MAME 0.98u4

Release Date

MAME 0.98u4 was released on 4 August 2005.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Anssi
• Bryan McPhail
• David Haywood
• David Widel
• MASH
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• Tomasz Slanina

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles improved the MCR games:
  • Hooked up cassette sample in Journey
  • Fixed sprite colors in Journey
  • Consolidated the MCR 1/2/3 drivers and documented all the PCBs

• Aaron Giles added pause/resume support for sample playback.

• David Haywood made a bunch of changes/fixes to the deco156 drivers:
  • hooked up EEPROM correctly
  • fixed sound ROM decoding and banking
  • fixed tile banking
  • fixed video priorities

• Tomasz Slanina fixed unaligned 32-bit reads in the ARM core.

• Bryan McPhail fixed several bugs in the ARM core which break Captain America but fix some other issues.

• David Haywood fixed sprite rendering in Double Wings.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the question roms reading for Phraze Craze and fixed some loading based on new info discovered.

• MASH fixed sound effects in The Next Space.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Double Cheese
• Chain Reaction
• Magical Drop
• Osman
• Super Triv
• Charlie Ninja
• Romar Triv

New clones added

• Cannon Dancer (Japan)
• Cannonball set 2

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Pit Boss