to the machines, without the intermediate cartslot. This is more
accurate for famitwin and it also avoids the possible
misunderstanding about the -cart switches in these systems
(+ avoids possible misconfigurations). nw.
in the softlist. The official syntax to launch disk games is now
mess famicom -cart disksys -flop gamename
which corresponds to inserting the RAM expansion cart with
connected the disk drive into the cartslot and the desired disk
in the disk drive (exactly like you would have done with the
real thing). In this way, you cannot mount anymore both a cart and
a disk in the Family Computer (as in a real unit).
Users that cannot cope with this limitation and/or with the new
syntax can still use the famitwin driver (which offers both cart and
disk options) or the newly added driver fds which emulates a
famicom with the expansion always inserted: in both latter cases
the old syntax
mess famitwin -flop gamename
will launch the game, as previously. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) famicom: fixed disk system IRQ latch clear in Kaettekita
Mario Bros. based on investigations by FHorse. [Fabio Priuli]
Out of whatsnew: For the moment I gave up the original plan to
also modernize the floppy drive and the disk format. If anyone
wants to look into these, be my guest :-)
pass-through cart. Correct syntax to launch e.g. Dizzy The Adventurer
is now "mess nes -cart ade -cart2 dizzyadv". Moved Aladdin minicart
dumps to a separate softlist (but you can load in -cart2 iNES files from
fullpath, if you like) [Fabio Priuli]
nes_camerica: simplified emulation of the BF9096 board and fixed
emulation of GoldenFive board (used by the Polish Pegasus 5 in 1
cart). [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: this commit completes the recent work about emulating properly the
different pass-through NES/Famicom devices and their corresponding mini-carts...
there should be no more games requiring non-standard syntax to be launched.
slot. The two Senyou Cassettes (Top Hit 20 Vol 1 & Vol 2) have now to be
loaded with the following commands "mess nes -cart karaoke -cart2 top20v1"
(or top20v2). This is accurate to the hardware, because these expansions
had to be manually inserted into the body of the main Karaoke Studio cart
before playing. [Fabio Priuli]
Datach games have now to be loaded with the following commands
"mess nes -cart datach -cart2 gamename" where gamename can be
either a shortname from the datach softlist, or a fullpath to the iNES files
(or to headerless 256k dump of the Datach minicarts). This is accurate
to the hardware, because Datach carts could not be mounted in the main
Famicom cartridge slot. [Fabio Priuli]
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
to be enabled in Controller Port 2 through the Driver Configuration
submenu, and mapped by default on TY,FGHJ,BN keys for side A
layout and RTYU,FGHJ,VBNM keys for side B. [Fabio Priuli]
as detected by games (i.e. it only detects voice/no voice, while the actual
transmission of your voice to the speakers is not emulated). To use it in
games expecting you to blow or shout in the mic, select the "Gamepad
(Older Version)" as "P2 Controller" in the Driver Configuration submenu,
and press "6" when the game requires it. [Fabio Priuli]
input is recognized both by BASIC (peeking at $4016) and by Raid on Bungeling Bay 2P mode, so I think it's correct...
emulation, fixed P3 & P4 inputs in Jpn games using them). nw.
paddle now works in Chase HQ too (the NES one don't because of the different protocol),
3rd & 4th players can enter inputs in Technos games, and it turned out that Lightgun was
actually working (I had probably tested with a non-clean compile), so that at last all selectable
input devices are finally working :-)
cassette. wav files supported only. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) Added software list for BASIC programs saved to tape [Anna Wu, UglyJoe, Fabio Priuli]
If anyone has more Family BASIC tapes or other cassettes for Famicom games or add-ons (e.g. Bandai Karaoke or Fukutake Study Box)
or for some chinese clones (ABM, or Bridge, or any other), please contact us.
they were attached there. This temporarily breaks Lightgun and Multitap in Famicom, but in
reality they were never working in Japanese-exclusive games, only in worldwide games who
supported NES protocol, so just use the NES driver to have previous functionality until I add
support for the FC protocol. Standard pads, keyboards and mj panel work as before). nw.
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]
- 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 :)
