Front End (Unix only)

v0.2.b5, 16-OCT-2008:

 

fix: corrected a serious bug in ROM state and gamelist caching introduced by trimming the data - please remove all cache files from previous releases before using this version, otherwise QMC2 is likely to crash (rm ~/.qmc2/mame.lxc ~/.qmc2/qmc2.rsc ~/.qmc2/qmc2.glc)

fix: corrected the shortcut scope of several actions

fix: ROMAlyzer (cosmetic): don't start analyzing if the gamelist is empty

fix: tool bar and status bar didn't show up on first start

imp: SDLMAME options template updated to 0.128

imp: build: added new make option PHONON (enables Phonon based features if set to 1, which is the default for Qt 4.4+)

imp: revised a number of menu item texts

imp: layout improvements for the ROMAlyzer (file I/O indicator now vertical)

imp: code cleanup: prepend QMC2_ to SDLMAME macro internally

imp: build: added new make options CCACHE & CCACHECMD (uses ccache compiler cache if CCACHE is set to 1; default is 0 - check/set CCACHECMD if enabled!)

imp: exchanged Qt logo due to Qt rebranding as of 4.4.3

new: support for MAME output notifications via a named pipe (SDLMAME 0.127+)

new: emulator control panel changed to a multi-column tree widget displaying more information like the game name, its LEDs (if applicable), the current emulator status and additional notifiers/values not handled statically (in a sub tree)

new: added a copy command menu item to the emulator control panel's context menu to allow for easier copying of emulator command lines to the system clipboard

new: individual joystick axes can now be enabled/disabled at will (this should make Sixaxis users happy

new: the number of lines kept in the ROMAlyzer log can now also be limited

new: optional support for background music playback (requires Qt 4.4+ / Phonon API - feature will be completely disabled for Qt 4.3)

new: the boolean emulator option values true and false are now also translatable

doc: added Q2.9 to FAQ

>> Get it HERE.

Sinclair emulator

** 17/10/2008

- Added a New Window for Zx81's rookies. It able to performe a direct click on commands, normals characters, functions and graphics.

- AGB Joystick card added.(Driver in the P_Tools folder)

Port A: Press "5" LEFT "6" DOWN "7" UP "8" RIGHT "New/Line" FIRE

Port B: Press "A" LEFT "S" DOWN "W" UP "D" RIGHT "F" FIRE

- Cursors key can be redefined to anothers keys in setting menu. ;-}

- The "Mageco" 3'5 inches disk controller added.

(Rom Not available yet and read/write access not emuled)

 

- Two new goodies programs in the Disks direcory:

1) A Larken disk manager: alow to extract P files, Add Pfiles,defrag or retrieve lost sectors on a Larken disk image.

(Imported P files may hang Eo and generate an error report on the XuR... may be a corrupt D_File in the Ldos!)

2) A CopyQm converter to throw a raw disk image to a CopyQm format.

... And use this file to create a physical formated disk.

(Have a look to the read-me file for more informations.)

>> Get it HERE.

PC Engine Emulator for PSP

Hi All,

 

For those who haven't seen previous version Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows. (see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details)

 

PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go.

 

What's new then in this version :

 

- Major speed improvement

- Text editor to write your own comments on games

- Display first comment line while browsing game files

- Improve cheat menu & memory monitoring engine

- Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file

- Bug fix in unzip function (if you tried to unzip more than 10 files, it wasn't able to open any other files, and you had to restart the emulator)

 

This version doesn't fix any compatibility issue, so all games that didn't work with earlier versions still won't run.

>> Get it HERE.

http://mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0128.txt

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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- 02539: [Crash/Freeze] phrcraze, phrcrazs: [debug] Access Violation (Couriersud)

- 02531: [sound] mshuttle, mshuttlj, mshutlj2: Moon shuttle speech wrong (Corrado Tomaselli)

 

 

Source Changes

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Connected firefox audio enables and improved volume balance so you can hear the speech chip. Also fixed speech chip frequency. [Aaron Giles, Philip Bennett]

 

marked Hacha Mecha Fighter (nmk16.c) BG rom as a bad dump. [David Haywood]

 

Improved the poker41 and pulltabs button-lamps layouts to look more realistic. [Roberto Fresca]

 

Fixed the colors of Yumefuda. Added two new palette functions in generic.c: paletteram_xRRRRRGGGGGBBBBB_split1_w() and paletteram_xRRRRRGGGGGBBBBB_split2_w() (used by Yumefuda). [Angelo Salese]

 

Added function to get the status of CA2 on the 6821 PIA emulator. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

Added new tool ldresample to assist in resynchronizing audio tracks in a CHD with frames. Currently still WIP but useful if you know what you're doing. [Aaron Giles]

 

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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Good [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]

 

 

New clones added

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Giga Wing (Brazil 990222) [Luis]

>> Get it HERE.