MNW

This page is designed to allow for a quick look over all the drivers with a GAME_NOT_WORKING flag by giving, as much as possible, an idea on the amount of effort needed to fix them.

2mindril

Missing working simulation of the sensors.

39in1

All games but 39in1 - Games other than 39in1 on this hardware have substantially harder protection and are double-encrypted in a way that would be very difficult to emulate.

3do

Driver moved from MESS to MAME, since there were arcade games based on the 3DO. Emulation is stil preliminary.

4roses

4roses, 4rosesa - Skeleton driver. The program rom is encrypted and it has an undumped MCU which needs decapping or simulation.

8080bw

invasionrz and clone - Bootlegs on slightly different hardware.

acefruit

acefruit - Inputs aren't fully understood. The real title of the game is unknown.

starspnr - Most likely needs a redump of the program ROMs.

acommand

acommand - Inputs aren't fully understood.

adp

Skeleton driver. Todo: "Almost everything."

aleck64

11beat, doncdoon, hipai, kurufev, mayjin3, mtetrisc, srmvs, twrshaft - Incomplete N64 hardware emulation.

alg

Laserdisc games. They all work in theory, but are waiting for a good quality laserdisc dump.

alpha68k

goldmedb - It uses a 68705 in place of the Alpha controller.

amaticmg

Emulation of the type 2 and 3 boards is preliminary, thus only suprstar (board type 1) works.

aristmk4

86lions - Runs on earlier, slightly different hardware.

cgold2, fhunter, fhuntera - These US-based games require note acceptor and printer support.

clkwise - Needs redump of the program ROMs.

aristmk5

Hardware differences from the base Acorn Archimedes are not fully understood yet.

armedf

kozure - Time over doesn't kill the player. BTANB?

bigfghtr, skyrobo - MCU needs decapping / simulation.

artmagic

shtstar - Runs on different hardware.

tenpindx - This game used a physical hockey puck which the player slid down the bowling alley. Sensors on the other end picked up the location and velocity of the puck and simulated the pin behavior. Requires simulation of this input interface in order to be considered working.

astrocorp

westvent, winbingo, winbingoa, zoo - These games need decryption.

atarigx2

All of these games suffer from some advanced protection that affects them in different ways. Through some magic accesses in memory, data can be decrypted using some special key sequences that are not entirely understood. It might be possible to find all possible data sources, run them through the decryption process on the real PCB, and then encode that information in the driver, but it is tedious work at best. Below is the status of each game:

motofren - Has some obvious gameplay glitches. Not much work has been done to understand the protection on this one.

spclords - Has had some of its data decrypted, which is why the palette during attract mode looks ok. But in game there are many problems lurking.

rrreveng -

atlantis

Preliminary driver. VR4310 CPU.

atvtrack

Skeleton driver.

avt

Needs CTC and daisy-chain.

badlands

badlandsb, badlandsb2 - These bootlegs runs on heavily modified hardware.

bartop52

Coins and timer were handled by Bartop system bios. Since bios dump is not available, regular Atari 5200 bios is used and game is marked as not working. Game cart is also marked as bad dump as it is done in "console style", i.e. one file for all game data.

bfcobra

beeline - Missing floppy disk image.

inquiztr - Missing floppy disk image.

bfmsys85

Fruit machine hardware.

bfm_sc1

Fruit machine hardware.

bfm_sc2

m_bcgslm, m_brkfst and clones, m_bfocus, m_cpeno1, m_luvjob - Mechanical games imported from AgeMame. The fruit machine games don't work either.

quintond - Missing emulation of RS232 data link device (see BACTA Datapak specs for more info).

bfm_sc4

Fruit machine hardware. Most games pass the startup tests.

bingoc

Missing terminal roms. Sound banking could be wrong.

bingor

Protection problems?

blackt96

The timer doesn't work (PIC?, RAM Mirror?).

blitz

There is an undumped 68705 MCU.

blitz68k

cjffruit - The game freezes while trying to print the redemption tickets.

The other games - Undumpable MCUs.

bntyhunt

Preliminary driver. PC hardware. Bios is undumped.

btime

tisland - Needs to be decrypted.

bublbobl

boblbobl2 - Bootleg on different hardware.

tokio, tokioo, tokiou - Protection MCUs need decapping / simulation.

buster

Skeleton driver.

cabaret

Not fully playable beacuse of some pitfalls.

calchase

Game is almost working.

calomega

Some bad/incomplete dumps and some hardware features are not correctly emulated.

cb2001

Encrypted CPU.

cchance

Imperfect hopper emulation.

cclimber

bagmanf - Botleg on different hardware.

cd32

odeontw2 - Inputs don't seem to work.

cdi

General CDI emulation suffers from incomplete simulation of the SLAVE and CDIC MCUs. Decapping would help. ' quizard, quizrr40, quizrr41, quizrr42 - The protection hasn't been completely beaten yet.

centiped

multiped - Program bankswitch and alternate memory map layout for centiped.

cesclass

Needs custom layout for dual LCDs, artwork and lamps position needed to make progresses, U43 and U44 bad in Trap Shoot Classic, games are incredibly sluggish, irq sources are unknown, Trap Shoot Classic runs on a single LCD, needs mod.

cham24

Missing coins and timer due to unemulated Amtel MCU.

champbas

champbb2a - Incomplete dump.

champbb2j - Slightly different hardware?

chihiro

X-BOX hardware emulation is very preliminary.

cliffhgr

goaltogo - Laserdisc game. Works in theory, but is waiting for a good quality laserdisc dump.

cmmb

Skeleton driver.

cninja

cninjabl2 - Bootleg on different hardware.

cntsteer

cntsteer - Needs better understanding of the communications and correct ROZ layer implementation.

gekitsui, zerotrgt and clone - Need better ROZ layer implementation.

cobra

Complicated Konami 3D hardware.

coinmstr

Incomplete protection simulation.

jpcoin - Different IO.

trailblz - Question roms aren't dumped.

coinmvga

Interrupt generation is unknown and touch screen needs to be hooked up.

comebaby

Skeleton driver. Game runs on a Pentium (I/II/III?) class machine running Windows 98!

coolridr

Lots to be done: decode compressed GFX ROMs for "sprite" blitter (6,141,122 is the patent number); DMA is still a bit of a mystery; video emulation is practically non-existant; SCSP; many SH-1 ports needs investigations; IRQ generation; understand & remove the hacks at the bottom; IC1/IC10 are currently unused, might contain sprite data / music data for the SCSP / chars for the text tilemap/blitter.

cops

Preliminary driver. Laserdisc game.

cps1

captcommb, dinohunt, dinopic, dinopic2, knightsb, punipic, punipic2, punipic3, sf2m1, sf2m3, sf2m8 - Bootlegs which run on different hardware, which needs to be correctly implemented.

sf2amf, sf2rk, sf2stt - Missing program ROMs dump.

crystal

donghaer - Protection PIC hasn't been dumped yet.

officeye, topbladv - Protection PICs have been dumped but there isn't a pic16c727 core yet.

cshooter

GFX roms in black 'blobs' (Dox working on it).

csplayh5

Needs rewrite of the v9938/v9958 video chip; fixes for h8 CPU core bugs (it trips various unhandled opcodes); implementation of DVD routing and YUV decoding; game timings seem busted, could be due of missing DVD hook-up.

csplayh1 - Inputs doesn't work at all, slower than the others too.

dblewing

Protection simulation is pretty advanced, but still incomplete.

ddenlovr

momotaro - Protection + some roms are badly dumped.

quizchq, quizchql - They lock up.

ddragon

ddragon6809, ddragon6809a - Bootlegs on different hardware.

dec0

automat, secretab - Bootlegs on different hardware.

deco32

gunhard, lockload, lockloadu -

decocass

ctisland3 - Different bitswap?

cexplore - Mssing rom dump from overlay PCB.

cgraplop2 - Wrong dongle?

deco_ld

The driver needs better video e I/O emulation, laserdisc hook-ups.

deco_mlc

stadhr96, stadhr96a - Protection isn't fully simulated and they seem to require raster IRQ video update support.

deshoros

Needs graphics emulation through artwork system and printer emulation.

dlair

Laserdisc games. Work in theory, but are waiting for a good quality laserdisc dump.

dmndrby

Electrocoin on snk hardware. Needs better video emulation. Enters service mode while attract mode is running.

drw80pkr

Driver shows something, but emulation is still incomplete. I8039 based CPU with CRTC6845 video and AY8910 sound.

dwarfd

qc, quarterh and clones - Missing laserdisc dumps.

dynax

majrjhdx, tenkai2b, tenkaid - Missing dump of the internal rom of the TMP91640.

ecoinf2

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

ecoinf3

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

ecoinfr

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

epos

catapult, revenger - Bad dumps.

esd16

mchampdxb - Graphics ROMs aren't dumped.

esh

Laserdisc game. Works in theory, but is waiting for a good quality laserdisc dump. Does have a small list of TODO items that could be looked at prior to a disc dump.

f1gp

f1gpb - Bootleg on different hardware.

fcrash

sgyxz - Bootleg on different hardware.

firebeat

Driver is incomplete. Missing MIDI card emulation, video emulation problems..

fitfight

hotmindff - Scrolling offsets + inputs need to be fixed.

fortecar

fortecar - Requires a proper EEPROM dump, doesn't start due of it.

freekick

countrun - Main program inside of custom CPU block.

countrb2 - Possible bad dump, or encrypted.

gigas - One of the program roms is a bad dump.

funkball

Preliminary driver. PC based hardware (Cyrix GX + 3DFX).

funworld

royalcrdf, royalcrdp - Encrypted. Seems to use an epoxy block with CPU + extras (ICs, TTL, etc) to manage the encryption.

jokercrd - Totaly encrypted. This game use a Funworld custom CPU.

jolycdab - Program is testing/writing RAM in offset $8800-$BFFF (ROM).

magicd2b, magicd2c - CPU issues. This game use a slightly modified instructions set.

mongolnw - Need to hook the missing microcontroller (TSC87C52-16CB) to emulate this game properly.

multiwin - Encrypted with unidentified CPU.

powrcard - Needs proper decryption.

soccernw - Need to hook the missing microcontroller (TSC87C52-16CB) to emulate this game properly.

saloon - This game is totally encrypted. No PIAs to drive I/O.

gaelco2

aligator, touchgo and clones, wrally2 - Unemulated protection device with internal rom and suicide capabilities (DS5002FP). There's an unprotected versions of Alligator Hunt and it might be possible to simulate the protection in the protected version, but it isn't easy, looks like MCU may provide ROM patches.

snowboar, snowboara - Unemulated protection device (Lattice IspLSI 1016-80LJ)

grtesoro, grtesoro4 - Unemulated protection device with internal rom and suicide capabilities (DS5002FP). grtesoro also has badly dumped program roms.

gaiden

mastninj - Sprites, sound and y-scroll need fixing.

gal3

In need of laserdisc dump. Skeleton driver.

galaxold

trvchlng - Questions roms aren't dumped.

vstars - Encrypted?

galdrvr

dingoe - Probable bad dump and encryption.

monsterz - Unemulated protection.

scorpiona, skelagon, supergx - Bad dumps.

tenspot - Menu isn't working yet.

theendb - Bootleg on slightly different hardware.

warofbugg - Bootleg on slightly different hardware.

galivan

youmab, youmab2 - Weird bootlegs, who knows.

galpani2

Kaneko protection MCU with internal rom, managing CPU comms. Decap should possible, should be the same for all games / sets.

gamecstl

'Modern' PC Hardware running a MAME bootleg.

gamtor

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

ggconnie

Preliminary driver. Hardware is PC-Engine based.

gladiatr

ppking - Missing MCU dump or simulation.

glass

Unemulated protection device with internal rom and suicide capabilities (DS5002FP).

goldngam

Preliminary driver.

goldnpkr

falcnwldc - Has a second encrypted CPU.

pokerdub - Missing one program ROM.

pokerduc - Encrypted.

royale, royalea - Needs code analysis, inputs & lamps.

wldwitchb, wldwitche, wtchjackc -

witchcdk - A rom is corrupt.

goldstar

cb3c - Bad dump.

cb3d, cmast97 - PROM decode needs fixing.

chryangl -

cmast92 - Graphics ROMs aren't dumped yet.

cmasterbv, cmv4a - Missing switch between normal and "stealth" game.

jkrmast, luckylad - Encrytped.

magoddsc, magoddsd - Custom encrypted CPU block.

megaline -

pkrmast, prkmasta - Incomplete dumps and probably encrypted.

nfm - Some roms don't seem to belong to the dumped set.

unkch1, unkch2, unkch3, unkch4 -

wcat3 -

gpworld

Laserdisc hardware. Works in theory, but is waiting for a good quality laserdisc dump. Does have a small list of TODO items that could be looked at prior to a disc dump.

gstriker

twcup94, twcup94a, vgoalsoc, vgoalsoca Tecmo MCU providing jump addresses etc. Has direct access to entire CPU bus, prevents code modification (MCU writes 'ROM ERROR' if you change ROM). ROZ pitch difficult to understand.

<math>Insert formula here</math>== gticlub == thunderh and clone -

guab

crisscrs - Missing disk image dump.

gumbo

mspuzzlen - Bad dump.

gunpey

Complex video chip, supports compressed graphics formats etc. Skeleton driver, work has been done, but no good progress made.

harddriv

racedrivpan, steeltalp, hdrivairp - Prototypes, possibly running on slightly different hardware.

hikaru

Skeleton driver.

hitpoker

Protection: needs dumping or simulating PIC.

hng64

The I/O CPU is a protected MCU. There is some thought that the games uses this as a protection device. See driver notes for in depth todo/status report.

homedata

mirderby - Preliminary driver.

hornet

Driver is still in preliminary status. Most games show something and/or are somewhat playable.

sscope, sscopea, sscope2 -

terabrst, terabrsta - Missing gun emulation.

hotstuff

Preliminary driver.

hshavoc

Genesis hardware, but uses a PIC to control state based encryption. All the code that matches the Megadrive version has been decrypted, but the extra code (startup code, coins etc.) appears to have some annoying extra encryption.

icecold

Skeleton driver. Pinball games.

ichiban

Code is encrypted.

igs009

gp98 - Bad dump.

igs017

iqblocka, iqblockf, mgcs, lhzb2, slqz2 - Incomplete protection simulation.

tarzan, tarzana, starzan - Incomplete dumps.

igspoker

stellecu - Bad dump.

intrscti

Undumped program ROM in an epoxy block.

ironhors

farwest - Bootleg running on different hardware.

istellar

Laserdisc game. Has a small list of TODO items that could be looked at prior to a disc dump.

itech32

wcbowl13j - The japanese version runs on different hardware.

jackpool

Needs better understanding of the master/slave communications, better EEPROM and NVRAM hook-up.

jangou

luckygrl - Encrypted program roms.

jclub2

Needs emulating the coin double sensor, removing the patch to pass the eeprom test, extending palette to 0x20000 entries (palette_start prevents more than 0x10000), fixing the disalignment between sprites and tilemap (gap in the fence) during play, without breaking the other screens, which are fine; implementing a few missing inputs / outputs and correct clocks.

jokrwild

Missing random number generator, inputs and sound.

jpmimpct

The mechanical games aren't emulated yet.

jpmsys5

The mechanical games aren't emulated yet.

cashcade - Incomplete dump? Shows a loading error.

jubilee

Preliminary driver. Needs better memory map, correct video RAM offset, CRT controller hook up.

kingdrby

cowrace - Incomplete dump.

kinst

kinst2k3, kinst2k4 - Upgrade kits.

koftball

Incomplete protection simulation.

konamigv

btchamp, kdeadeye, tokimosh, tokimosp - All games on this system suffer from a corner case involving audio track playback in the SCSI CD-ROM emulation.

konamigx

ggreats2, opengolf, opengolf2, racinfrc, racinfrcu - These games use a special ROZ layer generated by the "PSAC4" custom IC which appears to include a height map.

konamim2

Preliminary driver, needs overall better emulation of the M2 system.

konendev

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

kopunch

ksys573

Game suffer from incomplete PSX-based hardware emulation and some are missing emulation of the external digital sound and I/O board.

laserbas

Jaleco-like protection device.

laserbat

catnmousa - Bad dump.

legionna

Complex Seibu 'COP' protection device. Work has been done and some games are nearing playable state.

leland

aafbb - One of the program roms is a bad dump.

lgp

Laserdisc game. Has a small list of TODO items that could be looked at prior to a disc dump.

ltcasino

ltcasinn - Missing inputs.

luckgrln

7smash - Encrypted rom?

lucky74

excitbj - The program ROM for the terminal isn't dumped.

lucky74a - The program ROM seems incomplete or encrypted in some smart way.

m10

andromed, greenber, ipminvad1 - Incomplete dumps.

m52

alpha1v -

m72

lohtb - The bootleg hardware is different to the original hardware.

m92

nbbatman2bl - Bootleg with different sprite system, MCU as soundcpu, OKI samples for music/sound.

m107

kftgoal, wpksoc - Missing EEPROM hook-up.

macs

macsbios -

mac2bios -

kisekaem -

kisekaeh -

cultname -

magic10

hotslot, magic102, mcolors, suprpool - Missing dump of the internal rom of the HD6473308cp10.

magicard

Lots to do: proper handling of the 68070 (68k with 32 address lines instead of 24) & handle the extra features properly (UART,DMA,Timers etc.), proper emulation of the 66470 Video Chip (still many unhandled features), inputs, unknown sound chip (it's an ADPCM with eight channels), ,any unknown memory maps, proper memory map and machine driver for magicardj & magicle (different sound chip, extra undumped rom and PIC controller).

magictg

Preliminary driver, almost works.

magtouch

Preliminary driver.

malzak

malzak, malzak2 - Sprite collision detection doesn't fully work.

manohman

Preliminary driver.

maygay1b

Mechanical game imported from AGEMAME.

maygayv1

Skeleton driver for fruit machine games.

mazerbla

Uses a custom video controller which isn't fully understood. Mazer Blazer appears to use an MM54104 'Digitalker' speech IC, however, the two speech ROMs are undumped.

mcr

nflfoot - CED-based disk game. Has gory Z80-based serial I/O interface that is not understood. The CED player interface is undocumented. A poor quality rip exists of the video (probably the best we will get). There is a second CED disk with different teams playing which we do not have access to.

mediagx

Mainly just need the inputs hooked up, which are mapped to the parallel port via a JAMMA interface

megasys1

monkelf - Bootleg on different hardware.

megatech

Incorrect behavior at time out and there are some sms based games which aren't yet fully supported.

merit

dodgectya, dodgectyb, dodgectyc - Incomplete dump. One GFX rom is in an epoxy block.

riviera - The parent set hangs.

meritm

megat5a - Bad dump.

metalmx

Skeleton driver. Extremely complex prototype hardware.

metro

puzzlet - An unknown unemulated chip (probably a PIC) provides protection.

midzeus

crusnexo, thegrid and clones - These Zeus II-based games use a proprietary 3D graphics chip that has no available documentation.

miniboy7

Bad dumps, pretty much no information available other than the dump, missing color prom.

missile

mcombat, mcombata, mcombats - Bootlegs on different hardware.

missilem - This kit combines Missile Command and Super Missile Attack on ddaughterboard plugged into the main pcb cpu slot.

mitchell

pkladiesbl - Needs CPU "decryption" / ordering.

mlanding

Almost working. Needs better communications, among other minor improvements.

model1

swa, wingwar and clones - Guesswork incomplete on the math copro dsp functions and program impossible to dump.

model2

Implementation of the 3D systems is either guesswork (Model 2, 2A) or incomplete (Model 2B, 2C).

model3

Driver is still preliminary. Most games boot and show something.

monzagp

Preliminary driver. Possibly missing a rom.

moo

moomesabl - Bootleg on different hardware.

mpu12wbk

Almost skeleton driver.

mpu3

Most games fail to boot, giving the CPU a 'WAIT' instruction then sitting there; some complain about Characterizer (protection) and then do the same; a few boot to show light displays with no LED text; some display misaligned LED text; many run VERY slowly, even when the CPU is inactive (inefficient MAME timer system overhead?).