PinMAME 2.1 released

[Robert]

Version 2.1 (February 1, 2009) - "Keep 'em coming!"

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OK, so six months have passed yet again - amazing how time flies.

Despite the fact that all major manufaturers are emulated by now, there's still enough to do to iron out all of the bugs and inaccuracies.

 

From time to time a few new games show up unexpectedly, like the new batch coming in from tecnopinball.org in January: three new Juegos Populares games, also Inder Atleta, and another oddball: Videodens "Break".

Some special greetings go to the makers of that invaluable resource site!

 

Despite the fact there is NO manual or schematics drawing to work with yet, we managed to get Break working somehow - Spanish manufacturers were pretty much fixated on the Z80 cpu and the AY-8910 sound chip, so it wasn't all that hard really...

 

Jac van Ham, a rare Dutch manufacturer, joins the club with a game called "Escape", adding a new CPU (TMS9980-A) to our core at the same time.

 

Some people contributed by providing new dumps for known bad roms as well:

David Seidman finally managed to get good reads off Black Sheep Squadron.

Jerry Clause re-read the U6 speech rom on Flash Gordon's vocalizer set, so the hissing and stuttering is gone now.

 

Thanks to all our contributors, especially to Inkochnito for locating some very hard to find roms over and over again all those years! What would we do without you? -- Hmm, a lot more vacation, I guess (just kidding)!

 

On the emulation side of it, sound was improved for Bally games using the old "Sounds Plus" sound board, so it plays a few more sounds now.

Also, Gottlieb System 80B had another issue with melody playing at game start which wasn't supposed to happen at all.

In the same vein, Jokerz, Pool Sharks, and Blackwater 100 had their sound startup issues corrected, meaning that BW100's sound is finally working BTW.

 

Well, that's basically it. So enjoy our latest feat, and "keep 'em coming!"

 

Changes:

 

*** CORE/CPU ***

Fixed a bug for Bally-51 Sounds Plus

Fixed sound issues on Gottlieb System 80B

Fixed Blackwater 100 sound startup

Fixed startup sound for Jokerz / Pool Sharks

Corrected Playmatic Last Lap, game works now

Better working Bally 68701 prototype games

Added TMS9980-A cpu support

 

*** ROM SUPPORT ***

Added Bally Party Zone L-3 [ipdb.org]

Added WMS Banzai Run G-3 (German) [ipdb.org]

Added Juegos Populares: Featon, Petaco, Aqualand [tecnopinball.org]

Added Jac van Ham Escape [inkochnito / Ronald Knor]

Added Videodens Break (NVRAM not working yet) [tecnopinball.org]

Added Inder Atleta [tecnopinball.org]

Added Flash Gordon Prototype rev. 2 (working) [pinballjail]

Corrected checksums for Bally Flash Gordon (vocalizer sound) [Jerry Clause]

Corrected checksums for Astro Black Sheep Squadron [David Seidman]

>> Get it HERE.