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Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware) (set 3, no bonus game) [Volker Hann, Team Europe]
From: David Haywood <neohaze@nildram.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Subject: Cannon Ball bootleg
To: Philip Bennett <p.j.bennett@gmail.com>
this one has the bonus round ripped out to avoid the protection
check.... of course that introduces it's own visual glitches, but
bootleggers will be bootleggers and I guess not crashing was more
important ;-)
new clones
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Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware) (set 3, no bonus game) [Volker Hann & Team Europe]
Unfortunately, if you load a save state too early the game starts with no sound. For the moment, no SUPPORT_SAVE flag, but the game goes in my list of drivers which needs a second look. Feel free to step up and fix saves, if you like
designed to hold generic pointers that are commonly used. For
now, only generic_nvram has moved there. Added AM_BASE_GENERIC
and AM_SIZE_GENERIC macros for initializing generic pointers
in memory maps. Also added AM_BASE_SIZE_GENERIC to set both
base and size in one step.
Moved global variables out of machine/generic and into a private
data structure hanging off of the running_machine. Added newly-
needed machine parameters to coin_counter_w, coin_lockout_w, and
coin_lockout_global_w. Also added machine parameter to
set_led_state.
Added interface functions to get the number of dispensed tickets
and to increment the count, to remove the need for direct access
to these global variables. Also added functions to get the
current count on a particular coin counter and to determine the
lockout state.
Future checkins will move the remaining generic pointers (for
paletteram, videoram, spriteram, colorram, etc.) into the new
generic_pointers structure.
Also added PCB layouts, hardware description and technical notes.
Changed the bipolar prom dumps to serial I2C bus EEPROM.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Magic Card Jackpot (4.01) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe, krick & The Dumping Union]
Magic Lotto Export (5.03) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe, krick & The Dumping Union]
* A lot of work in memory maps and machine driver stuff.
* Improved Inputs / DIP switches for some games.
* Added lamps support / layouts to new working games.
* Added preliminary support to Kimble hardware.
* Added support to CGI's Credit Poker 30x games.
* Added new (and fixed old) technical notes.
* Added Noraut Deluxe Poker (console).
* Added Noraut Joker Poker (original).
* Added Noraut Red Hot Joker Poker (alt HW).
* Added Noraut Joker Poker (V3.011a).
* Added Noraut unknown set 1 (console).
* Added Noraut unknown set 2 (console).
* Added Mainline Double Joker Poker.
* Added Double Joker Poker (45%-75% payout).
* Added Royal on Ten (Noraut Deluxe hack).
* Added Credit Poker (ver.30c, standard).
* Added Poker / Black Jack (Model 7521).
* Added Kimble Joker Poker.
* Added DRHL Poker (v.2.89).
* Renamed norautpn descripion to Noraut Deluxe Poker (bootleg).
* Added a placeholder for tpoker2's undumped 68705 MCU.
* Reorganized the driver, plus some clean-ups.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Noraut Deluxe Poker (console) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Noraut Joker Poker (original) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Noraut Red Hot Joker Poker (alt HW) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Mainline Double Joker Poker [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Double Joker Poker (45%-75% payout) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Royal on Ten (Noraut Deluxe hack) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Credit Poker (ver.30c, standard) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Noraut unknown set 1 (console) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Noraut unknown set 2 (console) [Roberto Fresca, ByteMaster]
Noraut Joker Poker (V3.011a) [Roberto Fresca, Alan Griffin]
Poker / Black Jack (Model 7521) [Roberto Fresca]
Kimble Joker Poker [Roberto Fresca, Alan Griffin]
DRHL Poker (v.2.89) [Roberto Fresca, Siftware]
hng64: better documentation of mosaic and floor modes [David Haywood]
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: giovedì 26 novembre 2009 15.35
Cc: Angelo Salese
Oggetto: Re: Slight optimization to tile dirty marking
attempted to better document how it swaps between mosaic and floor modes
as they seem to use the same bits... although this still doesn't really
seem logical, so I'm probably missing something.
It might allow me to hook up the floor in Fatal Fury without breaking
other things tho.
David Haywood wrote:
> oops, left a bug in that, use this
>
> David Haywood wrote:
>> marking the entire tilemap as dirty is expensive, this only does so
>> if the tile size / tile depth flag changes.
>>
>> this prevents the crippling slowdowns in sams64_2
>>
>
large lengths for the audio stream of an AVI file. The occurrence of the
bug depends on the way that audio buffers are filled by the calling code;
if there are never two or more chunk's worth of audio samples queued then
the bug will not occur. [CDiFan]
hng64: Added alt layout for the roz, fixes Roads Edge graphics before the title screen [David Haywood]
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: martedì 24 novembre 2009 16.04
A: Angelo Salese
Oggetto: Hyper 64 alt layout
here..
apply over previous
alt layout for the roz.
From David Haywood (thru IM channels):
...and added 8x8 and 16x16 tilemaps for each mode.
corrects one scene in Xrally intro, and also transition layer in fatfurwa (see squares when you press start on title screen)
(doesn't fix road edge alt tilemap mode yet)
note: includes/hng64.h added, 3d disabled in driving games.
Output ports are now affected by IP_ACTIVE_HIGH/IP_ACTIVE_LOW (eepromdev.c has active low cs).
The previous value for callbacks in inptport.c is now tracked per field. This saves recalculating it for PORT_CHANGED & conditional fields wouldn't always get updated correctly.
Tidied up eepromdev.c interface.
hng64: Implemented irq 11, used by the racing games for network check, currently crashes due to an invalid parameter inside the 3d packets [Angelo Salese]
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: martedì 24 novembre 2009 0.23
A: Angelo Salese
Oggetto: Sprite Wrap
Samurai Shodown 64 / 2 character select seems to indicate that the
sprite sign bit is 0x200, not 0x8000 as it sets sprites to 0x3ff
co-ordinate range when they move off the top of the screen (used for the
pictures which are meant to zoom when you select them)
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Dragon Chronicles (DC001 Ver. A) [Guru]
Netchuu Pro Yakyuu 2002 (NPY1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Soul Calibur II (SC23 Ver. A) [Guru]
Soul Calibur II (SC21 Ver. A) [Guru]
Tekken 4 (TEF3 Ver. C) [Guru]
Tekken 4 (TEF2 Ver. A) [Guru]
Tekken 4 (TEF1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Mobile Suit Z-Gundam: A.E.U.G. vs Titans (ZGA1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Capcom Fighting Jam (JAM1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Quiz and Veriety Suku Suku Inufuku 2 (IN2 Ver. A) [Guru]
Mobile Suit Z-Gundam: A.E.U.G. vs Titans DX (ZDX1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Soul Calibur III (SC31001-NA-A) [Guru]
Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix (KN1 Ver. A) [Guru]
Taiko No Tatsujin 9 (TK91001-NA-A) [Guru]
Tekken 5.1 (TE51 Ver. B) [Guru]
This covers the BIOSes and memory card keys. DVDs will be added later. Please credit only Guru for these games.
Converted groundfx.c to use EEPROM device.
The latter was mainly a test for the eepromdev_bit_r PORT_CUSTOM introduced in svn7301. It seems to works perfectly fine.
Updated device and input port lists to use the tagmap for
tag searches. Also removed the whole "quark" thing from the
validity checker in favor of using the tagmaps.
-Corrected memory mapping of palette RAM and handling of palette data. Power-On Self Test now shows correct colors.
-Changed Panic Park from SS23 to S23 game.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Final Furlong (FF2 Ver. A) [Guru]
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The King of Fighters Neowave (Japan) [Cah4e3]
This is just the EPROM - he said he'll send the cart to Guru to get the mask
ROMs done. The AX number on the EPROM matches the current (world?) set but
the contents are different (same encryption key works though).
hng64: Fixed back plane color, thus giving characteristic blue background for POST screen [Angelo Salese]
hng64: Improved Dual Port emulation, fixing the POST errors about it [Angelo Salese]
all statics are stored in struct, memory_set_bankptrs have been replaced by memory_configure_banks... yet save states do not work.
either I'm blind and I can't see some typo of mine, or all the memcpys in VIDEO_EOF do not work well with save states.
suggestions are welcome ;)
Added save states to 2mindril.c, ashnojoe.c, bigfghtr.c, bublbobl.c, cchance.c, champbwl.c, missb2.c
Removed use of memory_set_bankptr where possible (in the drivers above and in angelkds.c)
i.e. some Taito love :)
as usual, drivers with only save state added also have almost complete driver_data struct, but the missing items do not affect saves (generic palette/sprite ram is automatically saved)
added output lines (IPT_OUTPUT), which can be written using new input_port_write* functions or directly from a memory map using AM_WRITE_PORT
converted adc083x to use io lines.
adc08x chips are all hooked up using input/output ports
reversed racing force steering wheel input and gas pedal, which is enough to get the game to boot.
reversed steering wheel input on winding heat, the usa cabinets are however hooked up the other way.
renamed adc0831_interface to adc083x_interface.
fixed adc083x gnd input
removed stray call logerror from adc083x.c
fixed default adc083x sars value
adc083x reset only affects outputs
- Added Save State Support
- Added Preliminary Dip Switch Settings
- Corrected CPU Clock Value
- Corrected Sound (Now Works)
- Narrowed Down More IO R/W Areas
Out of whatsnew: I also added driver_data struct to these drivers (and to bombjack.c & blktiger.c as well) BUT, as in bionicc.c, some memory pointers (spriteram, paletteram or nvram) are commented out due to use of generic handlers
Out of whatsnew: this driver also has 99% of driver data stored in the struct.
it still misses paletteram16, which currently uses a generic handler(and hence does not fit the struct approach), but I wanted save states so much for this game that I commit it anyway :-)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Oliver Stöneberg <oliverst@online.de>
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Subject: possible NULL pointer dereference
To: submit@mamedev.org
This pacth fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in
src/mame/video/dec0.c reported by cppcheck.
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: martedì 17 novembre 2009 0.44
A: Philip Bennett; Angelo Salese
Oggetto: Konami GX Type3/4 dual output
this starts to add dual screen output to the Koanmi GX Type 3 /4 games.
they're probably missing a sprite base register, because if you turn the
dipswitch for 2nd monitor on they're using the wrong spritelist, even in
Soccer Superstars, but otherwise the games automatically bank the
tilemaps in an appropriate way.
Kale, they seem to trigger extra protection writesi in this mode?
btw, Aaron, is there a way to tell MAME to default to a SINGLE screen
layout, but still give the dual screen layout in the video options, that
would better suit these games than displaying 2 screens by default
(because the 2nd screen only tells you that it's disabled at the moment)
Replaced drw80pkr with older dump from [Team Europe].
drw80pkr:
- Added various graphics improvements and corrected colors. Game boots much farther and cleaner.
Out of credits, I also added:
* save states to adp.c (because part of the struct was already there), but nothing is working => no flag;
* save states to albazc.c, but I don't want credit, since no variable needed to be saved (i.e. save states were already there)
Side-notes (not worth mention):
* I fear we were missing a local static array in 1942 save states (now it is saved)
* I haven't found a better way to configure 1943 banks than to split the 0x4000 bank into 4 pieces. can anyone come up with a better approach?
Not 100% sure this is the better way to implement this (we pass the eeprom tag as parameter of the PORT_CUSTOM), but I haven't been able to find a better solution.
No driver uses this yet, so I'm open to any suggestion before to use it extensively ;)
I don't like too much this solution, but now the code is self contained: hence, better fixes (e.g. no MDRV_DEVICE_CONFIG_DATAPTR(eeprom_config, default_data, &_data) at all for the NODEFAULT eeprom?) could be added without further modifying the behavior across the drivers.
- fixed bug in vtlb code that caused us to lose track of previously
registered fixed page ranges
- fixed MIPS3 behavior that would not clear out invalid page ranges
from the VTLB under certain circumstances
- added support for TLB sizes less than 48 entries
