MAME 0.99u4

Release Date

MAME 0.99u4 was released on 24 August 2005.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Alex W. Jackson
• David Haywood
• David Widel
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• Tim Lindner

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles added memory card and cheat menus back into the system.

• Aaron Giles fixed a MNG recording problem that was introduced in u3.

• Aaron Giles fixed a crash when running vector games that was introduced in u3.

• Aaron Giles cleaned up/normalized the naming of several core structures in an attempt to impose some order on coding conventions in the core code:
  • struct InputPortDefinition -> input_port_default_entry
  • struct InputPort -> input_port_entry
  • struct RegionInfo -> region_info
  • struct RunningMachine -> running_machine
  • struct GameOptions -> global_options
  • struct GameDriver -> game_driver
  • struct InternalMachineDriver -> machine_config
  • struct MachineCPU -> cpu_config
  • struct MachineSoundRoute -> sound_route
  • struct MachineSound -> sound_config
  • struct MachineSpeaker -> speaker_config
  • struct RomModule -> rom_entry
  • struct SystemBios -> bios_entry
  • struct GfxLayout -> gfx_layout
  • struct GfxElement -> gfx_element
  • struct GfxDecodeInfo -> gfx_decode

Plus many others along the same lines (follow the pattern). Note that this work is not yet complete. In addition, a few of the more pervasive structs (mame_bitmap, rectangle) will be left until a non-diff release (0.100).

• Aaron Giles removed -skip_disclaimer since it automatically goes away after the first time execution.

• Alex W. Jackson created a new NMK112 ROM banking module and connected it up to a number of drivers that made use of it. Affected games are in cave.c, nmk16.c, powerins.c, quizpani.c, toaplan2.c.

• David Widel added missing buttons to Showdown.

• Nathan Woods fixed the PULUW instruction on the 6309 disassembler.

• Tim Lindner fixed the state save facility play better on multisession ports if initialization fails.

Game Support

New clones added

• Plotting (US)