MAME 0.88u6

Release Date

MAME 0.88u6 was released on 17 November 2004.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Bryan McPhail
• Nathan Woods
• Nicola Salmoria
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli

Specific Contributions

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

• Aaron Giles contributed more Sega S16 improvements: video improvements, cotton title screen looks better but game currently suffers from other issues

• Nicola Salmoria made further improvements to the S16 decryption code

• Bryan McPhail added support for extra effects in the Taito F2 driver
  • Transparent sun in 1st level of Metal Black.
  • Special effect on Metal Black level 5 boss who slides in under the bottom tilemap.
  • All known effects in Gun Frontier (see the attract mode).
  • The highlight effect in Quiz Crayon 2 map.
  • The update also provides full 5 tilemap layer priority support in Metal Black (was previously 4 due to pdrawgfx limitation), and fixes priority problems in Ninja Kids (ninjak058gre).

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli improved the sound in ring rage

• Nathan Woods made a minor MESS specific patch

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the p2 input in tinklepit

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli cleaned up the PPmast93 driver

Game Support

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Bullet
• MVP (Japan)