- introduce a status api, so cores can report status messages to the UI
- avoid calling vulkan-related functions when vulkan is disabled
- show status messages so the user is aware of what RDP implementation is active
- Disabled 'loaded' status message, it prevented the Vulkan messages being shown
For systems that do not meet parallel-RDP's Vulkan requirements, use the
pure software RDP implementation from MAME as a fallback.
All of the source files taken from MAME are either BSD-3-Clause licensed
or public domain. Edits were kept to a minimum and guarded by ifdefs to
ease future integrations.
Ares JIT recently started to require the data segment to be executable
(see https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/pull/200 for details on why
this was done instead of allocating a new segment via mmap).
To do this, it uses mprotect() (bump_allocator::resize), but it also
needs to tell the linker that the data segment can be upgraded to
executable with -Wl,-segprot,__DATA,rwx,rw (nall/GNUmakefile).
Unfortunately, for quite some time, the clang LD had a bug and didn't
accept that option for the data segment.
The official CI has a newer linker without the bug, but for developers
compiling ares with an old toolchain, this small tool will patch the
binary to mark the data segment as potentially executable.
And defaulting it, as some older games depend on it to this kind of input to work properly.
eg.: Forgotten Worlds
https://youtu.be/ngHDIFQHFyQ
This also solves https://github.com/higan-emu/ares/issues/177
Fighting pad is still supported just need to be selected in Mega Drive->Controller Port
Jeopardy! only supports up to 3 players, and if four controllers are
plugged in when the game starts, it performs an out of bounds array
access that breaks further input logic. The only workaround is to unplug
a controller and reset the system. To make this game work well in ares
out of the box, we should connect no more than 3 controllers by default.
I opted to put a check specifically in desktop-ui because this is
fundamentally a mismatch between a specific game and a design choice (to
default to 4 controllers) in the desktop-ui frontend. It didn't feel
right to add a dedicated attribute to mia that did not describe a
feature of the cartridge itself and would not be generally applicable
other games (unlike rumble and memory pak support).
This change also brings the rumble and memory pak attributes in line
with the implementation of boolean attributes for other systems. There
is no functional change, though it will affect generated manifests if
they are/were persisted to disk.
This allows for all four n64 controllers to be used, while providing
capatbility to expand to five controllers for PC-Engine, once we
implement the multi/tubo-tap
Luke Usher