MAME 0.97u3

Release Date

MAME 0.97u3 was released on 26 June 2005.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Angelo Salese
• Brian Troha
• Bryan McPhail
• Chris Hardy
• Corrado Tomaselli
• David Haywood
• laugh
• Luca Elia
• MASH
• Nathan Woods
• Quench
• smf
• Tomasz Slanina
• Ville Linde
• Wilbert Pol

Specific Contributions

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

• Nathan Woods added some sanity checking, and changed a printf() to logerror() to intelfsh.c.

• Nathan Woods made the DRC PowerPC core compilable when HAS_PPC403 is 0.

• Ville Linde improved the Sega Model 3 driver:
  • Fixed a bug in the MPC106 emulation -> Star Wars Trilogy and Sega Rally 2 work

• Ville Linde improved the PowerPC cores:
  • Rewrote the interrupt handling in the interpreter core so it matches the DRC core
  • Fixed MCRXR instruction
  • Fixed some timebase problems, so LeMans 24 is now working.

• Angelo Salese made improvements to the MACS driver:
  • Added some inputs to the MACS driver so that Yu-Jan works. Fixed the visible area in it.
  • Also added a quick kludge for get Yu-Ka to work (Note: it's disabled by default).

• Corrado Tomaselli fixed the Oki frequency to match samples pitch on the pcb for Final Tetris.

• Aaron Giles fixed a crash in the debugger when decoding instructions that were too long.

• Luca Elia fixed a number of problems with Eagle Shot Golf, removing several hacks from the SSV driver along the way.

• Tomasz Slanina decrypted tilemaps in Dark Mist and added info about missing proms.

• Wilbert Pol fixed a minor bug in the TIA emulation, taken from the MESS code.

• David Haywood renamed Hollywood Action to Action Hollywood.

• Bryan McPhail made a major video update to Taito F3 driver that amongst other things properly implements zoom & column scroll according to how the hardware does it, which not only fixes glitches in various games but allowed many hacks to be removed also. Sprite & tilemap clipping is also implemented, as is proper priority mixing and alpha-blending on the vram and pixel layers.

• Aaron Giles fixed the exception handling and task switching in the V60 core.

• Quench added preliminary sound support for Action Hollywood.

• smf made improvements to the PSX CPU core:
  • correct behaviour for a branch in a delay slot.
  • added bios and syscall logging of all known functions & their parameters (writing to file descriptor 1 or putchar will output to the console)
  • fixed disassembly of gte instructions.
  • fixed dismips.mak

• Ville Linde did another overhaul on the PPC603 counters (timebase should increment once every four core clock cycles and decrementer should decrement once every four bus cycles).

• Brian Troha updated the Namco System 2 driver:
  • Added Final Lap road clut prom to all Final Lap sets
  • Made Final Lap 3 World the parent, new clone is finalp3j
  • Added Final Lap's road clut to Four Trax (marked as bad_dump)..
  • Changed SWS sound rom to match the other sets (sws92 & sws93)

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Animalandia Jr.

New clones added

• Puzznic (Japan set 2)
• Tant-R (Puzzle & Action) (Korea)
• Raiden Fighters (Dream Island co. license)
• Raiden Fighters (US, Fabtek License)