0.99u5 ------ MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- docastle093u2ora [Corrado Tomaselli] sindbadm37b2gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] mgakuen094u1gra [Roberto Fresca] tdfeverj087u4gra [Roberto Fresca] Source Changes -------------- Completed renaming of core structures. Most pervasive change was "struct tilemap" is now just "tilemap". [Aaron Giles] Added save state support to the Cinematronics vector games. [Buddabing] Added blending to the alt tilemap code in psikyosh.c, fixing the final boss in Sol Divide. [David Haywood] Improvements to the Witch/Pinball Champ '95 driver: [Sebasten Hegon] * The games now show some graphics (the palette seems OK) and play some music and sounds. * Since the controls are not yet figured out completely, they are still mapped as dipswitches. * An NVRAM reset is required the first time you launch Witch (via the associated dipswitch). Pinball Champ seems to automatically do this. * The sound part required some patching in sound/es8712.c. I disabled the hardcoded inconditional looping, and made the sound start when writing at offset 0x06 (cf patch). vmetal does not seem to be affected. * As far as gameplay is concerned, the ball will freeze (in game and demo mode), and I don't know why. The video hardware is not completely figured out and may be the culprit. * The coin in/out mecanism needs some work too. Some improvements to Jolly Card: [Roberto Fresca] * Added extra hardware info (pinouts and dips). * Added the correct dipswitch to Jolly Card. Hopper and Points/pulse not tested due to preliminary driver state. The rest are working properly. Remember to delete the nvram and reinitialize to see some changes. * Added almost the same dipswitch to Magic Card II (Bulgaria). Significant changes to the save state system: [Aaron Giles] * Added alternate save state pre-/post-load function types that take integer or pointer parameters. Updated several sound cores and other files to take advantage of this. * Made state handler registrations track like other scoped resources (timers, memory) so that registrations can occur as late as MACHINE_INIT time. * Added logic to detect registrations after MACHINE_INIT time and prevent saves in that case. * Added logic to detect when CPUs or sound chips haven't registered anything to save/load. When this happens, info is logged to error.log and saves/loads are disallowed. * Allocated timers are now automatically saved and restored as part of the save state. The global time is now restored as well as a bunch of CPU execution state. This should produce more reliable restores. * Added logic to defer saves until all anonymous timers have cleared. If a driver uses many anonymous timers it may not be possible to ever successfully save, so the operation will time out after one second. * Before restoring, the machine is now reset. This gives a more consistent environment for the load to occur. * Re-enabled save state support for YM2151. * Added save state support to the classic Namco sound system. * Added save state support to the samples sound system. * Removed anonymous timer usage in machine/scramble.c. New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status --------------------------------------------------- Muroge Monaco [David Haywood] The First Funky Fighter [Luca Elia] New clones added ---------------- SAR - Search And Rescue (Japan) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] American Poker II (set 4) [Roberto Fresca] 0.99u4 ------ MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- quarth37b1gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] devilw36b10yel [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] vulcan137b1gre, part 7 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] Source Changes -------------- Added memory card and cheat menus back into the system. [Aaron Giles] Fixed MNG recording problem that was introduced in u3. [Aaron Giles] Fixed crash when running vector games that was introduced in u3. [Aaron Giles] Cleaned up/normalized the naming of several core structures in an attempt to impose some order on coding conventions in the core code: struct InputPortDefinition -> input_port_default_entry struct InputPort -> input_port_entry struct RegionInfo -> region_info struct RunningMachine -> running_machine struct GameOptions -> global_options struct GameDriver -> game_driver struct InternalMachineDriver -> machine_config struct MachineCPU -> cpu_config struct MachineSoundRoute -> sound_route struct MachineSound -> sound_config struct MachineSpeaker -> speaker_config struct RomModule -> rom_entry struct SystemBios -> bios_entry struct GfxLayout -> gfx_layout struct GfxElement -> gfx_element struct GfxDecodeInfo -> gfx_decode Plus many others along the same lines (follow the pattern). Note that this work is not yet complete. In addition, a few of the more pervasive structs (mame_bitmap, rectangle) will be left until a non-diff release (0.100). [Aaron Giles] Removed -skip_disclaimer since it automatically goes away after the first time execution. [Aaron Giles] Created new NMK112 ROM banking module and connected it up to a number of drivers that made use of it. Affected games are in cave.c, nmk16.c, powerins.c, quizpani.c, toaplan2.c. [Alex W. Jackson] Added missing buttons to Showdown. [David Widel] Fixed the PULUW instruction on the 6309 disassembler. [Nathan Woods] Fixed the state save facility play better on multisession ports if initialization fails. [Tim Lindner] New clones added ---------------- Plotting (US) [David Haywood]