MAME 0.54

Release Date

MAME 0.54 was released on 25 August 2001.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Bryan McPhail
• David Graves
• Ernesto Corvi
• Frank Palazzolo
• Jarek Burczynski
• Nicola Salmoria
• Zsolt Vasvari

Specific Contributions

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

• David Graves fixed the road lines in Top Speed.

• Bryan McPhail and Nicola Salmoria decrypted the sound CPU in Dream Soccer 94.

• Zsolt Vasvari fixed the crowd noise in Premier Soccer.

• Jarek Burczynski fixed the YM2610 and YM2151 emulation, verified on the real chip.

• New core function palette_get_pen() replaces the removed osd_get_pen(). Renamed palette_change_color() to palette_set_color().

• Aaron Giles made major changes to the CPU interface. As a result of this, some games are temporarily broken, most notably CPS2.

• Aaron Giles improved auto_malloc so that you can auto_malloc at machine_init time and have the memory disposed of on a reset.

Game Support

New Games added or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Fire Barrel
• Time Limit
• Youjyuden
• Gulf Storm
• Minesweeper

New clones added

• Space Force (= Meteoroids)
• Last Mission (Japan)
• Gun Dealer '94 (= Primella)
• Blue Hawk (NTC)