0.97u2 2005/06/19 [#258 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status
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Final Tetris [David Haywood]

New Clones Added
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Turtle Ship (Japan) [Brian Troha]
Ladybug (bootleg set 2) [Sonikos]
Mr. Kougar (bootleg Set 2) [Sonikos]

New Games Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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LeMans 24 [R. Belmont]


MAME Testers Bugs Fixed (4):
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- intrepi237b13gre (Pierpaolo Prazzoli)
- robokid37b15gre (Pierpaolo Prazzoli)
- azurian060gre (MASH)
- gradius3094u5gra (Mamesick)


Source changes:
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- System 32 games are seriously under construction now. Do not report any bugs against them. The Multi-32 games are even more broken [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed Windows build so it works again on Windows 95 [Krick].
- Added priorities, fixing 3rd level in The Combatribes [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Updated the sound balancing in donpachi, manzinger, metmqstr and pwrinst2 [Sonikos].
- Fixed video problems in ninjaw, which broke with the new colscroll addition [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Changed OKI volume in midres to match real pcb [Corrado Tomaselli].
- Fixed protection in World Class Bowling v1.40 Tournament [Brian Troha].
- Fixed NES PPU video timing [Andrew Church].
- Fixed usage of change_pc() in PowerPC core [Nathan Woods].
- Improvements to the SHARC CPU core [Ville Linde]:
  * Correct IRQ handling;
  * Many more opcodes, including floating-point.
- Improvements to the Konami PPC games [Ville Linde]:
  * Fixed Gradius 4 data ROM mapping;
  * Fixed PPC/SHARC communications;
  * Fixed NVRAM protection on some games;
  * Stubbed out LAN interface.
- Fixed Space Raider graphics 100% [Frank Palazzolo].
- Correct colors in Pac-Man and Chomp Chomp [Nicola Salmoria, Guru].
- Cleaned up starfield code and fixed/added starfields to 'Space Raider', 'Zero Hour', and 'Red Clash' [Frank Palazzolo].
- Reapplied fix for bad shadows in Dyna Gears [Mamesick].
- Fixed the way the VIA 6522 shift register was implemented to get rid of the previous hacky way [Mathis Rosenhauer].
- Fixed the remaining gfx problems in Championship Bowling [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Added code to flush error.log every time the debugger is entered [Nathan Woods].
- Implemented the MCRXR instruction in the PowerPC core [Nathan Woods].
- Added step in/out support to the v60 disassembler [Aaron Giles].
- Added support for character constants in the expression engine [Aaron Giles].