0.95u2 2005/04/06 [#246 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games/Clones Supported or Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING Status
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Up Your Alley [Aaron Giles]
Dr. Tomy [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Snapper [Aaron Giles, Simon White]
Pocket Gal Deluxe (bootleg) [David Haywood]
Batman Forever [Angelo Salese, Runik]
Wally wo Sagase! (Rev. B) [Chack'n]
DD. Crew (Japan, 2 Player) [Chack'n]
Aurail (Japan) [Chack'n]
Trio the Punch (World) [Roberto Gandola]
Simpsons (4 Player alt) [Chris Hardy]

New Games Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Comad World Beach Ball Championship 1997 (1)
Monster World (2)
Peno Cup  (3)
Panic Road [Tomasz Slanina] (4)
D.D Crew (3 Player, World) [Chris Hardy] (5)

Notes:
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(1): Skeleton driver.
(2): Different memory map etc. to speed spin.
(3): Maybe wrong title, corrupt ROM data.
(4): Encrypted GFX, like mustache boy?
(5): Hangs when you select character, needs investigation.


MAME Testers Bug Fixed:
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- rimrockn057gre (Aaron Giles)


Source changes:
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- Incredible Tech. 8-bit update [Aaron Giles]:
  * Added extensive documentation on all the various PCB layouts;
  * Reorganized drivers to match PCB information;
  * Fixed paging/flicker problems in Poker Dice/Dyno Bop;
  * Fixed lack of announcer voices in Rim Rockin' Basketball;.
  * Fixed P3/P4 controls in Rim Rockin' Basketball;
  * Added "behind the beam" updating for Super Strike Bowling;
  * Redid Slick Shot input to use a crosshair for starting point and trackball movement for velocity;
  * Hooked up inputs for Dyno Bop/Super Strike Bowling, which are now somewhat playable;
  * Rewrote blitter implementation to be much simpler (no more macros);
  * Measured and implemented accurate blitter timing (fixes some speed problems);
  * Cleaned up TMS34061 implementation to remove dirty pixel tracking;
  * Fixed scanline computations in TMS34061 code;
  * Updated Capcom Bowling driver as well to handle TMS34061 changes.
- Sega ST-V update [Angelo Salese]:
  * Fixed Batman Forever ROM loading,now the game works, thanks to Runik to point this out;
  * Fixed some interrupt issues because the old implementation was giving several hangs on the above game.To be more specific added the sprite draw end irq to the INTERRUPT_GEN structure & fixed a bug which prevented the vblank bit to not be cleared if the irq mask has the VBLANK-IN disactivated;
  * Fixed the NMI_disable/enable cmds on the SMPC device,his function is to active/disactive a bit in the SMPC ram.This fixes the "2 credits bug at start-up" in Shanghai Triple Threat;
  * Fixed a bug in the bitmap type 4 in VDP2 handling,which was causing the Sunsoft logo in Shanghai Triple Threat to not show correctly.
- Removed hack from Ghox controls so it acts like real PCB [Corrado Tomaselli].
- Attempted to fix crash in Crackdown [David Haywood].
- Misc patch [Nathan Woods]:
  - src/cpu/m6502/m6502.c:
  * Added a hook that allows drivers to override the indexed addressing mode (there is a certain system on the MESS side that does some very ugly tricks to change the behavior of this mode).
  - src/machine/6821pia.c:
  * PIA fix.
- Fixed error introduced in Splash when Funny Strip gfx were fixed [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Improved SSlam audio MCU sim [Quench].
- SN76496 improvements [Sebastien Chevalier].
- Megaplay DIP switch fix [Barry Rodewald].
- Improved gamelist.txt generation code [Buddabing, Atari Ace].
- Changed way in which MCU kludge/hack works in armedf driver [Sebastien Chevalier].
- mayjisn2 input fix [WING].