MAME 0.73

Release Date

MAME 0.73 was released on 4 September 2003.

Contributors

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

• Acho A. Tang
• Angelo Salese
• Barry Rodewald
• David Haywood
• Mike Coates
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• R. Belmont
• Stefan Jokisch
• Tomasz Slanina

Specific Contributions

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

• Angelo Salese and David Haywood improved the ST-V emulation, resulting in Hanagumi Columns being playable and other games on the driver starting to show some graphics

• Barry Rodewald continued the MegaPlay improvements (still none fulyl working yet but more of the bios menu tests pass now)

• R. Belmont improved the System GX driver, mainly to the not yet working games

• Acho A. Tang attempted to improve the Super Dodge Ball MCU simulation

• Nathan Woods made various Changes to keep the code in line with MESS

• Stefan Jokisch added 8 player support to the core

• This list of changes isn't complete

Game Support

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Hanagumi Taisen Columns - Sakura Wars
• Ultra X Weapons
• Twin Eagle 2
• Super Trivia Master
• Sprint 8

New clones added

• Lady Bug (bootleg on Galaxian Hardware)
• Video Pool (Moon Cresta hardware) (bootleg of Video Hustler)