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New page: == Release Date == MAME 0.133u4 was released on 29 August 2009. == Contributors == The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order: * Aaron Giles * [[Alan Griffin...

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.133u4 was released on 29 August 2009.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Alan Griffin]]
* [[Alexander Stakhanov]]
* [[Angelo Salese]]
* [[Anonymous]]
* [[Black1972]]
* [[Brian Troha]]
* [[CaH4e3]]
* [[Charles MacDonald]]
* [[couriersud]]
* [[Curt Coder]]
* [[David Haywood]]
* [[eke]]
* [[Frank Berlt]]
* [[Guru]]
* [[hap]]
* [[Joerg Hartenberger]]
* [[Kevin Eshbach]]
* [[Luca Elia]]
* [[Mariusz Wojcieszek]]
* [[MK3Fan – Mike]]
* [[Phil Bennett]]
* [[Pierpaolo Prazzoli]]
* [[Roberto Fresca]]
* [[Siftware]]
* [[Smitdogg]]
* [[Tafoid]]
* [[The Dumping Union]]
* [[Tomasz Slanina]]

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

* [[Curt Coder]] updated the Intel 8085 core:
** Refactored callbacks to use devcb.
** Added 8080A variant.

* [[Curt Coder]] added helper macros to devcb for input lines tied to GND/Vcc.

* [[Guru]] added Dirt Dash wave ROM redumps.

* [[couriersud]] provided Battle Zone discrete sound & discrete sound additions:
** Added discrete sound to battle zone.
** Engine frequency (resistor R11) can be changed with slider.
** Discrete sound may be disabled by setting BZONE_DISCRETE to 0 in bzone.h.

* [[couriersud]] provided discrete sound improvements:
** DISCRETE_RCDISC3: added diode junction voltage; junction voltage also indicates polarity.
** DISCRETE_OPAMP_FILTER: added type.
** DISC_OP_AMP_FILTER_IS_LOW_PASS_1M; INP2 takes role of v_ref in this type
** DISCRETE_OPAMP: fixed a bug (possible divide by 0).
** DISCRETE_LFSR: fixed bug preventing output of shift reg to sub node 1.

* [[Angelo Salese]] provided SNES improvements:
** Fixed half colour blending behaviour.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added infrastructure to compile universal standalone disassembler:
** Added unidasm to the tools build.
** Split the disassemblers out of libcpu and into new libdasm.
** Ensured the disassembly entry points for all disassemblers are in the source file for the disassembler (sometimes new generic versions were created).

* [[Roberto Fresca]] provided improvements to Noraut Poker driver:
** Switched to pre-defined Xtal clock.
** Changed the way how graphics are banked/accessed.
** Fixed the graphics offset and number of tiles per bank.
** Added new set: Noraut Red Hot Joker Poker.
** Added new set: Noraut Poker (NTX10A).
** Added new set: Noraut Joker Poker (V3.010a).
** Fixed the tile size/decode for the first GFX bank.
** Added proper norautrh inputs, including the readout button.
** Added partial DIP switches to norautrh.
** Added an extra DIP switch to Noraut Red Hot Joker Poker.
** Also added DIP locations to the whole bank.
** Added a default NVRAM for Noraut Joker Poker
** Executed a trojan on 2 noraut systems to confirm the way 16x32 tiles are decoded.
** Fixed the x-offset for 32x32 tiles lines.
** Fixed the screen aspect and visible area.
** Confirmed correct colors. No bipolar PROM involved.
** Added Noraut Joker Poker hardware and PCB layouts.
** Documented the discrete audio circuitry. Added a full diagram.
** Fixed the coin counters.
** Documented all the output ports.
** Added a scheme with descriptions for every existent port.
** Added full lamps support to naroutp, naroutjp, naroutrh and naroutpn.
** Created lamps layouts for 11 and 12-lamps scheme.
** Rerouted some inputs to mantain the inputs layout.
** Renamed some inputs to match the text with the real cab buttons.
** Removed the imperfect colors flag from the existent sets.
** Added 2 different control panel layouts to the source.
** Updated technical notes.

* [[Tafoid]] fixed redundancy in clock speed assignments in some drivers by cleaning all divided by 1 (/1) instances.
* [[Anonymous]] provided Argonaut SuperFX core improvements:
** Hooked up Branch instructions.
** Fixed numerous SuperFX core bugs.
** Improved disassembler to more gracefully handle ALT* opcode effects.
** Corrected instruction behaviors: STOP, SUB, SBC, SUBI, CMP.
** Added LSR and ROL opcodes.
** Updated instructions to use the safer superfx_gpr_write: LOOP, PLOT, INC, DEC.
** Added missing register writeback to LMS.
** Corrected carry flag behavior in ROL opcode.
** Corrected BRA target address calculation (maybe still wrong).
** Corrected LOOP target address calculation.
** Made sure that FROM sets cpustate->sreg_idx.
** Disabled RAM/ROM clocking, going with instant transfer for now.
** Understood and re-enabled pipelined instruction architecture, Star Fox runs farther.
** Fixed a ridiculous typo in ROL instruction.
** Fixed overflow flag calculation on ADDI / ADCI.
** Fixed lack of register reset after ADD / ADC / ADDI / ADCI.

* [[Luca Elia]] provided a tmaster.c update:
** Implemented carts banking and multiple EEPROMs.
** Added "pen replacement" blit mode.
** Fixed palette size.

* [[couriersud]] did some discrete work:
** Change the way custom modules are handled.
** Updated drivers mario and dkong accordingly.
** Minor change to stream input handling.
** No more linear lists for nodes. All node processing switched to linked lists.
** Module step and reset now only get a node pointer passed.
** Added discrete_info * pointer to node.
** Only nodes with a step routine actually get processed.
** Fixed a bug: discrete logs did not work since some time.
** Preliminary parallel task constants; depending on results these may vanish again.
** Overall slight performance increase. dkong 940% to 960%, galaxian 740% to 790%.

* [[hap]] fixed NULL timers crash in the mc6845.

* [[eke]] fixed IM2 interrupt cycles in the Z80 core.

* [[David Haywood]], [[Guru]] and [[Tomasz Slanina]] provided kaneko16 updates:
** Decoded all protection data for B.Rap Boys.
** Cleaned up decryption function for B.Rap Boys external Rom
** Improved video emulation for B.Rap Boys.
** Marked several GFX roms as bad on B.Rap Boys.
** Improved protection simulation logic w/regards to writeback addresses, allowing B.Rap Boys to boot.
** Redumped GFX Roms.
** Added hitbox simulation based on suprnova / game requirements.
** Converted MCU writes to use write_byte.
** Added kludge to reset MCU data write address to prevent game from running out of ram and crashing.
** Added DSWs.
** Added eeprom support to the B Rap Boys protection simulation.
** Change to priorities to fix some visibility problems.

* [[MK3Fan - Mike]] added correct U2 sound ROM to the mk3 sets.

* [[couriersud]] added discrete sound parallel tasks support:
** Introduced DISCRETE_TASK_START, DISCRETE_TASK_END.
** DISCRETE_TASK_START: Start a new task. A task is a set of nodes which only depend on input nodes and nodes in the set.
** DISCRETE_TASK_END(task_output_node): Marks the end of the task. task_output_node is the node whose output over time should be preserved. This node can be accessed by nodes in the main thread.
** Illustrated the concept in the dkong discrete emulation. This also has been enhanced to buffer DAC output.
** Discrete tasks now support multiple task output nodes.

* [[couriersud]] provided further discrete changes:
** DISCRETE_OUTPUT now is a stepping node.
** DISCRETE_STREAM_INPUT now advances input pointer in step.
** More linked_list usage.

* [[Brian Troha]] provided Pit Boss driver updates:
** Corrected rom names for the Megastar & Supertouch 30.
** Added missing rom to Supertouch 30 and verified old bad_dumps.
** Added documentation about the Megastar sets.
** Made pbst30b a clone of pbst30 and added program versions to the name, IE: Pit Boss Supertouch 30 (9234-10-01).

* [[Phil Bennett]] fixed B-Rap Boys sound banking.

* [[Roberto Fresca]] updated Sigma Poker: Fixed duplicated definition of Hold 2 button. Added the missing Hold 3 button.

* [[couriersud]] continued discrete sound system "list-ification":
** No more constraints on number of input and output nodes.
** Input nodes now make use of a context.

* [[Aaron Giles]] removed osd_is_bad_read_ptr function.

== Game Support ==
'''New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/norautrh Noraut Red Hot Joker Poker]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/galgame2 Galaxy Games StarPak 2]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/mt_gfoot Great Football]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/pitbossm Pit Boss Megastar (9244-00-01)]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/brapboys B.Rap Boys / B.Rap Boys Special]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/bilyard Billiard]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/kollonc Kollon (V2.04JC)]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/mktturbo Mortal Kombat Turbo Ninja (rev 3.1 T-Unit 03/19/93, hack)]

'''New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING'''
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/norautu Noraut Poker (NTX10A)]
* [http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/noraut3a Noraut Joker Poker (V3.010a)]

[[Category:Releases 2009]]

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