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Ranma 1/2 22 ( #ranma #らんまアニメ)
<p>Ranma 1/2 22 らんま1/2 Spoiler Summary/Synopsis Akane doesn’t want to be in the school play and volunteers Ranma-chan. However, she changes her mind when she learns it is Juliet. This causes Kuno to immediately join the drama club to play Romeo. Gosunkugi also wants to join to play Romeo as does Happosai. Back at the</p>
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Perché un’IA dovrebbe sapere che un articolo è stato ritirato?
Ovvio che le cose vadano così: come fanno a distinguere lo status?
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026
I drifted out of my Sims phase somewhere between late-night MSN chats and trying to convince my mum that low-rise jeans were a good idea. Today, let’s take a look at games like The Sims that bring back a touch of that early-2000s magic… minus the dodgy highlights. This post contains affiliate links. Please read...
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026 appeared first on Her Cozy Gaming.
“Never Accepting What You Want,” One of the Themes of Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura stands as Rumiko Takahashi’s first serialized work. Rumiko, if you aren’t familiar with her, is one of the most influential manga artists: her career spans from 1978 to today. She created a range of works, including Inuyasha. Urusei Yatsura ran as an anime series in the 1980s and was remade in 2022. Urusei...
Trump, o dello stupore degli idioti.
È grottesco osservare i media mainstream stracciarsi le vesti perché Donald Trump ha firmato la condanna a morte della NATO, così come è assurdo stupirsi se Elon Musk, subito dopo la sanzione milionaria (120M) inflitta a Twitter, invoca apertamente il crollo dell'Unione Europea. La strategia americana
Quizzino della domenica: Ippocastagne
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Altaria
Bulbapedia description: Altaria is a blue, avian Pokémon. Its body and cloud-like wings are covered in fluffy, white, cotton-like feathers. It often folds its wings behind it, obscuring its back. Two long, blue plumes extend like streamers from the back of its head. It has a short, hooked beak and prominent cheek patches, both of […]
Spy×Family 47 (Problems #SPY_FAMILY)
<p>Spy×Family 47 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis Austin-sensei wakes up from a nightmare. He decides to pay Loid a visit for a therapy session. After their first session, Fiona gives Loid a report and believes Austin is lying about the cause of his nightmares. On his next visit, Loid manages to learn that Austin is afraid of his</p>
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Hardware renderer progress -- by Arisotura
Hey hey, little status update! I've been having fun lately.
The hardware renderer has been progressing nicely lately. It's always exciting when you're able to assemble the various parts you've been working on into something coherent, and it suddenly starts looking a lot like a finished product. It's no longer just something I'm looking at in RenderDoc.
Those screenshots were taken with 4x upscaling (click them for full-size versions). The last one demonstrates hi-res rotscale in action. Not bad, I dare say.
It's not done yet, though, so I'll go over what remains to be done.
Mosaic
Shouldn't be very difficult to add.
Except for, you know, sprite mosaic. I don't really know yet how I'll handle that one. The way it works is intuitive if you're processing pixels left-to-right within a scanline, but this isn't how a modern GPU works.
Display capture
What was previously in place was a bit of a hack made to work with the old approach, so I will have to rework this. Atleast now I have the required system for tracking VRAM banks for this. But the whole part of capturing video output to OpenGL textures, and reusing them where needed, will need to be redone.
I also need to think of a way to sync hi-res captures back to emulated VRAM when needed.
Of course, support for this also needs to be added to the 3D renderers, for the sake of render-to-texture. Shouldn't be too difficult to add it to the compute renderer, but the old OpenGL renderer is another deal. I had designed that rather lazily, just streaming raw VRAM to the GPU, and never improved it. I could backport the texture cache the compute renderer uses, but it will take a while.
Mid-frame rendering
I need to add provisions in case certain things get changed mid-frame. I quickly did it for OAM, as shown by that iCarly screenshot above. The proof of concept works, but it can be improved upon, and extended to other things too.
The way this works is similar to the blargSNES hardware renderer. When certain state gets modified mid-frame, a section of the screen gets rendered with the old state - that section goes to the top of the screen, or wherever the previous section ended if there was any. Upon VBlank, we finish rendering in the same way.
There are exceptions for things that are very likely to be changed mid-frame (ie. window positions, BG scroll positions), and are relatively inexpensive to deal with. It's worth noting that on the DS, it's less frequent for video registers to be changed mid-frame, because the hardware is more flexible. By comparison, in something like a SNES game, you will see a lot more mid-frame state changes.
Either way, time will tell what is worth accounting for and what needs to be optimized.
Filtering
Hey, let's not forget why we came in here in the first place.
Hopefully, with the way the shaders are structured, it shouldn't be too hard to slot in filters. Bilinear, bicubic, HQX, xBRZ, you name it.
What I'm not too sure about is how well it'll work with sprites. It's not uncommon for games to splice together several small sprites to form bigger graphical elements, and I'm not sure how that'll work with filtering. We'll see.
Misc. things
The usual, a lot of code cleanup, optimization work, fixing up little details, and so on.
And work to make the code nicer to work with, which isn't particularly exciting.
This gives you a rough idea of where things are at, and what's left to be done. To conclude, I'll leave you with an example of what happens when Arisotura goofs up her OpenGL calls:
Have fun!
Its all gone
Perché indosso il cordoncino sunflower
Perché indosso il cordoncino? La domanda verrebbe spontanea a chiunque mi conosca da sempre: perché scegliere di indossare un simbolo che potrebbe “etichettarmi”?Dopotutto ho vissuto trent’anni senza che nessuno si accorgesse che fossi autistica, e — a detta di molti — me la sono sempre cavata bene. Ecco, appunto.Ho vissuto trent’anni senza che qualcuno si […]
L'articolo Perché indosso il cordoncino sunflower proviene da Ayako Satomi.
Mai dire noi (libro)
Certo che se avessero eliminato gli aneddoti doppi....
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review (Choices #FairyTail)
<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray, Wendy, and Lucy get a briefing from Happy and Charle. They hear an explosion from the dock, where Erza battles Ued. Lage “wakes up”, hysterically laughing at the situation. Meanwhile Erza battles Ued, but he destroys her armor. He informs her</p>
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Sofista non è un insulto: su Platone e la mercificazione del sapere
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 5 dicembre 2025.
Déjà-vu: arrivano i maschi "performativi".
L'Occidente nel suo complesso sta invecchiando, nel senso più letterale del termine: una porzione sempre più consistente della popolazione è ormai anziana, e di conseguenza bisogna confezionare i mass media secondo i loro gusti e le loro aspettative. Ma non si tratta soltanto dei media: questo
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Introducing OpenAI for Australia
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SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review (Feelings #Spy_Family)
<p>SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review Spy x Family Ch. 119 スパイファミリー Spoiler Summary/Synopsis: Hemlock finally makes it back to the garden. He has a lengthy conversation with Shopkeeper. At the end, Shopkeeper inquires as to Yor’s strength, which Hemlock says is there. Shopkeeper has Gympie give Hemlock a salve to give to Yor for her</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/spyxfamily-chapter-119-manga-review.html">SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review (Feelings #Spy_Family)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com">AstroNerdBoy's Anime & Manga Blog</a>.</p>
Building an AI Agent to Remove Feature Flags
Developing the agent was quick, easy, and immediately successful.
Riconquista la tua attenzione: 5 Metodi per iniziare subito
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 4 dicembre 2025.
E anche quest’anno il concerto con il coro
Stavolta due delle cantate del Weihnachts-Oratorium di Bach
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review (Crossover Madness #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray battles Hien, surprised to learn Hien has ice magics as well. Meanwhile Wendy fends off the flowing “flower” entity known as Nakajima. Elsewhere, Lucy fends off the gelatin that wants to bury itself between her breasts. In the bar, Charle (Carla)</p>
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La filosofia militarizzata? Vergogna sull'Università di Bologna
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 3 dicembre 2025.
3 ways to form questions in French
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The [American] Politicization of Anime
It seems everything in the United States has a political dimension to it, even to what type of bath soap you decide to buy! Anime, unfortunately, is no different. It’s not unusual for me to receive an ugly message that touches on political or racial topics. I’m more troubled by the lack of understanding such...
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Ranma 1/2 22 ( #ranma #らんまアニメ)
<p>Ranma 1/2 22 らんま1/2 Spoiler Summary/Synopsis Akane doesn’t want to be in the school play and volunteers Ranma-chan. However, she changes her mind when she learns it is Juliet. This causes Kuno to immediately join the drama club to play Romeo. Gosunkugi also wants to join to play Romeo as does Happosai. Back at the</p>
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Ovvio che le cose vadano così: come fanno a distinguere lo status?
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026
I drifted out of my Sims phase somewhere between late-night MSN chats and trying to convince my mum that low-rise jeans were a good idea. Today, let’s take a look at games like The Sims that bring back a touch of that early-2000s magic… minus the dodgy highlights. This post contains affiliate links. Please read...
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026 appeared first on Her Cozy Gaming.
“Never Accepting What You Want,” One of the Themes of Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura stands as Rumiko Takahashi’s first serialized work. Rumiko, if you aren’t familiar with her, is one of the most influential manga artists: her career spans from 1978 to today. She created a range of works, including Inuyasha. Urusei Yatsura ran as an anime series in the 1980s and was remade in 2022. Urusei...
Trump, o dello stupore degli idioti.
È grottesco osservare i media mainstream stracciarsi le vesti perché Donald Trump ha firmato la condanna a morte della NATO, così come è assurdo stupirsi se Elon Musk, subito dopo la sanzione milionaria (120M) inflitta a Twitter, invoca apertamente il crollo dell'Unione Europea. La strategia americana
Quizzino della domenica: Ippocastagne
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Altaria
Bulbapedia description: Altaria is a blue, avian Pokémon. Its body and cloud-like wings are covered in fluffy, white, cotton-like feathers. It often folds its wings behind it, obscuring its back. Two long, blue plumes extend like streamers from the back of its head. It has a short, hooked beak and prominent cheek patches, both of […]
Spy×Family 47 (Problems #SPY_FAMILY)
<p>Spy×Family 47 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis Austin-sensei wakes up from a nightmare. He decides to pay Loid a visit for a therapy session. After their first session, Fiona gives Loid a report and believes Austin is lying about the cause of his nightmares. On his next visit, Loid manages to learn that Austin is afraid of his</p>
<p><a class="moretag" href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/spyxfamily-47.html " >Read the full article!</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/spyxfamily-47.html">Spy×Family 47 (Problems #SPY_FAMILY)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com">AstroNerdBoy's Anime & Manga Blog</a>.</p>
Hardware renderer progress -- by Arisotura
Hey hey, little status update! I've been having fun lately.
The hardware renderer has been progressing nicely lately. It's always exciting when you're able to assemble the various parts you've been working on into something coherent, and it suddenly starts looking a lot like a finished product. It's no longer just something I'm looking at in RenderDoc.
Those screenshots were taken with 4x upscaling (click them for full-size versions). The last one demonstrates hi-res rotscale in action. Not bad, I dare say.
It's not done yet, though, so I'll go over what remains to be done.
Mosaic
Shouldn't be very difficult to add.
Except for, you know, sprite mosaic. I don't really know yet how I'll handle that one. The way it works is intuitive if you're processing pixels left-to-right within a scanline, but this isn't how a modern GPU works.
Display capture
What was previously in place was a bit of a hack made to work with the old approach, so I will have to rework this. Atleast now I have the required system for tracking VRAM banks for this. But the whole part of capturing video output to OpenGL textures, and reusing them where needed, will need to be redone.
I also need to think of a way to sync hi-res captures back to emulated VRAM when needed.
Of course, support for this also needs to be added to the 3D renderers, for the sake of render-to-texture. Shouldn't be too difficult to add it to the compute renderer, but the old OpenGL renderer is another deal. I had designed that rather lazily, just streaming raw VRAM to the GPU, and never improved it. I could backport the texture cache the compute renderer uses, but it will take a while.
Mid-frame rendering
I need to add provisions in case certain things get changed mid-frame. I quickly did it for OAM, as shown by that iCarly screenshot above. The proof of concept works, but it can be improved upon, and extended to other things too.
The way this works is similar to the blargSNES hardware renderer. When certain state gets modified mid-frame, a section of the screen gets rendered with the old state - that section goes to the top of the screen, or wherever the previous section ended if there was any. Upon VBlank, we finish rendering in the same way.
There are exceptions for things that are very likely to be changed mid-frame (ie. window positions, BG scroll positions), and are relatively inexpensive to deal with. It's worth noting that on the DS, it's less frequent for video registers to be changed mid-frame, because the hardware is more flexible. By comparison, in something like a SNES game, you will see a lot more mid-frame state changes.
Either way, time will tell what is worth accounting for and what needs to be optimized.
Filtering
Hey, let's not forget why we came in here in the first place.
Hopefully, with the way the shaders are structured, it shouldn't be too hard to slot in filters. Bilinear, bicubic, HQX, xBRZ, you name it.
What I'm not too sure about is how well it'll work with sprites. It's not uncommon for games to splice together several small sprites to form bigger graphical elements, and I'm not sure how that'll work with filtering. We'll see.
Misc. things
The usual, a lot of code cleanup, optimization work, fixing up little details, and so on.
And work to make the code nicer to work with, which isn't particularly exciting.
This gives you a rough idea of where things are at, and what's left to be done. To conclude, I'll leave you with an example of what happens when Arisotura goofs up her OpenGL calls:
Have fun!
Its all gone
Perché indosso il cordoncino sunflower
Perché indosso il cordoncino? La domanda verrebbe spontanea a chiunque mi conosca da sempre: perché scegliere di indossare un simbolo che potrebbe “etichettarmi”?Dopotutto ho vissuto trent’anni senza che nessuno si accorgesse che fossi autistica, e — a detta di molti — me la sono sempre cavata bene. Ecco, appunto.Ho vissuto trent’anni senza che qualcuno si […]
L'articolo Perché indosso il cordoncino sunflower proviene da Ayako Satomi.
Mai dire noi (libro)
Certo che se avessero eliminato gli aneddoti doppi....
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review (Choices #FairyTail)
<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray, Wendy, and Lucy get a briefing from Happy and Charle. They hear an explosion from the dock, where Erza battles Ued. Lage “wakes up”, hysterically laughing at the situation. Meanwhile Erza battles Ued, but he destroys her armor. He informs her</p>
<p><a class="moretag" href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/fairy-tail-100-years-quest-chapter-161-manga-review.html " >Read the full article!</a></p>
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Sofista non è un insulto: su Platone e la mercificazione del sapere
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 5 dicembre 2025.
Déjà-vu: arrivano i maschi "performativi".
L'Occidente nel suo complesso sta invecchiando, nel senso più letterale del termine: una porzione sempre più consistente della popolazione è ormai anziana, e di conseguenza bisogna confezionare i mass media secondo i loro gusti e le loro aspettative. Ma non si tratta soltanto dei media: questo
Non è (solo) un problema di soldi
Il modello Substack e i micropagamenti (che poi non sono così micro)
Introducing OpenAI for Australia
OpenAI is launching OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure, upskill more than 1.5 million workers, and accelerate innovation across the country’s growing AI ecosystem.
SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review (Feelings #Spy_Family)
<p>SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review Spy x Family Ch. 119 スパイファミリー Spoiler Summary/Synopsis: Hemlock finally makes it back to the garden. He has a lengthy conversation with Shopkeeper. At the end, Shopkeeper inquires as to Yor’s strength, which Hemlock says is there. Shopkeeper has Gympie give Hemlock a salve to give to Yor for her</p>
<p><a class="moretag" href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/spyxfamily-chapter-119-manga-review.html " >Read the full article!</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/spyxfamily-chapter-119-manga-review.html">SPY×FAMILY Chapter 119 Manga Review (Feelings #Spy_Family)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com">AstroNerdBoy's Anime & Manga Blog</a>.</p>
Building an AI Agent to Remove Feature Flags
Developing the agent was quick, easy, and immediately successful.
Riconquista la tua attenzione: 5 Metodi per iniziare subito
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 4 dicembre 2025.
E anche quest’anno il concerto con il coro
Stavolta due delle cantate del Weihnachts-Oratorium di Bach
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review (Crossover Madness #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray battles Hien, surprised to learn Hien has ice magics as well. Meanwhile Wendy fends off the flowing “flower” entity known as Nakajima. Elsewhere, Lucy fends off the gelatin that wants to bury itself between her breasts. In the bar, Charle (Carla)</p>
<p><a class="moretag" href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/fairy-tail-100-years-quest-chapter-160-manga-review.html " >Read the full article!</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/fairy-tail-100-years-quest-chapter-160-manga-review.html">Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review (Crossover Madness #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com">AstroNerdBoy's Anime & Manga Blog</a>.</p>
La filosofia militarizzata? Vergogna sull'Università di Bologna
Dalla puntata del Podcast Daily Cogito del 3 dicembre 2025.
3 ways to form questions in French
Are you ready to ask questions in French? With this guide, the answer is *oui*!
The [American] Politicization of Anime
It seems everything in the United States has a political dimension to it, even to what type of bath soap you decide to buy! Anime, unfortunately, is no different. It’s not unusual for me to receive an ugly message that touches on political or racial topics. I’m more troubled by the lack of understanding such...
OpenAI to acquire Neptune
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Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees
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Ranma 1/2 22 ( #ranma #らんまアニメ)
<p>Ranma 1/2 22 らんま1/2 Spoiler Summary/Synopsis Akane doesn’t want to be in the school play and volunteers Ranma-chan. However, she changes her mind when she learns it is Juliet. This causes Kuno to immediately join the drama club to play Romeo. Gosunkugi also wants to join to play Romeo as does Happosai. Back at the</p>
<p><a class="moretag" href="https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2025/12/ranma-1-2-22.html " >Read the full article!</a></p>
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Perché un’IA dovrebbe sapere che un articolo è stato ritirato?
Ovvio che le cose vadano così: come fanno a distinguere lo status?
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026
I drifted out of my Sims phase somewhere between late-night MSN chats and trying to convince my mum that low-rise jeans were a good idea. Today, let’s take a look at games like The Sims that bring back a touch of that early-2000s magic… minus the dodgy highlights. This post contains affiliate links. Please read...
22 NEW Cozy Games Like The Sims You Need To Wishlist in 2026 appeared first on Her Cozy Gaming.
“Never Accepting What You Want,” One of the Themes of Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura stands as Rumiko Takahashi’s first serialized work. Rumiko, if you aren’t familiar with her, is one of the most influential manga artists: her career spans from 1978 to today. She created a range of works, including Inuyasha. Urusei Yatsura ran as an anime series in the 1980s and was remade in 2022. Urusei...
Trump, o dello stupore degli idioti.
È grottesco osservare i media mainstream stracciarsi le vesti perché Donald Trump ha firmato la condanna a morte della NATO, così come è assurdo stupirsi se Elon Musk, subito dopo la sanzione milionaria (120M) inflitta a Twitter, invoca apertamente il crollo dell'Unione Europea. La strategia americana
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Bulbapedia description: Altaria is a blue, avian Pokémon. Its body and cloud-like wings are covered in fluffy, white, cotton-like feathers. It often folds its wings behind it, obscuring its back. Two long, blue plumes extend like streamers from the back of its head. It has a short, hooked beak and prominent cheek patches, both of […]
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<p>Spy×Family 47 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis Austin-sensei wakes up from a nightmare. He decides to pay Loid a visit for a therapy session. After their first session, Fiona gives Loid a report and believes Austin is lying about the cause of his nightmares. On his next visit, Loid manages to learn that Austin is afraid of his</p>
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Hardware renderer progress -- by Arisotura
Hey hey, little status update! I've been having fun lately.
The hardware renderer has been progressing nicely lately. It's always exciting when you're able to assemble the various parts you've been working on into something coherent, and it suddenly starts looking a lot like a finished product. It's no longer just something I'm looking at in RenderDoc.
Those screenshots were taken with 4x upscaling (click them for full-size versions). The last one demonstrates hi-res rotscale in action. Not bad, I dare say.
It's not done yet, though, so I'll go over what remains to be done.
Mosaic
Shouldn't be very difficult to add.
Except for, you know, sprite mosaic. I don't really know yet how I'll handle that one. The way it works is intuitive if you're processing pixels left-to-right within a scanline, but this isn't how a modern GPU works.
Display capture
What was previously in place was a bit of a hack made to work with the old approach, so I will have to rework this. Atleast now I have the required system for tracking VRAM banks for this. But the whole part of capturing video output to OpenGL textures, and reusing them where needed, will need to be redone.
I also need to think of a way to sync hi-res captures back to emulated VRAM when needed.
Of course, support for this also needs to be added to the 3D renderers, for the sake of render-to-texture. Shouldn't be too difficult to add it to the compute renderer, but the old OpenGL renderer is another deal. I had designed that rather lazily, just streaming raw VRAM to the GPU, and never improved it. I could backport the texture cache the compute renderer uses, but it will take a while.
Mid-frame rendering
I need to add provisions in case certain things get changed mid-frame. I quickly did it for OAM, as shown by that iCarly screenshot above. The proof of concept works, but it can be improved upon, and extended to other things too.
The way this works is similar to the blargSNES hardware renderer. When certain state gets modified mid-frame, a section of the screen gets rendered with the old state - that section goes to the top of the screen, or wherever the previous section ended if there was any. Upon VBlank, we finish rendering in the same way.
There are exceptions for things that are very likely to be changed mid-frame (ie. window positions, BG scroll positions), and are relatively inexpensive to deal with. It's worth noting that on the DS, it's less frequent for video registers to be changed mid-frame, because the hardware is more flexible. By comparison, in something like a SNES game, you will see a lot more mid-frame state changes.
Either way, time will tell what is worth accounting for and what needs to be optimized.
Filtering
Hey, let's not forget why we came in here in the first place.
Hopefully, with the way the shaders are structured, it shouldn't be too hard to slot in filters. Bilinear, bicubic, HQX, xBRZ, you name it.
What I'm not too sure about is how well it'll work with sprites. It's not uncommon for games to splice together several small sprites to form bigger graphical elements, and I'm not sure how that'll work with filtering. We'll see.
Misc. things
The usual, a lot of code cleanup, optimization work, fixing up little details, and so on.
And work to make the code nicer to work with, which isn't particularly exciting.
This gives you a rough idea of where things are at, and what's left to be done. To conclude, I'll leave you with an example of what happens when Arisotura goofs up her OpenGL calls:
Have fun!
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Perché indosso il cordoncino sunflower
Perché indosso il cordoncino? La domanda verrebbe spontanea a chiunque mi conosca da sempre: perché scegliere di indossare un simbolo che potrebbe “etichettarmi”?Dopotutto ho vissuto trent’anni senza che nessuno si accorgesse che fossi autistica, e — a detta di molti — me la sono sempre cavata bene. Ecco, appunto.Ho vissuto trent’anni senza che qualcuno si […]
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Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review (Choices #FairyTail)
<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 161 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray, Wendy, and Lucy get a briefing from Happy and Charle. They hear an explosion from the dock, where Erza battles Ued. Lage “wakes up”, hysterically laughing at the situation. Meanwhile Erza battles Ued, but he destroys her armor. He informs her</p>
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<p>Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 160 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Gray battles Hien, surprised to learn Hien has ice magics as well. Meanwhile Wendy fends off the flowing “flower” entity known as Nakajima. Elsewhere, Lucy fends off the gelatin that wants to bury itself between her breasts. In the bar, Charle (Carla)</p>
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