MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Haze: DS5002FP Dumping

> > > Now that the World Rally 2 MCU is dumped, is WR2 now fully playable, although
> your
> > > commit doesn't explicitly state it?
> > >
> > > https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/199ce7d06da149804c6ed998bf39206f69885197
> >
> > It doesn't have MACHINE_NOT_WORKING" and "MACHINE_UNEMULATED_PROTECTION" flags
> > anymore, so why to ask?
> >
> > I have a better question: since the MCU dumps have differences in the startup code,
> > why not to keep the older MCU dump as well (via the clone set)?
>
> The trusted dump comes unmodified from the 2nd CPU SRAM, didn't really see the point
> in keeping the bad one around in this instance, just documented what we saw.
>
> anyway the actual answer to the question is that they'll only REALLY be considered
> working if the current Pull Request (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/2500)
> gets merged in before the 'freeze period' for the release*. If not, there's a 1-byte
> error in the World Rally 2 rom (also reversed stereo channels) and the Touch + Go
> high score table doesn't initialize properly.
>
> (* looks at this point like it WILL make it)

Good to hear that the MCUs from the other Gaelco games will be added to Mame soon, too.

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