0.60 2002/05/01 [#117 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Black Heart [Kamel]
Block Gal [Angelo Salese]
Drag Race [Stefan Jokisch]
Formation Z [Acho A. Tang]
Hyper Duel [E. Watanabe]
Hyper Pacman [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert]
IQ Block [Nicola Salmoria, Ernesto Corvi]
Judge Dredd [Aaron Giles]
Many Bloc [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert]
Mille Miglia 2: Great 1000 Miles Rally [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert]
Miss Bubble 2 [David Haywood]
Mustang [Kamel]
News [David Haywood]
Oriental Legend [ElSemi, David Haywood]
Pool Shark [Stefan Jokisch]
Primal Rage [Aaron Giles]
Road Riot's Revenge [Aaron Giles]
Shadow Force [David Haywood]
Tactician [Nicola Salmoria, Stephane Humbert]
Tank Busters [Jarek Burczynski]
Taxi Driver [Nicola Salmoria]
The Legend of Silk Road [David Haywood, Stephane Humbert, R. Belmont]
The Masters of Kin [Nicola Salmoria]
The Outfoxies [Phil Stroffolino]
World Class Bowling [Aaron Giles]
Xyonix [David Haywood, Stephan Humbert, Nicola Salmoria]

New clones supported:
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Blood Storm (v1.10) [ Aaron Giles]
Bone Crusher (= Knuckle Joe) [Smitdogg]
Bubble Symphony (Europe) [Pekka Salmia, Brian Troha]
C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa (World) [Pekka Salmia, Brian Troha]
Clowns (rev 1) [Nicola Salmoria]
Dragon Punch (= Sports Match) [Uki]
Fighter & Attacker (= F/A) [Brian Troha]
Fighting Golf (set 2) [Nicola Salmoria]
Gun Bird (World) [Brian Troha]
Hero in the Castle of Doom (Donkey Kong conversion) [Nicola Salmoria]
Hot Shots Tennis (V1.0) [Aaron Giles]
Knuckle Heads (World) [Brian Troha]
Magic Worm (= Centipede) [Aaron Giles]
Nebulas Ray (World) [Brian Troha]
Pengo (bootleg) [Nicola Salmoria]
Pirate Pete (= Jungle King) [MASH]
R-Type Leo (World) [Nicola Salmoria]
Space Invaders '95 (US) [Brian Troha]
Strata Bowling (V1) [Aaron Giles]
Street Fighter (prototype) [Aaron Giles]


MAME Testers bugs fixed (there are probably more):
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blmbycar059red
uopoko059red
gcpinbal059red
jitsupro059red
metroc059red
phelios059red
paclandc059red
ncv1058red
av2mj059red
fromancec058red
neogeoc37b15gre
fround056red
bioatack37b6gre
crush057gre
driverc056ora
batsugun37b6gre


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed disappearing enemies in later levels of 'Batsugun' [Angelo Salese].


These drivers have improved SOUND:
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- Improved Irem GA20 emulation, used by M92 games [Acho A. Tang].


Source changes:
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- Fixed several problems in 'Kiki KaiKai' [Acho A. Tang].
- Fixed colors in 'Wec Le Mans' and wrong graphics in 'Hot Chase' [Acho A. Tang].
- Several fixes to Psikyo games [Paul Priest, David Haywood].
- Several fixes to nemesis.c [Hau].
- Complete rewrite of the cheat engine [Ian Patterson].
- Support for external configuration files for special controllers; this replaces the -hotrod and -hotrodse options. See ctrl.txt for the detailed explanation [Ron Fries].
- Complete rewrite of YM3812/YM3526/Y8950 emulation, verified on the real chip [Jarek Burczynski].
- Fixes to Y8950 sample playback [Acho A. Tang].
- New function memory_set_unmap_value(), to specify the value returned when an unmapped memory address is read [Aaron Giles].
- osd_opl_control() and osd_opl_write() removed; direct access to the SoundBlaster OPL chip is no longer useful.