- added DISCRETE_START and DISCRETE_STOP functions to be called at device start/stop
- used these to move log code in disc_sys.c
- As a side effect, profiling measures log overhead as well
* Added 2 new Witch Card sets.
* Reworked inputs for Witch Card (german set 1).
* Created new inputs for Witch Card (english, witch game, lamps).
* Added and connected lamps for both sets.
* Added minimal bet and 50/60 Hz. switches to both sets.
* Added DIP switches info for Witch Card (german, set 2).
New clones added
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Witch Card (english, witch game, lamps) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Witch Card (german, set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
Added DISCRETE_INPUT_BUFFER to use a stream to buffer an input node.
For input nodes with a lot of writes this prevents a stream_update
on the whole discrete module which is very ineffective. Instead,
the data is buffered and the discrete emulation can process a lot
of samples in one go later.
Updated dkong.c to use this instead of using the DAC device.
This change requires a recompile of all files referencing the discrete
system. A "rm `grep -rl discrete obj/`" should do the trick (at least
on .+nix)
Comments:
I did this largely due to the difficulty in running regression testing - scanning the text as it flows to the screen has been becoming increasingly annoying, mostly due to excessive amount of specifc printf's used in some instances. Putting them into LOGERROR keeps them available and makes them transparent to the normal end user. As for the files, if a driver is not in active development (it's been over a year on Raiden/Seibu - High Seas Havoc almost 3 years), they shouldn't need to output files.
- Corrected ROM loading behavior for SuperFX games
- Added more ROM mirroring needed by certain SuperFX 2 games
- Corrected the behavior of certain bit-restricted SuperFX registers. Doom, Yoshi's Island, Dirt Trax FX and Voxel Demo show things now.
- Improved S-DD1 emulation, neither game using S-DD1 boots yet
Fixed a register naming issue in the MIPS core [Harmony]
Numerous SuperFX updates: [Harmony]
- Hooked up RAM and ROM buffering
- Inlined several more functions
- Removed debug spew
- Added the ability to define an external IRQ line callback, and hooked it up to the 65C816
- Fixed flag calculation for HIB opcode
- Hooked SuperFX chip up to the SNES machine driver
and then keep searching the searchpath for the next valid file. Did some
internal rearranging in fileio.c to make this work.
Changed cheat search so that it loads *all* cheat files in all search
paths. Note that it is easy to end up with duplicate entries this way.
Some currently disabled code is present which filters out duplicates,
but the logic for doing this is quite unclear with the presence of
text-only cheats, which is why the code is disabled for now.
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:00 PM
> To: submit@mamedev.org
> Cc: upstephh_wip@yahoo.com
> Subject: Added display of cheat comments
>
> Hi
>
> One more cheat engine related change. This diff was made against u3
> with the last two diffs I sent
> already applied.
>
> This patch reintroduces the display of the individual cheat comments,
> in the old cheat engine this
> worked by showing SET,ON or OFF in reverse video to show there was a
> comment available which could
> be displayed by pressing Shift + Enter. I've done things slightly
> different though as I've added a
> display comment key of SPACE along with a different way of showing that
> a comment is available.
>
> It now works automatically as soon as you move over a cheat with a
> comment it uses popmessage to
> display the comment. As soon as you move or press any key (other than
> space) it nulls the
> popmessage, and by pressing space it will redisplay the comment which
> is handy if the comment is a
> lengthy one.
>
> To see it in action look at the bottom two cheats in mslug (or any
> neogeo game for that matter).
>
> Martin 'Pugsy' Pugh
>
>
> MAME Cheat File Maintainer http://mamecheat.co.uk
> Gamebase64 Team Member http://www.gamebase64.com
>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 5:20 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: upstephh_wip@yahoo.com
Subject: Add 'Reload All' to cheat menus
Hi
This update I made against u3 with the last diff I sent already applied. What this does is to add a
'Reload All' option to the cheat menus. This allows you to edit/replace the XMLs and see the changes
quickly, without this patch you have to exit and restart MAME to see any cheat file changes.
Martin 'Pugsy' Pugh
MAME Cheat File Maintainer http://mamecheat.co.uk
Gamebase64 Team Member http://www.gamebase64.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:57 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: MAME cheat search engine
This is a diff of my cheat search engine with help of Pugsy.
This is only a first part, not has the same functions of the old search engine, but is better than nothing
I have update the search engine to support search of byte, word, dword
and qword signed and unsigned.
* Routed the whole video RAM access through PPI-2.
(bypassed the handshake lines for now).
* Merged back the noraut machine drivers after the 3rd PPI connection.
* Added Low Level Hopper manual input.
* Added a new machine driver for extended hardware.
It has 2 jumpers that cut the a14 and a15 addressing lines.
* Added Game 7.4 (Gaming Poker, W.Export).
* Added Game 7.4 proper inputs. Game is now playable with full sound.
* Updated games list and technical notes.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Cal Omega - Game 7.4 (Gaming Poker, W.Export) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
- Inlined a number of functions for possible speed increase
- Removed some memory buffering cruft, to be re-added later
- Fixed behavior of ASR opcode
- With additional MESS-side changes, Stunt Race FX is playable, and Vortex shows much more.
- No more iterations
- The CD4066 internal resistance largely determines sound amplitude. This may vary significantly depending on VCC and type (74HC, 74HCV, CD4066, ...). The current choice makes scramble sound "about right".
As long as I changed the Midway Y-Unit driver I might as well add the outside submission of Narc rev 2.00
New Clones Added
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Narc (Rev 2.0) [Volker Hann, Team Europe]
Adds the Y-Unit version of the Turbo Ninja hack.
Renames the T-Unit to mktturbo and the new clone to mkyturbo
New Clone Added
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Mortal Kombat (Turbo 3.1 09/09/93, hack) [Jonathan Hughes, Patrick McCarron]
There are still sound issues, some of the music doesn't play, eg.
the VS. screen music
( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4gY9d7uxw )
as noted in the driver, the green garbage on that screen doesn't happen on the real pcb, it's probably an encoding artifact.
Phil, can you look at the music?
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Shogun Warriors / Fujiyama Buster [David Haywood, Tomasz Slanina, Luca Elia]
- use SOUND_DAC device to "buffer" data and avoid 1 sample updates for discrete part
- this is related to "03401: circusc and clones: Slowdown in attract mode with DIP SW "Demo Sounds=ON"" though I do not consider it a bug, but a implementation optimization.
(hopefully this will make finding a relationship between the tables and the 'finalblock' of data easier)
Added redumped u6 GFX rom, fixes Geisya and Sumo [Guru]
(u5 still needs to be redumped, it has the graphics for the final 2 bosses in it, Phil indicated that the sample roms may also need redumping but I haven't checked myself, this could be problematic because the Japanese version uses some different sample roms, but I'm hoping those ones were eproms, not mask ones and are already ok)
- Fixed disassembly of LMULT/FMULT ops
- Fixed reads using LDW/LDB
- Fixed writes using STW/STB
- Fixed SBC carry behavior
- Fixed GETC ROM access behavior
- Some SuperFX games begin to show things in MESS
Extracted tables required for Shogun Warriors to work [Tomasz Slanina]
Decrypted + verified table data for Shogun Warriors [David Haywood]
Marked 2 graphic roms in Shogun Warriors as BAD_DUMP [David Haywood]
Temporarily added a hack to the collision function to only use the B.Rap Boys code if the game is B.Rap Boys until we have a single function that works with both [David Haywood]
- Indirect addressing was not taking into account special purpose memory mapped locations.
- 'iorlw' instruction was saving the result to memory instead of the W register.
- 'tris' instruction no longer modifies Port-C on PIC models that do not have Port-C implemented.
Also added difficulty DIP to BigTwin
