MAME 0.92u1

Release Date

MAME 0.92u1 was released on 15 February 2005.

Contributors

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

• Charles MacDonald
• David Widel
• Hans Andersson
• James Wallace
• Mowerman
• Nicola Salmoria
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Tomasz Slanina
• Ville Linde

Specific Contributions

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

• Nicola Salmoria improvements the Seibu SPI decryption:
  • Tile graphics are decrypted for all Games
  • Sprites decrypted for Raiden Fighters 2000

• Hans Andersson added discrete Sound to Tank8

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Trackballs in Championship Bowling

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed Super Trio sound frequency

• R. Belmont made Compiler fixes

• Nicola Salmoria and Charles MacDonald did a FD1089 Update: Complete table for 317-0033 (Alien Syndrome) and 317-0034 (S.Hang On)

• James Wallace updated Mahjong drivers to use new default controls

• Nicola Salmoria updated the Gladiator driver
  • verified with schematics (though the schematics are very hard to read so there are still dubious places)
  • converted to tilemaps, fixed scrolling
  • simplified tile decoding
  • flip screen support
  • fixed spriteram size (this fixes gladiatr36rc2gre)
  • support for sprite dual buffer (this fixes sprite trails)
  • adjusted YM2203 mixing levels so bass notes can still be heard (the audio mixing stage has some program controlled filters though which aren't supported)
  • merged with ppking, drivers/ppking.c is no longer needed
  • proper blending of the fg layer (it's a palette effect not alpha blending)

• Tomasz Slanina improved the video emulation in XFiles

Game Support

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Raiden Fighters 2: 2000

New clones added

• Little Hero (bootleg of KidNiki)
• Astro Combat (bootleg of Astro Blaster)
• Super Missile Attack (encrypted set)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• TurboSub