MAMEinfo 0.235GIT (14th August)

0.235GIT

- New games: Paris Dakar (31/03/87, Spanish)
- New Working games: Operation Tiger
- New Non-Working games: Dracula's Castle (Magnet System), Radikal Darts (Diana Version 7.29.25) and Soreike! Anpanman Popcorn Koujou 2 (Rev C)
- New clones: Air Inferno (World), Bubble Buster (USA, B-System), Mag Max (set 2), Rafflesia (not encrypted), Rescate Lunar (Spanish bootleg of Lunar Rescue), 'S.V.G. - Spectral vs Generation / Sheng Mo Shiji (M68k label V101HK) (ARM label V101HK, ROM 06/20/05 S.V.G V100)', Sea Wolf (Tecfri) and Time Crisis 3 (TST3 Ver. A)
- New drivers: radikaldarts.cpp
- New devices: f2mc16, mb90610a, mb90611a and mb90641a
- CPU
  . Fujitsu Micro F2MC-16: Emulated various additional instructions and modes. Fixed banking for direct addressing mode. Fixed semantics of CLRB and number of bytes consumed by SETB. Fixed mistake with calculating N and Z flags for SUB and CMP and writing incorrect result for SUB. Use INC(W)(L) A and DEC(W)(L) A pseudo-operations in disassembly. General cleanup: Added helper functions for increment and decrement operations and short direct banking. Rationalize use of temporary variables. Modify only lowest 8 bits of accumulator for XOR A, #imm8. Perform a 16-bit rather than 8-bit write for MOVW @RLx + #disp8, A. Use SSB instead of USB for @RW3 or @RW7 addressing when S flag is set. Fixed numerous flag calculations. Emulated many more opcodes. Added interrupt callback for debugger. Correct disassembly of MOVW io, A. Added "extra" I/O CPU (MB90611A F2MC-16) to Motocross Go! configuration
  . Texas Instruments TMS57002 'DASP': Genearate seaparate DASM header
- DEVICE
  . 3dfx Voodoo Graphics: Address minor coverity complaints
  . CHDMAN: Added a few more hard disk templates (Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis...)
  . Floppy
    . Fixed segmentation fault saving FM track. Incorrect cell size for FM track results in empty bitstream that ultimately causes data.empty() to seg fault (formats\imd_dsk.cpp).
    . Don't assume string iterators can be indexed (reported by Coverity software) (formats\fsmgr.cpp)
  . SMC91C9x Ethernet Controller: m_loopback_result needs to be a signed into so negative status codes remain negative. FDSE bit was masked out. When full duplex switched internet is active, deferrals and collisions not used. Implemented AUTO_RELEASE.
  . TC0780FPA Polygon Renderer: Fixed texture issues in Operation Tiger (video\tc0780fpa.cpp)
- aleck64.cpp
  . Fixed handling of 8bpp framebuffer mode. Adjusted how VI scan-out functions. Swapped 'magic matrix' dither pattern axes to match hardware tests (machine\n64.cpp and video\n64.cpp).
  . N64 RDP: Fixed incorrect channel swapping on 32-bit resampled framebuffers. Temporarily adjusted framebuffer resampling to not exceed screen bounds in some games.
  . N64 RSP: Fixed LWV and VMOV behavior. Added reserved instructions V056, V057, V073 and VNULL. Removed unused DRC and SIMD support. General code cleanup.
  . N64: Fixed SP DMA behavior based on hardware tests. Pass K4 and K5 factors to threaded drawing code. Fixes black geometry in (MESS) Conker's Bad Fur Day.
- albazc.cpp, albazg.cpp, chanbara.cpp, crystal.cpp, jantotsu.cpp and tryout.cpp
  . Made use of object finders and other minor cleanups
  . Documented 'Test' dipswitch for Wully Bully
- clshroad.cpp
  . Added tilemap color bank, fixes lightning flashing and color cycling for Fire Battle.
  . Hand-tuned all clock frequencies for clshroad and halved vblank irq rate, syncing video and sound timings in logical sense. Minor realign documentation.
- megasys1.cpp
  . Documented different clone 'P-47 - The Freedom Fighter (Japan)' ROM board configurations
  . Correction to the audio CPU memory map and verified that clone 'E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force (bootleg)' has an undumped PIC. Verified XTAL and clock.
  . Dumped Peek A Boo Japan 1.1, matches parent set.
  . Standardized PROM locations for games running on 1A board.
- mermaid.cpp
  . Added missing items to state saving
  . Updated to use measured clock and marked Mermaid and clone as imperfect graphics. Note: Incomplete GFX emulation in Mermaid (see MT07985 and MT08000).
- namcofl.cpp: Fixed network status error, this also fixes the paralyzed flagman in Final Lap R (ID 08042).
- naomi.cpp: Documentation misc additions. Corrected PIN number for mask ROMs on 171-8132B carts. Sorted games by year/number.
- ssfindo.cpp
  . Preliminary QS1000 hook up. There seems to be a bug in the ARM_VIDC20 device that causes static/bad sounds. Just set the related volume sliders to 0 to hear the QS1000.
  . Hooked up DIPs for Pang Pang Car. Note: Pang Pang Car uses the VIDC internal DAC for SFX and the QS1000 for music. It's configured to use the undumped internal ROM.
- timelimt.cpp: Halve maincpu NMI rate and fixed spriteram out of bounds access (ID 08046). Note: PCB output video confirms that the enemies in Progress move too fast in MAME (https://youtu.be/3MX_qCf_no0).
- 18 Wheeler: Dumped earlier/prototype Sega 837-13844 JVS I/O board rom epr-21868p.ic7
- AGEMAME: Added missing sound roms for 'James Bond (Maygay) (M1A/B) (set 1)'
- Games Family: Improved notes
- Motocross Go!: Added "extra" I/O CPU (MB90611A F2MC-16) to configuration
- Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label: Replaced clone 'Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label (2007/12/11 BLACK LABEL VER)' program ROM with clean dump, previous was dumped from upgraded futari15 PCB and contained trailing garbage.
- The Ninja Kids: Fixed default 'Lives' dipswitch to 3 (matches all OFF convention)
- One + Two: Derived frequency from XTAL present on PCB
- Operation Tiger
  . Fixed lockup issues and improved tilemap emulation (drivers\taitopjc.cpp)
  . Fixed texture issues in Operation Tiger (video\tc0780fpa.cpp). Fixed save states (Game now playable).
- Royal King Jang Oh 2: Added banking. Almost playable, but bad colors.
- Tumble Pop: Added preliminary OKI hookup for clone Tumble Pop (Playmark bootleg)
- Wiping: Convert to Xtal and added tentative screen raw params. Make custom audio to actually not divide internally by 2 (audio\wiping.cpp).
- Yori Jori Kuk Kuk: Got game to boot, left as not working as it needs a ROM patch for now.
- Fixed rom names in megasys1.cpp
- Dipswitch fixes in crystal.cpp, ssfindo.cpp and taito_f2.cpp
- Description changes of Mag Max (set 1), Mini Guay VD, Peek-a-Boo! (Japan, ver. 1.1) and Soreike! Anpanman Popcorn Koujou (Rev B)
- Renamed (ainferno) to (ainfernou)
- MAME
  . VIDEO RENDERING SYSTEM
    . Fixed automatic sizing of snapshots/recordings (emu\render.cpp). This fixes bad scaling on snapshots and recording when using -uesx and forced scale factors.
  . INPUT: Slightly cleaned up OSD input modules. Removed support for DirectInput 7 and earlier. It hasn't been tested in years, and it's not relevant on any supported OS. DirectInput is effectively finalised at version 8 and is unlikely to get an API update in the future. Use more string[_view] and fewer C strings and tightened up scope of a few things.
  . 3rdparty
    . Updated BGFX, BX and BIMG to latest. Enable BGFX_CONFIG_DEBUG to get proper asserts.
- Compiling
  . Fixed OSD=mac compile (osd\mac\window.cpp and osd\modules\render\drawogl.cpp)
- Debugger
  . Allow the bpset/wpset/rpset & map commands to act on any cpu, by prefixing the index or name with a # and passing as the first parameter (debug\debugcmd.cpp).
  . Updated debugimgui to compile with latest imgui



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