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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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- 02084: [DIP/Input] sokyugrt: Emulation starts with 1 or more credit inserted (Angelo Salese)

- 04366: [DIP/Input] shanhigw: The game starts with 2 credits inserted (Angelo Salese)

- 04470: [DIP/Input] roundup5, sci, chasehq, contcirc, dblaxle: Missing PORT_TOGGLE (M.A.S.H.)

- 04396: [interface] all games and drivers: Refreshspeed activating when not needed (hap)

- 04453: [Graphics] shackled: Garbled sprites (David Haywood)

 

Source Changes

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driver.h: fixed handling of compatible systems for MESS [Fabio Priuli]

 

tbowl.c: Corrected some dipswitches and settings. Added dipswitch locations to the Tecmo Bowl sets. [brian Troha]

 

Added correct sprite rom for "Mahjong Tian Jiang Shen Bing" [Guru]

 

Decrypted sprites and palette in "Mahjong Tian Jiang Shen Bing", added inputs, sidestepped protection [Luca Elia]

 

z80dma: Added an alternative way of register read-back that directly change the read mask without passing from the init read sequence command, also moved around DMA counters incrementing [Angelo Salese]

 

tecmo.c: Added proper region to Gemini and Silk Worm sets. Added dipswitch locations to Rygar sets, Gemini, Silk Worm and Back Fire (Tecmo, bootleg). [brian Troha]

 

Removed support for PORT_CATEGORY from the core, since PORT_CONDITION is enough to deal with removable controllers in MESS [Fabio Priuli]

 

ioport.c: during emulation, detect keyboard only when enabled [Fabio Priuli]

 

Various Neo-Geo changes: [Jackc, Johnboy]

* Continued to document used pcb's for cartridges

* More removal of .bin extension in favour of chiplabel.socketlabel naming convention

* Cleaned up fightfev: Removed duplicate p2, marked p1 bad dump

* Cleaned up fatfury2

Yape is a Commodore/Plus4 and C16 emulator.

Get it here --> http://yape.homeserver.hu/download.htm

A badly needed update: some nasty bugs have been patched as well as the in-memory bitmap of the printer emulation is made visible via a GUI window (only as #4 for now because me being lazy). Anyway, let's see what's new this time:

- printer job window (for now #4 only)

- turn off variable length buffering properly when recording media (fixes occasional clicks)

- not scanning joysticks when unavailable (Message Queue driver slowdown)

- column width and line feed bug for MPS803 emulation fixed

- regression bug in the printer cycle counter ironed out

- awkward TED drawing bug patched

EmuLoader is a frontend.

Get it here -> http://emuloader.mameworld.info/

Game titles in SEGA Model 2 XML file fixed. Many thanks go to user "Retroplay" from RetroRoms forum for fixing them.

 

Changes in the frontend's core to support MAME v0.143u3 new device sets ("mie", "namco50" and others)... from "-listxml" output

- new file, listing all games that use ROMs from device sets ("\arcade\mame_devicesets.ini");

- new "IsDeviceSet" field in games list files ("\arcade\system.el"). Also a new "devices" section is added, listing all device sets;

- new "IsDeviceROM" field in ROMs list files ("\arcade\system_roms.el");

- separate .zip sets support for these new devices when scanning/auditing games ("mie.zip", "namco50.zip" and others) .

New main filter: "Device Sets" that show only device sets (main filters button, right next to the Bios filter).

New "Devices" filter (extra filters tool bar button):

- "Show Games With Device ROMs" -> show all games that use device ROMs;

- "Show Games With No Device ROMs" -> show all games that do not use device ROMs;

- "Hide Device Sets" -> hide all device sets (same as "Hide Bios Sets").

Feature "Game Details" (Ctrl+I hotkey / mouse right-click) have the following new information:

- "Device Set / Yes" -> so you know it's a device set, not a game;

- "Device ROMs / Yes", "Device Set #" -> if a game use device ROMs and the set names of the devices;

- "Device Zip" (in "Game Files" section) -> show if the .zip file for each device set is found or not;

- Text tag "Device ROM" on each ROM that's from a device set (ROMs list panel). This is only shown on games, not device sets.

Feature "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" (F8 hot-key) updated to list device names and "device_name.zip" found or missing.

NOTE: this feature support a max of 10 device sets per game... for now (will be increased if needed for future MAME builds

NullDC is a Dreamcast and Naomi emulator

Get it here --> http://code.google.com/p/nulldc/downloads/list

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