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February 27, 2005
MAME 0.93
Aaron Gilles seems to be ready as far as it concerns the source changes related with MAME core and decided to give us all a reason to celebrate! Here's a pick from the 'what's new' file:
New Games / Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Nicola Salmoria]
Senkyu / Battle Balls [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
Raiden Fighters [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
Raiden Fighters 2 [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
Raiden Fighters Jet [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
Viper Phase 1 [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
E-Jan High School [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
sound emulation on the SPI games is still incomplete
various alpha blending effects missing
clones
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Super Cross (Japan set 2) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Alpha Mission [Dave Widel]
Aliens (World set 3, Japan set 2) [MAN]
Defense [Torsten]
(note the program roms are bad on the original board, a patch is needed)
High Impact Football Proto v8.6 [Brian Troha]
Surprise Attack (Asia Ver L.) [Andreas Thorsιn]
G-Darius (Ver 2.02A)
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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MoonQuake [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Tuts Tomb
Ghost Hunter
guns not hooked up
Here you can find the official MAME sources and binaries (no gui) while here you can download the MAME32 binaries and source files.
Whacker
February 23, 2005
Qemu is the word!
Under normal conditions, very few people are willing (not to mention capable of) running ANYTHING else than MicrosoftTM WindowsTM. Under certain circumstances though, if your company demands a lower cost on the IT dept. someone (might be you) certainly have to look for alternatives.
There's an article on Slashdot concerning a rather peculiar alternative on running alternative OS'es to a PC. You can even try your luck using a (virtual) Apple MacintoshTM and check yourself if the budget Mini Mac can handle the load of your company for less the money.
QemuPPC is the port for emulating a PowerPC based machine on your computer while Qemu has a port for running a PC into your PC without paying a dime!!
Isn't Emulation marvelous?!
Whacker
February 14, 2005
MAME 0.92u2000!
If you're wondering where the other 1999 0.92u's are, here's your answer: "Nicola submitted an SPI update a couple of hours ago which fully decrypts the graphics in Raiden Fighters 2: 2000."
Yes. Encryption BROKEN and Nicola did it again!
Cutting n' pasting from 'what's new' file:
0.92u2000
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Given the circumstances this seems a worthwhile update ;-).
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Improvements to Seibu SPI decryption [Nicola Salmoria]
Tile graphics are decrypted for all Games
Sprites decrypted for Raiden Fighters 2000
Discrete Sound in Tank8 [Hans Andersson]
Added Trackballs in Championship Bowling [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Fixed Super Trio sound frequency [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Compiler Fixes [R.Belmont]
FD1089 Update [Nicola Salmoria, Charles MacDonald]
Complete table for 317-0033 (Alien Syndrome) and 317-0034 (S.Hang On)
Updated Mahjong drivers to use new default controls [James Wallace]
Updated Gladiator driver [Nicola Salmoria]
- verified with schematics (though the schematics are very hard to read
so there are still dubious places)
- converted to tilemaps, fixed scrolling
- simplified tile decoding
- flip screen support
- fixed spriteram size (this fixes gladiatr36rc2gre)
- support for sprite dual buffer (this fixes sprite trails)
- adjusted YM2203 mixing levels so bass notes can still be heard (the
audio mixing stage has some program controlled filters though which
aren't supported)
- merged with ppking, drivers/ppking.c is no longer needed
- proper blending of the fg layer (it's a palette effect not alpha
blending)
Improved video emulation in XFiles [Tomasz Slanina]
New Games / Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Raiden Fighters 2: 2000 [Nicola Salmoria, Ville Linde]
Sound is not yet perfect, some graphical effects are missing
clones:
Little Hero (bootleg of KidNiki) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Astro Combat (bootleg of Astro Blaster) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Super Missile Attack (encrypted set) [Mowerman, Dave Widel]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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TurboSub [Tomasz Slanina]
basic driver for now, acts as a bitmap viewer for the GFX roms.
Download the source file from Haze's site.
Whacker
February 14, 2005
MAME 0.92 "TNZS bugfix Vegas" released!
It seems those guys at mame.net never sleep. This release makes me wonder what it's gonna happen after a couple of years or so... the 0.91-0.92 update is well over 10Gb!!! Anyway, not to be misunderstood: WE LIKE IT THIS WAY!!!! BRING THEM ON, MORE AND MORE!!! :D
Here's a list of the new games from the 'what's new' file:
New Games / Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Golden Tee 3D Golf [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Golden Tee 97 [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Golden Tee 98 [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Golden Tee 99 [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Golden Tee 2k [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Golden Tee Classic [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
World Class Bowling Deluxe [Brian Troha, Aaron Giles]
Land Breaker [Tomasz Slanina]
Point Blank II [smf]
Updated some NeoGeo sets to match Kawaks support (not tested) [Kawaks]
Super Trio [David Haywood]
Join 'em [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Rack + Roll [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, siftware]
Bronx (Cycle Shooting bootleg) [Tomasz Slanina]
clones
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Lightning Fighters (World) [Gerald]
Wall Crash (alt encryption) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Egg Venture (ver 7) [Brian Troha]
Colt (NY Captor bootleg) [Tomasz Slanina]
Minesweeper (4 player) [Frank Palazzolo]
Puckman (Falcom bootleg) [smf]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Wild Arrow [Tomasz Slanina]
seems to be some kind of gambling machine anyway
Ping Pong King [Tomasz Slanina]
missing MCU simulation etc.
Gunpey [Tomasz Slanina]
skeleton driver, does nothing useful yet
Dambusters [Tomasz Slanina]
skeleton driver, does nothing useful yet
Championship Bowling [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
sprite glitches, no controls
Trivia Challenge [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
missing question roms
Space Guerilla [Jarek Burczynski, Tomasz Slanina]
graphical problems, no sound
Laser Base / Future Flash [Tomasz Slanina]
unemulated protection
Kyuukyoku no Othello [Tomasz Slanina]
incomplete video emulation
Read the news and download the binaries / sources from the official site.
Whacker
February 3, 2005
MAME 0.91u2 'clean up warnings' source update
When I first learned about it, it came kinda' heavy! I was STILL looking for the missing parts of 0.91u1!!! Then, I checked the version description over at Haze's site and figured out that nothing too big was added this time...
PHEW!!! :)
Here's a part from the 'what's new' file:
New Games / Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Kabuki-Z [Nicola Salmoria]
clones
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Karate Blazers (Japan) [Gerald]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Super Trio - background emulation not complete (encrypted tiles?)
sound emulation not complete
Join 'Em [David Haywood] - basic driver, not much work done on it yet
The Couples [Angelo Salese] - basic driver, not much work done on it yet
Whacker
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