http://mamedev.org/updates/whatsnew_0133u2.txt

0.133u2

-------

 

 

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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

- 00191: [Graphics] miaj: some text of the boot-up screen is not

correctly displayed (hap)

- 02267: [Graphics] devilw, darkadv, majuu: Some rogue sprites (hap)

- 03370: [sound] gng and clones: Music slows down while shooting

(Corrado Tomaselli)

- 03373: [Misc.] looping: Unmapped I/O read/writes result in large

error log and major performance drop (robiza)

- 03381: [Crash/Freeze] pc_moglf, pc_mtoid: Crashes with access

violation a short time after boot. (hap)

- 03376: [Crash/Freeze] All Sets with Rev 1 Sound Board in gottlieb.c:

Access Violation (hap)

- 03175: [Crash/Freeze] cham24: Game doesn't start correctly

- 03354: [DIP/Input] cobram3: Infinite lives dip switch triggers service mode

- 03352: [DIP/Input] cobram3: No demo (attract) sound (Xander)

- 03370: gng and clones: Music slows down while shooting

 

 

 

Source Changes

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

Add PCB locations to the rom names for Dream Land (Bubble Bobble

bootleg). [briah Troha]

 

Added preliminary sound to 39in1, still buggy. [MooglyGuy]

 

Hand-tuned BGM tempo in Tryout thanks to a side-by-side reference.

[Angelo Salese]

 

SNES fixes (mostly MESS specific) [Angelo Salese]

- Fixed Super Kick Boxing booting and sound.

- Preliminary open bus emulation for allowing Shien's Revenge /

Shien the Blade Chaser to boot

- Fixed mode 5/6 bg drawing cutted in half bug

- Fixed (presumably) broken gfxs in nss_sten

- More accurate behaviour of the last scroll register.

- Improved mode 5/6 gfxs when tile size = 16x16.

- Fixed rowscroll line bugs in many games

- Made the unsupported reads on i/o open bus, fixed a layer enable

in Super Kick Boxing

- Fixed vram size when in hires mode

- Hooked up interlace mode

- Fixed doubled y-axis sprites when in interlace mode

- Improved window effects when in H-512 mode.

- Removed a kludge with color windows.

- Fixed buggy layer clearance when in H-512 modes

- Fixed the x scrolling wrap around bug when hscroll == 0

- Fixed a bug that were causing a row of corrupted tiles during

scrolling situations

- Fixed irq ack and fixed TIMEUP register open bus behaviour.

- Even more aggressive open bus fixes.

- Fixed a partial update bug when the screen is in interlace mode

- Fixed 8bpp layer colors.

 

Patched progolfa rom like progolf. Removed bad dump flag in progolf;

with progolfa you get the same rom error in test mode and progolfa

have different encryption. [robiza]

 

Added a stop4 input to slot default and remapped slot default keys to

better suit Amcoe games. [Fabio Priuli]

 

Updated sfbonus.c to use the new gambling inputs. Fixed many years

and descriptions. Reworked parent/clone relationships so that parent

is the higher revision and/or the Export version. Also, tried to

establish common rules in the choice of the romset names.

[Fabio Priuli]

 

Added default input mappings for Hanafuda games. Updated most of the

Hanafuda games to use them. Like for Mahjong games, keys A->H are used.

"Yes" is mapped to M, "No" is mapped to N. [Fabio Priuli]

 

Add correct color PROM for panther. [Mr. Do, Angelo Salese]

 

Removed fake P3 Start from Nichibutsu mahjong games and properly

called "Credit Clear" that input. Also, added back Bet button in

nb1413m3.c fixing omotesnd. [Fabio Priuli]

 

nmk16.c driver documentation update / clean up: [briah Troha]

- Moved the PCB layout for S.B.S Gomorrah (Bio-Ship Paladin) down by

the game's romdef.

- Added PCB layout for Spectrum 2000 & corrected company name to

YONA Tech

- Added PCB layout for Red Hawk

- Moved decryption routines (if needed) to between the info/PCB

layout header and game romdef.

 

Added the 8751 MCU code to Saigo no Nindou (nspiritj).

[Guru, David Haywood]

 

Implemented preliminary bg map banking in 18 Holes Pro Golf.

[Angelo Salese, Robiza]

 

Fixed a mapping error with Maikobana [bET] (mmaiko) which caused the

NVRAM not to save correctly. [Tafoid]

 

Aristocrat MK-4 HW: Hooked up mc6845, fixed a rom crc in goldenc and

implemented flip y. [Angelo Salese]

 

DIP switch cleanups in gberet, mainevt, ninjakd2, and taito_z.

[kanikani]

 

Added GAME_IMPERFECT_SOUND flag to all sets that use external samples

which were not already flagged for sound. Flagged Speed Freak

(speedfrk) as GAME_SUPPORTED_SAVE to match the rest of the driver.

[Tafoid]

 

SNES video updates: [Fabio Priuli]

* re-enabled video debug functionalities in debug build (to toggle

background layers)

* added proper priority tables for various bg/obj layers

* largely simplified tile and line drawing routines, and fixed small

bits here and there

* further simplification of tile drawing routines

* added palette index to 8bpp tiles (correct color_shift still unsure,

though)

* reworked video drawing routine to simplify the various graphic

mode drawing and to allow proper implementation of priority orders

(especially bg3 priority bit and mode 7 priority order)

* improved mode 7 extbg (still missing mosaic)

* added some more debugging options

* improved Mode 7 math precision (but still some issues remain) and

added a few elements to PPU struct

* implemented Mosaic in Mode 7

* merged OAM functions

* added a few elements to PPU struct (this might be handy if we ever

come to convert SNES PPU to a device)

* fixed Mode 7 shared scrolling/matrix registers

* slightly optimized Mode 7 math (by using Anomie's recursive

formula)

* moved some more register contents to PPU struct

* added PPU1/PPU2 Open Bus support, STAT77/STAT78 registers should be

more accurate (even if still not perfect)

* simplified window masking code and moved some more regs to PPU

struct

 

More NES work: [Robert Bohms]

* Fixed bug in nes_apu that caused errors reading $4015

* Added length counter status bits to $4015

* Fixed 4-screen mirroring (PPU regression)

* Fixed cham24

* Improved Sprite Overflow emulation of NES PPU (this fixes the first

of blargg's Sprite Overflow tests)

 

Added remaining PCB "U" locations to roms that didn't have for

G-Stream G2020. [brian Troha]

 

Atomiswave updates: [R. Belmont, Cah4e3]

- Hooked up flash ROM at 0

- Use proper AW memory map

- Emulate AW ROM board (different from Naomi)

 

Fixed buggy breakpoints in the g65816 cpu core. [Angelo Salese]

 

Fixed Atomiswave COIN ERROR. [Wind]

 

n8080 update [Team Japump!!!]

- corrected ROM names for Space Fever and SF High Splitter

- renamed spacefeva to spacefevo2

- added spacefevo

- added highspltb

 

Updated Sega Hikaru readme [Guru]

 

Discrete sound update: [couriersud]

- Added "abs" function to DISCRETE_TRANSFORM

- Fixed a bug in DISCRETE_RCDISC5

 

Added 1 missing sample to safarir.c [Team Japump!!!]

 

Created discrete sound emulation for galaxian [couriersud]

- Changed all audio related AM_WRITE to AM_DEV_WRITE

- Moved discrete sound related pieces such as initialization into

audio/galaxian.h

- Split some memory maps into sound related and not sound related

parts.

- Added possibility in discrete.h to select hardware (galaxian/moon

cresta) at compile time. This leads to slightly different volume

levels. Hit sound (explosion) has been hacked to increase volume.

Currently, we can not accurately model the switch/opamp filter

circuit.

- Rewrote timer code so that the pitch timer is only used when it

produces audible results.

 

Cojag/jaguar video updates (primarily for MESS) [Robbbert]

* Added variable pixel width.

* Fixed display of screens wider than 360 pixels.

* Enabled use of RGB16.

 

looping: modified the cop420 rom region, fixed mcu rom region in clone

set, added mcu support. [robiza]

 

Redumped bingor2 program roms [Klaus Sommers]

 

Corrected Kamakazi III's dipswitch setting (the same as superg) and

relabeled it a superg hack. Also the dipswitch setting for the Taito

license was the same as superg so I eliminated one. [brian Troha]

 

Improved speaker-toggle emulation with alias filter.

[Anders Hallstrom]

 

NES: Fixed bank switching in multigm3 (broken due to a mistake of

mine when including original Rob Bohms' code). The game still refuses

to work, unfortunately. [Fabio Priuli]

 

vsnes update [Team Japump!!!]

- fixed ROM names

- added vssoccerj

 

ROM name fixes for sicv, sisv, and sisv2 [Team Japump!!!]

 

Corrected TNZS vsync to 59.15 as verified on pcb. [Corrado Tomaselli]

 

Fixed bootleg description inconsistency in goldnpkr.c. [hap]

 

Fixed sprite wrapping in sonson. [hap]

 

Added Intel 4004 CPU core. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

Converted the tilemap lists to be private information held by the

running_machine instead of global variables. Added new APIs to the

tilemap code to handle the "ALL_TILEMAPS" cases, and removed the

old ALL_TILEMAPS definition. [Atari Ace]

 

Added redumped gfx rom on Shogun Warrior [Guru]

 

Updated romload.c and validity.c to not rely on global variables.

[Atari Ace]

 

Corrected resistor values in Cliff Hanger discrete sound based on

actual PCB values. [Ruben Panossian]

 

Removed DAA tables from the 8085 and Z180 implementations in favor of

just computing the values. Also fixed code in 8085 to prevent

accidental multiple reads due to macro overuse. [hap]

 

Added game time and coinage DIP switches to Space Walk, along with

service mode and test. Also added support for the 2nd controller and

coin counter. Removed GAME_NOT_WORKING as it is working fine. Added

color overlay based on photo. [hap]

 

Added a simple color overlay for Depthcharge based on flyers. [hap]

 

Updated the Konami twin16 driver. Functional changes: [hap]

- improved sprite status register, this fixed the rogue sprites

problem in devilw

- added fround coin counters

- lowered k007232 volume

- added savestate support

- added shadows

- fixed devilw and gradius2 sprite lag

- added text layer x/y flipping

- reverted gradius2 sprite-background priority hack, this fixes

severe priority problems in devilw, but reintroduces bugs on

gradius2 level 7 and ending

 

 

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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

18 Holes Pro Golf [robiza, Angelo Salese]

Python (Photon System) [Mick, Mariusz Wojcieszek]

Pop n' Music 2 [Guru]

beatmania ClubMIX [Team Japump!!!, The Guru]

Ridge Racer (3 screen? Rev. RR2, World) [Guru, Smitdogg]

Sky Love [bbmmamoh, David Haywood]

Triple Draw Poker [Team Europe, David Haywood] (Wrong Colours)

 

 

 

New clones added

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

Gun Bullet (World, GN3 Rev [brian Troha, Dumping Union]

Megatouch 5 (9255-60-01 ROI, Standard version) [brian Troha, Dumping Union]

Dragon World (V021O) [f205v, Olivier Galibert, David Haywood]

Winding Heat (JAA, JPN v2.11) [Guru]

Qix (set 2, smaller roms) [Team Europe]

9-Ball Shootout Championship [siftWare]

Gamecube and Wii emulator. Get it HERE.

Fixes include:

1:Wii menu boots again!

2:Change disk works again!

3:Frameskipper!!!!!!! game are more playable if they were slow due to gpu.

4:wiimote is working again.

5:tons of sound fixes.

6:more jit speed ups.

7:DVD covers are reported like a real wii - MP3 now boots again.

8:multi crashes fixed in games and gui.

9:some memory leaks fixed.

10:framelimiter working better.

11:FPS display is tons better.

12:lots of work on wii input for linux and macos builds.

13:work on decompressing wii iso's

14:Fix "Show EFB copy regions"

15: TAS support added and working.

16:FIFO bug fixes.

17: GH3 Guitar support added to wiimote plugin tested and works fine.

18: fixed most jittering issues with games. I still rarely see it in 1 game.

19:Add Taiwan to the Country Codes

Rom Manager. Get it HERE.

3.130a

 

rename wizard: - improved fuzzy name compare - don't allow identical new names, the one with the best method wins

misc: don't replace illegal chars in description tags until you use it for writing

misc: reapplying setinformation options "incl.clones/parents" on profile load, this can be useful if you limit sets with "available sets" (and the parent/clone options) to auto-enable some renamed sets on dat update. However you still should recheck the limit sets after an update since limiting sets is not robust against massive renames.

misc: improved chd decompress and check hash routines slighly

fixed: checkbox init of scanner->Hash&CHD->CHD MD5/SHA1 is not always correct

fixed: header support getRealSize was still broken

PC Engine Emulator for PSP. Get it HERE.

Hi All,

 

For those who haven't seen previous version Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows. (see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details)

 

PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go.

 

This version of PSP-Hugo supports IRDA-Joystick box designed by my good friend Buzz (see http://buzz.computer.free.fr for details).

If you have any electronic skills you may design your own for less than 20$

The Schematic and the PIC source code is provided in contrib folder of PSPHugo archive.

 

For those who have never heard about IRDA joystick project, the goal was to connect your old DB9 joystick (compatible with Atari , Amiga, Amstrad etc ...) or a paddle device to your PSP FAT. Buzz has written the driver and designed the PCB and program the PIC micro-controller, and i was in charge of emulator enhancements.

 

Finally, what's new in this PSP-Hugo version ?

 

- IRDA Joystick box support

- Add "IRDA joystick" device support for both DB9 Joystick and Atari Paddle

- Add menu for IRDA joystick settings and keys mapping

- Add option to choose between IRDA devices (keyboard such as Targus or joystick using Buzz device)