Source Changes -------------- Fixed flags access in the i286 core. [Barry Rodewald]
Updated MC146818 module to use new core date/time routines. [Nathan Woods]
Cleaned up disassemblers to remove stubs and ensure the disassemblers are not referenced except in debug builds. [Nathan Woods]
Added support for using CHDs to decrypt CPS2 games. This code is disabled for the moment, but will be enabled in the future. Only a handful of games have complete tables so far. These tables are huge (~4GB) and uncompressable until the encryption algorithm is understood. [David Haywood]
Fixed bug in the debugger that caused watchpoints to not be active until the next context switch. [smf]
Cleaned up the input definitions for n-way joysticks so they are more explicit. Added concept of a "16-way" joystick, which is a joystick that doesn't prevent simultaneous opposing directions from bring reported. [smf]
Major System 573 update: [smf] * fixed PSX SIO control register behavior * implemented several SCSI CD commands: START/STOP UNIT, PAUSE/ RESUME, READ SUB-CHANNEL, READ TOC * added uPD4701 emulation * fixed ATAPI reset, PIO, and command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE * hooked up controls for fishing, DRR, and Guitar Freaks games * hooked up CDDA audio * removed some unused bytes from the Konami 80's security chips
Fixed upside down service mode in the commando.c driver. [Canim]
Added support for the Triple Hunt 8-track audio. [Derrick Renaud]
Galaxian/Scramble driver reorganization: [Atari Ace] * machine/scramble.c is broken up into two files, machine/galaxian.c and machine/scramble.c * drivers/amidar.c, drivers/frogger.c, drivers/scobra.c get copies of some of the data structures they shared from other drivers * galaxian_base is made static and uses outside of the main driver were rewritten * cclimber_decode code from drivers/cclimber.c was separated into its own machine/cclimber.c file to allow mshuttle to share it without taking on other dependencies
Added missing x-flipping support in Major Havoc. [Mathis Rosenhauer]
Made some improvements to trivia madness driver. There still is something wrong in the question roms banking. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
More updates to the ST-V driver: [Mariusz Wojcieszek] * vdp1: added shading for sprites (used by znpwfv, cotton, others) * vdp1: fixed sprite clipping (fixes incorrect sprites in znpwfv) * vdp1: fixed transparency on colour lookup table sprites (fixes bad sprites in znpwfv) * vdp2: fixed caching of RGB layer (fixes bad backgrounds on bosses in rsgun) * vdp2: added additive blending for tilemaps and sprites (rsgun) * vdp2: added vertical line scroll and linezoom (fixes diehard logo) * stv: improved speedups for diehard * stv: fixed speedups for znpwfv * stv: added preliminary save state support
Significant cleanup of chd.c: [Aaron Giles] * got rid of the horrible last_error concept; now all routines return an error directly * fixed several issues in managing metadata * changed compression and verification routines to be client-driven rather than monolithic * changed internal codec usage to be more flexible * altered chdman and MAME to use the new interfaces * added new -createraw command for creating raw data CHDs
Fixed crash bug in romcmp when comparing ZIP files. [Aaron Giles]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status --------------------------------------------------- Fisherman's Bait * A Bass Challenge / Bass Angler [smf] Fisherman's Bait 2 * A Bass Challenge [smf] Fisherman's Bait * Marlin Challenge [smf] Dancing Stage / Dance Dance Revolution [smf] Guitar Freaks [smf] Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix [smf] Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Link [smf]
New clones added ---------------- Hellfire (2P Ver., first edition) [Tirino73] Konami 80's AC Special (3 versions) [smf] Stratovox (bootleg) [Brian Troha]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING ------------------------------------ Jyangokushi: Haoh no Saihai (Japan) [David Haywood]