MAME v0.84u3

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Jul 19th, 2004

Aaron from the MAME project has posted another source diff for this popular arcade emulator. Here is what's new:

Driver Improvements:

Fixed graphics crashing, palette, sprites, and some networking registers in Final Lap.
Several Seibu SPI fixes.
Added a DMA kludge to get Derby Quiz My Dream Horse to boot.
Major rewrite of the Portraits driver.
Fixed save states in the m62 and mnight drivers.
Fixed the PSX SIO timer so that it only fires when there is data to send & processes one bit per tick.
Cleaned up and reorganized the DCS sound module. This required changing the way ROMs are loaded for all of the DCS-using games.

Changes to the main program:

Fixed crash in the MIPS core introduced with the u2 changes.
Changed the "driver.status" entry in -listxml to summarize all the status entries allowing frontends to completely ignore all the other flags.
Fixed the generic_fopen() function to ensure that a rom CRC is present before using it. Otherwise, for NO_DUMP roms an uninitialized string variable is used in the search.
Added the ability to tweak the refresh rate if -cheat is enabled. Use SHIFT to modify by 0.1fps, CONTROL to modify by 0.01fps, and ALT to modify by 0.001fps.

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

Digger (CVS)
Trivia Genius
Vasara 2 (2 sets)
Gunbarich
Monster Farm Jump

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

Portraits (set 2)
Twin Falcons

New Non-Working games / clones supported

Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Euro 950424)
Mortal Kombat 4
Invasion
Cruisin' Exotica
The Grid

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