0.59 2002/03/22 [#116 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Bucky O'Hare [Olivier Galibert, R. Belmont]
Daraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels [David Haywood]
Gunbird 2 [David Haywood]
Mahjong Sisters [Uki]
Paddle Mania [Acho A. Tang]
Pass [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert]
Police Trainer [Aaron Giles]
Quiz DNA no Hanran [Uki]
Quiz Gakuen Paradise [Uki]
Quiz Gekiretsu Scramble [Uki]
Scorpion [Stephane Humbert]
Sol Divide [David Haywood]
Space Bomber [David Haywood]
Strikers 1945 II [David Haywood]
Super Bug [Stefan Jokisch]
Super Pinball Action [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert]
Wild West C.O.W.boys of Moo Mesa [Olivier Galibert, R. Belmont]

New clones supported:
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Beraboh Man (Japan version B) [Nicola Salmoria]
Captain America (Japan) [Chack'n]
Crystal Castles (version 4) [Chris Hardy]
Dynasty Wars (World) [David Haywood]
Galaxian (Midway, old rev) [Nicola Salmoria]
Gradius 3 (World?) [Chack'n]
Haunted Castle (Japan version N) [Stephane Humbert]
Magical Crystals (World) [Brian Troha]
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu set 2) [Guru]
Pisces (original) [Mike Coates]


MAME Testers bugs fixed (there are probably more)
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captaven058gre_2
captaven058gre_5
eto37b9gre
gangwars37b15gre
punchoutc37b15gre
skyadvnt136b8gre
thndrx2058red


Source changes:
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- Fixed 'Rainbow Islands' and 'Rainbow Islands Extra' c-chip emulation [Robert Gallagher, Tormod Tjaberg].
- Fixed 'Super Stingray' and Kyros, and most problems in 'Gold Medalist' [Acho A. Tang].
- Loads of fixes to input ports etc. in several drivers [Stephane Humbert].
- [Windows] Some changes to use less CPU time when it's not needed. Use -nosleep to disable this behaviour during gameplay [Aaron Giles].
- [Windows] MMX implementation of the tilemap drawing code, providing a 5-10% speed increase with some games [Andrea Mazzoleni].
- New function tilemap_set_palette_offset() to set a global palette offset without having to use tilemap_mark_all_tiles_dirty() [Aaron Giles].
- Rewritten the UPD7759 emulator (used by TMNT etc) [Olivier Galibert].
- Support for compressed hard disk images [Aaron Giles].