MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 01863: [Multisession] mwalk and clones: Crash on multisession.
(Atari Ace)
- 00971: [Color/Palette] spdcoin: In a reverse of the artwork bug,
the blue background has been replaced with a black one.
(couriersud)
- 00251: [Sound] spdcoin: Sound isn't perfect. There are many static
pops to be heard, and volume is very low. (couriersud)
- 01884: [Core] mtetrisc, vivdolls, starsldr (maybe all): (MAC OS)
crashes with "Illegal instruction" message (Aaron Giles)
- 01827: [Interface] All sets in galaga.c: DIP switch information is
not being readded properly when .CFG is read. (couriersud)
- 01865: [Graphics] nbapbp: The graphic is completely wrong
(Aaron Giles)
- 01864: [Interface] -listxml still crashes (Aaron Giles)
- 01885: [Misc.] astdelux, astdelu1, astdelu2: Fatal Error: Unable to
locate input port 'DSW' (Fabio Priuli)
- 01190: [Color/Palette] punchout, spnchout: The colors of the title
logo and letters on the top and bottom should be different
than each other. (Nicola Salmoria)
- 01693: [Sound] jackal, jackalj, topgunbl, topgunr: After you get in
the jeep the music stops. (Nicola Salmoria)
- 01880: [Color/Palette] All sets in mrdo.c: Color Regression
(Nicola Salmoria)
- 01870: [Graphics] skylance, skylancr: cocktail mode, player 2's shots
are offset from player's position (Nicola Salmoria)
- 01871: [Documentation] officeye: Misspelled title (robiza)
Source Changes
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Updated 68681 DUART: [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
- converted to device interface
- converted to 8 bit device
- added input and output port
- added X1/16 timer
Fixed compilation error when neither HAS_PPC403GA nor HAS_PPC403GCX
are defined. [Nathan Woods]
Additional documentation in the TMS5220 and SN76496 cores.
[Lord Nightmare]
Fixed handling of the U register in the RET instructions and when
taking an interrupt in the Nintendo Minx cpu core. [Wilbert Pol]
suprnova updates: [David Haywood]
- now uses its own draw roz function, which supports linescroll
or columnscroll, and will give us the ability to 'render'
priority data (with roz applied) from the flagsmap to a temp
bitmap to work with.
- priorities should be correct from start to end in cyvern now..
still not perfect tho.
- added a note about what needs fixing for the sengekis sprite zoom
(shrink flag we're not handling)
- allow wraparound to be turned off (sarukani..)
Italian gambling games based on H8/3337 MCU + NEC D7759GC:
[Roberto Fresca]
- Corrected year and manufacturer to ntcash and wizard.
- Sorted the games by year.
Simplified m90 video update routine. [robiza]
Improvements to bomblord (bbmanw clone): [robiza]
- partially fixed the background
- fixed the sprites
- implemented video register for selecting different resolutions;
this fixes graphic in the game screen
- fixed scroll video register
- cleaned up offset and priorities
- implemented linescroll
- promoted to working
Improvements to dynablsb (dynablst clone): [robiza]
- partially fixed the background
- fixed the sprites
- fixed mark for last sprite
- fixed player #1 and player #2 controls
- fixed graphics layer and offset
- fixed layer select
- implementated the scroll video register
- cleaned up offset and priorities
- promoted to working
Numerous improvements to the blackt96 driver. [David Haywood]
Fixed colortable creation in Mr. Do driver. Fixed diode voltage drop
value which caused apples to be orange instead of red-orange. The
title screen now perfectly matches
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arecee/2384126902/sizes/l/ including the
logo outline. [Nicola Salmoria]
Jackal driver improvements: [Nicola Salmoria]
- Fixed palette animation (very subtle!)
- Verified on the schematics and on the pcb that the high score table
text cannot change color.
- Removed the IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS flag
- Fixed music with a kludge (overclock sound CPU)
- Added dip switch locations and sorted input ports
Simplified palette handling in punchout. Fixed big sprite palette in
top monitor. [Nicola Salmoria]
Cal Omega driver: [Roberto Fresca]
- Cleaned up the driver following the MAME Coding Conventions.
- Added support to Game 18.7 (Amusement Poker).
- Improved the input system for some games.
- Fixed some wrong color codes.
- Updated technical notes.
New driver for italian gambling games based on Mitsubishi/Renesas
M16C MCU family. Added dumper notes, hardware details and hooked the
sound devices. Moved Euro Jolly X5 to this new driver, and add
support for Grand Prix. [Roberto Fresca]
Improvements to Sandii' games driver: [Roberto Fresca]
- Fixed the tilemap size.
- Fixed the screen size.
- Updated technical notes.
Changed map command in the debugger to now perform separate
read/write/fetch lookups. [Aaron Giles]
Fixed AY-3-8910 output mode in Draco. [Curt Coder]
Thayer's Quest changes: [Curt Coder]
- cleaned up driver
- added LED layout from Dragon's Lair
- mapped keyboard and dips correctly
- added laser disc drive selection
- fixed Z80-COP communications
- figured out ports from disassembly
- added cart presence detection logic
- fixed SSI-263 timings, service mode works now
- changed to use COP421
COP4xx: [Curt Coder]
- fixed LEI instruction
- added COP421 variant
Moved calipso, spdcoin, superbon, moonwar and moonwara to galaxian.c:
[couriersud]
- superbon: Change name to Agent Super Bond and Manufacturer to
"Signatron USA"
- superbon: Change year to 1985 following information on
arcadeflyers.com
- removed armorcar remains from scobra.c
In the i8051 core, timer 0's second split counter was incorrectly
checking the Timer 1 Run Control Bit. Fixed it. [Jim Stolis]
PEPlus driver updates: [Jim Stolis]
- All video slot titles now accept coins and play normally
- Renamed peps0716 to its proper name "River Gambler Slots", instead
of "Quarter Mania Slots"
- Updated peps0716 to use the proper CAP
- Replaced peps0615 to use a CAP with closer colors (still wrong)
Added alternate layout for World Rally 2 PCB. [Mirko Mattioli]
Added sound emulation to Dacholer and Kick Boy. [Tomasz Slanina]
Cleaned up the usage of Machine in many of the src/video files.
[Oliver Stoenberg]
Correctness pass over the source tree: [Atari Ace]
- added static qualifiers where appropriate
- added missing #include statements, source comments and header
declarations
- removed dead declarations
- added ~30 header files for a number of drivers
- consolidated various cchip declarations
Improved 8085 timing and fixed flag calculations based on differences
between it and the 8080. [Miodrag Milanovic]
Converted a number of drivers over to using input_port_read() from
input_port_read_indexed(). [Fabio Priuli]
Updated cheat system: [ShimaPong]
- Changed the function of default memory read in case of the search
to prevent from crashing if a game uses cpu_spinutil()
Now basically used do_memory_read() instead of do_cpu_read()
(Try to search in actfancr between this and previous version)
NOTE : It's not fundamental solution but no longer crash
- Cleaned up read_data() and write_data()
- Cleaned up save/load routine and added open_cheat_database()
- Added new menu "Cheat Commands" into the cheat main menu
the following commands are supported in this menu
* reload cheat code (the same as Reload Database key)
* cheats ON/OFF (the same as Toggle Cheat key)
* watchpoints ON/OFF (the same as Shift + Toggle Cheat key)
* save description (save the title of the game)
* save raw code (save raw cheat code with new format)
- Fixed several bugs which has found in testing
- Renamed functions based on coding guidlines
Added option -[no]coin_lockout (-[no]coinlock) to control coin
lockout behavior. [Aaron Giles]
NeoGeo updates: [Johnboy]
- Updated Neo-Geo game pcb infos
- Marked kof2001h AES VERSION
- Marked samsho3a MVS VERSION
- Marked 2020bba AES VERSION, renamed p1 and added a note
- Renamed lastsold p1 to correct chip label 134-p1k
-> Checked other Korean sets, found similar ID change; renamed
accordingly
Renamed rbff2k p1 to 140-p1k
Renamed fswords p1 tp 187-p1k
Renamed aof3k p1 to 196-p1k
Added comment to kof99n: Korean version?
- Renamed mslug3n to mslug3h, Marked AES VERSION, changed mamedriv.c
- Remove BAD_DUMP from kotm, add correct m1
- Correct s1 layer size in samsh5sp + clones
- Removed BAD_DUMP from burningf + clone
- Added correct m1 to lbowling
- Added correct m1 to socbrawl + clone
- Added correct m1 to mutnat
- Added correct m1 to joyjoy
- Added correct c1/c2 and s1 to marukodq
- Renamed p-roms in wh1 and wh1h, added comment
- Added some comments about 'M1' and 'S1' roms
- Renamed files in kof2001 to correct chip label, changed m1
- Corrected set pbobblen as found on MVS cart, added notes
Added bilinear filter option to software rendering. Not hooked up to
anything yet. [Aaron Giles]
DRC UML changes: [Aaron Giles]
- separated conditions and flags into two separate fields
- added more extensive per-opcode information
- made validation more thorough using the extended information
- disabled back-end validation for now until it can be revisited
using the new tables
- changed GETFLGS encoding so that the mask is in parameter 2 instead
of the flags field
- wrote new disassembler based on enhanced opcode info structure
- moved disassembler into drcuml.c and removed old code
- extended disassembler buffer sizes to at least 256 bytes
- removed explicit flag requests from the shorthand opcodes
- added optimization function to drcuml which is called at block end
- added logic to compute the necessary flags based on upcoming opcodes
and only select those flags which are required
- added NOP opcode
- added logic to simplify opcodes as much as possible at the UML layer
- removed similar logic in the x86 and x64 back-ends
- added stricter parameter validation for registers and mapvars
- improved disassembly output
- added simple symbol table to the UML for improved disassembly
- changed optional disassembler cache parameter to a drcuml object
- fixed STORE opcode description to allow immediate source operands
DRC frontend changes: [Aaron Giles]
- changed from tracking "live" registers to tracking "necessary"
registers
- genericized register tracking to be more flexible
- added previous instruction pointer to opcode descriptions
PowerPC recompiler: [Aaron Giles]
- fixed bug where a branch and link to the link register would
overwrite the link register before fetching the target address
- updated to no longer explicitly specify flags
- added symbols for most common variables
- fixed bug in handling XER carry flag for subo. forms
- simplified flag insertion logic for opcodeo. forms
- rewrote lswi/stswi as subroutines
- made accesses to tempdata explicitly dword or qword
- fixed SRR0 when generating a syscall
- removed no longer necessary TESTs on extsb/w, rlwinm, rlwnm,
rlwimi, cntlzw
- fixed bug where the SO flag was not being computed for compares
- fixed flag computations for mulhw/mulhwu/mullw
- fixed subtlety of shifts between 32 and 63 in srw/sraw
- fixed mffs/mtfsf to use FP registers
- fixed mtfsfi to use the immediate value properly
- now marking terminal count bit in DMA status register
- added support for 4xx protection registers via the MMU
- added TLBH, TLBU, and DEC to the list of registers in the debugger
- turned off "end of transfer" DMA signals in favor of "transfer
count 0" signals; fixes memory-to-memory DMA in fiveside
- minor flags optimizations:
* broke CR into several individual bits of state
* extracted the SO bit from XER into its own state
- cleaned up register tracking implementation
- fixed numerous errors and shortcomings in the tracking
- added support for removing unnecessary XER CA and CR0 computations
- updated UML logging to output new frontend statistics
- added basic cycle counts for longer instructions
- added penalty for polling timebase and decrementer registers
- fixed dependencies in cpu.mak
- reduced address bus width of 4xx series to 31 bits per the
documentation
- fixed bug that would jump to incorrect PC after filling the
TLB during a mismatch event
- added explicit address truncation to 31 bits for 4xx series
- added new PPCDRC_ACCURATE_SINGLES option, which removes the
excessive (and very likely unecessary) extra rounding when
performing the "fast" single-precision floating point ops
- fixed TLB filling for 4XX protection ranges
- fixed parameter ordering for masked reads/writes
- added detection of MMU enablement in 403GCX case
- fixed bug in protection bounds violation detection for 4XX
- changed SPU receive model to a push model; updated drivers accordingly
- added macros for setting the SPU transmit handler and sending bytes
- cleaned up ppc.h
- fixed lmw/stmw if rA is one of the loaded/stored registers
- removed unnecessary variables & structure members
- optimized for the XER and CR0 case where XER doesn't need an overflow
calculation
MIPS recompiler: [Aaron Giles]
- updated to no longer explicitly specify flags
- tweaked register tracking to match new DRC frontend system
- updated UML logging to output new frontend statistics
- fixed left/right accesses to work with recent memory handler changes
x86/x64 back-ends: [Aaron Giles]
- added flag support to SEXT, ROLAND, ROLINS, LZCNT opcodes
- fixed bug where sometimes the flags would be corrupted; in
particular, we always clobbered the flags for the subfze
instruction, which broke the nbapbp camera and some other things
- fixed DIVS/DIVU opcode so they properly compute SZ flags when
requested; fixes camera wackiness in nbapbp
- added a "hop" around the prolog of the HANDLE opcode to allow
fall-through
- redesigned x86 stack management to keep the stack at the same 16-byte
alignment
- fixed adc/sbb so that they don't optimize out ever
- fixed detection of special and/or/xor cases
- fixed GETFLGS opcode so that it doesn't return anything other than
requested flags
- changed LZCNT/BSWAP to be more flexible in register selection
gticlub driver: [Aaron Giles]
- converted sysreg_r/w to 8-bit handlers
- added hack to make network IRQs work; brings some games back to life
Konami PowerPC drivers: [Aaron Giles]
- designated fast RAM accesses for work RAM
- removed unnecessary mirroring
Firebeat driver:
- added VBLANK IRQ clear
- added ATAPI IRQ clear
- tried to add UART IRQ clear but it doesn't yet work
- most of the games start to show something again with these changes
- added fast RAM region
Model 3 driver: [Aaron Giles]
- identified and fixed VBLANK bit in real3d status which was
causing the system to hang at startup
- designated fast RAM accesses for work RAM
53C810 SCSI controller: [Aaron Giles]
* changed read/write handles to proper READ8/WRITE8_HANDLER
callbacks so they can eventually be used directly
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Super Rider (Italy) [Luca Elia]
SWAT Police [Brian Troha]
Player's Edge Plus (PS0014) Super Joker Slots [Jim Stolis]
Player's Edge Plus (PS0022) Red White & Blue Slots [Jim Stolis]
Player's Edge Plus (PS0043) Double Diamond Slots [Jim Stolis]
Player's Edge Plus (PS0045) Red White & Blue Slots [Jim Stolis]
Player's Edge Plus (PS0308) Double Jackpot Slots [Jim Stolis]
New clones added
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Tank Force (US, 4 Player) [Brian Troha]
Videomat (polish bootleg) [Roberto Fresca]
Head Panic (ver. 0117, 17/01/2000) [Brian Troha]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Mystery Number [Roberto Fresca]
Shark Party (Italy) [Luca Elia]
Victor 5 [Luca Elia]
Victor 21 [Luca Elia]
Euro Jolly X5 [Roberto Fresca]
Cal Omega - Game 18.7 (Amusement Poker) [Roberto Fresca]
Grand Prix [Roberto Fresca]
Squash (Itisa) [f205v]
