In addition to work towards reenabling the missing Stella features, this release contains a number of bugfixes. Also, starting from this release, the old core is gone. In particular, the following items have changed or improved compared to 5.0.0-pre1:
- RESMP matches real hardware fo 16 and 32 pixel players
- Starfield includes an effective description of modulation effects seen on real hardware (players not included for now)
- Frame and TV mode detection are improved, fixes multiple glitched ROMs
- Exception in Yar's revenge is fixed
- Keyboard controllers et. al. now work
- Delay for REFP[01] --- fixes Strawberry Shortcake
- Sprite positioning during extenden hblank has been adjusted. This fixes glitches in numerous games. (WARNING potential regressions ahead)