* simplified input reading
* moved most Famicom controllers to the expansion port
(still configurable in the Driver Config menu) because it is
more accurate and because it allows to use both the FC
keyboard and the controllers in BASIC games
* fixed NES paddle emulation which broke some years ago
* added FC paddle emulation, see Arkanoid and Chase HQ
* added Hori Twin Adapter with correct P3 & P4 Famicom
protocol, see e.g. four players games by Technos Japan
just a cleanup and the whatsnew entry for previous changes...
emulation, fixed P3 & P4 inputs in Jpn games using them). nw.
paddle now works in Chase HQ too (the NES one don't because of the different protocol),
3rd & 4th players can enter inputs in Technos games, and it turned out that Lightgun was
actually working (I had probably tested with a non-clean compile), so that at last all selectable
input devices are finally working :-)
cassette. wav files supported only. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) Added software list for BASIC programs saved to tape [Anna Wu, UglyJoe, Fabio Priuli]
If anyone has more Family BASIC tapes or other cassettes for Famicom games or add-ons (e.g. Bandai Karaoke or Fukutake Study Box)
or for some chinese clones (ABM, or Bridge, or any other), please contact us.
they were attached there. This temporarily breaks Lightgun and Multitap in Famicom, but in
reality they were never working in Japanese-exclusive games, only in worldwide games who
supported NES protocol, so just use the NES driver to have previous functionality until I add
support for the FC protocol. Standard pads, keyboards and mj panel work as before). nw.
improved FFE mappers (I'd be more interested into actually emulating the copier but this is
all we got at the moment...) . nw.
Also, backing up some wip code for other pcbs that still does not produce any useful result.
- converted carts, mappers and pcbs to use slot devices
- fixed starting of Famicom, Famicom Twin and Dr. PCJr
- fixed handling of "no disk" in FDS so that the system displays Mario and Luigi
jumping around as expected
- added AY8910 sound to Sunsoft-5B (Gimmick JPN sfx)
- added YM2413 to VRC-7 (Lagrange Point OST)
- added support for recorded samples to Jaleco sport titles and to Bandai Family Trainer
Aerobics Studio, thanks to notes by hap and egoh, and recordings by Pongbashi
(samples are needed because these games use a currently undumpable speech chip)
- added support for NES-EVENT pcb used by Nintendo World Championship 1990,
including dipswitches
- added support for Galoob Game Genie real usage (in addition to the codes which
Puggsy added to his cheat collections): when you load ggenie, a second cartslot
becomes available to load another game attached to the cheat device (e.g. with
"mess.exe nes -cart ggenie -cart2 smb") and you can enter the cheat codes as in a
real NES
- added support for Nantettatte!! Baseball lock-on mechanism, based on the tests
performed by naruko on his carts: when you load nantbb, a second cartslot
becomes available to load one of the two update minicarts (91 Hen or OB Hen)
- improved emulation of Namcot 163, 175 and 340 boards, based on the tests
performed by naruko, lidnariq and bootgod on the real hardware
- moved Nantettatte!! Baseball minicarts to a separate list (nes_ntbrom.xml) because
they cannot be loaded in the NES directly, but only through the nantbb subslot
- emulated bus conflict (CPU/PRG) in PCBs documented as having it
- partial emulation of open bus, enough to make working the games using it as a sort
of protection
- fixed crash when loading files using FFE mappers
- fixed mirroring in some boards (Sunsoft DCS and UNL-CC-21) and in some games
(e.g. Paris Dakar Rally Special and Escape from Atlantis)
- fixed a few bugs in Tengen 800032 emulation (mapper 64), promoting Klax, Xybots
and Road Runner to work state
- fixed Tengen 800037 emulation (mapper 158), promoting US Alien Syndrome to work
state
- added working emulation of many bootleg pcbs used for pirate conversions from FDS
(Ai Senshi Nicol, Doki Doki Panic, Fuuun Shaolin Kyo, Green Beret, Monty no Doki
Doki Daidassou, Tobidase Daisakusen, Super Mario Bros Malee 2 / Genius Merio Bros...)
- improved emulation of many pirate pcb (BMC-GOLDENCARD-6IN1, KS7013B,
KS7012, BMC-GHOSTBUSTERS63IN1, UNL-MALISB, MAXI15 and more...)
- improved RacerMate Challenge II emulation, but the game is still not working due to
unemulated bicycle controller
- added CPU-based IRQ mode in Tengen 800032 emulation (mapper 64), fixing
Skulls & Crossbones gfx (but the game is still not working)
- fixed many small inaccuracies in the old code, spot during the conversion
- added support for most other known pcbs, even if in most cases emulation is only
sketchy
- reduced the need of fake alt pbcs for boards which only differed by mirroring handling
(these are now recognized through the "mirroring" feature)
- removed fake wram which was added to a lot of partially documented pcbs and
re-added it only where actually present, so to more accurately document what was
really in the carts
Out of whatsnew: There's still a lot to do (e.g. to clean up the implementation of the pirate pcbs)
but I hope that submitting this now I can get some wider testing help so to catch and fix regressions
before next release :)
and I know that setting up ports in machine_start is not the approved way, but in this way the changes do not interfere
with my other local changes. I will move them later in the proper place, but this should be enough to kill tagmap lookups.
among other things, this allowed to remove around a thousand of machine() parameters
passed to re-get the state class at each bankswitch operation. readability says thanks.
eventually, nes_mmc and its pieces (nes_pcb, nes_ines & nes_unif) will contain a cart slot device and allow for
things like on-cart sound chips and eeprom devices to be properly emulated
device_memory_interface::space() assert against NULL and
return a reference, and pushed references throughout all
address space usage in the system. Added a has_space()
method to check for those rare case when it is ambiguous.
[Aaron Giles]
Also reinstated the generic space and added fatal error
handlers if anyone tries to actually read/write from it.
read/write handlers to take an address_space & instead
of an address_space *. Also update pretty much all other
functions to take a reference where appropriate.
[Aaron Giles]
