Mame 80u2 Released

[James]

0.80u2

 

http://haze.mame.net/

 

General Source Changes

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Various Sega 16-bit game driver updaes [Charles MacDonald, http://cgfm2.emuviews.com]

 

(03/18/04)

- Added correctly dumped ROM set for eswat to replace the old one. Game is encrypted and unplayable.

- Moved Ace Attacker to system16.c, it's not a System 18 game.

- Added sound support for tturf, tturfu, tturfbl (no samples), fpointbl, fpointbj

- Fixed toryumon RAM test

- Cleaned up timscannr, toryumon drivers

- Added Where's Wally? (wwally) Game is encrypted and unplayable.

- Fixed System 18 sample ROM banking. This doesn't help the current working games, but will support others when/if they are decrypted.

- Fixed RF5C68A clock (7.15 MHz -> 8.00 MHz).

- Fixed Z80 clock (8.192 Mhz -> 8.00 MHz).

- Cleaned up shdancbl sound hardware a little.

 

(03/15/04)

- Fixed 2nd 68000 ROM visibility in hangon, ROM test works.

- Fixed sprite RAM, tile RAM, and shared RAM size in hangon, RAM test works.

- Fixed shared RAM and road RAM visibility to hangon, road layer works again.

- Added proper emulation of the I/O hardware in hangon, no patches needed and test mode doesn't crash anymore.

- Migrated aurail, riotcity, bayroute to use sys16_sprite_shinobi.

- Cleaned up altbeast, riotcity, bayroute, aurail drivers (no junk in error logs, took care of unused inputs/outputs, etc.)

- Removed 'extra' RAM in some drivers and replaced with sys16_tilebank_w.

- Fixed sprite zooming in sys16_sprite_shinobi (corrects sprite placement in Heavyweight Champ)

- Fixed sprite list parsing (fixes output test progression in Heavyweight Champ)

- Added Shadow Dancer (Rev.

- Checked and fixed speed-ups for shdancer, shdancrj, shdancbl, shdancrb.

- Added I/O chip and partial VDP emulation for shdancer, shdancrj, shdancbl, shdancrb, moonwlkb, astormbl.

- Added Datsu bootleg sound hardware support for shdancrb and fixed sound crash.

- Fixed shdancbl sprite loading.

- Cleaned up shdancbl driver, now fully playable with only minor graphics problems.

- Fixed sys16_paletteram_w and removed sys16_dactype.

- Palette now generated using routines in res_net.h to properly make normal, shadow, and highlight colors.

 

Discrete Sound System updates [Aaron Giles, Derrick Renaud]

 

(Aaron)

 

* major internal cleanup and reworking of how nodes are created

* fixed bug in 555 timer that led to whiny noise in Hit Me

* added new input port type for analog adjuster

* changed osd interface for discrete sound adjusters to use the new input port type

* changed NODE_ADJUSTMENT to get its value from an input port

* adjuster values are now saved in the config file

* changed all games using adjusters to use the new system

 

(Derrick)

 

Discrete Sound Changes

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* Continued cleanup of code to make it more readable

 

New Discrete Modules Added

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* DISCRETE_OP_AMP_OSCILLATOR - various op amp oscillator circuits that are

entered using component values.

* DISCRETE_OP_AMP_VCO - various op amp voltage controlled oscillator circuits

that are entered using component values.

 

Game Driver Changes

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* Finished updating games to use Aaron's DISCRETE_ADJUSTMENT changes.

 

Misc Fixes [Nathan Woods]

 

src/fileio.c:

src/fileio.h:

src/windows/fileio.c:

- Changed MESS specific file type from FILETYPE_CRC to FILETYPE_HASH

 

src/hash.c:

src/hash.h:

- Added hash_data_insert_printable_checksum() call

- Made things more const correct

 

Nintendo 8080 based games update [stefan Jokisch]

 

All games:

 

- fixed CPU speed

- unified memory maps

- changed ROM labels

 

Space Fever / High Splitter / Space Launcher:

 

- relabelled ROM sets:

Space Fever color => Space Fever

Space Fever b & w => Space Fever High Splitter

- uncloned High Splitter from Space Fever

- fixed High Splitter ROM loading (wrong sound ROM in one set)

- color support (Space Launcher needs its color PROM dumped)

- implemented red screen flash (when the player dies)

- implemented red laser cannon flash (when the player shoots)

- implemented UFO color cycling

- properly hooked up SN76477 (needs to be verified)

- properly hooked up I8035 sound CPU

- added bonus life DIPs to High Splitter and Space Launcher

- added cocktail mode

- documented diagnostic ROM location

 

Sheriff / Bandido:

 

- fixed scheduling of SN76477 sound effects (shots + hits)

- added second coin input in Bandido

- removed unused cocktail mode controls from Bandido

- properly hooked up I8035 sound CPU

- removed fake color overlay from Bandido

- added colours based on screenshots - PROM still needs dumping

- implemented color effects (e.g. red heart after round 3)

- implemented screen flashing (when the players dies)

- documented diagnostic ROM location

 

Helifire:

 

- corrected bonus life DIP

- fixed starfield pattern, confirmed by shots on the flyer

- fixed starfield priority (no more stars in the water)

- fixed video bugs related to pausing and frame skipping

- properly hooked up sound CPU (different from the other games)

- added partial support for cocktail mode

- added IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS and NO_COCKTAIL flags

 

- various audio and video effects are still missing, including a few

which were previously implemented and which I hope to re-add soon

 

Various Timer Fixes, correcting some problems with SlySpy etc. [Aaron Giles]

 

Fixed some problems with the 32010 update [Quench]

 

Misc bug fixes (HuC6280 problems) [bryan McPhail]

 

Some Task Force Harrier Improvements [Tomasz Slanina]

 

- fixed sprite rendering

- hacks for bg scrolling

- patched some protection issues (sprites are rendered,

no more strange resets)

Game is NOT playable (controls doesn't work).

Maybe something is not mapped correctly or

it's problem with protection (for example,

player2 buttons works durning boot - it's possible to enter

service mode).

 

ST-V update [Angelo Salese]

fixes bitmap transparencies,adds the RBG0 layer(no scroll/roz effects yet)

adds a really preliminary window effect(just for get tile-based sprites in shanhigw)

and readded the VDP1 PTM register support which has been lost in the past.

 

Cleaned up Capcom Bowling driver and fixed crash on reset [Aaron Giles]

 

IREM GA20 Update [R.Belmont]

adds the channel status readback for the GA-20,

which fixes some occasional odd voice-stealing

behavior I've heard playing R-Type Leo.

 

Reverted some Star Wars code back to older working version

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Rock 'n' Roll Trivia (part 2) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Scooter Shooter [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Dynamic Dice [Tomasz Slanina] - might be a gambling game

Lovely Cards - doesn't actually appear to be a gambling game, just gambling themed

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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2020 Super Baseball (set 2) (2020bba) [HPMAN]

Spinner (Spiders bootleg) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Gyrodine (Crux license?) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli / f205v]

Griffon [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Blaster (early 30 wave version)

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Various Non-working CPS2 clones

Swinging Singles [Tomasz Slanina] - not much work done on it

Taiwan Chess Legend [Tomasz Slanina] - only partially decrypted

Parallel Turn [Tomasz Slanina] - Jaleco protection chip not emulated

Change Lanes [Phil Stroffolino, Jarek Burczynski, Tomasz Slanina] - weird early Taito hardware

Dragon World 3 - unemulated protection

Zero Target [bryan McPhail, Pierpaolo Prazzoli, David Haywood] - various things not yet understood

Counter Steer [bryan McPhail, Pierpaolo Prazzoli, David Haywood] - various things not yet understood

Edited March 27, 2004 by james