MAME 0.95

posted in Emulator Release by hcs on Mar 28th, 2005

The glorious multiple arcade machine emulator MAME was been updated to version 0.95. Here's a few of the changes:
  • Sound rewrite crash fixes: garyoret, system18.c bootlegs, konamigt, scion, double dribble, iron horse
  • CPUs tagged as audio CPUs are no longer disabled when sound is turned off.
  • Sega Updates
    • decrypted and added aurailj. the program roms are bad however so it doesn't work
    • the Altered Beast sets were a mess. Some of them were using the wrong version of the gfx ROMs (that's why they had to be loaded in a strange way) Should be correct now.
    • bayrout1 is the us version not world
    • wally1 is revision B
    • added a few keys with NO_DUMP
    • more fixes to descriptions and ROM names
  • added sound to Excelsior
  • fixed title screen glitch in Super Slam
  • fixed sprite bug in Buccaneers
  • fixed crash in new Bull Fighter set
  • added proper PROM decoding for Ring King (Woodplace license)
  • fixed cocktail mode in Calorie Kun
  • fixed ufosensi093u3gra and ufosensi093gre
  • Moved actual CD-ROM and harddisk device emulation out of am53cf96.c to new scsicd.c and scsihd.c files.
  • AM53cf96.c is now fully configurable: you can have any combination of up to 7 CD-ROMs and/or harddisks attached to the emulated SCSI bus and specify what each one's SCSI ID is.
  • CD-ROM emulation expanded to support more SCSI commands and bugfix some existing ones.
  • Changed konamigv and konamigq drivers to support the new 53cf96 configuration system.
  • Added -extractcd to convert CHD-CDs back into CDRDAO .bin/.toc images.
  • Improvements to Best League
  • Corrected XX mission dips
  • Verified Simpsons sound chip frequency against real board
  • Added 24-bit cheat finding support
  • MESS specific sndintrf update
  • Fixed Buccaneers sound frequency
  • New Games / Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status
    • Demons & Dragons (prototype)
    • Ghost Hunter
    • Tut's Tomb
    • MegaPlay: Streets of Rage 2
    • MegaPlay: Biohazard Battle
    • Nagano Winter Olympics '98 (GX720 EAA)
    • Hex Pool
    • Hook (Japan)
    • Puzzle Club (set 2)
    • Big Kong
    • Sunset Riders (Ver ADD)
MAME32, which has a built-in GUI and other features, has also been updated to reflect the changes to MAME. Get MAME and MAME32 on the MAME Page.