MAME 0.166

Release Date

MAME 0.166 was released on 30 September 2015.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

• (Graphics) (galaxian.c) jumpbug and clones: Missing scrolling starfield (Osso)
• (Sound) (neogeo.c) neogeo.c: Wrong volume of SSG versus the FM & ADPCM sound generation parts (Dr.Venom)
• (Crash/Freeze) (cclimber.c) yamato: game is broken (2 bugs) (Osso)
• (Sound) (segaxbd.c) gprider: There are no demo sounds even when the dip switch is on. (David Haywood), (Ariane Fugmann)
• (Graphics) (seta.c) blandia, blandiap: Graphic garbage (Mamesick)
• (Graphics) (suna8.c) rranger: A piece of the yellow box on the map screen after the game start is over the CREDIT text. (Luca Elia)
• (Graphics) (suna8.c) sranger and others clones: graphics issues (Luca Elia)
• (Crash/Freeze) (system1.c) hvymetal, choplift: Crashing with a message in IC TEST (David Haywood)
• (Core) (a2600.c) a2600 (dodgeem, haunted): Assorted issues related to 6502 CPU (Mike Saarna)
• (Graphics) (a2600.c) a2600p: The demo "TOM/JONES by trilobit" is not working properly. (Mike Saarna)
• (Graphics) (a2600.c) a2600p: The demo "(core) by wamma" is not working properly. (Mike Saarna)
• (Graphics) (msx.c) MSX2 and MSX2+: Screen resolutions and refresh rates are wrong. (Wilbert Pol)
• (Graphics) (msx.c) MSX2 and MSX2+: Top and bottom screenborders are wrong for both PAL and NTSC (Wilbert Pol)
• (DIP/Input) (sms.c) sms, sms1 (alexbmx)(megumi): Incorrect behavior of the Sports Pad (US model) emulation (Enik Land)

Contributions

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

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS51xx device: Got rid of the request_bits and FIFO implementation, both of which were incorrect to hardware. Minor ZPAR fix. Some comment cleanup.

• Lord Nightmare updated TMS5110.c: Finally fixed zpar logic correctly.

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS5220 device: implemented talk status state machine properly as shown by patent. Got rid of m_target_* hack in favor of loading data from ROM as needed. Fixed ZPAR logic. Fixed pitch zeroing to match(?) patent.

• Andrew Welburn added missing PLD for Quantum.

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS5220 device: Purge process() of gotos to hopefully make the compiler's optimizer happier. Add a hack so Victory's "Shields Up" sample and the sample afterward aren't corrupted.

• Samuele Zannoli updated chihiro.c: under the hood 3d accelerator changes
  • correct some errors;
  • add more primitives to some graphic methods;
  • add color mask support;
  • method 0x100 (NOP) generates correct interrupt;
  • some method parameters are readable from mmio registers.

• Samuele Zannoli provided various updates to chihiro.c/xbox.c:
  • support render targets different than rgb32;
  • support 16 bit depth buffer;
  • support independent clearing of stencil and depth values;
  • update rom loading;
  • add xbox hack to avoid stalling;
  • set xbox bios 4134 as the one used.

• Samuele Zannoli updated xbox.c: now it is able to execute the default.xbe from an iso image.

• f205v provided a Naomi / Chihiro docs update.

• Vladimir Kryvian fixed GetModuleHandle to be universal.

• Ian Karlsson updated the C352 device: Add divider for System 23, change enum format.

• baritonomarchetto updated groundfx.c: fix accelerator.

• shattered updated the besta driver: hook up 68230 and make its ROM self-test pass.

• shattered updated at.c, at_keybc.c: hook up Display Switch and remove irrelevant DSW0.

• shattered added skeleton support for K1801VM2 (as clone of T11) and skeleton driver dvk_kcgd that uses it.

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS5110 device: Add same FAST_START_HACK as in tms5220, makes snmath word delay closer to hardware.

• Caius and The Dumping Union updated cps1.c: varthu - Added correct dump of VA63B.1A.

• Caius and www.jammarcade.net updated deco32.c: Added some missing PAL dumps.

• shattered updated the asst128 driver: use better ROM dumps.

• R. Belmont updated the apple2/apple2e driver: fix raster parameters, French Touch "Scroll Scroll Scroll" demo now syncs on apple2e driver.

• Luca Elia updated suna8.c: Overhauled the rendering of text sprites, added masking. Not perfect yet but improves a few effects compared to PCB videos.

• Vas Crabb and hsialin updated goldstar.c: improve input and DIP switch documentation
  • cmast91: Document Skill Stop DIP switch and Stop 1/2/3 buttons, correct settings for '7' In Double Up Game and make descriptions consistent with other games;
  • cmezspin: fix DIP switches and inputs (more like cmv4 than cmasterb), add improved layout to match corrected inputs.

• cgwg updated the opengl renderer: fix overly-strict requirement on SCREEN shaders to match docs.

• LuigiBlood updated n64.c: Development Disk Drive setting support.

• Peter Ferrie updated apple2e.c: select displayed page for floating bus.

• David Haywood and Ariane Fugmann provided a Sega X-Board update:
  • Converted 'X Board' to be a device;
  • Correctly emulated the 'Twin' X-Board setup which was used by GP Rider (a bridge board with shared RAM).

• Nigel Barnes updated the bbc driver: clones, floppy formats, softlists, and cleanups.
  • Added clone bbcb1770, bbcb now 8271 only;
  • Added clone pro128s, Olivetti Prodest PC 128S;
  • Added clones Acorn Business Computers and Cambridge Workstation;
  • Added clone reutapm, Reuters APM board.;
  • Improved floppy formats, added dsd and double density formats for ADFS.
  • Added speech PHROMs, not yet hooked up correctly;
  • Added softlists bbcb_de_cass, bbcb_us_flop and bbcmc_flop;
  • Added S11 links (dipswitch) to specify Econet ID;
  • Address map cleanups.

• Caius updated macrossp.c: Add PAL dumps to Macross Plus.

• www.jammarcade.net updated cninja.c: Add PAL dumps to Caveman Ninja.

• ValleyBell provided Sega Pico PCM improvements.

• Carl and Axel Muhr updated the pcd driver: implement pcx video device.

• Barry Rodewald updated the al520ex driver: added preliminary Magic Sound expansion (not working).

• Rob Braun updated netdev: fix pcap crashes on OS X.

• Felipe Sanches added Amazonia King V104BR to the IGS 027A driver.

• iq_132 provided preliminary decryption of newly added igs_m027.c sets.

• Dr.Venom adjusted NeoGeo sound balance based on some hw recordings.

• iq_132 improved amazonia decryption.

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS5220 and TMS5110 devices: Fix an off-by-one in the interpolator causing the k5 coefficient to not be zeroed during unvoiced frames. Fixes various speech glitches.

• Lord Nightmare updated the TMS5220 and TMS5110 devices: Fixed incorrect implementation of pitch zero which caused an improperly long period with no pitch at an interpolation inhibited -> voiced boundary. Moved unvoiced parameter zeroing into the frame parser, as on the original chips. Some minor TALK/SPEN state machine changes as well, which should have minimal effect.

• Scrooge McClunk added 'global_inputs' (disabled by default) to allow MAME to read inputs even when it doesn't have the focus.

• Enik Land updated 315-5124.c: Minor changes and fix a regression that in theory could affect zoomed sprites in TMS9918 modes.

• Enik Land updated gamegear.c / sms.c: Improve GG-SMS scaling code a little and update the Todo list. Fixed MT#05872 regarding incorrect behavior of the Sports Pad (US model) emulation.

• Lord Nightmare, ValleyBell and Nemesis fixed PSG chips to have volume reg inited on reset to 0x0 based on tests by ValleyBell. Made Sega PSG chips start up with register 0x3 selected (volume for channel 2) based on hardware tests by Nemesis.

• Guru and R. Belmont updated naomi.c: redumped ss2005 and initdv2j.

• Guru updated ksys573.c: redumped CDs for drmn8m and gtrfrk9m.

• Felipe Sanches dumped another rom on amazonia.

• Lord Nightmare provided significant accuracy improvements, documentation and other updates to the ER-2055 EAROM emulation used for several Atari games, based on schematics and datasheets. It now uses a state machine to keep track of the current EAROM bus state.

• William Krick simplified coreutil.c gregorian_days_in_month.

• Lord Nightmare updated the DEC LA120 driver: Keyboard matrix is done, keyboard reading should work in theory. UART partly attached. Corrected cpu XTAL.

• Lord Nightmare updated the DEC LA120 driver: Implemented LED output via logerror; marked one ROM as bad since it fails its internal checksum tests.

• Till Harbaum updated the m68k core: fix corner case for 020+ bitfield instructions.

• Angelo Salese fixed Counter Steer booting:
  • Spotted Slave CPU bus request line;
  • Fixed address line swapping for Slave CPU area at 0x2000-0x2fff.

• Happy provided n64.c changes:
  • PI transfers round down/truncate the last bit.
  • SI transfers signal busy while waiting for a delay.
  • Preliminary work for separating VI and RDP functionality.
  • VI timing period is now set dynamically from the VI registers. VI timing should now be accurate (for NTSC).

• Brian Walenz updated the DEC LA120 driver: Redumped firmware ROM, now passes checksum test.

• Mike Saarna, Trebor and R. Belmont updated the a2600 driver: new 6502 PC=cur inst, old 6502 PC=prev inst (MT 5345).

• mixxmaster separated Space Warp into it's own skeleton driver.

• Till Harbaum and R. Belmont updated the m68k core: fix 020+ PACK/UNPK nibble ordering.

• Carl modernized the i8271 device.

• Andrew Gardner converted galastrm, model2, midzeus, namcos23, and hng64 drivers to universal "poly" rasterizing interface.

• David Haywood did a preliminary refactor of IGS017/IGS031 video hardware to be a device so that it can be used by the igs_m027.c games (IGS gamblers) once the internal ARM roms have been dumped.

• David Haywood reduced tagmap lookups in taito_f3.c (was causing severe slowdown in arkretrn).

• Mike Saarna updated the a7800 driver: More accurate representation of the Activision cart hardware for utilized hotspots. Rampage no longer crashes when P1 selects Lizzy.

Game Support

New machines added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car (Will Medved), (Ryan Holtz), (The Dumping Union)
• TI DataMan (hap), (Sean Riddle)

New clones added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Revolution X (prototype, rev 5.0 5/23/94) (Chris Engel)
• Soccer Superstars (ver UAC) (Smitdogg), (The Dumping Union)
• Shocking (Korea, set 2) (Arcade Belgium (dump by Nomax))
• J. J. Squawkers (older) (Alex Marshall)
• Rolling Thunder (oldest) (Layer (from neo-arcadia & jammaplus))
• Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 2) (Caius), (Smitdogg), (The Dumping Union)
• Oriental Legend (ver. 111, Korean Board) (DarkSoft)
• Minefield (The Logicshop, bootleg) (David Haywood), (Guru)
• Route 16 (set 1) (Siftware) (MASH)
• New Sinbad 7 (set 2) (Siftware) (MASH)
• Various Sega decrypted bootleg sets (Misc contributors)

New machines marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Amazonia King II (V202BR) (Macgaiver)
• Commodore MPS-1230 NLQ Printer (Guru), (R. Belmont)
• VTech Genius KID ABC Fan (Germany) (TeamEurope)
• VTech CARS 2 Laptop (Germany) (TeamEurope)
• Cobra: The Arcade (CBR1 Ver. B) (Guru)
• Canon S-80 typowriter (Felipe Sanches)
• Mizar 8105 (Joakim Larsson)
• Heurikon HK68K/V10 VME board (Joakim Larsson)
• LG GP40NW10 USB DVD writer (O. Galibert)
• Brother MT735 thermal printer (Cowering), (O. Galibert)
• DECwriter III (LA120) (Lord Nightmare), (NeXT)
• Smart Toss 'em / Smartball (Ver 2.0) (David Haywood)
• MVME350 - Streaming Tape Controller support QIC-02 (Joakim Larsson)
• Squale (Miodrag Milanovic), (Olivier Aichelbaum)
• ZAP - Z80 Applications Processor (by Steve Ciarcia - 1981) (Felipe Sanches)
• Wacky Gator (Data East - 1990) (Felipe Sanches)
• Piggy Pass (Doyle & Assoc.)
• Hoop Shot (Doyle & Assoc.)
• Round and Round (Rev 6) (Quick $ilver)
• Fiddle Stix (1st Rev) (Quick $ilver)
• Jack & The Beanstalk (Doyle & Assoc.?) (bad dump)
• Dump The Ump (bad dump)
• 3 Lil' Pigs (bad dump)

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• Rescue (Free Enterprise Games, bootleg) (David Haywood), (Guru)
• Tora Tora (prototype?, set 2) (Siftware)
• Hard Head (bootleg, set 2) (leniad)
• Kung Fu (IGS, v100) (Siftware)
• Ridge Racer V Arcade Battle (RRV1 Ver. A) (Guru)
• Soul Calibur III (SC31002-NA-A key, NA-A disc) (Guru)
• Tekken 5.1 (TE53 Ver. B) (Guru)

New WORKING software list additions

• (Tomy Tutor & Pyuuta cartridges)
  • Rescue Copter 3D (Jpn) (Ryan Holtz), (Team Europe)
  • Triple Command (Jpn) (Ryan Holtz), (Team Europe)

• (Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges)
  • Booky Man (Spa) (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (Atari 400 / 800 floppy disks)
  • Elektra Glide (Curt Coder)
  • KoalaPainter (Light Pen) (Curt Coder)

• (Commodore 64 diskettes)
  • Elektra Glide (Curt Coder)
  • KoalaPainter (Light Pen) (Curt Coder)

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• (TimeTop GameKing cartridges)
  • various 4-in-1 sets (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (TimeTop GameKing 3 cartridges)
  • Fly Cab (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (Nintendo Game Boy Color cartridges)
  • Magic Lamp (SSJ), (TeamEurope), (Taizou)
  • Binary Monster 2 - Adventure of Hell(TW) (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges)
  • Coolboy RS-17 (203-in-1) (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (Sega Pico cartridges)
  • Anpanman Eigo - Tanosii Kanibaru (Tw) (TeamEurope)
  • Doraemon Machinaka (Tw) (TeamEurope)
  • Mickey To Ookina Furudokei (Tw) (TeamEurope)
  • Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n! (Jpn) (TeamEurope)
  • Professor Pico and the Paintbox Puzzle (Euro) (TeamEurope)
  • Peter Pan - Neverland e Ikou! ~10th Anniversary Edition~ (Jpn) (TeamEurope)
  • Sanou Kaihatsu Series 5 Meiro - Kioku (CD Tsuki) (Jpn) (TeamEurope)
  • Susie-chan to Marvy o-Tetsudai Da~isuki! (Jpn) (TeamEurope)

• (Interton VC 4000 cartridges)
  • Come Frutas (SSJ), (TeamEurope)

• (Atari Jaguar cartridges)
  • Air Cars (1994 version) (Porchy)