MAME v0.84u6

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Aug 4th, 2004

Haze has put out another source diff for this incredibly popular arcade emulator for various platforms. Here is what's new:
    Driver Improvements:
  • Fixed sprite vs. tilemap priority and sprite vs. tilemap positioning for the FL games.
  • Fixed Williams coin inputs.
  • Fixed Colony 7 DIP switches.
  • Hooked up 49-way joysticks in Arch Rivals and Pigskin 621AD.
  • Removed hacky cheat controls from Defender/Stargate.
  • Removed existing speedup cheat hack from Pacman/Ms Pac Man as the way it was implemented in MAME is NOT how it was implemented in the arcades.
    Changes to the main program:
  • Fixed several makefile errors in the last version.
  • Fixed enumeration of lightgun and joysticks in the Windows build. Joysticks now no longer show up unless you specify -joystick. And lightguns should work properly as absolute devices.
  • Added groupings to the master controls list so that the list size is not so unwieldy.
  • Disabled input to the game while the user interface is in active use (prevents keypresses from affecting the underlying game).
  • Added core-level support for the previously only Windows-supported controller files. These files now have the extension .cfg instead of .ini and are in the same format as the new XML-based .cfg files. See the ctrlr directory for some examples.
  • Made it possible to assign game-specific inputs to "None", effectively disabling them.
  • Added support for conditional dipswitch settings.
  • Improved handling of interpolation for analog ports so that they don't wrap around and cause artifacts.
  • Added several new command line options to assist in the automatic enabling of analog controls.
  • Improved -verbose output display to enumerate all joysticks and joystick axes that have been detected.
  • Added a command line parameter to control which joystick axes are considered digital. If you are using a digital gamepad with MAME, you will want to use this option.
  • Removed PORT_CHEAT from a number of drivers and documented the cheats in the port names.
  • Added several more default strings and some MESS-specific fixes.
    New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
  • Le Bagnard (set 2)
  • Fax (alt. questions)
  • Capcom Bowling (set 4)
  • Columns II: The Voyage Through Time
  • PuckMan (Japan set 1 with speedup hack)
  • Pac-Man (Midway, with speedup hack)
  • Ms. Pac-Man (with speedup hack)
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