MAME 0.96u3

Release Date

MAME 0.96u3 was released on 24 May 2005.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Andrew Church
• Angelo Salese
• Brian Troha
• Bryan McPhail
• Corrado Tomaselli
• David Haywood
• Joachim Bassmann
• Luca Elia
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Razoola
• Tomasz Slanina

Specific Contributions

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

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed Wizz Quiz clone.

• Luca Elia added shadow effects to the SSV driver.

• Aaron Giles simplified additive path in slapstic code. This should not impact any games that use it, but it is worth verifying.

• Angelo Salese made improvements to The Couples driver: Improved the video hardware, added a preliminary PPI8255 + inputs interface, added a better workaround of the $b011 jump, and added sound. Now the game is somewhat playable, but there are still some problems in the game.

• Brian Troha fixed DIP switches in several games:
  • Dream Soccer '94
  • Major Title
  • Seibu Cup Soccer
  • Caveman Ninja (World & US)
  • Spinal Breakers
  • Play Girl 2
  • Rohga
  • Shootout

• Aaron Giles added 'find' command to the new debugger for performing memory searches.

• David Haywood adjusted the sound balance in a few drivers.

• David Haywood added preliminary video emulation to penocup.c.

• Nathan Woods added better debugging support to the the MIPS and PPC cores.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli improved sound in Hot Shock and Explorer.

• R. Belmont hooked up the light gun properly in Golgo 13.

• Tomasz Slanina fixed sprites, controls, colors, sound, many graphics problems in Panic Road, but still not working.

• Aaron Giles fixed TMS34010 reverse blitters so they didn't perform extraneous source memory fetches.

• Andrew Church changed the old debugger so it no longer forces the memory display to 16-bit words regardless of the size specified with the M command.

• Bryan McPhail fixed OKI sample rate in Dark Seal/Crude Buster. Attempted to fix Vapor Trail dropped sound commands.

• Nathan Woods changed trace and traceover commands so they can append to existing files by placing '>>' before the filename.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• AmeriDarts
• A. D. 2083

New clones added

• Welltris (World)
• Express Raider (US set 2)
• The Couples (Set 2)
• Moon Shuttle (Japan set 2)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Euro 940113)
• Alien vs. Predator (Hispanic 940520)
• X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Asia 960919)
• Street Fighter Zero 3 (Asia 980904)
• Giga Wing (Asia 990222)
• Hot Memory
• Borderline

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Cyber Tank
• The Lost Castle In Darkmist