MAME 0.37b2
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Release Date
MAME 0.37b2 was released on 6 May 2000.
Contributors
The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order:
- Aaron Giles
- Brad Oliver
- Bryan McPhail
- Ernesto Corvi
- Fabrice Frances
- Juergen Buchmueller
- Luca Elia
- Martin Buchholz
- Mathias Rosenhauer
- Nicola Salmoria
- Phil Stroffolino
- Zsolt Vasvari
Specific Contributions
The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:
- Aaron Giles added accurate sprite drawing in MCR 1 & 2 games (see Satan's Hollow)
- Bryan McPhail fixed sprite / tile priority in Mad Gear and Garyo Retsuden.
- Bryan McPhail fixed rowscroll in Ghostbusters.
- Phil Stroffolino corrected colors in Lasso.
- Fabrice Frances fixed colors in Reactor.
- Ernesto Corvi fixed adpcm decoding in the K053260, this improves several Konami games.
- Zsolt Vasvari added sound to Demon.
- Mathias Rosenhauer added samples to Warrior.
- Phil Stroffolino added sound to Lasso.
- Bryan McPhail fixed the Gang Wars original version, Super Baseball, Battlefield, Time Solders rev 1.
- Brad Oliver did a massive rewrite of the cheat system user interface. This is still a work in progress.
- Brad Oliver added a first pass for multi language support with external translation files.
- Juergen Buchmueller extended the internal font to support characters 128-255 (ISO Latin-1).
- Bryan McPhail fixed some Hu6280 emulation bugs which caused missing levels in Trio the Punch.
- Replaced instances of "if (errorlog) fprintf(errorlog," with a call to the new function logerror().
- New filetypes that must be supported by the OS dependant code:
- FILETYPE_HIGHSCORE_DB
- FILETYPE_HISTORY
- FILETYPE_CHEAT
- FILETYPE_LANGUAGE
- new functions:
- osd_readkey_unicode
- osd_fgetc
- osd_ungetc
- osd_fgets
- osd_feof
- osd_ftell
- Brad Oliver added a new filed in struct Gameoptions: language_file. The OS dependant code must initialize it if it wants to use a translation file.
- Aaron Giles added a new parameter to the end of the EEPROM interface to enable multiple reads to occur after a single read command. Added an EEPROM_set_data() routine that can be used to explicitly initialize the contents of the EEPROM if the NVRAM file isn't found.
Game Support
New Games added or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status
- Pipe Dreams
- Tail to Nose
- Poly-Play
- Kyros
- Super Stingray
- Battle Rangers / Bloody Wolf
- Dangun Feveron
- Esprade
- Uo Poko
- Insector (prototype)
- Screw Loose (prototype)
- Mermaid
New clones added
