MAMEinfo 0.175 :)

0.175

- New games: 1943: The Battle of Midway Mark II (US), Kyuukoukabakugekitai - Dive Bomber Squad (Japan, prototype) and Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres -Give up 5 byou mae- (Japan)
- New Working games: Flaming 7 (Red, White & Blue 7's + Hollywood Nights), Godzilla (Japan), Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai 3 (JPN), Moto Frenzy, Tora Tora and Usagi - Yamashiro Mahjong Hen (GDL-0022)
- New Non-Working games: Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 50 Bonus), World Club Champion Football Serie A 2001-2002 Ver. 2 (CDP-10001C), World Club Champion Football Serie A 2001-2002 DIMM FIRM Ver.3.03 (CDP-10003) and World Club Champion Football Serie A 2002-2003 Drive Checker (CDV-10007)
- New AGEMAME games: Antony and Cleopatra (10163211, NSW/ACT), Bumble Bugs (0200456V, Queensland), Choy Sun Doa (20104011, NSW/ACT, Show Program), Inca Sun (0100872V, NSW/ACT, Show Program), King Penguin (40109021, NSW/ACT, Show Program), Player's Choice - Platinum (20282111, New Zealand), Queen of the Nile (0300439V, NSW/ACT), Queen of the Nile Special Edition - Jackpot Carnival (20123911, NSW/ACT, Show Program), Scatter Magic II (10102711, South Australia) and Wild Waratah (10215911, NSW/ACT, Show Program) 
- New clones: Astro Combat (encrypted), Buena Suerte (Spanish/Portuguese, set 23), E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force (Japan, prototype), Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Egyptian Gold, 2000 Bonus), Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 500 Bonus), Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 2000 Bonus), Flaming 7 (Taiwanese Hardware, unknown version), Galaxian (bootleg, set 4), Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ (GE876 VER. KAA), Lethal Weapon 3 (2.07), Lucky Poker (bootleg/hack of Major Poker), Magic Card (H8, English), Major Poker (set 2, Micro Manufacturing intro), Major Poker (set 3, Micro Manufacturing intro), Major Poker (set 4, Micro Manufacturing intro), Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 New Age of Heroes (USA) (Rev A), Metamorphic Force (ver EAA - alternate), Mutant Warrior (Altered Beast - Datsu bootleg), Out Zone (Zero Wing TP-015 PCB conversion), River Patrol (Japan), Royal Card (Austrian, set , Scramble (Model Racing, Italian bootleg), Side by Side (Ver 2.6 J), Side by Side 2 (Ver 2.6 OK), Space Invaders (CV Version, smaller roms), Super Pacman (v1.2) + Cherry Master (Corsica, v8.31, set 1), Super Street Fighter II: The Tournament Battle (Japan 931005), Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Turtles in Time (4 Players ver EAA), Ufo Robo Dangar (4/07/1987), Ufo Robo Dangar (9/26/1986, Japan) and Varth: Operation Thunderstorm (bootleg)
- New TourVision games (Softwarelist: hash\pce_tourvision.xml): Out Run (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
- Removed games: Eagle Strike (set 1), Flame Of Olympus, Flames Of Olympus USA (set 1), Foxworthy Redneck, Outback Jack (set 2) and Players Choice Favourites (set 1)
- New devices: generic_keyboard, generic_terminal, ldp1000, m2comm, xga and zeus2
- New Cheat.dat:  http://cheat.retrogames.com/
- ADSP21062 CPU: Added highly experimental SHARC recompiler. Runtime enable for sharcdrc. Added Model 2 and Zero Gunner compatibility.
- Dynamic Re-Compiling
  . Fixed x64 compile (cpu\drcuml.cpp)
  . Modified branch in delay slot to match non-DRC behaviour for non-dynamic branch targets (cpu\drcfe.cpp)
- M6502 CPU: Disabled VBL opcode logging (use wpiset 0,1,r) (cpu\m6502\odeco16.lst)
- M6800 CPU: Fixed behaviour of N and V flags in CPX (compare X) instruction (cpu\m6800\6800ops.hxx). These two flags are only affected by the data comparison of the upper 8 bits, and not the whole 16 bits.
- PPS4 CPU, TMS32010 CPU, TMS32025 CPU and V25 CPU: Fixed some cpus with virtual ports, mark them with +1 in any case.
- T11 CPU: Fixed MARK insn (not supported by actual T11). Fixed all irqs.
- TMS32010 CPU, TMS32025 CPU and V25 CPU: Made it use devcb instead of a memory map for the ports or bio line
- TMS57002 CPU: Fixed internal_pgm ADDRESS_MAP range
- Z80 SCC: Fixed baudrate calculation issue to make (MESS) Sun3-80 work and some minor debug message errors (machine\z80scc.cpp)
- DCS sound
  . Added sport timer for DCS2 DSIO device (audio\dcs.cpp). Fixed buffer overflow with clone San Francisco Rush 2049: Special Edition.
  . Updated 2181 SYSCONTROL bits. Added internal ram memory bank for DENVER ADSP 2181 (audio\dcs.cpp).
- Sound Interface
  . Updated more drivers to use the new gen_latch.cpp, which should substitute the soundlatch_* methods in driver_device.
  . Removed the old soundlatch methods (emu\driver.cpp)
  . Sound trampolines removal from various drivers
- Atari Custom: Removed the slapstic and sloop direct update handlers, which hasn't been necessary since direct access has been enhanced to work correctly on handlers, years ago (machine\atarigen.cpp, drivers\atarig42.cpp and starwars.cpp).
- Cassette: Modernized the cassette animation
- CHDMAN
  . Ignore ATA ident CHS values for > 8GB images
  . Ignore cylinders, heads and sectors from identify device data, based on the ATA 5 specification.
  . Attempt to workaround hang during CHD creation
- Device interface
  . Removed device_memory_interface in EEPROM, i2cmem.cpp and intelfsh.cpp
  . More efficient device error logging (emu\device.cpp)
- Discrete Netlist
  . Moved all parameter definitions in constructors
  . Make netlist compile with C++11, use own implementation of make_unique to avoid C++14.
  . Removed dependency on osd_ticks. Converted palloc and friends into templates. Moved code into separate plib namespace.
  . Stop using underscore _names, they're reserved for compiler/system.
  . Minor cosmetic refactoring. Added a "uninitialised array" template to allow in-place creation (for increased locality) of netlist classes. Main use is in truthtable class. Removed PLIB_NAMESPACE macros. Removed namespace macros. Use explicit namespace declarations. Moved device definitions into cpp files. Moved more device definitions into cpp files. New prefix "nlid" for include files flags purely internal include files not to be leaked into userland. Fixed factory code.
  . Added constructors to prepare to move terminal setup into constructor. Reworked twoterm setup. Fixed some timebombs along the way. Fixed r2r dac. Remove dead code. analog_outputs now created in constructor. Moved analog_input creation into constructor. Moved logic output creation to constructor. Moved all logic inputs into constructor. Completely removed init_object - finally.
  . More code cleanup: Dead code removal and minor refactoring. Simplify. Align naming with stl. Fix somed pedantic warnings. More STL compatability. Removed ATTR_HOT and ATTR_COLD. Refactored netlist_time. Fixed long standing workaround which would ignore policy of change-only" propagation. Rewroted for loops to use auto : semantics. Truthtable cleanup. Get rid of nl_math. Remove nl_util.h and moved contents to plib/putil.h. Fixed standalone build. Refactor ptypes.h.
  . Merged netlist_dev branch, all code_refactoring: Object model optimisation. Merged remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into netlist_dev. Default PHAS_PMF_INTERNAL=0 for 32bit windows mingw. Changed UINT8 to uint_[fast|least|8_t. Moved state_var so it can be used by base devices as well. Removed last traces of ATTR_ALIGN. Refactored netlist_time into a template. Removed implicit double assignment to netlist. Doomed to produce bugs. Instead, use netlist_time::from_double. Switch to using proper (i.e. bool type) param_logic_t. Formally differentiate between logic inputs (e.g. switches) and int inputs (e.g. resistor ladders or selection switches). Added parameter USE_DEACTIVATE to truthtable devices. Added more constexpr to netlist_time. Fixed some ifdef code paths. More C++. Simplify main processing loop. As a nice side-effect that squeezed out some cycles. More cycle squeezing. Removed pvector_t. Use std::sort. Refactored netlist state manager. Introduction of state_var object template to be used on device state members. Changed remaining save occurrences to state_var. Rewrote nltool's listdevices command. This allowed removal of one member from devices which served solely for listdevices. Remove hashmap_t. Fix kidniki regression. 
  . Replaced shared_ptr by unique_ptr. Better seperation of setup_t and netlist_t. Fixed bugs in rdtsc code. Refactored timer code. Simplify conditional activation/deactivation. Introduced HINT(device, hint) to clarify that hints are inheritent  and not specific to devices. Added improved profiling support to netlist. Statistics output now proposes devices for which whole device activation/deactivation be disabled. No significant improvement for pong, but breakout experiences a 10% improvement. Moved options code from include to cpp file. Minor modifications to 7493 and 9316. Introduced perftime_t and perfcount_t for gathering statistics. These templates do not create any code if statistics are not kept. Make help2man ./nltool produce usuable output. More truthtable refactoring. Removed half-finished code for internal state support. As implemented, this would have had no support for timing delays.
  . Added explicit to constructors to avoid bad surprises later. Srcclean on netlist files. Avoid the merge massacre.
- Harddisk: Added CHS and LBA limits when the CHD doesn't contain identify device data (machine\idehd.cpp)
- Laser Disc
  . deco_ld.cpp: Added Road Blaster LaserDisc image. Added bare-bones Sony LDP-1000 device
  . esh.cpp: Added Esh's Aurunmilla LaserDisc image. Added line blinking and overlay opacity selectors. Added command strobe callback interface for LDV1000, and hooked it up to esh.cpp driver. Fixed IRQ 0 hookup, using device_timer to ack an IRQ for MAME is never a good idea. Added the other blinking mode.
  . dlair.cpp: Some misc updates. Improved dlair internal layout (based on external artwork by Mr. Do & Co).
  . Fixed laserdisc screen PAL parameters (machine\laserdsc.h)
- Sega Custom: Added basic C-Sync callback to 315-5124, based on Charles' hardware tests.
- Slots
  . Added tagged_list to unordered_map for slots
  . Proper exception handling (emu\dislot.cpp)
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