(Off the record)
I verified this thing against IDA Pro's 56156 disassembler and the docs.
Every time I found a bug in IDA's disassembler, I cross-referenced the
manual. There remain 3 opcodes which are questionably disassembled,
since even the manual is ambiguous on the details, but beyond that,
this thing should be 100% correct.
Whew. This might have actually fleshed out a bug in the
disassembly/execution. Time will tell...
CVS:
- hook up speech cpu
- get rid of "temporary" code which hardwire ctl & pdc writes
tms5110:
- Implement ctl port input/output for status reads.
- Input/output is switched by clocking pdc after a TALK STATUS command.
- update drivers to support new tms5110_ctl_r
Not worth mentioning, I think. NSS bios does not need update, so it's a minor change for MAME (but necessary for the possible legal issues of including those bits in the source)
This system is based on a custom CPU. Graphics are decoded but only 2 bitplanes hooked.
All the needed devices are in the driver, but commented out till can properly decrypt the program ROMs and identify the CPU.
About the encryption scheme, see the driver notes about my findings.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Amatic Unknown Slots Game [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
Multi Game I (V.Ger 2.4) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
Multi Game III (V.Ger 3.5) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
* Hooked up protection for Power Stone 2 and Toy Fighter [R. Belmont, Guru, Cah4e3]
* Redumped bad rom in Heavy Metal Geomatrix [Guru]
* Redumped bad roms in Virtua Fighter 4 (cartridge version) [Guru]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Net Select Keiba Victory Furlong [Guru]
Salary Man Kintarou [Guru]
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I tend to agree if they've regressed, we should leave them marked working and accept bug reports on them.
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After a chat with Tafoid, I'm unsure about whether or not I should have demoted kazan and dirtfoxj, as these games worked fine before, and broke due to a bug somewhere. What's the policy on the 'not working' flag? Does it only apply to games that were always broken since the 1st day it was submitted? This can also be important regarding mametesters bugs: reports on non-working games are not accepted.
Corrected one rom name in the 2 player Asia version
Added clones per driver standard (ie: corrected rom names for the Euro x-men set)
Changed the Asia set name to "xmen2pa" for a more unified naming convention
New Clones Added
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Undercover Cops (US) [Corrado Tomaselli]
X-Men (2 Players ver EAA) [Corrado Tomaselli]
