Some PlayStation 1 titles implement trivial rejection by folding the sign bits of projected vertex screen coordinates across triangle or quad primitives with a chain of AND instructions. Without adjusting these checks during widescreen presentation, geometry in the newly revealed horizontal area is still rejected by the original 4:3 bounds. Rather than embedding title specific instruction patterns directly into the recompiler, this introduces a generalized `[[widescreen.cull.sxy]]` configuration schema within `game.toml`.
Game configurations can now declare multi vertex trivial rejection sequences by their exact AND instruction words, vertex registers and the branch that consumes the result. The loader derives the expected chain from those words and rejects any other shape. Each AND keeps its original value except for the horizontal sign bit, which survives only while that vertex lies beyond the revealed left edge, so vertical and right side rejection are preserved and 4:3 output is bit identical. Shifted coordinate lower edge comparisons reuse the existing `screen_x_sites` handling through a new `slti rt, x, 0` form instead of adding a separate site family.
Full parity is maintained between recompiled code and the dirty RAM interpreter by sharing the same runtime helper and validating every fold and consumer instruction word on both paths, leaving mismatching overlay variants untouched. This eliminates hardcoded game logic from the recompiler while giving titles clean geometry retention in expanded aspect ratios.
Changing the internal resolution in the in-game menu did nothing until a
relaunch: ovl_video_from() never copied it, and the restart bits forced
a relaunch for it anyway. Supersampling (the [video] supersample
multiplier) had no player setting at all.
- PsxHostVideoSettings gains supersample_milli; internal resolution and
supersample are live changes (PSX_VIDEO_LIVE_RESOLUTION). Only the
legacy integer supersampling factor still needs a relaunch.
- psx_video_apply_live resolves the new scale and calls
gl_renderer_set_internal_scale_live(): it moves the step ceiling
(clamped like the boot scale) and queues the step through the dynamic
resolution machinery, recorded in stream order with the render thread.
The dynamic-resolution controller is retargeted to the new ceiling.
- settings.toml [video] supersample is the player's pick (1.0..4.0).
- The in-game menu round-trips internal_resolution and, with a launcher
that has RECOMP_LAUNCHER_HAS_SUPERSAMPLE, supersample_milli.
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Keep selector zero stock and seal all choices until the next session restart. Refuse nonzero online activation, scope non-stock save states by frozen choices, and preserve original instruction guards when combined with effective-address adapters. Use overlay ABI34 on current master without the old menu dependency stack.
- [quality.*] accepts only the supported keys (quality_key_supported):
twelve player-editable ones (masked, copied, classified, applied) and
nine preset-only ones (no settings.toml form; applied on select). Any
other key, e.g. vsync or renderer, is a load error.
- Picking a preset now also applies bloom, texture LOD, anisotropy, FMV
chroma smoothing and dithering (quality_apply_video_globals).
- The frontends flag Custom on any tracked row; the host counts only rows
of keys the title governs (psxq::launcher_custom_edit), so Antialiasing
no longer turns Ultra into Custom when no preset sets it.
Tests cover the rejection, every player key's masking/copy, and the
classification cases.
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With [timing] guest_cycle_scale active, every one-cycle psx_cyc_charge went
straight to psx_cpu_charge and psx_advance_cycles, bypassing the batch the
scale-1 path uses. [timing] guest_cycle_scale_batch (PSX_GCS_BATCH=0/1)
scales the charge in place, with the same fractional carry and order as
psx_cpu_charge, then batches it like the scale-1 path. It flushes at the same
observation points. Default off.
R4 exactness, frame_fingerprint off vs on, 9000 frames each: headless boot
through intro, title and attract; a 1P Grand Prix race; and a 2P VS race.
cyc, mmio, mc and qc are identical on every frame. sp, wr, pc and ws are
identical at the end. The only differences are single-frame VBlank straddles
of wc/sc (never two frames in a row). 0 dispatch misses.
Speed, release builds, races at 60 Hz:
- M4 (macOS sample): psx_cpu_charge 4.3 % -> 0 % of emulation-thread samples;
busy 46.0 -> 44.4 % (2 pairs).
- 9800X3D: no measurable change (30.0 vs 30.5 %; one core 44.6 vs 44.2 %).
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A title may declare [quality.low|medium|high|ultra] tables of [video] keys.
On first launch, and when the hardware fingerprint changes while a preset is
in force, psxrecomp detects the CPU, threads, RAM and GPU (OS facts; a hidden
1x1 GL window reads GL_RENDERER only when a detection is due and the OS did
not name the GPU), picks the matching preset and saves quality_preset,
quality_base, quality_hardware and quality_detected to settings.toml.
- Each preset is the whole game.toml re-parsed with its keys over [video], so
every [video] key works in a preset with its usual validation.
- A preset in force owns its keys: saved settings.toml values for them are
ignored. Custom (the player changed a governed setting in the launcher)
applies the player's values over quality_base and is never overridden;
new hardware under Custom is only reported.
- Launcher: GameInfo.quality_* (offered mask, detected preset, hardware
summary, quality_apply / quality_redetect callbacks) and
Settings.quality_preset/quality_base, behind RECOMP_LAUNCHER_HAS_QUALITY_PRESETS.
- PSX_QUALITY=<preset> for one run, PSX_QUALITY_REDETECT=1.
- Titles without [quality.*] are unchanged.
Rules (quality_tier.c) and the decision are unit-tested in
quality_presets_test; docs/QUALITY_PRESETS.md.
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The detector cannot prove a loop has no later counter-dependent exit, so
the extension now skips only at block-edge PCs the title lists after an
audit. Unlisted sites are never skipped; an empty list disables it. Docs
record R4's v_wait audit as the reference; tests cover unlisted sites.
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idle_skip only skipped loops with zero stores and a single interrupt-check
edge, so it never fired on PsyQ libetc's v_wait -- the VSync(0)/VSync(n)
spin most PsyQ titles run each frame -- which decrements a stack timeout
word every pass and crosses two block edges.
New opt-in on top of idle_skip, [runtime] idle_skip_store_counters
(PSX_IDLE_SKIP_EXT=0/1 for one run):
- an iteration may span up to 8 block edges; the first edge is the anchor
and the edge count must be stable;
- one word store per iteration to the same RAM/scratchpad address whose
value drops by exactly 1 (a register holding it may drop with it).
Skips lower the counter by k (never to <= 1) and, for multi-edge loops, land
on the anchor strictly before the next device event so an IRQ is taken at
the same edge as without the skip. memory.c records the last word store's
address and value for the detector.
R4 race, 3600 frames from one savestate, held input: cyc, mmio, mc, sp, sc
and qc identical every frame; wc differs only by the elided counter stores.
Release build on an Apple M4: emulation-thread busy 47.5% -> 34.9% at 60 Hz.
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Review of #584: the default must not make guest-visible VRAM depend on the
internal scale. Mode 1 ("on", default; "scaled" kept as an alias) now
puts the PS1 pattern on the native VRAM grid; mode 2 ("fine") is the
elective per-internal-pixel pattern. gl_dithering_test checks the default
mode's native VRAM is identical at 4x and 1x (equal-colour Gouraud now
averages 15.50 in the default at every scale). Docs keep the
semi-transparent approximation explicit. OpenBIOS stamp regenerated.
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The OpenGL renderer has always drawn shaded and texture-modulated pixels
at 8 bits per channel with no dither pattern (true colour). That stays the
default. 'on' applies the PS1 4x4 offset matrix and 5-bit truncation per
internal-resolution pixel; 'scaled' puts the pattern on the native grid,
so it reads like the console at any scale and the native VRAM is the same
at every internal resolution.
GP0(E1h) bit 9 reaches the backend through a new optional facade hook
(gr_set_dither) recorded for the render thread and Smooth motion redraws.
With the mode off nothing flushes and no uniform changes. Flat, raw and
other 5-bit-exact pixels are never touched.
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Post effects now run as chains of full-screen fragment passes on one
executor (gl_postfx.inc), as asked in review. A chain is a small .pfx preset
(postfx_chain.c, GL-free): passes with a shader (a file next to the preset or
builtin:<name>), inputs (source, the optional primitive-derived mask,
previous or a named earlier pass), a scale, format, filter and uniforms.
The executor owns target allocation and lifetime, program build/cache,
uniform binding (u_rcp, u_size, u_org) and GL state save/restore.
Stages, in order, each from a fresh copy of the image: the built-in "bloom"
chain ([video] bloom), a user chain ([video] post_shader / PSX_POST_SHADER,
elective, off by default), and the built-in "fxaa"/"fxaa_hq" chain
([video] antialiasing_mode). FXAA folds in as a one-pass chain and its
output is byte-identical to the former fixed pass; it still runs on real
frames only. Generated (Smooth motion) frames run bloom and the user chain.
The "may glow" mask is an optional pipeline input: draws keep stencil bit 1
only while an active chain reads `mask`, and the window-sized mask texture is
built once per present for the chains that use it.
Tests: postfx_chain_test (format, built-ins, errors, file import, no GL);
gl_bloom_test gains an imported two-pass chain (byte-exact invert), the mask
input (HUD unlit, 3D lit), a bad preset, a pass that does not compile, and GL
state restored with bloom + a mask chain + FXAA on, all on the caller thread
and the render thread. docs/POST_EFFECTS.md documents the format.
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[video] bloom = 0.0 (off, default) .. 2.0 adds a glow around lights on the
OpenGL backend. PSX_BLOOM overrides it for one run; {"cmd":"bloom"} reads or
changes strength, threshold and a debug view live. It is a plain [video] key,
so [quality.*] presets can switch it off on low-end machines.
The HUD never glows: with bloom on every textured and untextured draw is
followed by two stencil-only passes of the same vertices that keep a
"may glow" mark in stencil bit 1 (bit 0 stays the mask-bit mirror). Opaque
primitives clear it under their coverage, then PGXP-proven 3D primitives and
additive semi-transparent texels/primitives (modes 1 and 3) set it, painter
ordered like the colour; 3D and non-3D primitives never share a batch while
bloom is on. Semi-transparent primitives leave the mark alone and the PGXP
depth-clear pass (colour writes off) marks nothing. Without PGXP geometry only
additive primitives glow.
The pass runs on the composed game image before AA and the OSD: the presented
surface's marks are blitted into a quarter-resolution stencil, a soft-knee
bright pass runs under it, three separable Gaussian iterations spread it and a
screen blend adds it back. The marks follow the picture: native-wide centre
copies and Smooth motion surfaces (redraw and reprojection) copy stencil with
colour, and generated frames get the same pass. Off: nothing runs, no state
changes, and the composed frame is byte-identical to master.
test_gl_bloom (gl_bloom_test): off is byte-identical before/after bloom and
with --dump against master; on, a bright 2D panel and a panel over a lit 3D
polygon are byte-identical to off, an additive and a 3D polygon glow; guest
VRAM is unchanged; on this thread and on the render thread.
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find_project_root walked up from a release's game.toml to the first
ancestor with a root marker. With a global ~/.gitignore (common) and the
game under ~/Games/<title>, that was the home folder, so [runtime]
memcard_dir = "saves" put memory cards and savestates in ~/saves instead
of beside the game. A folder whose licenses/psxrecomp-LICENSE was staged
by package_game_release.sh now stops the walk.
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Owner decision: wheel force feedback is an optional player setting, off by
default. settings.toml [controller] jogcon_force_feedback (UserSettings,
load + save) overrides the title's game.toml
experimental_jogcon_force_feedback default. psx_jogcon_ffb_set_player_enabled
applies it live (off -> every wheel neutral now); the launcher's boot and
lobby soft-return exits seed and read RecompLauncherCSettings
.jogcon_force_feedback (RECOMP_LAUNCHER_HAS_JOGCON_FORCE_FEEDBACK,
RetroPortingToolKit/recomp-ui#95) and persist it. Tests:
jogcon_ffb_settings_test (default off, on, explicit off, round-trip);
jogcon_ffb_test (setting off: no haptic calls; toggled on: the hold drives;
off live: neutral).
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Review (mstan): the title key is now experimental_jogcon_force_feedback(
_invert) and the runtime logs it as EXPERIMENTAL. Force feedback goes through
a pure driver (psx_jogcon_ffb.h) and an SDL haptic backend
(psx_jogcon_ffb_sdl.cpp): every force has a 120 ms lifetime renewed each
VBlank, so a pause, stall or crash goes slack by itself, and the Rewind and
save-state pause loops, disconnect (close_player) and session end
(close_controller) stop it explicitly. Tests: jogcon_ffb_test drives the
driver against a recording backend (lifetime, renew, stop once, neutral,
idempotence, disable mid-force); jogcon_ffb_sdl_test runs the SDL backend
against an SDL3 virtual wheel. SDL has no virtual haptic device, so it checks
that such a device is not driven, never falls back to rumble and closes
cleanly. Also fixes the SDL3 haptic subsystem init check (psx_sdl.h returns
0 on success).
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The emulated JogCon kept its motor command as device state only. With
game.toml [controller] jogcon_force_feedback = true, a presented JogCon's
motor byte (command nibble + strength) now drives a host wheel's SDL haptics:
commands 1 / 2 a constant force signed by direction and scaled by strength,
any other non-stop command a centring spring. Only pads whose haptic device
supports constant or spring effects are driven, so gamepads are untouched.
jogcon_force_feedback_invert flips the turn direction (not checked on JogCon
hardware). SIO keeps the strength nibble beside the command
(sio_get_pad_jogcon_motor). PSX_RUMBLE_TRACE logs the commands, headless too.
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Verifies the four PS1 semi-transparency modes, set-mask, mask check and
texel STP at 4x internal resolution with PGXP depth on and off, directly
and on the render thread, against the PS1 formulas and the software
rasterizer (new gl_blend_accuracy_test).
Finding: with the historical surface bases (fills and texels stored as
k*255/31, everything else as k*8) single-layer blends are off by one 5-bit
step in places (1312 of the test's checked pixels, e.g. B+F/4 over a fill).
[video] accurate_blending = true stores every VRAM write as k*8 so GL's
8-bit blend truncated by the readback is exactly the PS1 arithmetic; whites
of fills/texels then present as 248 like uploads already do. Default off.
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Filter mode 3 magnifies textures with an edge-directed rule after Hyllian's
xBR (written from the published description, no code reused): for the
texel corner nearest a sample, weighted YUV colour distances over a 5x5
neighbourhood decide whether an edge runs along the corner's diagonal; if
so the corner is cut with an anti-aliased boundary and takes the closer
side neighbour. Flat areas, straight edges, gradients, cutouts and 1:1 draws
stay nearest. Selectable from [video] texture_filtering, settings.toml,
PSX_TEXTURE_FILTER and the new texture_filter TCP command. Default unchanged.
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Enhancement arenas (GPU DMA aperture, Expansion-1 mod memory) were untracked, so Crash widescreen drew every vertex native with no depth. Adds depth stats/clear causes to pgxp, depth to pgxp_tri_ring, input_route_start at_frame, integer number keys in game.toml.
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[video] fmv_chroma_smoothing = true makes the OpenGL present of a 24-bit
(MDEC) frame keep each sample's luma and take its chroma from a [1 2 1]
tent over the 3x3 source pixels, hiding the 2x2 colour blocks of 4:2:0
video without softening luma. Pairs with the existing fmv_filter upscale.
Guest VRAM/MDEC output untouched; 15-bit presents and the default unchanged.
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[video] texture_lod = "mipmap" emulates mip levels for PS1 texture pages,
which are decoded per fetch from VRAM and so have no GL mip chain: the
screen-space UV footprint of a minified, proven-3D primitive is box-averaged
(opaque texels of the fragment's STP class only), and anisotropic_filtering
(1..16) spreads that many taps along the footprint's major axis. Every tap
clamps to the primitive's UV bounds or texture window, so packed atlases
never bleed. The mode rides in the textured batch's filter key; off (the
default), sprites/HUD and magnified textures are unchanged.
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dynamic_resolution_min = "display" (game.toml, settings.toml,
PSX_DYNRES_MIN) floors the controller at the selected internal resolution
without the supersample factor, so with supersample > 1 it only trades
supersampling and never renders below the output. psx_dynres_floor_scale
in internal_resolution.h, tested in test_internal_resolution. OpenBIOS
emitter stamp regenerated (config_loader changed).
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[video] antialiasing_mode = "off" | "fxaa" | "fxaa_hq" (PSX_AA_MODE)
filters the composed game image after the game quad and before hold-last
capture, OSD and swap; guest VRAM, readbacks and the Smooth motion /
frame generation sources are untouched. Off (default) never runs the pass
and is byte-identical to master.
[video] supersample = 1.0..4.0 (PSX_SUPERSAMPLE) multiplies the internal-
resolution target (Match display or a line preset), so the existing area
resolve does ordered-grid SSAA; dynamic resolution takes it as its ceiling.
Debug server: post_aa reads/sets the mode live. Real-GL fixture
gl_post_aa_test; supersample checks in test_internal_resolution.
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[video] frame_generation_method = "redraw" (default) | "reprojection",
PSX_FRAME_GEN_METHOD overrides; replaces frame_generation_redraw.
- Redraw runs and allocates nothing of reprojection: no snapshots, depth
image, programs, HUD matching; the cost-spike clamp and the dynamic
resolution load formula apply to reprojection only. Switching to redraw
or turning Smooth motion off frees what reprojection held.
- Uniform locations and PSX_RP_DEBUG/PSX_RP_NOPREV are read once with the
programs.
- Each method gets its own breaker settings, set again on a switch;
frame_gen_hold takes a kind (step down / over budget), not a string.
- The warp's depth is cleared before the cars are drawn (PGXP depth tested
them LEQUAL against it).
- The warp restores the renderer's texture bindings on units 1 and 2 and
never leaves a sampler on texture 0.
- gl_frame_gen_test: redraw asserts nothing of reprojection ran or was
allocated (its phase 0.5 digest matches master's); reprojection runs
check the warp's pixels on a parallax pan (vs the redraw of the pair, no
holes, HUD exact), real frames unchanged, and no warp depth with PGXP.
- FRAME_GENERATION.md: the key, the default, reprojection and its
R4-tuned object rules.
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Each in-between frame warps the newer real frame's finished image by the
in-between camera instead of drawing the scene again:
- per game frame: a snapshot of the list's finished image (taken when the
list closes; R4 flips to a buffer before drawing into it, so the live
surface is not a stable source) and a 2x native image of camera 1/z,
pixel kind and view rasterized from the recorded triangles in painter
order (world / car-or-dome / 2D-HUD-small-view);
- per in-between frame: one grid draw (a vertex per native pixel) that
unprojects world pixels with their depth, moves them by the view's
in-between camera (fg_view_affine) and samples the snapshot at full
resolution, nearest wins; cells over depth edges or non-world pixels are
left to the snapshot underneath; 2D/HUD pixels are put back; cars are
drawn again at their own in-between position.
Measured: ~0.3-0.8 ms CPU and ~0.3-2 ms GPU per in-between frame (was 2-4
ms each), A/G/B max out-of-range 0.3-3 %, worst ratio 1.1-1.5.
[video] frame_generation_redraw / PSX_FRAME_GEN_REDRAW=1 keeps the old path.
Planner/holds: dynres 'over budget' no longer stops cheap reprojected
frames; guest-late trips ignored while they are cheap; allocation and
shader compilation are kept out of the cost estimate. frame_gen JSON:
rp_ms, rp_zn, reprojected, np (why a flip planned none); debug buffer 4 KiB.
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[video] pgxp_seam = "off" | "fine" | "wide" (default off; PSX_PGXP_SEAM,
PSX_PGXP_SEAM_PX). Above 1x, a vertex that sits on a neighbour's edge only to
the PS1's precision leaves a hairline crack. Opaque 3D triangles move each
edge outward (mitred, limited at sharp corners): fine = 1 output px, wide =
half a native px; UVs, colour, q and SZ extrapolate with the barycentric
coordinates of the new corners so textures do not slide.
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[video] pgxp_color_correction (default off; PSX_PGXP_COLOR overrides). Gouraud
colour on PGXP 3D triangles interpolates with 1/SZ; textured triangles with
perspective UVs share their w. The flag rides in the per-vertex PGXP code the
depth buffer already carries (sz + 65536).
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[video] pgxp_depth_buffer (default off; PSX_PGXP_DEPTH overrides) and
pgxp_depth_threshold. gpu.c hands the GL backend each triangle's GTE SZ when
all three vertices are dataflow-precise (gr_set_depth_triangle); the backend
draws those opaque triangles with a LEQUAL depth test and write. 2D,
unproven, semi-transparent polygons, lines and rectangles never test or
write. Depth mode is a batch key and rides in every high-resolution-window,
native-wide and render-thread replay command. Clears are colourless
depth-only draws through the flat batch: after a drawing-area change or a
fill, and when the average SZ rises by the threshold (4096, as DuckStation).
Generated (Smooth motion) frames draw without depth.
Docs: ENHANCEMENTS.md G1.14.
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- settings.toml parses [video] vsync = "vrr" and a launcher save writes it
back as "vrr" (was dropped / saved as "on"); every mode round-trips in
video_enhancement_settings_test.
- fg_slots counts the display intervals the clock (fg_clock_phase) fills,
with the same 0.985 phase limit. fg_plan_hz and the dynamic resolution
share use it: 59.94 Hz content on a 60 Hz panel (2.002 intervals) plans
and budgets one in-between frame, as shown, not two.
- The real share read on the emulation thread uses atomics: s_fg_flip_vb,
s_fg_swap_ema and a published copy of the generated-frame cost estimate.
- fg_hud_lerp accepts a match at the 8th 2D triangle of the window.
- docs/FRAME_GENERATION.md: the plan's slots and the vrr mode.
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Variable refresh (G-Sync/FreeSync, ProMotion): present each frame when it is
ready (swap interval 0). Smooth motion targets the panel's maximum refresh at
the current size (psx_sdl_display_max_refresh) and never exceeds it.
PSX_HOST_REFRESH_HZ / PSX_HOST_REFRESH_MAX_HZ simulate a display for headless
tests.
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Reject negative and >32-bit addr/value/size/mask in guest_cycle_scale_gate
and out-of-range guest_cycle_scale instead of wrapping or clamping; add
regression cases. Regenerate the OpenBIOS emitter stamp.
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Review of #561. Guest time now has two entry points (psx_cycles.h): the
CPU charge psx_cpu_charge() (instruction base, load fudge/region/completion,
i-cache refills, BIOS HLE costs), which applies [timing] guest_cycle_scale,
and the unscaled device advance psx_advance_cycles() (DMA, idle skips,
mul/div and GTE deadline waits). The emitters' block-mode charges emit
psx_cpu_charge; overlay DLLs accumulate it raw and publish through the
cpu_charge callback (was advance_cycles, same slot) into the same host
function, so nothing is scaled at the DLL boundary. The batched
psx_cyc_charge path, the dirty-RAM interpreter, psx_cyc_readmem, i-cache
refills and bios_hle.c all charge through it. At scale 1 it is exactly
psx_advance_cycles.
Gate in psxrecomp: [timing] guest_cycle_scale_gate, RAM predicates judged
at every VBlank edge (deterministic, works online, no mod needed), plus
psx_mod_set_guest_cycle_scale_gate() in mod_plugins.h for custom logic or
to tie the scale to a mod (guest_cycle_scale_gated = true; every mod
session reset shuts it). The carried fraction and both gate states are a
boot_state section (BS_SEC_GCS, written only when the scale is not 1), so
savestates and the netplay rollback snapshot re-simulate the same cycles.
psx_guest_cycle_scale_gate_test pins tier identity, the gates and rollback
re-simulation against the real psx_cycles.c.
OpenBIOS regenerated (emitter stamp); retail SCPH1001 is not.
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No CPU is emulated: recompiled code charges the guest clock a fixed cost
per instruction. guest_cycle_scale = N charges 1/N of it (instruction,
load, mul/div, GTE latencies, overlay DLL batches) while VBlank, timers,
CD, SPU and DMA keep hardware time, so the game never runs out of frame
time. A title constant in game.toml (1 = faithful, 1..64), never a player
setting; guest_cycle_scale_gated applies it only while the title's mod
opens the gate (psx_guest_cycle_scale_gate_open). PSX_GUEST_CYCLE_SCALE
overrides for testing. A scale other than 1 is folded into the netplay
content fingerprint as a safety net.
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Matthew Stanley