MAME v144

[Demon Cleaner]

After many updates, here's a new version of MAME:

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 04526: [Documentation] m4bigapl and clones: The correct description is "The Big Apple (Mdm)".
- 04525: [Documentation] ep_smoke: The correct description is "Holy Smoke! (Impulse) (EPOCH)".
- 04527: [Documentation] m4uuaw: The correct description is "Up Up and Away (Barcrest) (MPU4)".
- 04522: [Documentation] m5bwaves: The correct description is "Brain Waves (Barcrest) (MPU5)".
- 04523: [Documentation] m4click: The correct description is "Clickity Click (Barcrest) (MPU4)".
- 04524: [Documentation] j6rh6: The correct year is 2002.
- 04520: [Documentation] j2supsft: The correct description is "Supashifta (Jpm) (MPS)".
- 04519: [Documentation] nudgeit: The correct description is "Nudge-It".
- 04521: [Documentation] j6cas5: The correct description is "Casino 5ive Liner (Jpm) (IMPACT)".
- 04500: [Documentation] ep_simbg: The correct description is "SIMPSONS - Duff Beer Guide"
- 04517: [Documentation] j2cshfil: The correct description is "Cash-Filla (Pcp (MPS)".
- 04516: [Documentation] j5suphi: The correct description is "Super Hi-Lo (Jpm) (SYSTEM5)."
- 04515: [Documentation] megaaton: The correct name is "Meg Aaton".
- 04514: [Documentation] mousn_l1, mousn_l4, mousn_lu, mousn_lx: The correct description is "Mousin´ Around!".
- 00504: [Graphics] hharryu, dkgensan: They have some background misplacement. (Roberto Zandonà)

Source Changes
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Fixed up the flicky and clones (system1.c) Dip Switches after a fair amount of playtesting. Also, added some specific set notes related to oddness/differences observed. [Tafoid]

Start of input ports cleanup in the Toaplan drivers: [Alex Jackson, kanikani]
* Removed some unused macros from toaplipt.h
* Fixed polarity of DIPLOCATIONs in toaplan2.c
* Added some missing inputs

Fixed tms99xx STCR command [Michael Zapf]

xmultipl: fixed tilemaps offsets [Roberto Zandona´]

SDL: Add TAP/TUN networking capability and shell script for configuration [Carl]

Added some common country and language names to the default strings, and removed some unused and/or redundant strings [Alex Jackson]

Various improvement to Amiga FDC system [O. Galibert]

ipf: Describe the remaining fields [O. Galibert, SPS]

Rewrote NCR539x SCSI emulation from scratch [R. Belmont]

More Toaplan input fixes: [Alex Jackson, kanikani]
* Added DIPLOCATIONs and missing inputs to twincobr.c, wardner.c, toaplan2.c
* Added information about ingame test/debug features to comments in toaplan2.c
* Unified toaplan2.c inputs with the other Toaplan drivers

Converted neogeo MVS driver to use software lists in preparation for multislot support [David Haywood]

neogeo.c: fixed kof98 on non-Windows builds [Alex Jackson]

Added per-channel volume control to ES5505/ES5506 sound chip, and hooked it up to the Taito F3 driver [Angelo Salese]

Added a preliminary ES5510 DSP DRAM input/output latches support in Taito F3 driver, fixes sound in Ring Rage and Riding Fight [Angelo Salese]

Implemented FRC hook-up to Sega System 24 HW, fixes missing SFXs to Bonanza Bros. [Angelo Salese, Phil Bennett, Charles MacDonald]

6522VIA: Implemented CA2 pulse output mode, and output interrupt state only when it changes. [Curt Coder]

6532RIOT: Output interrupt state only when it changes. [Curt Coder]

hikaru: added 0.84 BIOS [Arzeno Fabrice]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Dirt Dash [Phil Bennett, hap]
Galaxy Game [Mariusz Wojcieszek, hap, Quantum Leaper]

New clones added
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King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing (prototype) [Tormod, Kevin Eshbach, f205v, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Alien Front (Rev T) [Arzeno Fabrice]
House of the Dead 2 (prototype) [Arzeno Fabrice]
18 Wheeler (Rev. A) [Arzeno Fabrice]
Zero Team (set 5, Korea, Dream Soft license) [Guru, gp-lee]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Gunbalina (GNN1 Ver.A) [Yohji, hap, Krusty, B. Munger, Brian Troha, D. Edwardson, Kevin Eshbach, R. Weidinger, J. Kretschmer, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Arcana Heart Full [Tormod, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Melty Blood Actress Again [The Dumping Union]

[Harrison]

Cool. Noticed a couple of nice games added to the New clones list.

Lets just hope the MAME set updates are not too big.

[Harrison]

Have you seen how big the MAME updates are for this release? Roms has jumped from 28GB to 40GB and CHDs has jumped from 142GB to 222GB. That is one big update!

And to make things even worse, the rom torrent only joins at 43.6%. Ouch!

[Wots]

This because they have added the LD CHD's to the CHD's folder.The whole CHD's update is 4GB more or less.

[Harrison]

Well spotted for the CHDs. I hadn't started updating them yet. Just finished updating the roms. still not sure why the Rom set is suddenly so much larger though. Any ideas?

[Demon Cleaner]

I noticed that too as I started the d/l the weekend. I knew that the CHD set was bigger due to the LD games they constantly add, but I don't know why it is also with the normal ROM set, I guess you have to look in their forums.

I wanted to join mine, and as it really only joint at 43%, I deleted it and started an whole new clean set, didn't want things to perhaps get too messy, and as it's a free torrent, it doesn't really matter. From time to time I just want to make a fresh download to keep it proper.

The Extras are also now over 13GB, probably it's the core & alternatives merged?