- adjust/add some comments
- restore complete controller port functions to the japanese SMS version
- isolate some code to their proper consoles
- remove FM support of the sms2kr driver
- remove Reset button of the smsj driver
- add emulation of the japanese Sports Pad model, required by Sports Pad Soccer
- adjust some code of other controller devices.
- Added expansion slot and implemented the gender adapter to allow
regular cartridges to be played through the expansion slot.
Usage example: mess sms1 -exp genderadp -cart2 wcup90
- Made the cartridge slot on the sg1000m3 driver to no longer
be mandatory allowing the driver to also be started with media
in the cardslot.
house a screen tag and to find the screen at startup, providing an m_screen
object that can be used. One nice feature is that if there is only one
screen and no screen has been specified, it will auto configure to that
screen. This removes the need to explicitly specify a screen in the
configuration for a large chunk of drivers (though doing so never hurts).
A new macro MCFG_VIDEO_SET_SCREEN is provided, though devices are
encouraged to define their own that maps there so it is obvious which
device is being targeted. The device_video_interface's validation
function will error if an invalid screen is specified or if no screen
is provided but there are multiple screens present.
Updated all devices that currently had an m_screen in them to use the
device_video_interface instead. This also has the nice benefit of flagging
video-related devices for categorization purposes. It also means all
these devices inherit the same screen-finding behaviors. For devices
that had interfaces that specified a screen tag, those have been removed
and all existing structs updated.
Added an optional_device<screen_device> m_screen to the base driver_device.
If you name your screen "screen" (as most drivers do), you will have free
access to your screen this way.
Future updates include:
* Updating all devices referencing machine.primary_screen to use the
device_video_interface instead
* Updating all drivers referencing machine.primary_screen to use the
m_screen instead
* Removing machine.primary_screen entirely
Lynx, Master System, MegaDrive / Genesis, NES / Famicom, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo
Pocket Color, PV-1000, Super Cassette Vision, Super NES / Super Famicom, Wonderswan
and Wonderswan Color as supporting save states. PC-Engine supports save states too, but
only for HuCard games and not for CDs. Please report issues with save and restore in these
systems, if any, to MameTesters. [Fabio Priuli]
to load Sega Card/MyCard dumps in the emulated system. [Fabio Priuli]
The support is still preliminary, in the sense that at the moment you can load any SMS dump <= 32K
in the card slot. Eventually the support will be restricted (at least from softlist) to games which were
really available as cards.
- Converted cart handling and mappers to use slot devices
- Simplified bios and cart bankswitch mechanism
- Added save state support to both systems
- Removed on-cart EEPROM from main gamegear now that
it can be properly implemented on carts which have it
- Made LCD persistence hack optional (ON by default, it can
be turned OFF from Driver Configuration submenu)
- Reduced tagmap lookups all across the driver
