- 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 :)
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Fruit [Any, R. Belmont]
nw: This game based on a 486+PC h/w+VGA SoC appears to boot into MS-DOS successfully (based on logging IDE commands) and the game may even be running, but there is no video at all. If any of the PC experts could take a look it's probably something relatively obvious :)
It also has a Sound Blaster compatible sound system which isn't currently hooked up.
program counter has visited in the dasm windows.
Run "help trackpc" in the debugger to see the options. [Andrew Gardner]
Out of whatsnew:
This isn't enabled by default because of how sloooow it is to disassemble each
opcode when you want to compute its crc32. That can be sped up with lookup
tables and the like.
There's a good chance I should pull the 'clear tracks' argument into its own
command, but it functions as-is.
This can be added to the windows debugger with a simple change to the
osd display code.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Spooky Night 2nd Edition (Version 2.0.4) {Sara S.]
Spooky Night (Version 1.0.1) [Sara S.]
nw: This makes the character select not freeze (the music streaming buffer extends up past the 4MB mark, so this also serves to confirm the extra RAM). Starting a game either normally or by letting attract run past the FMV loads a lot more data than before then dies on an IRQ problem.
Z800x: Push the correct word on internal traps.
Z800x: Fix FCW handling in system non-segmented mode.
Z800x: Add missing form of ldb reg, #imm.
Z800x: Show previous PC, NSPSEG, and PSAPSEG in the debugger.
Z800x: Improved flags display in the debugger.
Z800x: Add debugger command z8k_disass_mode to toggle segmented/non-segmented. Default "auto" tracks the current execution state.
Z800x: Don't block nested exceptions if the priority and the FCW allows it.
M20: Initialize memory to 0x00.
M20: Some keyboard fixes.
