MAME 0.97u2

Release Date

MAME 0.97u2 was released on 19 June 2005.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Andrew Church
• Brian Troha
• Corrado Tomaselli
• David Haywood
• Frank Palazzolo
• Guru
• Krick
• Mamesick
• Mathis Rosenhauer
• Nathan Woods
• Nicola Salmoria
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Sonikos
• Ville Linde

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles notes that System 32 games are seriously under construction now. Do not report any bugs against them. The Multi-32 games are even more broken.

• Krick fixed the Windows build so it works again on Windows 95.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli added priorities, fixing 3rd level in The Combatribes.

• Sonikos updated the sound balancing in donpachi, manzinger, metmqstr and pwrinst2.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed video problems in ninjaw, which broke with the new colscroll addition.

• Corrado Tomaselli changed the OKI volume in midres to match real pcb.

• Brian Troha fixed the protection in World Class Bowling v1.40 Tournament.

• Andrew Church fixed the NES PPU video timing.

• Nathan Woods fixed the usage of change_pc() in PowerPC core.

• Ville Linde made improvements to the SHARC CPU core:
  • Correct IRQ handling
  • Many more opcodes, including floating-point

• Ville Linde made improvements to the Konami PPC games:
  • Fixed Gradius 4 data ROM mapping
  • Fixed PPC/SHARC communications
  • Fixed NVRAM protection on some games
  • Stubbed out LAN interface

• Frank Palazzolo fixed the Space Raider graphics 100%.

• Nicola Salmoria and Guru corrected the colors in Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp.

• Frank Palazzolo cleaned up the starfield code and fixed/added starfields to Space Raider, Zero Hour, and Red Clash.

• Mamesick reapplied the fix for bad shadows in Dyna Gears.

• Mathis Rosenhauer fixed the way the VIA 6522 shift register was implemented to get rid of the previous hacky way.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the remaining gfx problems in Championship Bowling.

• Nathan Woods added code to flush error.log every time the debugger is entered.

• Nathan Woods implemented the MCRXR instruction in the PowerPC core.

• Aaron Giles added step in/out support to the v60 disassembler.

• Aaron Giles added support for character constants in the expression engine.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Final Tetris

New clones added

• Turtle Ship (Japan)
• Ladybug (bootleg set 2)
• Mr. Kougar (bootleg Set 2)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• LeMans 24