bsnes 0.55 released, now plays SGB!

bsnes has been updated to 0.55.
I think this is the first release that supports the SGB. That's pretty amazing!
He later released an update to the SGB DLL that will support the SNES multitap for GB games that could recognize it.
(assuming you can find four people who will want to play Bomberman while sharing a 160x144 screen  )

Though it uses gambatte for its emulation core, it will run all games in monochrome mode (with SGB enhancements enabled, of course) to retain accuracy.
(I suspect even if it did, wouldn't stuff like hi-speed mode break the timing? Don't know how much other GBC-only features like DMA and VRAM/WRAM bankswaps would contribute.
Even using an SNES Game Genie, without codes, would throw a real SGB entirely off-sync, resulting in EXTREMELY slow gameplay and no sound.
I don't know if the GB Genie had an effect, as it sounds like I was among the masses who did not order an attachment to make a GB Genie fit in the SGB (though most probably didn't know it even existed).

(I suspect even if it did, wouldn't stuff like hi-speed mode break the timing? Don't know how much other GBC-only features like DMA and VRAM/WRAM bankswaps would contribute.

The SGB won't boot in GBC mode and that is the only mode that supports the enhanced GBC features. The SGB2 was made for that. Also, I wonder if all the packet uploads work correctly? You would pretty much have to emulate a gameboy as well to get that right o.o

cYa,

Tauwasser

The SGB won't boot in GBC mode and that is the only mode that supports the enhanced GBC features. The SGB2 was made for that.

No, the SGB2 pre-dates the GBC as well.  It only adds a link port.

One other thing.
I remember hearing SGB-enhanced games were NTSC/PAL locked.
I wonder if that's true, as it doesn't seem to be here (seeing bsnes to PAL mode, running the SGB 1.2 (UE) BIOS with the first Japanese-exclusive SGB-enhanced game ROM I found).
I know that standard GB has no lockout.

Also, I wonder if all the packet uploads work correctly?

http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-viewtopic-t-13837.html

No, the SGB2 pre-dates the GBC as well.  It only adds a link port.

It seems like that rumor got me o.o Always wondered why cgb should be disabled for SGB2 if it was capable of playing them. Seems I fell for it, because emulators do offer SGB+CGB options

cYa,

Tauwasser

One other thing.
I remember hearing SGB-enhanced games were NTSC/PAL locked.
I wonder if that's true, as it doesn't seem to be here (seeing bsnes to PAL mode, running the SGB 1.2 (UE) BIOS with the first Japanese-exclusive SGB-enhanced game ROM I found).
I know that standard GB has no lockout.

I had a US version of Megaman V on GB that worked fine with my SGB, so I'm guessing no lockout. 

This is something I've been waiting eons for: I'll have to give Donkey Kong GB a test with it later today.

*bump*

I'll just leave this here...

http://byuu.org/images/bsnes_20091212.png

hot damn, debugger heaven.

It'd help if I had any idea how to make the debugger function. It doesn't display any code or anything, despite the screenshot: just a message saying that the ROM has been loaded. I've played with the options, but none of them seem to do anything, apart from the trace checkboxes.

Bonus: the trace checkbox isn't nearly as persnickety as Geiger's Snes9x's trace functionality.
Minus: it doesn't give me any of the nice options, like tracing from point A to point B.

Also, the fact that there's only a "Step" button gives me pause. "Step Over" and "Step Out" are pretty important debugging functions: the ability to skip over and exit subroutines saves me a lot of clicking and running through the same functions over and over to find what I'm looking for.