MAME 0.86u3

Release Date

MAME 0.86u3 was released on 3 September 2004.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• B.S.Ruggeri
• David Haywood
• Derrick Renaud
• Pete Rittwage
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont

Specific Contributions

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

• R. Belmont converted some CD images to CHD

• R. Belmont made some regression fixes for Starblad and Simpsons:
  • restored polygon drawing in starblad
  • corrected clocks in simpsons

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the black squares in ozon1

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed filenames in some of the sets added in the previous update

• Pete Rittwage and Derrick Renaud made Donkey Kong sample improvements

• R. Belmont improved the Namco Classics driver: Added H8/3002 MCU and C352 sound chip. Both ncv1 and ncv2 are now fully playable with full sound and music.

• David Haywood improved the Hyper Neogeo 64 driver: I won't be doing much work on this again until I buy some more RAM so don't expect too much. Needs a kludge in the MIPS core so the changes aren't very visible in a normal build (details of the required kludge are in the source)

• B.S.Ruggeri changed the Gottlieb input definitions

• R. Belmont fixed the H8/3002: fixed btst #imm, @Rn instruction - it was giving reversed results, which crashed ncv2's MCU program.

• R. Belmont updated the Namco C352: Many many fixes to wave start/end/bank handling plus added chain mode support. Thanks to cap @ VivaNonno for the tips.

• R. Belmont updated CHDMAN:
  • This makes the parser deal with .toc files output by current cdrdao better. I need to just give in and rewrite it for 2-pass operation sometime, it'll be much cleaner then.
  • Incidentally, if anyone has any idea where to get specs for e.g. CloneCD or some other popularish image format(s) let me know and I'll add support.

• Aaron Giles fixed random key mapping bugs with the new config system

• Aaron Giles fixed some input ports:
  • reversed pedals now work correctly (e.g., brake in Hard Drivin')
  • all relative controls (dial, trackball, mouse) scale the same regardless of the number of bits allocated for that port

Game Support

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Namco Classics Vol.2

New clones added

• Zero (bootleg of Defender)