[arcade] Mame 0.144.4

MAME 0.144u4 24.12.2011

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

• 04556: [Interface] Changing INC and DEC inputs, results in .cfg file issue (hap)
• 04569: [Interface] Changing INC in UI menu changes DEC instead (Olivier Galibert)
• 04575: [Interface] [UI] Box no longer drawn around physical DIP locations (Olivier Galibert)
• 04574: [Speed] Many sets in snowbros.c: Graphic and gameplay slowdown (Angelo Salese)
• 04578: [Graphics] mwalk: Graphics corruption after a few seconds of gameplay (Alex Jackson)
• 04572: [Crash/Freeze] Many sets in dynax.c, royalmah.c: Failure to boot/Hang at Post (Angelo Salese)
• 04536: [Sound] flicky, flickys2: Z80 PIO issues causing missing music (hap)
• 03457: [Graphics] choplift: Choplifter (8751 315-5151) scrolling problems (hap)
• 04558: [Gameplay] wboy and clones: 'gameplay smoothness' issue (hap)
• 04576: [Crash/Freeze] geebee, geebeeb, geebeeg: freeze when starting the game (hap)
• 04570: [Crash/Freeze] wof: Black screen (Brian Troha)
• 04562: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in namconb1.c: Failure to boot past post or disclaimer screen (Angelo Salese)
• 04564: [Crash/Freeze] dwex, drgw3 and clones: Access Violation after OK (Angelo Salese)
• 04566: [Sound] rockragej, rockrage, rockragea: Stereo output is not implemented. (Angelo Salese)
• 04563: [Crash/Freeze] thedeep: Access Violation (Angelo Salese)
• 03538: [Sound] salamand, lifefrce, lifefrcej, salamandj: Music is too quiet in Salamander and Lifeforce (Fujix)
• 04565: [Sound] salamand, lifefrce: Reversed Stereo (Angelo Salese)
• 04559: [Documentation] m5draclb: The correct description is "Ooh Aah Dracula Club (Barcrest) (MPU5)".
• 04557: [Documentation] m5bankrl: The correct description is "The Bank Roll (Barcrest) (MPU5)".

Source Changes

• Forte Card improvements: [Roberto Fresca]
  • A lot of work on inputs.
  • Added DIP locations.
  • Lamps documentation and support.
  • Added Lamps layout.
  • Fixed and simplified inputs. Now Owner, Rental and Credits are proper toggled service keys.
  • Improved the button-lamps layout with the half and double addition for betting in the gamble stage.
  • Reverse engineering and partially documented the serial EEPROM data.
  • Added a clean default NVRAM and serial EEPROM.
  • Added company and year notes.
  • Added technical notes.
• Adjusted volume levels in nemesis.c to mirror observed levels from PCB recordings for Salamander/Lifeforce. Partially addresses MT Bug #3538 [Fujix]
• Various fixes to California Chase, it currently completes the POST [Grull Osgo]
• Fix to CD-I video code [fgs]
• Preliminary save state support to Naomi / AW / DC driver [Angelo Salese]
• Improved SN76477 interface. [Curt Coder]
• vigilant.c: fix reversed Demo Sounds dipswitch in kikcubic [Alex Jackson]
• Modernized MSM6242 RTC device [Angelo Salese]
• Added incrementing time to MSM6242 device [Angelo Salese]
• Added preliminary IRQ generation to the MSM6242, updated drivers that uses it accordingly and removed various related kludges [Angelo Salese]
• Capcom ZN-1, ZN-2 updates [Team CPS-1]:
  • Confirmed and documented game board # for every set
  • Properly fixed ROMs labels and locations to match real pcbs
  • Marked MASK ROMs in ts2, ts2j as BAD_DUMP, current dumps don't match real pcbs, added a note
  • Replaced HR2-01M.3A in strider2 and clones with proper 32MBit dump to match real pcb, 2nd half was cutted out
  • Added a more accurate title description to some games
  • Added some documentation notes to various sets
  • Reordered all sets per release date
  • Minor cleanups and fixes
• Properly hooked up MSM6242 device to Super Kaneko Nova System [Angelo Salese]
• Various avt.c progresses, it now properly shows some gfxs [Angelo Salese]
• Removed PC-based sound hack from Mirax [Angelo Salese]
• Fix for 8042kbc.c irq generation, now California Chase correctly accept keyboard inputs [Grull Osgo]
• Softlist support cleanup and addition of compatibility filtering [Miodrag Milanovic]
• Documented MCU ports in The Deep, doesn't work yet due of a MCS51 core bug [Angelo Salese]
• Some progresses with atamanot, got a garbled title screen and realized that the game is heavily protected [Angelo Salese]
• Added, and made Mr. Do! use the U8106 soundchip, which as far as I can tell is 100% identical to the sn76489 non-a, pending further testing. [Lord Nightmare, plgDavid]
• Added a note about pins held high on the Raiden 2 sound Z80. [Lord Nightmare, balrog]
• Converted gamtor.c to use the RAMDAC device [Angelo Salese]
• Hooked up VGA device to Photo Play [Angelo Salese]
• eeprom.c: Changed the 'erase' function to force all data bits of the specified address to 1s. [Wilbert Pol]
• Other improvements to California Chase, it shows Windows 98 logo [Grull Osgo]
• Fixed VGA line compare register masking, makes Windows 98 logo to display correctly [Angelo Salese]
• Fixed irq ack in Itazura Tenshi [Angelo Salese]
• Merged dacholer.c and itaten.c drivers, fixes priority and sprite Y
• positions in Dacholer and Kick Boy [Angelo Salese]
• Added proper ROM labels for Taxi Driver [f205v]
• Various changes for Neo-Geo driver [Johnboy]:
  • Marked quizkof MVS AND AES VERSION
  • Cleaned up all labels (consistent for all protos now) for prototype sets (in 99.9% of the cases the correct labels are not known) to: proto_ID-XX.XX
  • Identified product codes for viewpoint, savager and blazstar
  • kotm2p m1/s1 parent/clone fix
  • Documentation update
  • Reflected changes in internal db to xml (except /* Plane x */ )

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Forte Card (Spanish) [Angelo Salese, Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]
• Itazura Tenshi [Team Japump!!!, Hau, Yohji]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Special Criminal Investigation (Tourvision PCE bootleg) [Mariusz Wojcieszek, Clawgrip, Charles MacDonald, AUMAP]