we were emulating) and added support for the bankswitch mechanism used
by the final revision. nw.
(some work is still needed before promoting the two carts to working state)
which allows to launch SMS games in the gamegear driver, with video chip
in SMS mode. You can try this by launching
mess.exe gamegear -cart mgear -cart2 your_sms_game
(the -cart2 switch becomes available when you mount "mgear" in the main
gamegear cart slot) [Fabio Priuli]
out of the whatsnew: for the moment only fullpath loading is supported, and it is not
ensured to work 100%. thanks to Enik Land for pointing me to the necessary info.
cartridges and implemented the IntelliVoice expansion and
the Entertainment Computer System expansion as passthru
devices. The official syntax to launch games requiring the
speech expansion is now
mess intv -cart voice -cart2 gamename
which corresponds to mounting the IntelliVoice and plugging
the game cart in its subslot. The official syntax to launch games
requiring the ECS expansion is now instead
mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 gamename
and
mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 voice -cart3 gamename
if the game requires both expansions at once. For additional user
friendliness, we also offer intvecs (which emulates an Intellivision
unit with both expansions added) and intvoice (which emulates
an Intellivision with Intellivoice expansion added) drivers, where
games can simply be mounted with the -cart media switch. [Fabio
Priuli]
cartridges, removed The Voice add-on from the main system
and emulated it as a passthru cart instead. Now, if you want to
enjoy speech in odyssey/videopac games, you must launch
emulation with
mess.exe odyssey2 -cart voice -cart2 gamename
(the -cart2 switch becomes available when "voice" is mounted
in the first cartslot) [Fabio Priuli]
(off by default) to skip BIOS checks at boot. This allows the
recently dumped Rockman World Prototype to be played,
and the Rocket Games pirate GBC carts too. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) gba: added a configuration setting (off by default)
to skip some BIOS checks at boot. This allows Tyrian 2000
Prototype to be played. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: for the Rocket Games pirates it is currently unclear how real carts were bypassing
the BIOS checks on a real unit, and it would be nice to emulate it properly. however, this trick allows
to go on fixing the rest of mapper emulation until it's fully understood.
their carts. this allows to remove on-cart RAM from the driver class (since it
does not belong there). also added (partial) support for Channel F multicart.
nw.
slot options. you now mount these with the -cart media switch,
i.e. for instance
mess.exe saturn -cdrm ddsom -cart ram32
or
mess.exe saturn -cdrm draculax -cart bram16
and not anymore using the -exp option. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: this prevents users from passing conflicting setups like
"-exp ram32 -cart kof95", etc. these would have lead to unpredictable effects,
depending on the order of the option (and whether they were set at command
line or inside ini files)
