0.77 2003/11/12 [#152 - David Haywood]
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New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Seattle Hardware [Aaron Giles]
Mace - The Dark Age [Aaron Giles]
Blitz '99 [Aaron Giles]
CarnEvil [Aaron Giles]
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey [Aaron Giles]
Dangerous Dungeons [Bryan McPhail]
Goal '92 (bootleg of Seibu Cup Soccer) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
T-Mek (prototype) [Aaron Giles] (bad sound)
Guardians of the Hood [Aaron Giles]

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Double Dragon (World) [Bryan McPhail]
The Simpsons (2 player, alt) [R.Belmont]
Martial Champion [EAA] [R.Belmont]

New Non-Working games / clones supported
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Namco System 12 [smf] (sets include tekken3, soulclbr, ehrgeiz, mdhorse, fgtlayer, pacapp, sws99, tekkentt, mrdrillr, aquarush, golgo13)
Godzilla [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Bonk's Adventure [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Seibu Cup Soccer [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] (protection issues)
SF Rush [Aaron Giles]
California Speed [Aaron Giles]
Sports Fishing 2 (stv) [ANY] (incomplete dump / no way to support CD and MPEG decoder)


Source changes:
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- Fix to allow a driver to have MSM6295s and plain ADPCM voices coexist (required for gcpinbal) [R. Belmont].
- Full Sound / Music in Grand Cross [R.Belmont].
- Improved Bishi Bashi colours [Angelo Salese].
- Fixed ckongs sprites [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Updated Double Dragon Driver [Bryan McPhail]
	- Correct video & interrupt timing derived from Xain schematics and confirmed on real DD board.
	- Corrected interrupt handling, epecially to MCU (but one semi-hack remains).
	- TStrike now boots but sprites don't appear (I had them working
	at one point, can't remember what broke them again).
	- Dangerous Dungeons fixed.
	- World version of Double Dragon added (actually same roms as
	the bootleg, but confirmed from real board)
	- Removed stereo audio flag (still on Toffy - does it have it?)
	src/drivers/ddragon.c
- Various ST-V improvements [Angelo Salese]
	src/drivers/stv.c
- Twin16/TMNT fixes [Curt Coder]
	drivers/twin16.c
	- Fixed cuebrick NVRAM handler
	- Added watchdog reset
	drivers/tmnt.c
	- Fixed mia/mia2 inputs/dips
	- Fixed visible area in cuebrckj/mia/mia2
	- Changed cuebrckj to "Cue Brick (World version D)", since text is in English).
- TMS32031 Fixes [Aaron Giles]
	many fixes to the TMS32031 core; Offroad Challenge is almost playable as a
	result, minus the fact that the clipping plane seems to like clipping out
	the cars during the race. But the terrain problems are fixed at least.
- Memory annoyance fix [Aaron Giles]
	Unmapped memory accesses always reported the raw byte address, not the
	CPU-level address. This is annoying for chips like the TMS34010 or the
	TMS32031, so now the effecitve offset is logged instead, taking into account
	the address shift.
- Some Input Port Corrections [Robin Merrill, fixed by Bryan McPhail]
- OSD fix [Aaron Giles]
	This is a minor fix to enable the OSD for non-debug builds regardless of
	the -debug flag
- Misc Fixes [Nathan Woods]
	src/usrintrf.c:
	- Adds a handful of comments to uifontdata[]
	- Changes character 14 to a solid circle; previously this
	character was blank and unused
	- Miscellaneous changes within #ifdef MESS
- Various Atari Improvements
	* CAGE works
	* motion object checksums work for growth games
	* sprite/playfield priorities work for growth games
	* no more 6502 speedups
	drivers/atarig1.c:
	* added support for the MO command register -- MO checksums now work
	* added missing SHA1 values and marked some ROMs as NO_DUMP
	* removed 6502 speedups
	drivers/atarig42.c:
	vidhrdw/atarig42.c:
	* added support for the MO command register -- MO checksums now work
	* added SLOOP emulation for Guardians of the Hood, which is fully playable
	* added missing SHA1 values
	* removed 6502 speedups
	* documented color MUXing
	* removed old orientation code
	* added MO/playfield priorities
	drivers/atarigt.c:
	vidhrdw/atarigt.c:
	* added support for the MO command register -- MO checksums now work
	* hooked up CAGE audio
	* added missing SHA1 values
	* documented the overly complicated color MUXing
	* added MO/playfield priorities
	drivers/atarigx2.c:
	* added support for the MO command register -- MO checksums now work
	* added missing SHA1 values
	* added another Road Riot's Revenge variant
	* some input port tweaks
	* removed 6502 speedups
	machine/asic65.c:
	* improved logic for Road Riot 4WD -- almost playable
	* added support for Guardians of the Hood
	machine/atarigen.c:
	* fixed bad handling of EEPROM data in 32-bit mode
	sndhrdw/cage.c:
	* fixed frequency computation -- it now works ok!
	* added speedup mechanism
	* fixed positioning of the 4 voices
	vidhrdw/atarirle.c:
	* implemented the MO command register and checksumming
- Improved Z80 DAA emulation allowing removal of look-up table [Sean Young / Stefano].