MAME 0.117u2

Release Date

MAME 0.117u2 was released on 26 July 2007.

Contributors

The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order:

• Aaron Giles
• Andrew Gardner
• Atari Ace
• Barry Harris
• Captain Ahab
• Dirk Best
• Ernesto Corvi
• Fabio Priuli
• Lord Nightmare
• Nathan Woods
• Phil Stroffolino
• Roberto Fresca
• Samuele Zannoli
• Sonikos
• Wilbert Pol

Specific Contributions

The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:

• Phil Stroffolino updated the Imola GP driver:
  • renamed from "monzagp"
  • the leds are fully mapped
  • fixes for blitter modes, that affect the "tunnel" area
  • dipswitch/port fixes; game now starts in attract mode, rather than immediately starting
  • placeholder (handpicked) colors

• Fabio Priuli updated DIP switches for topland & ainferno according to their manuals.

• Samuele Zannoli made more SH-4 core improvements:
  • fixes some problems in the disassembly and instruction execution from the previous patch
  • adds interrupt management
  • implements register bank switching
  • adds RTC timer counters
  • adds memory refresh timer
  • adds three timers of the TMU
  • adds a configuration structure that specifies the processor mode pin settings
  • internal processor clock frequencies calculated from mode pins and cpu clock
  • systems using the sh4 processor secify its configuration structure

• Sonikos fixed some DIP switches in littlerb.

• Atari Ace made some minor code quality changes across the code:
  • avoided exporting a few global variables
  • fixed variable names that conflicted with typedef names
  • removed some shadow variables that were bugs or unnecessary
  • removed extraneous #defines

• Nathan Woods fixed up the sc61860 core, f3853 core, and pckeybd.c to work with new timing code.

• Wilbert Pol made more TIA improvements:
  • fixed some minor missile graphics positioning issues
  • moved some initialization code from tia_init to tia_reset

• Atari Ace fixed a few errors related to headers in the source code. Added missing self-includes, removed dead prototypes, and added location comments in headers in mame/includes. In a few cases the audit showed items that didn't need to be exported so they were made static.

• Roberto Fresca cleaned up the inputs in gdrawpkr and changed the hold buttons to "discard" since they are in fact discard buttons.

• Dirk Best added support for 14- and 16-segment LED displays to the MAME artwork system.

• Barry Harris fixed button 4 of player 2 inputs in bloodwar.

• Lord Nightmare connected the S14001A speech to the wolfpack driver.

• Ernesto Corvi fixed the incorrect implementation of SSIO volume controls in the MCR driver. This makes the engine sound in Spy Hunter audible again, among other things.

• Nathan Woods added support back for the "none" option for the various *_device options.

• Captain Ahab fixed the HD6309 dissaembly of the post-byte for ,W++ and ,--W.

• Wilbert Pol updated the 6532 riot interface to be more like the 6522via and 6821pia interfaces.

• Aaron Giles improved the -listxml output to reflect new BIOS flag. New attribute isbios="yes" indicates that a given game is a BIOS.

• Aaron Giles made further tweaks to the game selection UI:
  • disabled the tab key
  • added hook for general input configuration from the menu
  • split set names from friendly names into left/right columns
  • added a background to the descriptive names of clones
  • if you start with the game selection menu, hitting Esc to exit a game brings you back to the menu rather than quitting immediately
  • fixed logic so that INI files are reloaded for each game

• Aaron Giles moved the INI file handling fully into the core. As a side-effect of this change, <exename>.ini is no longer parsed. Changed -createconfig to always output mame.ini instead of <exename>.ini as a result.

• Aaron Giles renamed run_game() to mame_execute(). The game driver is no longer specified as a parameter; rather, this information is extracted from the options via OPTION_GAMENAME.

• Aaron Giles fixed the raw input-based lightgun buttons.

• Aaron Giles cleaned up the options.c code. Added priority levels to options as they are set. New options are only accepted if they have greater or equal priority to a previous change. Added new function options_revert() to revert options below a given priority to their defaults. Changed options_get_string() so that it always returns a valid string (never NULL). Invalid strings are returned as empty strings.

• Aaron Giles added new functions core_filename_extract_base() and core_filename_ends_with() to corefile.h.

• Aaron Giles changed the menu rendering a bit. Added a background hilight to more strongly emphasize the current item. Added rendered arrows to indicate more items on the top/bottom and to indicate selection options in the DIP switch menus. Changed hilighting to be a bit less garish. Fixed repeat rates on keys to no longer be tied to the framerate.

• Aaron Giles added support for page up/page down generically in menus. Also made pause toggle work while menus are visible.

• Aaron Giles changed render_textures to allocate in a pool model, to avoid high memory overhead when allocating large numbers of textures (for example in the 14- and 16-segment LED displays).

• Aaron Giles fixed a number of 64-bit compiler warnings.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• King Pin
• King Pin Multi-Game