0.37b16 2001/07/02 [#109 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Bonze's Adventure [Yochizo, Stefan Jokisch]
Burglar X [Luca Elia]
China Gate [Paul Hampson]
Extreme Downhill [Luca Elia]
Exzisus [Yochizo]
Great Sluggers '94 [Phil Stroffolino]
Gridlee [Aaron Giles]
Gun Bullet [Phil Stroffolino]
Gundhara [Luca Elia]
Hang-On Jr [David Haywood]
Idol-Mahjong Final Romance [Takahiro Nogi]
Idol-Mahjong Housoukyoku [Takahiro Nogi]
Ikki [Uki]
Mahjong Daiyogen [Takahiro Nogi]
Mahjong Fun Club - Idol Saizensen [Takahiro Nogi]
Mahjong Gakuensai [Luca Elia]
Mahjong Gakuensai 2 [Luca Elia]
Mahjong Natsu Monogatari [Takahiro Nogi]
Markham [Uki]
Multi Champ [Luca Elia]
Namco Classics vol. 1 [Mark McDougall]
Nebulas Ray [Phil Stroffolino]
Nekketsu Mahjong Sengen! AFTER 5 [Takahiro Nogi]
Pettan Pyuu [Uki]
Premier Soccer [Nicola Salmoria]
Raiders 5 [Uki]
Red Clash [inkling]
Riddle of Pythagoras [David Haywood]
Sen Jin - Guardian Storm [Luca Elia]
Slither [Aaron Giles]
Stagger I [Luca Elia]
Strength & Skill [Uki]
Super Real Mahjong P2 [Yochizo, Takahiro Nogi]
Super World Stadium '96 [Phil Stroffolino]
Super World Stadium '97 [Phil Stroffolino]
Transformer [David Haywood]
Under Fire [David Graves]
Voflied [Stefan Jokish]
WWF Superstars [David Haywood]
WWF Wrestlefest [David Haywood]
Zero Point [Luca Elia]

New clones supported:
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All American Football (rev C)
Bull Fight (English)
Cosmo Gang the Puzzle (US)
Disco (rev F)
Lady Killer (Mitchell)
Main Stadium (= Bottom of the Ninth)
Ms. Pac Attack
Ms. Pac-Man (original)
Performan (US)
Stinger (set 1)
Wonder Boy (set 1, new encryption)
World Cup '90 (set 2)


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed colors and other stuff in ninjakun [Uki].
- Fixed colors and other things in 'Arabian' [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed colors in 'World Tennis' [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed sprite priorities in CPS2 games [Shiriru].


These drivers have improved SOUND:
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- Decrypted the Seibu sound CPU, giving sound in raidena, dynduke, toki, cabal [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed incomplete first credit sound in MetalB and other F2 games, and bonzeadv player shoot sound [Stefan Jokisch].


Source changes:
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- Decrypted the original 'Ms. Pac Man' [David Widel].
- Fixed 'Cabal' original version [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed some protection issues in 'Wiz' [Stefan Jokish].
- Fixed 'Toki' original versions [David Graves, Bryan McPhail].
- Partial protection simulation in 'Avengers' [Phil Stroffolino].
- Rewritten the Galaxian PCB drivers [Zsolt Vasvari].
- [Windows] New command line parameter [Aaron Giles]:

  -effect <string>
  
  -effect none:   no blitting effects
  -effect scan25: 25% scanlines
  -effect scan50: 50% scanlines
  -effect scan75: 75% scanlines
  -effect rgb3
  -effect rgb4
  -effect rgb6
  -effect rgb16
  -effect rgbtiny
  -effect rgb4v
  -effect scan75v

- Added new flags for the tilemap subsystem: TILE_SWAXY and TILE_4BPP. Also added tile_info.skip. SET_TILE_INFO() now has a third parameter (flags), tilemap_set_transmask() sets independently the transparency masks for the front and back layer, and tilemap_draw() can be called with a NULL tilemap (in that case, only the priority bitmap is updated) [Phil Stroffolino].
- New subdirectory "includes" for driver-specific header files.
- Support for GFX_RAW in GfxLayout (see drawgfx.h) [Nicola Salmoria].