0.37b12 2001/02/15 [#105 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Aliens vs. Predator [Paul Leaman]
Battle Cruiser M12 [Guru]
Blomby Car [Luca Elia]
Cannon Ball [Luca Elia]
Championship V'Ball [Paul Hampson]
Chinese Hero [Phil Stroffolino]
Cosmo Gang the Puzzle [Phil Stroffolino]
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom [Paul Leaman]
Emeraldia [Phil Stroffolino]
Fighting Roller [Ville Laitinen]
Fire Truck [Phil Stroffolino]
Grand Champion [Ernesto Corvi, Phil Stroffolino]
Ice Climber Dual [Howie Cohen]
Looping [Phil Stroffolino]
lots of Nichibutsu mahjong games [Takahiro Nogi]
Marvel Super Heroes [Paul Leaman]
Mobile Suit Gundam [Luca Elia]
Poitto! [Luca Elia]
Pururun [Luca Elia]
Quiz Kokology [Luca Elia]
Robocop 2 [Bryan McPhail]
Shocking [Luca Elia]
Shoot the Bull [David Widel]
Sky Bumper [Phil Stroffolino]
Star Luster [Howie Cohen]
Street Fighter Alpha 2 [Paul Leaman]
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams [Paul Leaman]
Street Fighter: The Movie [Aaron Giles]
Strike Gunner S.T.G [Luca Elia]
Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers [Paul Leaman]
The Karate Tournament [Luca Elia]
Tinkle Pit [Phil Stroffolino]
Toride II Adauchi Gaiden [Luca Elia]
Ultra Balloon [Luca Elia]
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire [Paul Leaman]
Vampire: The Night Warriors [Paul Leaman]
VS Gong Fight [Phil Stroffolino]
X-Men: Children of the Atom [Paul Leaman]

New clones supported:
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Kitten Kaboodle (= Nyan Nyan Panic)
Klax (Germany)
NBA Hangtime
Pang Poms (Mitchell)
Sky Kid (set 2)
Spelunker (Japan)


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Accurate emulation of sprite multiplexing in Gyruss (also emulating the slave 6809) and Time Pilot [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed auto animation speed in the NeoGeo games [Ralf Willenbacher].
- Fixed colors and music tempo in Battle Lane [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed colors in Funny Mouse [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed colors in Wiz [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed raster effects in mosyougi (title screen) and viewpoint (Sammy logo) [Nicola Salmoria].
- Some fixes to the Cave games [Shiriru].


These drivers have improved SOUND:
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- Fixed engine sound in After Burner [Shica].


Source changes:
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- [DOS] Now compiled with Allegro WIP 3.9.34, this fixes problems with the Sidewinder gamepad. GNU Binutils 2.9.5.1 might also be needed to compile.
- [DOS] The "resamplefilter" option can be used to turn the filtering off [Andrea Mazzoleni].
- 054539 sound emulation, used in X-Men, Xexex, GI Joe [Olivier Galibert].
- All new set of functions for alpha blending support, used in Xexex. Porters: you have to support direct mapped 15 and 32 bits video modes. Remember to update osd_alloc_bitmap() too! See osdepend.h for the changes in osd_create_display() and osd_allocate_colors() [Olivier Galibert].
- draw_crosshair() [Nicola Salmoria].
- GAME_IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS flag for game drivers.
- New filtering code for the audio mixer. It is applied to audio streams generated at a sampling rate different from the sound card's one, improving quality. Some examples with a very audible difference are: fantasy, polyplay, galaxian (the background effect when playing), nibbler, vanguard and all the Seta games.
- Standalone YM2413 emulator, giving much better sound in e.g. Pang [Mitsutaka Okazaki, Sean Young].