0.110u2 2006/11/25 [#350 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status
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Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix [smf]
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Link [smf]
Dancing Stage / Dance Dance Revolution [smf]
Fisherman's Bait * A Bass Challenge / Bass Angler [smf]
Fisherman's Bait * Marlin Challenge [smf]
Fisherman's Bait 2 * A Bass Challenge [smf]
Guitar Freaks [smf]

New Clones Added
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Hellfire (2P Ver., first edition) [Tirino73]
Konami 80's AC Special (3 versions) [smf]
Stratovox (bootleg) [Brian Troha]

New Game Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Jyangokushi: Haoh no Saihai (Japan) [David Haywood]


MAME Testers Bugs Fixed (2):
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- mario0110u1gre (Derrick Renaud)
- vulcan137b1gre (robiza, Mamesick)


Source changes:
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- Fixed flags access in the i286 core [Barry Rodewald].
- Updated MC146818 module to use new core date/time routines [Nathan Woods].
- Cleaned up disassemblers to remove stubs and ensure the disassemblers are not referenced except in debug builds [Nathan Woods].
- Added support for using CHDs to decrypt CPS2 games. This code is disabled for the moment, but will be enabled in the future. Only a handful of games have complete tables so far. These tables are huge (~4GB) and uncompressable until the encryption algorithm is understood [David Haywood].
- Fixed bug in the debugger that caused watchpoints to not be active until the next context switch [smf].
- Cleaned up the input definitions for n-way joysticks so they are more explicit. Added concept of a "16-way" joystick, which is a joystick that doesn't prevent simultaneous opposing directions from bring reported [smf].
- Major System 573 update [smf]:
  * Fixed PSX SIO control register behavior;
  * Implemented several SCSI CD commands: START/STOP UNIT, PAUSE/RESUME, READ SUB-CHANNEL, READ TOC;
  * Added uPD4701 emulation;
  * Fixed ATAPI reset, PIO, and command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE;
  * Hooked up controls for fishing, DRR, and Guitar Freaks games;
  * Hooked up CDDA audio;
  * Removed some unused bytes from the Konami 80's security chips.
- Fixed upside down service mode in the commando.c driver [Canim].
- Added support for the Triple Hunt 8-track audio [Derrick Renaud].
- Galaxian/Scramble driver reorganization [Atari Ace]:
  * machine/scramble.c is broken up into two files, machine/galaxian.c and machine/scramble.c;
  * drivers/amidar.c, drivers/frogger.c, drivers/scobra.c get copies of some of the data structures they shared from other drivers;
  * galaxian_base is made static and uses outside of the main driver were rewritten;
  * cclimber_decode code from drivers/cclimber.c was separated into its own machine/cclimber.c file to allow mshuttle to share it without taking on other dependencies.
- Added missing x-flipping support in Major Havoc [Mathis Rosenhauer].
- Made some improvements to trivia madness driver. There still is something wrong in the question roms banking [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- More updates to the ST-V driver [Mariusz Wojcieszek]:
  * vdp1: added shading for sprites (used by znpwfv, cotton, others). Fixed sprite clipping (fixes incorrect sprites in znpwfv). Fixed transparency on colour lookup table sprites (fixes bad sprites in znpwfv);
  * vdp2: Fixed caching of RGB layer (fixes bad backgrounds on bosses in rsgun). Added additive blending for tilemaps and sprites (rsgun). Added vertical line scroll and linezoom (fixes diehard logo);
  * stv: Improved speedups for diehard. Fixed speedups for znpwfv. Added preliminary save state support.
- Significant cleanup of chd.c [Aaron Giles]:
  * Got rid of the horrible last_error concept; now all routines return an error directly;
  * Fixed several issues in managing metadata;
  * Changed compression and verification routines to be client-driven rather than monolithic;
  * Changed internal codec usage to be more flexible;
  * Altered chdman and MAME to use the new interfaces;
  * Added new -createraw command for creating raw data CHDs.
- Fixed crash bug in romcmp when comparing ZIP files [Aaron Giles].