0.98u1 2005/07/16 [#263 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status
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Born To Fight [Luca Elia]
Koro Koro Quest (Japan) [Luca Elia]
Lethal Enforcers [David Haywood]

New Clones Added
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Crush Roller (Kural TWT) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Night Slashers (Japan) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Sand Scorpion (set 2) [Aaron Giles]

New Games Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Wink [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]


MAME Testers Bugs Fixed (10):
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- esckids076yel (David Haywood)
- karatblz137b4gre (Pierpaolo Prazzoli)
- mystwarr098gre (Mamesick)
- nemesis097u1gre1 (Mamesick)
- nemesis097u1gre2 (Mamesick)
- sf2accp2070u5red (Aaron Giles)
- slither094u1red (Aaron Giles, MASH)
- spyhunt097gre1 (Aaron Giles)
- spyhunt097gre2 (Aaron Giles)
- turbotag097u3gra (Aaron Giles)


Source changes:
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- Changed how perodic timers are defined. Previously, you would specify a number which was interpreted either as Hz (if less than 50000) or as nanoseconds (if greater than 50000). Now, the time is specified as a period and you use the standard TIME_IN_HZ or TIME_IN_NS macros [Aaron Giles].
- Turned on address error checking in the 68000 core. This slows things down a bit but is more accurate and allows correct behavior of a couple of badly-programmed games [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed several issues with address error checking in the 68000 core [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed 68000 bug that treated 8-bit branches with $FF offsets as illegal, rather than allowing them and generating an address error [Aaron Giles].
- Created a new header file mamecore.h, which contains the core common useful macros and typedefs that were scattered throughout the header files. Also added endian swapping macros from MESS [Aaron Giles].
- Fully deprecated the use of cpu_setbank(), which was long ago replaced with memory_set_bankptr() [Aaron Giles].
- Did some major cleanup on the MCR drivers [Aaron Giles]:
  * Implemented Super Sound I/O interrupts properly;
  * Filled out all memory maps according to schematics;
  * Fixed sound sync with various sound boards, allowing for kludges to be removed from Power Drive and Star Guards;
  * Re-verified all connections from wiring diagrams;
  * Documented various lamp and driver boards from the games.
- Some makefile tweaks to hopefully catch variable declaration problems that kept creeping into builds. Switched gcc compiler standard to gnu89 [Atari Ace].
- Removed usage of dirent.h APIs on Windows builds [Atari Ace].
- Corrected resolution to 256x256 in Stagger I, Red Hawk, Sen Jin - Guardian Storm. All other games still have old visible area that is correct for them [Mamesick].
- Fixed crash in Volfied and Operation Wolf due to improper timer usage [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed one of the TC360 sprite blending modes (used in Pulirula round 2 and Liquids Kids attract mode) [Bryan McPhail].
- Fixed sprite/tilemap placement in Legend of Kage [Phil Stroffolino].
- PowerPC core update [Nathan Woods]:
  * Added infrastructure to generate DSI and ISI exceptions;
  * Made the lbz/lbzu/lbzux/lbzx instructions properly clear out the high 24 bits in the results;
  * Added SRR0 and SRR1 to the debug view.
- Did some cleanups in the vamphalf.c driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Fixed speedbal again, after breaking it in the last update [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Changed Nitro Ball to use the new deco16_tilemap_34_combine_draw function Bryan added some time ago [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Added a sprite wrap around needed in 'Riot level 2' [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Added sound to Dragon Bowl [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].