Newest MAME version:

0.139


MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

* 03898: [Crash/Freeze] Atomiswave-based games in naomi.c: Game gets stuck in boot process. (Aaron Giles)
* 03957: [Documentation] samsh5sp & clones: according to title, year is 2004 not 2003 (moa)
* 03318: [Crash/Freeze] -burnin causes crash in vector games (Atari Ace)
* 03777: [Multisession] a51site4: Hang after loading via internal UI (multisession) (Atari Ace)



Source Changes

arm.c: Added big endian mode support to the LDRB and STRB instructions. [Wilbert Pol]

CPS-1 update [Team CPS-1]:

* Added missing PALs as reference to most of remaining sets
* Dumped and added TK24B1.1A to dynwar [Corrado Tomaselli]
* Fixed LW-13.10D rom loading in forgottn to match real pcb
* Identified, verified and documented a ton of pcbs, adding/fixing missing/wrong infos as ROMs labels and positions, B-Board, C-Board and CPSB IDs, PALs [Stefan Lindberg, Dlfrsilver, MKL]
* Reordered all sets per release date in cps1.c and videocps1.c
* Updated games table in videocps1.c and added some notes on PALs table
* Minor cleanups


djboy.c: Hooked up Beast MCU and removed simulation code. [Phil Bennett]

arm.c: Fixed word reading from non-aligned address in big endian mode. [Wilbert Pol]

skyfox.c: Corrected clocks and Vsync for the Sky Fox & Exerizer sets based on actual OSCs and measurements taken from a real PCB [Corrado Tomaselli]

arm.c: Added a big endian version of the arm2/3/6 cpu core and cleaned up the little/big endian handling. [Wilbert Pol]

djboy.c: Added DIP switch locations and corrected the vsync to 57.5Hz as per the readme info listed at the top of the driver. [Brian Troha]

mediagx.c: Converted to use driver_data [Atari Ace]

Fixed sprite coordinates in astrocorp.c [Luca Elia]

Corrected Ameri Darts audio playback rate. This exposed some cycle timing errors in the TMS32010 CPU core which are also fixed. [Quench]

Added support for Southern Systems Joker Poker (1982), from Southern Systems & Assembly, Ltd. Figured out the memory map. Also added
technical notes about the hardware. [Roberto Fresca]

Corrected the address for the freezing of the movies for the Terminator 2 LA4 set [stephh]

emu/info.c: Search all parents of a clone for merged ROMs [Atari Ace]

Fixed HD63701 SLP opcode [Sandro Ronco]

mpu4.c: Added splitscreen support to SCN2674 for MPU4 Video. [AGEMAME]

neodrv.c updates: [Johnboy]

* Identified several more sets as MVS / AES Version and tagged them properly
* Updated game PCB info
* bakatono: Removed BAD_DUMP from m1 - is correct, corrected game name
* mahretsu: Added correct s1, corrected game name
* strhoop: Added correct v2
* sdodgeb: Replaced 16mbit v1/v2 with 32mbit v1 as found on two original cards
* Added Japan J3 bios


neogeo.c changes:

* Documented AES mode and 1-slot (MVS/AES) settings [Barry Rodewald]
* Documented MVS 4-slot and 6-slot settings [Johnboy]
* Changed 6-slot setting (old default) to 1-slot [Johnboy]


Add notification of orientation of all monitors at startup via the output system. [Laszlo Schulteisz]


New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

Speed Drop [Brian Troha, Luca Elia, The Dumping Union]


New clones added

Mystic Warriors (ver AAA) [J. Wilke, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
AmeriDarts (set 3) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Captain Commando (Japan 910928) [john666, Dr. Spankenstein, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Forgotten Worlds (USA, 88621B B-Board) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping Union]
Galaxy Force II (Japan, Newer) [Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
Quiz King of Fighters (Korean release) Real Bout Fatal Fury Special / Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special (Korean release)
Quiz Daisousa Sen - The Last Count Down (Korean release)


New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

Southern Systems Joker Poker [Roberto Fresca, Siftware]