MAME 0.88u1

Release Date

MAME 0.88u1 was released on 28 October 2004.

Contributors

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

• Angelo Salese
• Charles MacDonald
• Curt Coder
• David Haywood
• Fabrice Arenzo
• Nicola Salmoria
• Phil Stroffolino
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Shaun Stephenson
• Stephan Cecchinel

Specific Contributions

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

• Phil Stroffolino updated the Namco drivers:
  • Fixes priority in the NB1 games.
  • POSIRQ support for Namco System 2 games no longer requires game-specific hacks.
  • Hack for Metal Hawk tile size is no longer needed.
  • Screen blanking (window) support added for System 2 hardware.
  • Sprite-tilemap orthogonality for System 2 rendering.

• R. Belmont and Stephan Cecchinel fixed errors in atanr and logepr in the i960 core

• Charles MacDonald and Nicola Salmoria made improvements to the FD1094 emulation, more sets now run (eswatu, fpoint, goldnaxc, cltchitr)

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the scroll offset and rain priority in mwarr

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli added EEprom support to Steel Force

• Curt Coder contributed misc fixes:
  • 1943
    • Converted to use tilemaps
    • Cleaned up driver
    • Merged memory maps
    • Fixed inputs/dips based on manuals
    • Renamed 1943j to "1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan)"
    • Renamed 1943kai to "1943 Kai: Midway Kaisen (Japan)"
  • Gun.Smoke
    • Converted to use tilemaps
    • Cleaned up driver
    • Merged memory maps
    • Fixed inputs/dips based on manuals
    • Removed GUNSMOKE_HACK and fake dips
  • Blue Print
    • fixed clocks per schematic, sound pitch now higher
    • tilemap conversion
    • merged memory maps
    • fixed inputs/dips per manual
    • fixed rom names per schematic
    • clean up
    • correct 2H/4H clocks
  • Night Driver
    • removed gear/track display hack
    • merged memory map
    • fixed clock per schematic
    • added early revision roms info
    • fixed rom names per schematic
    • clean up
  • 1942
    • merged memory maps
    • fixed inputs/dips per manual

• Shaun Stephenson confirmed the Libble Rabble Custom IO chip numbers

• Angelo Salese improved jalmah.c : Further improved the first version protection.Now you can boot in urashima/mjzoomin/daireika,with wrong colors(data is extracted from MCU code) and wrong tilemap positioning(these games uses the RANGE register,which needs further investigation).

Game Support

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Twin Brats
• B.C. Story
• Clutch Hitter
• D. D. Crew
• Ping Pong Masters '93

New clones added

• Flash Point (Japan, Original)
• Senkyu (set 2)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Laser Ghost (set 2, World, 317-0166)