MAME 0.144u4

Release Date

MAME 0.144u4 was released on 24 December 2011.

Contributors

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

• Alex Jackson
• Angelo Salese
• AUMAP
• balrog
• Brian Troha
• Charles MacDonald
• Clawgrip
• Curt Coder
• f205v
• fgs
• Fujix
• Grull Osgo
• hap
• Hau
• Johnboy
• Lord Nightmare
• Mariusz Wojcieszek
• Miodrag Milanovic
• O. Galibert
• plgDavid
• Rob Ragon
• Roberto Fresca
• Team CPS-1
• Team Japump!!!
• Wilbert Pol
• Yohji

Specific Contributions

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

• Roberto Fresca provided Forte Card improvements:
  • A lot of work on inputs.
  • Added DIP locations.
  • Lamps documentation and support.
  • Added Lamps layout.
  • Fixed and simplified inputs. Now Owner, Rental and Credits are proper toggled service keys.
  • Improved the button-lamps layout with the half and double addition for betting in the gamble stage.
  • Reverse engineering and partially documented the serial EEPROM data.
  • Added a clean default NVRAM and serial EEPROM.
  • Added company and year notes.
  • Added technical notes.

• Fujix adjusted volume levels in nemesis.c to mirror observed levels from PCB recordings for Salamander/Lifeforce. Partially addresses MT Bug #3538.

• Grull Osgo provided various fixes to California Chase, making it complete the POST.

• fgs provided a fix to CD-I video code.

• Angelo Salese added preliminary save state support to Naomi / AW / DC driver.

• Curt Coder improved SN76477 interface.

• Alex Jackson updated vigilant.c: fix reversed Demo Sounds dipswitch in kikcubic.

• Angelo Salese modernized MSM6242 RTC device.

• Angelo Salese added incrementing time to MSM6242 device.

• Angelo Salese added preliminary IRQ generation to the MSM6242, updated drivers that use it accordingly and removed various related kludges.

• Team CPS-1 provided Capcom ZN-1, ZN-2 updates:
  • Confirmed and documented game board # for every set.
  • Properly fixed ROMs labels and locations to match real pcbs.
  • Marked MASK ROMs in ts2, ts2j as BAD_DUMP, current dumps don't match real pcbs, added a note.
  • Replaced HR2-01M.3A in strider2 and clones with proper 32MBit dump to match real pcb, 2nd half was cut out.
  • Added a more accurate title description to some games.
  • Added some documentation notes to various sets.
  • Reordered all sets per release date.
  • Minor cleanups and fixes.

• Angelo Salese properly hooked up MSM6242 device to Super Kaneko Nova System.

• Angelo Salese provided various avt.c progresses, it now properly shows some gfxs.

• Angelo Salese removed PC-based sound hack from Mirax.

• Grull Osgo provided a fix for 8042kbc.c irq generation, now California Chase correctly accepts keyboard inputs.

• Miodrag Milanovic did some softlist support cleanup and addition of compatibility filtering.

• Angelo Salese documented MCU ports in The Deep, doesn't work yet due of a MCS51 core Bug.

• Angelo Salese made some progresses with atamanot, got a garbled title screen and realized that the game is heavily protected.

• Lord Nightmare and plgDavid added, and made Mr. Do! use the U8106 soundchip, which as far as they can tell is 100% identical to the sn76489 non-a, pending further testing.

• Lord Nightmare and balrog added a note about pins held high on the Raiden 2 sound Z80.

• Angelo Salese converted gamtor.c to use the RAMDAC device.

• Angelo Salese hooked up VGA device to Photo Play.

• Wilbert Pol updated eeprom.c: Changed the 'erase' function to force all data bits of the specified address to 1s.

• Grull Osgo provided other improvements to California Chase, it shows Windows 98 logo.

• Angelo Salese fixed VGA line compare register masking, makes Windows 98 logo to display correctly.

• Angelo Salese fixed irq ack in Itazura Tenshi.

• Angelo Salese merged dacholer.c and itaten.c drivers, fixes priority and sprite Y positions in Dacholer and Kick Boy.

• f205v added proper ROM labels for Taxi Driver.

• Johnboy provided various changes for Neo-Geo driver:
  • Marked quizkof MVS AND AES VERSION.
  • Cleaned up all labels (consistent for all protos now) for prototype sets (in 99.9% of the cases the correct labels are not known) to: proto_ID-XX.XX .
  • Identified product codes for viewpoint, savager and blazstar.
  • kotm2p m1/s1 parent/clone fix.
  • Documentation update.
  • Reflected changes in internal db to xml (except /* Plane x */ ).

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Forte Card (Spanish)
• Itazura Tenshi

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Special Criminal Investigation (Tourvision PCE bootleg)