MAME 0.104u4

Release Date

MAME 0.104u4 was released on 2 March 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Adam Bousley
• Andrew Gardner
• Atari Ace
• David Haywood
• El Condor
• Ian Patterson
• Lawrence Gold
• Nathan Woods
• Olivier Galibert
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• smf

Specific Contributions

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

• Andrew Gardner added comments support to the debugger. You can now dynamically add comments that are visible next to the disassembly view. Comments are saved to an XML-based .cmt file in a 'comments' directory by default upon exiting.

• Nathan Woods added "wb+" disposition to osd_tool_fopen.

• Ian Patterson fixed the cheat timer to fire at the correct rate. Also fixed initialization order to work around dependency on the video/UI system.

• Adam Bousley added save states to 3 more drivers: arkanoid.c, system1.c, and taitosj.c, and to the SN76496 sound chip for system1.

• Lawrence Gold fixed a couple of small memory leaks and a crash bug found by valgrind.

• Nathan Woods added save state support to the tetrisp2 driver.

• Adam Bousley added save state support to Cloak and Dagger, Mario Bros, Crazy Baloon, and the SN76477 sound chip.

• R. Belmont hooked up the R4650 properly in the MIPS recompiler.

• R. Belmont made more Namco System 23 progress:
  • Further hardware work
  • Hooked up H8/3002 MCU and sound system
  • Many notes added
  • Final Furlong 2 (World and Japan sets) added

• Nathan Woods added sanity checking to the set_visible_area() call to ensure it is not set larger than the screen bitmap.

• smf added decryption of the BIOS for the Namco System 10 games using MEMN ROM boards.

• El Condor changed the ROM banking of the Bellfruit 'Adder' card to the new standard, as well as tidying up the MPU4 emulation with some new information.

• Olivier Galibert made a bit more progress on Raiden 2 sprite decryption.

• Adam Bousley added save states to Namco Classics Collection 1 & 2, Taito B System, and fixed save states in Operation Wolf.

• Aaron Giles made the following debugger changes/updates:
  • added new streaming text buffer system
  • rewrote the console window to use the streaming text buffer
  • added new log window (Ctrl+L) which displays live error.log output
  • added disassembly view menu to control comments versus raw or encrypted opcodes
  • added disassembly menu to the main console window as well
  • now detect expressions with assignment or ++/-- operators as commands, do you can just say "pc=0" to modify registers instead of needing to type "do pc=0"
  • fixed bug that would sometimes lock the disassembly view to the top line

• Aaron Giles and Atari Ace did more global system cleanup:
  • remapped osd_die to fatalerror, which cleans up behind itself and returns to the osd code by returning from run_game
  • removed a number of unnecessary includes from driver.h
  • moved logerror into the core
  • moved 68000-specific build rules to cpu.mak
  • new function skip_this_frame, should be called by drivers instead of osd_skip_this_frame
  • removed includes of osdepend.h and osd_cpu.h from drivers; only the core should include these

• Aaron Giles did more initialization/reset/pause cleanup:
  • new function add_pause_callback can be called by other modules to register a callback for whenever MAME is paused/resumed
  • converted all existing pause hooks to use the new system
  • new function add_reset_callback can be called by other modules to register a callback for whenever MAME is reset
  • converted all existing reset hooks to use the new system
  • removed machine_reset; replaced with mame_schedule_soft_reset
  • new function mame_schedule_exit to force an exit cleanly from external events
  • removed all the "trying_to_quit" crap from the Windows code
  • moved save/restore system out of cpuexec.c into mame.c
  • moved core game loop out of cpuexec.c into mame.c
  • added hard reset support (complete tear down and re-init)

• Aaron Giles shuffled some more core files:
  • split sndintrf.c into sound.c, sndintrf.c, and sndhrdw/generic.c
  • added #include vidhrdw/generic.h to mamecore.h, and removed all explicit includes elsewhere

• Aaron Giles added save state support to the BSMT2000 sound emulator and the dcheese driver.

• Aaron Giles fixed missing save state data in the dkong driver.

• Aaron Giles updated the 68000 disassembler to use the new interfaces.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Fred Flintstone's Memory Match

New clones added

• Dragon Breed (M81 pcb version)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Crazy Fight
• Search for the Magical Error
• Final Furlong 2
• Gekitoride-Jong Space
• Mr. Driller G
• Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan
• Star Trigon