0.37b2 2000/05/06 [#095 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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(astrob)   Astro Blaster (version 3) [Nicola Salmoria]
(battlera) Battle Rangers (World) [Bryan McPhail]
(dfeveron) Dangun Feveron (Japan) [Luca Elia]
(insector) Insector (prototype) [Fabrice Frances]
(kyros)    Kyros [Bryan McPhail]
(mermaid)  Mermaid [Zsolt Vasvari]
(pipedrm)  Pipe Dream (Japan) [Bryan McPhail, Aaron Giles]
(polyplay) Poly-Play [Martin Buchholz]
(screwloo) Screw Loose (prototype) [Fabrice Frances]
(sheriff)  Sheriff [Zsolt Vasvari]
(sstingry) Super Stingray [Bryan McPhail]
(supbtime) Super Burger Time (World) [Nicola Salmoria]
(tail2nos) Tail to Nose - Great Championship [Nicola Salmoria]
(uopoko)   Uo Poko (Japan) [Luca Elia]
(vaportra) Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation (World revision 1) [Nicola Salmoria]

New clones supported:
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(800fath)  800 Fathoms [Nicola Salmoria]
(bldwolf)  Bloody Wolf (US) [Bryan McPhail]
(boscoo2)  Bosconian (older version) [Nicola Salmoria]
(esprade)  ESP Ra.De. (Japan) [Luca Elia]
(grindstm) Grind Stormer (Korea) [Nicola Salmoria]
(inthuntu) In The Hunt (US) [Nicola Salmoria]
(junofstg) Juno First (Gottlieb) [Nicola Salmoria]
(moonbase) Moon Base [Nicola Salmoria]
(oscarj)   Psycho-Nics Oscar (Japan revision 2) [Nicola Salmoria]
(oscarj1)  Psycho-Nics Oscar (Japan revision 1) [Nicola Salmoria]
(schasrcv) Space Chaser (CV version) [Nicola Salmoria]
(sinvzen)  Super Invaders (Zenitone-Microsec) [Nicola Salmoria]
(spinlbru) Spinal Breakers (US) [Nicola Salmoria]
(sspacat2) Space Attack (upright, older) [Nicola Salmoria]
(superinv) Super Invaders [Nicola Salmoria]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Accurate sprite drawing in MCR 1 & 2 games (see Satan's Hollow) [Aaron Giles].
- Correct colors in Lasso [Phil Stroffolino].
- Fixed colors in Reactor [Fabrice Frances].
- Fixed rowscroll in Ghostbusters [Bryan McPhail].
- Fixed sprite / tile priority in Mad Gear and Garyo Retsuden [Bryan McPhail].


These drivers have improved SOUND:
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- Fixed adpcm decoding in the K053260, this improves several Konami games [Ernesto Corvi].
- Samples in Warrior [Mathis Rosenhauer].
- Sound in Demon [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Sound in Lasso [Phil Stroffolino].


Other drivers changes:
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- Fixed Gang Wars original version, Super Baseball, Battlefield, Time Solders rev 1 [Bryan McPhail].


Changes to the main program:
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- Extended the internal font to support characters 128-255 (ISO Latin-1) [Juergen Buchmueller].
- First pass for multi language support with external translation files [Brad Oliver].
- Fixed Hu6280 emulation bugs which caused missing levels in Trio the Punch [Bryan McPhail].
- Massive rewrite of the cheat system user interface. This is still a work in progress [Brad Oliver].


Source:
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- Replaced instances of "if (errorlog) fprintf(errorlog," with a call to the new function logerror().
- New filetypes that must be supported by the OS dependant code:
  FILETYPE_HIGHSCORE_DB
  FILETYPE_HISTORY
  FILETYPE_CHEAT
  FILETYPE_LANGUAGE

  new functions:
  osd_readkey_unicode
  osd_fgetc
  osd_ungetc
  osd_fgets
  osd_feof
  osd_ftell

  new filed in struct Gameoptions: language_file. The OS dependant code must initialize it if it wants to use a translation file [Brad Oliver].
- I added a new parameter to the end of the EEPROM interface to enable multiple reads to occur after a single read command. Added an EEPROM_set_data() routine that can be used to explicitly initialize the contents of the EEPROM if the NVRAM file isn't found [Aaron Giles].