0.103u1 2006/1/4 [#296 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status
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Avengers In Galactic Storm [Bryan McPhail]
Heavy Smash [Bryan McPhail]
Mahjong The Dai Chuuka Ken [Luca Elia, Guru, bnathan]
Night Slashers [Bryan McPhail]
Power Instinct Legends [Brian Troha, Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Guru]
Shuttle Invader [Tomasz Slanina]

New Clones Added
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Pasha Pasha Champ Mini Game Festival [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Quiz (Revision 2.1) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Super Star Battle [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Thunder Strike (Newer) [Bryan McPhail]

New Game Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Mirax [Tomasz Slanina]


MAME Testers Bug Fixed (1):
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- upsidedown0103yel (Mamesick)


Source changes:
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- Added new debugger command traceflush [Nathan Woods].
- Added PowerPC MMU code, but enabled only for MESS due to breakage of the Model 3 games [Nathan Woods].
- Deco fixes [Bryan McPhail, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]:
  * Deco MLC video hardware near perfect for the most part, however no game works properly because of an unemulated math coprocessor attached to the DE156 chip;
  * Deco 32: Night Slashers pretty much perfect apart from lack of sound;
  * Deco 32: Some graphics fixes for Tattoo Assassins;
  * Deco 156: 'Heavy Smash' pretty much perfect.
- Fixed graphics layer priority in Grand Tour [Tomasz Slanina, Guru].
- Fixed OKI frequency in Super Model [Sonikos].
- Fixed out-of-bounds array writes in the v810 core [Atari Ace].
- Fixed Thunderstrike interrupts, visible area, and raster updates [Bryan McPhail].
- Hooked up sound effects in Triple Hunt [Derrick Renaud, Stefan Jokisch].
- Major cleanup/rewrite of the Berzerk driver [smf]:
  * Merged memory & io read/write maps;
  * Video RAM & magic RAM share the same memory;
  * Hooked up NVRAM in frenzy memory map;
  * Emulates magic RAM shifter/flopper with 9 74LS153's as per the schematics;
  * Emulates magic RAM alu with 2 74LS181's hardwired to logic mode as per the schematics;
  * 74LS181 emulation based on the logic diagram from the datasheet, supporting logic mode & arithmetic mode.
- Many H6280/PCE fixes [Rob Bohms, [Charles MacDonald]:
  * Fixed cases where sprites could render outside of the buffer;
  * Added VRAM to VRAM DMA [Charles MacDonald].
  * Multiple h6280 fixes [Charles MacDonald].
  * Provided functions to correctly handle VRAM accesses for the entire 128K range [Charles MacDonald].
  * Added some of the I/O buffer bits from the hardware page;
  * Fixed h6280 IRQ ranges to support proper mirroring;
  * Hooked up h6280 IRQs to the PC Engine;
  * Corrected sprite-to-sprite rendering priorities;
  * Partially enforce 16 sprite limit.
- Moved several BCD and date-related functions into mamecore.h [Nathan woods].
- Rewrote the Star Wars mathbox multiplier from the schematics [Mathis Rosenhauer].
- Tagged a number of constant arrays in the source as static [Atari Ace].
- Updates for the ARM core [Bryan McPhail]:
  * Fixed software interrupts;
  * Fixed several mode change bugs;
  * Preliminary coprocessor support.