Bug fixes, BIOS fixes, controls

What's New in Version 3.0.2:

• Improved app stability and startup performance
• Added crash reporting for better reliability
• Enhanced Saturn and Jaguar controller support
• Instant updates for 3DS settings like resolution scaling and CPU speed
• BIOS importer and automatic scanner improvements and fixes
• Various bug fixes and optimizations

Thank you for your continued support! If you're enjoying Provenance, please consider leaving a review.

Bug fixes

First app store bug fix release

• fixed themes not fully applying on change
• fixed crash in Save States pause menu to view
• fixed some homepage graphical bugs
• fix core options settings UI not updating on value change (though values were indeed being changed)
• fixed 3DS layout/touch/rotation size issues
• Added/fixed some 3DS options, such as overclocking and underclocking
• Metal / OpenGL option text inverted to clarify that Metal is always on by default and does not require a Plus subscription.
• Added iOS 16 support (the big one)
• Systems list filters out unsupported systems
• systems list improved layout
• fixed crash in file size calculation caching
• faster app boot
• removed unsupported Jaguar CD entry
• add retroarch mupen-next core

App Store

App Store first release.

Complete re-write of the UI, importer, database matching, audio engine, video engine etc.

2.2.0 Release

[2.2.0] - 2022-12-02

Super special thanks to @Carter1190 @dnicolson @ianclawson @mrjschulte @stuartcarnie for providing pull requests.
Special thanks for all the Patreon and Discord members that provided testing feedback and support.

Added

• Light/Dark theme
• tvOS artwork options
• Saturn Core options
• Option for onscreen joystick with keyboard on/off, or never.
• add build.yml for github actions
• stella: joystick deadzone

Fixed

• tvOS various layout, styling improvements
• fixes #1915 joystick layout busted
• BoxArt fix nil crash
• add sfc extension
• Catalyst, fix crash on game load
• catalyst: remove broken bliss
• fixes #1973 incorrect paths in xcworkspace
• fixes #1991 Fixes mupen plugin paths
• fixes #1997 update ios launch storyboard
• fixes #2010 remove unused codesign settings
• disable broken contributors.yml
• fix various tvos targets with wrong target platfrm
• fixes #1814 Use documents for image cache
• Fixes #1814, lib deletion and icloud fixes
• fixes #1986 adds ways to press start in SS
• fixes #1986 Saturn start MFi, I think.
• fixes #2019 Mednafen SNES A/B swap
• fixes #2026 joyPad move works, clear BG
• fixes #2027 importer double run and deleting
• fix archive step
• fix artwork download
• stella: don’t crash on 2nd load
• stella: updated and cheats,save support
• closes #1765 map dualsense home to pause on saturn
• closes #1765 map dualsense home to pause on saturn
• closes #1888 fix n64 scaling
• closes #1903 tvos build broken
• conflicts manager add delete option

Updated

• Min target iOS 13 all around
• More localised strings and xib's
• SwiftUI additions and fixes

PRs

• Merge branch 'feature/dos-box' into develop
• Merge branch 'remove-unneeded-styling' into develop
• Merge branch 'remove-unneeded-table-generics' into develop
• Merge pull request #1919 from Provenance-Emu/feature/dos-box
• Merge pull request #1995 from dnicolson/style-fixes
• Merge pull request #2006 from Provenance-Emu/pullrequests/dnicolson/general-cleanup
• Merge pull request #2015 from dnicolson/fix-constraint-warnings
• Merge pull request #2016 from dnicolson/use-tvalertcontroller
• Merge pull request #2017 from dnicolson/remove-unneeded-styling
• Merge pull request #2018 from dnicolson/use-system-background-for-settings
• Merge pull request #2025 from Provenance-Emu/largeGameArt-Support
• Merge pull request #2028 from dnicolson/add-light-theme
• Merge pull request #2029 from Provenance-Emu/tvOS-GameInfo-Tweaks
• Merge pull request #2030 from Provenance-Emu/feature/JoystickFixes
• Merge pull request #2033 from dnicolson/fix-library-bottom-separators
• Merge pull request #2036 from Provenance-Emu/feature/gh_build_action
• Merge pull request #2038 from Provenance-Emu/mrjschulte_section_header_fix_tvOS

GitLog

• Add theme switcher
• Add ThemeOptions enum
• Adjust cell height as needed
• AppDelegate refactor code, improve URL open
• AppDelegate start of save open
• azure 14.1
• azure pipeline macos-12
• azure turn off xcode pretty
• azure update to newer xcode/macos
• cdx4 fix submodule
• cicd remove UIBrackgroundModes processing
• citra: combine platforms
• core 4do updates to fix tvos
• cores framework don’t embed
• cores table view, hide unsupported cores unless on
• Cores, add .core.name to ones that didn’t
• cxd4 fix submodule bs
• delete dup schemes, new shaders, blissemu framework
• delete old tvos schemes and rename others
• desmume2015 readd and fix debug
• duckstation: fix some build stuff
• entitlements remove ones that break xc cloud
• Extend navigation bar
• Extensions placeholders for new ones
• fastlane update
• Fix 4do build and almost works, bad gfx freedo
• Fix and update Marketing Version 2.1.2
• Fix button height constraint warning
• fix catalyst builds
• Fix cell background color
• Fix cell font sizes
• Fix controller selection table cell focus
• Fix entitlement paths for 2 extions
• Fix extensions in build
• Fix iCade controller cell background
• Fix iCloud, Spotlight entitlement, re-import path
• fix ios/tvos build
• Fix library options cell background color
• Fix logs crash
• fix macos/catalyst build and export
• Fix navigation bar tint color
• Fix PVFile iCloud paths incorrect
• Fix slider cell text alignment
• fix some warnings and self capture
• Fix stack spacing constraint warning
• fix submodules
• Fix SwiftUI crash on iOS 16
• fix tvos availability
• Fix tvOS build
• flycast builds
• flycast, fbneo, dolphin fix some build stuff
• Frameworks combined into single multi-platform!
• fuse fix some build stuff
• game view cell, hide delete text on start
• GameLibVC fix potential crash
• gba remove driverkit
• gcdweb fix QOS
• genesis: reflector2static libs, submodule 4 upstrm
• gh action fix xcodebuild command
• gh action macos-12
• git insists on touching these submodules
• github action build test
• GitHub actions disable broken ones
• gitignore .xcarchive
• Hide unsupported cores from conflicts unless on
• iCloud containers fix thread issue/warning
• icloud sync catch exception
• Improve how theme is set
• Info.plist add ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption
• Info.plist fix xcode cloud issues
• Install the CodeSee workflow. Learn more at https://docs.codesee.io
• intellivision respond protocol fixes
• ios fix gliden compile
• iOS settings menu replace (i) with >
• jaguar: core update video fixes
• Launch screen add brazil locale
• libretro build flags update
• Make web server alerts consistent
• mednafen fix targeted device families
• mednafen refactor controls to catagory
• mednafen: refactor compiler flags to xcconfig
• mednafen: remove broken options,controller reorder
• melon DLOG for nslog
• melonds build flags update
• MetalVC minor catalyst chagnes
• mu fixed embedded framework
• mupen audio on/off callbacks
• mupen speed option
• mupen: fix crash on load
• mupen: hi res off by default, fix catalyst
• n64 controller fix warning
• obscure cores various build fixes
• On screen controller adjustments
• option lcd filter
• Patreon features
• pcsx reamred builds
• pcsx submodule
• pcsx, fix submodule again
• PCSXRearmed added to build
• play: builds with gfx and audio callbacks
• play: fix build
• play: fix release build
• Prevent bottom separators from disappearing
• project remove nil file
• ps2: add bios info
• PVGenesis -Os
• PVLIBRARY fix copy/embed
• PVLogVC fix tvOS color error
• Reduce the width of log buttons
• Remove Bliss, its breaking CI
• remove broken cores from the build
• Remove cancel action from alert
• Remove cell background color
• remove duckstation from the build
• Remove forced dark interface style
• Remove iOS 11 conditional
• Remove iOS 13 conditionals
• remove old vibrate for xccloud
• Remove PVRadioOptionRow and PVRadioOptionCell
• Remove red cell background
• Remove redundant style
• Remove SettingsTableView class
• Remove styles in favor of defaults
• Remove SystemSettingsCell
• Remove SystemSettingsHeaderCell
• Remove unimplimented extensions from app target
• Remove unneeded code
• Remove unneeded guard clause
• Remove unneeded ifdef
• Remove unneeded QuickTableView generics (#2031)
• Remove unneeded section header styles
• Remove unneeded styling
• Remove unused code
• Remove unused file
• remove unused macos xib
• Remove unused styling
• Remove unused variable
• Remove VecXGL submodule
• rename o2em and jaguar cores to PV..
• Replace remaining com.provenance-emu with org.provenance-emu
• Replace sync network with async for artwork
• Replace UIWebView with WKWebView
• retro: add bliss, 4do, some organization
• retro: add game music and vicx
• retro: all the cores
• retro: fix build missing #endif
• retro: fix framework dyload
• retro: fix tvos bitcode
• retro: gme builds and links
• retro: gme fix tvos build
• retro: gme loads
• retro: gme plays
• retro: metal video doesn’t crash but still odd
• retro: potator loads, fix static rom buffer copy
• retro: remove VecXGL for libretro version
• retro: software fb callback and pixl fmt fixes
• retro: split core into categories, add cores
• retro: the final cores! for now
• retro: tvOS builds
• retro: update core submodules
• retro: video callback pitchshift work
• rice: use newer branch, fixes catalyst
• Set library header background
• Set navigation bar style only for game library
• Set overrideUserInterfaceStyle
• Set settings button font only on tvOS
• Settings webDav always tvOS and sim
• Settings, disable swiftUI in iOS 13
• shaders add support for lcd/crt screen option
• Simplify code
• Single frameworks, catalyst, macos
• snes n64 fix a/b and deadzone
• snesticle builds
• snesticle: remove from app, needs work
• snesticle: tvos, add to ios build
• spotlight scheme update depends
• stella module fix
• stella snapshot
• stella xcconfig
• stella: delete duplicate files
• stella: use a submodule and static libs
• submodules: Single framework, macos
• swap experimentalCores option with unsupported
• swiftpm updates
• swiftpm update depends
• SwiftUI flow — make landing screen the console carousel if any consoles available, reduce side menu open width
• systems.plist update ext and bios for new cores
• tic80 add submodule
• tic80 submodule
• tvos add missing enums
• tvOS don’t copy glsl to docs
• tvOS fix duplicate symbols in mupen/gliden
• tvOS Fix jaguar compile
• tvOS fix missing target warnings, introspect err
• tvOS hide metadata edit behind #if TVOS_HAS_EDIT
• update bliss
• Update bliss submodule, 2 targets
• Update deployment targets
• Update MednafenGameCore.mm
• Update PVGameLibrarySectionHeaderView.swift
• Update PVGameLibraryViewController.swift
• Update PVGameLibraryViewController.swift
• Update PVGameLibraryViewController.swift
• Update PVGameLibraryViewController+CollectionView.swift
• Update PVG...

2.1.1 Minor fixes

[2.1.1] - 2022-06-15

Added

• Controls: PSX on-screen joystick can be disabled in settings. No longer shows when controller is connected
• Swift UI beta for tvOS
• tvOS theme support
• Metal shader 200% speedup 👉 @mrjschulte
• early dosbox testing code (no running yet)

Fixed

• tgbdual crash on ios fixed

Updated

• fceux update core to 2.6.2

2.1.0

Full release overview

https://provenance-emu.com/blog/2022/02/15/release-2.1.0/

What's Changed (Auto Generated by GitHub)

• Speedup Mednafen compile, and LIKELY compiler hints by @JoeMatt in #1680
• Fix submodule errors by @dnicolson in #1687
• M68K tvOS Compiler setting sync up by @mrjschulte in #1690
• Update dependencies by @dnicolson in #1688
• refs #1639 Add xcconfig files for sign settings by @JoeMatt in #1640
• make xcconfg work, better, ... by @ToddLa in #1696
• translate by @nenge123 in #1693
• translate by @nenge123 in #1692
• translate word by @nenge123 in #1691
• translate by @nenge123 in #1694
• Ios 13 UX tweaks by @ToddLa in #1699
• fix tvOS focus hell by @ToddLa in #1706
• tvOS UX tweaks by @ToddLa in #1707
• Metal by @JoeMatt in #1708
• Update PVSettingsViewController.swift by @mrjschulte in #1709
• [Metal] Format and size bugfixes by @ac90b671 in #1710
• More mupen options by @JoeMatt in #1682
• Update PVSystem.swift by @mrjschulte in #1713
• Pullrequests/todd la/tvos mrjs by @JoeMatt in #1715
• tintColor fix for Pv Buttons on tvOS by @mrjschulte in #1722
• Match Provenance branding size to capHeight on tvOS by @mrjschulte in #1721
• Improved Core and Game options by @JoeMatt in #1716
• Adds subtle blurEffect to navBar on tvOS by @mrjschulte in #1723
• Clarify Game Speed %'s by @mrjschulte in #1725
• more tvOS UX by @ToddLa in #1726
• 205 more stuff by @JoeMatt in #1730
• fix tvOS by @ToddLa in #1738
• Game Controller UX for UITableView and UINavigationController, and a start of GameLibrary UX by @ToddLa in #1740
• Update Dutch Localized Strings by @mrjschulte in #1743
• MTL CRT Shader fixes by @mrjschulte in #1745
• game controller UX, made Y be long-press, and some clean up by @ToddLa in #1742
• Fix Metal input texture copy to account for cores using an offset origin by @ac90b671 in #1744
• Update crt_fragment.glsl by @mrjschulte in #1746
• Update WebServerActivatorController.swift by @mrjschulte in #1747
• add russian translations by @amoorecodes in #1749
• Sega Options by @JoeMatt in #1741
• CI CD Fix by @JoeMatt in #1739
• More GameLibrary UX by @ToddLa in #1752
• M30 fixes and clarifications by @mrjschulte in #1753
• Make Menu icons iOS only by @mrjschulte in #1756
• [Release] 2.1.0 by @JoeMatt in #1750

New Contributors

• @ToddLa made their first contribution in #1696
• @nenge123 made their first contribution in #1693
• @ac90b671 made their first contribution in #1710
• @amoorecodes made their first contribution in #1749

Full Changelog: 2.0.4...2.1.0

CHANGELOG.md

Special thanks to contributors on this release;
👉 @mrjschulte
👉 @ToddLa
👉 @ac90b671
👉 @nenge123
👉 @david.nicolson
👉 @davidmuzi
👉 @amoorecodes

Added

• Controllers:
  • On Screen Joystick Controls for N64 and PSX
  • APIs for keyboard, mouse, rumble, on-screen joystick. (coming in future release)
  • Apple TV: Support new Siri remote (MicroGamepad and DirectionalGamepad)
• Code Signing is now managed with an XCConfig file. See CodeSigning.xcconfig.example for instructions. (Only applies to developers/xcode source installs)
• Enumeration type menu options UI
• FPS debug label now includes total CPU and Memory usage.
• GameBoy Advanced cheat code support
• Jaguar options exposed
• Long press a ROM for quick access to Core Options
• Mednafen
  • many more sub-core options added
  • SNESFaust 1 frame render ahead option (on by default. VERY SNAPPY!)
• Metal Shaders (CRT, LCD, etc.)
• N64:
  • mupen/gliden/rice options exposed
  • Dual Shock 4 touchpad as pause
  • option for Dual Joysticks on DualShock4 as dual controllers (allows Goldeneye dual controller joystick layout from 1 physical dualshock)
• Native Metal renderer option [WIP/Buggy]
• per-game option overrides
• radio selection options
• Sega Saturn Mutli-CD support
• Swift UI/UIKit optional code paths at app start (SwiftUI currernly empty, for easier development in future)
• VirtualBoy side by side mode (for 3D tv's with Side by Side mode. Google Cardboard coming later)
• XCode will present a warning message if it detects a device build but CodeSigning.xcconfig isn't setup.
• Localizations (Only Partially translated WIP)
  • NSLocalizedString for most strings in main app source
  • Chinese Simplified by @nenge123
  • Spanish
  • Russian by @amoorecodes
  • Dutch by @mrjschulte
  • Portuguese (Brazil) by Stéfano Santos

Improved

• Mupen:
  • wrapper code organized, refactored
  • faster controller polling, various other code speedup tweaks.
  • mupen llvm optimization flags improved (was incorrectly -O2, now -Os)
• On-Screen Controls
  • N64 layout improved
  • PSX layout improved
• Branch prediction compiler hints for tight loops, possibly faster.
• Catalyst: All cores build now for Intel and M1.
• check if file exists before attempt to delete, reduces superfluous throws trapping in the debugger
• Converted more app code from ObjC to Swift
• Dark Mode UI always on, fixes some color issues
• Fix some excessive thread blocks
• Hide/Show systems chevron location tweaks
• If multiple cores support a system, cores are listed in recommended order.
• Improved logo/header bar for iOS & tvOS
• Jaguar button layout tweaks
• Mark various ObjC classes objc_direct_members. Should improve Swift to ObjC calls bypassing dynamic dispatch for function pointers (in theory)
• Replace all spinlocks with atomic operations for better thread performance
• replaced some sloppy force unwraps with proper nil checks and logging
• Shaders are copied to Documents at load and read from thereafter. This allows locally editing / developing shaders without rebuilding.

Fixed

• Conflicts better detected
• tvOS top buttons sometimes couldn't be selected
• Faster compile times (improved header imports, compiler flags)
• Fixed some improper retain cycles in ObjC blocks
• Fixed rare audio engine nil reference race condition crash
• Cheat entry UI fixes

Updated

• N64:
  • Swap left and right triggers to L:Start R:Z Button from other way around prior
  • mupen cxd4 plugin to latest upstream version
  • mupen rsp-hle plugin to latest upstream version
• Updated Swift Packages (RxRealm, Realm, Cocoalumberjack)
• Improved tvOS UI (top buttons, search, icons, more consistent styling)

Removed

• Removed SteamController support (no one used it and the code caused too many compilations, plus steam controllers are kind of trash, sorry.)

2.0.4 Mostly mupen fixes

[2.0.4] - 2021-12-24

What's Changed

Fixed

• (Possible) Mupen N64 Core fix for tvOS/iOS by @mrjschulte in #1651
• Update TVL in crt_fragment.glsl to reduce moirée effects at UHD by @mrjschulte in #1652
• Remove absolute path to file from .xcodeproj by @davidmuzi in #1654
• Release/2.0.4 by @JoeMatt in #1668

Full Changelog: 2.0.3...2.0.4

2.0.3 Release

Links

• 📲 iOS IPA
• 📺 tvOS IPA
• 📝 GitHub
• 🏪 AltStore

🥰 Patreon

Install Instructions

https://wiki.provenance-emu.com/installation-and-usage/installing-provenance/sideloading

Changes

More Bug fixes, some core updates.

[2.0.3] - 2021-12-16

Added

• Odyssey2 core
• Mac Catalyst early support (M1 and Intel) (not for public use yet)
• SNES FAST and PCE FAST core options for Mednafen
• watch os demo target
• Odyssey add and use od2 extension
• Add odyssey to build
• Tentative support for VecX and CrabEMU
• macOS testing catalyst
• Add nitotv methods for tvOS
• Override openURL for tvOS
• Add Patron link to readme
• Add Desmume2015 core
• DuckStation initial commit
• Cores add plist feature to ignore
• Add PPSSPP Source
• Play! PS2 initial commit
• Add Dolphin project
• Add GameCube support classes and metadata (WIP)
• Add flycast core (WIP)
• Add a Chinese loading example
• Add localized strings file and example

Fixed

• #1621 GBC palette options crashed gambatte
• #1414 smarter expecptions in PVSystem
• #1645 PCE Audio setting tweaks to match real hardware
• #1637 Cheats label name cut off fixed
• #1649 two PCE module audio related setting tweaks that enable Provenance's PCE Audio output to match much closer to the measured MDFourier output of a real system, as tested with @artemio from the MDFourier project.
• Fixed rare crash in OERingBuffer
• Cores that don't support saves no loner display save actions in menu
• OpenVGDB Update (fixes artwork and metadata not loading)
• Fixed strong self refs in some classes, closures
• Fixed MD5 mismatch log message
• Add back a crash logger #1605 add crash logger and fix minor build settings
• switch jaguar to upstream branch
• core option as bool for objc
• RxDataSources switch to SPM package
• Fix some implicit self block refs
• closes Conflicts not reported #1601 conflicts reporting correctly
• fixes Gambatte core immediately crashes #1621 GBC palette options crashed gambatte
• refs After Resolving an "Import Conflict", subsequent imports no longer work #1414 smarter expecptions in PVSystem
• refs WebDav Server Always-On broken #822 add small main queue delay 4webdav start
• tvOS add multi micro gamepad to infoplist
• tvOS fix target order setting error
• Fix minor iCloud warning
• Fix random warnings
• Fix force unwraps in appdeleagte
• Fix finicky tvOS schemes
• Fix whole/single compilation for rel/arch targets
• Mednafen, proper ELOG in swift
• Mednafen remove dead file ref
• RxSwift fix some threading issues
• Fix GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION=1
• Fix PS2 stealing PS1 bios
• Fix gamecub stealing n64 roms
• add nintendo DS enums
• Replace QuickTableViewController SPM with source
• PicoDrive fix naming
• altkit not in catalyst
• Remove reicast from build
• Fix catalyst and other build tweaks

Updated

• Jaguar core upstream & custom performance hacks
• Mupen/GlideN64/Rice... updated to latest upstream
• All SPM packages to upstream

Removed

• Delete Romefile
• dolphini remove used parent project

2.0.2 Bug Fixes

More Bug fixes mostly.

Added

• XCode will detect missing git submodules and auto-clone recursive before building the rest of the project

Fixed

• #1586 Running same core twice in a row would crash
• #1593 Cheat codes menu crash fixes and other cheat code quality improvements

Updated

• #1564 SteamController native SPM package port
• Jaguar core updated with libretro upstream + my performance hacks. PR made libretro/virtualjaguar-libretro#53 (comment)
• Fix many static analyzer warnings about possible nil pointer/un-malloc'd memory usage, now we check and log nils or early exit where applicable
• SQLite.swift updated
• RxRealm updated from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3
• realm-cocoa updated from 10.14.0 to 10.15.0

2.0.1 - Bug Fixes

[2.0.1] - 2021-09-09

Bug fixes mostly.
Special thanks to contributors on this release;
👉 @mrjschulte
👉 @dnicolson
👉 @cheif

Updated

• #1545 Update Mednafen to 1.27.1 (Changelog)
• #1587 Clarify Refresh Game Library Ui Dialog text
• TGBDual updated to latest upstream 1e0c4f931d8c5e859e6d3255d67247d7a2987434

Fixed

• #1555 VirtualBoy crash on open
• #1559 Mednafen build error on tvOS
• #1583 NSLogger build issues on tvOS
• #1584 TvOS Release does NOT build due to 'searchController' is unavailable in tvOS
• #1585 Module 'AltKit' not found
• #1550 Provenance for Apple TV adds "private" part to "partialPath" in PVFile
• #1551 #1575 Fix missing roms on rescan
• #1556 Fix VirtualBoy Crash
• #1568 On screen buttons do not work with mednafen core