promoted China set of Oriental Legend 2 to working
promoted Knights of Valour 2 New Legend to working
as each game/region requires a valid default card in order to save said cards are part of romset.
(there's probably a cleaner way to do the device finder stuff but I forgot and can't find reference)
The analogue joystick is now emulated. Also fixed a few minor issues
with the memory map.
This also adds a generic Z80 dasisy chain device, for use in drivers
with non-Z80 peripherals.
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E-Touch Mahjong Series #6: Scandal Blue - Midara na Daishou [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
E-Touch Mahjong Series #7: Trap Zone - Yokubou no Kaisoku Densha [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
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Ton Puu Mahjong [ShouTime, The Dumping Union]
This is only a skeleton driver. ShouTime will keep the PCB only for a few more days, so if someone has the time to have a look.. (nw)
* Remove duplicate code
* Screen raw parameters and XTAL values
* Added PAL dumps for supbtime [Luiskiko/jammarcade.net]
* Add dip switch locations to all games
* Emulate LC7535 based volume control for Dragon Gun board based games
* Add DSW3 and DIP locations to Captain Avenger
* Reorganize driver and start cleaning it up (in progress)
Used by games in the cninja and deco32 drivers. This implies proper
VBlank IRQ ack for all games now. Also added and improved raw screen
parameters for various games.
unkfr belongs in 4enraya (which was my guess when it was mentioned)
doesn't seem much point in having a complete non-working driver in the source for it when it boots as a romswap.
These humble 16-pin logic devices were commonly used in 8-bit arcade games to control coin counters/lockouts, IRQ flipflops, graphics banking, slave CPU reset lines, discrete audio triggers, screen flipping, serial EEPROMs and much else. Over 100 drivers and a few bus devices have been updated to use the new implementation, and a great deal of research has gone into documenting the physical location of these devices on actual PCBs in the source. Write handlers have been provided for both orthodox and somewhat less conventional memory mappings.
Incidental to this update, coin counters and/or lockouts have been added to Atari System 1 games, Basketball, Gauntlet, Gyruss, Hana Yayoi, Hole Land, Jr. Pac-Man, Mahjong Sisters, Pooyan, Roc'n Rope, Squash, Thunder Hoop, Time Limit, Time Pilot '84 and many others. This also cleans up coin counter behavior in Sauro and Rally Bike.
(nw) The purpose of committing this change, which has been several months in the making, early in the 0.189GIT cycle will be to allow time for fixing potential regressions; I've fixed a number of drivers that lost sound from this for various reasons (hnayayoi.cpp having missing or garbage ADPCM was particularly painful, since the three games in that driver all work slightly differently), but I can't test all affected drivers exhaustively. @Tafoid, don't bother running automated screen capture comparison tests on this, as many drivers are now expected to have the screen flipped for the first few seconds after reset.
- made ds5002fp store internal ram and sfr registers to nvram as they're battery backed
- this includes the 'configuration' details which are actually programmable, so don't belong in the 'MACHINE_CONFIG' section but rather as part of the default NVRAM
- as the exact format of the NVRAM storage is not known, and as not to break compatibility with the 'wrally' set Gaelco offer these bytes are now configured in the ROM LOADING like default NVRAM. Slightly awkward, but probably the best way.
- made the SRAM (external to DS5002FP, but still powered by the same battery) also save content, some games actually use it to store scores etc. as well as the game code.
- cleaned up the Touch and Go Dallas dump, and added some preconfigured internal RAM so that it actually loads the score data from the SRAM properly
- prepared all other drivers for the adding of the SRAM dumps, removing old 'never going to work' simulation code in the process. To do this a wrapper / interface device for the Gaelco Dallas + SRAM box was created.
out of whatsnew
Alligator Hunt was dumped and works, but not yet added, want to verify on a 2nd PCB first as the process does corrupt some bytes and a couple had to be handfixed, so the only way to know for sure is multiple dumps.
- Merge driver with goldnpkr.cpp source to get working sound (graphics and sound should be identical)
- Add version numbers to set names
- Promote megadpkrb to WORKING (with one caveat)
