You can grab it from here

0.80

 

General Source Changes

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

 

Large Namco Update [Nicola Salmoria]

- pacland: fixed sprite RAM, it was too big and included normal program RAM, causing sprites

  to be drawn twice.

- pacland: fixed irq enable

- pacland: fixed tilemap scroll offsets and sprite positions

- pacland: accurate emulation of tile/sprite priority (including fix of bugs introduced when

  the driver was converted to tilemaps) and sprite visibility area

- pacland36b16 is not a bug - colors match the real game

- added SOUND_NAMCO_CUS30 for better documentation (alias for the standard SOUND_NAMCO)

- drgnbstr36rc2gre

- skykidd works with a patch (a dump of the CUS60A internal ROM is needed to do without the

  patch)

- metrocross: fixed irq enable, this fixes inputs in service mode

- baraduke060gre

- baraduke36rc2gre, it is improved, there are still gaps left but this is correct behaviour

  verified on the real board

- baraduke, system86: understood how sprite RAM buffering works, this fixes sprite lag but

  causes a glitch in rthunder (which might be correct behaviour)

- system86: totally rewritten the 63701X emulation and moved it to a separate module.  Fixed

  silence compression, this improves quality in some samples; supported volume control.

  -genpeitd067gre

- rthundro37b14red I think is fixed; but the game still sometimes crashes when you die

- rthunder, genpetid: fixed watchdog emulation, this allows entering service mode without

  resetting

 

Various ST-V Improvements (brightness controls) [Angelo Salese]

 

Various Hyperstone core improvements [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

Misc Fixes [Nathan Woods]

src/cpu/hd6309/6309ops.c:

- Fixed the ABCD opcode

 

src/sndintrf.c:

- Fixed a small typo in the DMADAC interface line

 

src/sound/tms5220.c:

- Added a security margin in the estimate of the delay for speech

synthesis ready line to come low (needed for a MESS side bug fix)

 

src/chdman.c:

- Added some completion messages, and fixed the code that was

falsely assuming that progress() was a function pointer

 

src/windows/window.c:

src/windows/window.h:

- Changed video_window_proc() to win_video_window_proc() and made

non-static so that MESS's window proc can call it.

- Changed win_init_window() to use MESS's window proc (within #ifdef

MESS of course)

- Added a win_suspend_directx global variable to temporarily turn

off DirectX usage (used in MESS)

- Added a few minor MESS specific #ifdefs

 

src/rules.mak:

src/cpuintrf.c:

- Added an entry for the TMS99100 processor

 

src/cpuexec.c:

src/cpuexec.h:

- Introduces cpu_getscanlinetime_mt() and

cpu_getscanlineperiod_mt(); variants on their namesake calls except they

return mame_time instead of double

 

Improved 053260 and NES APU emulation [Oliver Achten]

 

Various Gaelco3D Improvements [Aaron Giles]

 

ZN Cleanups [smf]

 

Misc 32010 related updates [Quench]

TMS32010 CPU core

- Added internal Data memory map

- Fixed Overflow on the ADDH instruction

 

Twin Cobra / Wardner

- Converted to Tilemaps

- Corrected Savestate setup

- Little cleanups to the Machine code

- Adjustments for TMS32010 internal data map

 

Toaplan1

- Corrected Savestate setup

- Adjustments for TMS32010 internal data map

 

HardDrivin

- Adjustments for TMS32010 internal data map

 

Fixed Vector clipping bug in mhavoc [Alex Eddy]

 

Fixed some GCC warnings [Lawrence Gold]

src/vidhrdw/rallyx.c: In function `plot_star':

src/vidhrdw/rallyx.c:395: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations

and code

 

src/vidhrdw/ksayakyu.c: In function `draw_sprites':

src/vidhrdw/ksayakyu.c:92: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations

and code

 

src/drivers/system32.c: In function `sonic_level_load_protection':

src/drivers/system32.c:539: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations

and code

 

src/drivers/madalien.c: In function `video_start_madalien':

src/drivers/madalien.c:273: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations

and code

 

src/machine/am53cf96.c:46: warning: comma at end of enumerator list

 

src/drivers/vmetal.c: In function `varia_drawsprites':

src/drivers/vmetal.c:124: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations

and code

 

Discrete Sound Updates [Derrick Renaud]

 

Discrete Sound Changes

======================

* fixed/added more documentation of functions at top of discrete.h

* DISCRETE_555_ASTABLE - changed to use common options with DISCRETE_555_CC.

* DISCRETE_TRANSFORMx - fixed bug that preformed math in the wrong order.

Also added more math functions.

 

New Discrete Modules Added

==========================

* DISCRETE_555_CC - Constant Current based 555 VCO with 8 main configurations,

that automatically configure from components used.

* DISCRETE_566 - NE566 simulation.

* DISCRETE_COMP_ADDER - Multiple parallel capacitor/resistor circuit.

* DISCRETE_DAC_R1 - R1 Ladder DAC that automatically configures from

components used.

* DISCRETE_MIXERx - Resistor/Op Amp mixer stage with filtering that calulates

proper gains & filtering. It automatically configure from components used.

* DISCRETE_SCHMITT_OSCILLATOR - VCO based on a Schmitt Inverter.

 

Game Driver Changes

===================

* poolshrk - Converted to new component value only code.

* firetrk, montecar, superbug - Converted to new component value only code.

Pulled discrete code out and put in sndhrdw\ataridis.c.  montecar still needs

filtering on crash sound.

* atarifb, canyon & skydiver - minor changes to work with new code.

* triplhnt - added component value discrete sound, but have not figured out

Shot and Bear Roar video memory locations.  These are needed to make sound

effects work.

 

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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

 

Radikal Bikers [Aaron Giles]

Surf Planet [Aaron Giles]

 

Wiggie Waggie [David Haywood]

 

Zintrick (hack / bootleg)

This was thought to be a prototype but actually appears to be a from

        an unofficial bootleg made from the CD version (see notes in driver),

supported for reference incase a real prototype shows up one day.

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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

 

Lethal Enforcers [R.Belmont]

Hardware is an ugly kludge with an 8-bit CPU using 16-bit video chips, as a result

        there is a lot of strange banking going on making it very difficult to emulate.

http://haze.mame.net

You can download it from here

What's New:

0.79u4

 

General Source Changes

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

 

Fixed sound pitch / balance in Asterix [Oliver Achten]

 

Fixed a problem when resetting various games caused by the timer updates [Aaron Giles]

 

Fixed some Quasar Dipswitches [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

0.79u3

 

General Source Changes

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

 

Misc Changes [Nathan Woods]

src/cpu/i86/i286.c:

src/cpu/i86/i286.h:

src/cpu/i86/i286intf.h:

- Updated I286 CPU core to MAME 0.79

 

src/cpu/jaguar/jaguar.c:

- Adding a missing case to jaguargpu_get_info()

 

src/cpu/m6502/m4510.c:

src/cpu/m6502/m4510.h:

src/cpu/m6502/m6509.c:

src/cpu/m6502/m6509.h:

src/cpu/m6502/ops09.h:

src/cpu/m6502/ops4510.h:

src/cpu/m6502/t65ce02.h:

- Updated m4510 and m6509 CPU cores to MAME 0.79

 

src/sndhrdw/snes.c:

- Removed a duplicate global variable definition

 

src/cheat.c:

src/info.c:

src/usrintrf.c:

- Removed NEOMAME and CPSMAME declarations

 

src/mame.c:

- Added a new consistency check on CPUs to check for the existence of

certain get_info cases needed for debugging.  This consistency check

is currently only enabled for MESS.

 

src/windows/input.c:

src/windows/input.h:

- Changed key_trans_table to be non static and renamed to

win_key_trans_table (this table is now used in MAME32)

 

src/memory.c:

- Changed all fatalerror() calls to osd_die()

 

src/chdman.c:

- Added -createblankhd and -copydata commands

- Added new arguments to -createhd

- Ported to Macintosh

 

src/artwork.c:

- Changed artwork_override_screenshot_params() so that its

functionality will kick in whenever the artwork system is active, even

without artwork pieces

- Introduced a static artwork_system_active(); a call to check to

see if the artwork system is active.

 

Misc PSX cleanups [smf]

 

Removed some memory system test code [Aaron Giles]

 

Fixed a TMS32031 bug that was causing some problems in Radikal bikers [Aaron Giles]

 

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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

 

Quasar [Mike Coates, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

(other Zaccaria games are still being worked on)

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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

 

FX (bootleg of SRD mission) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

0.79u2

 

General Source Changes

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

 

Timer System Update [Aaron Giles]

 

The timer system is now integer-based instead of floating-point based. It requires

64-bit ints. I've defined a new type 'mame_time' which is a 96-bit time value.

There are 32 bits for counting full seconds, and 64 bits for counting subseconds.

This type is used extensively in the core timer system and the CPU scheduler.

 

The accuracy of the new system is down to 1 attosecond (10^-18 seconds).

This may seem excessive, but for a 100MHz CPU, each clock cycle is 10^10

attoseconds. That works nicely because 100MHz divides evenly. For a 96MHz

CPU, each clock cycle is 1.041666667 * 10^10 attoseconds. Rounding, we lose

1/3 of an attosecond per cycle in error. Multiply that error by 96000000 and

you end up with an error of 32000000 attoseconds. Fortunately, that's only

0.032ns, but if I had much less accuracy than this, the errors would start

to add up in a more significant way.

 

All the existing APIs are still around, and doubles can still be passed as

arguments. But they are all immediately connverted to 'mame_time' values for

processing.

 

The old system had some drifting errors due to FP rounding which are gone

now.

 

 

 

Fixed Unix compile (renamed rand_r in namconb1 driver) [R.Belmont]

 

Misc Fixes [Nathan Woods]

src/cpuintrf.c:

src/cpuintrf.h:

  - Fixups for the CP1610 core

  - Fixed the declaration of activecpu_set_irq_callback()

 

src/mame.c:

  - Added a new consistency check for drivers that use non-existent

    CPU cores

 

src/machine/snes.c:

src/includes/snes.c:

  - Refactored to remove MESS specific code

 

src/machine/idectrl.c:

src/machine/idectrl.h:

  - Added ide_bus_0_r() call to access the bus directly

 

src/cpu/z80/z80.c:

  - This patch changes the Z80 CPU core to set the Z80 cycle tables to

      their defaults on startup.  This removes any need for drivers to reset

    the Z80 cycle tables back to their defaults on exit.

 

Cleaned up some itech32 notes [brian Troha]

 

Fixed some firebatl dips [b.S.Ruggeri]

 

CPU Specific Memory Map fix [Aaron Giles]

 

Fixed targ filenames and added proms [chaneman]

 

Updated PIC core + drivers to use internal memory maps [QUench]

 

Added support for the IACK and IDLE commands in the TMS32031 core [Aaron Giles]

 

Various Updates [Curt Coder]

 

Updated NeoGeo sets to use correct roms [HPMAN]

 

Psikyo.c video fixes [Leon van Rooij]

  - glitch in gunbird attract mode (tilemaps can be opaque);

  - glitch in s1945, when the planes are shown (sprite-tilemap priorities);

  - glitch in s1945, lvl 7 (there is an additional per-tile rowscroll mode). This solves  mametesters s1945066gre.

 

Fixed m68kdasm bug [Leon van Rooij]

 

Decode information for custom cpu used by robowrest2001 [Dave Widel]

 

Fixed Irem GA-20 pitch [R.Belmont]

 

Added support for DMA based DAC 'sound chip' and updated DCS / CAGE to use it. [Aaron Giles]

 

Enigma 2 fixes [Tomasz Slanina]

- sound

- bg starfield in enigma2

- cocktail mode

- fixed some bugs (protection?)

- colors

 

Sample Support in Tailgunner [Erik Ruud]

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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

 

Kusayakyuu [Tomasz Slanina]

incomplete driver, various sound / gfx issues

Botanic [David Haywood]

Bongo [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Pro Yakyuu Nyuudan Test Tryout [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Bryan McPhail]

Mad Alien [Norbert Kehrer]

 

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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

 

Area 51 (newer 68020 Version) [brian Troha]

Zoom909 [Tomasz Slanina]

Strikers 1945 (alt) [brian Troha]

Hunchback (galaxian hardware) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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

 

Gaelco 3D games (Radikal Bikers, Surf Planet) [Aaron Giles]

incomplete emulation of 3D Hardware

Microprose 3D (botss, stankatk etc.) [David Haywood]

skeleton driver, just loads the roms

The romfiles for MAME 079u2 and u3 roms have been released (MAME 079u3 are supposed to be kept private for awhile but I have my contacts and I don't give a f&^k about hoarding roms)

MAME 79u2 includes some NeoGeo games that have been redumped because the original releases were found to be incorrect.

You can download them from:-

MAME 079u2 (This link will take you to a website where you can download the roms)

MAME 079u3

Note:- To Download The MAME 079u3 Roms You Must Right Mouse Click On The Link And Select Save Target As

I hope you all enjoy

*EDIT* I'm posting this here and in the MAME forum because some members of this forum and guests might not visit the MAME forum which is here.

MESS is a multi console emulator for various systems. Only the DOS & Windows binaries are updated so far.

New System Drivers Supported:

- [MSX2] Sony HB-F700P (Sean Young)

- [MSX2] NMS 8245 and NMS 8255 (Sean Young)

- [MSX] National FS-4000 (Sean Young)

- [MSX] Sony HB-75P (Sean Young)

System Driver Changes:

- [APPLE2] Fixed a regression in caching disk data that would cause data to be lost when switching disks, or for switching disks to not be acknowledged. [Nate Woods]

- [MSX] Rewrote memory emulation.

* Adds support for subslots

* Proper memory layout for the MSX2 drivers, with the diskrom in a subslot of slot 3.

* Adds support for Konami's Sound Cartridge (128kb)

* Adds support for Korean 90-in-1

* Adds support for Kanji ROM

If no cartridges are supplied, it sets the Sound Cartridge in slot 1 and the FM-PAC in slot 2. The Snatcher, SD-Snatcher and the Konami Game Collections now work. Note that Sound Cartridge also behaves as a normal SCC.

With one cartridge supplied the FM-PAC is still set in slot 2 so R-Type and other ROM cartridges can still use it. [sean Young]

- [sUPERBRD] Updated driver with a better BIOS set and keyboard layout and added sound. [Claudio Nieder]

User Interface Changes:

- [Windows GUI] Minor bug fixes regarding software listing and CRC calculations with respect to clone and compatible drivers. [Nate Woods]

Source Changes:

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

- The core is based on MAME 0.79. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

- As a consequence of the MAME 0.79 core, which has massive changes to the memory system, there is a greater likelyhood of regressions in this MESS release (as with MAME.)

- Introduced automated messtest testing facility, in order to prevent regressions in the future. [Nate Woods]

- Internal error reporting enhancements for image loading; still some work to do. [Nate Woods]

Get it from this page.