MAME 0.79

Release Date

MAME 0.79 was released on 28 January 2004.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Brian Troha
• BUT
• chaneman
• Chris Hardy
• David Haywood
• Nathan Woods
• Olivier Galibert
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• smf
• Stefan Jokisch

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles and various others fixed most of the bugs caused by changes made in the .78 u cycle, please check any you reported to make sure.

• Aaron Giles updated many Atari / Midway drivers to use new style Memory Maps and cleaned them up

• R. Belmont updated the YMF278b, improving sound in Asura Blade

• Olivier Galibert fixed a problem with the SH2 speedup previously added

• Olivier Galibert updated the ST-V driver to use the new memory system, cleaning up the map

• BUT fixed the ASM 68k core to compile again

• Aaron Giles changed warning screens so they are now skipped if running with -ftr for less than 5 minutes

• chaneman fixed Black Dragon & Money Money filenames

• Stefan Jokisch fixed poolshrk078u6yel

• Stefan Jokisch fixed a crash when taking screenshots of rotated vector games

• Nathan Woods made multiple Session fixes (for Mame32 etc.)

• R. Belmont made a unaligned SCU direct mode DMA fix

• Aaron Giles fixed a problem with Star Wars

• Olivier Galibert and smf made various compiler specific fixes

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Scramble Spirits
• Triv Four (1985 Status)
• Super Triv III (1986 Status)
• Winning Spike
• Whizz
• More More Plus
• Pairs Love

New clones added

• Perestroika Girls (without Fuuki license)
• Changes (EME license)
• VS. Tennis (Japan)
• Dual Assault

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Varia Metal
• Denjin Makai (protected)
• Super Hang On Limited Edition
• Plasma Sword (parent to Star Gladiator 2)