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0.143u4 -------
MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- - 02084: [DIP/Input] sokyugrt: Emulation starts with 1 or more credit inserted (Angelo Salese) - 04366: [DIP/Input] shanhigw: The game starts with 2 credits inserted (Angelo Salese) - 04470: [DIP/Input] roundup5, sci, chasehq, contcirc, dblaxle: Missing PORT_TOGGLE (M.A.S.H.) - 04396: [Interface] all games and drivers: Refreshspeed activating when not needed (hap) - 04453: [Graphics] shackled: Garbled sprites (David Haywood)
Source Changes -------------- driver.h: fixed handling of compatible systems for MESS [Fabio Priuli]
tbowl.c: Corrected some dipswitches and settings. Added dipswitch locations to the Tecmo Bowl sets. [Brian Troha]
Added correct sprite rom for "Mahjong Tian Jiang Shen Bing" [Guru]
Decrypted sprites and palette in "Mahjong Tian Jiang Shen Bing", added inputs, sidestepped protection [Luca Elia]
z80dma: Added an alternative way of register read-back that directly change the read mask without passing from the init read sequence command, also moved around DMA counters incrementing [Angelo Salese]
tecmo.c: Added proper region to Gemini and Silk Worm sets. Added dipswitch locations to Rygar sets, Gemini, Silk Worm and Back Fire (Tecmo, bootleg). [Brian Troha]
Removed support for PORT_CATEGORY from the core, since PORT_CONDITION is enough to deal with removable controllers in MESS [Fabio Priuli]
ioport.c: during emulation, detect keyboard only when enabled [Fabio Priuli]
Various Neo-Geo changes: [Jackc, Johnboy] * Continued to document used pcb's for cartridges * More removal of .bin extension in favour of chiplabel.socketlabel naming convention * Cleaned up fightfev: Removed duplicate p2, marked p1 bad dump * Cleaned up fatfury2
Fixed independent channel volumes in Okim6376 sound chip, used by the games from the Road Hog era of MPU4 [J. Wallace]
Moved ST-V game-specific overrides from saturn.c/stvinit.c to stv.c, makes games to correctly return stv.c instead of saturn.c if you use -listsource [Angelo Salese]
Moved change clock inside a timer and worked on NMI generation for SMPC, fixes most instances of 2 credits at start-up for ST-V games [Angelo Salese]
General portability fixes [Robert Muth, R. Belmont]
Rewritten ST-V IOGA system from scratch [Angelo Salese]
ymz280b.c: several minor fixes, including the issue that caused glitched sfx in tecmosys.c tkdensho and deroon [hap]
Fixed mahjong panel input quirks for Virtual Mahjong and My Fair Lady [Angelo Salese]
Provided some cheesy hacks to allow Magical Zunou Power to boot [Angelo Salese]
Converted VDP2 registers into proper 16-bits parallelism [Angelo Salese]
chdman - supported full/relative paths when creating cd rom image, also added support for GDI with files containing space char [Miodrag Milanovic]
Added support for loading other image types to cdrom device, with use of chdman part of code [Miodrag Milanovic]
floppy: Add generic track data descriptors [O. Galibert]
Added MVOL to the SCSP core, used for sound fade in/out effects [Angelo Salese]
Various fixes to the Taito JC system [Angelo Salese]: * implemented preliminary object RAM bankswitch, fixes Densha de Go garbage video objects if you coin up during attract mode * improved inputs in Densha de Go, promoted game to working state; * fixes analog inputs in Landing Gear; * work around for DSP reset line in Dangerous Curves, allows it to reach title screen (no 3d yet due of other problems); * Implemented 4bpp mode for object RAM, used by Densha de Go 2 credit display; * Fixed IRQ6 triggering in (it's a signal that's sent from DSP to Main to communicate that job is done); * Faked the Mascon via an analog port, that fixes a bunch of issues with undefined input state for Densha de Go 1 and 2 * Fixed ROM loading in Densya de Go 2 Kousoku-hen, fixes booting in it; * Fixed Densha de Go 2 crash when entering into gameplay, game is now playable; * Implemented gouraud shaded triangles, fixes Landing Gear messed up 3D; * Fixed credit display in Densha de Go; * Preliminary implementation of object RAM screen masking, used to cover left-right sides of the screen; * Added DSP idle skips, mostly noticeable during POST screens;
Provided odometer and break table conversion for Densha de Go [O. Galibert]
naomi: Split the rom boards into a collection of devices. [O. Galibert]
williams.c: added second sound board to blaster/blaster30 [hap]
Fixed TMS32051 debug memory viewer [Angelo Salese]
williams.c update 2 [hap] * fixed screen garbage when frameskipping * fixed blaster background color (eg. screen flashes when hit)
Work-around for TMS32051 crash on Taito JC system soft reset [Angelo Salese]
Fixed a debugger crash if you try to view data memory in TMS32051 [Angelo Salese]
Add preliminary support for big-endian SH-3/SH-4 CPUs. [R. Belmont]
m68k: improved disassembly of CINV and CPUSH [R. Belmont]
Moved 3d drawing functions outside of the screen updating function in Taito Air System driver, this should help in preparation of properly fixing the 3d graphics in it [Angelo Salese]
Further major organization, documentation and addition of numerous (over 800) gambling / Fruit machine titles covering multiple systems. [David Haywood]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status --------------------------------------------------- Mahjong Tian Jiang Shen Bing (V137C) [Guru, bnathan, Dyq, Luca Elia] Densha de GO! [Angelo Salese, R. Belmont] Densha de GO! 2 [Angelo Salese, R. Belmont] Landing Gear [Angelo Salese, R. Belmont] Penky [Kevin Eshbach, ranger_lennier, B. Munger, bodger319, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
New clones added ---------------- Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp - set 2) [f205v, robotype] Rescue (bootleg) (not working) [f205v, robotype] The End (bootleg) (not working) [f205v, robotype] Missile Combat (Sidam bootleg) (not working) [f205v, robotype] Biomechanical Toy (Ver. 1.0.1884) [Tirino73] Shocking (Korea) [Mark F., Smitdogg, The Dumping Union] Puzz Loop (Europe, v0.94) [Joerg Hartenberger]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING ------------------------------------ Animal Basket [Yohji, Cah4e3, The Dumping Union] Alien Front [Mark F., The Dumping Union, R. Belmont] S-Plus (SS4240) Coral Reef [agemame]
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