memory map, and complete multiplexed inputs/outputs for
Lucky Roulette type games. Also added NVRAM and inverted
blitter [Roberto Fresca]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Lucky Roulette (6-players, Spanish) [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
accurate periodic interrupt timing for sound CPU, meters,
DIP switches, and other minor things. We got Winners Circle
82 playable. [Roberto Fresca]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Winners Circle 82 [Roberto Fresca, Angelo Salese, Rob Ragon]
functionality in favor of alternate mechanisms. Errors are
now reported via an astring rather than via callbacks. Every
option must now specify a type (command, integer, float, string,
boolean, etc). Command behavior has changed so that only one
command is permitted. [Aaron Giles]
Changed fileio system to accept just a raw searchpath instead of
an options/option name combination. [Aaron Giles]
Created emu_options class dervied from core_options which wraps
core emulator options. Added mechanisms to cleanly change the
system name and add/remove system-specific options, versus the
old way using callbacks. Also added read accessors for all the
options, to ensure consistency in how parameters are handled.
Changed most core systems to access emu_options instead of
core_options. Also changed machine->options() to return emu_options.
[Aaron Giles]
Created cli_options class derived from emu_options which adds the
command-line specific options. Updated clifront code to leverage
the new class and the new core behaviors. cli_execute() now accepts
a cli_options object when called. [Aaron Giles]
Updated both SDL and Windows to have their own options classes,
derived from cli_options, which add the OSD-specific options on
top of everything else. Added accessors for all the options so
that queries are strongly typed and simplified. [Aaron Giles]
Out of whatsnew: I've surely screwed up some stuff, though I have
smoke tested a bunch of things. Let me know if you hit anything odd.
Also I know this change will impact the WINUI stuff, please let me
know if there are issues. All the functionality necessary should
still be present. If it's not obvious, please talk to me before
adding stuff to the core_options class.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Winners Circle (81) [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
Winners Circle (82) [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Ruleta RE-800 (earlier) [Roberto Fresca]
Ruleta RE-800 (v1.0) [Roberto Fresca]
Ruleta RE-800 (v3.0) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
----------------
Big Twin (No Girls Conversion) [Andrew Welburn, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
uploaded to:
roms\uploads\bigtwinb.zip
if someone wants to write a pcb layout, there's a photo inside the zip
- Horizontal clipping of "tilemap" sprites
- Shadows emulation
sigmab98: added sammymdl BIOS and hardware info [Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Reel'N Quake [Luca Elia, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
New clones added
----------------
Magic Train (Clear NVRAM ROM?) (not working) [Grull Osgo, Roberto Fresca]
----------------
- Night Rider (rev. 21) [destruk]
- Eight Ball Deluxe (rev. 14) [destruk]
- Lord Of The Rings, The (9,8,7,401)(En,Sp,Ger,Fr,It) [destruk, Miodrag Milanovic]
----------------
- Maverick (Display Rev. 4.00) [destruk]
- Cut The Cheese (Redemption)[destruk]
- Cut The Cheese Deluxe (Redemption)[destruk]
out of log:
Also moved few drivers to proper place
-- out of whatsnew.txt --
* Converted seta2 and signab98 drivers to route both channels to appropriate speakers.
* Besides some slightly-suspect ADPCM2 decoding, the 9810 should be feature-complete
for all games in MAME.
--
Due to updateflip _always_ flipping visarea when flip is set (confusing!), visarea X was flipped twice when globally going from off->on, causing broken cocktail mode in a bunch of drivers (galaga, digdug, warpwarp, ..). This symptom turned up when these drivers were updated with 'raw' screen params, causing visarea-1 != screen width/height due to blanking area info inside width/height.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Brasil 86 [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
Brasil 87 [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
Brasil 89 (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
Brasil 93 [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
[ Out of whatsnew.txt ]
* I haven't implemented stereo yet. Is there an example of a modern sound core
that outputs stereo?
* Also added "MODERN" READ|WRITE handlers to sigma98b & hooked up read function.
* This should make all the games in sigma98b sound perfect (only because
none of them use stereo panning). Luca, I'll leave the flag removal up to your judgement.
* The ADPCM2 decoding in the funcube games sounds pretty good (be sure you're
running at 100% framerate though - they're demanding).
Screen update function is now per screen device
(it was before but was attached to machine driver)
MCFG_VIDEO_UPDATE -> MCFG_SCREEN_UPDATE
MCFG_VIDEO_EOF -> MCFG_SCREEN_EOF
EOF is now executed for all screens, so for all existing it
is defined just for one screen. This part will be updated in future.
Note that there are now screen_update and screen_eof virtual functions
for "modern" drivers which are called same as they did before.
All drivers are updated and in places where update function was separated per
screen I did name separate function.
This change will enable us to put screen definition fully into device.
-------------------------------
Point Blank 3 (GNN2 Ver. A) [Kevin Eshbach, hap, D. Edwardson, Paratech, ranger_lennier, M. Ponweiser, T. Petersen, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Uchuu Daisakusen: Chocovader Contactee (CVC1 Ver. A) [R. Mucciarelli, W. Belk, Yohji, Roberto Malone, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
- fixed: if set to invisible(0xff), it could still show (due to 0x100-zoom), showed glitches in eg. koshien
- +12 made no sense, changed to +15 so it just always rounds up if low 4 bits are nonzero
- add note that bigsprite zoom implementation is incorrect
- Instruction cache emulated on '020 and later
- Fixed interaction between MMU and bfextu/bfexts/bfins
- Added fsgldiv, fsglmul, and fscc FPU instructions
- Fixed fault address in stack frame
- Fixed supervisor violation bit in MMU status register
- Add fmovem modes 1 and 3
- Various other MMU fixes
---------------------------------------------------
Guilty Gear X 1.5 [gamerfan, TrevEB, Falcone, M. Viste, john666, Cah4e3, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
New games added as GAME_NOT_WORKING
-----------------------------------
Initial D Arcade Stage Ver. 2 (Japan) (Rev. B) (GDS-0026B) [The Dumping Union]
Initial D Arcade Stage Ver. 2 (Export) (GDS-0027) [Gerald, The Dumping Union]
Initial D Arcade Stage Ver. 3 (Japan) (Rev. C) (GDS-0032C) [f205v, The Dumping Union]
removed additional 2 cycles, in move operation, for non-Agnus registers [Roberto Zandona']
set to #0 the start cycle in the copper operation [Roberto Zandona']
- Added IO_SPACE and updated all access in ME1 memory for use it.
- Implemented interrupts.
- Fixed the flags in the ROL/ROR/SHL/SHR opcodes.
- Fixed decimal add/sub opcodes.
- Removed unneeded #include lines (gal3.c galaxold.c asic65.c)
- Split part of the driver include into a separate multi-driver
include file (audio/exidy.h audio/exidy440.h audio/wiping.h
machine/segag80.h)
- Moved code to a new file/include to be referenced in multiple
drivers (ms32crpt.[ch] opwolf.c rainbow.c)
- Duplicated some code (palette related) between drivers (mainsnk
rollrace sslam)
- Moved a driver specific routine to a generic device file (atarimo)
- Cleaned up a few include files (cubocd32 cidelsa metalmx seicross
thoop2).
old: "- 0.129u4: Luigi30 changed Safari Rally CPU to 8085A, the disassembly has 8085A-specific code that an 8080 can't execute."
PCB notes from japump some time after that: CPU:M5L8080AP (mitsubushi i8080A). Stronger proof than a disasm
metro/midcoin/midw8080/midway/msx/namco. [Atari Ace]
Hi mamedev,
More driver_device conversions. I also handled some missed variables
in earlier conversions (bfcobra/cinemat/segas32/taitowlf), and
provided a fix (hopefully correct) for bug "03766: cartfury, roadburn,
sf2049 + clones: Crash before OK" in audio/dcs.c so I could at least
start drivers\vegas.c to check my changes.
~aa
and manages a collection of hashes, and can be built from an internal
format string which is stored with each ROM. All core instances are
cleaned up to use the new interfaces, but it's likely that hashfile
code in MESS will need an update.
Also compacted the form of the hash strings used for ROMs, and fixed
verification/hashing of non-ZIPped files.
[out of whatsnew]
Thanks for the tables, LN. I haven't implemented them exactly as you describe yet, and I may contact you with some questions.
Thanks for hooking up the sound in sigmab98, Luca. They give me a bunch more test cases:
Still missing "straight 8 bit playback" mode.
Still not respecting sample rate.
Still not respecting stereo.
Missing the OPT command.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Hae Hae Ka Ka Ka [Luca Elia, Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
out of whatsnew: this can be considered as preliminary. things like the empty md_base_state class have been done in purpose to reduce as much as possible changes in machine/megadriv.c (so to avoid overlaps/conflicts with Haze's work on segacd). next steps will start to move megadrive variables to the class.
(no whatsnew from here on)
Only supports Mode 1 and audio tracks right now, and the NRG files must be the
new version output by Nero 5.5 or later. Please send me images that don't
work to improve this.
to pass a core_options object to the constructor, along with
a search path. This required pushing either a running_machine
or a core_options through some code that wasn't previously
ready to handle it. emu_files can be reused over multiple
open/close sessions, and a lot of core code cleaned up
nicely as things were converted to them.
Also created a file_enumerator class for iterating over files
in a searchpath. This replaces the old mame_openpath functions.
Changed machine->options() to return a reference.
Removed public nvram_open() and fixed jchan/kaneko16 to
stop directly saving NVRAM.
Removed most of the mame_options() calls; this will soon go
away entirely, so don't add any more.
Added core_options to device_validity_check() so they can be
used to validate things.
New Clones Added
------------------------------------
Pigskin 621AD (rev 2.0 7/06/90) [Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (ver UA, set 1) [Irongiant]
- Updated all devices containing ROM regions to have short names and all modern devices too
- Created new validation to check existence of short name if device contain ROM region defined
[out of whatsnew]
It sounds ~60% correct, and appears to play the right stuff, but there is still much to do.
I'm not respecting the volume command.
I'm not taking sample rate into account.
I'm not doing anything with stereo yet (though funcube doesn't tickle that functionality).
The ADPCM(2?) decoding clearly isn't perfect (I've made a local copy of the oki_adpcm class to mess around with).
The way i set the clock in the seta2 driver should show I don't know what I'm doing :).
None of the channel flags are being interpreted yet.
I haven't hooked up Luca's sigma98 games yet.
---------
Double Dribble (prototype?) [Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Tetris Plus 2 (Japan, V2.1) [Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Violent Storm (ver AAB) [Denis Lechevalier]
Black Tiger (older) [David Raingeard]
(Plus implemented some features for nprsp, not worth)
* Added Tenchi wo Kurau (Japan Resale Ver.)
* Confirmed B-Board # for chikij, added ROMs positions, PALs and some
pcb infos to video\cps1.c
* Fixed sf2uk labels and added pcb infos
* Identified and documented willowje as an early and genuine USA release,
added a note and renamed willowje -> willowo
* Verified and fixed XTALs of Japan Resale Versions to work at 12MHz, they
all use DASH A-Boards
* Minor cleanups and fixes
New clones added
----------------
Tenchi wo Kurau (Japan Resale Ver.) [J. Finney, italie, john666, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
many drivers. Also move some allocated memory into arrays in the
state structure where appropriate (this is still in progress).
Regex'es used (in src/mame only):
state_save_register_global( *)\(( *)([^,]+), *state->([^ )]+)( *)\)
state->save_item\1\(\2NAME\(state->\4\)\5\)
state_save_register_global_array( *)\(( *)([^,]+), *state->([^ )]+)( *)\)
state->save_item\1\(\2NAME\(state->\4\)\5\)
state_save_register_global_bitmap( *)\(( *)([^,]+), *state->([^ )]+)( *)\)
state->save_item\1\(\2NAME\(*state->\4\)\5\)
state_save_register_global_pointer( *)\(( *)([^,]+), *state->([^,]+),
state->save_pointer\1\(\2NAME\(state->\4\)\5,
--------------------
Dream Fruit [Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
(being very busy lately, so if somebody wants to do this be my guest, shouldn't be too hard as the basics are inside Taito L driver ...)
are still intact. The new state_manager class has templatized methods
for saving the various types, and through template specialization can
save more complex system types cleanly (like bitmaps and attotimes).
Added new mechanism to detect proper state save types. This is much
more strict and there will likely be some games/devices that fatalerror
at startup until they are remedied. Spot checking has caught the more
common situations.
The new state_manager is embedded directly in the running_machine,
allowing objects to register state saving in their constructors now.
Added NAME() macro which is a generalization of FUNC() and can be
used to wrap variables that are registered when directly using the
new methods as opposed to the previous macros. For example:
machine->state().save_item(NAME(global_item))
Added methods in the device_t class that implicitly register state
against the current device, making for a cleaner interface.
Just a couple of required regexes for now:
state_save_register_postload( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *
\3->state().register_postload\1\(\2
state_save_register_presave( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *
\3->state().register_presave\1\(\2
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Animal Catch [Luca Elia, Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Itazura Monkey [Luca Elia, Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Pye-nage Taikai [Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Hae Hae Ka Ka Ka [Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Taihou de Doboon [Gnoppi, john666, Gerald (COY), Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
---
Out of whatsnew: please leave the non-working games to me, I'll look at them next.
No-whatsnew explanation: this takes OPTIMIZE=3 compile time for this core from
over 1 hour down to about 2 minutes on PS3 Linux. (Yes, the tms57002 itself
took over an hour to compile before - the thing has 256 MB of RAM and
a very slow HDD so when it hits swap, swap hits back).
Comment: Even though you can play the games, there are so many other issues with unknown errors and graphic problems - might be worth putting in as NOT_WORKING?
timers into the scheduler. Retain TIMER devices as a separate wrapper
in timer.c/.h. Inline wrappers are currently provided for all timer
operations; a future update will bulk clean these up.
Rather than using macros which hide generation of a string-ified name
for callback functions, the new methods require passing both a function
pointer plus a name string. A new macro FUNC() can be used to output
both, and another macro MFUNC() can be used to output a stub-wrapped
class member as a callback.
Also added a time() method on the machine, so that machine->time() gives
the current emulated time. A wrapper for timer_get_time is currently
provided but will be bulk replaced in the future.
For this update, convert all classic timer_alloc, timer_set,
timer_pulse, and timer_call_after_resynch calls into method calls on
the scheduler.
For new device timers, added methods to the device_t class that make
creating and managing these much simpler. Modern devices were updated
to use these.
Here are the regexes used; some manual cleanup (compiler-caught) will
be needed since regex doesn't handle nested parentheses cleanly
1. Convert timer_call_after_resynch calls
timer_call_after_resynch( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().synchronize\1\(\2FUNC(\6), \5, \4\)
2. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(synchronize[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
3. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(synchronize[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
4. Clean up completely empty parameter lists
synchronize\(FUNC\(NULL\)\)
synchronize()
5. Convert timer_set calls
timer_set( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_set\1\(\2\4, FUNC(\7), \6, \5\)
6. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(timer_set[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
7. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_set[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
8. Convert timer_set calls
timer_pulse( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_pulse\1\(\2\4, FUNC(\7), \6, \5\)
9. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(timer_pulse[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
10. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_pulse[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
11. Convert timer_alloc calls
timer_alloc( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_alloc\1\(\2FUNC(\4), \5\)
12. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_alloc[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
13. Clean up trailing 0 parameters
(timer_alloc[^;]+), 0\)
\1)
14. Fix oddities introduced
\&m_machine->scheduler()
m_machine.scheduler()
Various MPU4 changes [AGEMAME]:
* Revised timing/input system to stop flickering
* Tidied up the LED drawing code to remove flicker
* Support for all known extenders and reel multiplex boards used in MPU4 H/W
* Partial support for OKI sampled sound card, need for some titles
* Fixed Old Timer characteriser
* Some general tidying up to allow better study of the BwB titles
New games added as GAME_NOT_WORKING:
------------------------------------
Reno Reels (20p/10GBP Cash, release A) [AGEMAME]
BwB Tetris v 2.2 [AGEMAME]
Red Hot Poker (20p/10GBP Cash, release 3) [AGEMAME]
- Rewritten some checks to be runtime instead of compile dependent
- Added winmenu.c and "menu" option in windows build
- winmenu.c provide just dummy implementation, and makes linking with actual menu implementation easier.
Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:19 AM
Subject: cave.c savestate support + alpha
To: submit@mamedev.org
This patch contains the following changes to cave.c and toaplan2.c:
- Added savestate support to all games in cave.c. Most of the work was
already done by someone else; the blocker was a perpetually-running
anonymous timer, which I converted to an allocated timer.
- Changed OKI sample banking to use device address maps instead of
memcpy() in all cave.c games except the nmk112-based games. If someone
wants to try to convert nmk112.c to use device address maps and bank
pointers, be my guest--you'll need 8 banks of varying sizes per OKI chip...
- Fixed description of the Japanese Air Gallet set--the game's Japanese
title is "Akuu Gallet".
- Made machine/nmk112.c actually restore its state properly. Also
refactored it a little (if you can talk about refactoring a source
file that almost fits on one screen)
- Fixed bgaregga's nmk112 interface to work with the refactored nmk112.c.
- Removed excessive CPU interleaving from batsugun, left over from when
I was initially hooking up the V25.
- Removed a useless printf and some obsolete comments, more leftovers
from the process of hooking up the V25.
--AWJ--
- merged MESS CDi driver file with the MAME CDi driver file (used for Quizard)
- the cdimono1 system is now the parent / bios of Quizard, the Quizard games run on a retail CDi unit with Jamma adapter / dongle for protection so this is a logical step.
global functions which are now superceded by the operators and
methods on the class. [Aaron Giles]
Required mappings are:
attotime_make(a,b) => attotime(a,b)
attotime_to_double(t) => t.as_double()
double_to_attotime(d) => attotime::from_double(d)
attotime_to_attoseconds(t) => t.as_attoseconds()
attotime_to_ticks(t,f) => t.as_ticks(f)
ticks_to_attotime(t,f) => attotime::from_ticks(t,f)
attotime_add(a,b) => a + b
attotime_add_attoseconds(a,b) => a + attotime(0, b)
attotime_sub(a,b) => a - b
attotime_sub_attoseconds(a,b) => a - attotime(0, b)
attotime_compare(a,b) == 0 => a == b
attotime_compare(a,b) != 0 => a != b
attotime_compare(a,b) < 0 => a < b
attotime_compare(a,b) <= 0 => a <= b
attotime_compare(a,b) > 0 => a > b
attotime_compare(a,b) >= 0 => a >= b
attotime_mul(a,f) => a * f
attotime_div(a,f) => a / f
attotime_min(a,b) => min(a,b)
attotime_max(a,b) => max(a,b)
attotime_is_never(t) => t.is_never()
attotime_string(t,p) => t.as_string(p)
In addition, some existing #defines still exist but will go away:
attotime_zero => attotime::zero
attotime_never => attotime::never
ATTOTIME_IN_SEC(s) => attotime::from_seconds(s)
ATTOTIME_IN_MSEC(m) => attotime::from_msec(m)
ATTOTIME_IN_USEC(u) => attotime::from_usec(u)
ATTOTIME_IN_NSEC(n) => attotime::from_nsec(n)
ATTOTIME_IN_HZ(h) => attotime::from_hz(h)
new clones added
New Clones Added
---------------------------------
Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (Korea) [Artemio Urbina
Zero Hour (set 2) [Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
New Clones Added
---------------------------------
Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (Korea) [Artemio Urbina
Zero Hour (set 2) [Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
