In big-endian libretro builds, the WebAssembly memory is reversed, so no
byte-swapping is required to read from/write to WebAssembly memory
(which is little-endian).
However, that means the ways to get and set values in WebAssembly memory
are endianness-dependent, so I've added the correct such ways for
big-endian platforms.
The binding coroutines in libretro builds are constructed on the VM
stack, so reallocating the VM memory would corrupt the memory of any
currently existing coroutines.
I've changed it so that the coroutines are no longer constructed on the
VM stack so that they're unaffected by VM memory reallocations, and
added a "slot" mechanism for storing variables on the VM stack. (Any
Ruby `VALUE`s used by a coroutine have to be stored on the VM stack so
that the Ruby garbage collector doesn't free them while they're being
used, which is why the slot mechanism is necessary.)
Before, if the game tried to create a save file, missing parent
directories would always be created because they could possibly exist
only in the game directory and not in the save directory, and we
wouldn't know due to the union mounting of the save and game
directories. But this is inconsistent with the behaviour of file
creation, where it should fail if parent directories don't exist.
The behaviour has been changed to only create parent directories if the
parent directories already exist. I know that sounds strange, but if the
parent directories exist, it could be that they only exist in the game
directory but not the save directory due to the union mounting, so we
need to create the parent directories, which will be created in the save
directory due to it being set as the write directory in PhysFS.
Files are written to the libretro save directory, which is mounted at
/save in PhysFS. All filesystem calls made from Ruby in libretro builds
are routed through PhysFS, so the game can just use any ordinary
filesystem function provided by Ruby to interact with /save.
It's also union mounted on top of the game directory (located at /game
in PhysFS) so that games that write their save files to the current
working directory will have their save files saved to the libretro save
directory instead of the game directory.
For security and portability reasons, nothing outside of the libretro
save directory can be written to, and nothing outside of the libretro
save directory, the libretro game directory and the various embedded
files used by the runtime can be read from.
Any relative paths that the game tries to access in libretro builds will
now be relative to whatever is the current working directory in the Ruby
sandbox, which will also now be initialized to the game directory during
initialization. Before, all of the bindings that took paths were
hardcoded to prepend the path with the game directory.
* Fixed a bug where frames are still duped when the frontend is
fast-forwarding
* Fixed a bug where manual frame duping (without
`RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_CAN_DUPE`) causes screen flickering during a
`Graphics.transition` call
Apparently we're not supposed to use
`RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_SYSTEM_AV_INFO` to change the FPS. The core
should be running at the display refresh rate and resampling the game's
video output.
This adds a new driver for audio in libretro builds for devices with
multithreading support that defers audio rendering to a worker thread
provided by the libretro frontend.
The threaded driver has the advantage that video lag will not also cause
the audio to lag, which is very noticeable since it manifests in the
form of audio crackling when it happens.
