MAME 0.110u2

Release Date

MAME 0.110u2 was released on 16 November 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Atari Ace
• Barry Rodewald
• Brian Troha
• Canim
• David Haywood
• Derrick Renaud
• Mamesick
• Mariusz Wojcieszek
• Mathis Rosenhauer
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• robiza
• smf
• Tirino73

Specific Contributions

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

• Barry Rodewald fixed flags access in the i286 core.

• Nathan Woods updated the MC146818 module to use new core date/time routines.

• Nathan Woods cleaned up disassemblers to remove stubs and ensure the disassemblers are not referenced except in debug builds.

• David Haywood added support for using CHDs to decrypt CPS2 games. This code is disabled for the moment, but will be enabled in the future. Only a handful of games have complete tables so far. These tables are huge (~4GB) and uncompressable until the encryption algorithm is understood.

• smf fixed a bug in the debugger that caused watchpoints to not be active until the next context switch.

• smf cleaned up the input definitions for n-way joysticks so they are more explicit. Added concept of a "16-way" joystick, which is a joystick that doesn't prevent simultaneous opposing directions from bring reported.

• smf commited a major System 573 update:
  • fixed PSX SIO control register behavior
  • implemented several SCSI CD commands: START/STOP UNIT, PAUSE/RESUME, READ SUB-CHANNEL, READ TOC
  • added uPD4701 emulation
  • fixed ATAPI reset, PIO, and command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
  • hooked up controls for fishing, DRR, and Guitar Freaks games
  • hooked up CDDA audio
  • removed some unused bytes from the Konami 80's security chips

• Canim fixed the upside down service mode in the commando.c driver.

• Derrick Renaud added support for the Triple Hunt 8-track audio.

• Atari Ace reorganized the Galaxian/Scramble driver:
  • machine/scramble.c is broken up into two files, machine/galaxian.c and machine/scramble.c
  • drivers/amidar.c, drivers/frogger.c, drivers/scobra.c get copies of some of the data structures they shared from other drivers
  • galaxian_base is made static and uses outside of the main driver were rewritten
  • cclimber_decode code from drivers/cclimber.c was separated into its own machine/cclimber.c file to allow mshuttle to share it without taking on other dependencies

• Mathis Rosenhauer added missing x-flipping support in Major Havoc.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli made some improvements to trivia madness driver. There still is something wrong in the question roms banking.

• Mariusz Wojcieszek commited more updates to the ST-V driver:
  • vdp1: added shading for sprites (used by znpwfv, cotton, others)
  • vdp1: fixed sprite clipping (fixes incorrect sprites in znpwfv)
  • vdp1: fixed transparency on colour lookup table sprites (fixes bad sprites in znpwfv)
  • vdp2: fixed caching of RGB layer (fixes bad backgrounds on bosses in rsgun)
  • vdp2: added additive blending for tilemaps and sprites (rsgun)
  • vdp2: added vertical line scroll and linezoom (fixes diehard logo)
  • stv: improved speedups for diehard
  • stv: fixed speedups for znpwfv
  • stv: added preliminary save state support

• Aaron Giles did a significant cleanup of chd.c:
  • got rid of the horrible last_error concept; now all routines return an error directly
  • fixed several issues in managing metadata
  • changed compression and verification routines to be client-driven rather than monolithic
  • changed internal codec usage to be more flexible
  • altered chdman and MAME to use the new interfaces
  • added new -createraw command for creating raw data CHDs

• Aaron Giles fixed a crash bug in romcmp when comparing ZIP files.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Fisherman's Bait * A Bass Challenge / Bass Angler
• Fisherman's Bait 2 * A Bass Challenge
• Fisherman's Bait * Marlin Challenge
• Dancing Stage / Dance Dance Revolution
• Guitar Freaks
• Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix
• Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Link

New clones added

• Hellfire (2P Ver., first edition)
• Konami 80's AC Special (3 versions)
• Stratovox (bootleg)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Jyangokushi: Haoh no Saihai (Japan)