MAME 0.15
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Release Date
MAME 0.15 was released on 02 April 1997.
Contributors
The known contributors for this version are, in first-name alphabetical order:
- Bernd Wiebelt
- Brad Oliver
- Jarek Burczynski
- Marc Lafontaine
- Nicola Salmoria
- Richard Davies
- Steve Scavone
Specific Contributions
The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:
- Jarek Burczynski submitted sound support fro Bomb Jack (set 2).
- Sound support was added to the following games:
- Richard Davies made Carnival (upright) playable.
- Brad Oliver discovered a bug causing illegal memory accesses in games using 224x288 and 288x224 video modes.
- Nicola Salmoria fixed a number of bugs in the Wizard of Wor driver, thanks to help from Steve Scavone
- High-score support was added to the following games:
- Pac-Man (Midway) and some of its clones
- Ms. Pac-Man (bootleg) and some of its clones
- Crush Roller (Kural Samno)
- Burger Time (Midway) and Burger Time (Data East set 2)
- Zaxxon (set 1)
- Congo Bongo
- Pooyan (Stern)
- Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
- Moon Quasar
- Miscellaneous graphics fixes in Zaxxon (set 1) and Congo Bongo.
- Marc Lafontaine improved the colors in Congo Bongo.
- Nicola Salmoria fixed most of the graphics problems in Moon Patrol (Williams).
- The "-vsync" command-line parameter was added to allow people to synchronize the video refresh with their monitor's beam.
- The "-vesaskip n" command-line parameter was added by Bernd Wiebelt, creating a 640x480 faux-scanline with a visible area that can be scrolled with the PGUP and PGDOWN keys.
- MAME's ROM loading functions were made to print out a full list of all of the ROMs needed for a given set if one of them is missing. Also, an explanation of what ROMs are were added.
Game Support
- Working Games Added
