I'm doing the ROMs in /roms/redundant-mostly from largest size to smallest size. When adding info to the drivers, I'm erring on the side of completeness, so please excuse me if some of this information can be collated into more interesting tables (namcos22, model2).
I haven't deleted these zips from the ftp yet. If anyone sees a problem, please feel free to point it out before the zips find a new permanent home on my local drive.
1. (propcycl.zip) Added prop cycle readme to ROM definition region (even though it was almost the same as alpine racer, the PICs were different, as was the RAM chip type)
2. (invasn.zip) Uploaded Invasion PCB pic.
3. (bel.zip) Added readme to ROM Definition region of Behind Enemy Lines driver.
4. (coolridr.zip) Tightened up the readme in coolridr.c.
5. (tekken2.zip) The Namco System 11 documentation contains all the information the tekken2.zip readme has. Nothing to do here.
6. (dendeg.zip) The taitojc driver already contained the FILE_ID.DIZ (ah, the memories) verbatim.
This will clear ~120 mb off the FTP.
> From: deaconblue@worldofretro.net [mailto:deaconblue@worldofretro.net]
> Subject: shuttle invader (shuttlei)
>
> i remember that there was a three coloured pressure-sensitive decal on
> the screen, i mean the monitor itself.
>
> maybe 75 percent was green (the aliens are in "green" status, green
> area), then 10 percent was orange (they come closer, two lines in total)
> and from that below was red, to show up, they as close as they never
> should be (red alert state)
>
> i can't say, how much lines they spend for each color, but i surely
> know, that my memories is very close to that what it was....
>
>
>
> maybe you can use this, thanks in advance for your answer...
>
> Deacon
Subject: MAME Submission Attached 2-2
Again, re-submitting in case this wasn't received.
This is a new set of official Gorf sound samples which I recorded from my pcb.
The file contains a .diff to raise the default samples volume from 0.25 to 0.85.
To prove the accuracy of these samples, I made an uninterrupted 20 minute long
direct MP3 recording of the gameplay which can be downloaded HERE.
Anyone interested in the documentation of the Votrax speech for Astrocade hardware
can download my file posted on MAME World HERE. The file contains pcb recordings of
every possible word and phrase used in Gorf and Wizard of Wor, and includes detailed
notes indicating where words are spoken and when.
Chris Law
gyrovision@gmail.com
Subject: [patch] Missed Machine->machine changes
Hi mamedev,
A short incremental to my last deprecat.h patches. This one is the
result of a slightly improved fixup script, which finds more cases
where Machine can be replaced with machine. Six more files lose
deprecat.h.
~aa
Subject: [patch] More Machine->machine changes, add machine to irq
callbacks
Hi mamedev,
Here are two more patches to eliminate Machine globals. The first
patch was autogenerated by the attached fixup script. That script has
been updated to catch additional cases which it previously missed
(when Machine is the last parameter to a function or Machine is used
in an assignment). This makes ~50 more files deprecat.h free.
A sizable chunk (~20%) of the remaining uses of the Machine global in
the drivers are due to irq callbacks for sound and machine updates.
Typically such callbacks need to call cpunum_set_input_line, which
requires a machine parameter, so if the callbacks don't pass the
machine parameter, these routines have no choice but to reference the
global variable.
The second patch attempts to address most cases of this by adding the
machine parameter to the callback interfaces. This allows us to
remove #include "deprecat.h" from ~150 files, at the cost of having to
fix up hundreds of callbacks.
In total, these patches reduced the number of files with deprecat.h
from 783 to 575.
~aa
Subject: saturn CPU patch
Dear MAMEDev,
The attached patch corrects several bugs in the emulation of the saturn
CPU. These corrections are needed to make new HP48 drivers (to be
submitted to MESS imminently) work.
AFAIK, MESS is the only place where this CPU is used, so, the patch
should
not cause any regression in MAME.
The patch is against 0125u1.
Best regards,
-
Antoine Mine
* Added new opcode LZCNT which returns the number of leading zeros in
a parameter.
* Added new opcode XTRACT which is a combined rotate/mask (basically
rlwinm from PowerPC)
* Added new opcode INSERT which is a combined rotate/mask/blend
(basically rlwimi from PowerPC). Best. Opcode. Ever.
* Updated all back-ends to support these new opcodes.
* Fixed several bugs relating to shifts/rotates and optimizing out
cases incorrectly.
MIPS3 DRC changes:
* Updated to use INSERT and XTRACT where appropriate
* Cleaned up register usage to enable an additional direct mapping;
this means Linux gets 1 now and Windows gets 3
- Confirmed the CPU clock after some PCB measurements.
- Changed the SND clock to 1MHz to match the PCB measurement.
- Corrected the internal OKI6295 frequency turning the pin 7 state to HIGH.
- Inputs: Eliminated all pulse limitations.
Affected buttons have a rattled sound in the real thing too.
- Updated technical notes.
Please also co-credit f205v for the measurements.
machine registers if the machine supports it. Currently only x64 on
Windows has enough free registers to do so, though PowerPC will almost
certainly be able to take advantage of this. Gives a minor speedup.
I was able to clean up 24 meg of already-emulated ROMs from /roms/unemulated/Misc. Only one of the sets had a readme that wasn't in MAME.
I have a local copy of discoboy.zip, FishingManiac3.zip, PashaPasha2.zip, and PashaPasha2_redump.zip, and will continue to keep these around in case anyone needs them.
* Fixed front-end so that virtual no-op instructions are still targeted
as branch targets.
* Fixed front-end to mark the beginning of each sequence as needing TLB
validation, since any sequence can be jumped to from anywhere.
* Redid the MIPS3 TLB implementation. Fixed the exception vector and
type handling. Changed the bitfields to directly map from the MIPS TLB
format. Added distinction between TLB fill and TLB valid/modified
exceptions.
* Added separate modes for user, supervisor, and kernel modes. Each mode
does proper verification of addresses now and generates address errors
for invalid accesses.
* Fixed several bugs in the TLB implementation; not everything works
yet but it's a lot closer.
* Made COP0 access checking mandatory in non-kernel modes.
* Fixed several crashes when recompiling virtual no-ops.
* Fixed TLB bug where entries for virtual address 0 were present by
default.
* Fixed bug in the map variable implementation that would sometimes
result in incorrectly recovered values.
This will be expanded in the future.
Added two new opcodes: SAVE and RESTORE to save and restore the entire
virtual machine state for examination/setup.
Added new back-end function get_info() which returns information from
the back-end about how many actual registers will be mapped.
Fixed a bug that mapped the high a low parts of registers to the same
address. This should help the C back-end run better on big-endian
architectures.
He has the Atari manual that clearly says that the game has one pedal (accel) and the gear shift.
He has done some tests between the PCB and driver and now both behave the same.
Sorry if I caused some confusion...
- a wheel
- 2 analog pedals (acceleration, brake)
- gear shift
Currently if you use the analog controls, it takes a lot of time to accelerate and there is no gear shift mapped. I have sent an email to Mirko so probably he will figure out the missing bits of non joystick mode.
Adjustment to roz layer priority - prevents roz layer from incorrectly being displayed over backgrounds in some games (i.e. numanathj)
Added a mask when processing the roz tilemap to avoid defects in emeraldj
The problem is that original submission was sent with reversed diff, I applied it (after Aaron request to commit external submissions), and then Aaron applied it again (with original reversed diff), effectively reverting to old version of code.
* Input ports are now maintained hierarchically. At the top
level are input ports, which contain a list of fields. Each
field represents one or more bits of the port. Certain fields
such as DIP switches and configuration switches contain a
list of settings, which can be selected. DIP switch fields
can also contain a list of DIP switch locations.
* Normalized behavior of port overrides (via PORT_INCLUDE or
by defining multiple overlapping bits). All fields within a
port are kept in strict increasing bit order, so altered DIP
switches are now kept in the appropriate order. This addresses
MAMETesters bug 01671.
* Live port state is now fully separate from configured
state. This is manifested in a similar way to devices, where
a const list of ports can be managed either offline or live.
Each port has a pointer to an opaque set of live state which
is NULL when offline or valid when live. Each port also has
a running_machine * which is also NULL when offline.
* Because of this new arrangement, the conversion from tokens
to a list of ports now requires reasonably complex memory
allocation, so these port lists must be explicitly allocated
and freed (they are not mantained by automatic resource
allocation).
* Custom and changed callbacks now take a pointer to a field
config instead of a running machine. This provides more
information about what field triggered the change notification.
The machine can be found by referenced field->port->machine.
* The inptport.c module has been cleaned up and many
ambiguities resolved. Most of this is internal, though it did
result in osd_customize_inputport_list() being changed to
osd_customize_input_type_list(). The parameter to this function
is now a linked list instead of an array, and the structures
referenced have been reorganized somewhat.
* Updated config.c to pass machine parameters to its callbacks.
* Updated validity checks, XML output, and UI system to handle
the new structures.
* Moved large table of default input settings to a separate
include file inpttype.h.
* Removed gross hacks in trackfld and hyperspt NVRAM. These
may be broken as a result.
Subject: lwings bootleg
Added a Legendary Wings' bootleg, it have some little difference on character's gfx and colours.
Here are attached also the rom taken from f205v web.
Bye Sonikos .
New clones added:
Legendary Wings (bootleg) [Sonikos]
Subject: [patch] Remove opbase globals from the public interface
Hi mamedev,
There are several variables associated with opbase handling which are
global and documented in memory.h and thus their use is not well
controlled. This patch attempts to remedy this. Because they are
used in various inline memory functions, they can't yet be made local
to memory.c, but by rescoping their declaration they can be hidden,
much like we hide totalcpu.
Most of the uses are in OPBASE_HANDLER() macros, so by encapsulating
the opbase state into a struct and adding that to the handler
interface those can be converted to local variable manipulation. There
is one use in missile.c in a MACHINE_START that I simply removed, it
shouldn't be needed.
One side effect of this patch is that the various unsafe memory macros
can't be used directly, they will be a compiler error now. That is
probably for the best.
~aa
Subject: fix to bug 01791
Hi,
enclosed please find a small patch to fix the issues in asterock
(asteroid.c) mentioned in bug 01791
the regression happened in 123u2, when asterock was updated to use
asteroid inputs. Unfortunately, 3 inputs went from ACTIVE_LOW to
ACTIVE_HIGH, among them INPUT_TILT. This was causing the cabinet to be
tilted with a twofold effect:
* to produce the continuous sound and
* to stop any coinage
Modifying back those 3 inputs fixes both issues
Subject: MSM6242 fixes
Sorry, seems I forgot to add the device to all machine drivers that
need it - here's an update that fixes that.
Details here: http://mess.toseciso.org/mame:regtest
--Dirk
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
beatmania 7th MIX (ver JA-B) [Chizzy]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
beatmania THE FINAL (ver JA-A) [Chizzy]
- support for scanline effect (fixes invisible dolphin in Emeralda attract mode)
- ROZ implementation no longer breaks Numan Athletics pixmap layer
- blitter fixes; xday graphics are now correct
- identified extra communications RAM used by xday (probably to control printer)
to write RGB bitmaps. Unfortunately, the only option is fully
uncompressed, which means the resulting AVIs are *HUGE* and
may not play correctly in realtime due to high data rate. The
intention is that these uncompressed AVIs are post-processed
by other utilities to compress the video and produce a
realtime playable result.
Added new command-line option -aviwrite which works just like
-mngwrite, except it produces AVIs and streams sound to them.
Updated documentation accordingly.
Shift+F12 still produces MNGs for now, though this might change
in the future.
Modified fileio.c to retain the full pathname to the file so
that it can be queried while the file is open.
is drcuml.c, which defines a universal machine language
syntax that can be generated by a frontend recompiler and
then retargeted via a generic backend interface to any of
a number of different architectures. A disassembler for the
UML is also included to allow examination of the generated
UML code.
Currently supported backend architectures include 32-bit x86,
64-bit x86, and a platform-neutral interpreted C backend that
can be used as a fallback for platforms without native
support. The C backend also performs additional validation
to ensure assumptions are met.
Along with the new architecture is a new MIPS III/IV
recompiler frontend. This frontend has been rewritten from
the old x64-specific recompiler to generate UML opcodes
instead. This means that the single recompiler can be used
to target multiple backend architectures and should in
theory produce identical results across all of them.
The old 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS recompilers are now officially
retired. The new system provides similar performance (within
5% generally) to the old system and has similar compatibility.
The only currently known issues are some problems with the
two Gauntlet 3D games.
- Properly decoded graphics.
- Proper memory map.
- Added NVRAM support.
- Proper Inputs through 8255 PPI I/O chip.
- Both games are working.
- Added technical & game notes.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Card Games? [Roberto Fresca]
Slots Game? [Roberto Fresca]
Subject: Bug 1795 fix
Fixes typo in tmaster.c causing weekday to be incorrect
(or, without a 'typo': Fixed weekday calculation in rtc emulation in tmaster.c.
)
The key observation was that when decryptiong the second word, both encrypted and decrypted bits of the first word are used.
Many thanks to Javier Valero for the detailed information that made this possible.
ROZ tilemap is actually an additional tilemap. The prior implementation conditionally applied ROZ effects to one of the existing tilemap planes.
The ROZ layer tilemap contains 32x32 tiles, and immediately following videoram for the other 4 tilemaps.
This fixes a bug where a "roz enable" test was causing a normal layer to be rendered with ROZ effects in-game.
There is no roz enable register - it's always available for mixing with other tilemaps and sprites
This also adds a missing NAMCO logo zoom/spin effect in Emeralda's attract mode.
Also added to this driver (but not enabled) are notes regarding a missing scanline IRQ effect, that is the root cause of a bad priority effect in Emeralda attract mode, where a dolphin sprite is incorrectly invisible.
Changed ES5505 clock rate to 30476100/2.
Unified cbombers memory maps and tidied up some code.
Removed the undrfire speedup hack.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Chase Bombers [Phil Bennett]
Just a typo. Changed game description from "Mahjong Neruton Haikujirada" to "Mahjong Neruton Haikujiradan".
But the game clearly show the legend "Hai Kujira Dan" (with spaces).
Also changed the difficulty DIPs from 'easy-medium-hard-hardest' to 'easiest-easy-normal-hard' as listed in the manual.
Now default is 'normal' instead of 'hard'.
The manual always call this system 'system 14' instead of system C/C2.
Subject: Pitboss Superstar patch and roms
This is the patch for Pitboss Superstar based on the 0.124u5 build of mame.
I'm attaching both the diff file and the roms.
Hugh McLenaghan
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Pit Boss Superstar [Hugh McLenaghan]
Subject: MSM6242 fixes
Sorry, seems I forgot to add the device to all machine drivers that
need it - here's an update that fixes that.
Details here: http://mess.toseciso.org/mame:regtest
--Dirk
Changed the Megatouch III roms 36 & 37 to be the same as the new redump based on my own redump of Megatouch IV and the rom names. IE: megat3.u36 == 9255-01_u36-ro the 01 in the rom name is the "revision" number. Normally the U36 & U37 doesn't change just U32 & U38 for program revisions.
Subject: Merit Megatouch 3 Tournament Edition
This diff includes the Merit Megatouch 3 Tournament Edition patch.
Hugh McLenaghan
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Megatouch III Tournament Edition [Hugh McLenaghan]
Megatouch III [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Subject: PIC 8259 changes
Hello Aaron,
As I have announced before, here are some changes on pic8259.
for changelog:
[PIC8259] Adding support for 8080/85 mode interrupts
Please just check it against x86 platform, not sure if is_x86 in ICW4 is obligatory in case of using it on x86 platform.
Regards,
Miodrag
Subject: [patch] Small deprecat.h related cleanup
Hi mamedev,
While doing some work on eliminating some uses of deprecat.h, I came
across a few files that didn't have it that used deprecated features.
A little investigation revealed they were getting it through
debugger.h, typically by referencing m68000.h. Since deprecat.h is
intended to document the files that need updating (otherwise it would
just be included in a common header), I reworked debugger.h to not
import it when the debugger is not enabled, and fixed the files that
broke as a result.
~aa
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:31 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: Raimais (japan / First revision)
Diff + romset of Raimais (japan / first revision).
New game added: Raimais (Japan / First Revision)
0.119u3 (shinoblb, shinibld) as well as update some others. I cleaned up these flags many
releases ago for system16.c and system18.c. These two slipped in and I didn't notice until a
bug report was made on them:
http://www.mametesters.org/mantis/view.php?id=1727
Thanks,
Tafoid
Verified more gfx ROM mappings against PALs (thanks to Corrado Tomaselli)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Dynasty Wars (US set 2) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Final Fight (Japan 900112) [Chack'n]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Forgotten Worlds (World?) [The Guru]
(I forgot to add the following lines in my previous commit)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Snooker 10 [Roberto Fresca]
Apple 10 [Roberto Fresca]
Ten Balls [Roberto Fresca]
Driver updates;
Consolidated, corrected and updated info
Verified Megatouch IV program rom
Corrected many rom names
Add game revision to game name (IE: 9255-40-01 ROE)
Added pals from Megatouch 6 to other sets as they all run on the same PCB
Add the sound clock update as forwarded from Aaron
- Added TICKET and HOPPER buttons to allow payout through the SUPER GAME.
- Documented the featured SUPER GAME with complete instructions.
- Improved DIP switches to properly set the payout system.
With these fixes, the payout system through SUPER GAME is now working properly.
General Changes:
- added support for mapping rom and ram in PPU video memory space
- added PinBot mapper (H board)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
PinBot (PlayChoice-10)
- Created a new machine driver for tenballs due to different memory map.
- Worked all the input ports from the scratch.
- Fixed the sound ROM_REGION.
- Added the oki6295 emulation to all games.
- Hooked output ports.
- Documented and calculated all bits related to lamps.
- Adjusted palette lenght to 256 colors.
- Totally decrypted the apple10 color matrix. Now colors are perfect.
- Created a new machine driver for apple10 due to encryption.
- Reverse engineering the code to complete the DIP switches.
- Added diplocations to DIP switches.
- Promoted snookr10, apple10 and tenballs to 'WORKING' state.
- Added game instructions & notes.
- Updated encryption & technical notes.
To initialize NVRAM (for all games), keep pressed ESTATISTICA (key '9') + MANAGEMENT (key '0'),
then press RESET (key F3), and finally release both (ESTATISTICA + MANAGEMENT) keys.
You must delete the old NVRAM and .cfg files first.
- Fixed AY8910 volume to all games to avoid clips.
- Merge bigdeal and funworld machine drivers thanks to the AY8910 rewrite.
- Removed old unaccurate commentary about magiccrd tiles.
this fix priorities in quizf1, riskchal amd maybe more m90 games
thanks to Corrado Tomaselli for testing my trojan in a bombrman PCB
more info at http://www.emulab.it/robiza/
Subject: [patch] Remove more Machine globals, #include "deprecat.h"
Hi mamedev,
The attached patch goes through and converts a number of Machine
globals to machine locals, and then removes #include "deprecat.h" if
appropriate. The script that generated it is included, since the
patch itself is rather large and would have been time consuming to
produce otherwise.
The script doesn't convert cases of Machine that aren't in common
macros. I'll try to tackle those later if someone doesn't beat me to
it.
~aa
Subject: [patch] Eliminate assignments in conditionals
Hi mamedev,
Assignments in conditionals are never really needed in C and are
occasionally just plain bugs (== gets typed as =). As such, it would
be good to remove these from MAME so that compilers that warn on this
construct can flag the likely bugs (MSVC does this for example). The
attached patch does just that. In addition, it refactors some
repeated code which had this in taito_f3.c into a couple macros. Using
inline functions would unfortunately have required more significant
changes, perhaps I'll tackle that another day.
~aa
01740: carnival, headon, heiankyo, pulsar, samurai, tranqgun : Is not possible to insert any coin
01721: sspaceat, sspacat2, sspacat3, sspacatc : Problems with inserting coins
01710: spacetrk, sptrekct: Cannot insert coins in both sets
* change DC offset for AY-3-8910 to 0.2V
* tones are now distinguishable again
galaxian.c:
* adjust "konami" sound volume
gyruss.c:
* adjust sound volume
* adds a model to calculate mixing of channels with different resistance loads.
* based on above, each channel may be assigned a different load in individual case
i.e. channels not tied together
* rewrote ay8910.c to make emulation simpler
* changed the config structure to include a flag field and output resistor loads.
* Updated all drivers affected.
* Added some "Todos" related to stuff I discovered when reading datasheets.
* Fixed a bug in disc_flt.c (konami filters)
galaxian.c:
* Fixed discrete sound and konami filter addressing
* Changed addressing of AY-3-8910 to be in line with schematics
gyruss.c:
* Added discrete sound for filtering ("konami"-style) and mixing.
Hello Aaron,
I have found few more things not ok in T11, this time I have fixed it myself.
1. HALT - should call interrupt vector
2. ILLEGAL - had PC=0 at the end which makes code not run fine
3. MARK - now it is implemented
Can you please check if your drivers are working fine with these cahanges.
After adjustments I have some things working finaly.
Please inform me,
Miodrag Milanovic
Subject: [patch] Fix 01711: connect4, mpu4met0, mpu4tst2, mpu4utst, bctvidbs: Using -CHEAT trigger causes a crash
Hi mamedev,
This patch fixes bug 01711. Given the location of the original assert
it is clear the original code wasn't quite right.
~aa
Subject: [patch] Fix 00149: No error report for invalid BIOS setting.
Hi mamedev,
This small patch makes specifying an invalid bios a fatalerror and
removes the need to expose system_bios to the drivers by reworking the
code in playch10.c to determine its bios more directly (in other
words, it removes an ugly hack). This should resolve bug 00149,
although I did not implement the popmessage as suggested.
~aa
Subject: [patch] Fix 01588 timecrsa, timecris: MAME simply quits after
pressing F3 in both sets, game cannot be runned
Hi mamedev,
This small patch fixes the crash in bug 01588 and seems to allow the
game to start in most cases. In some cases in my testing the board
failed startup tests, but that appears to be unrelated.
~aa
Attached is diff which makes Touchmaster games playable.
General changes:
- Added preliminary 68681 DUART (machine\68681.c)
- Moved Microtouch touch screen controller emulation to separate module (machine\microtch.c)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Touchmaster [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Touchmaster 3000 [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Touchmaster 4000 [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Touchmaster 5000 [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Touchmaster 7000 [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Subject: Rygar third set dump
I named this dump as set 2 since it's the bugfix version like set 1. Set
3 was renamed old version because it has some bad bugs.
I haven't seen any visible differences, it would be interesting to see
what has changed in the program and if it's a newer revision than the
set 1 in mame...
New clones added:
Rygar (US set 3 Old Version)
that forcibly kills the application after a certain number of seconds.
Primarily intended to be used in regression test runs to handle the
occasional hung game.
- iqblocka: bypassed the protection, emulated the video hardware, inputs and sound.
- tjsb: it now boots and has partially decrypted graphics.
[Luca Elia]
Funworld updates:
- Removed the temporary hack to jolyc980.
- Updated technical notes regarding Magic Card II & Jolly Card Professional 2.0.
- Moved snookr10 to its own driver.
- Minor clean-up.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
------------------------------------
Apple 10 (Ver 1.21) [Roberto Fresca]
Ten Balls (Ver 1.05) [Roberto Fresca]
there are some issues, the unused palette bits are significant as the colours are wrong at the moment, also maybe it should be joystick, not spinner etc.. It's an ugly Korean hack game ;-)
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
---------------------------------------------------
Jumping Pop (NICs, Korean bootleg of Plump Pop) [Robin Cooper, David Haywood]
increased Varth CPU clock to 12MHz to reduce slowdowns (the game was released after sf2ce so the faster A-board was available).
verified more gfx rom mappings against PAL dumps (thanks to Corrado Tomaselli).
verified memory maps using A-board PAL dumps (thanks to Charles McDonald).
separated the address ranges for CPS-A and CPS-B customs. This finally clarifies why some registers are fixed and some change with every game.
identified three new unknown registers in the CPS-B-21 custom. Their purpose is unknown.
all unhandled accesses to CPS-A/CPS-B registers will now be reported. There shouldn't be any left. Look out for "contact MAMDEV" popups.
cleaned memory maps. Moved forgotten worlds special input mmeory handlers to DRIVER_INIT.
moved extra input handlers to video/cps1.c since the extra connectors are on the C-board.
added sound to Final Crash.
direct byte, word, dword, and qword accessors for all bus sizes,
there are now masked word, dword, and qword accessors for all
bus sizes.
IMPORTANT: masks that are passed to the _masked_* functions are
NOT inverted. Although inverted masks are still passed to callback
functions, when you request a masked read or write the masks should
represent the bits you want.
Updated the various MIPS cores that use these functions to invert
their masks.
Added support in the T-11 core for an external vector via irq_callback.
Apparently the hardware actually did support this and it is necessary
for emulating the BK 0010/11 computer in MESS.
range to be RAM-like for reads but calls the given handler for writes.
Replaced AM_READWRITE(SMH_RAM, handler) with AM_RAM_WRITE(handler).
Also replaced AM_RAM AM_WRITE(handler) with AM_RAM_WRITE(handler).
accordingly.
Added new functions for dynamically installing device memory
read/write handlers.
Updated install_memory_XXX_handler() functions to take a machine
parameter. Updated all drivers accordingly.
Merged installation of read and write handlers where appropriate.
Simplified memory.c code for dynamic installation so that a single
function handles all the work; a NULL read or write handler
indicates not to install anything for reads or writes.
Batsugun does upload what looks to be the entire program, unencrypted. If enabled it runs to the point of waiting for interrupts, however, for those it looks like it needs a real V25 core with register banks etc.
The other games using the V25 (Dogyuun, Fix Eight, VFive/GrindStormer) only upload a 'stub' program and are encrypted, maybe they upload the rest later? Knuckle Bash is ROM based V25 (and encrypted). Charles is working on decrypting them anyway, but core updates would be handy.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Nandemo Seal Iinkai [Luca Elia]
P.S.
missing from the 0.124u1 whatsnew:
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Show Hand [Luca Elia]
memory maps. To do so, you either need to specify a shift amount
(mapping to a particular subset of the bus) or SHIFT_PACKED, which
maps a single larger sized read/write down to multiple reads or
writes at the smaller size.
Removed word-sized handlers from 6821pia.c. Updated drivers that
needed them to use these new interfaces instead.
Updated gaelco3d.c and itech8.c to remove the need for memconv.h
by using this new feature.
Re-removed input_port_set_digital_value().
src/emu/cpu/m68000/m68kmame.c:
src/emu/cpu/minx/minx.c:
- Fixed compilation errors on CPU cores not enabled in MAME
src/emu/inptport.c:
src/emu/inptport.h:
- Readded input_port_set_digital_value() (which is needed for natural
keyboard inpout in MESS)
- Added a running_machine parameter to inputx_update()
Subject: xml_normalize_string() bogusly escapes UTF-8
Various parts of MAME have recently been changed to support UTF-8
strings, so I thought I'd test out using a UTF-8 driver name for the
Sam Coupe driver in MESS, just to see if anything breaks. Most things
do seem to work well - the name is correctly drawn in the UI etc. One
thing that doesn't work properly is the output from -listxml: "Sam
Coupe" becomes "Sam Coupé" - each UTF-8 byte is
individually escaped, resulting in two gibberish characters instead of
the correct character.
The culprit here is xml_normalize_string() in src/lib/util/xmlfile.c -
the code converts any high-bit byte to an XML escape, which is totally
bogus for any encoding but ISO-8859-1 because XML escapes are defined
as Unicode codepoints regardless of the document encoding.
Fortunately, this is very simple to fix - in fact, it is sufficient
just to remove the escaping code and pass through the UTF-8 bytes
directly, because UTF-8 is mandated as the default encoding in the XML
standard.[1] The attached patch does this.
This should be a pretty safe change since as far as I can tell nothing
in MAME or MESS currently triggers this code (that is, the string "&#"
does not occur in the -listxml output of either). One potentially
negative effect is that the ASCII controls which are illegal in XML
(0x00-0x19 excepting line breaks and tabs) would no longer be escaped.
However, I can't imagine why you would want any in a string destined
for -listxml, so IMO that would be a problem elsewhere in the code and
having XML parsers barf on it would be desirable.
-Justin Kerk
* save state support for FD1094 chips
* improved graphics in athena
* improved sound balance in armedf
* derived refresh rate for toaplan1 games
* improved sound balance in tmnt games
* derived clocks for suprridr
* tweaked xmen visible area
* derived clocks and refresh rate in twin16 driver
I cleaned up the Machine usage in the osd/windows files and added the
running_machine parameter where possible.
I didn't add it to osd_wait_for_debugger() yet, but I would make
sense to have it.
Subject: change for cpunum_set_irq_callback() callback function
This patch adds the running_machine* parameter to the function passed
into cpunum_set_irq_callback() and adds the IRQ_CALLBACK macro for
the callback function.
Subject: Update for "Euro League (bootleg)"
Hello,
some tiny updates for the driver wc90b.c :
-Added dumps for all GALs on the PCB
-Removed the second YM2203, it isn't present on the bootleg boards
-Changed the clocks according to the oscilators found on the board,
the previous speeds were measured on a goal92 PCB, not using a real "Euro League" PCB.
-Added a new osc to xtal.h
If you need any info about this update, please mail me.
Regards: ClawGrip (Tomas Garcia-Meras)
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Also merged memory maps [Aaron Giles]
only remaining form is the one that takes a pointer parameter.
Added macros for STATE_PRESAVE and STATE_POSTLOAD to define common
functions. Added machine parameter to these functions.
Updated all drivers and CPU/sound cores to use the new macros
and consolidate on the single function type. As a result pushed
the machine parameter through a few initialization stacks.
Removed unnecessary postload callbacks which only marked all tiles
dirty, since this is done automatically by the tilemap engine.
Subject: bugfix to 1673 on MT
Enclosed please find a patch which fixes bug 1673 in MT. in 123u4 a few
machine parameter where added to the routines drawing bg and fg, but all
of them where moved to use the _fg function. putting _bg where they were
in 123u3 fixes the bug
Subject: some dips
dips.diff adds tags and locations to dips for marvins.c and matmania.c
(also adding a couple of corrections in names and default settings,
explained in short notes added to the drivers)
trace through in a debug build, yet should operate the same as before.
Created a complete set of functions for all databus sizes (8,16,32,64) and
all endiannesses. A few functions are redundant, but it is now very clear
which functions to use in which scenarios. It is also now possible to rely
on being able to access values of 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits via the built-in
accessors without fear of crashing.
Updated all cores using 8-bit handlers to explicitly call the 8-bit handlers
with the appropriate endianness.
Fixed a few games which were calling n-bit handlers directly to use the
generic forms. In the future, this is all the access drivers will have.
Checked inputs for all games but 'survival' (Dip Switches still need to be done), so now cocktail mode is correctly supported by 'pleiads' and its clones.
Renamed sets :
- falcona -> falconz
- vautour2 -> vautourz
fixed reading from SXYP
fixed reading from IRGB
fixed writing to LZCR
fixed sign extension of GTE control registers
fixed writing to FLAG
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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1 on 1 Government (JAPAN)
1) sprite offset are now correct
2) split spriteram in two parts
3) identified last sprite for the two parts
4) promoted to "working" (no sound)
for pallavol:
1) fix for sprite's y-coordinate
2) implement lookup table for convert sprite code in the real code
3) change the name to "1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg) (see the snapshot)
4) fix scroll
5) fix offset
Added ability to test the instruction/data cache ram. The scratchpad and BIU register are now handled internally to the CPU.
All writes are performed with masks. SWL/SWR used to be implemented with two writes ( one byte and one word ) when writing three bytes, now it only ever performs one. Byte and Word writes use masks as they leave the rest of the register on the bus, which can be picked up by larger registers.
The read/write functions to use are cached when the SR bits are updated, as are the bad address masks.
Added coprocessor 1 & 3 support, though they don't do anything useful.
All loads now go through the delay pipeline, a lwl/lwr will grab the value out of the pipeline if it's updating the same register.
Added undocumented behaviour of BLEZ/BGTZ. The comparison for zero can be changed by specifying an alternate register in the RT field ( the documentation says you should always use register 0 ).
Restricted to 16 COP0 registers & generate an exception if any of the 5 for the MMU are used.
Added BCF/BCT instructions, although I have found no conditions that affect them yet.
Generates an exception if any MMU instructions are executed.
Sets the CE instruction for all exceptions, not just those involving a coprocessor. The bits of the opcode that specify the coprocessor are grabbed no matter what the instruction.
Added TAR register and BT bit in SR. When an exception occurs during a branch, BT determines whether it was taken or not. The TAR register gets set to the destination of the branch.
Fixed the BD bit when you are in a branch delay slot and you didn't take the branch, this shows up in the pipeline as !pc.
Fixed branches within a branch delay slot.
Multiply & divide instructions can be aborted if you write to HI/LO before reading the result.
Added data breakpoints, you don't appear to be able to set breakpoints on any of the addresses internal to the CPU.
Multiply/divide/GTE instructions can execute when an exception is taken, although the EPC indicates that it hasn't. The BIOS avoids rerunning GTE instructions as they are destructive, so you have to make sure they run.
Added bus error handling, PSXCPU is limited to 8mb of ram & any access outside this range will trigger an exception. I believe this is to be an internal limit.
Added CXD8611R as a specific CPU type, System 12 appears to allow more than 8mb of ram & it's possible that this is different.
Mapped out all instructions to either generate an exception or ignore bits.
Updated the disassembler to match the decoding.
Fixed disassembling of branch instructions in a branch delay slot.
Lui checks for a ori/addiu following and will show you the result.
Added step over/out support.
Fixed standalone disassembler.
Note that this is a significan change and some new bugs might be caused by it. Unlikely previous bugs, where extra garbage tiles would appear in the games, the new bugs would be tiles or sprites MISSING--so they will be harder to notice. This would happen because in some cases the 16x16 regions of the gfx ROMs can be used by both scroll2 and sprites, while in other cases they must be separated.
Rewrote INP recording from scratch, since all old INPs are broken anyways.
Header now includes timestamp, which overrides the default time base for MAME's system time.
Each frame recorded now gets a timestamp.
Analog ports are recorded once per frame and interpolated.
Analog port calculations are all done in fixed point for consistent results.
A bunch of other minor tweaks in the input port code.
There may still be a few changes to the final INP format (considering adding
NVRAM data directly in the INP file, for example....) but this at least seems
to work for the games I've tried.
All custom itemids were mapped to class SWITCH. With the recent modification, this implicitly changed to ABSOLUTE.
This fix will use the passed itemid to determine the class.
Subject: patch for state save in buggybjr
Here's a little patch for initial support of state saving in buggybjr.
(It'll help with tx1 and buggyboy too, but they are non-working)
All I did was get rid of the "anonymous" (temporary) timer that was
preventing saving, and replace it with a "permanent" timer. I didn't go
looking for data which might need to be saved.
Subject: pit8253 device
I have converted the pit8253 implementation into a device. To make it
easier to use I've also created a src/emu/devconv.h in the same style
as src/emu/memconv.h.
I do not have all roms/disk images to test all drivers. I have only
been able to test pf2012, filetto, and topgunnr.
Subject: some fix for aerfboot (bootleg of aerofgt)
this fix:
1) spriteram3 (previous value was too high and in the "city" level some build disappear
2) sprite gfx bank (previously some sprite appear right and some sprite was wrong)
3) the zoom is a litlle bit better
4) i have removed multisprite support; in the bootleg aren't present
the remaining problem is "not draw some sprite"; maybe there's a mark in some place
in the code i add, in a comment //, a way to avoid the draw of the sprite (searching a 0000 0000 0000 0000 sprite); this way works quite good but not perfectly (some time too many sprite are in the screen); maybe there's a value indicating the #number of sprite to draw (from the end to spriteram3 to start)
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From: roberto zandona
Subject: addendum (aerfboot)
this fix perfectly the sprite zoom
Subject: a little fix
a little update: this fix priorities in mermaid and rougien and a sprite bug:
when a sprite have x coordinate >= 0xf0 the value is negative
this fix the sprite bug
+ if (sx >= 0xf0) sx -= 256;
If seems to break Varth, hower, and has dubious effects on the boot sscreens of avsp, sfa3 and possibly other CPS2 games.
01542: 3wonders, 3wonderu, wonder3: Wrong colour of background in game selection and start screens
00410: xmcota: After a couple passes through the demo mode, the background on the qsound screen will go to a shade of green.
Subject: patch for mermaid
proper implentation of hardware collision (first implentation was incomplete)
this fix mermaid (when the player is in the water with the sharks) and rougien (Mantis 01652)
Subject: pcshare patch for mess
Another patch to machine/pcshare; this patch allows the MESS machines
to choose whether the RDY pin of the nec765 floppy controller is
connected or not.
Last weekend's pcshare keyboard was almost correct, it caused some
stuck shift key situations in MESS. This patch fixes that.
Removed a lot of MESS specific code from the machine/pcshare code.
Subject: Further ACIA changes
Added dynamic control of RX and TX pins to 6850 ACIA emulation - this is
needed for correct operation of the MPU4 Video communications system,
and may be handy for some MESS systems. To use, set the rx and tx clocks
to 0 in the acia interface, then use acia_tx_clock_in() and
acia_rx_clock_in() respectively.
Subject: Internal LAY File - Armor Attack
This is becoming kind of fun. Here's an internal LAY file for Armor Attack.
Re-created the overlay using just rectangles.
And finally got to use flipx and flipy for the first time (main reason I did it).
Subject: small change for MESS cleanup
This adds the "Machine" parameter to a MESS function call in MAME
code to go along with Machine -> machine ckeanups in MESS
Subject: Machine -> machine cleanups
This patch changes "Machine" to "machine", when the runnin-machine
parameter is already available. In some cases I could even remove the
dprecat.h.
I will look for some occurances where it can be easily changed and
afterward take a step at adding the running_machine parameter in a
few places.
Subject: rygar clocks
Corrected clocks on Rygar.
Concerning the 400khz resonator, it's genuine, not resoldered even if
schematics shows a 384khz resonator.
Another Rygar from a friend of mine has a 400khz resonator so it's
possible Tecmo had a stock of those resonators to use in change of the
384khz ones.
* Fix timing of stream_update in discrete_sound_w
All sound cores update before processing changed data
* Add streeam_update to discrete_sound_r
* Now supports multiple output nodes per module.
There is the possibility to support multiple outputs per module.
In this case, NODE_XXX is the default output. Alternative outputs may
be accessed by using NODE_XXX_YY where 00<Y<08.
You may also access nodes with macros:
NODE_XXX = NODE_SUB(XXX, 0)
NODE_XXX = NODE(XXX)
NODE_XXX_YY = NODE_SUB(XXX, YY) with YY != 00
This should e.g. make discrete sound emulation easier
when dealing with e.g. flip flops (Q & QQ) and binary counters
* added sanity checks to check consistency issues introduced by this change
* modules specify number of outputs ==> Certain special modules (WAVELOG)
may no longer be used as input nodes
* removed explicit (NODE_XX + expr) from a couple of drivers
