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Tank Force (US, 4 Player)
marked as not working. Unmapped controls, comments are in driver.
The currently scanned manual at http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/TankForce.man.pdf is for the 4 player version and shows the pinout. Test mode currently shows all player controls as RED (IE active).
* Converted sysreg_r/w to 8-bit handlers
* Added hack to make network IRQs work; brings some games back to life
UML:
* Fixed STORE opcode description to allow immediate source operands
x86/x64 back-ends:
* Added flag support to SEXT, ROLAND, ROLINS, LZCNT opcodes
PPC DRC:
* Rewrote lswi/stswi as subroutines
* Made accesses to tempdata explicitly dword or qword
* Fixed SRR0 when generating a syscall
* Removed no longer necessary TESTs on extsb/w, rlwinm, rlwnm, rlwimi, cntlzw
* Fixed bug where the SO flag was not being computed for compares
* Fixed flag computations for mulhw/mulhwu/mullw
* Fixed subtlety of shifts between 32 and 63 in srw/sraw
* Fixed mffs/mtfsf to use FP registers
* Fixed mtfsfi to use the immediate value properly
* Now marking terminal count bit in DMA status register
* Added simple symbol table to the UML for improved disassembly
* Changed optional disassembler cache parameter to a drcuml object
PPC DRC:
* Added symbols for most common variables
* Fixed bug in handling XER carry flag for subo. forms
* Simplified flag insertion logic for opcodeo. forms
* Added logic to simplify opcodes as much as possible at the UML layer.
* Removed similar logic in the x86 and x64 back-ends.
* Added stricter parameter validation for registers and mapvars
* Removed explicit flag requests from the shorthand opcodes
* Added optimization function to drcuml which is called at block end
* Added logic to compute the necessary flags based on upcoming opcodes
and only select those flags which are required
* Updated the PPC and MIPS3 DRCs to no longer explicitly specify flags
* Wrote new disassembler based on enhanced opcode info structure.
* Moved disassembler into drcuml.c and removed old code.
* Extended disassembler buffer sizes to at least 256 bytes.
* Added more extensive per-opcode information in preparation for UML
optimization step.
* Made validation more thorough using the extended information.
* Disabled back-end validation for now until it can be revisited
using the new tables.
* Changed GETFLGS encoding so that the mask is in parameter 2 instead
of the flags field.
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- 01845: [Core] all games: cheats are broken
- 01846: [Misc.] -CHEAT trigger causes MAME crash with PSX-type CPU drivers
Source Changes
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Updated cheat system
- Locked search region when malloc fails to allocate gigantic memory
instead of fatal error. Also locked zero malloc error in case of
search speed = all memory in 32-bit CPU. And added search region
range checker to lock a search region with a big risk
- Fixed a bug that old code is always converted to specified
separator in enable/disable menu
- Refined new cheat format.
* Rewritten cheat format again. newest format is
":gamename::type::address::data::extend_data:(description:comment)"
Expanded type field now requires 10 bytes (not 8 bytes) and
it divides internal cpu (2 bytes) and type (8 bytes) parameters
* Removed VWrite, VRWrite. The flag of Value Selection is merged
into expanded type field now.
* Added CBit (Condition Bit). This checks bit in read data then
set or clear bit in case of true.
* Rearranged cheat code viwer based on newest cheat format
- Fixed unworking Load Old Format option. If you want to load old or
older format code, set it (default is OFF)
- Renamed functions/structures based on coding guidlines
All structures and included parameters are completed
- Merged resize_*_no_dispose() into resize_*()
- Removed the hack of search region for SH-2 CPU because required
region is now set as expected without this hack
Sent: Mon 6/2/2008 2:00 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: Fixed input in wpksocv2
Fixed some dips and added correct inputs for wpksocv2, despite still missing the correct input for begin the left right movement the game is almost playable.
Bye Sonikos.
Subject: [patch] memory_region madness
The memory_region and memory_region_length functions are probably the
two most common functions in MAME that don't take a machine parameter
but probably should given the direction MAME has been going in
removing global variable references. Attached are massive patches to
accomplish this. I wish they could be smaller, but sadly, this is
butchery, not brain surgery.
The first patch makes some simplifications to help the second patch
along. It is a general improvement as well, and hopefully can be
applied even if the second patch is rejected. Specifically:
1. Introduced/updated some include files for files that export
functions whose apis will need to be changed (cps1.h, decocrpt.h,
ms32.h, pgm.h, fd1089.h, konami1.h). In the case of konami.c, I
renamed the file konami1.c and changed the api and callers to only
require one function export.
2. Pulled memory_region*() calls out of for loops and folded the
occasional duplicated call. The compiler can't likely infer that the
results are constant, so this should be a minor performance win as
well.
