MAME 0.97u2

**Robert** · June 20, 2005

MAME 0.97u2 has been released. Here are the changes:

0.97u2
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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intrepi237b13gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
robokid37b15gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
azurian060gre [MASH]
gradius3094u5gra [Mamesick]

Source Changes
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* System 32 games are seriously under construction now. Do not report any bugs against them. The Multi-32 games are even more broken. [Aaron Giles]

* Fixed Windows build so it works again on Windows 95. [Krick]

* Added priorities, fixing 3rd level in The Combatribes. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

* Updated the sound balancing in donpachi, manzinger, metmqstr and pwrinst2. [sonikos]

* Fixed video problems in ninjaw, which broke with the new colscroll addition. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

* Changed OKI volume in midres to match real pcb. [Corrado Tomaselli]

* Fixed protection in World Class Bowling v1.40 Tournament. [brian Troha]

* Fixed NES PPU video timing. [Andrew Church]

* Fixed usage of change_pc() in PowerPC core. [Nathan Woods]

* Improvements to the SHARC CPU core [Ville Linde]
- Correct IRQ handling
- Many more opcodes, including floating-point

* Improvements to the Konami PPC games [Ville Linde]
- Fixed Gradius 4 data ROM mapping
- Fixed PPC/SHARC communications
- Fixed NVRAM protection on some games
- Stubbed out LAN interface

* Fixed Space Raider graphics 100%. [Frank Palazzolo]

* Correct colors in Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp. [Nicola Salmoria, Guru]

* Cleaned up starfield code and fixed/added starfields to Space Raider, Zero Hour, and Red Clash. [Frank Palazzolo]

* Reapplied fix for bad shadows in Dyna Gears. [Mamesick]

* Fixed the way the VIA 6522 shift register was implemented to get rid of the previous hacky way. [Mathis Rosenhauer]

* Fixed the remaining gfx problems in Championship Bowling. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

* Added code to flush error.log every time the debugger is entered. [Nathan Woods]

* Implemented the MCRXR instruction in the PowerPC core. [Nathan Woods]

* Added step in/out support to the v60 disassembler. [Aaron Giles]

* Added support for character constants in the expression engine. [Aaron Giles]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Final Tetris [David Haywood]

New clones added
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Turtle Ship (Japan) [brian Troha]
Ladybug (bootleg set 2) [sonikos]
Mr. Kougar (bootleg Set 2) [sonikos]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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LeMans 24 [R. Belmont]