0.1 1997/02/05 [#001 - Nicola Salmoria] --------------------------------------- M A M E Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator by Nicola Salmoria (MC6489@mclink.it) Here is a quick list of ther currently supported games; read on for details. Game Playable? Accurate colors? Sound? Pac Man Yes Yes Yes Ms Pac Man (bootleg) Yes Yes Yes Crush Roller Yes No Yes Pengo Yes Yes Yes Lady Bug Yes Yes Partial Games supported: ------------ (crush) Crush Roller [Nicola Salmoria] (ladybug) Lady Bug [Nicola Salmoria] (mspacman) Ms Pac Man [Nicola Salmoria] (pacman) Pac Man [Nicola Salmoria] (pengo) Pengo [Nicola Salmoria] Acknoledgements: ---------------- First of all, thanks to Allard van der Bas (avdbas@wi.leidenuniv.nl) for starting the Arcade Emulation Programming Repository at http://valhalla.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/emul8, without the Repository, I would never have even tried to write an emulator. If you find out something useful, submit it to avdbas@wi.leidenuniv.nl, so it will be made available to everybody on the Repository page. Z80Em Portable Zilog Z80 Emulator Copyright (C) Marcel de Kogel 1996,1997 Allegro library by Shawn Hargreaves, 1994/96 SEAL Synthetic Audio Library API Interface Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Carlos Hasan. All Rights Reserved. Video mode created using Tweak 1.6b by Robert Schmidt, who also wrote TwkUser.c. Very special thanks to Sergio Munoz for the precious information about the Pengo sound hardware and colors. Thanks to Paul Swan for the information on the Lady Bug sound hardware. Thanks to Gary Walton for his help in making the Crush Roller colors better. Usage: ------ MAME [name of the game to run] [options] for example MAME mspacman -nosound will run Ms Pac Man without sound options: -vesa use standard 640x480x256 VESA mode instead of custom video mode -noscanlines use alternate video mode (not availble in all games) -nosound turn off sound -nojoy don't poll joystick -log create a log of illegal memory accesses in ERROR.LOG The following keys work in all emulators: 3 Insert coin 1 Start 1 player game 2 Start 2 players game Tab Change dip switch settings P Pause F3 Reset F11 Activate fps counter F12 Save a screen snapshot ESC Exit emulator Pac Man, Ms Pac Man ------------------- Arrows Move around F1 Skip level F2 Test mode CTRL Speed up cheat Known issues: - Blinky and Pinky seem to be shifted one pixel to the right. This is really annoying, but I can't seem to be able to understand why. Maybe here s an additional "sprite offset" register somewhere? Or did the original just behave this way? Note that we can't fix it by just moving sprites 0 and 1 one pixel to the left, because when Pac Man eats a power pill the sprites order is changed so that Pac Man is drawn over the ghosts. It becomes sprite 0, and Blinky becomes sprite 4. Crush Roller ------------ Crush Roller is a hacked version of Make Trax, modified to run on a Pac Man board. Arrows Move around F1 Skip level Known issues: - There's the same problem with sprites as in Pac Man, but here it could be fixed without apparent side effects. Pengo ----- Arrows Move around CTRL Push F1 Skip level F2 Test mode Lady Bug -------- Arrows Move around F1 Skip level Known issues: - The noise generator is not emulated yet.