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News & Communication / MAME 0.138u1

« on: 27 May 2010, 10:32 »

[ff] MAMEDev.org

0.138u1 whatsnew :
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 00948: [Graphics] batsugun: The ending and credits text is in gibberish
language. (David Haywood)
- 03832: [Sound] monymony, jackrabt: Missing speech (couriersud)
- 00946: [Graphics] batsugun, batsuguna, batsugunsp: Some graphics garbage
at level one start and first boss. (David Haywood)
- 03445: [Crash/Freeze] znpwfv: Segmentation Fault (Angelo Salese)
- 02642: [Crash/Freeze] myfairld: [possible] Black screen in Virtual
Mahjong 2 MFL (Angelo Salese)
- 01009: [Crash/Freeze] grdforce: Test mode doesn't work. (Angelo Salese)
- 03710: [Crash/Freeze] sokyugrt: Game crash after player select
(Angelo Salese)
- 02567: [Color/Palette] All Sets in zaccaria.c: Minor color issues (hap)
- 00799: [Graphics] monymony: Sprite priority is incorrect when the player
is pulled underwater. (hap)
- 03474: [Sound] wilytowr: Background music is very low. (hap)
- 03853: [Graphics] ssriders and clones: Sprites stuck error. (hap)
- 03817: [Graphics] popflame + clones: Color regression (Angelo Salese)
- 03816: [Crash/Freeze] popflame: The game resets after the third round.
(Angelo Salese)
- 03852: [Gameplay] 20pacgal, 20pacgala: Severe slowdown after initials
are entered. (couriersud)
- 03476: [Crash/Freeze] quartet, quarteta, dumpmtmt: Games do not start.
(Alex Jackson)

Source Changes
--------------
Remove all references to the nonexistent "premov" instruction from the
NEC-V core. [Alex Jackson]

Corrected stack walk by using UNICODE_POSTFIX. Fixed some incorrect
function declarations in winmain.c. [Oliver Stoneberg]

cps2: Made ssf2t a parent set [Alex Jackson]

New driver: sigmab98.c [Luca Elia]

astrocorp.c: Added PCB layout for Astro M1.1 & M1.2 PCBs [Brian Troha]

Documented an energy bar debug switch in aladbl, disabled by default
[Angelo Salese]

Fixed crashes when you fall into pitfalls in aladbl [Angelo Salese]

Improved Z180 timer and HALT processing. This fixes MT03852.
[Couriersud]

Konami devices: Fixed sprite Z code rejection regression [hap]

Basic hook-ups of the Nintendo Super System BIOS [Angelo Salese]

namcos2: Optimized pixmap rotation, improving performance of Assault
and other games that use it [Bryan Ischo]

tecmo.c: Included Rygar PCB documentation [Guru]

Documented and worked around a long standing level 3 protection fault
in Pop Flamer [Angelo Salese]

Rewritten palette initialization in Naughty Boy HW by using the RESNET
[Angelo Salese]

Rewrote Z180 cycle accounting to create a basis for more exact
internal I/O and timer operations as well as implementing interrupt
priorities. Removed unused BIG_SWITCH code as well. [Couriersud]

MPU4 Updates [James Wallace]:
* Added trackball support
* Fixed quiz game controls
* Restructured AWP games' characteriser handling

Added photo y2k2 decryption table [iq132]

Improved Z180 interrupt and timer handling. Added some missing save
state entries and fixed HALT. [Couriersud]

Rewrote rom/ram banking. 20pacgal now supports save state.
[Couriersud]

Added DIP LOCATIONS to Pengo, Jr. Pac-Man and clones. [Tafoid]

zaccaria.c: Improved sprite drawing, added DIP locations [hap]

Ported Super Famicom Box from MESS to MAME [Angelo Salese]

Modified the naomi clipping a bit to avoid so many black lines
at the bottom [David Haywood]

New Super 3D Golf Simulation - Waialae No Kiseki / Super Mahjong 2
(Super Famicom Box) [Angelo Salese]

Removed Groove on Fight boot hack, not anymore needed [Angelo Salese]

Added x/y boundary checking to ST-V bitmaps [Angelo Salese]

atarigx2.c: More rom name corrections as verified against a Moto
Frenzy Mini Deluxe PCB. Added ROM for the "Clarn" game link sub PCB.
[Charles MacDonald, P. Sealy, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]

Added lfsr-driven starfield to 20pacgal. The general principle is
understood now but star set selection and the star drawing condition
are guesses. [Couriersud]

Moved global and static variables in driver galaga into a machine
class. Renamed some variables, e.g. galaga_videoram and bosco_videoram
to just videoram. [Couriersud]

Added new DECO Cassette bios set and updated rom names/locations/types
to be more accurate. [Lord Nightmare, The Dumping Union]

micro3d.c : Added some PLD dumps to botssa [Phil Bennett, Smitdogg]

Removed unneeded danchih title screen hack [Angelo Salese]

Reverified TMS5200 clock and measured Vsync clocks from Zaccaria
hardware [Corrado Tomaselli]

Added debug_global_input_code_pressed_once() function to input.c
[Angelo Salese]

Added a readyq callback to the TMS5220 interface. This is needed to
solve MT #3832. In zaccaria games, the intq and readyq are connected
to pia 6821 lines ca2 and cb1 which are edge driven. Just reading
readyq would miss to detect a state change if between reads readyq
went 0-1-0. Updated zaccaria.c and looping.c. Fixes MT #3832.
[Couriersud]

Reworked rendering in toaplan2 to render tilemaps / sprites in a
single pass, should be more accurate to hardware. Note, this further
breaks the mixing in Batsugun and Dogyuun because the previous hacks
can no longer work with the new rendering code. These games have been
demoted to NOT_WORKING status until a better solution is found; they
never worked properly anyway due to the extent of the video hacks
needed to support them [David Haywood]

documentation: Cleaned up company names [hap]

Added NSC800 CPU emulation to the Z80 core [Sandro Ronco]

Updated Legendary Wings with actual PCB speed readings.
[Corrado Tomaselli]

Update decocass comments/bios names with more info from D.Widel's
page. [Lord Nightmare, David Widel]

toaplan2: fixed sprite-sprite priorities in batsugun and dogyuun
[robiza]

Added bare-bones work around for the Network board in Super GT 24h and
Over Rev, they now enters into attract mode [Angelo Salese]

Revision 9295 by rbelmont
SDL: fix compilation for GTK+ 2.20 and later [R. Belmont, Wingman]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
GeGeGe no Kitarou Youkai Slot
[A. Hoekman, ranger_lennier, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union, Luca Elia]
Video Carnival / Super Royal Card [f205v, Angelo Salese]
Mouse Attack [Phil Bennett, Smitdogg]
Super Game III [Mariusz Wojcieszek, Guru]

New clones added
----------------
Golden Tee 2K (v1.00) (alt protection) [Guru, Brian Troha]
1943 (Euro) [Stefan Lindberg]
Fantasy Zone (NEC 0317-5000 encrypted Z80)
[Cools, Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Asia 960910) [ANY, The Dumping Union]
X Multiply (Japan, M81) [hap, porchy]
The Crystal Maze (2 sets) [James Wallace]
The Crystsl Maze Team Challenge (2 sets) [James Wallace]
The New Crystal Maze Featuring Ocean Zone (2 sets) [James Wallace]
Road Riot's Revenge (prototype, set 3) [Siftware]
Indoor Soccer (set 2) [Siftware]
Ms. Pacman Champion Edition / Zola-Puc Gal
[Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
Heavyweight Champ (Japan, FD1094) [Team Japump, Dumping Union]
Super Draw Poker (bootleg) [f205v]
Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga - 20 Year Reunion (2 sets)
[Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Win Win Bingo (2 sets) [f205v, Filippo Tarderia]
Zoo [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
X Five Jokers [f205v]
Magic Number (Italian Gambling Game) [f205v]
Magic Class [f205v]
Abacus [f205v]
Euro Class [f205v]
Book Theatre [f205v]
Super Famicom Box BIOS [Angelo Salese]

182

News & Communication / Time for MAME 0.138

« on: 15 May 2010, 20:41 »

0.138 wuatsnew:
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03683: [Crash/Freeze] topgunnr: Crashes MAME after INSERT COIN/GAME
START (hap)
- 02878: [Speed] simpsons and clones: Vertical refresh rate (hap)
- 03273: [Original Reference] brubber, bnj, caractn: Incorrect screen
resolution for Burnin' Rubber and clones (hap)
- 03492: [Crash/Freeze] hunchbkg: Does not boot (couriersud)
- 03657: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in maxaflex.c: Random crashes
(Firewave)
- 03765: [Crash/Freeze] qdrmfgp2: ASSERT after OK (hap)
- 03823: [Color/Palette] pc_miket: Bad colours (Alex Jackson)
- 03047: [Graphics] elevator, elevatorb: Some graphics on the
escalators shift when you ride on them (hap)
- 03628: [Graphics] alpine: Red point on the title screen (M.A.S.H.)
- 03033: [Graphics] vendetta: Sprite priority problem in the 3rd
stage (hap)
- 03647: [Graphics] All games in vendetta.c: Graphical error in the
intro scene of the game. (hap)
- 03834: [Sound] qtheater: No sound (hap)
- 03830: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in harddriv.c: Message: Duplicate
save state registration entry (DSP32C/dsp32/0/cpustate->pin)
(Tafoid)
- 00390: [DIP/Input] spaceftr: does not allow you to turn to the
right. (hap)

Source Changes
--------------
New Lucky 8 Lines hardware: [Roberto Fresca]
* Added lamps support to lucky8, lucky8a, lucky8b, ns8liner, ns8linew
and kkojnoli.
* Created lamps layout for the above sets.
* New inputs for ns8linew. This set has a second set of inputs, and
can be switched between them. No lamps activity or Big/Small
buttons are present while this alternative controls are used.
Maybe is a leftover.
* Some DIP switches were figured out. Coinage and limits are still a
real mystery since all DIP switches are reflected in the test
mode.
* Remapped inputs to be straightforward with the control panel.
* Added the type (W-4/F-5) to the sets description.
* General inputs clean-up.

suna8.c: Updated documentation for Strike Fighter to include the game
number, PCB number and epoxy CPU [Fabrizio Vasile]

Jaguar: fixed RGB VARMOD mode [Angelo Salese]

namcops2: add DVD image for taiko10 [Guru]

Added DIP Locations for all games in the jack.c driver. Changed
copyright on joinem to match displayed year. [Tafoid]

More cleanup of the lpc tables; Replaced tms5220C pitch table with the
tms5220 one as that one is more likely to be correct. [Lord Nightmare]

Add 'Unrealistically Perfect Interpolation' debug mode; Fix a
potential issue with 16 bit overflow in the lattice filter; Made idle
state emulation more accurate to real chip; Clean out variables before
VSM speech starts; Mask out low 4 bits of 14 bit lattice result before
output. [Lord Nightmare]

Fix a mistake in the interpolation logic, it should now properly delay
interpolation until the final cycle of each frame when INHIBIT is set.
[Lord Nightmare]

tms5220: Remove unnecessary interpolation code; Add extra check to
make unvoiced mode trigger at the correct sample. [Lord Nightmare]

Fixed up tms52xx clip/wrap function arrangement to be much more sane,
and properly handled range extension. [Lord Nightmare]

Made tms5220 DEBUG_GENERATION more useful and simplified the code in
the process. [Lord Nightmare]

lib/util/cdrom.c: Fixed stack corruption in CHD code
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

Implemented default EEPROMs for GTIClub, Hang Pilot, Asterix, X-Men
and Polygonet Commanders [David Haywood]

Fixed the texture ROM loading/order in Wave Shark. Textures look
better now, and the ROM check passes [David Haywood]

Fix for Target Hits missing sound. [Tafoid]

fspiderb: Added projectiles, game is playable now [hap]

General cleanup of PGM code [David Haywood]

Removed ROM Patch in Killing Blade and replaced with correct IGS025
return sequence fo China region (other sequences still unknown)
[XingXing]

pengadvb: Improved inputs, the game can now be coined up. It magically
has sound too now. [hap]

S2650_SENSE_PORT is now active when data written is != 0 and inactive
when data == 0. It now acts as a line in a mame-sense. [Couriersud]

btime: Background vertical offset was off by one pixel, burger parts
positions are correct now. This also means Peter Pepper awkwardly
walks in the air, which is the way it is on the PCB. [hap]

fixed ROM names of tp84a (tp84 needs confirmation) [Team Japump]

Fixed hunchbkg ports. [Couriersud]

sprtmtch: Added Intermissions dipswitch [David Bain]

Fixed coinage of desertbr [yasuhiro]

Fixed ROM labels for Pac-Land, Scramble Egg, and Straight Flush
[Team Japump]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
New Lucky 8 Lines / New Super 8 Lines (F-5, Witch Bonus)
[Roberto Fresca, incog, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
International Team Laser (prototype)
[ranger_lennier, genieta1, J. Ferneborg, Smitdogg, italie,
David Haywood, The Dumping Union]

New clones added
----------------
Desert Breaker (Japan) [Team Japump, Dumping Union]
Youma Ninpouchou (Japan, alt) [Takahiro Nogi]
Armed F (Japan) [Takahiro Nogi]
Champion Baseball II (Japan, not working) [Takahiro Nogi]
Wing War (Japan) [Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
Street Fighter EX 2 (HISPANIC 980312)
[Layne, J. Bijl, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Giga Wing (Hispanic 990222)
[dopefishjustin, A. Hoekman, Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Hispanic 980629)
[dopefishjustin, Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
Eco Fighters (Hispanic 931203)
[Kevin Eshbach, wild eyed, Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
X-Men: Children of the Atom (Hispanic 950105)
[ranger_lennier, tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Hispanic 940113)
[Kevin Eshbach, Layne, Gor, blokey, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Pac-land (Japan, older) [Team Japump]
Photo Y2K (ver. 105) [XingXing]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Taiko no Tatsujin 10 (T101001-NA-A) [Guru]
Dragon World 3 EX (ver. 100) [Guru]
Dragon World 2001 [Guru]
Royal Queen
[Hikari, Spyder, S. S. Neilson, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Chance Kun [ranger_lennier, incog, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Photo Y2K 2 [Guru]

183

News & Communication / MAME 0.137u4

« on: 05 May 2010, 10:07 »

MAME 0.137u4 whatsnew:
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03684: [Graphics] skyarmy: [possible] Screen Offset issue (hap)
- 03736: [Graphics] scontra, scontraj: Super Contra main character
shadows (hap)
- 03102: [Side-by-side] finalizr: The "lives" statusbar is shown at
bottom of the screen in MAME and on the PCB it's on the top (hap)
- 03822: [Speed] lwings and clones: Gameplay slows during game (Tafoid)
- 03818: [Crash/Freeze] mightybj, vsgshoe: Grey Screen (Not booting)
(Andrew Jackson)

Source Changes
--------------

Replaced TMS5200 table with table extracted using PROMOUT from actual
chip. monymony sounds much better. [Lord Nightmare]

Improvements to Treasure Bonus (Subsino) [Roberto Fresca]
* Reworked and cleaned-up the inputs. Most buttons have more than one
single function.
* Added DIP locations.
* Figured out the following DIP Switches: Complete Coinage
(1/2/5/10/20/25/50/100). Remote Credits (1/2/5/10/20/25/50/100).
Minimum Bet (1/8/16/32). Max Bet (16/32/64/80). Demo Sounds
(Off/On). Game Limit (10000/20000/30000/60000). Double-Up
(No/Yes). Win Rate (84/86/88/90/92/94/96%). Double-Up Level
(0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7). Double-Up Game (Dancers / Panties Colors /
Cards / Seven-Bingo).
* Fixed inverted functions and buggy inputs.
* Added lamps support.
* Created button-lamps layout.
* Remapped inputs to reflect the controls layout. This way is more
user-friendly since controls are straight with button-lamps.
* Added coin/keyin/keyout/payout counters.
* Removed the pulse limitation in the BET input. This allow it to
work as BET and STOP2 properly.
* Added technical notes.

Status Fun Casino improvements: [Roberto Fresca]
* Reworked inputs to match the standard.
* Lowered the CPU clock to get it working properly.
* Added technical notes.

Output Cleanup/Hookup (Part 2) [Howard Casto]:
* segas32.c: Hooked up all digital outputs for all games (radm,
alien3, radr, f1en, arescue, f1lap, jpark, slipstrm, orunners,
harddunk, scross, titlef) Emulation needs to progress more on the
analog output data before those outputs can be hooked up.
* audio\mw8080bw.c: Changed output name for desertgn to something
more descriptive (Player1_Gun_Recoil)
* bbusters.c: Added new output handling functions and hooked up
outputs for bbusters and mechatt
* opwolf3.c: Added gun outputs for opwolf3 (man that game is
terrible)
* machine\williams.c: Fixed existing outputs in tshoot (they needed
inverted) and hooked up the rest, including the feather blower.
:-D
* gunbustr.c: Hooked up all outputs for gunbstr
* namcos12.c: Hooked up outputs for all system 11 gun games
(ptblank2, ghlpanic, tenkomor)
* segaybd.c: Hooked up all digital outputs (gloc, glocr360, gforce2,
pdrift, rchase, strkfghtr), also hooked up motor/analog outputs
for Power Drift and G-Loc/ Strike Fighter The remaining games with
motors could be hooked up as well assuming emulation can progress
enough to get past the error messages.
* namcos2.c: Hooked up gun recoils for golly ghost. Also noted that
the outputs for the remaining gun games are also in that area.
Someone who can find the offsets should be able to hook them up.
* segas18.c: Hooked up gun recoils for lghost.
* taito_z.c: Hooked up outputs for spacegun and made a few prototype
functions to help in hooking up the remaining games. Someone familiar
with the driver should take a look. I hooked up a few, but they don't
work like they should according to the comments.

toutrun.c: corrected dipswitches in the most recently added Turbo Out
Run set, and reorganized the sets so that the parent is the FD1094
317-0118 set, the "newest" set based on both EPROM and security chip
part numbers. [Andrew Jackson]

Fix two VS2008 warnings (namcos23.c and rdpfb.c) [Oliver Stoneberg]

Remove some stray invalid code in start_profiler() [Oliver Stoneberg]

Have srcclean add missing newlines to end of .c files [Atari Ace]

Fix the memory leaks with the strconv.c function by using osd_malloc()
instead. Fixed other memory leaks as well. [Oliver Stoneberg]

"Replaced" TMS5220 table with table extracted using PROMOUT from
actual chip. By 'Replaced', I mean documented, as the actual extracted
table exactly matched the table already in MAME. Changed TMS5220C to
use the same energy table as 5220 does, since my previous assumption
based on the Quadravox tables was probably wrong. Updated the ranout
condition code of tms5220.c to be slightly more accurate to the chip,
and added TODOs. Re-enabled the timers for deactivating the READY line
on /WS or /RS as this is probably slightly more accurate to hardware,
but the difference is 2 or 3 clock cycles max. [Lord Nightmare]

Fixed linking of chdman.exe and romcmp.exe with Visual Studio.
[Oliver Stoneberg]

Fixed incorrect DSK ROM size, shuffled around some ROM mapping, added
new ROMs that were incorrectly assumed to be identical to than
racedriv. The previously bad ROM checksums are now correct. Now the
watchdog resets it instead of getting an address error. [Luigi30]

Added a screen layout for Space Stranger based on photos [M.A.S.H]

Added redumped sound ROM to Vs. Net Soccer (vsnetscr) [Team Japump]

Disable many unused variables as identifed by cppcheck.
[Oliver Stoneberg]

Naomi: Added rounding to the GD-ROM DMA transfers, will be need for
Virtua Tennis to make it boot [Deunan Knute, Angelo Salese]

AICA updates: [PluginNinja]
* Implemented slot monitor
* Improved ADPCM looping
* General cleanup

SCSP updates [PluginNinja]
* Improved slot monitor function
* Various cleanups

namcos23: Varied stuff, isolate PIO, pcb test works on timecrs2c
[O. Galibert]

namcos23: Quick hack to make 500gp boot [O. Galibert]

namcos23: Increase the main ram size so that crszone goes into POST
[O. Galibert]

Implemented Sort-DMA irq firing [Angelo Salese]

Naomi: implemented Wave DMA HW trigger and added Wave DMA IRQ firing
[Angelo Salese]

Naomi: implemented PVR-DMA HW trigger [Angelo Salese]

Fix compile error when DEBUG_GENERATION is defined [Oliver Stoneberg]

cdrom: correct header length for form 2 raw sectors [R. Belmont]

namcos23: Mirror, mirror v2 [A. Giles, O. Galibert]

Naomi: implemented mahjong panel support [Angelo Salese]

TMS5220: Made /READY timing accurate to the real chip as best as
possible. Note that on the zaccaria games, possibly due to a bug in
the CA2 line handler of the PIA which reads the /READY state, speech
usually won't work until midway through the first game played, but
works fine afterward. Not sure if that's a MAME bug or an original
game bug. [Lord Nightmare]

Replaced the DEBUG_FRAME_DUMP define with a new DEBUG_PARSE_FRAME_DUMP
which produces binary listings of each frame parsed. [Lord Nightmare]

Added newer Area51: Site 4 BIOS. [Guru]

sega system16 and later: first pass in the conversion of video ICs to
be devices [David Haywood]

Fix swapped stereo in gauntlet and gauntlet 2. Thor (warrior)'s/red
player's coin slot is toward the left, and specific sounds for that
player (coin insert gong, death ditty, etc) should come from the left
speaker, not the right. Verified with schematics. TODO: merge gauntlet
audio into atarijsa.c since the gauntlet audio hardware is clearly the
direct ancestor of the Atari JSA-i audio board, and currently is
missing most of the chip specific volume controls, etc which are
already implemented in atarijsa.c. [Lord Nightmare]

Improved Killing Blade encrypted DMA mode 3 [XingXing, David Haywood]

vrender0.c: converted to be a device [Fabio Priuli]

crystal.c: added driver data class [Fabio Priuli]

Improved DMA modes 1+2 in killbld, allowing all DMA operations used by
the game to work and the RAM dump to be removed
[XingXing, David Haywood]

added save states to the following CPU: apexc, asap, avr8, cp1610,
dsp32 and f8 [Fabio Priuli]

Documentation improvements to the Sega Naomi HW games [f205v]

Added a protection RAM dump for Dragon World 3 [XingXing]

Added a delay to the GDROM DMA transfers, allows KOF Neowave to boot
[Angelo Salese]

Redumped one program rom in Killing Blade [XingXing, David Haywood]

Hook up the ym2151 reset bit to the sound cpu in gauntlet, and fixed
sound reset to properly reset all the sound chips and volume latches.
[Lord Nightmare]

Fix race condition involving tms52xx status register which broke
victory/victorba self test. Updated debug routines a bit, and improved
the non-NORMALMODE a bit. [Lord Nightmare]

Improvements to Pachifever driver [Tomasz Slanina, maruwa]
* replaced ic48.50 ROM with correct dump
* added correct MSM clock value
* added second SN76489A chip (used for sfx)
* updated hw notes

Cleaned up ranout (FIFO running out mid-frame) to be accurate to
hardware; Cleaned up talk status clearing to be more accurate to
hardware; Cleaned up parse_frame function significantly. Added some
more comments. [Lord Nightmare]

aristmk4: Hooked up the two AY8910s [Fr45h3r]

snes_snd: fix Linux 64-bit compile issues [R. Belmont]

Naomi: Improved the YUV FIFO IRQ firing, now it should be possible to
emulate the YUV decoding properly [Angelo Salese]

PGM: added support for newer bios ROM [XingXing]

Corrected mask ROM numbers for HOTD2 [f205v]

Fix ZPAR (zeroed k parameters 5-10) behavior for unvoiced frames.
Updated comments and debug functions. [Lord Nightmare]

Naomi: work-around for an int32 overflow bug in the renderer, makes
The House of the Dead 2 / The Typing of the Dead to not crash during
attract mode [Angelo Salese]

Naomi: improved Vblank-In irq timings [Angelo Salese]

Redid parameter interpolation and frame load logic so new frames don't
immediately force all the Energy/Pitch/K values to the values of the
old frame, but wait until their first interpolation to do so. This fix
improves speech quality considerably. [Lord Nightmare]

Naomi: implemented RTC start-up values [Angelo Salese]

astrocorp.c: Added PCB layout and board information for the Skill Drop
Georgia set [Brian Troha]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Klad / Labyrinth [Black1972]

New clones added
----------------
Dragon World 3 (ver.105) [XingXing]
Killing Blade (ver. 104) [XingXing, David Haywood]
Battle of the Solar System (rev. 1.1a 7/23/92)
[blib, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Thunder Edition)
[Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Polaris (Original version) [Siftware]
Seibu Cup Soccer :Selection: (bootleg, set 2) [Fabrizio Vasile]
Draw Poker Joker's Wild (02-11) (NOT WORKING) [Siftware]
Reel Fun (Version 7.03) [Siftware]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
War of the Bugs or Monsterous Manouvers in a Mushroom Maze (German)
[Irongiant]
Fighting Mania (918 xx B02) [f205v, The Dumping Union]
Frog & Spiders (bootleg) [Siftware]
House of the Dead 2 (original) [Wouter]
Time Crisis 3 (TST1) [Guru]

184

News & Communication / MAME 0.137u3

« on: 22 April 2010, 09:53 »

MAME 0.137u3 whatsnew
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03813: [Graphics] shadoww, shadowwa, gaiden, ryukendn, ryukendna:
Lost blending effect (David Haywood)
- 00803: [Color/Palette] All vsnes.c games: Colors are wrong.
- 00270: [Graphics] cstlevna, vsgradus, suprmrio, goonies: Black
startup screens are now gray.
- 00889: [Color/Palette] pc_smb: The colors of the characters, fire
flower, etc. on the top screen are wrong.
- 01097: [Color/Palette] cstlevna: Colors of the first enemies you
encounter are wrong.
- 02457: [DIP/Input] tkoboxng: Unable to coin/start game properly.

Source Changes
--------------
Fixed a bug with un-inited DMA regs in the SNES driver, fixes at least
a long-standing bug with nss_ssoc dimmed team selection screen
[Angelo Salese]

Added the Airline Pilot (USA) Naomi BIOS rom [The Dumping Union]

sauro, trckydoc, trckydoca (sauro.c) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)

ppu2c0x.c: Removed the bogus "color remap tables" in favor of external
palettes containing data reverse-engineered (several years ago) from
original hardware. Each vsnes set, as well as the playch10 bios, now
requires one of these palettes. [Alex Jackson]

vsnes.c improvements: [Alex Jackson]
* Moved RC2C05 PPU-based protection into the PPU itself, rather than
hacking it in at the driver level.
* After exhaustive testing, completely sorted out the "palette"
dipswitches (which are actually PPU type selection) on all games
that have them. Added notes about these games in the comments.
* Removed GAME_IMPERFECT_COLORS and GAME_WRONG_COLORS from all games,
as they should all be 100% correct now.
* Fixed coin inputs in tkoboxng. Removed IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS flag
since there's no legitimate reason I can see for it. Also, fixed
manufacturer and description to match the title screen.
* Added a bit more information about the missing sets in the
comments.

add partial 6840ptm readback support to exidy.c [Lord Nightmare]

Convert Atari System 1 to use the 'new' TMS5220 interface.
[Lord Nightmare]

Switch Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters to use the new
TMS5220 interface. [Lord Nightmare]

snes.c: Fixed clipmasks in hires modes [Fabio Priuli]

Fixed RTL opcode in-bank issue in the G65816 CPU core [Angelo Salese]

sm8500d.c: Fixed disassembly of extended instructions (1A, 1B, 4F).
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

lr35902.c: Fixed possible issue when checking for enabled irqs.
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

rf5c68.c: corrected the point at which the sample callbacks are
triggered, and what channel is returned. The interrupts are masked or
enabled based on what PCM memory bank is used, rather than the
physical channel that was used. [Barry Rodewald]

Converted Atari System 2 to use the 'new' TMS5220 interface. Switched
TMS5220 type to 5220C. [Lord Nightmare]

Further refining of the Atari JSA speech and audio modifications.
Hooked up the reset line for the ym2151. [Lord Nightmare]

inptport.c: fixed keyboard detection (mainly for MESS) [Fabio Priuli]

Hooked up correct proms, corrected gfx rom order and added bank select
/ enabled for the reels in Treasure Island (Subsino) [David Haywood]

updated Star Wars to use proper clocks for the tms5220 and the pokeys.
[Lord Nightmare]

MASSIVE merge of TMS5110 and TMS5220 cores, TMS5220 side only so far.
Much code by Jarek Burczynski merged. Lattice Filter, Multiplier, and
clipping redone. TMS5220C multi-rate feature added. Now using the same
LPC table file (and format, as created by couriersud) as the TMS51xx
is. Unvoiced-Voiced transitioning adjusted to match patent. Command
handling redone to better match patent. Reasonably significant speech
quality improvements: Separate tables for TMS5200, TMS5220 and
TMS5220C are implemented, though all still need to be verified from
hardware. Fixes: Garbled speech in Escape from the Planet of the Robot
Monster's Canal Mazes is fixed, as well as some other garbled speech
in game (when saying 'throwing switch' for instance). Known
Regressions (being worked on): Victory fails its startup self test
with an error 5, but speech works in-game. [Lord Nightmare]

Fixed victory self-test issue (FIFO must NOT be cleared on processing
of a STOP frame, only on a new speak external command. victory is
pedantic about this.), and in the process also fixed a bug regarding
reading /READY state when not in speak external mode (the FIFO being
full should NOT force /READY inactive in that case!) [Lord Nightmare]

Fixed various SNES SRAM issues [Fabio Priuli, Angelo Salese]

Fixed Wai Wai Jockey Gate-In title screen colors [Angelo Salese]

mk3ghw (aladbl.c driver + megadriv.c) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000
code) ssgbl (ssgbl.c driver + megadriv.c) [stephh] :
* Fixed stack vector so coins are now correctly handled (the game
shall be fully playable now)
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000
code)

Added makefile PPC64 autodetection [Julian Sikorski]

6840PTM: Fixed interrupt flag behaviour and now allow fractional input
clocks. [Phil Bennett]

6850ACIA: Improved handling of /CTS signal and fixed issue with
transmission parity generation. [Phil Bennett]

MPU4+Video updates: [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
* Fixed serial comms. As a result, most games actually boot now.
* Fixed colours.
* Fixed SAA1099 sound.
* Added Characteriser tables for all games (a complete implementation
is still needed for most games).

Supported the 1555 fb format in the Naomi driver, needed by Cleopatra
Fortune Plus [David Haywood]

Fixed ext latch behaviour in the SNES driver [Angelo Salese]

vmetal, vmetaln (vmetal.c driver) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000
code)

Fix 5220C pitch table so unvoiced speech actually works. Oops. Should
be a further quality improvement. [Lord Nightmare]

Tentative fix for tms5220 VSM support. [Lord Nightmsre]

F8 cpu disassembler improvements [Curt Coder]:
* fixed branch target PC
* added BP,BC,BZ,BR,BM,BNC,BNZ,BNO mnemonics
- removed extraneous $ from 2 byte hex values

Implemented various PVR TA registers hook-ups in the Naomi driver
[Angelo Salese]

mpu4drvr.c: Fixed 68000 device resets [Phil Bennett]

Naomi: Implemented more regs, test mode now properly sets 640x240
resolution. Implemented fb pixel double, Naomi test mode looks now
correct. [Angelo Salese]

i386dasm.c: Corrected display of debug registers (D0-D7) in
disassembly listings [Barry Rodewald]

video/nemesis.c: Removed palette gamma hack [Alex Jackson]

Subsino driver improvements: [Roberto Fresca]
* Added another Treasure Island set.
* Added technical notes about the CPU box.
* Minor clean-ups.
Revision 8866 by robertof

full schematics made from the real PCB connections. They include Hex
D-type flip-flops, Bipolar PROM, 3-STATE Octal D-Type latches and
resnet connections. [Roberto Fresca, Aleksandar Spasojevic]

Partly implemented 'stereo' gating (using ym2151 ctX lines) to POKEY
and TMS5220 on Atari JSA-i sound board. (currently it is just 'mono'
gating). Add TODOs for complete stereo gating and for the low-pass
filter. [Lord Nightmare]

Improvements to Funworld driver: [Roberto Fresca]
* Replaced the Fun World Quiz bad ROMs with good ones.
* Fixed the Fun World Quiz graphics and colors.
* Cleaned-up the flags for non working games.
* Modified the default lamps layout to include the bet lamp.
* Cleaned-up the Fun World Quiz inputs.
* Added 4 new Royal Card sets. Reworked parent/clone relationship.
(delete the old .cfg and .nv files to have them working properly).
* Splitted the Royal Card machine driver. This is needed to access
different halves of the bipolar PROM.
* Now principal Royal Card sets have a working bet button.
* Added default NVRAM to the new sets.

Improved video rendering in MPU4 [David Haywood]

Implemented 15/31 kHz selector in the Naomi driver, makes Strike
Fighter and Shootout Pool Prize to be bootable by the common user
[Angelo Salese]

Clean up interpolation inhibit logic, may sound slightly better now.
Minor fix to TMS5220C table so zero-energy frames are correctly
detected. [Lord Nightmare]

Added driver data class and save states to playmark.c, powerbal.c,
pushman.c and pzletime.c [Fabio Priuli]

Improvements to Shark Party (English, Alpha license): [Roberto Fresca]
* Created complete inputs from the scratch.
* Added coin/keyin/keyout counters.
* Added main game and double-up rates DIP switches.
* Added minimum bet DIP switches.
* Added maximum bet DIP switches.
* Added complete coinage and remote credits DIP switches.
* Added jokers and demo sounds DIP switches.
* Figured out and documented all the game outputs.
* Created proper button-lamps layout.
Now the game is in full-working state.

Added a RAM mirror that fixes The Typing of the Dead booting
[Angelo Salese]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Senko No Ronde Special (GDL-0038) [tormod, The Dumping Union]
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (GDL-0041) [Joerg Hartenberger]
Cleopatra Fortune Plus (GDL-0012) [Joerg Hartenberger]
Hammer [Guru, Smitdogg, Luca Elia, The Dumping Union]
Royal Card (4 new sets) [Roberto Fresca]
Treasure Bonus
[Team Europe, The Dumping Union, David Haywood, Angelo Salese]

New clones added
----------------
Iron Fortress (Japan) [F205V, The Dumping Union]
Super Shanghai 2005 (GDL-0031) [tormod, Gerald, The Dumping Union]
Megatouch IV Tournament Edition (9255-50-01 ROA, Standard version)
[Phil Bennett, MikeDX, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (UK 4 Players, set 2) [porchy]
Carnival (Head On hardware) [Andrew Welburn, Dumping Union] (2 sets)
Double Dragon (US Set 3) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Touchmaster 2000 (v4.00 Standard) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Phraze Craze (two sets) [D. Beneke, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Treasure Island (Subsino, set 2)
[Roberto Fresca, Team Europe, 9ofzeven]
Vs 10-Yard Fight (US, Taito license)
[ranger_lennier, W. Belk, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
10-Yard Fight '85 (US, Taito license)
[Kevin Eshbach, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Adders and Ladders [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Strike it Lucky [4 sets] [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Quiz Grid [4 sets] [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Eyes Down [2 sets] [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Blox [2 sets] [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Prize Space Invaders [2 sets] [Phil Bennett, David Haywood]
Sega Strike Fighter [f205v, The Dumping Union]
Derby Owner's Club (Ver. C) [f205v, The Dumping Union]
Kick '4' Cash [f205v, The Dumping Union]
Happy Tour
[Guru, jmurjr, JacKc, gingertom, Rene Single, Smitdogg,
The Dumping Union]

185

News & Communication / MAME 0.137u2

« on: 08 April 2010, 16:57 »

MAME 0.137u2 whatsnew :
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 02134: [Graphics] ffight2b: Graphics glitch (Angelo Salese)
- 03396: [Crash/Freeze] nss_aten: Game does not progress past initial
text screen (Angelo Salese)
- 03397: [DIP/Input] nss_skin: Input is completely non-working
(Angelo Salese)
- 03116: [Crash/Freeze] nss_actr: Emulation hangs up after hitting start.
(Angelo Salese)
- 03227: [Debugger] When setting A register in 8080 CPU, it sets F
register

Source Changes
--------------
Hooked up default NVRAM and fixed sample rom loading order in
Championship Bowling [David Haywood]

snes.c: greatly simplified tile drawing routines, fixed a couple of
small bugs in mosaic support, reworked debug functions to be detected
properly in all games [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: improved VRAM accesses (they're invalid during active display)
and DMA transfers (not all addresses can be accessed) [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: enabled PPU->CPU hdma transfer and moved hdma variables to
snes_state [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: updated HDMA to init/update according to Anomie's docs
[Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: First extremely rough 3D hookup [O. Galibert]

Changed the killing blade parent to the pgm bios. [smf]

namcos23: Add some lighting. [O. Galibert, Naibo]

namcos23: hooked up tilemap scroll, improved raster IRQ [R. Belmont]

snes.c: enforced abus validity check on dma reads, fixed possible tile
and vram out of bounds bugs [Fabio Priuli]

Replaced Stocker dump with a good set [Kevin Eshbach]

Hooked up default NVRAM for Golly Ghost / Bubble Trouble
[David Haywood]

namcos23: Add 3D model scaling [O. Galibert]

Heavily improved the slot 72 - poker game, it's now known to be
actually Poker Monarch. [Angelo Salese]

m680x0 FPU updates: [R. Belmont]
* BCD packed decimal now supported, including k-factor
* Improved FSAVE/FRESTORE including FPU reset when restoring a NULL
frame
* FREM instruction supported
* Better disassembly of FPU instructions

superfx.c: added save states to the CPU [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: moved some more variables to driver state, set a few addresses
as open bus and slightly changed SuperFX handlers not to access SNES
WRAM [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: c361 fixes and address auto-increment [O. Galibert]

further snes.c wip: [Fabio Priuli]
* Fixed a bug in SPC7110 handlers (now Tengai Makyou Zero test
reaches RTC tests and fails them, instead of getting stuck at
MUL/DIV tests)
* Implemented very preliminary (and currently broken) SPC7110 RTC
emulation
* Updated DSP2 handlers to better reflect Overload's docs (problem
and fix actually found by byuu)
- Updated add-on chips handlers to reflect byuu's findings

snes.c wip: fixed reserved memory address read not returning open_bus;
fixed a few add-on chip reads not returning open_bus [Fabio Priuli]

Made input_device pointers non-volatile. Since we return pointers to
them in response to input_device_add(), ensure that the pointers don't
change after subsequent adds. [Aaron Giles]

snes.c: fixed a SRAM size problem and moved PPU registers handling to
video/snes.c [Fabio Priuli]

ppu2c0x.c: added save states to NES PPU and performed some minor
cleanups [Fabio Priuli]

i386+ core updates: [Samuele Zannoli]
* Added CR4 register
* Added bswap instruction
* Added support for 4MB pages

chihiro.c: Minor memory map update for running the BIOS
[Samuele Zannoli]

Gun output cleanups/hookups [Howard Casto]:
* drivers\othunder.c: Changed Operation Thunderbolt output names to
something more appropriate. (They were routed to LEDs.)
* video\rastan.c: Hooked up output for Operation Wolf.
* machine\midwunit.c: Hooked up outputs for Revolution X.
* machine\midyunit.c: Hooked up outputs for Terminator 2.
* drivers\seta.c: Hooked up outputs for Zombie Raid.

i386/NEC disassembler updates: [Alex Jackson]
* Made "MOV AL, offset" etc (opcodes A0-A3) properly indicate a
segment override prefix.
* Corrected the disassembly of various NEC-only instructions (mainly
V25/V35-only instructions)
* Changed CPUINFO_INT_MAX_INSTRUCTION_BYTES on i86 and NEC from 15 to
8.

Added correct ROMs to 'Dragon's Lair (Italian)' (dlital) [f205v]

Improvements to supdrapo.c driver [Roberto Fresca]
* Reworked inputs to match the standard poker inputs names/layout.
* Hooked the payout switch.
* Hooked a watchdog circuitery, that seems intended to reset the game
and/or an external device.
* Added machine start & reset.
* All clocks pre defined.
* Added ay8910 interfase as a preliminary attempt to analyze the
unknown port writes when these ports are set as input.
* Figured out the following DIP switches: Auto Bet (No, Yes). Allow
Raise (No, Yes). Double-Up (No, Yes). Minimal Winner Hand (Jacks
or Better, Two Pair). Deal Speed (Slow, Fast). Aces Type (Normal
Aces, Number 1). Cards Deck Type (english cards, french cards).
Max Bet (5, 10, 15, 20).
* Added NVRAM support.
* Reorganized and cleaned-up the driver.

hng64: Fix sound ROM loading. [Andrew Gardner]

Reworked the entire Nintendo 64 renderer to be class-based. More
cleanup to follow. [Harmony]

Removing texture_rectangle_32bit and fill_rectangle_32bit to hopefully
generate a bug report which indicates any games using the modes.
[Harmony]

Applied some cppcheck fixes. [Oliver Stoneberg]

Clear pending IRQ if the IRQ enable flag is disabled in the SNES
driver [Angelo Salese]

midtunit.c: Fixed TMS340 parameter [Alex Jackson]

namcos23: Fix the zoom value [O. Galibert]

namcos23: First stab at z-sorting [O. Galibert]

[8080/8085 CPU] Fix of mametester bug 3227. [Robbbert]

Moved the i/o update status inside a timer in the SNES driver
[Angelo Salese]

Disabled unused variables and code based on cppcheck and VS2008 Code
Analysis [Oliver Stoneberg]

Fixed some massive texturing issues in the new Nintendo 64 / RDP
renderer. [Harmony]

Disabled DRC versions of certain vector load/store operations in the
RSP core in order to avoid geometry issues. [Harmony]

Improved Rectangle drawing in the RDP core. [Harmony]

poly.c: Make the parameter interpolation more robust [O. Galibert]

namcos23: Push the zclip a little to avoid poly.c issues for now.
[O. Galibert]

Added boundary checks for MVN and MVP opcodes when in M mode in the
G65816 CPU core [Angelo Salese]

Added a new input type IPT_KEYPAD for MESS, to distinguish between
fully featured keyboards and keypad controllers [Fabio Priuli]

skyarmy (skyarmy.c) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)
* Updated memory map to partially handle screen flipping

scobra, scobrase, scobras, scobrab, suprheli, moonwar, moonwara,
armorcar, armorcar2, tazmania, anteater, calipso, losttomb, losttombh,
spdcoin, superbon (galaxian.c driver + galdrvr.c) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)

namcos23: Found "force poly to front" bit [O. Galibert]

info.c: added keyboard and keypad controls to xml output
[Fabio Priuli]

First step in supporting master cycle delays in the SNES driver
[Angelo Salese]

Basic implementation of the DMA master cycles steals in the SNES
driver [Angelo Salese]

Basic implementation of the memory map master cycle steals in the SNES
driver [Angelo Salese]

snes.c: fixed to the DMA issue with S-DD1 games [Fabio Priuli]

1943.c: Corrected rom names [Bill D, The Dumping Union]

segaybd.c: Redumped IC26 for Rail Chase, added PCB board ID numbers
and corrected the rom names for Rail Chase [ANY]

Added gprof support to the makefile. [Bryan Ischo]

Added a check for the OPTION_READCONFIG option before executing
the code which would attempt to incorporate configuration file
settings into the current configuration, because if OPTION_READCONFIG
is set to false, then there is no reason to even try to do this as
every single configuration file will be ignored (because config files
have been turned off by OPTION_READCONFIG). [Bryan Ischo]

Fixed small memory leak in mame.c. [Bryan Ischo]

Fixed double-free error in render.c. [Bryan Ischo]

Made core_strdup use osd_malloc instead of malloc. [Bryan Ischo]

New clones added
----------------
Rail Chase (World) [Dumping Union]
High Impact Football (rev LA2 12/26/90)
[A. Hoekman, tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Shark Party (english, alpha license)
[Kevin Eshbach, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Touchmaster 8000 (v9.02 Standard) [Bill D., The Dumping Union]
Ridge Racer (Full Scale, 1993-12-13, World)
[tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union] (not working, incomplete boardset)
Super Draw Poker (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe, Dumping Union]
Super Football Champ (Ver 2.4O) [Caius]
Street Fighter (US, set 2) (protected) [Bill D & the Dumping Union]
Thrill Drive (JAB) [The Dumping Union]
Moon Base (set 2) [jmurjr, D. Maeby, Charles MacDonald, The Dumping Union]
Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation (World revision 3?)
[f205v, Tirino73]
Cherry Bonus III (alt, set 2) [Anonymous]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Lucky Boy / Poker 72 [David Haywood]
Print Club Pokemon B [Guru]

186

News & Communication / MAME 0.137u1

« on: 25 March 2010, 20:04 »

0.137u1 whatsnew:
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03793: [Compiling] Build for G4 (altivec) is broken.
- 03792: [Compiling] Support for kFreeBSD
- 03371: [Sound] yiear, yiear2: Music pitch is lower than PCB (Tafoid)
- 03550: [DIP/Input] moonwar: Missing "Hyper Flip" Button
(Lord Nightmare)
- 00304: [Graphics] All sets in toaplan1.c: In cocktail mode player 2
screen is not correct or flip screen on the players screen is
not correct. (Quench)
- 03775: [Interface] primglex: Missing buttons (R. Belmont)
- 03762: [DIP/Input] tekken and clones: Kick button does not work
(R. Belmont)

Source Changes
--------------
Added default nvrams to the ST-V driver [David Haywood]

Improve text layer in LE2: [David Haywood]
* set display enable to be ON by default. LE2 doesn't turn it on
until after the test screens, which would seem to indicate that
the register should default to on, otherwise they're always
invisible.
* added a kludge to use the right palette for the text layer in LE2,
I haven't checked, but I wonder if this could also be related to
internal defaults for the mixer chip which the game doesn't
change.
This allows you to see the ram/rom tests anyway, which is better than
an invisible startup.

680x0 FPU updates [R. Belmont]
* Rewritten to use SoftFloat instead of unportable native FP math
* Support added for Motorola 96-bit extended floats
* More addressing modes and conditions supported

Updates to toaplan1.c driver: [Quench]
* Fixed flipscreen support for all toaplan1 games
* Added minimal Z180 place holder for SameSame/Fireshrk/Vimana

500gp title screen says 1998, change driver to match [Guru]

namcos23: Hook the 3D commands DMA [O. Galibert]

Updates to Twincobr/Wardner drivers: [Quench]
twincobr.c
* Added 6845 CRTC interface
* Restored correct DSP roms loads and proms for 'fsharkbt'
wardner.c
* Added 6845 CRTC interface
* Corrected some clock speeds

namcos23 housekeeping: move months to mamedriv, fix 500 GP name [Guru]

taitojc: fix landgear crash, game now enters attract mode [R. Belmont]

65816: fix decimal mode ADC/SBC behavior [blargg, byuu, R. Belmont]

Improvements to Funworld driver. [Roberto Fresca]
* Removed all hacks in the rom load section. Now the involved sets
are properly loaded in the same way the hardware does.
* Replaced hardcoded values on graphics decode routines with proper
RGN_FRAC calculations.
* Fixed graphics bitplanes to involved games.
* Added more hardware/technical info.
* Modify the mongolnw machine driver. Now can see it starts.
* Added Multi Win, from Funworld. The set is encrypted and use a
custom CPU. Seems similar hardware than (multi) Joker Card.
* Added Fun World Quiz. Needs proper banking, and both graphics and
bipolar PROM redumps.

680x0 FPU update: [R. Belmont]
* Implemented FMOVECR
* Added load extended PC relative indexed support
* Cleanup some duplicated code

Added Fun World Quiz description, and hardware notes. [Roberto Fresca]

More improvements to Funworld driver. [Roberto Fresca, David Haywood]
* Improved inputs for Fun World Quiz.
* Proper handlers and banking for Fun World Quiz questions.
* Partial decryption for royalcdc and multiwin.
* Complete Fun World Quiz DIP switches with dip locations.
* Promoted Fun World Quiz to working state.
* Added Fun World Quiz bookkeeping instructions notes.

Added default NVRAM for Namco FL games and some Namco System 2 games
[David Haywood]

Implemented player 2 input buffer protection in Winning Spike
[Angelo Salese]

Implemented irq ack in the Pastel Gal driver and implemented gfx rom
readback in Three Dealers Casino House [Angelo Salese]

More improvements to Funworld driver. [Roberto Fresca]
* Reworked button-lamps layouts per game. Cleaned-up the code.
* Added specific button-lamps layout for bigdeal games.
* Added specific button-lamps layout for royalcrd & jolycdit, but
there is a bug in the d-up select code that lights the wrong lamp.
This is a leftover from jollycrd routines.
* Flagged vegasfte as GAME_NOT_WORKING, since is not receiving any
coins or remote credits anymore.

hng64 : Lighting calculations are now more accurate. [Andrew Gardner]

Added driver data class and save states to: paradise.c, pasha2.c and
pbaction.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Enabled saves states in pass.c (everything was already saved)
[Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: reworked OAM drawing routines, implemented correct range over
and time over flags (sprite limits), implemented FirstSprite priority
[Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: moving more variables to driver data class and
refactoring/cleaning up some code [Fabio Priuli]

NamcoS21 cleanups [David Haywood]
* Added default NVRAM to Cybersled
* Limited the range of the analog inputs in Cybersled (the game
glitches, causing you to move backwards if they hit the minimum /
maximum)
* Setup default key mapping in Cybersled to be similar to other dual
joystick 'tank' style games, eg. Assault, rather than the default
keyboard mapping where the sticks appear to be swapped.
* Reworked the input ports a bit so that they include a common base
rather than duplicating common inupts
* Renamed aircombu to aircomb, and made it the parent instead of the
Japanese set.

Cave cleanups [David Haywood]
* Removed fake Region dipswitch that modified the region byte in the
EEPROM each reset for Sailor Moon, Air Gallet and Mazinger Z
* Split out different regions into clones with different default
EEPROMs instead, and ensured all EEPROMs are factory default for
that region. (this is a cleaner solution and more accurately
represents the PCBs)

dynax.c, ddenlovr.c: Added driver data class [Fabio Priuli]

tlcs90.c: added save states [Fabio Priuli]

ddenlovr.c, dynax.c: replaced memory_set_bankptr with memory_set_bankp
and added save state support [Fabio Priuli]

spc700.c: Added save states [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: Updated the snes sound device to use device handlers, to store
its internals in a struct, and to save them [Fabio Priuli]

i386: fixed unaligned memory accesses and opcode fetches when they
cross a page boundary. Previously, if pages were not ordered in
contiguous RAM, then a cross-boundary read or write would read
partially incorrect data or write some of the data in the wrong page.
[Barry Rodewald]

png2bdc.c: When the usage is printed, the name displayed was "png2bdf"
instead of "png2bdc"; this changes it by retrieving the name of the
executable at runtime, so it will always be correct now.
[Christophe Jaillet]

several cleanups based on cppcheck and VS2008 Code Analysis
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

split.c: made the "split" return the actual result instead of just 0.
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

clifront.c: made the identation of the CPU device in -listdevices the
same like the others [Oliver Stoeneberg]

i386.c: gave some fatalerror() calls in the i386 proper messages
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

ssem.c: fixed compilation of SSEM core with SSEM_DISASM_ON_UNIMPL
[Oliver Stoeneberg]

sdl/window.c: fixed a potential memory leak in
sdlwindow_video_window_create() [Oliver Stoeneberg]

metro.c: added driver data class [Fabio Priuli]

vmetal: added driver data class and save states [Fabio Priuli]

Verified all the clocks from Super Contra PCB as well as the vsync.
[Corrado Tomaselli]

Implemented VRAM color bank select in Uncle Poo [Angelo Salese,
Iq_132]

Added default nvram to Cyber Commando, and improved the default
control mapping in it [David Haywood]

Implemented pal bank in Three Dealers Casino House [Angelo Salese]

Updated DIPs based on Stephh's notes and fixed location status. Added
GAME_NO_COCKTAIL flag until flip screen is implemented. [Tafoid]

Fixed spinner input in moonwarp, added notes about spinner board,
marked game as working. [Lord Nightmare]

Imported the same implementation of moon war proto's spinner to moon
war 2; works much more smoothly now. [Lord Nightmare]

Fix very minor occasional glitches in moonwar/moonwara/moonwarp
spinners caused by IPT_DIAL crossing the 0x00<->0xFF border. Added
conditional Hyperflip button to moonwar, only seems present in upright
mode? (in cocktail mode the same input is used by player 2 for a
different button) [Lord Nightmare]

Implement many of the dipswitches for moonwarp, and re-add the color
test mode to frenzy; Cocktail/upright select is still missing from
moonwarp, though I managed to trigger cocktail mode a few times by
accident. Needs code study to see what it actually depends on. The p2
controls are separate in cocktail mode. [Lord Nightmare]

Fixed for good trasparency issues in Three Dealers Casino House
[Angelo Salese]

snes.c: some internal refactoring, some new debug functions and a
small mode7 fix [Fabio Priuli]

Changed default initial state of PIC8259 to STATE_READY
[Miodrag Milanovic]

First step in refactoring the video system in metro.c driver
[David Haywood]

Corrected typo in Yie Ar Kung-Fu verified clock rates and tweaked the
tempo slightly to better match reference recordings.
[Corrado Tomaselli, Tafoid]

Final step in refactoring the video system in metro.c driver, replaced
the video code with custom renderer functions [David Haywood]

Improvements to funworld.c driver. [Roberto Fresca]
* Added dual-state palette (addressable through PLDs). This allow to
choose which half of the palette will be addressed.
* Splitted the main machine driver to cover both palette states.
* Reworked inputs / DIP switches for vegasslw, vagasfst and vegasfte.
* Created new default NVRAM for Royal Vegas Joker Card sets. These
need to be configurated to be valid ones. Now vegasfte can receive
remote credits, and all three in the family have valid min-max bet
value and payout.
* Removed the not working flag from vegasfte.
* Improved colors for Big Deal sets.
* Correct colors for Royal Vegas Joker Card sets.

Hooked up default NVRAM in Five A Side Soccer [David Haywood]

MN10200 updates: [R. Belmont]
* Better IRQ generation and hookup to MAME IRQ system
* Preliminary 8-bit timer hookup including prescalers and IRQs
* Fixed issue with debugger not showing registers correctly

metro.c: added save states [David Haywood, Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: updated DSP1, DSP2, DSP3, DSP4, OBC1, SRTC and ST010 addon
chips to store their variables in struct and to save them
[Fabio Priuli]

More improvements to funworld.c driver [Roberto Fresca]
* Added a second set of Jolly Card Professional. Documented the code
differences.
* Added another Royal Vegas Joker Card set, from Mile. These sets
aren't intended to work with coins. Only remote credits are
allowed. There are external modules that can manage up to 4
machines simultaneously, adding/removing/watching credits.
* Added default NVRAM to the above sets.
* Added proper inputs and DIP switches to vegasmil.
* Replaced the jolyc980 default NVRAM with one totally clean.
Temporal and total meters are cleared to zero.

Fixed Z80-DMA Load and Continue commands. [Curt Coder]

namcos23: Roms reorganization [O. Galibert]

MC68HC11: Implemented SUBD DIR & SUBD EXT opcodes [Angelo Salese]

snes.c progress: [Fabio Priuli]
* Added proper sprite priorities
* Added pseudo-hires effect

Added preliminary layer clearance in Puzzlet [Angelo Salese]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Mr. Dig [Kevin Eshback, Brian Troha, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
Mouse Shooter GoGo [Stefan Lindberg, Luca Elia, The Dumping Union]
Fun World Quiz (austrian) [Roberto Fresca, David Haywood]
Crusher Makochan
[tormod, R. Gatto, S. Rietscha, krick, jeremymtc, Smitdogg,
The Dumping Union]
Video Quiz [f205v, Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Tobikose! Jumpman
[tormod, R. Howard, K. Svensson, D. Beneke, Smitdogg, Luca Elia,
The Dumping Union]
Spider-Man vs The Kingpin (Mega-Tech)
[Tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Moon War (prototype on Frenzy hardware)
[Team Europe, Volker Hann, David Haywood, Lord Nightmare]

New clones added
----------------
Raiden DX (US, Fabtek license)
[tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union] (not working)
Berzerk (Germany) [Team Europe, Volker Hann, David Haywood]
Final Lap 3 (World, set 2)
[Charles MacDonald, hap, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Star Gladiator (JAPAN 960627)
[tormod, W. Belk, ranger_lennier, R. Howard, R. Mucciarelli,
Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Virtua Striker 2 '99 (Revision A) [The Dumping Union]
Hot Shocker [The Dumping Union]
Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 107) [XingXing]
Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 103) [XingXing]
Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 102) [XingXing]
Jolly Card Professional 2.0 (MZS Tech) [Roberto Fresca]
Royal Vegas Joker Card (fast deal, Mile) [Roberto Fresca]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Downhill Bikers (DH3 Ver. A) [Guru]
Multi Win (Ver.0167, encrypted) [Roberto Fresca]
Rapid River (RD2 Ver. C) [Guru]
Crisis Zone (CSZO3 Ver. B) [Guru]

187

News & Communication / MAME Plus! XT v0.137

« on: 14 March 2010, 18:32 »

Latest version of MAME Plus! XT Lite* and Full in both x86 and x64 builds is available.

[ff] Homepage

Language selection for x64 builds now works.

* Lite means without extra applications.

188

News & Communication / MAME 0.137

« on: 12 March 2010, 10:50 »

The first official MAME release of 2010 is finally available.

Grab it here.

Grab the datfile here.

0.137 whatsnew :
-----

IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this release of MAME, several important things
about the system have changed. Please read the following items before
attempting to compile this new version.

1. A new tool chain for Windows, based off of gcc 4.4.3 prerelease,
is now REQUIRED. Go to http://mamedev.org/tools to get the new tools.
The code included with 0.137 WILL NOT BUILD with the old tools.
The new tool chain has support for building 64-bit MAME builds with
gcc, as well as built-in DirectX headers, and C++ support, which was
missing from the old tools.

2. Non-Unicode builds of Windows MAME are no longer supported. The
options to turn this off in the makefile have been removed, and
future changes are likely to solidify this requirement. If you are
still (God forbid) running on Win9x, you will need the unicows.dll
library to run MAME. Download unicows from Microsoft.

3. All code in MAME is now compiled as C++, plus there have been a few
small changes that take advantage of the C++ language. For the most
part, there is no effect on how drivers are written, except for some
nicer accessors to devices and address spaces. Future improvements to
take advantage of the C++ syntax will evolve slowly, and will be done
internally. We are not interested in outside attempts to do this work
for now.

4. The SDL OSD for MAME is now shipped as part of the main source
package. SDL builds for Windows are now regularly built as part of the
validation sequence for a new release. Thanks to R. Belmont,
couriersud, and Olivier Galibert for their work on the SDL port over
the years.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03533: [Debugger] All 68020 cpu based drivers: 68020 disassembler
   bug: a 32-bit address displacement's upper 16-bit is
   desappear (R. Belmont)

Source Changes
--------------
snes.c: simplified drawing routines, added support for
offset-per-tile, cleaned up the code [Fabio Priuli]

H8/3334: add analog input ports [R. Belmont]

snes.c: fixed remaining issues in hires modes [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: fixed serial joystick reads [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: slightly simplified palette handling [Fabio Priuli]

Re-dumped oceanhun CROMs 5-16 as 64Mb [ANY]

namcos23: Cleanups [O. Galibert]

namcos23: Add dips [O. Galibert]

snes.c: Added very preliminary driver_data class for snes based
drivers (it only contains input-related items for the moment, because
these are needed to add support for additional controller types in
MESS) [Fabio Priuli]

snes.c: Fixed Offset-per-tile graphics [jbo_85]

snes.c: Fixed scrolling problems [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: More cleanups [O. Galibert]

Implemented default EEPROMs to the following drivers [David Haywood]
* deco_mlc.c
* esd16.c
* gijoe.c
* konamigx.c
* moo.c
* mystwarr.c
* rabbit.c
* rungun.c
* tmnt.c
* vendetta.c
* xexex.c

Added support for the 'simple' rowscroll mode used by sams64_2
[David Haywood]

Fixed Z80 DMA ready signal handling. [Curt Coder]

namcos23 update: [R. Belmont, Guru]
* Updated Guru Readme
* More IRQ tests pass
* Gunmen Wars I/O board runs and syncs
* SH-2 shared RAM added for Gunmen Wars

Implemented default EEPROMs to Bubble Memories, Lethal Enforcers and
Puzzle Time [David Haywood]

Implemented default EEPROMs for GTIClub, Hang Pilot, Asterix, X-Men
and Polygonet Commanders [David Haywood]

Fixed the texture ROM loading/order in Wave Shark. Textures look
better now, and the ROM check passes [David Haywood]

namcos23: pass C422 IRQ test [R. Belmont]

Added ARDY/BRDY signal read handlers to Z80 PIO. [Curt Coder]

Implemented 'key matrix' inputs in King Derby (1986 version)
[Angelo Salese]

namcos23 updates: [R. Belmont]
* Preliminary SH-2 hookup for GMEN games. SH-2 boots and copies the
   loader to private RAM then jumps to it. Transfer protocol for
   main program not yet understood.
* Final Furlong 2 has a GMEN board and camera; update it to use that
   subdriver.

Implemented sound to King Derby (1986 version) [Angelo Salese]

Implemented coins to King Derby (1986 version), game can be considered
as working right now [Angelo Salese]

namcos23 updates: [R. Belmont]
* Hooked up start/coin/buttons for Gorgon
* Fixed Panic Park crash
* Enabled I/O board for timecrs2c so it can coin up
* Cleanup

SDL: fix Fortify-reported stack smash [Belegdol]

New driver for Five Clown, from IGS. This is a dual 6502 system with
CRT controller, AY8910 and OKI M6295. Main program, graphics and sound
samples are encrypted. [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
* Hooked both 6502 CPU's.
* Hooked the M6845 CRT.
* Decrypted main program and bulk GFX.
* Decoded GFX and color PROM.
* Hooked both PIA's 6821.
* Worked inputs from the scratch.
* Hooked DIP Switches banks 2 & 4.
* Hooked proper interrupts for audio CPU.
* Hooked the AY8910 latches...
* Hooked the OKI6295.
* Hooked DIP switches ports $C400 & $CC00.
* Found the sound samples decryption algorithm.
* Added NVRAM support.
* Added a complete PCB layout.
* Added game notes.
* Added technical notes.

z80sio: Added register access functions to prevent trampoline
functions [Dirk Best]

Fixed debugger memdump command [Robbbert]

Improvements to the unkch1/4 sets [David Haywood]

Decrypted the color prom in King Derby (1986 version) [Angelo Salese]

Made device->tag and devconfig->tag into private member variables
(m_tag). Added inline tag() function to return a const char * version.
Updated callers to use this instead of directly accessing tag.cstr()
which was awkward. [Aaron Giles]

snes.c: Fixed OAM overflow [jbo_85, Fabio Priuli]

Improvements to funworld.c driver. [Roberto Fresca]
* Added external default NVRAM support to the following games:
   bottle10, bottl10b, elephfam, elephfmb, jollycrd, jolyc3x3,
   jolyccra, jolyccrb, jolycdev, jolycdib, jolycdit, jolyjokr,
   jolyjokra, jolyjokrb, lluck3x3, lluck4x1, magicrd2, pool10,
   pool10b, pool10c, pool10d, potgame, royalcrd, royalcdb, sjcd2kx3,
   tortufam, vegasfst, vegasfte and vegasslw.
* Changed default settings for some games, now that NVRAM is loaded
   externally.

Confirmed and hooked up i/o ports in Magical Tonic / Odds, doesn't
work due of nested NMI [Angelo Salese]

snes.c: refactored joypad inputs to be consistent with other input
devices (used in MESS) [Fabio Priuli]

Implemented NMI enable flag in Lucky 8 Lines and Magical Odds, fixes
logic quirks in the latter [Angelo Salese]

Improvements to Magical Odds graphics [David Haywood]

Written a per-pixel function for the irq system in the ST-V driver,
disabled by default [Angelo Salese]

vimana, vimanan, vimana1 (toaplan1.c driver) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000
   code)
* Improved MCU emulation to correctly handle coinage based on Dip
   Switches settings and Territory Jumper

Implemented sound NMI enable flag to the Munch Mobile driver
[Angelo Salese]

m680x0: show FPU registers in the debugger for 030+ [R. Belmont]

680x0: Improve disassembly for various FMOVE forms [R. Belmont]

Slightly fixed interrupt handling and added SBIC and MUL opcodes to
the Atmel AVR8 core. [Harmony]

Added FJMP/JMPF opcode to the SunPlus u'nSP core. [Segher, Harmony]

Performed an initial code cleanup pass on the N64 rendering code to
make use of booleans and inline variable instantiation, and removed a
number of unused variables that were exposed as a result of the
latter. [Harmony]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Five Clown (english, set 1) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
Five Clown (english, set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
Five Clown (spanish hack) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
Magical Odds [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]

New clones added
----------------
Dinosaur Hunter (Chinese bootleg of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs)
  [Anonymous] (not working)
Biaofeng Zhanjing (Chinese bootleg of The Punisher) [Anonymous]
Cherry Master I (E-Z Spin bootleg / hack) [William Ostronic]
Lethal Enforcers II: The Western (ver JAA) [David Haywood]
Fantastic Journey (ver AAA) [David Haywood, Tirino73]
Smash T.V. (rev 3.01) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Joker Master / Poker Master
  [William Ostronic] (incomplete + encrypted)
Gunmen Wars [Guru]

189

News & Communication / MAME 0.136u4

« on: 04 March 2010, 19:45 »

MAMEDev.org

0.136u4 whatsnew:
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03268: [Save/Restore] All sets in galaga.c: Problem with Savestates
(couriersud)
- 03698: [Compiling] NOWERROR=1 casues -fno-strict-aliasing to be
dropped (couriersud)
- 03749: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in micro3d.c : [debug] Assert in
debug build (couriersud)
- 03746: [Core] [debug] Overloaded C++ operator new/operator delete is
too restrictive (couriersud)
- 03748: [Documentation] ncv1, ncv2 and clones: Namco 'Classics'
Collection description incorrect (Tafoid)
- 03634: [Graphics] quantum: Draws wrong lines (MathisRosenhauer)
- 03739: [Crash/Freeze] backgamn: Access Violation after OK
(Fabio Priuli)
- 03249: [Misc.] motoxgo, timecrs2b: H8/3xx: Unknown opcode (PC=2)
100 (R. Belmont)
- 03740: [Crash/Freeze] atomicp, snapper: Duplicate save state entry
(Tafoid)
- 03699: [Crash/Freeze] masterw: Game freezes (Fabio Priuli)
- 03697: [Misc.] bigrun: Missing gfx and terrible music (Mamesick)
- 02960: [Graphics] speglsht: Regression in Super Eagle Shot, looping
broken attract mode (Mamesick)
- 03034: [DIP/Input] scross, scrossu: Control Issues (M.A.S.H.)
- 03731: [DIP/Input] ixion: Unable to rotate cannon clockwise (M.A.S.H.)
- 03727: [Misc.] spiders: Source typo in discrete sound system
(M.A.S.H.)

Source Changes
--------------
Removed window config from video_config [couriersud]

Mapped player 2 inputs and buttons 4-6 in Mortal Kombat 3 (bootleg of
Megadrive version) [Mariusz Wojcieszek].

{megadriv} Fixed compile by removing "static" [Miodrag Milanovic]

Moved global new/delete operators into inlines in emualloc.h to avoid
link errors with certain architectures. [couriersud]

Some minor cleanup/normalizing of emualloc in general. [Aaron Giles]

namcops2 updates [Guru]
* Moved Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix and Taiko No Tatsujin 9 to
System 256
* Added DVD images for netchu02, soulcl2a, tekken4b, tekken51,
sukuinuf, and soulclb3

Fixed TI PSG (sn76489 and friends) noise and square-wave period to be
maximum length when period register is set to 0. Fixed white-noise
phase/XOR issue: got rid of noise XOR/XNOR select, as all chips seem
to use XOR. [Lord Nightmare, Michael Zapf, PlgDavid]

Preliminary DIP coverage (lives/coinage/test mode) and Player 2
control fix for unclepoo. [Tafoid]

Implemented Z80-DMA interrupts. [Curt Coder]

Fixed a bug in emu/sound/disc_mth.c. This affected spiders.c fire
sound. [MASH]

Minor fix to sn76489: sn76489 wasn't using the correct noise taps (now
matches sn94624, still need to test a real chip) Removed a piece of
useless code, and fixed a comment. [Lord Nightmare]

ui.c,ui.h,windows/input.c: [Miodrag Milanovic]
* removed ui_use_new_ui check used by MESS code
* moved ui_mess_handler_ingame call in proper place, so device UI
callbacks works again
* removed toggle of menu bar (MESS related)

info.c: Moved print_game_categories into info.c, since it can be used
by any driver anyway. [Miodrag Milanovic]

Fresh driver notes added for unclepoo based analysis of the Z80 code.
[Stephh]

k051649.c: fixed bogus for loop in device reset [Fabio Priuli]

z80ctc: Fixed Z80CTC read handler [Tim Schuerewegen]

Complete rewrite of the Z80-PIO implementation. The handshaking
signals are now more accurately emulated. As a result, the Merit
Megatouch games are no longer working since they relied on the earlier
incorrect behavior. [Curt Coder]

attckufo: Imported MOS6560 device emulation from MESS and removed the
existent custom audio/video emulation [Fabio Priuli]

Corrected visible area and timer speeds to make the fix up some
audio/video problems. [Angelo Salese]

Preliminary merging of hexa.c into the arkanoid.c driver. [Tafoid]

meritm.c: Added scanline timer-based vblank interrupt to work around
the broken V9938 interrupts. Megatouch games are now working again.
[Curt Coder]

zaxxon.c: Fixed Ixion (prototype) inputs [MASH]

i386: Small fix for the i386 core, correcting the LLDT instruction.
This fix sets up the LDTR base and limit values correctly, fixing use
of the LDT. [Barry Rodewald]

Implemented proper irq ack to the deniam.c driver [Angelo Salese]

Implemented irq ack to Big 10 [Angelo Salese]

Implemented irq ack to Aeroboto / Formation Z [Angelo Salese]

segas32.c: Fixed Stadium Cross inputs [MASH]

hexa: merged the remaining code into arkanoid.c [Fabio Priuli]

skyfox.c: added driver data struct and save states [Fabio Priuli]

Hooked up bare bones z180 communication CPU in Cadash [Angelo Salese]

Make mips register names accessible in the debugger expressions
[Olivier Galibert]

Some improvements to Lucky Girl (New HW) [Angelo Salese]

Fixed a bug in debugint.c: Actually make Del and BS delete the last
character. [sz72]

Added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
lkage.c, lockon.c & lsasquad.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added save states to liberate.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Moved ins8154 emulation from MESS to MAME, needed by future drivers.
[Dirk Best]

H8: fix stack trashing when simultaneous IRQ sources asserted
[R. Belmont]

namcos23 update: [R. Belmont, Olivier Galibert]
* motoxgo and timecrs2 are now able to sync up and communicate with
the emulated JVS I/O board
* Fixed all games to run VBL toggle
* Documented data and point ROM checks for future use

es5506.c: added save state to both ES5505 and ES5506 [Fabio Priuli]

added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
attckufo.c, m79amb.c, macrossp.c, marinedt.c, markham.c, mayumi.c and
mcatadv.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
madmotor.c, mazerbla.c, mikie.c, mjsister.c, mogura.c, mole.c and
momoko.c. [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: Panic Park uses the motoxgo I/O board, now it syncs too
[R. Belmont]

namcos23 update: improved "Gorgon" h/w support [R. Belmont]

Added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
megazone.c, meijinsn.c and mermaid.c. [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: improved documentation, fixed a few POST fails [R. Belmont]

exerion, exeriont, exerionb (exerion.c driver) : [stephh]
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)

namcos23 updates: [R. Belmont]
* Documented clocks and syncs measured by Guru
* Added Gorgon JVS I/O board. Final Furlong now gets farther

H8: add bild and bist opcodes [R. Belmont]

namcos23: added nvram for Gorgon. finlflng gets farther. [R. Belmont]

ins8154: Updated to use devcb calls, cleaned up. [Dirk Best]

Namco Super System 23: Add a whole bunch of ram, chips and data roms
mappings [O. Galibert, R. Belmont]

Changed Tecmo World Cup 90 main z80 cpus to 8mhz and vsync to 59.17hz
/ Hard Head sound z80 to 3mhz and vsync to 59.10hz to match original
PCB readings. [Corrado Tomaselli]

Fixed inverted buttons 1 and 2 on f1gp, f1gp2 and Super Formula. They
are Jamma standards boards: brake button is wired to pin 22 and
acceleration button to pin 23 which are respectively button 1 and 2 in
a jamma standard pinout. [Corrado Tomaselli]

Added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
matmania.c, metlclsh.c, mexico86.c, mouser.c, mrflea.c, mrjong.c,
munchmo.c and mwarr.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data struct to the following drivers: mgolf.c,
minivadr.c, mosaic.c and mrdo.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Enabled save states to mugsmash.c (everything was already saved)
[Fabio Priuli]

hng64: Added sub-page texture indexing. Fixes many texture lookups in
roadedge and xrally. [Andrew Gardner]

Added driver_data struct and save states to the following drivers:
news.c, nightgal.c and nycaptor.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data struct to the following drivers: nitedrvr.c and
nmg5.c. [Fabio Priuli]

enabled save flag in othunder.c (everything is properly saved, but it
seems I forgot about this driver when I device-fied Taito video chips)
[Fabio Priuli]

pic8259: replaced pic8259_set_irq_line with pic8259_irX_w write line
handlers. [Dirk Best]

pic8259: updated to use devcb calls. [Dirk Best]

Improved gfxs in Lucky Girl (New version) [David Haywood]

Implemented device version of the deco16ic tilemap chip [Fabio Priuli]

Converted backfire.c, boogwing.c, dietgo.c, mirage.c, pktgaldx.c,
simpl156.c, supbtime.c, tumblep.c to use the device-fied video chips
[Fabio Priuli]

Added driver data struct and save states to the following drivers:
dietgo.c, mirage.c, pktgaldx.c, supbtime.c and tumblep.c
[Fabio Priuli]

hng64 : More accurately emulated intrinsic camera matrix.
[Andrew Gardner]

Changed all driver_data structs into classes with a simple constructor
and a static allocation function. [Aaron Giles]

Changed MDRV_DRIVER_DATA to reference driver_data::alloc instead of
just providing a size. This function is called to allocate the driver
data. This allows objects to be embedded in the state data and be
properly initialized. [Aaron Giles]

Moved driver data allocation after device list construction so that
devices can be found when the driver data is constructed. [Aaron Giles]

wardner, wardnerj, pyros (wardner.c driver) : [stephh]
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)

Converted cbuster.c, cninja.c, dassault.c, funkyjet.c, rohga.c and
vaportra.c to use device versions of the deco16 video chips
[Fabio Priuli]

Made deco32.c independent of deco16ic.c (it only needed a drawing
routine) and removed deco16ic.c now that it is not needed anymore
[Fabio Priuli]

avgdvg: Fixed mametesters bug 03634. Reduced flickering in
Tempest/Quantum. [Mathis Rosenhauer]

pit8253: Updated to use devcb calls, cleanups. [Dirk Bst]

Renamed decodev->deco16ic [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver data class to funkyjet.c [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver data class and save states to vaportra.c and tumbleb.c
[Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data class and save states to the following drivers:
backfire.c, boogwing.c, cbuster.c, cninja.c, dassault.c, dblewing.c,
deco156.c, rohga.c, simpl156.c [Fabio Priuli]

twincobr, twincobru, ktiger, gulfwar2 (twincobr.c driver) : [stephh]
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000 and
Z80 code)

fshark, skyshark, hishouza, fsharkbt (twincobr.c driver) : [stephh]
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000
code)

Corrected default assignment of F10 as the default throttle on/off key
for MAME. The #ifdef MESS is needed here due to it's unique old/new
UI setup. [Miodrag Milanovic]

Naomi updates: [R. Belmont, David Haywood, Andreas Naive, Deunan
Knute, Guru, ANY]
* Fix ROM mirroring in gram2000 and friends
* Preliminary hookup of live decryption. Decryption + decompression
is not yet supported so some games still load trojaned data
instead.

naomi: Fixed decrypt method 2, added many more game keys
[Deunan Knute, R. Belmont]

namcos23.c: Add comments about the irq testing code [O. Galibert]

Tidied up includes in a number of files in src/osd/sdl. [couriersud]

Hook up vblank and just enough controls to pass error screens
[O. Galibert]

namcos23: get Gorgon games out of service mode, fix finlflng sound ROM
loading [R. Belmont]

namcos23: comment the probable dips a tad better [O. Galibert]

Added driver_data class and save states to the following drivers:
ohmygod.c, ojankohs.c and olibochu.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data class and save states to the following drivers:
oneshot.c, onetwo.c, orbit.c, othello.c and othldrby.c.
[Fabio Priuli]

Added driver_data class to the following drivers: nemesis.c and nyny.c
[Fabio Priuli]

Improvements to Funworld driver. [Roberto Fresca]
* Fixed Jolly Joker graphics and colors.
* Changed Jolly Joker description to Jolly Joker (98bet).
* Added a new croatian set of Jolly Joker with maximum bet = 40.
* Moved the hardware description and tech notes to the ROM_LOAD
section.
* Added a external default NVRAM for Jolly Card Professional 2.0.
* Updated technical notes.

Implemented proper BIOS/Cart ROM bankswitch in the MACS driver, this
improves program logic in Kisekae Mahjong [Angelo Salese]

Removed the coin latch kludge in the MACS driver [Angelo Salese]

snes.c: minor refactorization [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: fix the data rom mappings [O. Galibert]

rallybik, truxton (toaplan1.c driver) [stephh]:
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000 and
Z80 code)

snes.c: temporarily reverted implementation of mult/div through timers
since it breaks some SNES games on the MESS side [Fabio Priuli]

namcos23: timecrs2c reaches the test mode [O. Galibert]

Fixed MT3698 (NOWERROR=1 casues -fno-strict-aliasing to be dropped).
[couriersud]

Fixed save state support in custom namco devices (50,51,53) and
galaga.c. Also resolves MT03268: All sets in galaga.c: Problem with
Savestates. [couriersud]

naomi: convert GD-ROM games to use real PIC dumps [David Haywood]

Add MAME-ified version of SoftFloat library [John R. Hauser]

Merged kingdrby.c and cowrace.c drivers [Angelo Salese]

namcos23: working inputs for TC2 test mode [R. Belmont]

namcos23: Document gun I/O boards [Guru]

hng64 : An initial implementation of hardware lighting.
[Andrew Gardner]

zerowing, zerowing2 (toaplan1.c driver) [stephh] :
* Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000 and
Z80 code)

namcos23: fix Time Crisis 2 coin input [R. Belmont]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Mortal Kombat 3 (bootleg of Megadrive version)
[Mariusz Wojcieszek, Patrick McCarron, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Bug Fever (5 sets) [Brian Troha, Dumping Union]
Uncle Poo
[Team Europe, Dumping Union, Rene Single, David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
Champion Number [f205v, David Haywood, Angelo Salese]

New clones added
----------------
Pit Fighter (rev 9) [B. Sparks, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Time Crisis 2 (TSS4 Ver.A, Super System 23) [Guru]
Pushman (Top Tronic license)
[MrGoodwraith, Ren?\195?\169 Single, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Blades of Steel (Version L)
[R. Mucciarelli, Phil Bennett, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Touchmaster 4000 (v6.03 Standard)
[jeremymtc, Brian Troha, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Alien Invasion [Andrew Welburn, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Soul Calibur (SOC14/VER.B) [Guru]
Jolly Joker (40bet, croatian hack) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
Touchmaster (v2.2-01 Standard)
[S. Austin, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Smash [Trevor Brown]
X-Men: Children of the Atom (Japan 950105) [Razoola]
Maya (set 1)
[Team Europe, Dumping Union, Rene Single, David Haywood]
King Derby (Taiwan bootleg) [Team Europe, Dumping Union] (not working)
Cherry Master (Watermelon bootleg / hack) [William Ostronic]
Cherry Master (Fun USA v2.5 bootleg / hack) [William Ostronic]
Aracnis (bootleg of Scorpion on Moon Cresta hardware) [f205v]
The Pit (bootleg on Moon Quasar hardware)
[Andrew Welburn, David Haywood]
Safari (set 2, bootleg?) [f205v]
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu UK) [Andrew Welburn]
Armed Police Batrider (Taiwan Revision A) [Anonymous]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
L.A. Machineguns [ANY]
The Ocean Hunter [ANY]
Royal Gum [Siftware]

190

News & Communication / FB Alpha 0.2.97.08 Release

« on: 28 February 2010, 20:46 »

Finally a new release is ready. Head to the FB Alpha page to download

Here's the whats new;

* Added a sample player to the Burn library to allow external samples to used with drivers [iq_132]
* Added a module to display LEDs on screen [iq_132]
* Ported MAME's M6805 core and added an interface for it to the burn library [iq_132]
* Added an interface to the M68705 core for Taito games [iq_132]
* Enabled the Y8950 emulation in fmopl.c and created a module for it in the burn library [Barry]
* Fixed VSynch support in all blitters [Captain CPS-X]
* Added a RGB hex display to the Palette Viewer [Barry]
* Added support to the System 16 FD1094 interface for multiple CPUs [Barry]
* Added memory callback support to the HD6309 core interface [Barry]
* Added custom tile size support to the Generic Tiles Rendering module [Barry]
* Added generic rendering for games using transparency tables [iq_132]
* Added support to the Namco Sound module for stereo sound and fixed the mono output [iq_132]
* Added CUS30 handling to the Namco Sound module [iq_132]
* Enabled m6803_internal_register_r in the M6800 CPU core [iq_132]
* Added driver for Air Buster [iq_132]
* Added driver for games on Angel Kids hardware [iq_132]
* Added driver for Baraduke [iq_132]
* Added driver for Egg Hunt [iq_132]
* Added driver for Fairy Land Story [iq_132]
* Added driver for Ginga NinkyouDen [iq_132]
* Hooked up the Y8950 sound in Ginga NinkyouDen [Barry]
* Added driver for games on Lady Bug hardware [iq_132]
* Added driver for Markham [iq_132]
* Added driver for Mogura Desse [iq_132]
* Added driver for Pushman [iq_132]
* Added driver for Sky Kid [iq_132]
* Added driver for Speed Spin [iq_132]
* Added driver for Asuka & Asuka and similar games on Taito hardware [iq_132 (thanks to JackC for testing)]
* Added driver for Welltris [iq_132]
* Added clone of 1942 to the 1942 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Arkanoid to the Arkanoid driver [Barry]
* Enabled clones of Arkanoid that require the M68705 CPU [iq_132][
* Added bootleg of Final Fight to the CPS-1 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Pang 3 to the CPS-1 driver [Barry]
* Added Street Fighter 2 (Double K.O. Turbo II) bootleg to the CPS-1 driver [iq_132]
* Added clone of Dark Stalkers to the CPS-2 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara to the CPS-2 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Hyper Street Fighter 2 to the CPS-2 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Mega Man 2 to the CPS-2 driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo to the CPS-2 driver [Barry]
* Rewrote the Dec0 driver from scratch (currently preliminary) [Barry]
* Added Dark Tower to the Double Dragon driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Moon Cresta to the Galaxian driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Scramble to the Galaxian driver [Barry]
* Added WOW New Fantasia to the Gals Panic driver [BisonSAS]
* Added clone of Ghosts n' Goblins to the Ghost's n' Goblins driver [Barry]
* Added clone of X-Men to the Konami driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Airwolf to the Kyugo driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Last Duel to the Mad Gear driver [Barry]
* Added clone of King of Fighters '95 to the Neo-Geo driver [iq_132]
* Added clone of Samurai Shodown II to the Neo-Geo driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Samurai Shodown IV to the Neo-Geo driver [Barry]
* Added Ironclad to the the Neo-Geo driver [iq_132]
* Added kof96ep, kof97pla, kf2k1pls, kf2k1pa, cthd2k3a, kf2k2plb, kf2k2plc, kf2k4pls, mslug5b, kof96cn, kof96ae, kof97cn, kof97xt, kof98ae and kf2k2ps2 to the Neo-Geo driver [Barry]
* Added Popeye-Man to the Pacman driver [Barry]
* Added preliminary driver for Rally X [Barry]
* Added clone of Alien Syndrome to the Sega System 16B driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Super Hang-On to the Sega Hang-On driver (enabled in debug builds only because it doesn't work) [Barry]
* Added clone of Mega Blast to the Taito F2 driver [Barry]
* Enabled clones of Tiger Heli that require the M68705 core [iq_132]
* Added Demon World, Fire Shark, Rally Bike, and Vimana to the Toaplan-1 driver [iq_132]
* Added Knuckle Bash 2 to the Toaplan-2 driver [iq_132]
* Added clone of Outzone to the Toaplan-1 driver [Barry]
* PGM Changes [iq_132]
o 02-27-2010
+ Added kov2a and kov2b (kov2b is disabled) partially dumped sets
+ Thanks to JackC for helping sort a few sets.
o 12-05-2009
+ Added Happy6in1 (XingXing)
+ Added newer 68k bios (XingXing)
+ Added fake dip switch to switch beween 68k bios versions
+ Added kovsh103 (XingXing)
+ Added martmastc102 (XingXing)
+ Added region dips for martmastc102
+ Added proper dump for demon front (alt) (XingXing)
+ Added several pgm bootleg/hacks from MAME Plus
+ Added proper dump for orlegendc
+ Labeled region dips as "fake" as they are really hacks since PGM games usually have their regions supplied by the protection devices.
* Corrected the CPU clocks in the Outrun driver as per MAME 0.135u4 [Barry]
* Fixed a memory issue when exiting the CPS-1 driver [iq_132]
* Fixed a crash when loading games in the Blood Bros. driver [BisonSAS and iq_132]
* Fixed graphics in My Angel 2 [iq_132]
* Emulated the M68705 in Legend of Kage rather than simulate it [iq_132]
* Added layer disable to the CPS-3 driver [iq_132]
* Fixed CPS-3 sound synch when using non-standard frame rates [Captain CPS-X]
* Fixed a romname in mslug4nd [kenshiro]
* Fixed init bug in Guardians in the Seta-2 driver [kenshiro]
* Added UniCode titles and fixed some details in the Cross Pang driver [BisonSAS]
* Fixed crash in the D-Con driver [BisonSAS and iq_132]
* Corrected dipswitches in the F-1 Grand Prix driver [BisonSAS
* Fixed graphics in Fantasia II (Less Explicit) in the Gals Panic driver [BisonSAS]
* Fixed crash in Ultra Balloon (SunA16 driver) [Bruce Lee and iq_132]
* Various fixes in the Tao Taido driver [BisonSAS]
* Added a new support file importer module [Captain CPS-X]
* Added option to use a background image in the menu bar [Captain CPS-X]
* Updated the jukebox and improved Neo-Geo support [Captain CPS-X]
* Converted the driver list generation perl script to C++ and changed the documentation output to HTML [Captain CPS-X]
* Fixed an issue when loading tracklists in the jukebox [Captain CPS-X]
* Updated the megadrive driver to the latest one generated from the database on barryharris.me.uk [Barry]
* Matched all sets to MAME 0.136u3 [Barry]
* Updated libpng to version 1.4.0 [Barry]
* Fixed a MSVC compile issue with the latest libpng [Captain CPS-X]

191

News & Communication / MAME update 0.136u3

« on: 14 February 2010, 20:19 »

[ff] as usual at MAMEDev.org

0.136u3 Whatsnew:
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03724: [Speed] mrdo: Incorrect XTALs cause for problems with
refresh rate and game speed. (Tafoid)
- 03706: [Sound] lastday, gulfstrm: Audio Regression (M.A.S.H.)
- 03704: [Sound] evilston: Missing sound (M.A.S.H.)
- 00993: [Crash/Freeze] sharrier: [debug] Crashes when a specific
sample is being played during gameplay. (Phil Bennett)
- 03692: [Crash/Freeze] kurikint: Service Switch error (M.A.S.H.)

Source Changes
--------------
Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)
for 'scramblb', 'scramb2', 'bagmanmc', 'dkongjrm', 'rockclim' (also
updated memory map for this last game). [stephh]

am29k: fix PPC GCC compile error [R. Belmont]

Added Sega ID# for newly added version of INDY 500 and correct the
spelling of attract. [Brian Troha]

minor information update for Viper 1 games in seibuspi.c.
[Brian Troha]

Fixed disassembly of PDP1,TX0 and APEXC [Robbbert]

Fix immediate crash on startup of GTK debugger. [R. Belmont]

namcos11: use real C76 BIOS for audio and I/O
[R. Belmont, Olivier Galibert, Guru]

Cleaned up comments refering to old driver names, and updated clone
names in drivers from 0-K. [Tafoid]

[APEXC] 1. Added pseudo PC register for the debugger, it will now
highlight the next instruction to be executed. 2. Added "normal"
addresses to disassembler output, so anyone can see the program flow.
[Robbbert]

Sega misc wip: [Fabio Priuli]
- split dependences of system16 games from bootleg ones
- moved some .h files to includes/
- removed some unneeded include
- removed some dead code
- added driver data struct to segahang.c, segaorun.c, segas16a.c,
sega16b.c, segas18.c, segaxbd.c & segaybd.c
- added save states to segas16a.c

Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) for
'ozon1', 'ladybugg', 'vpool'. [stephh]

Added driver data struct to system 16/18 bootlegs and removed most
unused code. [Fabio Priuli]

Implemented reels in Treasure Island (Subsino), same as goldstar.c
[David Haywood]

Converted Sega 315-5248, 315-5249 and 315-5250 custom ICs to be
devices and updated drivers accordingly. [Fabio Priuli]

[PDP1] Display the PC in hex as well as octal. [Robbbert]

Converted hornet.c to use the Konami 037122 device and removed the
old code. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted gticlub.c, nwk-tr.c and zr107.c to use the Konami 001604
device and removed the old code. [Fabio Priuli]

carjmbre.c - Added XTAL, corrected second z80 speed and added DIP
LOCATIONS for driver. [Tafoid]

Improvements to Treasure Island: [Roberto Fresca]
- Added proper inputs.
- Added coin/keyin/keyout/payout counters.
- Limited the bet and coin pulses to avoid repeats and coin jams.
- Added complete coinage and keyin DIP switches.
- Added main game and double-up rates DIP switches.
- Added minimum bet DIP switches.
- Added maximum bet DIP switches.
- Added main game and double-up limit DIP switches.
- Added payout mode and auto take DIP switches.
- Added DIP locations as seen in the settings mode.
- Added demo sounds DIP switch.
- Created proper button-lamps layout.
- Added technical notes.
- Some clean-ups...

Dumped IC1 from Giant Gram 2000 [Joerg Hartenberger]

Fixed bonus game gfxs in Treasure Island (Subsino) [Angelo Salese]

Fix os2 auto-detect [KO Myung-Hun]

Preliminary Panasonic MN10200 CPU core and Taito ZOOM ZSG-1 sound
system [Olivier Galibert]

Document FPGA-provided "ic1" data in gram2000 [Joerg Hartenberger]

Implemented flip screen in Hanaroku [Angelo Salese]

Fixed video emulation in Best League (World Cup version)
[Angelo Salese]

Fix DISTRO=gcc44-generic make shortcut to use gcc-4.4 properly
(-V 4.4 does not work for linking) [couriersud]

Minor changes for internal render debugger [couriersud]
- ui_input_frame_update is now global
- moved element_component from rendlay.c to rendlay.h
- added ability to rendlay.c to define "container" components. These
simply provide a render_container.

Added DEBUG_FLAG_OSD_ENABLED to allow coexistence of debuggers going
forward. Replaced all occurrences of OPTION_DEBUG in src/osd/* by
checking machine->debug_flags. Replaced all occurrences of
DEBUG_FLAG_ENABLED in src/osd/* by DEBUG_FLAG_OSD_ENABLED For the
time being, DEBUG_FLAG_OSD_ENABLED is default (set in mame.c).
[couriersud]

Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) for
'bongo', 'porter'. [stephh]

Implemented Actel FPGA ID, used by some Naomi games for accessing a
special ROM check mode [Deunan Knute, Angelo Salese]

Documentation update for Hotdog Storm, IE: The PCB ID number and tile
map chip info. [Brian Troha]

Add and hook up ZOOM ZSG-2 skeleton [Olivier Galibert]

Doesn't do much at the moment, but the increase in documentation value is
significant (we're documenting the sample compression format, for one thing).

New driver for Sigma B52 system. ACRTC implementation is a bit hacky
due to its preliminary emulation status. [Roberto Fresca]

lethal.c - Verified clocks and vsync from orginal PCB
[Corrado Tomaselli]

astrocorp.c update: [Luca Elia]
- Added frame buffer
- Fixed sprite list end, negative coordinates, wrap around
- Added battery backed RAM

adp.c: hooked up (with a hack) gfx rom in hd63484 memory map [robiza]

Hooked up coin input and start input in skattv. [robiza]

astrocde.c - Fixed the Bonus Life dipswitch for gorf and clones.
It's state was inverted. [Tafoid]

[I8255] Clear output lines to 0 on write to mode register, and float
input lines to 1. [Curt Coder]

Simplified/combined MAME and MESS code: [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Moved compatibility validation into MAME core from MESS.
- Made GAME_NO_SOUND check done on MESS too.
- Removed MESS dependent checks
- Renamed GAME_COMPUTER_MODIFIED to GAME_UNOFFICIAL to mark
unofficial hardware modifications
- Removed GAME_COMPUTER it is distinct by IPT_KEYBOARD
- Added GAME_NO_SOUND_HW (to mark that there is no sound hardware)
and marked drivers in dotrikun.c, minivadr.c and tgtpanic.c as
such
- Removed GAME_SHARE_ROMS flag and commented old check for
duplicate ROM entries
- Moved natural keyboard support from MESS to MAME
- Moved OSD file functions and clipboard access functions into OSD
core
- Significantly reduced the number of new OSD functions needed by
MESS [with couriersud]

Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) for
'tazzmang'. [stephh]

snes wip: [Fabio Priuli]
* added a couple of registers to snes_ppu struct
* moved color blending (background & subscreen color
addition/subtraction) at the end of the drawing process.
* removed some unused (and not working anymore) debug code
* fixed the remaining debug functionalities
* moved colour struct to be another layer (simplifying some code)
* updated hires blending to work with two pixel at time.
* fixed clipmasks with hires modes

hng64 : Initial implementation of 0x10-sized palette pages for 3d
objects. This makes most environment colors correct in sams64.
[Andrew Gardner]

[VIA6522] Read port A/B only if some pins are inputs. [Curt Coder]

Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code)
for 'dambustr' and clones. [stephh]

Internal debugger using the mame rendering infrastructure [couriersud]
- added support for arbitrary number of containers for render_target
- added command-line parameter -debug_internal (-di) to use the
internal debugger when in debug mode
- internal debugger supports all views except memory view
- added "Debug" view to layout/vertical.lay to create more place for
debug views in vertical games.

NOTE: The colors are ugly. Font rendering needs improvement. There
are no shortcut keys right now. There is still a lot of room for more
improvements. However, it works and does not depend on any ui
toolkit. The interface has been designed to support displaying views
programmatically e.g. from the ui.

Short HowTo:
- Start MAME with "-debug -di"
- Console, register and disasm views will be shown. Place them by
dragging the view on the title bar.
- Views can be resized by dragging the bottom-right yellow square.
- The view having the focus has a green background title bar.
- Hit "Tab" (IPT_UI_CONFIGURE) to show the menu.
- Console and disasm views support a very simple facility to
support entering commands and addresses. Just start typing.
Hit "enter" when finished.

irobot.c - Added XTAL values from manual and hooked up to driver for
main/sound CPU. [Phil Bennett/Tafoid]

rungun: fix text tilemap lookup for big-endian targets. [R. Belmont]

Added Intel 8021/8022 CPU types. [Curt Coder]

irobot.c - Added/verified Dip Locations per manual and test mode.
[Tafoid]

Workaround for gcc-4.3 reporting a false warning on solaris: disable
-Werror for this file only. [couriersud]

Cleaned up SDL OSD functions after merging in code from MESS.
[couriersud]

wrally.c - Added/verified DIP Locations for World Rally [Guru]

Fixed long-standing (day one?) bug with ADPCM samples in Trojan /
Tatakai no Banka [Mamesick, Angelo Salese]

Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) for
'espial', 'espialu' and 'netwars". [stephh]

Got Mortal Kombat 3 (bootleg of Megadrive version) to boot. Still
missing some key inputs. [Mariusz Wojcieszek]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Midnight Resistance (bootleg with 68705) [IQ_132]
Sexy Boom [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Treasure Island (Subsino)
[Team Europe, Dumping Union, Angelo Salese, David Haywood,
Roberto Fresca]
Ghost Chaser Densei (SNES bootleg) [Tomasz Slanina, XingXing]
Skill Drop Georgia
[Luca Elia, Smitdogg, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Logic Pro Adventure
[Guru, D. Beneke, snoopy, pongplaya, W. Belk, hap, S. S. Neilson,
JacKc, The Dumping Union]
Pachifever [Tomasz Slanina]

New clones added
----------------
INDY 500 Twin (Revision A, Newer) [Brian Troha, Dumping Union]
Fantastic Journey (ver AAA) [Tirino73]
Name That Tune (3-23-86) [Kevin Eshbach]
E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force (bootleg)
[Team Europe, Rene Single, Dumping Union] - not working
Out Zone (set 5) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Ghosts'n Goblins (World? set 3) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Bagman (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware)
[Team Europe & Volker Hahn] - not working
Magical Tonic / Magical Odds? [David Haywood] - not working
Spiders (set 3) [Team Europe]
Raiden (US, SEI8904 + SEI9008 PCBs)
[tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union, David Haywood]
Asterix (ver AAD) [Luis "Datasat"]
Pang! 3 (Euro 950601)
[Gerald (COY), B. Sparks, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Mr. Kicker [krick, MrGoodwraith, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Crackin' DJ [Guru, R. Belmont]
Joker's Wild (B52 system, set 1)
[Roberto Fresca, Tomasz Slanina, Gerald Vanderick]
Joker's Wild (B52 system, set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Tomasz Slanina]
Joker's Wild (B52 system, Harrah's GFX)
[Roberto Fresca, Tomasz Slanina, Gerald Vanderick]

192

News & Communication / MAME Plus! XT 0.136u2

« on: 06 February 2010, 23:34 »

[ff] MAME Plus! XT

Due to the recent works of mamedevs and the introduction of a new set of compiling tools now Your preferred MAME build is available as standard 32 bit and 64 bit version.

193

News & Communication / MAME 0.136u2

« on: 28 January 2010, 12:26 »

[ff]MAMEDev.org

0.136u2 whatsnew:
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03667: [Interface] All default/per-game .cfg files are not saved
correctly (Aaron Giles)
- 03671: [Sound] fcrash: Bad sound ingame (Mamesick)
- 03663: [Graphics] tgm2, tgm2p: The warning boot screen has a black
background which should be blue.

Source Changes
--------------
Replaced vsnetscr GFX ROMs with correct dumps
[Team Japump, Dumping Union]

Fixed memory allocation issue in debug builds. [Aaron Giles]

Added makefile autotest for BIGENDIAN. A bit hacked, though.
[couriersud]

Redumped sound roms in Cyber Tank
[Antonio Gonzalez Jr., Dumping Union]

psikyosh improvements: [PsikyoFan]
* Add support for per-scanline scroll/zoom and per-column effects.
This is adds a significant performance penalty when enabled.
Removed warning flag from s1945ii and s1945iii. s1945iii needs
confirmation of correctness and x-zoom is a guess.
* Virtually completed video rendering. Only flipscreen missing (and
conversion to tilemaps one day). Per-line effects now respect
per-line alpha, priority and bank. As a result daraku text works
without any hacks.
* Added various optimisations to get back all games to a playable
speed.
* Fixed missing soldivid effect on final boss that was broken due to
above daraku hack.
* Added accurate scaling effects based on measurements from hardware.

cybertnk improvements: [Angelo Salese]
* Fixed sprite height
* Implemented flip x and negative y offsets
* Implemented preliminary zooming

sdl.mak rewrite [couriersud]
- TARGETOS=freebsd may now be given on make invocation
- modular approach, separate sections for opengl, x11, debugger
- most target specific settings parametrized.
- Added GTL_INSTLL_ROOT to optionally build win32 with the mame
debugger.
- On targets supporting "-m64" and "-m32" use them.
- On unix ppc targets, add -Dpowerpc automatically

Improved stack walking on crash in Windows. Now using StackWalk64 to
do the stack walk, resulting in cleaner logs. Also will try to use
system function to look up symbol and source/line information if
present. [Aaron Giles]

Improvements to subsino.c [Roberto Fresca]
(general):
- Lowered CPU clock to 1.5 MHz.
- Reworked former inputs.
- Added specific game and technical notes.
- Added lamps support.
- Cleaned-up a bit the driver.

Victor 5:
- Mapped the M6295 but commented out due to missing sample roms.
- Added keyin, keyout, payout, stats and settings inputs.
- Added coin/keyin/keyout counters.
- Limited the bet and coin pulses to avoid repeats and coin jams.
- Added complete coinage and keyin DIP switches.
- Added main game and double-up rates DIP switches.
- Added minimum bet DIP switches.
- Added maximum bet DIP switches.
- Added attract music DIP switch.
- Added button-lamps layout.

Victor 21:
- Mapped the M6295 but commented out due to missing sample roms.
- Added bet x10, keyin, keyout, stats and settings inputs.
- Added coin/keyin/keyout/payout counters.
- Limited the bet and coin pulses to avoid repeats and coin jams.
- Added complete coinage and keyin DIP switches.
- Added main game rate DIP switches.
- Added minimum bet DIP switches.
- Added attract music DIP switch.
- Added button-lamps layout.

Poker Carnival (crsbingo):
- Added change card, keyin, keyout, stats and settings inputs.
- Added coin/keyin/keyout/payout counters.
- Limited the bet and coin pulses to avoid repeats and coin jams.
- Added complete coinage and keyin DIP switches.
- Added double-up rate DIP switches.
- Added minimum bet DIP switches.
- Added maximum bet DIP switches.
- Added cards graphics DIP switches.
- Added double-up type DIP switches.
- Added button-lamps layout.

Super Rider, Super Moto:
- Added stats and settings inputs.
- Added coin counters.
- Added main game and double-up rates DIP switches.
- Added double-up and control type DIP switches.
- Added coinage and demo sounds DIP switches.
- Added button-lamps layout.

Shark Party:
- Added stats and settings inputs.
- Added coin counters.
- Added main game and double-up rates DIP switches.
- Added double-up, coinage and demo sounds DIP switches.
- Added button-lamps layout.

Created new template class tagged_list which manages a simple list
along with a tagmap. Changed memory regions, input ports, and devices
to use this class. For devices, converted typenext and classnext
fields into methods which dynamically search for the next item.
Changed a number of macros to use the features of the class, removing
the need for a bunch of helper functions. [Aaron Giles]

Replaced device_find_child_by_tag() -> device->subdevice().

Added Am29000 CPU core [Phil Bennett]

Removed stdlib.h from osdcomm.h. [couriersud]
- Added #include stdlib.h where now necessary
- Fixed Solaris build
- Fixed building unidasm for OSD=sdl on win32

Tools now include stdlib.h where needed. [couriersud]

Changed core library files to use osd_malloc/osd_free where
appropriate. [couriersud]

Added checkautodetect target to makefile. [couriersud]

Permit zlib and expat to be linked dynamically without changing the
makefile by specifying "=0": make BUILD_ZLIB=0 BUILD_EXPAT=0
[couriersud]

Improved vsnet sprite/roz alignment [David Haywood]

Converted the following drivers to use a driver_data structure:
[Atari Ace]
- bigstrkb, mugsmash, pass, sbugger, sderby, shadfrce, shootout,
silkroad, spbactn, sslam, stlforce, taitojc, tunhunt,
welltris, wwfsstar, xyonix
- 39in1, safarir, sbowling, shougi, skeetsht, skyarmy, sliver,
spoker, spool99, srmp5, srmp6, ssingles, sstrangr, sub, supdrapo,
superdq, supertnk, suprgolf

hng64 : Implemented low-res texture decoding. All red/green polygons
should now be textured. [Andrew Gardner]

Correct a long-standing design flaw: device configuration state is
now separate from runtime device state: [Aaron Giles]

* There is a new class 'running_device' which represents the
state of a live device. A list of these running_devices sits
in machine->devicelist and is created when a running_machine
is instantiated.

* To access the configuration state, use device->baseconfig()
which returns a reference to the configuration.

* The list of running_devices in machine->devicelist has a 1:1
correspondance with the list of device configurations in
machine->config->devicelist, and most navigation options work
equally on either (scanning by class, type, etc.)

* For the most part, drivers will now deal with running_device
objects instead of const device_config objects. In fact, in
order to do this patch, I did the following global search &
replace:

const device_config -> running_device
device->static_config -> device->baseconfig().static_config
device->inline_config -> device->baseconfig().inline_config

and then fixed up the compiler errors that fell out.

* Removed device_get_info_* functions and replaced them with
methods called get_config_*.

* Added methods for get_runtime_* to access runtime state from
the running_device.

* DEVICE_GET_INFO callbacks are only passed a device_config *.
This means they have no access to the token or runtime state
at all. For most cases this is fine.

* Added new DEVICE_GET_RUNTIME_INFO callback that is passed
the running_device for accessing data that is live at runtime.
In the future this will go away to make room for a cleaner
mechanism.

* Cleaned up the handoff of memory regions from the memory
subsystem to the devices.

Fix bug introduced with astring changes that caused malformed tokens
when writing out cfg files. [Aaron Giles]

Fix bug where memory regions were not properly enumerated for the
debugger memory view. Also, stop creating empty regions for disk
regions. [Aaron Giles]

Added Guru(TM)-readme to trackfld. [Curt Coder]

Refactored the CIA 6526 interface, adding SP/CNT callbacks. Fixed
serial transfer. [Curt Coder]

Convrted the rest of devintrf to classes and moved management
functions into methods of those classes. The most wide-ranging
change was converting device_reset() to device->reset(). Apart
from that it was mostly internal shuffling in the core. [Aaron Giles]

Added OS/2 autodetect to makefile. [couriersud]

Autodetection of PTR64 can be inhibited now by specifying PTR64=0.
On mixed 32bit/64bit targets identifying themselves as 64bit this can
be used to build a 32bit executable. [couriersud]

Added OpenBSD support in makefile/sdl.mak. Fixed XBSD detection of
PTR64 (uses amd64). [couriersud]

Fix bug that mistook a non-NULL token to mean that a device was
started. Fixes -video ddraw issue. [Aaron Giles]

Replaced vsnes bank installs with RAM installs, since the banks were
never changed. [Aaron Giles]

Exit from the unhandled exception filter cleanly now. Use
SetErrorMode() to disable the appearance of dialog boxes when crashes
occur. [Aaron Giles]

Fixed a typo in pgm.c that was causing a memory test error and
corrected some comments [XingXing]

Made direct accessors for device configuration state. Currently they
just call through to the get info function. Removed old macros that
wrapped calls. [Aaron Giles]

Removed some aliases between CPUINFO_ and DEVINFO_ to help clarify
usage. Also converted a few more places to use the new accessors.
[Aaron Giles]

Replaced drgninja set with one dumped from a genuine Data East PCB
[dlfrsilver]

Added MEC-M1 PCB layout to the dec0 driver and updated some clocks
and ROM names [Guru]

hng64 : Partially decodes translation-only geometry type 0102. This
makes the road appear in the racing games, the edge of the ring in
buriki, and a hallway during the buriki attract. [Andrew Gardner]

The return of the "misc" [couriersud]
- Added sdlmisc_<targetos>.c again. This was necessary since
certain tools create stubs for e.g. osd_break_into_debugger.
If we do not have this in a separate file, the link stage may
break.
- Applied OS/2 patch [Credit: KO Myung-Hun]
- Cleaned up #includes. Removed stdlib.h were possible.
- More malloc to osd_malloc rename.
- SDL monitor modes are read now when they are needed. This is now
consistent across platforms.

GTK Debugger work [couriersud]
- glade-2 can now be used again to edit the debug.glade file.
- No more need to edit the files created by glade-2
- All "activate" handlers now pass the parent window pointer.
- malloc ==> osd_malloc to prevent mixed c++/c window allocations.
- Run to cursor (main view)
- In place memory editing (memory view)
- implement key handling (Up, down, ..) like in windows
- Tab and ESC not yet handled
- Functionality now matches win32 debugger
- Further code review/rewrite/simplification
- Added more comment headings
- fix a compile warning for gcc-4.4 (not detected by gcc-4.2)
- Horizontal divider bar to individually size views.
- minimum height aligned to win32 debugger

ARM: preliminary SA-1110 support [R. Belmont]

Verified all deco32 clocks and corrected HuC6280 clock following old
Charles McDonald notes I had about internal divisor. Added a note on
the Arm cpu used by this game: it's a Data East 101 custom
[Corrado Tomaselli]

Changed the following games to use the 76489A variant (verified on my
pcbs): Green Beret, Do Run Run, Mr.Do's Castle, Jail Break,
Shaolin's Road, Yie Ar Kung-Fu [Corrado Tomaselli]

Fixed sn76489a periodic noise once again (and simplified a bit of
code), now should be closer to or match real chips as sampled. Added
true clock divider emulation, so emulation may be a bit slower.
[Lord Nightmare, PlgDavid, Kold666]

Popmessages can now be used in drivers which have an MC6845.
[Curt Coder]

Ensure that RAM and bitmaps are cleared when the ms32 driver is
started to avoid 64-bit build crashes [David Haywood]

Converted HD63484 ACRTC to be device. [Fabio Priuli]

hng64 : Hacks the camera to work in sams64. [Andrew Gardner]

Fixed crash issues with mchampdx [Fabio Priuli]

s14001a: updated comments; got rid of the squealing noise (hidden
behind a #define now, code is still there) until some other issues
can be resolved. [Lord Nightmare]

Dumped the proms in D-Day (Jaleco) [Chack'n, Team Japump]

Fixed background and sprites colors in D-Day (Jaleco) [Angelo Salese]

UI menu interface changes [couriersud]
- all ui functions now expect a render_container
- removed all macros referencing render_container_get_ui
- ui_menu_alloc now is passed a container to which to render the menu.

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
F-15 Strike Eagle (2 sets) [Phil Bennett]
Battle of the Solar System (rev. 1.1) [Phil Bennett]
Tank Battle (prototype rev. 4/21/92) [Phil Bennett]
Fortune I (PK485-S) Draw Poker [Jim Stolis]
Versus Net Soccer (5 sets) [David Haywood]
Island 2 (060529, banking address hack) [David Haywood]

New clones added
----------------
Insector X (Japan) [Gyrovision, Gatinho, Smitdogg, Dumping Union]
Viper Phase 1 =U.S.A= [Keven Eshbach, Dumping Union]
Cube Quest (12/30/83) [Bill K]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
King Tut (Australia) [David Haywood]
Money Bank (Australia) [David Haywood]
Penguin Adventure (bootleg) [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Quarter Horse Classic [Siftware, Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Pinkiri 8 [Gyrovision, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Poker Ladies (Censored bootleg) [David Haywood]
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (SNES bootleg)
[N. Francfort, manliodp, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Mortal Kombat 3 (bootleg of Megadrive version)
[Patrick McCarron, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]

194

News & Communication / MAMEUIFX32 0.136u1 FIX released

« on: 25 January 2010, 10:00 »

* Updated to MAME 0.136u1 - MAMEUI 0.136u1

- Fixed "-listxml" parsing bug surfaced in previous version. (MESS)
- Fixed MAME Testers bug ID 03671. (fcrash: Bad sound in-game)

Download it Here

195

News & Communication / MAMEUI 136u1 finally out

« on: 23 January 2010, 23:45 »

MAMEUI64 and MAMEUI32 0.136u1 released.

Grab it here.

196

News & Communication / MAME 0.136u1

« on: 16 January 2010, 09:52 »

[ff] You can download new source update at MAMEDev.org and new REQUIRED compile tools here.

MAME 0.136u1 whatsnew:
-------

IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this release of MAME, several important things
about the system have changed. Please read the following items before
attempting to compile this new version.

1. A new tool chain for Windows, based off of gcc 4.4.3 prerelease,
is now REQUIRED. Go to http://mamedev.org/tools to get the new tools.
The updated included with 0.136u1 WILL NOT BUILD with the old tools.
The new tool chain has support for building 64-bit MAME builds with
gcc, as well as built-in DirectX headers, and C++ support, which was
missing from the old tools.

2. Non-Unicode builds of Windows MAME are no longer supported. The
options to turn this off in the makefile have been removed, and
future changes are likely to solidify this requirement. If you are
still (God forbid) running on Win9x, you will need the unicows.dll
library to run MAME. Download unicows from Microsoft.

3. All code in MAME is now compiled as C++, plus there have been a few
small changes that take advantage of the C++ language. For the most
part, there is no effect on how drivers are written, except for some
nicer accessors to devices and address spaces. Future improvements to
take advantage of the C++ syntax will evolve slowly, and will be done
internally. We are not interest in outside attempts to do this work
for now.

4. The SDL OSD for MAME is now shipped as part of the main source
package. SDL builds for Windows are now regularly built as part of the
validation sequence for a new release. Thanks to R. Belmont,
couriersud, and Olivier Galibert for their work on the SDL port over
the years.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 00660: [DIP/Input] zoar: The cabinet UPRIGHT dipswitch is not
working. (stephh)
- 03233: [Multisession] All sets in crystal.c: Multisession Crash
- 00111: [Crash/Freeze] gunbird2: crashes during the 4th level boss
fight (North Pole) when using Vampiro. (PsikyoFan)
- 03649: [Crash/Freeze] gekisha: Unknown DIP 4-2 toggles Auto Tsumo
after Reach. If it is enabled and declare Reach, MAME crashes.
(Angelo Salese)
- 02154: [DIP/Input] ckongg: Coinage settings are wrong. (stephh)
- 02157: [DIP/Input] ckongg: Coinage settings shown on screen don't
correspond to actual settings (stephh)
- 03653: [Graphics] crzrally, crzrallya, crzrallyg: Default high
scores are incorrect (Pierpaolo Prazzoli)
- 03651: [Graphics] matmania: Graphical corruption (M.A.S.H.)
- 03620: [Speed] quasar: Massive slowdown (Quench)
- 03623: [Speed] laserbat, catnmous: Massive slowdown (Quench)
- 03621: [Interface] Hitting F6 without -cheat trigger causes crash
(smf)
- 03626: [Graphics] raiders, spacefrt: Background star field is
missing (Fabio Priuli)
- 03637: [Core] dino, punisher, wof and clones: NVRAM saves correctly,
but doesn't reload any changes made (Fabio Priuli)
- 03415: [Compiling] unidasm fails to link when ldplayer is the
specified target (Aaron Giles)
- 03485: [Graphics] mikie, mikiej, mikiehs: Possible priority issue
on game completion (robiza)
- 00266: [Graphics] daraku: Graphic Issues at region warning and
during super move. (PsikyoFan)
- 00892: [Misc.] s1945iii: At the very last boss, MAME popup a message
(PsikyoFan)
- 03632: [Crash/Freeze] kinst, kinst2: Game hangs at black screen with
32-bit build (Aaron Giles)
- 03630: [Core] Any EEPROM with an 8-bit data bus is not being saved
correctly (Aaron Giles)
- 03622: [Graphics] solomon, solomonj: Graphics Bugs
(Pierpaolo Prazzoli)

Source Changes
--------------
hng64 improvments [Andrew Gardner]
- bbust2 now has 3d geometry.
- fixed improperly loaded ROMs in sams64* games.
- hacked 3d acknowledge in a slightly different manner. Sams64 games
now show 3d.
- found the 'explicit palette' word in bbust2. Colors are now correct
Implemented what looks like a 'dynamic palette' bit. Fixes the
colors in sams64 games, but not roadedge or buriki.

RSP DRC changes: [Aaron Giles]
- fixed misaligned 32-bit accesses
- disabled DRC_SQV implementation as it breaks music in mtetrisc

Converted RSP callbacks into device callbacks. Removed a ton of tag-
based queries in favor of using the device passed. [Aaron Giles]

Added profiler_mark() calls around rdp_process_list() so that the RDP
time is separated from the RSP time. [Aaron Giles]

Added more decrypted opcodes to cb2001. [robiza]

Added driver data struct to cave.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Changed inline_config to be allocated separately to avoid alignment
issues. [Aaron Giles]

uPD7801 core changes: [Wilbert Pol]
- Fixed incorrect disassembly of some instructions.
- Updated the handling of interrupts to match the documentation.
- Implemented uPD7801 timers.
- Configured port A on the uPD7801 to an output port.

Removed the various HAS_xxxx for sound cores. To select sound cores,
just choose them in the make system. Further granularity is not
necessary. This also means that the samples core is always required.
[Aaron Giles]

Base tilemap hook-up for cb2001. [Angelo Salese]

Fixed the gfx rom loading for Race Drivin' Panorama [David Haywood]

Vs. Net Soccer improvements:
- Emulated DMA protection for startup-checks [Olivier Galibert]
- Fixed Data ROM loading, game now boots [David Haywood]
- Marked Sprite + Sound ROMs as BAD_DUMP [David Haywood]

Converted the goldstar, liberate, sidearms and sidepckt drivers to use
driver_data [Atari Ace]

Makefile changes: [Aaron Giles]
- Removed CPP_COMPILE flag; all code is now compiled as C++ except
for zlib and expat
- Mapped INLINE to "static inline" since C++ has real inlining
- Added new 'default' make target which just builds the emulator.
Use 'make tools' to build the tools, or 'make all' to build the
whole thing.
- 64-bit builds now get a '64' suffix on them.
- Removed UNICODE flag from Windows; UNICODE is always enabled now.
- If OSD is not defined, we look for the built-in Windows
environment variable 'OS' and if it is set to 'Windows_NT',
we assume OSD=windows; otherwise we assume OSD=sdl.
- If TARGETOS is not defined, we look for the same variable
and set TARGETOS=win32 if it is set to 'Windows_NT'.
- Windows SDL builds have an 'sdl' prefix on the executable
so they can live side-by-side.
- Added cheesy auto-detection of 64-bit Windows builds (based on the
PATH including 'mingw64-w64')

Removed hacks surrounding unicode handling in main(). They are no
longer necessary with the new tools. [Aaron Giles]

Fixed typo in 8-bit eeprom case that broke operation in some games.
[Aaron Giles]

Fixed x86 DRC backend codegen bug that broke kinst. [Aaron Giles]

Got rid of setjmp/longjmp for error handling in favor of exceptions.
Fatalerror now maps to throwing an exception. [Aaron Giles]

[PIT8253] Update PIT counter even if there was no elapsed cycles (this
only affects fast drivers like at586 in MESS). [Miodrag Milanovic]

Fixed a bunch of minor quirks, and fixed gfxs in the dwarfd driver.
[Angelo Salese]

Changed berlwall, arkanoid, bakubrkr, mgcrystl to use YM2149.
[Corrado Tomaselli]

Verified and corrected clocks in halleys and exctsccr.
[Corrado Tomaselli]

Add support for Mahjong panel for mjgtaste. Makes this the default
input and alters the default eeprom accordingly to match factory
default. Note that you need to change both the game and the controller
setting from the driver configuration when switching input sources
since the two are mutually exclusive. [PsikyoFan]

Fix zeroize protection simulation in lieu of proper dongle dump.
[Bryan McPhail]

Adds missing sample rom to Gals Panic 4 (Korea)
[Brian Troha, Dumping Union]

misc Konami wip: [Fabio Priuli]
* moved a few routines (used for sorting graphics layers) to
konicdev.c since they are shared by several drivers
* added driver data struct to ajax.c and aliens.c
* added driver data struct + save states to: asterix.c, bishi.c,
blockhl.c, bottom9.c, chqflag.c, crimfght.c, dbz.c, gbusters.c,
gijoe.c, lethal.c, mainevt.c, moo.c, overdriv.c, parodius.c,
rollerg.c, rungun.c, simpsons.c, spy.c, surpratk.c, tail2nos.c,
thunderx.c, tmnt.c, ultraman.c, vendetta.c, xexex.c and xmen.c
* updated some Konami drivers above to separately allocate palette/
extra/work RAM instead of appending them to maincpu ROM; also,
reduced maincpu rom regions where appropriate
* replaced memory_set_bankptr with memory_set_bank where necessary
* added driver data struct & save states to gradius3.c

Converted taitosnd (aka tc0140syt) to be a device and updated the
related drivers to use the new code. [Fabio Priuli]

Replaced all occurrences of cputag_get_cpu with devtag_get_device:
the former function was just an alias and now cpus are no different
from other devices. Also removed cputag_get_cpu and cputag_reset
(another alias, not even used in the source) from cpuexec.h.
[Fabio Priuli]

Fixed knights rom labels [Dlfrsilver]

Metal Maniax improvements [Phil Bennett/luigi30]
* Fixed frame buffer display
* Started to add the other CPUs
* Added PCB layouts for layers 1 and 2
* Hooked up TMS34020
* Started to implement the ADSP-2105 network CPU and the CAGE audio
system [Phil Bennett]

Added some missing header declarations and static qualifiers. Added
validity.h to the core for consistency as well as an explicit foo.h
in each foo.c. [Atari Ace]

Added driver data struct to taitoair.c and taito_b.c. [Fabio Priuli]

VIA6522: Refactored interface to use READ/WRITE_LINE. [Curt Coder]

Cyber Tank improvements: [Angelo Salese]
* Fixed bitplane order
* Decoded sprite gfx format
* Hooked up the two bg tilemaps
* Wrote bare-bones video emulation for the Cyber Tank sprite chip /
blitter
* Added video boundary checks for the blitter

The starting value for an output port is now the default value, which
is based on whether it is active high or low. So the device will be
called the first time the line becomes active. Changed the eeprom
device to assume that the reset and clock are cleared until it's told
otherwise. [smf]

Added driver data struct to taito_l.c & opwolf.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Added driver data struct + save states to asuka.c (cadash was not
supporting saves), rainbow.c, rastan.c, taito_f2.c, taito_h.c,
taito_o.c, taito_z.c, topspeed.c & volfied.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Renamed mamecore.h -> emucore.h. [Aaron Giles]

New C++-aware memory manager: [Aaron Giles]

This is a simple manager that allows you to add any type of object
to a resource pool. Most commonly, allocated objects are added, and
so a set of allocation macros is provided to allow you to manage
objects in a particular pool:

pool_alloc(p, t) = allocate object of type 't' and add to pool 'p'
pool_alloc_clear(p, t) = same as above, but clear the memory first
pool_alloc_array(p, t, c) = allocate an array of 'c' objects of
type 't' and add to pool 'p'
pool_alloc_array_clear(p, t, c) = same, but with clearing
pool_free(p, v) = free object 'v' and remove it from the pool

Note that pool_alloc[_clear] is roughly equivalent to "new t" and
pool_alloc_array[_clear] is roughly equivalent to "new t[c]". Also
note that pool_free works for single objects and arrays.

There is a single global_resource_pool defined which should be used
for any global allocations. It has equivalent macros to the pool_*
macros above that automatically target the global pool.

In addition, the memory module defines global new/delete overrides
that access file and line number parameters so that allocations can
be tracked. Currently this tracking is only done if MAME_DEBUG is
enabled. In debug builds, any unfreed memory will be printed at
the end of the session.

emualloc.h also has #defines to disable malloc/free/realloc/calloc.
Since emualloc.h is included by emucore.h, this means pretty much
all code within the emulator is forced to use the new allocators.
Although straight new/delete do work, their use is discouraged, as
any allocations made with them will not be tracked.

Changed the familar auto_alloc_* macros to map to the resource pool
model described above. The running_machine is now a class and
contains a resource pool which is automatically destructed upon
deletion. If you are a driver writer, all your allocations should be
done with auto_alloc_*.

Changed all drivers and files in the core using malloc/realloc or
the old alloc_*_or_die macros to use (preferably) the auto_alloc_*
macros instead, or the global_alloc_* macros if necessary.

Added simple C++ wrappers for astring and bitmap_t, as these need
proper constructors/destructors to be used for auto_alloc_astring
and auto_alloc_bitmap.

Removed references to the winalloc prefix file. Most of its
functionality has moved into the core, save for the guard page
allocations, which are now implemented in osd_alloc and osd_free.

Added driver data struct + save states to darius.c & othunder.c.
[Fabio Priuli]

Added driver data struct to ninjaw.c, slapshot.c, warriorb.c, wgp.c.
[Fabio Priuli]

Extended the astring class wrapper into something useful, and
useable as a stack object. Also designed the interfaces to allow
for chaining operations. And added a casting operator to const
char * for seamless use in most functions that take plain old C
strings. [Aaron Giles]

Changed all uses of astring to use the object directly on the
stack or embedded in objects instead of explicitly allocating
and deallocating it. Removed a lot of annoying memory management
code as a result. [Aaron Giles]

Changed interfaces that accepted/returned an astring * to
use an astring & instead. [Aaron Giles]

Removed auto_alloc_astring(machine). Use auto_alloc(machine, astring)
instead. [Aaron Giles]

Major header file cleanup: [Aaron Giles]
- Created new central header "emu.h"; this should be included
by pretty much any driver or device as the first include. This
file in turn includes pretty much everything a driver or device
will need, minus any other devices it references. Note that
emu.h should *never* be included by another header file.
- Updated all files in the core (src/emu) to use emu.h.
- Removed a ton of redundant and poorly-tracked header includes
from within other header files.
- Temporarily changed driver.h to map to emu.h until we update
files outside of the core.

Added class wrapper around tagmap so it can be directly included
and accessed within objects that need it. Updated all users to
embed tagmap objects and changed them to call through the class.
[Aaron Giles]

Added nicer functions for finding devices, ports, and regions in
a machine: [Aaron Giles]

machine->device("tag") -- return the named device, or NULL
machine->port("tag") -- return the named port, or NULL
machine->region("tag") -- return the named region

(Note that machine->region() returns a pointer to a region_info class
which describes a region, not a pointer to the region's memory.)

Made the device tag an astring. This required touching a lot of
code that printed the device to explicitly fetch the C-string
from it. (Thank you gcc for flagging that issue!) [Aaron Giles]

Added a PCM sample end/loop callback to the RF5C68 core
[Barry Rodewald]

galaxold update: [stephh]
- Renamed set kkgalax to ckongmc
- Changed descriptions for ckongg and ckongmc
- Fixed dip switches and inputs for ckongg and ckongmc
- Updated ckongmc memory map

Added the mameconfig version to the -listxml output [Oliver Stoneberg]

Implemented inputs and sound in Gunpey [Luca Elia]

Added new member function space() to the device_config, along with
shorter constants to be used (AS_PROGRAM, AS_DATA, AS_IO). With no
parameters, space() returns the first address space, which is
commonly the only space present. Updated a few devices that referenced
the old space[] array to call the new function instead. [Aaron Giles]

Implemented basic blitter support in Gunpey [Tomasz Slanina]

Converted Gunpey to use RGB pens instead of hardcoded palette table
[Angelo Salese]

Enforce that numbers are all the same exact width when loading fonts.
[Aaron Giles]

Fixed a bogus protection check in Victor 21 [Angelo Salese]

Fix assert for prmrsocr + clones - no whatsnew needed [Fabio Priuli]

Redumped program and sprite roms in Cyber Tank [Antonio Gonzalez Jr.]

Added a mostly-complete SunPlus u'nSP core based on the one in
Segher's "Unununium". [Harmony]

Add lots of comments relating to 56-pin Mahjong interface and Psikyo
SK-G001 interface pcb based on discussion with alien_mame and
documents from other Mahjong PCBs. [PsikyoFan]

Verified clocks on Poker Ladies and changed Z80 clock of Mahjong
Gakuen from 6Mhz to 8MHz to match the other Mitchell hardware games
[Corrado Tomaselli]

i386: Improved accuracy of the various emulated models, makes CPU
detection programs detect the correct CPU (in MESS). [Dirk Best]
- eflags mask added
- Initial values for the EAX and EDX registers fixed
- cpuid values improved
- feature flags improved
- initial value for the cr0 register improved
- changed 486 to not support the cpuid instruction by default
- take a trap on invalid instructions instead of throwing a
fatalerror
- emulated the undefined flag behavior for the DIV/IDIV instructions on Intel CPUs

SDLMAME: improved OS X and SDL 1.3 SVN support, try to autodetect
SDLMAME targets [Couriersud]

SDLMAME: add BGRA support to -video soft [couriersud]

Fixed period for both sn76489 and sn76489A periodic noise; fixes
pitch in 'smooth criminal' demo for colecovision and fixes pitch
(but not the waveform, which will require more work) of music in
dorunrun; More work is required before the code will be bit accurate
due to the way the real LFSR and periodic generator work.
[Lord Nightmare, Kold666, PlgDavid]

SDLMAME makefile improvements: [couriersud]
- Fix TARGETOS detection on OS X.
- Do not try to check TARGETOS when cross-compiling
- For non-windows targets, try to auto-detect PTR64
- testkeys now builds again
- for unix targets, added a depend rule to sdl.mak which builds a
.depend file.

Fixed a number of compiler bugs found by PowerPC MacOS X. [R. Belmont]

Added casting operators to the region_info class so you can assign
a region to a generic type pointer and have it automatically convert.
Also added a bytes() method which is safe if the region is NULL
(useful for saying machine->region("foo")->bytes() and not crashing
if foo doesn't exist). [Aaron Giles]

Changed the region field in the device_config to be a region_info *,
and removed the regionbytes field. Updated all users of these fields
to use the new casting operators and bytes() methods instead.
[Aaron Giles]

Added subdevice and subregion methods to the device_config class, so
you can easily query for devices and regions that are device-specific.
The device prefix ("devicename:") is automatically prepended.
[Aaron Giles]

YM2612: More accurate LFO implementation and channel clipping
[Eke-Eke, Nemesis, R. Belmont]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Second Chance [Siftware]
Multi Game (Tung Sheng Electronics) [Mariusz Wojcieszek]

New clones added
----------------
Exciting Soccer (Japan set 2) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Super Bar [Brian Troha, David Haywood, Dumping Union]
Mega Blast (US) [D. Beneke, hap, Smitdogg, Dumping Union]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Fun Station Spielekoffer 9 Spiele [Tomasz Slanina]
Vega [David Haywood]
Monza GP [Tomasz Slanina]
Quarter Horse [Ruben Panossian, Angelo Salese]
Vortex [tormod, Team Europe, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Bega's Battle [Angelo Salese]
Computer Quiz Atama no Taisou [Chack'n, Team Japump]
Track & Field (NZ Bootleg?) [Siftware, Tafoid]

197

News & Communication / MAME Plus! XT v0.136

« on: 04 January 2010, 11:35 »

I've released the build v0.136 of MAME Plus! XT.

Download located at mamext.net

198

News & Communication / MAME 0.136 disponibile

« on: 01 January 2010, 08:34 »

[ff] MAME 0.136 disponibile per il download .

0.136 Whatsnew
-----

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03603: [DIP/Input] karnov, karnovj: incorrect difficulty dipswitch
(Tafoid)
- 03604: [DIP/Input] oscar, oscaru, oscarj1, oscarj2: Incorrect
difficulty dipswitch (Tafoid)
- 03142: [DIP/Input] All drivers using PORT_CHANGED callbacks: Input
port callback functions are not triggered correctly during
INP playback. (mahlemiut)
- 03493: [Gameplay] spacedxo: The game reboots itself after title
screen (Fabio Priuli)
- 03608: [Multisession] scontra, scontraj: Tile/graphic corruption on
multiple launches of Super Contra (Fabio Priuli)
- 03611: [Crash/Freeze] 1943, 1943j, 1943kai: Crash when starting
1943 in Service Mode (Fabio Priuli)
- 03598: [Original Reference] plotting, flipull: YM2203 speed
adjustment (Tafoid)
- 03593: [Graphics] captaven & clones: Intro text scrolls from wrong
direction (Pierpaolo Prazzoli)
- 03596: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in konamigv.c, mitchell.c: Attempt to
register save state entry after state registration is closed
(Aaron Giles)
- 03597: [Original Reference] outrun, outrunra, outruno, outrundx,
outrunb: Incorrect vsync speed on Outrun (Tafoid)

Source Changes
--------------
hng64 improvements: [Andrew Gardner]
- RoadsEdge & XRally polygons are now visible.
- Improved geometry chunk type 0x2e.
- Fleshed out the 'chunk type bits' a little. This will be verified
against type 0x24.
- Xrally and roadedge hng64 screens no longer run at 10fps.
- Fixed polygon lookup in driving games.

Changed behavior of -watchdog option to act like a real watchdog. It
now specifies the number of seconds after the last video update that
will cause auto-termination of MAME. Also modified it to output a
message when the watchdog triggers the exit. [Aaron Giles]

Updated windows.txt to reflect this option and the debugger_font
options which were never previously documented. [Aaron Giles]

EEPROM changes: [Aaron Giles]
- Fixed auto EEPROM region to properly handle 16-bit data.
- Changed EEPROM device to initialize EEPROM at NVRAM load time
rather than init time, giving DEVICE_INIT handlers a chance to
muck with the data first.
- Removed _NODEFAULT_ forms of EEPROM driver macros. If you need to
add default data, follow the MDRV_EEPROM_ADD() with
MDRV_EEPROM_DATA().
- Updated remaining drivers to the new EEPROM device code. Many of
them now require a default EEPROM to be loaded along with the
ROMs, rather than hard-coded data in the driver
- Exposed an address space for EEPROM devices, meaning the memory
is now visible in the debugger and can be accessed via expressions
- Updated all systems that muck directly with EEPROM memory to
use memory accessors instead on the EEPROM address space.
- Removed old EEPROM implementation

cb2001: added many new opcodes [robiza]

Split ADC1038, Konami 033906 and Konami 056230 emulation from
gticlub.c and konppc.c. Also, converted them to be devices and updated
PPC Konami games to use the new code. [Fabio Priuli]

Added a bunch of new protection handlers for Spark Man [Angelo Salese]

sub.c - Put in board XTAL and came up with some seeming better clock
speed approximations until board readings can be done. [Tafoid]

mcr.c - Sets tron3 and tron4 don't appear to have a valid working
cocktail mode video or controls (upright player2 works fine). Flagged
as GAME_NO_COCKTAIL. [Tafoid]

subs.c - Added DIP LOCATIONS. [Tafoid]

Updated qdrmfgp.c to use Konami video devices. [Fabio Priuli]

Cleaned up a bunch of things in the gladiatr.c driver [Angelo Salese]

Removed sysconfig section from game_driver struct. Made
compatible_with attribute available for MAME too (with NULL value set
in GAMEL macro). [Miodrag Milanovic]

Added preliminary device version of Konami video ICs used in PowerPC
games (001005, 001006, 001604 and 037122). [Fabio Priuli]

Converted all Taito custom I/O and video ICs to devices and updated
all drivers to use them. [Fabio Priuli]

Simplified bloodbro gfx decoding and removed unnecessary DRIVER_INIT.
Marked two weststry sprite ROMs as BAD_DUMP [David Haywood]

Converted Namco IO chips 56xx, 58xx and 59xx to be devices and
converted gaplus.c, mappy.c and toypop.c to use the new code.
[Fabio Priuli]

Allow any device memory (not just CPU's) to be accessed via debug
expressions. Removed support in the expression engine for EEPROM-
specific accesses. [Aaron Giles]

Converted Fujitsu MB87078 Volume Controller to be a device and
updated taito_b.c to use the new code (it's the only driver
emulating this chip atm). [Fabio Priuli]

merit.c - Fixed what might be a copy/paste error in two sets
(trvwz3h, trvwz3v) where two roms had the same filename in the same
romset. [Tafoid]

Renamed tilemap -> tilemap_t, as the name 'tilemap' is too commonly
used for statics and structure members, and some compilers (esp. C++
compilers) don't allow that. [Aaron Giles]

Fix for INP recording ports that have changed notification. Also
prevents new inputs from affecting recorded inputs during playback.
[mahlemiut]

Updated srcclean to remove "invisible spaces" immediately preceding
tabs. [Atari Ace]

Cleaned up braces in the code so that they are properly balanced.
[Atari Ace]

Optimized RDP implementation further with more flattened branches.
[Harmony]

Converted a number of vector opcodes to the RSP DRC core. [Harmony]

Unrolled and optimized a number of vector opcodes in the interpreter
RSP core. [Harmony]

Extended the devtempl.h file to support device address spaces.
[Aaron Giles]

cmmb.c - Identified and marked Service Mode DIP. [Tafoid]

Converted the NMK112 to be a device and updated drivers using it
accordingly. [Fabio Priuli]

Added GAME_SUPPORTS_SAVE flag to psikyosh.c, since the conversion to
eeprom devices fixed the remaining issues with save states.
[Fabio Priuli, Aaron Giles]

Changed Caveman Ninja driver to use Partial Updates for Raster Effects
instead of buffering scanline data [David Haywood]

Changed Deco32 driver to use Partial Updates for Raster Effects
instead of buffering scanline data (but left Dragon Gun using the
buffering, because the video rendering code is far too slow with 224
partial updates for now) [David Haywood]

Commented out some harmful and suspicious looking interrupt generation
in NamcoND1 driver until it's being properly verified; fixes Game
Options menu in NCV2 test mode. [David Haywood]

adp.c improvements: [Angelo Salese]
- Fixed some minor quirks
- Improved Backgammon memory map
- Implemented RAMDAC for Fun Land Deluxe

Fixed error in codegen for drol/dror opcodes in the x86 back-end.
[Aaron Giles]

Re-implemented misaligned memory handling in the RSP DRC as before.
[Aaron Giles]

Explicitly sign-extend 32-bit indexes for load/loads/store on 64-bit
machines to prevent overflow issues. Fixes DRC crash in mtetrisc.
[Aaron Giles]

Fixed a few DRC-ized vector load/store opcodes in the RSP core.
[Harmony]

Hardware multiplication and division on the SNES takes 8 machine
cycles to complete. [Wilbert Pol]

Fixed x86 HLT instruction handling [Phill Harvey-Smith]

Made LA Girls and clone of Play Girls. It's clearly a bootleg
hardware clone. Title & background change, but the demo play and
block arrangement are identical. Added info from the Guru's website
about the reported manufacture company and year for LA Girls. Added a
note about Tube-it having the copyright and manufacture info removed.
[Brian Troha]

Added additional information to the dipswitches and configurations
sections in the -listxml output [Oliver Stoneberg]

Changed Green Beret sound chip to SN76489 and indicated that the
bootleg has an undumped PAL and PROMs [Kevin Eshbach]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Final Fight (Japan, hack) [bonky0013, JacKc, Fabio Priuli]

New clones added
----------------
Spark Man (v 2.0, set 2) [Stefan Lindberg] (Not Working)
Cherry Master I (ver.1.01) (various bootleg? sets) [David Haywood]
Block (Game Corporation bootleg, set 3) [David Haywood]
Multi Fish (030124) [MetalliC]
Shaolin's Road (bootleg) [Kevin Eshbach]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Cycle Mahbou [Angelo Salese, Chack'n, Team Japump, Dumping Union]
Race Drivin' Panorama [David Haywood]
Metal Maniax (prototype) [David Haywood]

199

News & Communication / MAME Plus! XT v0.135u4

« on: 29 December 2009, 12:01 »

[ff] Here

200

News & Communication / MAME 0.135u4

« on: 23 December 2009, 19:56 »

The 4th and likely final update to MAME 0.135 is now available on the Official Site http://www.mamedev.org

0.135u4 Whatsnew :
-------

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 03583: [Core] Windows Debug: Stack crawl is not generated anymore
   (Firewave)
- 03588: [Sound] mystston, myststono: Music is faster than original
   PCB (Kold666)
- 03589: [Graphics] mystston, myststono: VSYNC does not match original
   PCB (Kold666)
- 03592: [Original Reference] outrun, outrunra, outruno, outrundx,
   outrunb: Master clock is incorrect (Tafoid)
- 00400: [Graphics] combascb: Graphic issues on the "players" screen
   as scrolling problems on 1st stage. (Fabio Priuli)
- 03575: [Crash/Freeze] block2: [debug] Memory Leak in Debug
   (Fabio Priuli)
- 03569: [Crash/Freeze] escounts: Access Violation after OK
   (Phil Bennett)
- 03444: [Debugger] Registered ram blocks registered with save state
   cannot be viewed with debugger (Aaron Giles)
- 03567: [Crash/Freeze] trvquest: Access Violation after OK
   (Fabio Priuli)
- 03574: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in drivers using s2636 video chip:
   [debug] assert: src/emu/video/s2636.c:320: offset < 8
   (Fabio Priuli)
- 03570: [Crash/Freeze] kf2k3pcb: Access Violation after OK
   (Fabio Priuli)

Source Changes
--------------
Added driver data struct to: [Fabio Priuli]
- airbustr.c
- cvs.c
- 8080bw.c and mw8080bw.c
- 88games.c, combatsc.c and rockrage.c
- psikyo4.c and psikyosh.c

Added driver data struct and save states to: [Fabio Priuli]
- djboy.c
- toratora.c and sf.c
- neogeo.c
- cps1.c, cps2.c and fcrash.c
- cbasebal.c, chinsan.c, mitchell.c and quasar.c
- malzak.c
- battlnts.c, bladestl.c, crshrace.c and contra.c
- f1gp.c, fastlane.c, flkatck.c, hcastle.c, labyrunr.c and suprslam.c
- psikyo.c and pgm.c

Removed old index-based DISCRETE_ADJUSTMENT and then renamed the newer
DISCRETE_ADJUSTMENT_TAG to replace it. Updated all callers.
[Aaron Giles]

Removed all uses of input_port_by_index(), and removed the function.
[Fabio Priuli, Aaron Giles]

Added saves to 6522via.c. This fixes problems of gameplan.c and
trvquest.c games with -autosave. [Fabio Priuli]

Enabled GAME_SUPPORTS_SAVE flag to dday.c because some of the core
changes have fixed the sound problem at loading. [Fabio Priuli]

Imported SAA5050 emulation from MESS and made it a device. Updated
malzak.c to use it, removing the almost identical implementation in
the driver. [Fabio Priuli]

Added TILE_GET_INFO_DEVICE and SET_TILE_INFO_DEVICE macros to
tilemap.c. [Fabio Priuli]

Made MB14241 Shifter IC a device and moved its source to emu/machine.
Updated mw8080bw.c and 8080bw.c accordingly. Also converted fgoal.c
to use this implementation in place of its own version. [Fabio Priuli]

Enhanced the UML opcodes for LOAD, LOADS, and STORE to support
arbitrary scaling factors. Previously, specifying a size implied
a scaling factor equal to the size (i.e., specifying DWORD meant
the index was scaled by 4). This is still the default. However,
now you can specify the scale explicitly for other cases. For
example, you can specify DWORD_x1 to fetch a DWORD but don't
scale the index at all, or BYTE_x8 to fetch a BYTE while scaling
the index by 8. Updated all backends to make this work. [Aaron Giles]

Konami devic-fication and improvements: [Fabio Priuli]
- Added device versions of all the Konami custom ICs currently
   emulated in machine/konamiic.c and video/konamiic.c
- Updated combatsc.c, contra.c, crshrace.c, f1gp.c, fastlane.c,
   flkatck.c, hcastle.c, labyrunr.c and suprslam.c to use the
   new code.
- Moved k056800 sound device to emu/sound and removed the old code;
   updated gticlub.c, hornet.c, nwk-tr.c, ultrsprt.c and zr107.c to
   use this implementation
- Updated 88games.c, battlnts.c, bladestl.c and rockrage.c to use new
   devices
- Updated asterix.c and moo.c to use the new devices.
- Converted aliens.c, blockhl.c, crimfght.c and gbusters.c to use
   Konami video devices
- Updated parodius.c, simpsons.c, thunderx.c, vendetta.c and
   xexex.c to use the new video devices
- Updated overdriv.c to use the Konami video devices
- Updated gradius3.c, mainevt.c & gijoe.c to use Konami video devices
- Updated ajax.c, bottom9.c, chqflag.c, rollerg.c, spy.c, surpratk.c
   to use Konami video devices
- Updated dbz.c, lethal.c, metro.c, rungun.c, tail2nos.c, tmnt.c,
   ultraman.c, wecleman.c, xmen.c & zr107.c to use Konami video
   devices instead of konamiic.h code
- Updated bishi.c and djmain.c to use Konami video devices
- Updated plygonet.c to use Konami video devices and
   input_port_write for eepromdev_read_bit
- Updated asterix.c, gijoe.c, hornet.c, lethal.c, moo.c, overdriv.c,
   rungun.c, vendetta.c, xexex.c & xmen.c to use eeprom device
- Updated konamigx.c, tmnt.c and mystwarr.c to use eeprom device

Fixed tilemaps so they can be initialized at device start time.
[Aaron Giles]

Added redumped roms to coolridr. [David Haywood]

Fixed crash on exit for systems with no tilemaps. [Aaron Giles]

Added warning messages for auto_malloc, timer, and save state
allocations done after init time. These should be fixed when detected,
and will soon be disallowed entirely. Fixed many cases in the code
where this was being done. [Aaron Giles]

Converted Taito F3 sound to a separate machine driver which is
imported into games that use it. [Aaron Giles]

Converted the balsente driver to driver_data structure. [Aaron Giles]

Some more Atari driver shuffling. Added atarigen_init() function
which allocates all timers and registers for save states. Updated
all drivers to call it. Converted some drivers to use device timers.
[Aaron Giles]

Changed ticket.c into a device, updated all users. [Aaron Giles]

CIA6526: fixed FLAG handling and slight interface cleanup.
[Curt Coder]

Moved SNES timer allocation to MACHINE_START. [Fabio Priuli]

Koi Koi Part 2: written an hardcoded table (disabled by default),
concluded that a color prom is currently undumped. Also documented a
bunch of unused ports [Angelo Salese]

Carrera: fixed colors [Angelo Salese]

Sky Army: cleaned up the driver, also removed the GAME_WRONG_COLORS
flag since the colors actually seems correct according to the
references. [Angelo Salese]

Trivia Madness: Improved graphics & colors [Angelo Salese]

Super Rider: improved bitplane order and colors [Angelo Salese]

Preliminary RSP recompiler, with all vector ops stubbed out to C
functions for now. [Harmony]

sbowling.c - Added proper COINAGE selections as well DIP LOCATIONS to
the driver. Added mapping for button 1 which is used to allow change
from curve to straight throw. Replaced clock speeds with XTAL values.
[Tafoid]

Re-implemented 3d rasterization in the hng64 driver as a FIFO system.
[Andrew Gardner]

ggconnie.c - Added DIP LOCATIONS to match those showing in service
mode. Added game year to source from title screen. [Tafoid]

Added preliminary decryption to Victor 5, Victor 21 and Cross Bingo
[David Haywood]

Decoded Cross Bingo proms [Angelo Salese]

hexa.c - Added DIP LOCATIONS as well as assigned XTAL for the clock
speeds, using those from Arkanoid, since the boards are nearly
identical in many aspects. [Tafoid]

RSP recompiler improvements / optimizations: [Harmony]
- Split SATURATE_ACCUM into a signed and unsigned version to reduce
   stack usage.
- Corrected an issue with the 0h variants of VMRG, VAND, VNAND, VOR,
   VNOR, VXOR and VNXOR.
- Slightly optimized unaligned reads and writes
- Optimized unaligned dword reads
- Corrected an issue where badly-written RSP programs could jump to
   invalid addresses

Added new profiler bucket for DRC recompilation. [Aaron Giles]

luckgrln: Implemented CRT Controller hook-up [Angelo Salese]

gomoku.c, sspeedr.c - Added DIPS and changed clock values to XTAL
[Tafoid]

nitedrvr.c, tourtabl.c - Changed clock values to XTAL [Tafoid]

Added new option "numprocessors" (see windows.txt for an explanation).
[couriersud]

Optimized N64 RDP renderer by using function pointers to function
variants that eliminate costly branches. [Harmony]

Minor drc improvments: [Aaron Giles]
- simplified RSP's misaligned memory accesses
- removed now-unnecessary shifts from direct memory accesses in
   mips3/powerpc drcs
- optimized AND with 0xff/0xffff/0xffffffff cases for x86/x64
- added rudimentary memory/register tracking in x86 backend to
   remove redundant loads

cb2001 improvements: [robiza]
- added ay8910 and 8255ppi devices
- added some info about relation between cmast91 and cb2001
- added many opcodes

Fixed sprite-tilemap priorities in Super Slams [Angelo Salese]

Worked around protection in sranger, srangerw and srangerb
[Angelo Salese]

Converted 7474, 74148, and 74153 TTL implementations to devices.
[Aaron Giles]

More rom name corrections for the merit.c driver [Brian Troha]

Added Guru's board notes to the Outrun/Super Hang-on Driver.
[Guru]

Converted the ds2404 to a device. [Aaron Giles]

Removed deprecated core function decodegfx() [Christophe Jaillet]

Removed the global "includes" include and instead specify the
"includes" path in all #include occurences. [Oliver Stoneberg]

Eliminated the use of generic.colorram and generic.videoram in
several drivers [Atari Ace]

Fixed Brick Zone parent set bitplane graphics [Angelo Salese]

Fix megadrive emulation to use the SMSIII version of the sn76489
sound chip. [Lord Nightmare, DFJustin]

Added save states to ics2115 sound device. [Fabio Priuli]

Changed EEPROM usage in many drivers to use the new device version.
[Aaron Giles, Fabio Priuli]

Removed auto-init hack from some Konami games. Hold down F2 and reset
(via F3) to initialize the EEPROM, like all the other Konami games.
[Fabio Priuli]

Cleaned up EEPROM device implementation a bit. [Aaron Giles]

Added flickering effect in Super Slams title screen
[Angelo Salese, Guru]

Fixed sprite bank bit in Spark Man [Angelo Salese]

Converted gaelco3d.c to use eeprom device code. [Fabio Priuli]

Spark Man: Refactored the protection, implemented thrash protection
that's used after the title screen. [Angelo Salese]

EEPROM device now looks for a matching memory region to fetch the
default values from. Fixed bug in ROM loader that would change the
memory region flags to match devices with no address bus. Updated
groundfx to use the new default loading scheme. [Aaron Giles]

Reworked the hng64 polygon chunk recovery code to be more crash-proof.
Documented what's known about the 3d data much better. Fixed vertex
ROM loading for fatfurwa and buriki. [Andrew Gardner]

Converted rtc65271 to a device. [Aaron Giles]

Added "new" command -listdevices (or -ld) to list the devices attached
to a driver. I notice that MESS has a command with the same name;
hopefully the behaviors can be combined eventually. [Aaron Giles]

Got rid of explicit resource tracking for state saving. Now we just
use the auto_ allocators, since registration is restricted to
initialization. [Aaron Giles]

Moved machine->gfx initialization out of the video module and into
drawgfx. We now call this before devices are initialized, so that
devices can dynamically append to the machine->gfx as needed.
[Aaron Giles]

i386 improvements: [Barry Rodewald]
* minimal implementation of the LSL protected mode instruction
* fixed the REP instruction when used with a segment prefix.

Updated readme for Race Drivin' Compact. [Guru]

Fixed a couple of edge case parsing bugs in srcclean.c. [Atari Ace]

Fixed some unbalanced quotes/braces lurking in the source (mostly in
disabled code). [Atari Ace]

Added a new CPU core for the PIC 16c62x series of processors.
[Samuele Zannoli]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Shark Party (Italy, v1.3) [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
Victor 5 [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
Victor 21 [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
Poker Carnival [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]

New clones added
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Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition (USA 040202)
   [Artemio Urbina, David Haywood]
ST-V BIOS 1.11 [2 sets - Japan and Taiwan] [XingXing]
Blood Bros. (set 3) [Dlfrsilver]
Caveman Ninja (bootleg) [Dlfrsilver] (NOT WORKING)
Pipi & Bibis / Whoopee!! (Z80 sound cpu, set 2) [Dlfrsilver]
Mortal Kombat 4 v1.0 (not working)
   [xrodney, HobbyRoms, Patrick McCarron]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Happy 6-in-1 [XX]