MAME v114 released.

And yet another fine release of the MAME emulator has been released. Big change: Virtua Racing is running!!

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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fghthist0113u2red [Aaron Giles]
dsound0113u4ora [Aaron Giles]
hardreset0113u3yel [Aaron Giles]
hardreset0113u3red [Aaron Giles]

Source Changes
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Fixed autoframeskip so it doesn´t immediately spike on startup or
after a pause. [Dave Dribin]

Made behavior of ES5503 IRQ status register more accurate.
[R. Belmont]

Fixed bug introduced in the memory pool code when hashing was added.
[Nathan Woods]

Added complete discrete sound to Double Play/Extra Inning. Emulated
foul sound in Bowling Alley. Emulated all sounds except the screech
and wind sounds in Space Encounters. [Derrick Renaud]

Updated Virtua Racing to use the TGP core, based on guessing from the
Daytona TGP code. [Ernesto Corvi]

Added save state to several Atari games: batman, eprom, eprom2, klaxp1,
klaxp2. Also added general save state support to the atarijsa and
atarigen modules. [couriersud]

Added save state support to the konamigv driver, specifically enabled
for nagano98 and simpbowl. [couriersud]

Added DIP locations to the commando driver. [Justin Szczap]

Avoided a memset in the hyperstone core to give ~4% speedup in hidden
catch. [David Haywood]

Added small optimization to rand_memory(). [Nathan Woods]

Konami NWK-TR update: [Ville Linde]
- Improved the LANC board emulation
- Improved the graphics board emulation so that it passes all the
self-tests.

Adds save state support to the Cidelsa games and fixed reset behavior.
[Curt Coder]

Added validity checks to ensure that LSB_FIRST and PTR64 are set
correctly for the current platform. [Aaron Giles]

Removed obsolete assembly code and compiler definitions. [Aaron Giles]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Virtua Racing [Ernesto Corvi, ElSemi]

New clones added
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Air Attack (set 2) [Guru]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Wonder League ´96 (Korea) [David Haywood]

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Virtua Racing is running! :o

Finally after many years of waiting. I'm off to download and finally play this game again after so many years. :)

Hello,

Link please.

Have you used MAME before Ghost?

Hi Harrison,

Heh I did play Terminator 2: the Arcade Game, remember? ;)
Personally I found that one of the best uses of the IP.

I wish I had the talent to make a Terminator Future War game, it would be based on the first two movies (the only two IMO)' future scenes with the player controlling Tech Com soldiers.

To bad BOTTS still can't be run but with all the modern Mech Warrior games there are plenty of alternatives.

Harrison, any idea if they have a rom of the new Aliens game?

I haven't tested it yet, but it seems that Virtua RAcing is still not fully playable, you can only drive 1-2 rounds, just as in the version before. But this has been written by a member of AEP, I haven't tested it myself.

@Ghost
What links do you need?

- www.mame.net/
- www.mameworld.net/

I've not tried Virtua Racer yet, but being able to drive around the track is a big improvement over the old emulation of this game. Whenever I've tested it before, just to see how much it would do, the game would load and you would appear on the starting line, but you accelerated from the starting grid you were stuck and didn't move. Also much of the scenery was missing.

@Ghost

I asked if you had played it before as I was unsure what links you needed. If you hadn't played MAME before then you would need the emulator, as well as the game roms.

As you have used MAME before you will know what it is all about. Just download the latest version of MAME32 and then get a copy of the game roms. There are a couple of ways to do this. If you are on broadband and don't mind leaving your computer on for a while then you could download the complete current mame game set from pleasuredome. The MAME torrent is a free download meaning that you don't need to have any upload ratio credit in order to download the set.

Alternatively you could join the pleasuredome torrent and just select the specific game from the torrent to download. Or you could go to somewhere like planetemu.net and download just the game.