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What's New:

* Fixed the 0.143u5 AGEMAME/PINAME additions

* Sorted infos

* Added Romset (kb/files/zip) infos

* Packt MAMEinfo without 7zip SFX modul

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0.143u5

- New games: ---
- New Working games: Caveman Ninja (bootleg), Free Kick, Peter Pan (bootleg of Hook), Giga Man 2: The Power Fighters (bootleg of Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters) and Ridge Racer 2
- New Non-Working games: Fighting Bujutsu
- New clones: 1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan, Rev B), Cluedo (prod. 2D) (Protocol), Coronation Street Quiz Game (Protocol), G Force (Jpm) (IMPACT) (15GBP Jackpot), Hangman (JPM) (Protocol), Hi Impact (Jpm) (IMPACT) (15GBP Jackpot), The King of Fighters '97 (Korean release), Outlaw (Jpm) (IMPACT, Club?), Outlaw (Jpm) (IMPACT, v3) (Protocol), Rad Rally (Japan), Red Arrow (Whitbread / Jpm) (IMPACT), Scrabble (rev. F) (Protocol), Tempest (rev 1, Revised Hardware) and Trivial Pursuit (prod. 1D) (Protocol)
- New drivers: cobra.c, ecoinf1.c, ecoinf2.c, ecoinf3.c, jeutel.c, spectra.c and unkfr.c
- Freescale 68340 CPU
. Preliminary support for MC68340 (CPU32). Reorganized to facilitate C++ conversion
. Use 68340 instruction table for 68340, cpXXX instructions are 020/030 only, add CINV, CPUSH stubs for 040.
- M377xx CPUs
. Respect the restored mode bits for PUL
. Proper cycle counts for PSH/PUL
. Fixed flags for multiply/division and divide by 0 interrupt
. Pass program bank to debugger hook so breakpoints work outside of bank 0
. Fixed interrupt flags for internal peripherals, corrected BBC/BBS when running outside of bank 0
. Several other interrupt timing and priority fixes
- C352 sound: Don't try to play zero-length samples
- Ensoniq ES5503 sound: Converted to modern device, improved IRQ timing.
- chihiro.c
. Various changes and improvements to the Chihiro emulation
. Modifies the IDE device (idectrl.c) so it supports cases where it is not connected to an hard disk, but to some different hardware.
. Added PC devices 8259 PIC, 8253 PIT and IDE controller
. Added "chihiro" command with subcommands "jamdis", "dump_string", "dump_process", "dump_list" and "help".
. Updates the smbus controller and adds stubs for the pic16lc, cx25871 and EEPROM smbus devices.
. Updates the memory map for the newly added devices
. Fixed the size of the "others" region
. Added hack for the missing dump of the smbus EEPROM
- globalfr.c: Filled in a little more of the memory map
- naomi.c
. Added NAOMI rev "A" Japan BIOS, original Korean BIOS as well as rev "D" Korea
. Fixed duplicate file entries in each NAOMI set (ID 04477)
. Added new rom key to Animal Basket
- neodrv.c
. Continued to document used PCB's for cartridges
. More removal of .bin extension in favour of chiplabel.socketlabel naming convention
. Corrected layout of 'Pleasure Goal' according to original cart
. Added correct v1 to Pulstar
. Added redumped c1/c2 and v1 to clone 'Quiz Daisousa Sen - The Last Count Down (Korean release)'
- pluto5.c: Preliminary support for MC68340 (CPU32). Replaced 68020 CPU1 with Freescale 68340.
- segas24.c
. Fixed graphic artifacts and speed drop during gameplay in Crack Down (ID 03195)
. Fixed Gain Ground, only half of the game's frames are rendered
. Fixed missing gfx in Quiz Mekurumeku Story (ID 04475)
. Fixed Scramble Spirits, only half of the game's frames are rendered (ID 03641)
- taitoair.c
. Preliminary work at the projection calculation for 3D eye-space points in Air Inferno
. Implemented double buffering and improved colors for 3D in Top Landing
- whitestar.c
. Make modern, add sound system. No work on main CPU part yet
. Added some Stern Whitestar older revisions
- Caveman Ninja: Fixed layer enable in clone Caveman Ninja (bootleg), giving it working status.
- Hook: Hooked up sound, fixed layer offsets in clone Peter Pan (bootleg of Hook)
- Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters: Decoded graphics in clone 'Giga Man 2: The Power Fighters (bootleg of Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters)'
- Mr. Drillerm Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2, Tetris The Grand Master: Changed 8-way Joystick to 4-way
- Pocket Racer: Fixed Pocket Racer runs too fast (ID 02700). Fixed M37702 CPU2 and C352 sound clock speeds.
- Raiden: Fixed some music channels go out of sync after a while in clone Raiden (alternate hardware) (ID 00961)
- Raiden II: Added comment about new raiden2 rom combination, added missing PALs as undumped, fixed IC locations on several sets.
- Speed Spin: Fixed graphics glitches in Speed Spin on character select screen
- Spikeout Final Edition: Redumped user1/3 roms
- Tempest: Corrected the rom labels, description and documentation for the revised hardware rev 3 of Tempest. Added dipswitch locations for the Tempest sets.
- Terra Force: Verified correct sprite roms for clone Terra Force (Japan)
- Added DIP locations to dday and tempest
- Fixed rom names in segas32.c, tempest and terraf
- Description changes of 1943: The Battle of Midway (US, Rev C), Bar 5 (older PCB) (Electrocoin), Bar X Diamond 7s (2006 COOL7) (Electrocoin) (?), Italian Job (Maygay) (EPOCH, v2.1), Fatal Fury - King of Fighters / Garou Densetsu - shukumei no tatakai (NGM-033)(NGH-033), Golden Palace (Qps / Mazooma), Outlaw (Jpm) (IMPACT, v3), The King of Fighters '96 (NGM-214), The King of Fighters '96 (NGH-214), The King of Fighters '97 (NGM-2320), The King of Fighters '97 (NGH-2320), The Last Blade / Bakumatsu Roman - Gekka no Kenshi (NGM-2340), The Last Blade / Bakumatsu Roman - Gekka no Kenshi (NGH-2340), Fright Night (Empire) (MPU4, v4.1X), Fright Night (Empire) (MPU4, v4.1), Fright Night (Empire) (MPU4, v4.1i), Fright Night (Empire) (MPU4, v?.?), Screwin' Around (Global) (MPU4, v0.8), Pleasure Goal / Futsal - 5 on 5 Mini Soccer (NGM-219), Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp, set 1), Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp, set 2), Raiden (alternate hardware), Rescue (bootleg), Samurai Shodown IV - Amakusa's Revenge / Samurai Spirits - Amakusa Kourin (NGM-222)(NGH-222) and Sharp Shooter (Voodoo) (Scorpion ?)
- Renamed (1943j) to (1943ja), (goldgam2) to (goldgkitb), (m5ddrag) to (m5dragnd), (tempest) to (tempest3) and (tempest3) to (tempest)
- Splitted (ec_barx) into (ec_barx), (ec_barxo) and (ec_barxmab). Splitted (ec_casbx) into (ec_casbx) and (ec_casbxo). Splitted (ec_supbx) into (ec_supbx) and (ec_supbxmab). Splitted (hb_gldpl) into (hb_gldpl) and (j6gldpl). Splitted (m5tempt) into (m5tempt) and (m5tempt2).
- Merged (ec_barxd) with (ec_casbx). Merged (ec_big7), (ec_spbg7) and (ec_supb7) into (ec_big7) and (ec_spbg7mab). Merged (ec_bxd7s) and (ec_magbr) into (ec_bxd7s). Merged (ec_casrb), (ec_suprb) and (ec_supsl) with (ec_redbr). Merged (ec_mag7s), (ec_cool7) and (ec_barx7) into (ec_mag7s).
- MAME
. HLSL fixes:
. Created two flags, -hlsl_ini_write and -hlsl_ini_read. The former enables custom HLSL INI writing explicitly, the other enables loading of the same.
. Fixed disappearing aperture effect when using custom INI files
. Fixed diagonal seam on some games, for serious real this time
. Fixed phosphor simulation, now works as expected
. Fixed MAME freezes with a hlsl .ini file (ID 04397)
. Only report samples audit result for sets with required samples
. Fixed segfault when using -verifysamples
- MESS
. Floppy refactor slightly. Name, descrition, etc are now an intrinsic property of converters.
. Added brand-new MFI (MESS floppy image) support
. Fixed the MFI format thanks to smf's help
. Modernize amigafdc, but don't change a thing (yet)
. Changed the internal floppy format to use magnetic cells. Temporarily move the full-track pll bit extraction in the Amiga FDC.
. Added the easy ST formats (st_dsk)