H-blank DMA should only transfer 16 bytes per h-blank, rather than
waiting for the first h-blank and then transferring the whole size.
HDMAC should read 0xff when the transfer is finished, and 0 in the
high bit when the transfer is ongoing. Also, if 0 is written in the
high bit, the current transfer should be aborted.
Introduce two flags, DMAREADY and DMAHBLANK rather than special
constants 1 and -1. If dma is non-zero, there is an ongoing DMA. If
DMAREADY is set, the next chunk is ready to transfer.
Reference: https://gbdev.io/pandocs/#ff55-hdma5-cgb-mode-only-new-dma-length-mode-start
Tested with pokemon crystal.
What was happening is that when the game was loading N background tiles
into vram (each 16 bytes, so one per h-blank), it did something like
this:
- start an hdma transfer for N+1 tiles
- after the Nth tile is transferred, it would read HDMA5, clear the
high bit, then write it back to abort the transfer.
games/gb would instead transfer all N+1 tiles at once, overwriting one
extra tile with whatever was 1 past the end of the source array, and
then would interpret the cancel request as the start of a new transfer
of 16 bytes, which would copy an additional tile past the end. The end
result is that every transfer would end up copying N+2 tiles instead
of just N, overwriting certain tiles with whatever was after the end
of the source data.
According to [0], input clock 0 should divide by 1024=2¹⁰, not 2¹².
This caused audio to run at quarter-speed in one game I tried.
[0] https://gbdev.io/pandocs/#ff07-tac-timer-control-r-w
Tested with zelda: oracle of seasons, and dr. mario
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