MAME 0.35b8

Release Date

MAME 0.35b8 was released on 24 March 1999.

Contributors

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

• Bryan McPhail
• Carlos A. Lozano
• Ernesto Corvi
• Frank Palazzolo
• John Butler
• Juergen Buchmueller
• Lee Taylor
• Nicola Salmoria
• Phil Stroffolino
• Valerio Verrando
• Yasuhiro Ogawa
• Zsolt Vasvari

Specific Contributions

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

• Nicola Salmoria fixed missing item at the bottom of the screen in Tower of Druaga.

• Nicola Salmoria again fixed the colors in Lode Runner 2. This time it should really be 100%.

• Zsolt Vasvari implemented the RC filters in early Konami games (Time Pilot, Pooyan, etc.)

• Ernesto Corvi added voices to Rolling Thunder.

• Nicola Salmoria fixed the 1 player start button not working on level 31 of Tower of Druaga.

• John Butler added a "Game History" entry to the menu. Data is fetched from the file HISTORY.DAT. Thanks to Brian Deuel, Neil Bradley and the Retrocade dev team for allowing us to use Retrocade's game history database.

• Juergen Buchmueller added an all new, completely rewritten debugger (not finished yet).

• Valerio Verrando added switches -noartwork and -nosamples to turn off artwork or sample loading in the DOS version.

Game Support

New Games added or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• TNK3
• ASO
• Athena
• Fighting Golf
• Bermuda Triangle
• Psycho Soldier
• Chopper I
• Caveman Ninja
• Tumble Pop
• Speed Coin
• Sky Chuter

New clones added

• Rally X (Namco)
• Tower of Druaga (set 2)
• Warp Warp (Namco)
• King and Balloon (Japan)
• Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware)