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Time for a new full release. Get it from the Latest Release page. In addition to a number of fixes for recent regressions, this update features some additional black & white game cleanups and a rewrite of the pmpoker driver.

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0.115

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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ym2203slowdown0114u2gre [Aaron Giles]

powerins0104yel [Aaron Giles]

k007232_0114u1gre [Aaron Giles]

rfjetus0114u2red [Aaron Giles]

namcos2_0114yel [Zsolt Vasvari]

term2_0114u4yel [Aaron Giles]

 

 

Source Changes

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Additional ARM7 core fixes: [R. Belmont]

* Fixed SWI instruction in Thumb mode

* Rewrote SWP instruction to work properly

* Added some missing change_pc()s

 

Fixed Mustache Boy interrupt behavior and visible area. [Lord Nightmare]

 

Updated Windows exit code to ensure cursor is shown again. [Nathan Woods]

 

Moved Space Stranger/Space Stranger 2 into its own driver and fixed cocktail mode. [Zsolt Vasvari]

 

Major rewrite of pmpoker driver: [Roberto Fresca]

* Removed all inputs hacks.

* Connected both PIAs properly.

* Demuxed all inputs for each game.

* Documented all outputs.

* Added lamps support.

* Created different layout files to cover each game.

* Add NVRAM support to all games.

* Corrected the color PROM status for each set.

* Figured out most of the DIP switches.

* Added diplocations to goldnpkb.

 

Updates Enigma 2 video and interrupt systems from the schematics. Changed the color gun layout to match the flyers as much as possible. [Zsolt Vasvari]

 

Converted Raiders 5 driver to tilemaps. [Zsolt Vasvari]

 

Updated 68705 clocks to take into account the internal divide by 4. Added constant so that it is clear why this is being done. [Aaron Giles]

 

Hooked up 6845 CRTC to the qix-based games. All games now generate display resolutions and frame rates on the fly. Cleaned up memory maps and a few other bits along the way. Added save state support. [Aaron Giles]

 

 

 

New clones added

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Viper Phase 1 (Hong Kong, Metrotainment license) [Corrado Tomaselli]

Front End

Version 0.9.1

 

FYEO 06

- platformNav contextmenu "configuration" now opens the emuconfig + selected platform

- fixed "show only roms w/o meta"

- Compare/Merge now also for roms you dont have possible (metadata only!)

 

FYEO 05

- removed option "navigation autoupdate" Now activated by default!

- removed the tooltips from navigation and mainlist...

- optimized search

-- decrease timeout for freeform search

-- fixed the strange behavior of "match beginning of searchword"

- ConfigPopup - added i18n entries for all tab-names

- updated ecc-datfile format (v0.97) filesize added!

- fixed open compare popup only, if different roms are selected.

- Topmenu

-- now, "Add new ROMS" is deactivated, if no platform is selected!

--- Also, if a platform is selected, this is shown as "Add new ROMS for Platform"

--- Better, because the most new user dont know how "All found works" <_>

--- new i18n file for topmenu translation

 

FYEO 4

- Doubleclick on Platform-Navigation opens "Add ROM"

- optimized contextmenu - 'Start ROM with' - Now begins with emulator-name

- romCombiner (Compare/Merge)

-- added FULL merge functionallity to merge eg. title, developer to an other rom!

--- Use the arrows in popup to merge data!

-- added mainlist contextmenu 'Compare - Select left side' -> 'Compare to "romname"'

--- First select a rom with 'Compare - Select left side'

--- Then a second with 'Compare to "romname"'

--- OR use drag´n´drop!!!!

 

FYEO 3

- Added option "show all roms with personal notes!"

- romCombiner

-- as first step added rom-compare - use drag-n-drop in maint listview!

- ConfigPopup

-- images: Added Thumbnail quality / min original size selector

-- emucontrolcenter: reactivate startup-config

- imageCenter

-- Added 3 additional slots for storage images (like cds, cartdridges aso)

- hopefully fixed problem with parsing PS1 Files.

- mainlist context-menu

-- added Remove ROM images (also automaticlly called after Remove ROM from database)

 

FYEO 2

- emuConfig

-- added new info area for emulator infos/config-tips/weblink

- Top-Menu

-- added "feel lucky", showing a single random game (F4)

-- added "reload", reloading roms in view (F5)

-- added new main-menu item for update! (eccLive!)

- imageCenter

-- Add/Remove popup dont put imageCenter in background

- Personal-Tab

-- added save/delete-confirmation!

-- Empty note will remove entry in database

- center all confirm/info/browser popups

- added some info-popups on add/remove

 

FYEO 1

- added nav-autoupdate for "show all available metadata"

- imageCenter

-- added contextmenu to add/remove images (rightclick on a imageSlot)

-- added hilighting on selection

- optimized listviews performance

- removed logging from allfound romparsing. To many results freezes ecc

- better integration of ecc imageConverter + statistcs in status-area

 

Documenatation

2007.05.06:

- Updated Changelists

- New section: Troubleshooting

- Added "OCX Outdated"

- Added "File is hacked"

2007.04.29:

- Updated Changelist

- Updated ECC Tools Changelists

- Updated ECC Tools Screenshots (white editions)

- Updated supported filetypes

- Fixed empty lines between links

- New section: Getting started

- Added "Adding ROMS to ECC"

- Added "Emulator assignment for platform"

- Added "Add/Edit ROM media info"

- Added "Adding images to a ROM"

 

- Added platforms

-- NEC PC-6001

-- NEC PC-8801

-- Fujitsu FM-7

 

- ECC Startup

v1.4.2.0:

- Added 'auto update check' on startup!

- This will notify the user if there is an update available!

- Speed up the splashscreen a little bit.

- Sound now start playing when splashscreen is shown.

v1.4.2.1:

- Auto update check on startup in total silent mode!

-- Not even an error message will be shown, in some cases there is a error

-- caused by ECC when writing new ini at fresh installation.

-- And you will not get bothered of error messages showing up when something goes wrong

 

- ECC Live!

v2.1.0.5

- Added better connection messages.

- Added a row for 'lastupdate'.

- Added 'ecc start' after updating, this is only when updating from 'autoupdatecheck'.

- Resized the updatelist.

 

- Tools GLOBAL

-- White edition

-- Added XP look

-- Added tooltips on the buttons

-- Updated the OCX components!

-- Fixed 'HALT' on Japanese / Chinese systems.

--- The 'self validation' check on the tools that where incompatible/conflicting

--- with japanese / chinese charsets, hopefully this is fixed now!

 

- Core components

- ECC Core update from 2.10.7.0 to v2.10.11.0

- Pixbufloaders from 2005.08.02 to 2007.03.26

- Immodules from 2005.08.02 to 2007.03.26

- Pango 1.5.0 to 1.6.0

- Updated some graphical engines

Changelog / Download

N64 emulator for the PSP

Changes:

R11 - 06 May 2007

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[*] Large overhaul of rom settings and preferences. All settings should now be persistant.

[+] Native support for palettised textures for faster rendering and less memory usage.

[+] Provided a fixed size pool for all texture memory, to limit memory usage.

[+] Expansion Pak enabled by default.

[!] Updated rom info database to include save mechanism for many roms.

[!] Fix memory leak in texture cache.

[!] Fixed conversion of RGBA/32bpp textures with odd alignments.

[!] Fix crash which occurred when recolouring textures in low memory situations.

[^] Large rewrite of texture cache to reduce memory usage and improve performance.

[^] Various optimisations to the way textures are looked up in the cache and installed.

[^] Optimise offsetting/scaling of texture coordinates.

[^] Improve performance of dynarec fragment cache and reduce memory fragmentation.

Changelog and Readme notes / Download

Front End

5th May, 2007 - GameEx 8.10

 

* Thanks to Ben Baker:

-- Updated fixed model 2 support

-- Much friendlier defaults in setup wizard for new installs

-- Moving and sorting emulators in the setup wizard retains your favorites

* Model 2 emulator 0.4 games now supported in GameEx

* Fixes issue with loading screen not displaying

* Fixes issue with file names that contain apostrophes

* Improved loading speed when launched from Media Center

* Fixes issue with adding GameEx to Vista X64 Media Center start page

* Much better display quality of themes when shown at different resolutions

Changelog / Download