Synchronise the controller status more spread out inside a rendered frame:

* before rendering a background;
* before rendering sprites;
* while rendering more than 128 samples of audio at once ("Prefer fluid video");
* after every 16 scanlines of CPU execution instead of every 1;
* while waiting for an audio buffer to become available;
* while killing time between frames with fast-forward disabled.

Controller presses and releases are now combined in a DS button bitfield using a shorter 32-bit algorithm. See entry.cpp:NDSSFCAccumulateJoypad and #define ACCUMULATE_JOYPAD in the source.

This is still not suitable for playing platformers frame-perfectly, but it's much better than half a second of latency to press or release a button, and one still needs to press buttons a bit more than just light taps. I'd say 50 milliseconds is the latency now. Platformers requiring more precision can be played with frameskip 0.

DMA does not require double-buffered displaying, so synchronise the controller more often by disabling double-buffered displaying again.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/source/nds/gui.h b/source/nds/gui.h
index 9df2ad2..b2eae62 100644
--- a/source/nds/gui.h
+++ b/source/nds/gui.h
@@ -24,11 +24,7 @@
 #include "fs_api.h"
 #include "gcheat.h"
 
-#ifdef DS2_DMA
-#define UP_SCREEN_UPDATE_METHOD   1
-#else
 #define UP_SCREEN_UPDATE_METHOD   0
-#endif
 #define DOWN_SCREEN_UPDATE_METHOD 2
 
 #define MAX_GAMEPAD_MAP 16