- Separate watchdog implementation from running_machine (once again) and driver_device
- Old-style methods, now hidden behind #ifdefs, will probably be safe to remove soon
exploit slot devices: [Fabio Priuli]
- moved cart-specific components to the carts itself removing
the fake protection devices from the main system, since they
never belonged there
- removed hacky rom region destruction/construction when a
new cart is inserted, replacing it with proper bank pointers to
the carts (except for ymsnd and ymsnd.deltat region which
will require modernization of the ym devices)
- started re-organization of bootleg boards emulation, so to
reduce the need of collapsing everything into a single cart
type with multiple protection devices, more work is needed
neopcb.cpp: moved to a separate source file the emulation for
JAMMA PCB versions of a few neogeo games, since they don't
have a cartslot. [Fabio Priuli]
neogeo.xml: added information about Japanese titles and
release dates to the software list and aligned the list to the
driver. [Fabio Priuli]
(as a result, moved it to a new skeleton driver, and moved the softlist connection for the original machine there too)
not started to hook anything up yet.
cleaning up the related code. [Fabio Priuli]
saturn.cpp: added emulation of the SegaTap adapter (4 controllers)
and Sega Multitap adapter (6 controllers). Saturn Bomberman
can now be played as intended. [Fabio Priuli]
intvecs: Converted hand controllers, keyboard and synth to be slot devices,
by using a temporary hack to workaround the impossibility to plug the same
device into 2 different slots as these keyboard require. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: in the long term we need to come up with a core solution
for these devices that occupy multiple slot devices at once (another one is
the VCS Compumate which plugs into both VCS control ports), because the
hack I used (a "fake" control port which acts as a passthru for the two real
control ports) is not really satisfactory. However, current solution is better
than the selectable controllers we had, which were (ab)using
PORT_CONDITIONs...
Super Game (Sega Master System Multi-game bootleg) [Astroblaster]
unfortunately the dump is incomplete, there's a 512KB MASK rom that hasn't been dumped.
(it also probably uses an MCU for the timer / credit logic, but we can simulate that)
