0.36b4 1999/09/04 [#077 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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American Horseshoes [Olivier Galibert]
Ark Area [Paolo Venturi]
Blast Off [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Blazer [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Bottom of the Ninth [Nicola Salmoria]
Cachat [Olivier Galibert]
Champion Wrestler [Olivier Galibert]
Dangerous Seed [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Detana!! Twin Bee [Nicola Salmoria]
Dragon Spirit [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Fighting Hawk [Olivier Galibert]
Galaga '88 [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Hot Chase [Luca Elia]
Marchen Maze [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Pacmania [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Palamedes [Olivier Galibert]
Pistol Daimyo no Bouken [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Plotting [Olivier Galibert]
Puzznic [Olivier Galibert]
Raimais [Olivier Galibert]
Rollergames [Nicola Salmoria]
Rompers [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Shadow Land [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Souko Ban Deluxe [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Splatter House [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
Surprise Attack [Nicola Salmoria]
WEC Le Mans 24 [Luca Elia]
World Court [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]
World Stadium 90 [Ernesto Corvi, Tatsuyuki Satoh]

New clones supported:
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Block (= Arkanoid) [HIGHWAYMAN]
Crime Fighters (Japan) [Nicola Salmoria]
Garuka (= Devastators) [Nicola Salmoria]
Konami '88 [Gerald Vanderick]
Thunder Cross (Japan) [Yasuhiro Ogawa]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed colors in 'Mysterious Stones' [Zsolt Vasvari].


Source changes:
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- Fixed cocktail mode in several games [Chad Hendrickson].
- Fixed scores in 'Bosconian' [Gamester].
- Improved the protection workaround in 'Sunset Riders' [Ernesto Corvi].
- Protection workaround in 'Thunder Cross' - still not perfect [Ernesto Corvi].
- Several fixes and improvmeents to the System 16 games [Andrew Prime].
- [DOS] Changed the tweked VGA modes definitions to be more compatible. It is suggested to delete mame.cfg to get rid of the obsolete tweak parameters. Remember to set tweak = yes after doing so [Brian Lewis].
- Fixed a 68000 "bug" (actually an undocumented feature of the cpu) that caused the timer to roll over from 00 to 99 in KOF98 [Darren Olafson].
- Fixed a Konami CPU bug which caused problems with Parodius [Ernesto Corvi].
- Screen shots can be saved while the game is paused [Phil Hopely].
- You can single step while the game is paused, press Shift+P to advance to next frame [Phil Hopely].
- New PORT_SERVICE() macro, use it instead of the long declaration needed for the service mode dip switch [Nicola Salmoria].