0.102u3 2005/12/08 [#292 - Aaron Giles]
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New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Magic Stick [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

New clones added
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Progressive Music Trivia (Question set 3) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Asia 960529) [Razoola]
Funky Jet (Japan) [Guru]
Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (World) [Stefan Lindberg]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Fortress 2 Blue Arcade [Guru]


MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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taotaida088u4gra [RansAckeR]
tempest095u5gre [RansAckeR]


Source changes:
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- 'Aquarium' update [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]:
  * Fixed tilemaps - sprites priority.
  * Added sprites wrap around y.
  * Added tiles flipx and flipy.
- Fixed several bugs in the SPC700 core [R. Belmont]:
  * Fixed carry usage in ADC/SBC.
  * Fixed overflow flag in ADDW/SUBW (I think).
  * BRK now modifies the status register properly.
  * Fixed DAA/DAS edge case.
- Updated driver.c with more consistent and updated info Brian Troha].
- NSS/SNES updates from latest MESS: [R. Belmont]:
  * Improved memory mapping.
  * Improved raster timing.
  * Added HIRQ support and better VIRQ support.
  * Improved joypad support.
  * DSP-1 support (including all subtypes).
  * Counter latching support.
  * Fixed OAM read/write.
  * Fixed stereo sound.
- Added a MESS specific ROM entry type, and changed ROM entry processing code to ignore any unrecognized ROM entry types [Nathan Woods].
- Merged in recent changes to the PC share code from MESS [Nathan Woods].
- Removed several obsolete files: machine\s16math.h, vidhrdw\medlanes.h,
windows\dirty.h, windows\snprintf.c [Giuseppe Gorgoglione].
- Fixed a couple of minor compatibility exposed by VC2005 [Giuseppe Gorgoglione].
- Fixed the ADC and SBC opcodes in G65816 (for BCD math) [Rob Bohms].
- Fixed $4014 sprite DMA in NES PPU. [Rob Bohms].
- Updated the H8/3002 emulation [R. Belmont]:
 * Added more bXXX.b #imm, (@)Rn instructions.
 * Added subtract with carry instructions.
- Implemented some N2A03 undocumented opcodes. [Rob Bohms].
- Major update to Namco System 22 [Phil Stroffolino]:
  * Depth cueing support (fog); some open issues remain.
  * Depth bias improvements.
  * zbuffer has been replaced with back-to-front rendering.
  * Sprite and text translucency.
  * Direct access to rendering device (used by video tests).
  * Preliminary support for spotlight feature.
  * Support for sprite bottom-alignment.
  * Support for sprite, polygon priority over text.
- More Voodoo updates [Aaron Giles]:
  * Added support for CLUT/gamma ramps; enables fade in/out effects
  * Changed stall callback to notify both start and end of stalling.
  * Decreased bilinear resolution to 4 bits for Voodoo 1.
  * Fixed statistics and added some new ones
  * Now properly masking off unsupported bits for earlier chipsets.
  * Fixed NOP command so it doesn't always reset statistics.
  * Fixed bug that caused the refresh rate to never be updated.
  * Fixed 16-bit writes to the frame buffer.
  * Fixed crashing bug after resetting the chip.
  * Added support for Voodoo 2's new fog, colorpath, and chromaRange modes.
  * Added correct wrapping for ARGB, W and Z values.
  * Fixed bug where depth was written to the Z buffer without bias
  * Now aggregates shorter commands to reduce the number of context switches.