-hector: creates a machine fragment for the sound components which are shared among hector and interact to avoid duplicate code
-specialist : makes static the specimx palette because it is not used outside video/specimx,c
-pce: fixed MT5734 by adding support for 192k images
Renamed rom_ptr_finder to region_ptr_finder after discussion with Aaron.
First round of memory_region_finder to region_ptr_finder conversions.
rf5c400: use a region_ptr_finder to find our sound ROM instead of looking up
the region by hand in device_start(). Will probably start converting other
sound devices to this pattern (other than the ones that use the memory system)
if there are no problems or objections.
except it finds a ROM region instead of a memory share.
Unlike the old memory_region_finder, these can be accessed without
any overhead (since it's a pointer directly to the data and not
to the memory_region object), can be whatever data type you want
(no casting needed) and are strictly type-checked--if you have a
required_rom_ptr<UINT32> the region has to be a ROM_REGION32
(or an implicitly 32-bit region due to belonging to a CPU) or
the finder won't find it and will tell you why.
Basically, rom_ptr_finders are strictly better than
memory_region_finders and all drivers using the latter should be
converted over. I've done megasys1.c and twin16.c as examples.
megasys1: Use a device address map for the peekaboo oki instead
of memcpy().
twin16: Convert the scrolling layers to tilemaps (the fixed text
layer was already one). Miscellaneous cleanups/modernizations.
(nw)
Notice that rom_ptr_finder has a length() method which returns the
length in whatever size unit the pointer is, instead of a bytes()
method. Yes, I'm going to convert shared_ptr_finder to match, since
this way makes a lot more sense (in particular, mask() is useless
for shared_ptrs that are anything other than INT8/UINT8)
- Fixed some incorrect info about the SF2 bootlegs and got them running better.
- Dumped 8571 MCU from a bootleg Top Secret/Bionic Commando PCB. All other ROMs on the board matched the 'topsecrt' set.
