MAME 0.84u3

Release Date

MAME 0.84u3 was released on 15 July 2004.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Andrea Mazzoleni
• Brian Troha
• Mike Coates
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Razoola
• smf
• Ville Linde

Specific Contributions

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

• R. Belmont fixed graphics crashing, palette, sprites, and some networking registers in Final Lap.

• Ville Linde made several Seibu SPI fixes.
  • Removed all remaining sound hacks
  • Added some missing i386 opcodes
  • Added support for external read/write handlers to the YMF271 (required for SPI flash ROM updating mode).
  • Hooked up flash ROMs via the new YMF271 support.
  • Fixed various crash bugs in rf2_us, rf2_2k, and rf2_eur.

• R. Belmont added a DMA kludge to get Derby Quiz My Dream Horse to boot.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli did a major rewrite of the Portraits driver.
  • fixed scrolling
  • fixed screen resolution
  • added NVRAM
  • added fake photo when you get the best score
  • fixed service switches and coins
  • added missing roms and the 2nd set

• Andrew Gardner fixed save states in the m62 and mnight drivers.

• smf fixed the PSX SIO timer so that it only fires when there is data to send & processes one bit per tick.

• Aaron Giles cleaned up and reorganized the DCS sound module. This required changing the way ROMs are loaded for all of the DCS-using games.

• Aaron Giles fixed a crash in the MIPS core introduced with the u2 changes.

• Andrea Mazzoleni changed the "driver.status" entry in -listxml to summarize all the status entries allowing frontends to completely ignore all the other flags.

• Andrea Mazzoleni fixed the generic_fopen() function to ensure that a rom CRC is present before using it. Otherwise, for NO_DUMP roms an uninitialized string variable is used in the search.

• Aaron Giles added the ability to tweak the refresh rate if -cheat is enabled. Use SHIFT to modify by 0.1fps, CONTROL to modify by 0.01fps, and ALT to modify by 0.001fps.

Game Support

New games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Digger (CVS)
• Trivia Genius
• vasara2 Vasara 2 (set 1)
• vasara2a Vasara 2 (set 2)
• Gunbarich
• Monster Farm Jump

New clones added

• Portraits (set 2)
• Twin Falcons

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Euro 950424)
• Mortal Kombat 4
• Invasion
• Cruisin' Exotica
• The Grid