0.99u4 2005/08/24 [#271 - Aaron Giles]
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New clones added
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Plotting (US) [David Haywood]


MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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quarth37b1gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
devilw36b10yel [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
vulcan137b1gre, part 7 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]


Source changes:
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- Added memory card and cheat menus back into the system [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed MNG recording problem that was introduced in u3 [Aaron Giles].
- Fixed crash when running vector games that was introduced in u3 [Aaron Giles].
- Cleaned up/normalized the naming of several core structures in an attempt to impose some order on coding conventions in the core code:

  struct InputPortDefinition   -> input_port_default_entry
  struct InputPort             -> input_port_entry
  struct RegionInfo            -> region_info
  struct RunningMachine        -> running_machine
  struct GameOptions           -> global_options
  struct GameDriver            -> game_driver
  struct InternalMachineDriver -> machine_config
  struct MachineCPU            -> cpu_config
  struct MachineSoundRoute     -> sound_route
  struct MachineSound          -> sound_config
  struct MachineSpeaker        -> speaker_config
  struct RomModule             -> rom_entry
  struct SystemBios            -> bios_entry
  struct GfxLayout             -> gfx_layout
  struct GfxElement            -> gfx_element
  struct GfxDecodeInfo         -> gfx_decode

Plus many others along the same lines (follow the pattern). Note that this work is not yet complete. In addition, a few of the more pervasive structs (mame_bitmap, rectangle) will be left until a non-diff release (0.100) [Aaron Giles].
- Removed -skip_disclaimer since it automatically goes away after the first time execution [Aaron Giles].
- Created new NMK112 ROM banking module and connected it up to a number of drivers that made use of it. Affected games are in cave.c, nmk16.c, powerins.c, quizpani.c, toaplan2.c [Alex W. Jackson].
- Added missing buttons to 'Showdown' [David Widel].
- Fixed the PULUW instruction on the 6309 disassembler [Nathan Woods].
- Fixed the state save facility play better on multisession ports if initialization fails [Tim Lindner].