MAME 0.34b2

Release Date

MAME 0.34b2 was released on 30 August 1998.

Contributors

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

• Al Kossow
• Alex Pasadyn
• Brad Oliver
• Carlos A. Lozano
• Clay Cowgill
• David Winter
• Ernesto Corvi
• Frank Palazzolo
• JC Alexander
• John Butler
• Juergen Buchmueller
• Marco Cassili
• Michael Appolo
• Mike Balfour
• Nicola Salmoria
• Paul Leaman
• Phil Stroffolino
• Tatsuyuki Satoh
• Valerio Verrando
• Victor Trucco
• Zsolt Vasvari

Specific Contributions

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

• Nicola Salmoria added a fix so the background in Golden Star changes color correctly.

• Zsolt Vasvari added accurate colors in Astro Fighter (PROMs required).

• Michael Appolo added accurate colors in Lost Tomb (PROMs required).

• Nicola Salmoria fixed a tile flipping bug in Solomon's Key.

• Tatsuyuki Satoh fixed the music in Bubble Bobble so it seems to stay in sync now.

• Dynasty Wars works (actually it was already working, it's just that the dip switches had Freeze on by default).

• Nicola Salmoria added the aiming dial to Front Line and Tin Star (using a dual joystick setup). Also, you can now kill and be killed in Front Line. However, collision detection is not accurately emulated.

• JC Alexander fixed the ending in Robocop.

• Nicola Salmoria finally fixed Commando sometimes not starting. It was a bug in the decode routine, which has been completely rewritten.

• Valerio Verrando added the option -notranslucency, which allows to turn off Vector translucency.

• Alex Pasadyn and Zsolt Vasvari added a TMS34010 emulator.

• Juergen Buchmueller replaced the 6502 emulator with a new one which also supports 65C02 and 6510. Marat Fayzullin's core is no longer used.

• Nicola Salmoria fixed a bug in the 68000 BCD emulation which caused the F1 Dream timer to malfunction.

• Nicola Salmoria added the new function osd_on_screen_display() to show text over the game screen.

• Frank Palazzolo fixed a bug in the Z80 block I/O instructions (INI, IND, INIR, INDR, OUTI, OUTD, OTIR, and OTDR).

• Tatsuyuki Satoh updated the FM emulation and the way the 8910 updates its buffers. FM also has support for YM2608 and YM2612, though they are not compiled in.

• Juergen Buchmueller rearranged the makefile of the DOS version using archives to work around E2BIG error on some machines.

• John Butler added support for CRC-32 checksums instead of MAME's custom ones. The actual CRCs will be added later to the drivers.

Game Support

New Games added or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• F1 Dream (bootleg)
• Pang
• Pac Man Plus
• Beastie Feastie
• Tecmo Knight
• Bull Fight
• 4D Warriors
• Block Gal
• Wonder Boy (not encrypted)
• Wonder Boy (set 1)
• Wonder Boy (set 3)
• I'm Sorry (Japan)
• My Hero (Japan)
• Flicky (set 2)
• Ninja Princess
• Frogs
• Samurai
• Sasuke vs. Commander
• Subs
• Vigilante
• Exterminator
• COP 01
• Renegade
• Hustle
• Tomahawk 777 (Revision 1)
• Tomahawk 777 (Revision 5)
• Karate Champ (VS and Karatedo)
• Astro Fighter (set 3)
• Side Trak
• Spectar (revision 3)
• Venture (version 4)
• Venus
• APB (set 2)
• Lost Tomb (hard)
• Hyper Olympic (bootleg)
• Brix
• Shark Attack
• Mikie (headbutt version)
• Baseball Stars Professional
• King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing
• League Bowling
• Samurai Shodown / Samurai Spirits
• Samurai Shodown II / Shin Samurai Spirits - Haohmaru jigokuhen
• Sasuke vs. Commander
• Sengoku / Sengoku Denshou (set 1)
• Sengoku 2 / Sengoku Denshou 2
• Top Hunter - Roddy & Cathy (set 1)
• Top Player's Golf