This pull request is a parent for tracking the changes for SkyEmu v4.

This pull request is a parent for tracking the changes for SkyEmu v4.

The latest builds of dev are available at the below links:

• Web Build: https://web.skyemu.app/branch/dev/
• Windows: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_win/dev/WindowsRelease.zip
• macOS: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_mac/dev/MacOSRelease.zip
• Linux: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_linux/dev/LinuxRelease.zip
• FreeBSD: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_freebsd/dev/FreeBSDRelease.zip
• Android: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_android/dev/AndroidRelease.zip
• iOS: https://nightly.link/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/workflows/deploy_ios/dev/iOSRelease.zip

Current Status: Late Development - Nearing Release

New Features:

• Android Controller and Hardware Keyboard Support
• Android ARM 32bit and x86_64 support
• MMIO Read/Write Access Flags & Break on access in GBA MMIO Debugger
• GBA & GB PSG Sequencer Debugger
• GB CPU & PPU Debuggers
• Custom Bitmap Based Theme Support
• Font Customization
• Added the ability to delete/add BIOS files in the GUI
• [Android] Added the file associations to launch gb/gbc/gba/nds/zip files directly in SkyEmu
• [Android] Added the ability to launch roms with a parameter to support emulator front end launchers.
• Recent games list sorting and searching
• Hard core mode
• Added the ability to toggle between multiple rewind and fast forward speeds
• Added the ability to slow down emulation to half, quarter, and 1/8th speed.
• Google Drive based cloud synced save states
• Added the ability to load and delete a save from the GUI
• NDS Layout options
• Polish Translation
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/477
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/328
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/178
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/470
• New default theme
• Ability to turn on and off touchscreen button labels
• Updated CoG BIOS to the latest
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/514

Fixed Games/test roms:

• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/315
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/323
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/316
• vram-mirror.gba
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/320
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/418
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/413
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/405
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/398
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/392
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/313
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/474
• https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/377
• Fixed several games that weren't rendering affine sprites correctly with the builtin open source GBA BIOS.

Other:

• NDS has significantly improved audio quality
• NDS emulation is about 30% faster
• NDS emulation now implements the vertex lighting pipeline
• The performance of loading a new ROM is significantly improved.
• The HTTP control server can now be accessed from remote machines
• The HCS /status command now returns data in JSON format
• The HCS /status command now returns info about the rewind buffer capacity and usage
• Emscripten dynamic memory growth support (helps on devices with RAM limits like iOS and Xbox)
• Forced Integer scaling now uses HW nearest filtering instead of SW anti-aliased nearest filtering to save power and avoid rounding errors.

Bug Fixes:

Originally posted by @skylersaleh in https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/321

This issue is a tracking parent for SkyEmu v4 and does not name files, tests, or an entry point in the AltStore repository. Review the referenced SkyEmu pull request and listed builds first; no newcomer-sized definition of done is provided here.