battery is found. This allows for loading factory formatted sram/nvram from softlist. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) nes.c: Fixed Silva Saga, which relies on SRAM not being 0x00 filled from factory,
with many thanks to naruko for investigating the problem. [Fabio Priuli]
runs properly now), added second external slot -cart2 (same functionality
as -cart1). Expansion ROM slots, which are handled as internal cart slot,
are now accessible via -cart3/-cart6 media switch, until they are converted
to proper slot devices. [Fabio Priuli]
emulation of JY Company PCBs (mappers 90, 209 & 211). It's still
too glicthy to be promoted to working state, but you can now see
how Super Mario Wolrd, Contra Spirits, Donkey Kong Country 4
and Tiny Toons Adventures 6 were like. nw.
pass-through cart. Correct syntax to launch e.g. Dizzy The Adventurer
is now "mess nes -cart ade -cart2 dizzyadv". Moved Aladdin minicart
dumps to a separate softlist (but you can load in -cart2 iNES files from
fullpath, if you like) [Fabio Priuli]
nes_camerica: simplified emulation of the BF9096 board and fixed
emulation of GoldenFive board (used by the Polish Pegasus 5 in 1
cart). [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: this commit completes the recent work about emulating properly the
different pass-through NES/Famicom devices and their corresponding mini-carts...
there should be no more games requiring non-standard syntax to be launched.
slot. The two Senyou Cassettes (Top Hit 20 Vol 1 & Vol 2) have now to be
loaded with the following commands "mess nes -cart karaoke -cart2 top20v1"
(or top20v2). This is accurate to the hardware, because these expansions
had to be manually inserted into the body of the main Karaoke Studio cart
before playing. [Fabio Priuli]
now select songs and see the animation, even if I would not call playable the
games this way. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: the expansion slot is currently hacked around at loading time.
I will soon implement it as a subslot, but I still need to check a few details first.
added a skeleton list I used for some quick testing.
the driver really needs a significant overhaul, but at least this makes usage a little less opaque.
