Robert Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Pinball machine emulator What's new in Visual PinMAME:----------------------------- Version 1.56 (August 19th, 2007)--------------------------------- "Bios" support for multiple games running the exact same set of code; for now, there's support for "allied" and "gp_110". (Gerrit Volkenborn)- Added support for Stern's "Elvis" Version 1.56 (August 19, 2007) - "Allied Leisure"------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update finally includes support for all the Allied Leisure games operating on their 6504 CPU platform. It was quite some struggle to add those, we started as far back as 2002 in trying to locate the RRIOT 6530 chips from the CPU board in order to get their ROM contents dumped. We encountered several setbacks. At one point, a guy offered his chips to be dumped, but then suddenly vanished, and then famous community people denied to help up dump chips, even though they definitely had the capabilities! Just when we thought we'd never make it through this worldwide conspiracy preventing Allied Leisure to be emulated at any point, Brian suddenly managed to buy an Allied Leisure "Take Five" machine off eBay, and Pascal Janin of France was kind enough to dump the chips for us (HUGE Thanks!!!), so now this task is finally accomplished, and one of the last remaining well-known manufacturers joined our club of pinball emulated. Since all of those Allied Leisure games use the exact same code set, you will only need ONE copy of the dumps, packed up as a driver called "allied". All eleven games will then run off the same code, without the need to duplicate the rom dumps over eleven different drivers! In the same vein, you can now run all the GamePlan model 110 games (Foxy Lady to Chuck-A-Luck) on the same set of roms, as a driver called "gp_110". This method is based on MAME's "bios" support for some games like NEO-GEO, where each game is using a shared set of boot code. The difference on PinMAME is just that there simply aren't any additional roms for the pinball games. Also thanks to JohnnyPop for providing the Titanic & Monopoly redemption roms. Changes: *** CORE/CPU ***Added support for Allied Leisure hardware (Brian Smith, Gerrit Volkenborn)Enabling "bios" files to prevent rom code duplication (Gerrit Volkenborn)Preventing AT91 cpu crash occurring when emulation was restarted (Steve Ellenoff)Removed display fading (on Gottlieb) again, as it was faulty. (Gerrit Volkenborn) *** ROM SUPPORT ***Added Sega Titanic / Stern Monopoly redemption games (Gerrit Volkenborn)Added Williams STTNG LX1, LX2, LG7 (Brian Smith)Added Zacaria Space City / New Star's Phoenix (Gerrit Volkenborn)Updated Sega Space Jam / ID4 sound with correct dumps (Steve Ellenoff)Updated Stern Simpsons Pinball Party to version 5.00 (Gerrit Volkenborn)Changelog and here / Download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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