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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 06137: [Crash/Freeze] (maygay1bsw.c) Many sets in maygay1bsw.cpp: Several games
are crashing while "initializing.." (Osso)
- 06135: [Interface] ROM-less games cannot be started from internal UI
- 02327: [Graphics] (megasys1.c) chimerab: Priorty PROM is missing. (David Haywood)
- 06134: [Misc.] all games with LED outputs: ledutil no longer works (micko)
- 06139: [Color/Palette] (x68k.c) x68k [akumajo]: Some elements turn blue (crazyc)
Source Changes
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-New video chip support : Thomson EF9364 / Sescosem SFF96364 [Jean-Francois DEL NERO]
-Pyon Pyon Jump: [Roberto Fresca]
Create derivative machine driver.
Hooked the V9938 Yamaha VDP.
Added the DIP switches bank #1
Hooked the system input ports.
Added support for Yamaha YM2149.
Decoupled the YM2149 data read.
Correct bankswitching.
Added sound latch & output port.
Version added to the game description.
Proper inputs + DIP switches support.
Second CPU IRQ ack. Promoted to working.
OKI M5205 ADPCM samples support.
-pulsarlb: Added extra bios [Robbbert]
-Modernized sound volume setting code in various Atari drivers [AJR]
-Fixed F3 soft-reset on Arkanoid sets with MCU [Lord Nightmare]
-osdmini: Fixes build issues [Stuart Carnie]
-Replaced osd_lock with std::mutex [Miodrag Milanovic]
-Software list entries can now supply slot option defaults [AJR]
-i8271: Unload head after programmed revolutions [Nigel Barnes]
-apple2: Fix parallel card ACK handling, Print Shop almost works with
the lx810l now. [R. Belmont]
-Nibble driver: Rewrote the whole driver. Added video hardware,
preliminary machine driver and memory map. Decoded the graphics.
[Roberto Fresca]
-Made anonymous timer non-anonymous in arkanoid.cpp, fixes savestates
for the sets using the original Taito MCU code [Lord Nightmare]
-Allow load/saved state slots to be bound to joystick buttons [Victor Vasiliev]
-Dumped "Dead or Alive 2 (Rev A)", match existent set, fix game and EPRROM names
[Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
-Dumped "King of Fighters XI" EN, match JP one, add notes [Brizzo]
-Substantial improvements to Web Audio sound backend for Emscripten
port. [Grant Galitz]
-disound: Don't crash on state load when the mixer is disabled by lack
of inputs (misconfiguration or missing samples) [O. Galibert]
-Initial import of MEWUI to MAME [Maurizio Petrarota]
-External DATs grouped into a single view. [Maurizio Petrarota]
-New video chip support: Thomson EF9364 / Sescosem SFF96364 [Jean-Francois DEL NERO]
-z80.cpp: Added a debug mechanism for /WAIT pin assertion mechanism
(enable with STALLS_ON_WAIT_ASSERT in CPU core), and hooked it up to
Night Gal driver as a quick example. [Angelo Salese]
-Make octal flag part of address_space/address_space_config [AJR]
-Added unknown NAOMI development(?) board BOOT ROM [coolmod]
-Initial support for BGFX [Ryan Holtz, Dario Manesku, Branimir Karadic, Miodrag Milanovic]
-Significant speed improvements to the BGFX renderer. [Ryan Holtz]
-Added basic JSON-based single-pass shader effect support to BGFX renderer. [Ryan Holtz]
-Added hat trick hero 93 PALs [Alex Cmaylo]
-catnmous: graphical improvements [Vernimark, Vas Crabb]
* Redumped Cat and Mouse colour sprite ROM as the correct size
* Implement sprite ROM banking
* Improve colour palette using resistor values from board photographs
-laserbat: fix inadvertently swapped TMS organ chip clocks (fixes music) [Vas Crabb]
-Make Zaccaria 1B11107 and 1B11142 boards devices and share common parts [Vas Crabb]
-apple1: Completely rewrote the driver in modern idioms. All
functionality should be the same. [R. Belmont]
-Descrambled the ROM on the Xerox NoteTaker, and mapped it in the
correct areas to make it start to boot. [Lord Nightmare]
-Xerox NoteTaker: Corrected CPU Clock speed, and map at least some of RAM
[Lord Nightmare]
-electron: Added cassette softlist and implemented BREAK key [Nigel Barnes]
-Xerox NoteTaker: Corrected RAM amount. Attached the pic8259 interrupt
controller, though no interrupts are attached to that yet. Added
documentation of i/o writes during the boot process. [Lord Nightmare]
-vigilant.cpp: Added video timing PROM. [Pasky, caius]
-Videosnaps patch (additional file to write: gamename.inp.timecode) [Michele Fochi]
Added new options:
* [no]exit_after_playback (default=no)
* [no]record_input (default=no) Added new UI shortcut to save current
timecode (default F12) Translated variable names and comments to
english language
-Sord m5 driver update [Ales Dlabac]
added support for RAM expansions EM-5,64KBI,64KBF,64KRX
added m5p_brno mod Sord m5+1024kB
ramdisk+cp/m 2 cart slots
-Moon Light (Set 2): Fix the program ROM addressing. This fix the
corrupt graphics in the double-Up feature. [Roberto Fresca]
-Moved JANGOU_BLITTER into a device [Angelo Salese]
-NCS8105 ADCX opcode is actually an ADDX, fixes gfx garbage in
nightgal.cpp [Angelo Salese]
-Corrected ROM labels and removed endian-swap during descramble for
notetaker in favor of loading ROMs the other way round. Add ROM
locations. [Lord Nightmare]
-Xerox NoteTaker: Implement ROM/RAM overlay as per schematics.
Documented Address map and part of I/O map. [Lord Nightmare]
-Note that one of the buccaneers proms matches the vigilante video sync
prom [caius, David Haywood]
-Moon Light: Rearranged and split by program. This generated new sets
due to the hidden extra programs in the program ROMs. [Roberto Fresca]
-Xerox NoteTaker: Added the IO Processor firmware v1.50 as an alt bios
after typing it from the assembly source listing on bitsavers. Added
two PROMs as NO_DUMP. Updated comments and history a bit, but needs
further improvement. [Lord Nightmare]
-Updated Xerox NoteTaker documentation and history section, with cited
sources. [Lord Nightmare]
-Cherry Master v1.10: Fixed inputs / DIP switches. [Roberto Fresca]
-Xerox NoteTaker: Finished documenting the I/O CPU's I/O ports, updated
history documentation a bit more [Lord Nightmare]
-Figured out algorithm and replaced SnowBoard Championship lookup
table with proper emulation of device [Samuel Neves & Peter
Wilhelmsen]
-chihiro.c: Redumped "Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 2 (Rev G)" [ANY]
Re-parented set
-mitchell.cpp: Dumped a blockjoy board and noted a rom label difference
[Andrea Palazzetti]
-snotec.xml: Added 3 new cart dumps. [TeamEurope]
-Extended LUA API [Jeffrey Clark]
-Support for the AMPAL18P8 to the jedutil tool. [Kevin Eshbach]
-Improved cross compile support [Jeffrey Clark]
-Hp9845: Added tape driver [F. Ulivi]
-r9751: Add more DMA registers for serial and floppy [Brandon Munger]
-slapstic: One small step toward slapstic modernization [AJR]
* Make chip number part of device configuration, not init param
* Correct mainpcb slapstic number in racedrivpan
* Remove many unused slapstics
-c64_cart.xml, c128_cart.xml: Added some diagnostic carts.
[World of Jani]
-COM5016/COM8116 Baud Generator: Added a bunch more divisor tables and
notes [Lord Nightmare]
-Apollo changes: [Hans Ostermeyer]
* Unified logging format in associated devices
* Use correct raw video modes
-Xerox NoteTaker: Finished IOCPU memory map documentation. Hooked up the two
UARTS. Begin hookup of the screen/CRTC. Fixed an issue with writes to
ROM-mapped areas shadowing to RAM. Added 960KHz xtal for the keyboard UART.
[Lord Nightmare]
-AY-3-1015 UART: Fixed two swapped pin functions. [Lord Nightmare]
-Added multi-language support for MAME [Miodrag Milanovic]
-sq1: Much-improved LCD and front panel button support.
[Parduz, R. Belmont]
-weddingr: better input port descriptions [Vas Crabb]
-Added Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional translation [YuiFAN]
-Added German translation [Raf Tacker]
-Added Japanese translation [Fujix]
-Added Italian translation [Angelo Salese,Antonio Paradossi,Fabio Priuli]
-Added Portuguese (Brazil) translation [Ashura-X]
-pacman.cpp, meadwttl.cpp: small fix of game years for Novomatic's Cannon
Ball and Meadows' Meadows 4 in 1, respectively, to synchronize with
history.dat [Antonio Paradossi]
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