo: added download NDS-cart from NDS-slot (slow 2 megabytes per minute)
- nds/gba/xboo: splits downloads into small blocks (with block-retry on bad crc)
- nds/cartloader: also accepts already-decrypted-and-destroyed secure-area-id's
- gba/undoc/help: added newly discovered wram-disable bits (4000800h bits 0,5)
- nds/cart: emulates correct nds chip-id size-field in respect to rom-image size
- nds/cart/help: added note on nds-cart chip-id size field (nn+1 megabytes)
- nds/screenshot: supports dual 256x192pix screens (as simple 256x384 bitmap)
- nds/3d: supports keep-old-depth-setting for translucent-polygons (DepthMask)
- nds/3d/rear: supports rear-plane rgba/depth bitmap (killer slow when/if used)
- nds/3d/io: new 8bit write support, fixed 16bit write (accidently out_32_norm)

**Payk** · March 22nd, 2007, 15:54

Thanx Martin

always nice to see that it grows

**tsimehC** · March 22nd, 2007, 15:56

No$GBA doesn't support commercial roms yet does it? Still I have to say, great emulator! Thanks!

**hadrian** · March 22nd, 2007, 16:18

Originally Posted by tsimehC

No$GBA doesn't support commercial roms yet does it? Still I have to say, great emulator! Thanks!

It does, Yoshi Island works quite well some others I tried either didnt work, ran slowly or had graphic glitches.

**tsimehC** · March 22nd, 2007, 16:22

Originally Posted by hadrian

It does, Yoshi Island works quite well some others I tried either didnt work, ran slowly or had graphic glitches.

Hmm...I see. I tried to run PES6 and the emulator crashed! Lol! I use it to play homebrew though, runs pretty smoothly and takes up relatively small amounts of RAM.