MAME 0.125u6

Release Date

MAME 0.125u6 was released on 17 June 2008.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Corrado Tomaselli
• couriersud
• Curt Coder
• David Haywood
• ElSemi
• Fabio Puiuli
• Frans van Egmond
• Frederic Canoen
• Guru
• Oliver Stoenberg
• sonikos
• Tomasz Slanina
• Volker Hann
• Wilbert Pol
• Yasuhiro Ogawa

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles changed the MIPS3 recompiler:
  • added UML comments for common state variables
  • removed some unused fields
  • implemented LL/LLD/SC/SCD (only works single-processor for now)

• Tomasz Slanina added sound emulation to Wily Tower, Atomic Boy and Fighting Basketball.

• David Haywood made improvements to squahitsa.

• ElSemi made progress on protection simulation for 2 Crystal System titles. Still not working.

• David Haywood made some progress on tankfrc4 inputs.

• Aaron Giles created common virtual TLB managment module. Updated MIPS and PowerPC code to make use of it.

• Curt Coder added a validity check against reading input ports at init time.

• Aaron Giles cleaned up software bilinear filtering code. Added bounds checking. Enabled by default for snapshots and movie rendering.

• Aaron Giles added a new option: -snapsize, which lets you specify the target resolution for snapshots and movies. The existing behavior is still the default: create snapshots and movies at native pixel resolutions.

• Aaron Giles added a new option: -snapview, which lets you specify a particular view to use for rendering snapshots and movies. The existing behavior is still the default: use a special internal view and render each screen to its own snapshot in its own file. When using this option to specify a view other than 'internal', only a single snapshot file will be produced regardless of how many screens the game has.

• Aaron Giles improved AVI and MNG recording to properly duplicate/skip frames as appropriate to keep the correct framerate.

• Aaron Giles added a new function video_get_view_for_target() which selects a view based on a command-line parameter and the configuration. Changed Windows OSD code to use this instead of its own logic. Changed -snapview to share the logic as well, enabling 'auto' as a -snapview option.

• Wilbert Pol renamed the "Nintendo z80gb" cpu core to "Sharp LR35902".

• Aaron Giles changed the UML:
  • reactivated back-end validation mechanism
  • added back-end validation for ADD/SUB/MUL/DIV/CMP forms
  • fixed several errors in dealing with more obscure flag combinations

• Yasuhiro Ogawa made konamigx frequency tweaks:
  • set screen refresh rate to 58Hz (parameters from developer manual are not 100% correct)
  • removed sound CPU clock hack

• Guru set the tecmosys screen refresh rate to measured 57.4458Hz.

• Oliver Stoenberg added missing machine parameters and removed deprecat.h usage in a number of drivers/ and machine/ files.

• Corrado Tomaselli changed all games after Street Fighter 2 CE to have a 12mhz clock. Verified on Megaman and Quiz and dragons (original kits with plastic case). I am resonably sure all the other games after ST2CE have the DASH cps1 board with 12mhz clock.

• Fabio Puiuli converted many drivers in the d-j alphabetical range to use input_port_read() instead of input_port_read_indexed().

• sonikos made ddragon3 driver cleanups/fixes:
  • Fixed the mess dips location in ctribe
  • Added dips location in all sets of ddragon3
  • Added the missing dips (now are 8x2) on ctribe,ctribe1,ctribeb, ctribb2 and ddrago3b
  • Fixed the "Stage Clear Energy" dips in ctribe
  • Adjusted the frame rate from 60hz to around 57 as reported on mametester ID 00417
  • Adjusted OKI frequency to 1.000mhz (according to recording on mametester ID 00181)
  • Adjusted the ddragon3 & ctribe volume (according to recording on mametester ID 00181 and 01441)

• nuapete made some protection improevements for vgoalsoc / tecmo world cup 98.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Alien Storm (set 4, World, 2 Players, FD1094 317-0154)

New clones added

• Terra Force (bootleg with additional Z80)
• Turbo Out Run (cockpit, FD1094 317-0109)
• The Combatribes (Italian bootleg)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Wonderboy 3 System16A FD1089A