VBDE 1.2.1 and VUEngine 5.1 released

Here is the brand new version 1.2.1 of VBDE, your all-in-one portable Virtual Boy development environment, including the new version 5.1 of the VUEngine.

• VBDE 1.2.1 (32 MB)
• VBDE Pro 1.2.1 (247 MB)

VBDE Changelog

• [Pro] Updated IDEA to 2017.1
• Condensed toolbar
• [Pro] New toolbar button icons
• [Pro] Made compiler output clickable
• Bugfix: default makefile caused build folder to be nested into itself recursively
• Bugfix: libgccvb projects were not setting up the column table and thus not ran on hardware
• Rewrote batch files so that images and stages no longer have to reside in assets/images/ and assets/stages/, but can be anywhere under the project root
• Extended conversion tools to support VUEngine’s new “__ANIMATED_SINGLE_OPTIMIZED” animation type
• Updated Mednafen to 0.9.43
• New launcher by thunderstruck
• Updated VUEngine as well as its Barebone and Platformer Demo to v5.1

VUEngine Changelog

• Added the ability to have multiple collision shapes per Entity
• Major refactor and simplification of predefined in-game Entities to a modular system
• Added new animation scheme “__ANIMATED_SINGLE_OPTIMIZED”
• Support for multiplexed interrupts
• New PRNG
• Added new ReflectiveEntity, which can do real-time reflections of other Entities
• Added PostProcessingEffects array to the Stage definition
• Added support to modify the printing World’s position and size
• Added support to modify the Screen’s camera frustum
• Added memory map check to alert on DRAM overflows
• Fixed support for 25 FPS
• Added new “beta” build mode
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements