0.33b3 1998/05/17 [#039 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Aeroboto (preliminary) [Carlos A. Lozano]
Altered Beast [Mirko Buffoni]
Blasto [Frank Palazzolo]
Carrier Air Wing (preliminary) [Paul Leaman]
Challenger [Al Kossow]
Chicki Chicki Boys (Japanese Mega Twins) [Marco Cassili]
Clowns [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Curve Ball (no sound because ROMs are missing) [Mike Balfour]
Darwin 4078 [Ville Laitinen]
Double Dragon / Double Dragon 2 [Carlos A. Lozano, Rob Rosenbrock, Phil Stroffolino, Ernesto Corvi]
F1 Dream (preliminary) [Paul Leaman]
Final Fight (Japanese) [Marco Cassili]
Ghouls and Ghosts (missing ROMs, doesn't work) [Paul Leaman]
Golden Axe [Mirko Buffoni]
Guided Missile [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Gunfight [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Hexa [Howie Cohen]
I, Robot (preliminary) [Dan Boris]
Juno First [Chris Hardy]
Kaos [Chris Moore]
Klax [Aaron Giles]
Knights of the Round (preliminary) [Paul Leaman]
Lupin III [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Passing Shot (preliminary - the System 16 driver needs to support rotation) [Mirko Buffoni]
Passing Shot [Mirko Buffoni]
Pnickies [Paul Leaman]
Red Alert [Mike Balfour]
Safari [Zsolt Vasvari]
Sea Wolf [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Shinobi [Mirko Buffoni]
Shoot Out [Ernesto Corvi]
Space Encounters [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]
Strider (Japanese) [Marco Cassili]
Tetris (Sega, bootleg) [Mirko Buffoni]
Willow (Japanese) [Marco Cassili]
Zoar [Zsolt Vasvari]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- All drivers with a handcrafted palette got broken in beta 2. They are now fixed.
- Better colors in Side Pocket [Marc Vergoossen].
- Accurate (?) colors in Fast Freddie/Fly-Boy [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Accurate colors in Jump Coaster [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Fixed colors in Road Runner [Aaron Giles].
- The Gauntlet drivers are now color-reduced (faster & better) [Aaron Giles].
- Accurate colors in metack and possibly the other Gameplan games [Chris Moore].
- Fixed a couple of palette problems with Snow Bros. It also no longer uses a 16 bit video mode, so it's faster [nicola Salmoria].


These drivers have improved SOUND:
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- Put back sample support in Q*Bert Qubes [Rodimus Prime].
- Music in 3 Stooges [Nicola Salmoria].
- Emulated sound in Lunar Lander [Keith Wilkins].
- Sound in the Gameplan games [Chris Moore].
- Increased music tempo in Snow Bros.
- Updated VLM5030 emulation (Punch Out etc.). Since quality is still bad, the emulator is only used when samples are not avaialble [Tatsuyuki Satoh].


These drivers have HIGH SCORE support:
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- Locomotion, Jungler, Commando (Sega), Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Rygar, Gemini Wing, Silkworm, City Connection, Trojan, Up'n Down [Dani Portillo].
- Fixed Diamond Run [Mike Balfour].
- Front Line [Steve Ellenoff].


Other drivers changes:
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- Another step forward in getting Super Punch Out to work (still NOT playable) [Tatsuyuki Satoh].
- Proper emulation of the ROM decryption in Burger Time [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Improved Spy Hunter controls (you can play with the mouse or even a wheel now) [Alex Judd].
- Changed the 6502 emulation to disable interrupts on a reset. Not sure if this is the correct behaviour, but Centipede needed it for the service mode to work [This was actually a change in BETA 1 which I forgot to mention].
- New -listdetails option, to create a detailed list of drivers and the hardware they use [Mirko Buffoni].


Source:
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- Fixed bug in the 6809 disassembler [Keith Wilkins].