MAME 0.139

Release Date

MAME 0.139 was released on 29 July 2010.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• AGEMAME
• Atari Ace
• Barry Rodewald
• Brian Troha
• Corrado Tomaselli
• Dlfrsilver
• Dr. Spankenstein
• J. Wilke
• john666
• Johnboy
• Laszlo Schulteisz
• Luca Elia
• MKL
• moa
• Phil Bennett
• Quench
• Roberto Fresca
• Sandro Ronco
• Siftware
• Smitdogg
• Stefan Lindberg
• stephh
• Team CPS-1
• Team Japump
• The Dumping Union
• Wilbert Pol

Specific Contributions

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

• Wilbert Pol updated arm.c: Added big endian mode support to the LDRB and STRB instructions.

• Team CPS-1 (Corrado Tomaselli, Stefan Lindberg, Dlfrsilver and MKL) provided a CPS-1 update:
  • Added missing PALs as reference to most of remaining sets.
  • Dumped and added TK24B1.1A to dynwar.
  • Fixed LW-13.10D rom loading in forgottn to match real pcb.
  • Identified, verified and documented a ton of pcbs, adding/fixing missing/wrong infos as ROMs labels and positions, B-Board, C-Board and CPSB IDs, PALs.
  • Reordered all sets per release date in cps1.c and video\cps1.c.
  • Updated games table in video\cps1.c and added some notes on PALs table.
  • Minor cleanups.

• Phil Bennett updated djboy.c: Hooked up Beast MCU and removed simulation code.

• Wilbert Pol updated arm.c: Fixed word reading from non-aligned address in big endian mode.

• Corrado Tomaselli updated skyfox.c: Corrected clocks and Vsync for the Sky Fox & Exerizer sets based on actual OSCs and measurements taken from a real PCB.

• Wilbert Pol updated arm.c: Added a big endian version of the arm2/3/6 cpu core and cleaned up the little/big endian handling.

• Brian Troha updated djboy.c: Added DIP switch locations and corrected the vsync to 57.5Hz as per the readme info listed at the top of the driver.

• Atari Ace updated mediagx.c: Converted to use driver_data.

• Luca Elia fixed sprite coordinates in astrocorp.c.

• Quench corrected Ameri Darts audio playback rate. This exposed some cycle timing errors in the TMS32010 CPU core which are also fixed.

• Roberto Fresca added support for Southern Systems Joker Poker (1982), from Southern Systems & Assembly, Ltd. Figured out the memory map. Also added technical notes about the hardware.

• stephh corrected the address for the freezing of the movies for the Terminator 2 LA4 set.

• Atari Ace updated emu/info.c: Search all parents of a clone for merged ROMs.

• Sandro Ronco fixed HD63701 SLP opcode.

• AGEMAME updated mpu4.c: Added splitscreen support to SCN2674 for MPU4 Video.

• Johnboy provided neodrv.c updates:
  • Identified several more sets as MVS / AES Version and tagged them properly.
  • Updated game PCB info.
  • bakatono: Removed BAD_DUMP from m1 - is correct, corrected game name.
  • mahretsu: Added correct s1, corrected game name.
  • strhoop: Added correct v2.
  • sdodgeb: Replaced 16mbit v1/v2 with 32mbit v1 as found on two original cards.
  • Added Japan J3 bios.

• Barry Rodewald and Johnboy provided neogeo.c changes:
  • Documented AES mode and 1-slot (MVS/AES) settings.
  • Documented MVS 4-slot and 6-slot settings.
  • Changed 6-slot setting (old default) to 1-slot.

• Laszlo Schulteisz added notification of orientation of all monitors at startup via the output system.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Speed Drop

New clones added

• Mystic Warriors (ver AAA)
• AmeriDarts (set 3)
• Captain Commando (Japan 910928)
• Forgotten Worlds (USA, 88621B B-Board)
• Galaxy Force II (Japan, Newer)
• Quiz King of Fighters (Korean release)
• Real Bout Fatal Fury Special / Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special (Korean release)
• Quiz Daisousa Sen - The Last Count Down (Korean release)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Southern Systems Joker Poker