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0.87u2

 

i960 updates [R.Belmont]

- Added spanbit

- Fixed error noted by ElSemi in spanbit and scanbit

- Added non-queued interrupts to support games with

the interrupt table in ROM (this fixes the colors and

hanging in Sky Target, and Pilot Kids will need it

too)

- Added the ability for read/write handlers to declare

themselves "noburst", for memory regions which don't

auto-increment the address on i960 bulk transfers

- General cleanup of the interrupt handling to remove

duplicated code.  There should be no functional

difference

 

model2 updates [R.Belmont]

- Properly mapped 'unplaced' ROMs for Daytona and

Desert Tank

- Added calls to i960 noburst support for the timer

and interrupt control registers

- Updated game status with latest knowledge

- Noted that Last Bronx boots now

- VF2 reparent: 2.1 is parent, ver. B and original are

children

- SHA1s for lastbexp, doa, and pltkids

- Removed unnecessary code patch from DOA

- Added Martin Marietta co-credit for Desert Tank

- Added EPL Productions co-credit for Behind Enemy

Lines

- "Sonic Championship" renamed to "Sonic The Fighters"

- Virtual On is "Cyber Troopers" (two words) on the

title screen, not "Cybertroopers"

- Zero Gunner changed from (Jap) to (Japan)

- Mapped framebuffer RAM (used by Last Bronx)

- Fixed non-32 bit writes to the interrupt registers

- Fixed serial hardware mapping

- Temporary hack to keep HOTD from freezing until I

properly implement the timers

- Split the 2O/2A/2B/2C drivers better.  von now

prints "MODEL 2BCRX" correctly

- Hack to make Last Bronx run while I track down an

i960 core bug that's haunting it

- Patch from ElSemi for Zero Gunner crashing

- Patched Daytona busywait for the TGPs (not sure how

it worked without this before)

- Fixed 68000 ROM load for skytargt

- Fixed thinko in the interrupt register handling

(still no help for Last Bronx, but the wrong way was

definitely hurting it worse)

- Fixed issue on big-endian machines

- Added framework so the DSP program uploads are now

handled correctly

 

C352 Pitch adjustment [R.Belmont, Cap]

 

Analog Port Fixes [Derrick Renaud]

downtown - Both analog controls were set to player 1.

eterm - Crashed, due to inc/dec buttons not being defined for the analog

ports.

 

Now loading sync prom in Atari Soccer [stefan Jokisch]

 

Added eeprom and flipscreen to the games in vamphalf driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

Improved sound in Hard Head / Popper [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Corrado Tomaselli]

 

Misc updates [Nathan Woods]

src/mame.c:

    - Created a MAME_VALIDITYCHECKS macro that when defined, can specify

whether validity checks should be run.  If undefined, it defaults to

running the validity checks.  This will facilitate turning off validity

checks in MAME derivative projects.

 

Please DO NOT turn these off if you are making changes to the Mame

source, any changes which fail the validity checks will be rejected.

 

src/windows/fronthlp.c:

    - Changed the stat() call to use Win32 equivalents.

   

Fixed some Compiler Warnings [Lawrence Gold]

 

Improvements to SPI sprite decryption in rf2_2k [Ville Linde]

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

-------------------------------------------------------------

 

Fix Eight (bootleg) [Tomasz Slanina]

turn on invunerability dipswitch to see an intro!

Title Fight [David Haywood]

Raiders [Mash]

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

--------------------------------------------------------------

 

Sega Space Attack (set 3) [Mash]

Pengo (set 4) [Mash]

Eagle (set 3) [chaneman]

Crazy climber 2 (Japan Harder) [chaneman]

Nibbler (Olympia) [Costa Sgantzos]

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Mazer Blazer (set 2) [chaneman]

Zero Team (set 2)

Dark Edge (World)

Farmer Rebelion (clone of ikki) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

maybe a rom is bad?

Dynamite Deka 2 (clone of Dynamite cop) [Chris Hardy]

Yes I know this info is late.

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0.87u1

 

General Improvements

--------------------

 

Minor Compiler fixes [brad Oliver]

 

Removed options.color_depth (obsolete anyway) [brad Oliver]

 

Compiler Fixes for VC [bryan McPhail]

src\drivers\suprgolf.c  - C99 fix

src\cpu\m37710\m37710op.h - Fixed warnings under VC

src\cpu\powerpc\ppc.c  - Fixed warnings under VC

src\cpu\powerpc\ppc403.c - Fixed warnings under VC

 

Added default eeprom to Recalhorn to prevent crash [bryan McPhail]

 

Fixed Mametesters bug sotsugyo069u3gre [bryan McPhail].

sotsugyo: On the result screen (the one that appears when finishing a stage

i.e after the first two trials), zeroes don't appear at all.

 

Modified tilemap.c so roz and RGB_DIRECT can be used together [Andrew Gardner]

 

Fixed I/O addresses in Hyperstone and so removed the hack from vamphalf

driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

Yumefuda update (eeprom etc.) [Gondos, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

fixed some gfx in tmmjprd [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

i960 updates [R.Belmont]

- Added support for the following opcodes: nor, addc,

subc, atanr, sinr, cosr, tanr, atanrl, logrl, sinrl,

cosrl, and tanrl.

- Added those and some others to the disassembler.

- Added parens for the compiler warning.

- Fixed stt to only store 3 words instead of 4.

- Added logepr and cvtri.

- Fixed cmpr and cmprl - they were comparing garbage

instead of the correct registers.

- Added disassembly for movrl.

- Added scanbit.

- Rewrote flushreg, it was *totally* wrong before.

HOTD now runs, among others.

- Added hack to divo so divide by zero doesn't crash

MAME (some games read back 0 from the not-yet-existing

DSP and do this).

- More disassembler improvements.

- Added NAND, EDIV, SCALER, SCALERL, ROUNDR, ROUNDRL,

EXPRL, MOVRE, and CPYSRE opcodes.

- Fixed some errors in interrupt handling.  Solves

corrupt graphics in fvipers and crashes in fvipers,

schamp, and dynamcop.

- Added REMR opcode.

 

SegaIC24 update [R.Belmont]

Add 32-bit access methods for char and tile RAM.

 

Grand Champion sound fix [Justin Szczap]

 

INP changes [barry Rodewald]

Basically, reading/writing analog port data every single time

interpolate_analog_port() isn't a good idea, especially since it's called

every time readinputport() is.  I've just moved the analogue port

reading/writing into the for loop, so analogue ports are only read/written

if the port is actually is analogue.

 

Dynagears dip fix [Derrick Renaud]

 

ZN1/ZN2 big endian fix [smf]

 

SPI decryption improvements (for rf2_2k) [Ville Linde]

 

 

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

--------------------------------------------------------------

 

Painted Lady (Splash) (Ver 1.3 US) [Manuel Abadia]

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

----------------------------------------

 

Tatsumi Driver [bryan McPhail]

playable to a degree, but not really working properly

 

Apache 3

Round Up 5

Cycle Warriors

 

Incredibly complex hardware!  These are all different boards, but share

a similar sprite chip (TZB215 on Apache 3, TZB315 on others).  Other

graphics (road, sky, bg/fg layers) all differ between games.

 

Todo:

  Sprite rotation

  Finish road layer (Round Up 5)

  Implement road layer (Apache 3, Cycle Warriors)

  BG layer(s) (Cycle Warriors)

  BG layer (Round Up 5) - May be driven by missing VRAM data

  Round Up 5 always boots with a coin inserted

  Round Up 5 doesn't survive a reset

  Dip switches

  Various other things..

 

Sega Model 2 Driver [R.Belmont]

(see model2.c for list of games)

Tilemaps, sound, and inputs working to varying degrees

in various games.  Most of the games at least start

up, although some don't and some crash.

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0.87

 

General Improvements:

--------------------

 

Small update to the Kaneko drivers [sebastien Volpe]

- correct dipswitches for bonkadv

- galpanib protection moved to machine\kaneko16.c, and sandscrp uses it

- merged read/write memory maps for the 3 galpanic sets

 

Support 16 Joystick buttons [Norix]

 

8-way input fix for some mappy.c games (grobda, motos, phozon)

These games were set to 4-way input in the previous update. [anonymous]

 

Various Improvements [Angelo Salese]

vamphalf.c

improvements to vamphalf making it almost playable* it actually

is now playable thanks to further improvements from others (see

below)

 

yumefuda.c

temporarly patched eeprom check,fixed the graphics bankswitching

& added sound in Yumefuda.I don't have added controls yet so it

isn't playable.

 

acommand.c

Preliminary driver for Alien Command.Doesn't work yet...

 

gstriker.c

Very preliminary MCU emulation for World Cup '94.Hangs in

various places since I don't have worked on them yet...

 

Implements the LEDs in "copsnrob" [stefan Jokisch]

 

Fixed res_net.h related crash in Strike Bowling [Jarek Burczynski]

 

Improvements to Paint and Puzzle, game is almost playable [Nicola Salmoria]

 

Taito F3 Improvements [bryan McPhail]

Recalhorn now up to a playable standard.  This game exposed some bugs in the

way the sprite renderer handled the special command bits (ie, the sprite

list jump command occurs _after_ the current sprite has been processed, not

before, plus bankswitch & global positioning flags can be set on the same

sprite - they aren't exclusive, all makes perfect sense from a hardware

point of view).  These fixes really should be put into taito_f2 and hybrid

f3 games as well, though I doubt it will make any visual difference.

 

Command War is playable too, except for the fact a layer doesn't seem to

disappear when in the fighting sequence, and it's offset by 8 pixels in the

movement sequence.

 

Rohga driver Improvements [bryan McPhail]

Rohga - Despite massive amounts of time spent on writing trojan's to probe

the protection this still isn't complete.  The game hangs at the end of

level 5.  A quick look at decoprot.c should reveal just how nasty this game

is...  Graphics emulation is complete but the priority register never seems

to be written properly (protection?) so some things look wrong.

 

Schmeiser Robo - Not working 100%.  The game puts graphics info through the

protection chip so in this case the game looks wrong even though the

gameplay is actually running correctly.  Uses a strange double buffer

feature of the protection chip that the Deco games don't (seem to) use.

 

Truco Clemente driver [Ernesto Corvi]

This is as good I could get it working...

Problems:

- Wrong Colors

- Audio is not 100% yet, I think.

 

The board is definitely a conversion of some other board. My guess is a

Pacman-style board, since

some of the addresses match (watchdog, etc). Maybe somebody more

familiar with those type

of boards can figure out if they used the same color proms (I tried the

MsPacman ones, and didn't

match).

 

SPI background Decryption improvements [Ville Linde]

 

Fixed mrtnt colours (verified to use pacman proms) [vernimark]

 

Hyperstone core fixes [Tomasz Slanina, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Tomasz Slanina

- Added "undefined" C flag to shift left instructions

 

Pierpaolo Prazzoli

- Added interrupts-block for delay instructions

- Fixed get_emu_code_addr

- Added LDW.S and STW.S instructions

- Fixed floating point opcodes

 

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

--------------------------------------------------------------

 

Super Pang (Japan) [Nicola Salmoria]

set was decrypted, game now working

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

-------------------------------------------------------------

 

Wizz Quiz [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Miss Bingo [brian Troha]

 

Recalhorn [brian McPhail]

may crash on hi-score screen

 

Command War [brian McPhail]

still some clipping / layer problems

 

Vamp 1/2 [Angelo Salese, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

first working hyperstone based game

 

Truco Clemente [Ernesto Corvi]

some graphical problems (see notes above)

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

----------------------------------------

 

Alien Command [Angelo Salese]

parts of the hardware still unemulated

 

Schmeiser Robo [bryan McPhail]

protection issues