Georg: Initial version.

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Initial version.

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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'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/pipedrmj Pipe Dreams]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/tail2nos Tail to Nose]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/polyplay Poly-Play]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/kyros Kyros]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sstingry Super Stingray]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/battlera Battle Rangers / Bloody Wolf]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/dfeveron Dangun Feveron]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/espradeo Esprade]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/uopokoj Uo Poko]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/insector Insector (prototype)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/screwloo Screw Loose (prototype)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/mermaid Mermaid]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/oscarj Psycho-Nics Oscar (2 Japanese sets)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/astrob Astro Blaster (version 3)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/grindstm Grind Stormer (= V-Five)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sheriff Sheriff (= Bandido)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/supbtime Super Burger Time (World)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/vaportra Vapor Trail (World)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/inthuntu In The Hunt (US)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/schasrcv Space Chaser (CV)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sspacat2 Space Attack (older)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/800fath 800 Fathoms (= Mariner)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/spinlbru Spinal Breakers (US)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/boscoo2 Bosconian (older)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/junofstg Juno First (Gottlieb)]

[[Category:Releases 2000]]

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