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Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.71u2 was released on 12 July 2003.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Brian Troha]]
* [[Curt Coder]]
* [[David Haywood]]
* [[Iñigo Luja]]
* [[Jarek Burczynski]]
* [[Manuel Abadia]]
* [[Nathan Woods]]
* [[Phil Stroffolino]]
* [[Pierpaolo Prazzoli]]
* [[R. Belmont]]
* [[Razoola]]
* [[ShiRiRu]]
* [[Tomasz Slanina]]

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

* [[David Haywood]] made some progress on the MegaTech emulation: menu is now displayed, but carts not recognised, display currently controllled by a dipswitch, will be changed later, enabled the other games on the driver while work is done, these might be disabled for 0.72

* [[Razoola]] fixed some NeoGeo sets: 98e -> 98, -98a 99 <-> 99a

* [[Jarek Burczynski]] fixed sound chips in lsasquad

* [[David Haywood]] fixed loading of Landmaker (prototype)

* [[Curt Coder]] converted some drivers to tilemaps

* [[R. Belmont]] cleaned Up some Konami GX rom loading

* [[Nathan Woods]] contributed various changes
** Adds save state support to Cojag
** Disables certain error logging and speedup hacks under MESS
** get_jaguar_memory() now based on memory_get_read_ptr()
** Jaguar blitter won't crash if it is instructed to blit to a weird address
** Moved helpfile name into a constant
** Minor tweaks in #ifdef MESS, and #ifndef MESS'ed a consistency check inapprpriate for MESS
** Added very small hooks for MESS
** Changed seq_name() so that instead of saying "<KEY> or n/a", it will say "<KEY>"

* [[Aaron Giles]] made CPU interrupt improvements fixing the Exidy 440 games (Chiller etc.), Ultimate Tennnis, and the Seibu Sound System

* [[Tomasz Slanina]] fixed the reset in robokid when time runs out (robokid37b15red)

* [[Tomasz Slanina]] stopped Nova2001 from resetting when a coin is inserted if you insert coins too quickly the game still resets, its probably just the way it was, the code for this part was changed in the clone

* [[Iñigo Luja]] fixed some DIP switches

* [[Nathan Woods]] changed the way the snapshot code works

* [[Phil Stroffolino]] made huge Improvements in Prop Cycle (Namco System 22)
** pulled out matrix3d to its own module
** near plane clipping
** perspective correct textures
** preliminary lighting (all or nothing)
** gamma correction
** preliminary fader support
** per polygon and per object depth bias
** sprite-polygon priority
** two-sided polygon flag
** tile flip attributes
** tilemap color bank
** improved steering responsiveness
** camera zoom and pan feature
** fixes to display list parsing
** corrected rotation mappings for System22/21

* [[Phil Stroffolino]] stopped sprites being hidden by track in fourtrax

* [[ShiRiRu]] fixed the CPS2 raster effect (xmvsf069agre)

* Added missing resources

== Game Support ==
'''New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/xorworld Xor World (prototype)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/bigevglf Big Event Golf]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sbowling Strike Bowling]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ssrj Super Speed Race Junior]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/greatgun Great Guns]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/hotgmck3 Taisen Hot Gimmick 3 Digital Surfing]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/nss_actr Act Raiser (Nintendo Super System)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/genix Genix]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/moobl Cowbows of Moo Mesa (bootleg)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/cuebrckj Cue Brick (Japan Ver. D)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/pestplce Pest Place (Mario Bros bootleg)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/a51mxr3k Area 51 / Maximum Force Duo (R3000)]

'''New TESTDRIVERS added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ltcasino Little Casino]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/supdrapo Super Draw Poker]

[[Category:Releases 2003]]

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