a new compile-time define (ENABLE_DEBUGGER). This means that MAME_DEBUG no longer means
"enable debugger", it simply enables debugging features such as assertions and debug code
in drivers.
Also removed the various levels of opbase protection in memory.h and always just turned
on full bounds checking.
Fixed build break due to missing ampoker.lay -> ampoker2.lay renaming.
* full memory maps
* partial machine driver removes need for replicating filtering logic
* updated all relevant drivers
Cleaned up Time Pilot and Tutankham drivers:
* correct clocks where possible
* merged memory maps
* fully decoded memory maps
* replaced hacky sprite rendering in Time Pilot with partial updates
* save state support
* removed Power Surge kludge, replaced with unmapped handler control
* Tutankham runs at 60fps, with IRQs every other frame
* Proper IRQ ack in Tutankham
- Tried improving on the ROM mirroring, without any success. Maybe somebody could look into it -- right now it requires all kinds of trickery and even a memcpy ;) All I know is that everything that's there right now is needed otherwise either the game fails the ROM test, or Galaga crashes
Properly tagged m52 and m62 sound boards, plus variants.
Updated all connected drivers.
Merged memory maps.
Proper video timing in 10 yard fight.
Converted troangel to tilemaps.
Moved definitions to header files.
This purely a skeleton driver. Someone who knows anything about the m68k will likely be able to make great progress with this one.
"Galaxy Games" is a trackball-based, cocktail, multi-game cab released in 1998. It has 7 games built into the BIOS, but can also take 4 cartridges. Namco apparently licensed some software to the company who makes it (two player simultaneous Ms. Pac Man - using trackballs?!).
The company's webpage is here: http://www.cesgames.com/
They also have ROMs for their Classic Collection games available for download. There's no information about the Classic Collection hardware, but I'm guessing it's very similar to the Galaxy Games hardware. These can be likely added at a later date.
It looks like the softwarethis.com fellow has a Namco cart, but was unable to dump the ROMs?
BIOS ROMs are uploaded to /roms/g/galgbios.zip and Wiki is updated with skeleton status.
The idea is to create extra work if a driver wants to use these and hopefully
gives an incentive to look for an alternate solution
- Added #include of deprecat.h that rely on these contructs
- Removed a bunch of unneccassary #include's from these files
- correct colors -- in places different from the manual's description, but matches the flyer perfectly
- added speech
- fixed AY-8910 sounds
- odds and ends
- for now, broke Demon Eye X, but I wanted to get this out
- cleaned up and merged ninjakd2, mnight and omegaf drivers into a single driver
- added flip screen support to all games
- fixed sprite overdraw mode:
- ninjakd2 congratulations screen (e.g. stage 3) shows japanese characters which were previously missing
- in ninjakd2, at the beginning of a level items are visible during the initial fade in. I'm not sure if this is correct but the other effects wouldn't work otherwise
- in mnight attract mode, when the big ship is firing the other sprites no longer leave trails
- in mnight at the end of a level the screen is slowly filled with balls and then slowly cleared to begin the following level. Same effect in the death sequence during attract mode.
- added proper computation of sprites to be drawn taking into account double size sprites. This fixes sticking shots in mnight without need for a hack.
- lowered ninjakd2 PCM playback rate to 13020 (from 16000). This seems to sound better and is a round division from one of the master clocks.
- removed ROM patch that was used to avoid the input protection in omegaf, added a rough but effective protection simulation.
- corrected some dip switches
- hooked up sound cpu reset line
- simplified ROM loading for the older games swizzling address lines in driver init.
- added MESS PC-Engine emulatation
- added Blazing Lazers (working)
- added Paranoia (non-working due to lack of jamma interface
emulation)
- fixed MAME debug build under VC2003
Please co-credit Charles MacDonald & Mr. Do for Blazing Lazers.
Note to Nathan: video/vdc.* re taken as-is from MESS, for the
machine stuff I extracted common code (to be shared by MAME and
MESS) and created machine/pcecommn.*
* fixes skychut37b1yel
* fixes skychut37b6gre
* adds samples to ipm invaders - just rename your old invaders samples to ipminvad to test
* added - amongst others - "capsule" dip switch to ipm invaders
* sound ports identified
* demo sound and cabinet type driver configuration
* more I don't remember
* XTAL-based timing
* Correct video timing
* Full memory map
* Correct memory usage ("zero page" RAM is shared with videoram)
* Removed all input hacks
* Fixed interrupt generation
* Connected coin counters
* Added save state support
Also fixed incorrect dependency in cdrom.c.
- fixed mario0110u1gre
- rewrote driver, separate MACHINE_DRIVER(mario_audio)
- palette from schematics
- video timing from schematics
- driver configuration switch Nintendo/Std Monitor
- got rid of COLORTABLE
- clocks as defines in .h
- use XTAL_*
- cvs games: according to PCBInfos speech chip is TMS5100.
Changed driver to use TMS5100 and "game system operational" now sounds more natural
- removed sound/m58817.*
- added support for multiple coefficients maps to tms5110.*
- added coefficient maps for TMS5100 and M58817 from documented sources to tms5110r.c
- fixed interpolation factors (see tms5110r.c for reason)
- made lattice calculation precision 9bit
- added support for READBIT and LOADADDRESS commands to tms5110.c
- more changes in line with various patents
* Cleaned up zeus wave RAM accessors.
* Changed rendering code to allow for greater parallelism on multicore systems.
* Removed some vestigial zeus 2 hacks.
* Reduced visible area to remove artifacts.
* Made right/bottom vertices inclusive to fix some gapping issues.
* Fixed invasn lightgun offset.
* Marked invasn as playable.
Zeus 2 hardware:
* Fixed ROM loading, added banking support.
* Separated zeus 2 video implementation from zeus implementation.
* Implemented direct pixel accesses; enough to get startup screens to show.
ADSP-2100:
* Properly documented ADSP-2104 internal memory map.
Removed many hacks from both.
A couple of games changed status from GAME_NOT_WORKING to fully playable:
stagger1, redhawk, redhawkb, grdnstrm, spec2k, firehawk (all - former afega.c)
and tharrier/tharrierj(nmk16.c)
