MAME 0.104u5

Release Date

MAME 0.104u5 was released on 9 March 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Adam Bousley
• Andrew Gardner
• Atari Ace
• ClawGrip
• David Haywood
• Derrick Renaud
• Duddie
• El Condor
• Guru
• Kopromaster
• Lawrence Gold
• Nathan Woods
• Nicola Salmoria
• Olivier Galibert
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Razoola
• Ryan Holtz
• smf
• Tormod Tjaberg

Specific Contributions

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

• David Haywood hooked up the missing language jumper in the Psikyo 4 games.

• Olivier Galibert, Duddie, and smf added board notes to the Namco System 12 driver, hooked up the light gun in Ghouls Panic/Point Blank 2, and emulated Tekken Tag Tournament DMA protection (still not playable).

• Lawrence Gold fixed compilation of the old debugger on non-Windows platforms, and added mame_strnicmp along the way.

• Lawrence Gold fixed compile errors under GCC 4.1.

• Nathan Woods changed the NES PPU interfaces to follow new struct conventions.

• Andrew Gardner updated the disassembly comments support:
  • fixed a 0-length comment bug (no more "// 0, " allowed)
  • added comment output to the new debugger's dasm command
  • changed the comment save path from /mame/comment to /mame/comments

• Nathan Woods added new debugger properties: logunmap, logunmapd, logunmapi which enable/disable logging of unmapped memory accesses.

• Adam Bousley added save state support to the Astrocade driver.

• Andrew Gardner made some small improvements to the Polygonet Commanders driver.

• Ryan Holtz added preliminary Thumb implementation for the ARM7 core. Many opcodes present, but there are definite sign problems.

• R. Belmont hooked up ARM7 protection CPU in KOV2. Boots but does not run or play due to the Thumb sign problems.

• Kopromaster fixed incorrect flags emulation in the 8080 CMA instruction.

• Nathan Woods added support for zero-length palettes (requires RGB direct mode) and several validity checks related to display variables.

• Derrick Renaud updated Windows input code:
  • Now using RAWMOUSE mode if available. This means you can now use multiple mice in Windows XP. Lightgun support has not been changed yet.
  • Added back DX7 support for the windows input system to support multiple mice. It was set to DX5 in 104u2.
  • Removed the system mouse from the list of available mice on non-XP systems. This allows you to now properly select the individual mouse.
  • Modified the Analog Axes selection of the player controls to be more responsive.

• El Condor cleaned up the video system in Scorpion 2 driver.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli converted asterix to use K056832 emulation.

• Nicola Salmoria reduced the encryption in Gaelco games down to equations. These still need to be optimized, but the giant encryption tables are no longer needed.

• Atari Ace and Aaron Giles cleaned up include files in CPU/sound cores. CPU cores should generally only need to include cpuintrf.h. Sound cores should generally only need to include sndintrf.h.

• Aaron Giles fixed a bug that caused a full set of validity checks even on release builds.

• Aaron Giles added new debugger features:
  • new command "print" is a simple way to display the result of one or more expressions
  • new command "symlist" displays all the symbols registered
  • all save state registered scalar globals are now available as symbols (prefixed by a '.')
  • all save state registered global arrays are now available for viewing/editing in the memory window
  • all registered memory regions are also available for viewing/editing in the memory window

• Aaron Giles made it a fatal error to request operations on invalid sound/CPU indexes. These have been logged to the error.log in the past, but really need to be cleaned up. Added a new function safe_activecpu_get_pc() that can be used when logging PCs to smartly detect whether or not it is safe to call activecpu_get_pc().

• Aaron Giles changed CPU init/reset callbacks. The init callback now accepts a number of parameters, including the CPU index, the clock, a generic configuration parameter, and a pointer to the IRQ callback. The reset callback no longer takes any parameters (the configuration parameter has been moved to the init callback). And the IRQ_CALLBACK getter/setter has been removed since this is now set up once at initialization time.

• Aaron Giles added mame_get_phase to determine which program phase (init/reset/running/exit) the system is in. This is intended primarily for assertions to enforce rules about when certain actions can be taken.

• Aaron Giles rewrote winalloc to be more dynamic, and to ignore memory leaks in the runtime.

• Aaron Giles fixed memcards properly. They are no longer hardcoded for the neogeo. The implementation has moved to generic/machine.c, and a callback handler very similar to NVRAM is now supported in the machine driver definition. Cards are created per-game, so the memcard directory now has a subfolder per game with each game's cards stored underneath.

Game Support

New clones added

• Fighters Swords (Korean rel. of Samurai Showdown III)
• Art of Fighting 3 (Korean release)
• The Last Soldier (Korean release of The Last Blade)
• Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 (Korean release)
• Tekken 3 (TET2/VER.B)
• Soul Calibur (SOC11/VER.C)
• Point Blank 2 (GNB5/VER.A)
• Tekken Tag Tournament (TEG1/VER.B)
• Tekken Tag Tournament (TEG1/VER.A3)
• Golgo 13 Kiseki no Dandou (GLS1/VER.A)
• Pollux (set 3)
• Out Zone (set 4)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Gamshara
• Taisen Hot Gimmick 4 Ever (Japan)
• Taisen Hot Gimmick Integral (Japan)
• Mahjong G-Taste