MAME 0.125u5

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Release Date

MAME 0.125u5 was released on 12 June 2008.


Contributors

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


Specific Contributions

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

  • Mariusz Wojcieszek updated the 68681 DUART:
    • converted to device interface
    • converted to 8 bit device
    • added input and output port
    • added X1/16 timer
  • Nathan Woods fixed a compilation error when neither HAS_PPC403GA nor HAS_PPC403GCX are defined.
  • Lord Nightmare added more documentation to the TMS5220 and SN76496 cores.
  • Wilbert Pol fixed handling of the U register in the RET instructions and when taking an interrupt in the Nintendo Minx cpu core.
  • David Haywood updated suprnova:
    • now uses its own draw roz function, which supports linescroll or columnscroll, and will give us the ability to 'render' priority data (with roz applied) from the flagsmap to a temp bitmap to work with.
    • priorities should be correct from start to end in cyvern now.. still not perfect tho.
    • added a note about what needs fixing for the sengekis sprite zoom (shrink flag we're not handling)
    • allow wraparound to be turned off (sarukani..)
  • Roberto Fresca changed Italian gambling games based on H8/3337 MCU + NEC D7759GC:
    • Corrected year and manufacturer to ntcash and wizard.
    • Sorted the games by year.
  • robiza simplified the m90 video update routine.
  • robiza made improvements to bomblord (bbmanw clone):
    • partially fixed the background
    • fixed the sprites
    • implemented video register for selecting different resolutions; this fixes graphic in the game screen
    • fixed scroll video register
    • cleaned up offset and priorities
    • implemented linescroll
    • promoted to working
  • robiza made improvements to dynablsb (dynablst clone):
    • partially fixed the background
    • fixed the sprites
    • fixed mark for last sprite
    • fixed player #1 and player #2 controls
    • fixed graphics layer and offset
    • fixed layer select
    • implementated the scroll video register
    • cleaned up offset and priorities
    • promoted to working
  • Nicola Salmoria improved the Jackal driver:
    • Fixed palette animation (very subtle!)
    • Verified on the schematics and on the pcb that the high score table text cannot change color.
    • Removed the IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS flag
    • Fixed music with a kludge (overclock sound CPU)
    • Added dip switch locations and sorted input ports
  • Nicola Salmoria simplified palette handling in punchout. Fixed big sprite palette in top monitor.
  • Roberto Fresca updated the Cal Omega driver:
    • Cleaned up the driver following the MAME Coding Conventions.
    • Added support to Game 18.7 (Amusement Poker).
    • Improved the input system for some games.
    • Fixed some wrong color codes.
    • Updated technical notes.
  • Roberto Fresca added a new driver for italian gambling games based on Mitsubishi/Renesas M16C MCU family. Added dumper notes, hardware details and hooked the sound devices. Moved Euro Jolly X5 to this new driver, and add support for Grand Prix.
  • Roberto Fresca made improvements to Sandii' games driver:
    • Fixed the tilemap size.
    • Fixed the screen size.
    • Updated technical notes.
  • Aaron Giles changed map command in the debugger to now perform separate read/write/fetch lookups.
  • Curt Coder fixed the AY-3-8910 output mode in Draco.
  • Curt Coder changed Thayer's Quest:
    • cleaned up driver
    • added LED layout from Dragon's Lair
    • mapped keyboard and dips correctly
    • added laser disc drive selection
    • fixed Z80-COP communications
    • figured out ports from disassembly
    • added cart presence detection logic
    • fixed SSI-263 timings, service mode works now
    • changed to use COP421
  • Curt Coder changed COP4xx:
    • fixed LEI instruction
    • added COP421 variant
  • couriersud moved calipso, spdcoin, superbon, moonwar and moonwara to galaxian.c:
    • superbon: Change name to Agent Super Bond and Manufacturer to "Signatron USA"
    • superbon: Change year to 1985 following information on arcadeflyers.com
    • removed armorcar remains from scobra.c
  • Jim Stolis changed the i8051 core, so timer 0's second split counter was incorrectly checking the Timer 1 Run Control Bit. Fixed it.
  • Jim Stolis updated the PEPlus driver:
    • All video slot titles now accept coins and play normally
    • Renamed peps0716 to its proper name "River Gambler Slots", instead of "Quarter Mania Slots"
    • Updated peps0716 to use the proper CAP
    • Replaced peps0615 to use a CAP with closer colors (still wrong)
  • Oliver Stoenberg cleaned up the usage of Machine in many of the src/video files.
  • Atari Ace completed a correctness pass over the source tree:
    • added static qualifiers where appropriate
    • added missing #include statements, source comments and header declarations
    • removed dead declarations
    • added ~30 header files for a number of drivers
    • consolidated various cchip declarations
  • Miodrag Milanovic improved 8085 timing and fixed flag calculations based on differences between it and the 8080.
  • Fabio Priuli converted a number of drivers over to using input_port_read() from input_port_read_indexed().
  • ShimaPong updated the cheat system:
    • Changed the function of default memory read in case of the search to prevent from crashing if a game uses cpu_spinutil() - Now basically used do_memory_read() instead of do_cpu_read() (Try to search in actfancr between this and previous version) NOTE : It's not a fundamental solution but no longer crashes
    • Cleaned up read_data() and write_data()
    • Cleaned up save/load routine and added open_cheat_database()
    • Added new menu "Cheat Commands" into the cheat main menu the following commands are supported in this menu
      • reload cheat code (the same as Reload Database key)
      • cheats ON/OFF (the same as Toggle Cheat key)
      • watchpoints ON/OFF (the same as Shift + Toggle Cheat key)
      • save description (save the title of the game)
      • save raw code (save raw cheat code with new format)
    • Fixed several bugs which has found in testing
    • Renamed functions based on coding guidlines
  • Aaron Giles added option -[no]coin_lockout (-[no]coinlock) to control coin lockout behavior.
  • Johnboy contributed NeoGeo updates:
    • Updated Neo-Geo game pcb infos
    • Marked kof2001h AES VERSION
    • Marked samsho3a MVS VERSION
    • Marked 2020bba AES VERSION, renamed p1 and added a note
    • Renamed lastsold p1 to correct chip label 134-p1k
    • Checked other Korean sets, found similar ID change; renamed accordingly
      • Renamed rbff2k p1 to 140-p1k
      • Renamed fswords p1 tp 187-p1k
      • Renamed aof3k p1 to 196-p1k
      • Added comment to kof99n: Korean version?
    • Renamed mslug3n to mslug3h, Marked AES VERSION, changed mamedriv.c
    • Remove BAD_DUMP from kotm, add correct m1
    • Correct s1 layer size in samsh5sp + clones
    • Removed BAD_DUMP from burningf + clone
    • Added correct m1 to lbowling
    • Added correct m1 to socbrawl + clone
    • Added correct m1 to mutnat
    • Added correct m1 to joyjoy
    • Added correct c1/c2 and s1 to marukodq
    • Renamed p-roms in wh1 and wh1h, added comment
    • Added some comments about 'M1' and 'S1' roms
    • Renamed files in kof2001 to correct chip label, changed m1
    • Corrected set pbobblen as found on MVS cart, added notes
  • Aaron Giles added a bilinear filter option to software rendering. Not hooked up to anything yet.
  • Aaron Giles made DRC UML changes:
    • separated conditions and flags into two separate fields
    • added more extensive per-opcode information
    • made validation more thorough using the extended information
    • disabled back-end validation for now until it can be revisited using the new tables
    • changed GETFLGS encoding so that the mask is in parameter 2 instead of the flags field
    • wrote new disassembler based on enhanced opcode info structure
    • moved disassembler into drcuml.c and removed old code
    • extended disassembler buffer sizes to at least 256 bytes
    • removed explicit flag requests from the shorthand opcodes
    • added optimization function to drcuml which is called at block end
    • added logic to compute the necessary flags based on upcoming opcodes and only select those flags which are required
    • added NOP opcode
    • added logic to simplify opcodes as much as possible at the UML layer
    • removed similar logic in the x86 and x64 back-ends
    • added stricter parameter validation for registers and mapvars
    • improved disassembly output
    • added simple symbol table to the UML for improved disassembly
    • changed optional disassembler cache parameter to a drcuml object
    • fixed STORE opcode description to allow immediate source operands
  • Aaron Giles changed the DRC frontend:
    • changed from tracking "live" registers to tracking "necessary" registers
    • genericized register tracking to be more flexible
    • added previous instruction pointer to opcode descriptions
  • Aaron Giles updated the PowerPC recompiler:
    • fixed bug where a branch and link to the link register would overwrite the link register before fetching the target address
    • updated to no longer explicitly specify flags
    • added symbols for most common variables
    • fixed bug in handling XER carry flag for subo. forms
    • simplified flag insertion logic for opcodeo. forms
    • rewrote lswi/stswi as subroutines
    • made accesses to tempdata explicitly dword or qword
    • fixed SRR0 when generating a syscall
    • removed no longer necessary TESTs on extsb/w, rlwinm, rlwnm, rlwimi, cntlzw
    • fixed bug where the SO flag was not being computed for compares
    • fixed flag computations for mulhw/mulhwu/mullw
    • fixed subtlety of shifts between 32 and 63 in srw/sraw
    • fixed mffs/mtfsf to use FP registers
    • fixed mtfsfi to use the immediate value properly
    • now marking terminal count bit in DMA status register
    • added support for 4xx protection registers via the MMU
    • added TLBH, TLBU, and DEC to the list of registers in the debugger
    • turned off "end of transfer" DMA signals in favor of "transfer count 0" signals; fixes memory-to-memory DMA in fiveside
    • minor flags optimizations:
      • broke CR into several individual bits of state
      • extracted the SO bit from XER into its own state
    • cleaned up register tracking implementation
    • fixed numerous errors and shortcomings in the tracking
    • added support for removing unnecessary XER CA and CR0 computations
    • updated UML logging to output new frontend statistics
    • added basic cycle counts for longer instructions
    • added penalty for polling timebase and decrementer registers
    • fixed dependencies in cpu.mak
    • reduced address bus width of 4xx series to 31 bits per the documentation
    • fixed bug that would jump to incorrect PC after filling the TLB during a mismatch event
    • added explicit address truncation to 31 bits for 4xx series
    • added new PPCDRC_ACCURATE_SINGLES option, which removes the excessive (and very likely unecessary) extra rounding when performing the "fast" single-precision floating point ops
    • fixed TLB filling for 4XX protection ranges
    • fixed parameter ordering for masked reads/writes
    • added detection of MMU enablement in 403GCX case
    • fixed bug in protection bounds violation detection for 4XX
    • changed SPU receive model to a push model; updated drivers accordingly
    • added macros for setting the SPU transmit handler and sending bytes
    • cleaned up ppc.h
    • fixed lmw/stmw if rA is one of the loaded/stored registers
    • removed unnecessary variables & structure members
    • optimized for the XER and CR0 case where XER doesn't need an overflow calculation
  • Aaron Giles changed the MIPS recompiler:
    • updated to no longer explicitly specify flags
    • tweaked register tracking to match new DRC frontend system
    • updated UML logging to output new frontend statistics
    • fixed left/right accesses to work with recent memory handler changes
  • Aaron Giles changed the x86/x64 back-ends:
    • added flag support to SEXT, ROLAND, ROLINS, LZCNT opcodes
    • fixed bug where sometimes the flags would be corrupted; in particular, we always clobbered the flags for the subfze instruction, which broke the nbapbp camera and some other things
    • fixed DIVS/DIVU opcode so they properly compute SZ flags when requested; fixes camera wackiness in nbapbp
    • added a "hop" around the prolog of the HANDLE opcode to allow fall-through
    • redesigned x86 stack management to keep the stack at the same 16-byte alignment
    • fixed adc/sbb so that they don't optimize out ever
    • fixed detection of special and/or/xor cases
    • fixed GETFLGS opcode so that it doesn't return anything other than requested flags
    • changed LZCNT/BSWAP to be more flexible in register selection
  • Aaron Giles changed the gticlub driver:
    • converted sysreg_r/w to 8-bit handlers
    • added hack to make network IRQs work; brings some games back to life
  • Aaron Giles updated the Konami PowerPC drivers:
    • designated fast RAM accesses for work RAM
    • removed unnecessary mirroring
  • Aaron Giles changed the Firebeat driver:
    • added VBLANK IRQ clear
    • added ATAPI IRQ clear
    • tried to add UART IRQ clear but it doesn't yet work
    • most of the games start to show something again with these changes
    • added fast RAM region
  • Aaron Giles changed the Model 3 driver:
    • identified and fixed VBLANK bit in real3d status which was causing the system to hang at startup
    • designated fast RAM accesses for work RAM
  • Aaron Giles updated the 53C810 SCSI controller:
    • changed read/write handles to proper READ8/WRITE8_HANDLER callbacks so they can eventually be used directly


Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

New clones added

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

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