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0.36 BETA 11
New games supported:
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Pole Position [Aaron Giles, Ernesto Corvi, Juergen Buchmueller]
Pole Position II [Aaron Giles, Ernesto Corvi, Juergen Buchmueller]
Dragon Buster [Manuel Abadia]
Sky Kid [Manuel Abadia]
Atari Soccer [Brad Oliver]
Cisco Heat [Luca Elia]
F1 Grand Prix Star [Luca Elia]
The Percussor [Zsolt Vasvari]
Turbo [Aaron Giles, Ernesto Corvi]
New clones supported:
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Centipede (bootleg set 2)
MX5000 (= Flak Attack)
Vimana (Nova Apparate GMBH & Co)
Dai-ressya Goutou (= Iron Horse)
Blades of Steel (version T)
Search and Rescue (World)
Punisher (US)
Phoenix (Centuri)
These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed gfx in Muscle Bomber Duo and continue screen in Captain Commando.
[Paul Leaman]
These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
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- Improved emulation of the Galaxians sound subsystem. Samples are no longer
used. [Juergen Buchmueller, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
- 051649 emulation, used in Haunted Castle. [CAB, Bryan McPhail]
Other drivers changes:
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- Fixed Bosconian score handling. [Vernon C. Brooks]
- Fixed Frisky Tom (note: delete friskyt.hi to fix coins). [Zsolt Vasvari]
Changes to the main program:
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- Rewritten the sample listing routines for -listsamples, -listsamdir,
-verifysamples and -listinfo. [Juergen Buchmueller]
- [DOS] New command -verifysets, this verifies all available games and reports
their status (good/best available/bad). Also changed the format of the
-verifyroms output. Some frontends might need small adjustments to parse
the new output. [Bernd Wiebelt]
Source:
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- Taken the 005289 emulation out of namco.c. [Bryan McPhail]
- QSound player (preliminary) [CAB, Paul Leaman]
- Some changes to the TMS9900 emulation that completely screw up Cosmic Guerilla.
[Raphael Nabet]
- Y8950 emulator, used by ginganin. [Tatsuyuki Satoh]
==========================================================================
0.36 BETA 10
Important: due to changes in the palette system, there might be games that
had correct colors before, and wrong now. Please let us know if you find
any.
New games supported:
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Pong (this game has no ROMs) [Juergen Buchmueller]
I, Robot (suggestion: turn off autoframeskip) [Dan Boris, John Dickson]
Baraduke [Manuel Abadia]
Metro-Cross [Manuel Abadia]
Flak Attack [Manuel Abadia]
D-Con [Bryan McPhail]
Dr. Toppel Tankentai [Quench]
Double Dragon 3 [Carlos A. Lozano, Richard Bush, Bryan McPhail]
Combatribes [Carlos A. Lozano, Richard Bush, Bryan McPhail]
Dynamite Duke (play it with sound disabled) [Bryan McPhail]
New clones supported:
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Frogger (Konami)
Spaltan X (= Kung Fu Master)
Joyful Road (= Munch Mobile)
Majuu no Ohkoku (= Devil World)
Rock 'n Rope (Konami)
Samurai (set 2)
Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (= Kid Niki)
These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed lots of drivers for -depth 16 support. [Zsolt Vasvari]
These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
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- Fixed music in cworld2j [CAB]
Other drivers changes:
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- Fixed Go Go Mr. Yamaguchi [Takahiro Nogi]
- Fixed controls in Ikari III level 2. [Nicola Salmoria]
- Fixed hangs in TNZS. [Quench]
Changes to the main program:
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- [DOS] Adjusted the autoframeskip code, to make it increase frameskip a little
faster, but not as fast as it was before the previous change. Let's see how
this performs. [Nicola Salmoria]
- Support for gzipped (NOT zipped) cheat files. Uncompressed files still work.
[Mathis Rosenhauer]
Source:
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- Merged the flags and orientation fields of struct GameDriver.
- Removed prom_memory_region from struct GameDriver. The PROM memory region is
now specified directly in the ROM declaration, with
ROM_REGIONX( length, REGION_PROMS )
Similarly, REGION_GFX1..8 are defined for gfx decoding, but drivers have not
been updated to use them. See drivers/namcos86.c for the only example.
- Removed samplenames from stuct GameDriver. It is now in struct
SamplesInterface, and some drivers load the samples directly without using
that structure. Due to this change, -listsamples and -verifysamples, and the
samples information in -listinfo, are no longer available. Actually, samples
might not be working at all - I haven't tested them. [Nicola Salmoria]
- Removed base and size from struct MemoryReadAddress, use MemoryWriteAddress
to store the pointers. Several drivers had the bad habit of using
MemoryReadAddress to initialize those variables, hopefully I haven't broken
any while updating them. [Nicola Salmoria]
==========================================================================
0.36 BETA 9.1
The license had to be changed again (VII. Derivative Works).
Other drivers changes:
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- Fixed a few bugs in the TMS34010 games. [Aaron Giles]
==========================================================================
0.36 BETA 9
Important: due to changes in the palette system, there might be games that
had correct colors before, and wrong now. Please let us know if you find
any.
New games supported:
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Kick and Run [Nicola Salmoria, Ernesto Corvi]
KiKi KaiKai [Nicola Salmoria, Ernesto Corvi]
Perfect Soldiers [Bryan McPhail]
Big Striker [Luca Elia]
Kick Off [Luca Elia]
Dream Soccer '94 [Bryan McPhail]
Kageki [Takahiro Nogi]
New clones supported:
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Mega Zone (Konami)
Donkey Kong 3 (Japan)
Ajax (Japan)
Ring no Ohja (= The Main Event)
Thunder Blaster (= Lethal Thunder)
Fantasy (SNK)
Blue Print (Jaleco)
X-Men (2 Players Japan)
Checkman (Galaxian hardware) [Zsolt Vasvari]
Contra (Japan)
Karate Dou (= Karate Champ)
Undercover Cops (Japan)
Dump Matsumoto (= Body Slam)
These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed raster effects in Turf Masters (Japan course) and Zed Blade. Improved
Super Sidekicks 2. [Massimo Morra]
Other drivers changes:
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- Fixes to Lazer Command and Meadows Lanes. [Malcolm Lear]
Changes to the main program:
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- 16 bit support in the tilemap manager, so the Namco System 2 games no longer
require -depth 8. [Phil Stroffolino]
- [DOS] Changed the -depth option behaviour, now it can be either 8, 16, or
auto. The default is auto, which uses the color depth appropriate for the
game. 8 forces use of a 256 colors display (faster but less accurate), 16
forces use of a 16-bit display (not suggested, doesn't work with all games).
MAKE SURE TO SET depth = auto IN MAME.CFG, OR YOU'LL USE 16-BIT IN ALL GAMES.
- Fixed a few bugs in the NEC CPU core that caused problems in Hook, Gunforce,
Lethal Thunder and maybe others. [Bryan McPhail, Nao]
- Several changes and improvements to the TMS34010 emulation and to the
Williams games using CVSD sound. [Aaron Giles]
Source:
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- [DOS] Now compiled with Allegro 3.9.27 WIP.
- Replaced MachineDriver->video_attributes VIDEO_SUPPORTS_16BIT with
GameDriver->flags GAME_REQUIRES_16BIT.
Added color_depth to struct RunningMachine and struct GameOptions. OS
dependant code may set it to force a specific depth.
Added depth parameter to osd_create_display(). The OS dependant code MUST
respect it - if it has special requirements, it must set the GameOptions
flag beforehand.
- Calling palette_recalc() is now *MANDATORY* in all drivers that modify the
palette. The palette will not be updated otherwise.
- Removed adpcm_sample_list, palette and colortable from struct GameDriver.
Changed char *color_prom to int prom_memory_region.
- Updated the TMS9900 emulator. [Raphael Nabet]
==========================================================================
0.36 BETA 8
Another clause had to be added to the license. Check it in readme.txt
(at the end of VII. Derivative Works).
New games supported:
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Bogey Manor [Bryan McPhail]
Trio the Punch [Bryan McPhail]
Chuka Taisen [Quench]
Assault