MAME v117 released

[Demon Cleaner]

Next MAME release.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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gauntleg0116u4red [Zsolt Vasvari, Aaron Giles]
vlm5030_0116u4gre [Zsolt Vasvari]
tetrisp2_0116u4red [Zsolt Vasvari]
primrage0116u3yel [Aaron Giles]
debuggerandmt_0116u2red [Aaron Giles]
memleak0116u4ora [Aaron Giles]
term2_0116u1yel [Aaron Giles]

Source Changes
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Added save state support to bzone.c games. [R. Belmont]

Fixed missing sound in Leprechaun. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Fixed some bugs involving empty or null ROM regions. [Nathan Woods]

Fixed potential crash in speglsht driver. [Atari Ace]

Changed the 6532riot code to split r6532_init into r6532_init and
r6532_reset. [Wilbert Pol]

Fixed CPS3 code to be big-endian friendly. [R. Belmont]

Added alpha blending effects to the CPS driver and improved sprite
positioning. [David Haywood]

Moved "Pandora" sprite chip implementation to its own file. Updated
Snow Bros, Air Buster, DJ Boy and Heavy Unit to use ths new generic
implementation. [David Haywood]

Fixed regression in segasyse driver. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Reverted patch to the 6526CIA as it was causing issues with Amiga/
Arcadia emulation. [Pete Rittwage]

Deduced a few more opcodes for gussun. The game now boots and you
can coin up. [robiza]

Fixed regression in vmetal and tatsumi drivers. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Fixed Taito version of chinhero. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Simplified code in tms9928 video system. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Fixed ROL opcode in the 68000 emulator. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Cleaned up tiny MAME target. [neoforma]

Fixed regression in Exidy sounds. [Zsolt Vasvari]

Improved accuracy of mame_timer_scale_up. [Aaron Giles]

Rotated the mame_rand() results by 16 bits to reduce periodicity of
the resuls. [Aaron Giles]

Fixed winalloc.c to be thread-safe. [Aaron Giles]



New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Taisen Hot Gimmick 4 Ever (Japan) [Guru, David Haywood]

New clones added
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Photo Finish [Tomasz Slanina]
Golden Poker (no double up) [Roberto Fresca]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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39 in 1 MAME bootleg [R. Belmont, Guru]
Super Pool (Italy) [Roberto Fresca]
Guitar Freaks 6th Mix (G*B06 VER. JAA) [smf]
Guitar Freaks 11th Mix (G*D39 VER. JAA) [smf]

[Harrison]

And here we go again. Actually it has been a while since the last version was released. Doesn't look like there are that many changes to the supported rom set though so the update should be small.

[Submeg]

Ok...so now I have broadband, I am extremely interested in getting MAME stuff. How big is it if you are starting from scratch? (Braces for extremely cringe worthy pain)

[AlexJ]

About 15GB for the main ROMS. There's also CHDs available which are hard drive images of machines but these make for much bigger downloads. You'll also need a pretty decent PC to run the CHD games. The standard ROM pack will get you the majority of the older games.

EDIT: Just checked the MAME .117 torrent is 15.83GB.

[Submeg]

Thats not TOO bad lol...except it goes over my monthly limit...is it broken down into sets or just one big one?

[AlexJ]

One big one. You could always download 50% of it this month and 50% next month? The updates tend to be around 100MB so once you've downloaded a full version it's pretty easy to keep updated.

[Submeg]

Sweet! Where at? So Im assuming just pausing it is ok?

[Demon Cleaner]

Yep, just pause it, the torrent is also for free at PD. But why can't you d/l in one time, don't you have storage?

The update is bigger than I thought, joining is at 95,n%.

[Submeg]

Yea I do, but my monthly download limit is 10GB, so it goes to dial up after that...dont really feel like going back to that speed.

[AlexJ]

Downloading 8Gig of it this month and the rest next month seems the best idea. Head over to the Pleasuredome site to download it - it's a free torrent so won't affect your download ratio (only your upload).