Added new support for Ruleta RCI.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Ruleta RCI (6-players, Spanish) [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
Added M48T37 variant to timekpr.c. Fixed some bugs that caused
registers to be initialized to 0xff and caused odd behavior.
Updated to modern device timers.
Converted vegas to use M48T37 instead of its own implementation.
conversion efforts: [Atari Ace]
* taito_f3 is disentangled from a number of other drivers by using
an AM_SHARE tag instead of a common variable.
* Several drivers are made into explicit subclasses of other drivers:
8080bw from mw8080bw, missb2 from bublbobl, quasar from cvs, taito_x
from seta.
* arcadecl is separated from rampart by duplicating the bitmap
rendering code.
* jaleco decryption code is moved to jalcrpt.c.
* cischeat is separated from megasys1 by duplicating some video code.
* mcr3 is partly separated from mcr.
* machine/midwunit.c is split into wunit and xunit files with some
code duplication.
* midtunit gfx_rom variables are made distinct from midyunit
variables, making midyunit independent of midtunit.
* contants in namconb1 are duplicated/renamed in namcofl.
* namcos2 uses of namcos21 are eliminated by introducing
namcos2_kickstart.
* toypop is separated from mappy by duplicating some video code.
memory consumption when iterating through all drivers like -romident
does.
Also moved softlist scanning into the main loop so that machine_configs
are only constructed once.
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Catch (prototype) [Siftware, hap]
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not working flag is because of the broken sound
also, should it be a clone of avalnche?
- Fixed lamp timing in MPU4 and laid groundwork for MPU3 support in the steppers (I've also cleared up the reel code in drivers).
- Removed some unneeded timing code.
- BwB support is here, but preliminary, it's mainly to show people how the CHR chip might work in those games.
- Some sets reparented and renamed as well as a cleanup of source comments:
grindstm (parent), vfive (clone)
kingdmgp (parent), shippumd (clone)
The set formerly known as "sstrikera" is now "sstriker" and is now the parent of mahoudai (clone).
Reverted batrid to batrider and bkraid to bbakraid.
- Put common init code into MACHINE_START, leaving DRIVER_INITs only for games that actually need unique initialization.
- Dead code cleanup: Removed old hacks and some no-longer-used used member variables from the driver class.
- ROM banking cleanup: Added a device address map for the OKI in fixeightbl. Stopped misusing the bank system for memory that isn't actually bankswitched (fixeightbl again) Simplified the Z80 ROM banking (and loading) in the Raizing games.
- Address map cleanup: Unified 8-bit shared RAM handling between the Z80-based and the V25-based games. Replaced lots of pointless READ_HANDLERs with AM_RAM_WRITE. Moved fixeight EEPROM handling into the input ports instead of using READ/WRITE_HANDLERs. Incidentally, this makes toaplan2.c the very first MAME driver to use the AM_READWRITE_PORT macro.
- Removed IPT_VBLANK input ports (no longer used since the video rewrite)
- Removed Truxton 2 player 2 "button 4" (after confirming that the game never reads it) and changed player 1 "button 4" to an IPT_OTHER not bound to any key by default, since it's clearly some kind of test/debug input not meant to be hooked up in a regular cabinet (for one thing, it works whether you're actually playing or in attract mode)
- Added button 3 to Batsugun Special Version. It's a full auto fire button like Cave games have. The service mode input test doesn't show it, presumably because Toaplan didn't bother to update the service mode code from the original version of the game.
- Fixed region jumpers and dipswitches in many sets, based on analysis of the program code and strings in the ROMs.
- Added a #define to optionally make Truxton 2 stereo (commented out by default). See the comments at the top of the driver and in the MACHINE_CONFIG.
- Corrected kbash ROM names, thanks to information from Charles MacDonald. Also fixed inconsistent ROM naming between some of the batrider clones.
- Loaded bbakraid default EEPROM as a ROM rather than hardcoding the contents into the driver.
- Completely removed audio/toaplan2.c, which isn't needed any more now that all the V25s are decrypted and hooked up.
New Clone Added
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Hispanic 980904) [Layne, Dr. Spankenstein, ranger_lennier, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
- calculate palette with resnet info from Popper (same year, same company, very similar hardware)
- make bgcolor emulation more logical
- small cleanups
Cleaned up and improved memory maps, added NVRAM
to all winners circle sets, fixed the ay8910 clock
for winners circle 82 type to match the other hardware.
Fixed a blitter buffer to bitmap problem.
Reparented the sets. Added new technical notes.
