Funworld updates:
- Removed the temporary hack to jolyc980.
- Updated technical notes regarding Magic Card II & Jolly Card Professional 2.0.
- Moved snookr10 to its own driver.
- Minor clean-up.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Apple 10 (Ver 1.21) [Roberto Fresca]
Ten Balls (Ver 1.05) [Roberto Fresca]
there are some issues, the unused palette bits are significant as the colours are wrong at the moment, also maybe it should be joystick, not spinner etc.. It's an ugly Korean hack game ;-)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Jumping Pop (NICs, Korean bootleg of Plump Pop) [Robin Cooper, David Haywood]
increased Varth CPU clock to 12MHz to reduce slowdowns (the game was released after sf2ce so the faster A-board was available).
verified more gfx rom mappings against PAL dumps (thanks to Corrado Tomaselli).
verified memory maps using A-board PAL dumps (thanks to Charles McDonald).
separated the address ranges for CPS-A and CPS-B customs. This finally clarifies why some registers are fixed and some change with every game.
identified three new unknown registers in the CPS-B-21 custom. Their purpose is unknown.
all unhandled accesses to CPS-A/CPS-B registers will now be reported. There shouldn't be any left. Look out for "contact MAMDEV" popups.
cleaned memory maps. Moved forgotten worlds special input mmeory handlers to DRIVER_INIT.
moved extra input handlers to video/cps1.c since the extra connectors are on the C-board.
added sound to Final Crash.
direct byte, word, dword, and qword accessors for all bus sizes,
there are now masked word, dword, and qword accessors for all
bus sizes.
IMPORTANT: masks that are passed to the _masked_* functions are
NOT inverted. Although inverted masks are still passed to callback
functions, when you request a masked read or write the masks should
represent the bits you want.
Updated the various MIPS cores that use these functions to invert
their masks.
Added support in the T-11 core for an external vector via irq_callback.
Apparently the hardware actually did support this and it is necessary
for emulating the BK 0010/11 computer in MESS.
range to be RAM-like for reads but calls the given handler for writes.
Replaced AM_READWRITE(SMH_RAM, handler) with AM_RAM_WRITE(handler).
Also replaced AM_RAM AM_WRITE(handler) with AM_RAM_WRITE(handler).
accordingly.
Added new functions for dynamically installing device memory
read/write handlers.
Updated install_memory_XXX_handler() functions to take a machine
parameter. Updated all drivers accordingly.
Merged installation of read and write handlers where appropriate.
Simplified memory.c code for dynamic installation so that a single
function handles all the work; a NULL read or write handler
indicates not to install anything for reads or writes.
Batsugun does upload what looks to be the entire program, unencrypted. If enabled it runs to the point of waiting for interrupts, however, for those it looks like it needs a real V25 core with register banks etc.
The other games using the V25 (Dogyuun, Fix Eight, VFive/GrindStormer) only upload a 'stub' program and are encrypted, maybe they upload the rest later? Knuckle Bash is ROM based V25 (and encrypted). Charles is working on decrypting them anyway, but core updates would be handy.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Nandemo Seal Iinkai [Luca Elia]
P.S.
missing from the 0.124u1 whatsnew:
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Show Hand [Luca Elia]
memory maps. To do so, you either need to specify a shift amount
(mapping to a particular subset of the bus) or SHIFT_PACKED, which
maps a single larger sized read/write down to multiple reads or
writes at the smaller size.
Removed word-sized handlers from 6821pia.c. Updated drivers that
needed them to use these new interfaces instead.
Updated gaelco3d.c and itech8.c to remove the need for memconv.h
by using this new feature.
Re-removed input_port_set_digital_value().
src/emu/cpu/m68000/m68kmame.c:
src/emu/cpu/minx/minx.c:
- Fixed compilation errors on CPU cores not enabled in MAME
src/emu/inptport.c:
src/emu/inptport.h:
- Readded input_port_set_digital_value() (which is needed for natural
keyboard inpout in MESS)
- Added a running_machine parameter to inputx_update()
