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	* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sercharj SAR - Search And Rescue (Japan)]		* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sercharj SAR - Search And Rescue (Japan)]
	* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ampokr2c American Poker II (set 4)]		* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ampokr2c American Poker II (set 4)]

			[[Category:Releases 2005]]

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Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.99u5 was released on 29 August 2005.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Buddabing]]
* [[Corrado Tomaselli]]
* [[David Haywood]]
* [[Luca Elia]]
* [[Pierpaolo Prazzoli]]
* [[Roberto Fresca]]
* [[Sebasten Hegon]]

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

* [[Aaron Giles]] completed the renaming of core structures. Most pervasive change was "struct tilemap" is now just "tilemap".

* [[Buddabing]] added save state support to the Cinematronics vector games.

* [[David Haywood]] added blending to the alt tilemap code in psikyosh.c, fixing the final boss in Sol Divide.

* [[Sebasten Hegon]] made improvements to the Witch/Pinball Champ '95 driver:
** The games now show some graphics (the palette seems OK) and play some music and sounds.
** Since the controls are not yet figured out completely, they are still mapped as dipswitches.
** An NVRAM reset is required the first time you launch Witch (via the associated dipswitch). Pinball Champ seems to automatically do this.
** The sound part required some patching in sound/es8712.c. I disabled the hardcoded inconditional looping, and made the sound start when writing at offset 0x06 (cf patch). vmetal does not seem to be affected.
** As far as gameplay is concerned, the ball will freeze (in game and demo mode), and I don't know why. The video hardware is not completely figured out and may be the culprit.
** The coin in/out mecanism needs some work too.

* [[Roberto Fresca]] made some improvements to Jolly Card:
** Added extra hardware info (pinouts and dips).
** Added the correct dipswitch to Jolly Card. Hopper and Points/pulse not tested due to preliminary driver state. The rest are working properly. Remember to delete the nvram and reinitialize to see some changes.
** Added almost the same dipswitch to Magic Card II (Bulgaria).

* [[Aaron Giles]] made significant changes to the save state system:
** Added alternate save state pre-/post-load function types that take integer or pointer parameters. Updated several sound cores and other files to take advantage of this.
** Made state handler registrations track like other scoped resources (timers, memory) so that registrations can occur as late as MACHINE_INIT time.
** Added logic to detect registrations after MACHINE_INIT time and prevent saves in that case.
** Added logic to detect when CPUs or sound chips haven't registered anything to save/load. When this happens, info is logged to error.log and saves/loads are disallowed.
** Allocated timers are now automatically saved and restored as part of the save state. The global time is now restored as well as a bunch of CPU execution state. This should produce more reliable restores.
** Added logic to defer saves until all anonymous timers have cleared. If a driver uses many anonymous timers it may not be possible to ever successfully save, so the operation will time out after one second.
** Before restoring, the machine is now reset. This gives a more consistent environment for the load to occur.
** Re-enabled save state support for YM2151.
** Added save state support to the classic Namco sound system.
** Added save state support to the samples sound system.
** Removed anonymous timer usage in machine/scramble.c.

== Game Support ==
'''New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/murogem Muroge Monaco]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/funkyfig The First Funky Fighter]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sercharj SAR - Search And Rescue (Japan)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ampokr2c American Poker II (set 4)]

MAME 0.99u5 - Revision history

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