MAME 0.171

Release Date

MAME 0.171 was released on 24 February 2016.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

• 06137: (Crash/Freeze) (maygay1bsw.c) Many sets in maygay1bsw.cpp: Several games are crashing while "initializing.." (Osso)
• 06135: (Interface) ROM-less games cannot be started from internal UI
• 02327: (Graphics) (megasys1.c) chimerab: Priorty PROM is missing. (David Haywood)
• 06134: (Misc.) all games with LED outputs: ledutil no longer works (micko)
• 06139: (Color/Palette) (x68k.c) x68k (akumajo): Some elements turn blue (crazyc)

Contributions

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

• Jean-Francois DEL NERO supported a new video chip: Thomson EF9364 / Sescosem SFF96364.

• Roberto Fresca emulated Pyon Pyon Jump:
  • Create derivative machine driver.
  • Hooked the V9938 Yamaha VDP.
  • Added the DIP switches bank #1.
  • Hooked the system input ports.
  • Added support for Yamaha YM2149.
  • Decoupled the YM2149 data read.
  • Correct bankswitching.
  • Added sound latch & output port.
  • Version added to the game description.
  • Proper inputs + DIP switches support.
  • Second CPU IRQ ack. Promoted to working.
  • OKI M5205 ADPCM samples support.

• Robbbert updated pulsarlb: Added extra bios.

• AJR modernized sound volume setting code in various Atari drivers.

• Lord Nightmare fixed F3 soft-reset on Arkanoid sets with MCU.

• Stuart Carnie fixed build issues for -osdmini.

• Miodrag Milanovic replaced osd_lock with std::mutex.

• AJR made it possible for Software list entries to supply slot option defaults.

• Nigel Barnes updated the i8271 device: Unload head after programmed revolutions.

• R. Belmont updated the apple2 driver: Fix parallel card ACK handling, Print Shop almost works with the lx810l now.

• Roberto Fresca updated the nibble driver: Rewrote the whole driver. Added video hardware, preliminary machine driver and memory map. Decoded the graphics.

• Lord Nightmare made anonymous timer non-anonymous in arkanoid.cpp, fixes savestates for the sets using the original Taito MCU code.

• Victor Vasiliev allowed load/saved state slots to be bound to joystick buttons.

• Smitdogg and The Dumping Union dumped "Dead or Alive 2 (Rev A)", match existent set, fix game and EPRROM names.

• Brizzo dumped "King of Fighters XI" EN, match JP one, add notes.

• Grant Galitz provided substantial improvements to Web Audio sound backend for Emscripten port.

• O. Galibert updated the disound interface: Don't crash on state load when the mixer is disabled by lack of inputs (misconfiguration or missing samples).

• Maurizio Petrarota did an initial import of MEWUI to MAME.

• Maurizio Petrarota grouped external DATs into a single view.

• Angelo Salese updated z80.cpp: Added a debug mechanism for /WAIT pin assertion mechanism (enable with STALLS_ON_WAIT_ASSERT in CPU core), and hooked it up to Night Gal driver as a quick example.

• AJR made octal flag part of address_space/address_space_config.

• coolmod added unknown NAOMI development(?) board BOOT ROM.

• Ryan Holtz, Dario Manesku, Branimir Karadic and Miodrag Milanovic provided initial support for BGFX.

• Ryan Holtz provided significant speed improvements to the BGFX renderer.

• Ryan Holtz added basic JSON-based single-pass shader effect support to BGFX renderer.

• Alex Cmaylo added hat trick hero 93 PALs.

• Vernimark and Vas Crabb updated catnmous: graphical improvements.
  • Redumped Cat and Mouse colour sprite ROM as the correct size.
  • Implement sprite ROM banking.
  • Improve colour palette using resistor values from board photographs.

• Vas Crabb updated laserbat: fix inadvertently swapped TMS organ chip clocks (fixes music).

• Vas Crabb made Zaccaria 1B11107 and 1B11142 boards devices and share common parts.

• R. Belmont updated apple1: Completely rewrote the driver in modern idioms. All functionality should be the same.

• Lord Nightmare descrambled the ROM on the Xerox NoteTaker, and mapped it in the correct areas to make it start to boot.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Corrected CPU Clock speed, and map at least some of RAM.

• Nigel Barnes updated electron: Added cassette softlist and implemented BREAK key.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Corrected RAM amount. Attached the pic8259 interrupt controller, though no interrupts are attached to that yet. Added documentation of i/o writes during the boot process.

• Pasky and caius updated vigilant.cpp: Added video timing PROM.

• Michele Fochi provided a videosnaps patch (additional file to write: gamename.inp.timecode). Added new options:
  • noexit_after_playback (default=no).
  • norecord_input (default=no) Added new UI shortcut to save current timecode (default F12) Translated variable names and comments to english language.

• Ales Dlabac updated the Sord m5 driver:
  • added support for RAM expansions EM-5,64KBI,64KBF,64KRX.
  • added m5p_brno mod Sord m5+1024kB.
  • ramdisk+cp/m 2 cart slots.

• Roberto Fresca updated Moon Light (Set 2): Fix the program ROM addressing. This fix the corrupt graphics in the double-Up feature.

• Angelo Salese moved JANGOU_BLITTER into a device.

• Angelo Salese found out that the NCS8105 ADCX opcode is actually an ADDX, fixes gfx garbage in nightgal.cpp.

• Lord Nightmare corrected ROM labels and removed endian-swap during descramble for notetaker in favor of loading ROMs the other way round. Add ROM locations.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Implement ROM/RAM overlay as per schematics. Documented Address map and part of I/O map.

• caius and David Haywood noted that one of the buccaneers proms matches the vigilante video sync prom.

• Roberto Fresca updated the Moon Light driver: Rearranged and split by program. This generated new sets due to the hidden extra programs in the program ROMs.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Added the IO Processor firmware v1.50 as an alt bios after typing it from the assembly source listing on bitsavers. Added two PROMs as NO_DUMP. Updated comments and history a bit, but needs further improvement.

• Lord Nightmare updated Xerox NoteTaker documentation and history section, with cited sources.

• Roberto Fresca updated Cherry Master v1.10: Fixed inputs / DIP switches.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Finished documenting the I/O CPU's I/O ports, updated history documentation a bit more.

• Samuel Neves & Peter Wilhelmsen figured out algorithm and replaced SnowBoard Championship lookup table with proper emulation of device.

• ANY updated chihiro.c: Redumped "Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 2 (Rev G)". Re-parented set.

• Andrea Palazzetti updated mitchell.cpp: Dumped a blockjoy board and noted a rom label difference.

• TeamEurope updated snotec.xml: Added 3 new cart dumps.

• Jeffrey Clark extended LUA API.

• Kevin Eshbach added support for the AMPAL18P8 to the jedutil tool.

• Jeffrey Clark improved cross compile support.

• F. Ulivi updated the Hp9845 driver: Added tape driver.

• Brandon Munger updated the r9751 driver: Add more DMA registers for serial and floppy.

• AJR did one small step toward slapstic modernization.
  • Make chip number part of device configuration, not init param.
  • Correct mainpcb slapstic number in racedrivpan.
  • Remove many unused slapstics.

• World of Jani updated c64_cart.xml, c128_cart.xml: Added some diagnostic carts.

• Lord Nightmare updated the COM5016/COM8116 Baud Generator: Added a bunch more divisor tables and notes.

• Hans Ostermeyer provided Apollo changes:
  • Unified logging format in associated devices.
  • Use correct raw video modes.

• Lord Nightmare updated the Xerox NoteTaker driver: Finished IOCPU memory map documentation. Hooked up the two UARTS. Begin hookup of the screen/CRTC. Fixed an issue with writes to ROM-mapped areas shadowing to RAM. Added 960KHz xtal for the keyboard UART.

• Lord Nightmare updated the AY-3-1015 UART device: Fixed two swapped pin functions.

• Miodrag Milanovic added multi-language support for MAME.

• Parduz and R. Belmont updated the sq1 driver: Much-improved LCD and front panel button support.

• Vas Crabb updated weddingr: better input port descriptions.

• YuiFAN added Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional translation.

• Raf Tacker added German translation.

• Fujix added Japanese translation.

• Angelo Salese, Antonio Paradossi and Fabio Priuli added Italian translation.

• Ashura-X added Portuguese (Brazil) translation.

• Antonio Paradossi updated pacman.cpp, meadwttl.cpp: small fix of game years for Novomatic's Cannon Ball and Meadows' Meadows 4 in 1, respectively, to synchronize with history.dat.

Game Support

New machines added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Pyon Pyon Jump (V1.40, Japan) (Roberto Fresca)
• Carnival King (Ted Green)
• Fidelity Chess Challenger 10 (hap) (Berger)
• Fidelity Sensory Chess Challenger 12-B (hap) (Berger)
• Fidelity Voice Chess Challenger (hap)
• Fidelity Voice Sensory Chess Challenger (hap)
• Fidelity Champion Sensory Chess Challenger (hap)
• Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 (hap) (Berger)
• Fidelity Excellence (hap) (plgDavid)
• Fidelity Voice Excellence (hap) (plgDavid)
• SMT Goupil G1 (Jean-Francois DEL NERO)
• Michigan Super Draw (2131-16, U5-2) (Charles MacDonald) (Brian Troha) (David Haywood) (The Dumping Union)
• '96 Flag Rally (Nosunosu) (ShouTime) (David Haywood)
• Apple IIe (Spanish) (robcfg) (R. Belmont)
• Super Cherry Master (v1.0) (Roberto Fresca) (Ioannis Bampoulas)
• Fidelity Elite Avant Garde (model 6114) (hap) (Micha)
• Coleco Electronic Quarterback (hap) (Sean Riddle)
• Fidelity Elite Avant Garde (model 6117-7) (hap) (Micha)
• Fidelity Elite Avant Garde (V10/V11) (hap) (Micha)
• Parker Brothers Lost Treasure (hap) (Sean Riddle)
• Coleco Zodiac (hap) (Sean Riddle)
• Conic Electronic Football II (hap) (Sean Riddle)

New clones added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Touche Me (set 2, harder) (system11)
• Speak & Math (1980 version) (Sean Riddle) (plgDavid)
• La Dictee Magique (French Speak & Spell) (Sean Riddle) (plgDavid)
• Grillo Parlante (Italian Speak & Spell) (Sean Riddle) (plgDavid)
• 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally (94/05/10) (Corrado Tomaselli)
• Multi Champ (World, older) (f205v)
• 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally (94/05/26) (caius)
• NBA Jam (rev 1.00 02/1/93) (Alex Meijer) (Bernard Tack)
• Raiden Fighters 2 - Operation Hell Dive (Italy) (Corrado Tomaselli)
• 64th. Street - A Detective Story (Japan, set 2) (Corrado Tomaselli)
• World Rally (Version 1.0, Checksum 8AA2) (Artemio Urbina)
• Fighting Golf (US, Ver 2) (Ryan Holtz) (Shoutime) (Smitdogg) (The Dumping Union)
• World Cup Volley '95 Extra Version (Asia v2.0B) (Kevin Eshbach)
• Frogger (Sega set 3) (Team Europe)
• Moon Light (v.0629, high program) (Roberto Fresca) (f205v)
• Moon Light (v.02L0A, low program) (Roberto Fresca) (f205v)
• Moon Light (v.02L0A, high program, alt gfx) (Roberto Fresca) (f205v)
• Cherry Gold I (set 2, encrypted bootleg) (Roberto Fresca) (f205v)
• Cherry Master I (ver.1.01, set 8, V4-B-) (Roberto Fresca) (f205v)
• Cherry Master I (ver.1.10) (Roberto Fresca) (Ioannis Bampoulas)
• Super Bobble Bobble (bootleg, set 4) (Jose Jorge Fuentes)
• 1943: Midway Kaisen (bootleg) (Andrea Palazzetti)
• Space Rocks (Spanish clone of Asteroids) (pako ikarihardmods)
• Block Block (World 911219 Joystick) (caius) (The Dumping Union)
• Royal Poker '96 (set 4, C3 board) (Roberto Fresca) (Ioannis Bampoulas)
• New Cherry '96 (bootleg of New Fruit Bonus?) (Roberto Fresca) (Ioannis Bampoulas)

New machines marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Argox Rabbit Printer (model OS-214) (Felipe Sanches)
• Xerox NoteTaker (Lord Nightmare) (bitsavers)
• Unknown Nibble game (Team Europe) (Marcus Jendroska) (Y~K) (Smitdogg) (Roberto Fresca) (The Dumping Union)
• Name Club Ver.2 (J 960315 V1.000) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Cross Puzzle (Ryan Holtz) (Smitdogg) (The Dumping Union)
• Print Club LoveLove (J 970421 V1.000) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club Yoshimoto V2 (J 970422 V1.100) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 Vol. 7 Spring (J 970313 V1.100) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 Puffy (Japan) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 Pepsiman (J 970618 V1.100) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 Vol. 6 Winter (J 961210 V1.000) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 Warner Bros (J 970228 V1.000) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 '97 Winter Ver (J 971017 V1.100, set 2) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club 2 '98 Summer Ver (J 980603 V1.100) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Print Club LoveLove Ver 2 (J 970825 V1.000) (TeamEurope) (Ryan Holtz)
• Name Club (J 960315 V1.000) (Team Europe) (Ryan Holtz)
• Dragon Treasure 2 (Rev A) (GDS-0037A) (Jorge Valero) (rtw) (The Dumping Union)
• Tiger K28/Coleco Talking Teacher (hap) (Jonathan Gevaryahu) (Sean Riddle) (plgDavid) (Kevin Horton)
• Mattel Computer Gin (hap) (Kevin Horton)
• Tiger K28 (model 7-230) (hap) (Kevin Horton)
• Coleco Head to Head Basketball (COP420L) (Sean Riddle)
• Wangan Midnight R (WMR1 Ver. A) (Darksoft) (Guru) (R. Belmont)
• IGT Multistar 7 2c (Miodrag Milanovic)

New clones marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Jurassic Park 3 (ver UA) (ShouTime)
• Police 24/7 (ver EAA, alt) (Guru)
• Thrill Drive 2 (ver EAA, 2 alt versions) (Guru)
• Tsurugi (ver EAB, alt) (Guru)
• World Combat (ver AAD, alt) (Guru)
• The Rumble Fish (prototype) (Brizzo) (MetalliC) (Arzeno Fabrice)
• NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (World) (Brizzo) (MetalliC) (Arzeno Fabrice)

Notable new WORKING software list additions

• (Fidelity SCC Modules)
  • Fidelity Chess CB16 (anonymous)