MAME 0.104u6

Release Date

MAME 0.104u6 was released on 16 March 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Andrew Gardner
• Atari Ace
• Brian Troha
• Chaneman
• Chris Law
• David Haywood
• Fabrice Arzeno
• Manuel Abadia
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• Roberto Fresca
• Tomasz Slanina
• Ville Linde
• xvi

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles, Nathan Woods, and Ville Linde fixed various problems introduced in the last set of changes.

• Chaneman fixed dip-switches in Action Fighter.

• Chris Law improved samples support for Congo Bongo.

• xvi imported some improvements from MAME Plus!
  • added save state support to pd4990a device for neogeo
  • fixed crash in nitrobal/gunball (stage 4, right route)

• Andrew Gardner got Polygonet Warriors back to the POST screen.

• Atari Ace and Aaron Giles reduced global namespace pollution by marking many global functions explicitly static, especially in the CPU cores.

• Tomasz Slanina some improvements to Magical Error. Title and attract works. No sound. Hangs in game. Problems with shared mem and main-sub cpu communciation.

• Nathan Woods added validity checks to ensure CPU core completeness.

• Roberto Fresca added DIP switches for Agress.

• Ville Linde added the missing commands and proper maker/device ids to the flash memory handlers for Fujitsu MBM29F016A, used by Konami FireBeat.

• Andrew Gardner added preliminary support for the Jaleco color blending hardware found in Psychic 5, Argus, and Valtric. (Some functionality is still unknown).

• Ville Linde did a major update to the Aleck64 driver. Still not fully working yet.

• Andrew Gardner fixed comment display for processors which use an ADDRBUS_SHIFT.

• Nathan Woods added accessors to return output values for the 6821 PIA.

• Nathan Woods added movie recording time to the internal profiler.

• Aaron Giles added oversampling support to the Exidy custom sound and to the DAC sound system.

• Aaron Giles updated Sega vector game drivers:
  • Rewrote vector generator from schematics. Yes, it is supposed to be that jumpy on zooms!
  • Corrected CPU speeds and cleaned up memory maps.
  • Connected AY-8912 to Zektor for missing sound effects.
  • Added emulation of the Universal Sound Board -- not yet perfected, but gets rid of the need for samples in Star Trek and Tac/Scan. Tac/Scan sounds pretty wretched now, but Star Trek is close.
  • Fixed CPU clock speed on the speech board, but it appears to be a bit too slow now.
  • This is still work-in-progress. Don't report bugs yet.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Canvas Croquis
• Parallel Turn

New clones added

• SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative (System 16B)
• Trivial Pursuit (Spanish Edition)
• Multi Champ (World)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Solar Assault