MAME/0.76

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Contents 1 Version 0.76 "Aaron needs food, badly!" 1.1 General Source Changes 1.2 New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status 1.3 New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status 2 Version 0.76u1 2.1 General Source Changes 2.2 New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status 2.3 New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status 3 Version 0.76u2 3.1 General Source Changes 3.2 New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status 3.3 New Non-Working games / clones supported 4 Other Versions

Version 0.76 "Aaron needs food, badly!"

Released: 2003-10-19

It appears no new timer system related bugs were found with 0.75u1 so *hopefully* this release will be better than the last, 0.75 ended up not being not too great due to the problems with the YM2151 sound etc.

General Source Changes

• Various ST-V and SH-2 improvements, shienryu is improved as are many other games but no more are really playable yet (although I have changed Shienryu to IMPERFECT_GFX instead of NOT_WORKING as it seems ok, just the sprites are black) [David Haywood, Olivier Galibert, sthief, Angelo Salese]

src/drivers/stv.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp1.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp2.c

src/cpu/sh2/sh2.c

• Added Insector sound rom loading [Fabrice Frances]

src/drivers/gottlieb.c

• Changed Jumping Cross default dipswitches
• Fixed invalid dipswitch in Big Event Golf
• Readded a bit of code that was removed from blockage driver when it was converted to use tilemap (blasto needed it)

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• VS. Super Xevious [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
• VS. Freedom Force [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

src/drivers/vsnes.c

src/machine/vsnes.c

• Bishi Bashi Championship Mini Game Senshuken [R. Belmont]

some gfx problems

src/drivers/bishi.c

src/vidhrdw/bishi.c

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Street Fighter II CE bootlegs (sf2yyc, sf2koryu, sf2m4 - sf2m7) [Barry Harris]

src/drivers/cps1.c

src/vidhrdw/cps1.c

• A couple of Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2 and Vindicators Pt 2 clones [Aaron Giles]

src/drivers/gauntlet.c

• Q*Bert (early test) [Peter Rittwage]
• Mad Planets (UK Taitel license) [Tom McClintock]

src/drivers/gottlieb.c

Version 0.76u1

Released: 2003-10-25

General Source Changes

• Ported ElSemi's SCSP Core, this gives preliminary sound in the ST-V games, however at the moment most of them play static, Shienryu is mostly correct [R.Belmont]

src/sound/scsp.c

src/sound/scsp.h

src/sound/scsplfo.c

src/drivers/stv.c

• More ST-V Improvements, fixing various graphical issues (Shienryu Sprite Colours) and general other bits and pieces. More games are 'watchable' now, for example Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang, Puyo Puyo Sun, Columns 97 however they lack controls [David Haywood]

src/drivers/stv.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp1.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp2.c

• Some Atari improvements with the new sets (old speed hacks removed that aren't really needed anymore, both screens being displayed in Cyberball) [Aaron Giles]

src/ -various, too many to list

• Misc Changes [Nathan Woods]

src/sndintrf.c:

• Removed wave_sh_stop() call from the MESS specific WAVE sound interface (it is extraneous now)

src/x86drc.c:

src/x86drc.h:

• Added a few macros for other miscellaneous X86 opcodes
• Added a drc_dasm() call, a debug call that uses MAME's I386 disassembler to disassemble DRC'd code (didn't compile, commented out until fixed)

src/mame.h:

src/windows/config.c:

• Added 'GAMENOUN' and 'GAMESNOUN' macros; defined to be the human readable text for the words 'game' and 'games' respectively (this is so MESS can use the nouns 'system' and 'systems')

• v60 Improvements (LDTASK, STTASK, ABSF and some missing \n.) [Olivier Galibert]

src/cpu/v60/*

• Added Sound and Improved Background emulation in HeliFire [Jarek Burczynski]

src/drivers/8080bw.c

src/sndhrdw/8080bw.c

src/vidhrdw/8080bw.c

• Misc Windows OSD updates and D3D fixes [Leon van Rooij]

makefile:

windows\windows.mak:

Added CFLAGSOSDEPEND variable. It is used when compiling osd code only (e.g. DirectX needs -Wno-strict-aliasing).

COMPILESYSTEM_CYGWIN determines if nasm or nasmw is used (the cygwin version of nasm is called nasm)

windows\fileio.c:

Quick fix for some #defines in that don't work with win32api 2.4

windows\snprintf.c:

Changed a variable name that conflicts with a gcc built-in

windows\blit.c:

windows\wind3d.c:

Fixed a bug that affected stv games when flipping/rotating the image

windows\wind3d.c:

windows\window.c:

windows\window.h:

window size/prescale/rgb-auto effect can now change when the image size is changed by the game driver

• SegaPCM fixes [Olivier Galibert]

Fixes the pitch (the 15800Hz value was wrong, it should have been the main 4Mhz clock divived by 256) and also makes the code ultra-paranoid when it comes to out-of-range accesses in the sample roms. Power Drift's sound code sometimes puts semirandom values for the first handful of keyons on song transitions.

src/sound/segapcm.c

• Added Proper Inits to term2la1 [Brian Troha]

• Merged Zaxxon and Congo drivesr [CUrt Coder]

• Reversed harddisk.c back to 0.73 status

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Baku Baku Animal [David Haywood]

still a few gfx glitches and no sound

src/drivers/stv.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp1.c

src/vidhrdw/stvvdp2.c

• Tekken [smf]
• Tekken 2 [smf]
• Soul Edge [smf]

(Soul Edge Ver II. doesn't work)

• Xevious 3D/G (XV31/VER.A) [smf]
• Prime Goal EX (PG1/VER.A) [smf]

none of the above 5 have sound

src/drivers/namcos11.c

+ various PSX support files

• Super Speed Race [Stefan Jokisch]

no sound

src/drivers/sspeedr.c

src/vidhrdw/sspeedr.c

• Cosmo [Jarek Burczynski]

no sound

src/drivers/8080bw.c

src/vidhrdw/8080bw.c

• Thunder Ceptor II [BUT]

missing backgrounds

src/drivers/tceptor.c

src/vidhrdw/tceptor.c

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• 100 Atari clones [Aaron Giles]

• 2 new Road Runner variants
• 8 new Road Blasters variants
• 2 new Paperboy variants
• 5 new 720' variants
• 6 new Super Sprint variants
• 7 new Championship Sprint variants
• 7 new APB variants
• 2 new Blasteroids sets
• 1 new Cyberball set
• 3 new 2-player Cyberball 2072 sets
• 1 new Tournament Cyberball 2072 set
• 3 new Skull & Crossbones sets
• 3 new Toobin' sets
• 6 new Vindicators sets
• 4 new Xybots sets
• 10 new Hard Drivin' versions
• 3 new Hard Drivin' Compact versions
• 9 new STUN Runner versions
• 9 new Race Drivin' versions
• 7 new Race Drivin' Compact versions
• 2 new Steel Talons versions

• Superior Soliders (US) (parent of psoldier) [Chris Hardy]

src/drivers/m92.c

• Asterock (Sidam bootleg of asteroid) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

src/drivers/asteroid.c

• Sky Raiders (bootleg of uniwars) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

src/drivers/galaxian.c</pre>

Version 0.76u2

Released: 2003-11-01

General Source Changes

• Rewrote rf5c68 sound core [Olivier Galibert]

src/sound/rf5c68.c

src/sound/rf5c68.h

• Misc Changes [Nathan Woods]

src/fileio.c:

• Integrates some MESS specific fileio functionality (within #ifdef MESS)

src/sndintrf.c:

• Removing the update procedure in a MESS specific sound core

• Some Hyperstone Fixes / Improvements [Mooglyguy, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

src/cpu/e132xs/32xsdasm.c

src/cpu/e132xs/e132xs.c

src/cpu/e132xs/e132xs.h

src/drivers/vamphalf.c

• Fixed SCSP crash with -nosound [R.Belmont]

src/sound/scsp.c

• Attempted to fix some hangs in the Soul Edge clones [smf]

src/machine/psx.c

• Added new function: activecpu_eat_cycles(cycles), needed for idle skipping in certain situations [Aaron Giles]

src/cpuexec.c

src/cpuexec.h

• Midway V-Unit Update [Aaron Giles]

• WarGods sound is 100% now
• added some pre-initialization of the WarGods NVRAM
• added speedup handlers for all games (it makes a little difference)
• revamped the DCS2 handling to support stereo output
• fixed a number of synchronization issues in the DCS2 handling
• implemented a few missing features in the Midway I/O ASIC

src/sound/dcs.c

src/sound/dcs.h

src/drivers/midvunit.c

src/machine/midwayic.c

src/machine/midwayic.h

• Cpu Fixes / Tweaks [Aaron Giles]

ADSP2100:

• fixed loading of 0 counters so they don't execute infinitely
• fixed initial state of the SSTAT register

MIPS3 (R4000/R5000):

• fixed timer handling so we don't set a timer too far in advance
• changed timer handling so that the default Compare value doesn't trigger timers
• fixed cycle chomping to make sure we don't go over an interrupt boundary
• added correct cycle times for MULT/DIV instructions
• fixed display of the Count reigster in the debugger

MIPS3DRC:

• same fixes as above, plus:
• fixed FP rounding glitches
• now actually respecting the global FP rounding mode

R3000:

• fixed instruction timings for MULT/DIV

X86DRC:

• added better support for tweaking the FP rounding modes

src/cpu/adsp2100/2100ops.c

src/cpu/adsp2100/adsp2100.c

src/cpu/mips/mips3.c

src/cpu/mips/mips3drc.c

src/cpu/mips/r3000.c

src/x86drc.c

src/x86drc.h

• MagMax sound improvements (Emulated some op.amps and RC filter circuits giving more exact results) [Jarek Burczynski]

src/drivers/magmax.c

• Fixes to the ymdeltat module. Generally - even more flags work correctly now. These changes are necessary for the msx sound emulation (Y8950) and were tested in nlmsx emulator by Frits Hilderink. [Jarek Burczynski]

Look at the top of each *.c file for a detailed list of changes.

src/sound/fm.c

src/sound/fm.h

src/sound/fmopl.c

src/sound/fmopl.h

src/sound/ymdeltat.c

src/sound/ymdeltat.h

• Improved Sound in Cabal / Dead Angle by adding ADPCM sounds [R.Belmont, Jarek Burczynski]

src/drivers/cabal.c

src/drivers/deadang.c

src/sndhrdw/seibu.c

src/sndhrdw/seibu.h

• Added OKI6295 sounds in Grand Cross [R.Belmont]

src/drivers/gcpinbal.c

• Asterock Dipswitches [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

src/drivers/asteroid.c

• Fixed Aspect Ratio calculationbug on some rotated games

(galspnbl for example) [Sébastien Volpe]

src/common.c

src/windows/wind3d.c

src/windows/winddraw.c

src/windows/window.c

• Added Sample SUpport rto Armor Attack and Sundance [Tim Cottrill]

src/drivers/cinemat.c

src/sndhrdw/sinemat.c

src/includes/cinemat.h

• Decoded BG graphics in Thunder Ceptor II but BG's still aren't hooked up yet, improved existing graphics a bit [David Haywood, BUT]

src/drivers/tceptor.c

src/vidhrdw/tceptor.c

• Fixed Dragon Unit Dipswitches [Iñigo Luja]

src/drivers/seta.c

• Some twin16.c / tmnt.c cleanups, fg layer converted to tilemaps [Curt Coder]

• Some input fixes [HowardC]

atetris.c

neogeo.c

+others

• Fixed Xain'd Sleena hang? [David Haywood]

src/drivers/xain.c

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Several ST-V games are probably now playable, however be warned many are very very slow, this is not a bug, sound is still poor or non-existant in most titles, these haven't been tested for long so could easily fail at later levels. Games which were marked as working in previous updates are also improved (shienryu etc.) [David Haywood, Angelo Salese, Olivier Galibert]

Puyo Puyo Sun - some priority glitches, otherwise looks good

Mausuke Ojama the World - mostly ok

Ejihon Tantei Jimusyo - missing alpha effect on lens

Virtua Fighter Kids - bad sprite colours, missing ground effects

Columns 97 - miscoloured sprites, background not correctly scaled

Cotton 2 - missing ground in places

Cotton Boomerang - missing ground in places

Die Hard Arcade / Dynamite Deka - missing floors / ceilings

there might be others too, a few can certainly be watched. this driver still needs a lot of work, I don't expect it to be completed soon due to the incredible complexity of this hardware.

• Sega Dual Space Attack / Head On Dual board [Stefan Jokisch]

src/drivers/vicdual.c

New Non-Working games / clones supported

• Quiz Panicuru Fantasy [David Haywood]

haven't found any time for this in the last 6 months so included it anyway so it doesn't get lost, if anybody wants to finish it they're welcome

src/drivers/quizpani.c

Other Versions