0.34 BETA 3 New ROM sets supported (in no particular order): ------------------------------------------------ Terra Cresta (two sets merged) [Carlos A. Lozano] Regulus [Nicola Salmoria] SWAT [Nicola Salmoria] Heavy Metal [Nicola Salmoria] Brain [Nicola Salmoria] Toki no Senshi [Nicola Salmoria] Gardia (not decrypted YET) [Nicola Salmoria] DakkoChan Jansoh (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria] Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria] Wonder Boy (three more sets but I haven't decrypted one of them) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Pitfall II (encrypted version) (the other has been renamed pitfallu) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Water Ski [Nicola Salmoria] Last Duel (bootleg) (this fixes the graphics) [Bryan McPhail] Lady Bug (bootleg) (merged) [Marco Cassili] Lode Runner (set 1) (merged) (note that the old set has been renamed "ldruna") [Nicola Salmoria] Lode Runner (2 Players) (this is different from the other) [Nicola Salmoria] Penguin-Kun Wars (two sets merged) [Allard van der Bas] Stinger [Nicola Salmoria] Zig Zag (2 sets merged) [Nicola Salmoria] River Patrol / Silver Land [Zsolt Vasvari] Jumping (merged with Rainbow Islands) [Mike Coates] 600 (merged with Turtles) [John Dondzila] Area 88 (merged with UN Squadron) [Santeri Saarimaa] 720 Degrees (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Crystal Castles (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Kangaroo (bootleg) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Klax (set 3) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Missile Command (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Pooyan (Konami) (merged) (the Stern set is now called "pooyans") [Nicola Salmoria] Neo Mr. Do [Bud Crittenden] These drivers have improved GRAPHICS: ------------------------------------- - Fixed fg/bg priority in TeddyBoy Blues and Choplifter. [Nicola Salmoria] - Colors in Shark Attack. [Mike Balfour] - Fixed transparency in Fire Trap. [Nicola Salmoria] - Fixed gfx banks in Pop Flamer. [Brad Oliver] These drivers have new or improved SOUND: ----------------------------------------- - Fixed speech in Karate Champ. [Ernesto Corvi] - Fixed pitch in the System 8 games. [Hiromitsu Shioya] - Sound in Exterminator. Have your PII/900 handy ;-) [Zsolt Vasvari] - Added smoothing to ADPCM playback. [Juergen Buchmueller] - Added RC filter emulation to Gyruss. This improves some sound effects, e.g. the force field noise. [Francesco Caporali] - Added ADPCM sounds to Renegade. [Phil Stroffolino] - Fixed speech in King & Balloon. [Brad Oliver] - Added ADPCM sample playback to the bootleg Hyper Olympic. [Nicola Salmoria] - Sound in Mysterious Stones. [Nicola Salmoria] These drivers have HIGH SCORE support: -------------------------------------- - Shark Attack. [Mike Balfour] - Flicky, Bull Fight, I'm Sorry, Star Jacker, Mr Viking, 4d Warrior, TeddyBoy Blues, Beastie Feastie, Contra, Cobra Command, Super Qix, Vigilante, Pang, HigeMaru, Hexa. [Juan Carlos Lorente] - Tiger Road, Karnov, Chelnov, Heavy Barrel, Bad Dudes, Robocop, Hippodrome, Sly Spy, Midnight Resistance. [Dani Portillo] - Fixed Star Force. [Dani Portillo] Other drivers changes: ---------------------- - Improved Gladiator input handling. [Tatsuyuki Satoh] - Improved the System 16 drivers. [Phil Stroffolino] - Fixed movement of the squares in Checkman. [Brad Oliver] Changes to the main program: ---------------------------- - Rewritten the SN76496 emulator. This fixes speech in Choplifter. [Nicola Salmoria] - [DOS] New -romident option. Use "MAME -romident dirname" to identify unknown ROM sets. Source: ------- - Improved unzip code robustness when dealing with corrupt archives. [John Butler] - Fixed SBCD in M68000 disassembler. [Mike Coates] - CRC-32 checksums for most files are in place. [Bernd Wiebelt] ========================================================================== 0.34 BETA 2 New ROM sets supported (in no particular order): ------------------------------------------------ F1 Dream (bootleg) (merged) (this one works) [Paul Leaman] Pang [Paul Leaman] Pac Man Plus [Clay Cowgill, Mike Balfour] Beastie Feastie [Clay Cowgill, Mike Balfour] Tecmo Knight [Nicola Salmoria] Bull Fight [Nicola Salmoria] 4D Warriors [Nicola Salmoria] Block Gal (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria] Wonder Boy (three sets, all merged with WB Deluxe) [Nicola Salmoria] I'm Sorry (Japan) (merged) [Marco Cassili] My Hero (Japan) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Flicky (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Ninja Princess (original) (merged) (the other set, which seems to be a bootleg, has been renamed "nprincesb") [Nicola Salmoria] Frogs [Nicola Salmoria] Samurai [Nicola Salmoria] Sasuke vs. Commander [Nicola Salmoria] Subs [Mike Balfour] Vigilante (two sets merged) [Mike Balfour, Phil Stroffolino] Exterminator (VERY SLOW) [Alex Pasadyn, Zsolt Vasvari] COP 01 [Carlos A. Lozano] Renegade (two sets, only the bootleg works) [Phil Stroffolino] Hustle [Frank Palazzolo] Tomahawk 777 (two sets merged) [Zsolt Vasvari] Karate Champ (VS and Karatedo, merged) [Ernesto Corvi] Astro Fighter (set 3) (merged) [Zsolt Vasvari] Side Track [Al Kossow] Spectar (revision 3) (merged) (the previous one has been renamed "spectar1") [Al Kossow] Venture (version 4) (merged) [Al Kossow] Venus (merged with Gyruss) [Nicola Salmoria] APB (set 2) (merged) (this fixes the title screen) Lost Tomb (hard) (merged) [Michael Appolo] Hyper Olympic (bootleg) (merged) [David Winter] Brix (merged with zzyzzyxx) [Brad Oliver] Shark Attack [Victor Trucco] Mikie (headbutt version) (merged) (the other set has been renamed "mikiehs") [Nicola Salmoria] And a whole new bunch of Neo Geo games (NOT TESTED) These drivers have improved GRAPHICS: ------------------------------------- - The background in Golden Star changes color correctly. [Nicola Salmoria] - Accurate colors in Astro Fighter (PROMs required). [Zsolt Vasvari] - Accurate colors in Lost Tomb (PROMs required). [Michael Appolo] - Fixed tile flipping bug in Solomon's Key. [Nicola Salmoria] These drivers have new or improved SOUND: ----------------------------------------- - The music in Bubble Bobble seems to stay in sync now. [Tatsuyuki Satoh] Other drivers changes: ---------------------- - Dynasty Wars works (actually it was already working, it's just that the dip switches had Freeze on by default). - Front Line and Tin Star have the aiming dial (using a dual joystick setup). Also, you can now kill and be killed in Front Line. However, collision detection is not accurately emulated. [Nicola Salmoria] - Fixed ending in Robocop. [JC Alexander] - *FINALLY* fixed Commando sometimes not starting. It was a bug in the decode routine, which has been completely rewritten. [Nicola Salmoria] Changes to the main program: ---------------------------- - Vector translucency can be turned off with -notranslucency. [Valerio Verrando] Source: ------- - TMS34010 emulator. [Alex Pasadyn, Zsolt Vasvari] - Replaced the 6502 emulator with a new one which also supports 65C02 and 6510. Marat Fayzullin's core is no longer used. [Juergen Buchmueller] - Fixed a bug in the 68000 BCD emulation which caused the F1 Dream timer to malfunction. [Nicola Salmoria] - New function osd_on_screen_display() to show text over the game screen. [Nicola Salmoria] - Fixed bug in the Z80 block I/O instructions (INI, IND, INIR, INDR, OUTI, OUTD, OTIR, and OTDR). [Frank Palazzolo] - Updated the FM emulation and the way the 8910 updates its buffers. FM also has support for YM2608 and YM2612, though they are not compiled in. [Tatsuyuki Satoh] - [DOS] Rearranged the makefile using archives to work around E2BIG error on some machines. [Juergen Buchmueller] - Support for CRC-32 checksums instead of MAME's custom ones. The actual CRCs will be added later to the drivers. [John Butler] ========================================================================== 0.34 BETA 1 IMPORTANT: now most games load the color PROMs from disk. You'll have to add the missing files to the archives. New ROM sets supported (in no particular order): ------------------------------------------------ HigeMaru [Mirko Buffoni] Sega Ninja / Ninja Princess (merged) [Jarek Parchanski, Nicola Salmoria] My Hero [Jarek Parchanski] I'm Sorry [Nicola Salmoria] Flicky [Nicola Salmoria] TeddyBoy Blues [Nicola Salmoria] Star Jacker [Nicola Salmoria] Mister Viking [Nicola Salmoria] Future Spy [Nicola Salmoria] Avengers (two sets merged) (not working due to protection) [Paul Leaman] Bionic Commando [Steven Frew, Phil Stroffolino, Paul Leaman] Dynasty Wars (not working) [Paul Leaman] Varth [Paul Leaman] Electric Yo-Yo (not working due to protection) [Al Kossow] Tag Team Wrestling [Steve Ellenoff, Brad Oliver] Gridiron Fight [Nicola Salmoria] several Neo Geo games (NOT TESTED) [Shin Emu Keikaku team] King & Balloon [Brad Oliver] Super Mouse [Brad Oliver] Intrepid [Zsolt Vasvari] Moon War II [Brad Oliver] Calipso [Brad Oliver] Hard Hat [Al Kossow] Psychic 5 [Jarek Parchanski] Great Swordsman [Steve Ellenoff] Max RPM (no sound due to missing ROMs) [Aaron Giles] The Tin Star (not complete) [Nicola Salmoria] several 8080 games [Al Kossow] Pot of Gold [Nicola Salmoria] M79 Ambush [Al Kossow] Twin Cobra (preliminary) [Quench] Kick (upright version) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria] Golden Castle (merged with gladiatr) [Steve Ellenoff] Speak & Rescue ("speakres") [Al Kossow] These drivers have improved GRAPHICS: ------------------------------------- - Fixed colors in Fast Freddie (sorry... this slipped by in 0.33 final). - In Mario Bros., the screen bounces when you hit POW. [Brad Oliver] - Improved Slap Fight. [Christoff Feldtmann] - Accurate colors in Money Money and Jack Rabbit. [Nicola Salmoria] - Enemies in TNZS are now visible, using the gfx ROMs from a new set (which is not supported yet). [Chris Moore] - Fixed sticking sprites in Pnickies and Nemo. [Paul Leaman] These drivers have new or improved SOUND: ----------------------------------------- - Sound in Gladiator. [Steve Ellenoff] These drivers have HIGH SCORE support: -------------------------------------- - Pinball Action. [Dani Portillo] These drivers have HIGH SCORE support: -------------------------------------- - Xain'd Sleena/Solar Warrior. [Dani Portillo] Other drivers changes: ---------------------- - The original Elevator Action now works, using the 68705 mcu ROM which was missing. Since there is one additional CPU to emulate, it is slower than the bootleg version. [Nicola Salmoria] - Replaced Front Line with the complete set containing the 68705 code. It still doesn't work though. [Nicola Salmoria] - Replaced Golden Star with the original, encrypted set. [Mirko Buffoni] - Improvements to the System 8 driver. [Nicola Salmoria] Changes to the main program: ---------------------------- - Fixed a bug in the NOT instruction of the 68000 core. [Mike Coates] - You can proceed from the "press OK to continue" screen by pushing left then right. You can also immediately quit by pressing ESC. [Nicola Salmoria] Source: ------- - Moved the Sega encryption code used by Flicky, Future Spy, and many others, to machine/segacrpt.c. [Nicola Salmoria] - Added memory_region_length field to the RunningMachine structure. This could be useful for drivers which handle several games on similar hardware. [Nicola Salmoria]