> I see Couriersud is doing a lot of net list work. What exactly is the purpose? New > games? Sounds to existing games? Replacement of existing discrete code?
Overall improvement of the discrete "core". MAME now properly shows the situation (seen on hardware) where the ball in Pong can sometimes interfere with the NTSC sync signal and make the monitor jump for a frame or 3, for instance. (This is the sort of thing that was impossible to emulate with the original Pong driver from back in 0.5x or whatever).
Once this stuff is done it should be easier to add other discrete games and have them work properly.