MAME 0.143u5

Release Date

MAME 0.143u5 was released on 6 September 2011.

Contributors

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

• Andrew Gardner
• Angelo Salese
• Arcadecomponents.com
• atchoo
• Bat Country Entertainment
• Brian Troha
• cbt
• Charles MacDonald
• Corrado Tomaselli
• David Haywood
• Dr. Spankenstein
• DsNo
• EdCosta
• Fabio Priuli
• Foul
• gamerfan
• gatt9
• Hammad
• hap
• iq_132
• Jonhboy
• Layne
• Lord Flux
• Lord Nightmare
• Miodrag Milanovic
• O. Galibert
• Paratech
• Phil Bennett
• R. Belmont
• Ryan Holtz
• Samuele Zannoli
• ShouTime
• Smitdogg
• The Dumping Union
• tormod
• Ville Linde
• wild eyed

Specific Contributions

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

• Angelo Salese implemented double buffering and improved colors for 3d in Top Landing.

• gamerfan, Smitdogg, BrianT and The Dumping Union updated naomi.c: Added rev "A" Japan BIOS, original Korean BIOS as well as rev "D" Korea.

• ShouTime updated armedf.c: Verified correct sprite roms for Terra Force (Japan).

• Corrado Tomaselli and Brian Troha updated dday.c: Added dipswitch locations to the D-Day sets.

• David Haywood updated the m68k core: Preliminary support for MC68340 (CPU32). Reorganized to facilitate C++ conversion.

• R. Belmont updated the m68k core: use 68340 instruction table for 68340, cpXXX instructions are 020/030 only, add CINV, CPUSH stubs for 040.

• Lord Nightmare, Hammad and EdCosta added comment about new raiden2 rom combination, add missing pals as undumped, fix IC locations on several sets.

• Ryan Holtz and Bat Country Entertainment provided various HLSL fixes:
  • Created two flags, -hlsl_ini_write and -hlsl_ini_read. The former enables custom HLSL INI writing explicitly, the other enables loading of the same.
  • Fixed disappearing aperture effect when using custom INI files.
  • Fixed diagonal seam on some games, for serious real this time.
  • Fixed phosphor simulation, now works as expected.

• Dr. Spankenstein, wild eyed, Paratech, Layne, Lord Flux, atchoo, cbt, gatt9, tormod, BrianT and The Dumping Union updated model3.c: Redumped Spikeout FE. Special thanks to Phil Bennett & Bart Trzynadlowski for verifying and testing the redumped roms.

• Fabio Priuli made audit.c only report samples audit result for sets with required samples.

• Fabio Priuli fixed segfault when using –verifysamples.

• O. Galibert updated the floppy device: Refactor slightly. Name, descrition, etc are now an intrinsic property of converters.

• Miodrag Milanovic added some Stern Whitestar older revisions.

• Angelo Salese and Andrew Gardner did preliminary work at the projection calculation for 3d eye-space points in Air Inferno.

• R. Belmont updated the es5503 core: converted to modern device, improved IRQ timing.

• Phil Bennett updated the C352: don't try to play zero-length samples.

• hap and R. Belmont provided M377xx improvements:
  • Respect the restored mode bits for PUL.
  • Proper cycle counts for PSH/PUL.
  • Fixed flags for multiply/division and divide by 0 interrupt.
  • Pass program bank to debugger hook so breakpoints work outside of bank 0.
  • Fixed interrupt flags for internal peripherals, corrected BBC/BBS when running outside of bank 0.
  • Several other interrupt timing and priority fixes.

• R. Belmont updated the whitestar driver: made modern, added sound system. No work on main CPU part yet.

• O. Galibert updated the floppy device: Add brand-new MFI (MESS floppy image) support.

• O. Galibert updated the mfi device: Fix the format thanks to smf's help.

• O. Galibert updated amigafdc: Modernized, but no change (yet).

• O. Galibert updated the floppy device: Changed the internal format to use magnetic cells. Temporarily moved the full-track pll bit extraction in the amiga fdc.

• O. Galibert updated st_dsk: Added the easy ST formats.

• Brian Troha updated tempest.c: Corrected the rom labels, description and documentation for the revised hardware rev 3 of Tempest. Added dipswitch locations for the Tempest sets.

• R. Belmont updated globalfr.c: filled in a little more of the memory map.

• Johnboy and DsNo did yet more Neo-Geo work on game ROMs structures:
  • Continued to document used pcb's for cartridges.
  • More removal of .bin extension in favour of chiplabel.socketlabel naming convention.
  • Added correct v1 to pulstar.
  • Corrected layout of pgoal according to original cart.
  • Added redumped c1/c2 and v1 to quizdaisk.

• Samuele Zannoli provided various changes and improvements to the Chihiro emulation:
  • Modified the ide device (idectrl.c) so it supports cases where it is not connected to an hard disk, but to some different hardware.
  • Addeds PC devices 8259 pic, 8253 pit, ide controller.
  • Added "chihiro" command with subcommands "jamdis", "dump_string", "dump_process", "dump_list", "help".
  • Updated the smbus controller and adds stubs for the pic16lc, cx25871, eeprom smbus devices.
  • Updated the memory map for the newly added devices.
  • Fixed the size of the "others" region.
  • Added hack for the missing dump of the smbus eeprom.

• iq_132 decoded graphics in gigaman2.

• iq_132 hooked up sound, fixed layer offsets in ppan.

• iq_132 fixed graphics glitches in speedspn on character select screen.

• iq_132 fixed layer enable in cninjabl, giving it working status.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Ridge Racer 2
• Free Kick

New clones added

• 1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan, Rev B)
• Rad Rally (Japan)
• The King of Fighters '97 (Korean release)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Fighting Bujutsu