Since I touch up a couple of things and test each driver after the automated merge, it still takes a few minutes for each file. More IO_MAP merges will trickle in over the next few days.
It's likely not worth writing every driver in the whatsnew.txt, since there will be ~100.
- Added Magic Joker.
- Fixed the 3rd background offset to Galaxi.
- Remapped inputs to match the standard poker games.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Magic Joker (v1.25.10.2000) [Roberto Fresca]
* Adds MCS48_INTERNAL_ROMBANK define to header
* Drivers which need to control the ea line have to initialize banking for internal/external rom
This is not yet optimal but works as expected with existing drivers and modified mario.c
(not worth putting in whatsnew)
Please note, this does touch mario.c and dkong.c (two drivers which are currently undergoing modifications), but it does so unobtrusively. I also asked the proper parties before committing.
All games are tested and working after this patch.
* MB8884 is a I8035 ==> 12 addr, no internal rom map
* EA line high: external access - this is "default"
The whole EA implementation is as Aaron named it, cheeky. EA=1 external rom access, EA=0 internal rom access.
But all variants are treated the same, i.e. for i8035, MB8884, I8039, the external rom is used in the same
way as the internal.
These ports are actually ports which sink current on logical 0. With a logical 1, they are in high impedance mode and may be read. The high impedance is treated as logical 1 by TTL gates connected to them.
Fixed bug in my recent DISCRETE_MIXER update.
Note: the DISCRETE_MIXER bug caused most of the speed increase of its optimization and caused some games to crash. Donkey Kong is now at 14% faster on my machine then when I started. Better then nothing.
For those keeping score dkong was at 268% on my computer before I started optimizing. It now runs at 342%. The 555 and mixer changes also speed up just about every current discrete game.
- Added Magic's 10 version 16.15
- Remapped all inputs to match other poker games.
- Added a missing input to Magic's 10 games.
New clones added
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Magic's 10 (ver. 16.15) [Roberto Fresca]
Subject: few more patches
Hi,
enclosed please find a few patches:
TV_1.diff -> TV_4.diff: clean up of input ports for drivers starting with T,U,V
eeprom.diff: some remaining eeprom_bit_r made CUSTOM_PORT
stv_fix.diff: a small missing bit in my previous stv fix for bug 650. this patch assumes the previous has been applied and removes duplication of button 4 also from batmanfr (somehow I think I sent an outdated version of stv.diff previously)
That's all folks
Regards,
Fabio
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:16 AM
Subject: [patch] Remove useless backslashes
Hi mamedev,
I've been using pmd 4.2.2 to analyze the MAME codebase for duplicate
code, and it's C parser complains about useless backslashes and
dangling defines in #if...#endif sections. Here's a patch that fixes
this, and additionally fixes one real bug, a string in djmain.c was
malformed, it's curious it compiled.
~aa
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:45 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: Stepper motor changes
Updated stepper motor code to use a MAME-style config interface, rather
than a load of setting functions. Changed optic functions to use clearly
defined start and end points. Added standard layout for Starpoint units
used in many machines. Updated all affected drivers.
PS. At one point, I was led to believe that the UPD sound chip would
have
support for its messaging pins added, is this still pending (I have Phil
B's old source here if it's needed). Such support would prove very
useful
for AGEMAME as many of the drivers in that that use that chip rely on it
for timing.
Subject: another small revised patch
After Fujix's new findings, I realized that the coinage settings
for ckongg were still not completely correct after my previous
patch galaxold.diff. The attached new patch (diff'ed from clean 0.127)
fixes the Coinage dips at last. Sorry for the possible confusion.
Regards,
Fabio
Subject: more patches
Hi,
enclosed please find the following patches:
spaceinv.diff : this is an important patch. Please revert (if applied)
my previous fix to bugs 2143 & 2144. It was wrong. This is the correct
fix for those two bugs and many other issues not reported on MT (e.g.
spaceatt, spaceat2 not starting because tilted, missing dips in many
invaders clones etc). Basically, in 8080bw.c all the "DSW0" input ports
should have been "IN2" for invaders_map to work correctly, and no
additional "IN2" is necessary. After this fix, you may want to change
all the "IN2" occurrences 8080bw.c and in mw8080bw.c with "DSW" since
they mostly are dips. But the latter is a cosmetic change, so it's up
to you decide if it's worth or not (the patch leaves "IN2").
avgdvg.diff : this correctly fixes avgdvg_done usage without using a
parameter, but using IPT_ACTIVE_LOW where needed (I'm a bit ashamed
because I should have thought to that since the beginning).
galaxold.diff : this changes ckongg coinage inputs to fix bug 2154.
Notice anyway that coinage settings in dips do not correspond to the
numbers which appear on screen. This is probably due to the conversion
to galaxian hardware (e.g. it's shown the value of coin2, but in ckongg
there is no coin2 at all, so the appearance of the coin 2 value has no
meaning). Notice also that an unused dips sets the possibility to play
in 2 or not. I defaulted this to 1 player because setting "2 players"
automatically gives 2/4 credits with a single coin, which I don't think
it was the default back then ;)
However, perhaps ckongg is worth further analysis when it will be
updated to the new galaxian driver.
stv.diff : this patch fixes the longstanding bug 650 (duplicated P1
button 4). After testing all sets which reach the test mode, I found
out that only batmanfr uses the button4 in port "P1", while all other
games with more than 3 buttons use the one in "EXTRA". Therefore I made
the "P1" 4th buttons a specific batmanfr input.
patch01.diff, patch02.diff, sys1.diff : these patches simplifies input
ports in the remaining driver starting with S (plus a few small changes
to other drivers I forgot previously), using PORT_INCLUDE, AM_READ_PORT
& converting 'fake' 8bit ports to full 16/32bit ports where suitable
Let me know if something fails to apply, or if there is any other problem
Subject: Profiler related #2 (v2)
Hi, this a revised version of a patch I sent yesterday.
This one is much more cleaner, and the speed improvement is now significant
enough to come out of the profiling noise.
More over, this one compiles correctly... ;-)
Best regards,
Christophe Jaillet
Shares the memory with the c75.
Renames the c75 region to c7x from user4.
Implements the c75 reset/halt control.
Implements the irqs more correctly.
[From OG]
