0.37b5 2000/07/28 [#098 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge [Aaron Giles]
Ah Eikou no Koshien [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Blandia [Luca Elia]
Blocken [Nicola Salmoria]
Brute Force [Aaron Giles]
Caliber 50 [Luca Elia]
Camel Try [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Dead Connection [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Dino Rex [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Dodonpachi [Luca Elia]
Don Doko Don [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Dragon Unit [Luca Elia]
Drift Out [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Final Blow [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Final StarForce [E. Watanabe]
Football Champ [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Ganbare Ginkun [E. Watanabe]
Gun Bird [Luca Elia]
Gun Frontier [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Hebereke no Popoon [Nicola Salmoria]
LSA Squad [Nicola Salmoria]
Mahjong Quest [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Master of Weapon [Jarek Burczynski]
Mortal Kombat 3 [Aaron Giles]
NBA Maximum Hangtime [Aaron Giles]
Ninja Kids [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Oli-Boo-Chu [Nicola Salmoria]
PuLiRuLa [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Chikyu Bouei Gun [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Crayon Shinchan [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Crayon Shinchan Orato Asobo [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz HQ [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Jinsei Gekijoh [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Quest - Hime to Yuusha no Monogatari [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Quiz Torimonochou [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Rambo III - Release 2 [Jarek Burczynski]
Rampage: World Tour [Aaron Giles]
Royal Mahjong [Zsolt Vasvari]
Sengoku Ace [Luca Elia]
Shanghai 3 [Nicola Salmoria]
Silent Dragon [Jarek Burczynski]
Solitary Fighter [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Space Invaders DX [Jarek Burczynski]
Thunder Fox [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Toypop [Edgardo E. Contini Salvan]
TT Mahjong [Takahiro Nogi, PongKang]
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 [Aaron Giles]
Violence Fight [Jarek Burczynski]
WWF: Wrestlemania [Aaron Giles]
Yes/No Sinri Tokimeki Chart [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]
Yuuyu no Quiz de GO!GO! [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]

New clones supported:
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Blasteroids (with heads)
Cyberball (version 2)
Double Dragon (original)
Legend of Kage (2 new bootlegs)
Rack' em Up (= The Hustler)
Sonic Wings (= Aero Fighters)
Super Formula (= Tail to Nose)
TMNT (Oceania)
Tokusyu Butai UAG (= Thundercade)
Tournament Arkanoid


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed black blobs in Carrier Air Wing [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed multiple beer trucks in Cops 'n Robbers [Colin Douglas Howell].


Other drivers changes:
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- Complete rewrite of the 34010 drivers [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed protection in Slam Masters [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed Terminator 2 crashes [Ernesto Corvi].
- Lots of improvements to the Taito F2 driver [David Graves].


Source changes:
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- Abstracted Taito F2 gfx chip emulation to vidhrdw/taitoic.c (there's also some non-gfx chips in there). There are many other Taito games using these chips [Nicola Salmoria].
- ADSP2105 cpu emulation, used by Mortal Kombat 2 sound [Ernesto Corvi].
- New cpu cores and fixes to old ones [Juergen Buchmueller].
- New functions in cpuintrf.c: cpu_get/set_cycle_table(), cpu_set_irq_callback() [Juergen Buchmueller].
- New graphic primitive copyrozbitmap(). This replaces copybitmapzoom() which was a special case. A side effect is that, thanks to the better precision, the boxer on the Punch Out hall of fame looks much better [Nicola Salmoria].
- New video flag VIDEO_NEEDS_6BITS_PER_GUN to indicate to the OS dependant layer that a 16-bit display is not enough to reproduce the whole game's palette and a 24-bit display is preferred.
- Support for compressed PCM playback in the C140 emulator [CAB].
- YMZ280B sound emulation, used by the Cave games [Aaron Giles].