Emu#dreams reports that Charles MacDonald has been working on adding hardware support to MAME. Below is what he has posted on his homepage.

Some information is needed about the M37702 MCUs used in various Namco games. If anyone can help, the following needs to be determined:

 

- Which games use the C71, C72, or C73 chips.

- Which games use the C77 (or higher numbered) chip.

 

What we know so far is:

 

C69  = World Court Tennis (NA-1)

C70  = Quiztou (NA-2)

C73  = Found on a test board, but used in any games?

C74  = System 22

C75  = NB-1 and NB-2

C76  = System 11

 

In the interim I've been examining the BIOS and working on a better trojan as well as figuring out how hardware on the MCU side works.

You can visit Charles MacDonald's homepage here.

NAMCO HOMETEK INC. and Bandai Games Inc. today announced that the integration of their two companies is now complete.  The two companies are now officially known as NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. in North America.  The company now operates out of the Santa Clara, California facility, formerly held by NAMCO HOMETEK INC.

 

Effective January 2, 2006, NAMCO BANDAI Holdings (USA) Inc. (formerly called NAMCO HOLDING CORP.) owns all of the BANDAI NAMCO Group US subsidiaries including Bandai America Inc. (Toy), Bandai Entertainment, Inc.(Visual/DVD), NAMCO AMERICA INC. (Arcade machine), NAMCO CYBERTAINMENT INC.(Arcade facility), NAMCO NETWORKS AMERICA INC. (Mobile games) and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.(Video games).

 

“We are thrilled that the integration of the two North American entities is now complete and we are all now under one roof,” said Genichi Ito, the new President and CEO of NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “We are proud to be part of the new NAMCO BANDAI Games America family and look forward to a successful year ahead."

 

“The integration of our two companies has been a team effort over the last several months,” said Naruo Uchida, who is joining from Bandai Games Inc. and now serving as the Corporate Planning Senior Vice President of NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “We have worked together to fuse the many strengths each of our companies have to form one strong North American operation.”

 

The integration brings together two of the most well-respected Japanese-owned interactive entertainment companies. With brands including Pac-Man®, Tamagotchi®, SoulCalibur®, Naruto and Tekken®,  NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. ’s separate brands now fall under one strong brand, with many new properties and offerings also on the horizon.

 

Bandai Games Inc. is a subsidiary of Bandai America Inc. and a leading publisher of interactive entertainment software for next generation game consoles. Unique characters and stimulating game experiences highlight Bandai Games Inc. distinctive product lineup which include hit properties such as Inuyasha and Digimon. The company was formerly headquartered in Cypress, California.  NAMCO HOMETEK INC. is the U.S. consumer division of NAMCO LIMITED, a Tokyo-based world leader in the

 

high-tech entertainment industry, and is an award-winning video games publisher for next generation game consoles.

03.01.2006, 03:58  DAEMON TOOLS V4.0.3 released!

 

Today we released the new V4.0.3 of both, X64 and X86(32bit)

version of DaemonTools

 

Please check out our download-section

 

This version fixed some small and not so small glitches/bugs

introduced with V4.0.0 (X86) and V4.0.1 (X64)

 

One blacklist fixed (a SF-Game, that behaved odd when running

from virtualdrive)

 

RAID-Bugs fixed, too

Some reboot-problems also fixed

 

Nero-issues also fixed

 

Additional functionality (for X86-version, X64 already contained it since very first version): Disable "Open file handle" dialog, as it seems it annoyed some users.

 

We herewith also confirm the latest blacklist introduced by

Securom (SeriousSam2-patch). This blacklists will not be

possible in future versions anymore (as in old 3.xx-series,

we will add feature to randomly generate names for driver-parts). As we got info about it, we couldn't fix it with

this version, but work is in progress for next release already

 

EDIT: We also offer a bunch of tools especially for new V4, f.e. Anti-Blacklist-Tools, DaemonScript for V4,

Translations and other tools - stay tuned!

>> Get it HERE

The GameBoy emulator BGB has been updated.

1.12

* Fixed bug in graphics introduced in 1.1, affecting legend of zelda oracle of ages/seasons, and alfred chicken.

* Added separate settings for DMG and GBC border bitmaps.

* Various other fixes.

>> Get it HERE