MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - lcd related important historical dates in MAME

>I had one of those Q&Q games for ages (Tarzan) but sold it on eBay in 2015, unfortunately
>it was well before was before LCD handhelds had started to become fashionable in MAME (or
>MESS as it still was back then).

Actually it was in extremely early initial process of eventually becoming fashionable in June 2015, but it is what it is. This is assuming that Q&Q Tarzan uses similar mcu component.

For all the Nintendo G & W fans history dates worth noting before making a Youtube video G & W tribute clip. ;-)

This is when the cpu was first added

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2015-06-29 mame0164

added SM510 cpu skeleton

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/7b0b0bbc95573a2ea38ccbbe0138aae7b85d7232
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When some of the lcd games first started working

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2017-05-06 mame0186

Machines promoted to working
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Top Gun (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Contra (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Gradius (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Lone Ranger (handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Game & Watch: Mickey & Donald [hap, Sean Riddle, Olivier Galibert]
Game & Watch: Donkey Kong II [hap, Sean Riddle, Reinier]
Game & Watch: Boxing [hap, Sean Riddle]

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/0a2898afe66b1bf26b826ec4bc230541e6a28c30

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