0.134u2 2009/10/04 [#499 - Aaron Giles]
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New Games Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status
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Othello (version 3.0) [Tomasz Slanina, Stefan Lindberg]

New Clones Added
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Total Vice (ver UAC) [Phil Bennett]
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Quicken Pt-I, bootleg) [D. Beneke, Guru, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (Accelerator!, bootleg) [D. Beneke, Guru, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road Track-Pak (2 Players) [Darran]
Gals Panic 4 (Korea) [Choi Sung Ho]
Mortal Kombat II (rev L3.1 (European)) [Andy Welburn]
Cadash (Germany) [Volker Hann, Team Europe]
Space Empire (bootleg) [Team Europe]
Target Hits (ver 1.0) [Andrew Conroy]
Vulcan Venture (Older) [Irongiant]
Astro Blaster (German) [Volker Hann & Team Europe]
Pac-Man (Galaxian hardware, set 2) [Team Europe]
Zaxxon (Japan) [Team Japump!!!]

New Games Marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (Cartridge) [f205v, David Haywood]
48-in-1 MAME bootleg (ver 3.09) [Guru]
48-in-1 MAME bootleg (ver 3.02) [Guru]
Seta Roulette? [Team Europe]


MAMETesters Bugs Fixed (2):
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- 03403: [DIP/Input] rollfr_2: Can't init Roll Fruit game (MetalliC)
- 03458: [Sound] bzone and clones: Broken engine sound (Couriersud)


Source changes:
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- Added genuine sets of Rally-X and New Rally-X [Team Japump!!!].
- discrete_sound_r now can inquiry any node [Couriersud]:
  * The return type is UINT8, consequently the designer needs to ensure that the node delivers adequately scaled data.
  * Input nodes allow the input data to be scaled. The return value is the node value *after* scaling.
- DISCRETE_74LS624: Optimized for some more speed [Derrick Renaud].
- DISCRETE_566: Started making a more accurate simulation based on testing of a real IC. This makes the rest of Sky Raider sounds work [Derrick Renaud].
- Completed dump of Gun Survivor 2 cart [Guru].
- Hacked in the dsp56156's "Long Interrupts". Added SUB opcode Polygonet Commanders now goes in-game! [Andrew Gardner].
- plygonet.c: Hooked up 53936 roz layer [R. Belmont, David Haywood].
- Fleshed out SCC68070 definition in m68k core, for CD-i use in MESS [Harmony].
- m68k: Disassemble PMOVE instruction (move to/from PMMU) [R. Belmont].
- exp is slow, but pow is even slower [Couriersud]:
  * More LS624 optimization, replace pow(10, x) by pow10(x).
  * Mixer loop optimizations.
- Impromved discrete performance for mario [Couriersud]:
 - Pow to exp: 5%.
 - Parallel tasks: 45%.
 - Minor tweaks.
- M680x0 update [R. Belmont]:
  * Add CPU types 68EC030, 68030, and 68EC040.
  * Start of 030/040 PMMU, including stubbed PMOVE.
- Fixed up RAM bank names to prevent crashes with memdump. Extended explicit banks to 96 [Aaron Giles].
- multfish.c driver fixes and improvements [MetalliC]:
  * Hooked up inputs for Roll Fruit.
  * Added hopper emulation, payout now works.
  * Added information on how to initialize Roll Fruit.
  * Added in missing ROM to a few MultiFish sets.
- DISCRETE_555_MSTABLE - optimized speed and added new operating modes [Derrick Renaud].
- Fixed ROM name of warpwarp. Also removed 4th program ROM which is not present on real board [Team Japump!!!].
- Memory references can now explicitly specify logical or physical access by prepending with an 'l' or 'p'. Logical remains the default. Example: ppb@1000 = physical program space byte at address $1000. ldw@2000 = logical data space word at address $2000. Changed cheat finder to explicitly reference physical memory when writing out new cheats [Aaron Giles].
- Added simple system for auto-detecting cheat-worthy RAM areas [Sandro Ronco].
- Added NULL check to prevent MAME from crashing if a new input device was connected at runtime [David Haywood].
- Expanded PROFILER_USERx to support up to 8 custom profiler areas [Christophe Jaillet].
- Added more _NAME macros to be consistent with the standard naming conventions [Atari Ace].
- Removed old master system code from megaplay.c, megatech.c, segae.c and updated the drivers to use more recent implementation (from HazeMD) [David Haywood].
- Speed up mario_custom_run() discrete sound [Derrick Renaud].
- Added discrete sound to Sprint 8 [Derrick Renaud].
- Removed capacitor aging code and assumed range input is gnd for all 74LS629 [Couriersud].
- Implemented m:n logic for buffered task nodes in discrete sound [Couriersud]:
  * Preparation work so that a task node output buffer may be read by more than one following task.
  * Target: implementation of task groups: tasks in a task group run parallel, task groups serial. The current main task may than just be task (in the last task group).
- Space Walk: Started discrete sounds [Derrick Renaud].
- Added static qualifiers where possible throughout the code [Atari Ace].
- Discrete task groups [Couriersud]:
  * DISCRETE_TASK_START now requires a parameter TASK_GROUP (>=0, <=9).
  * Tasks are scheduled in the order of their task group.
  * Nodes are automatically buffered between task groups.
  * Discrete core determines nodes which need buffering to minimize overhead (information in DISCRETE_LOG).
  * A discrete block list now must put each stepped node into a task if it uses tasks.
  * Drivers not using tasks will get one task allocated automatically.
  * Updated drivers accordingly.
  * Some more constification.
- Optimized tab removal in srcclean [Atari Ace].
- Centralized color definitions and made some colors more specific [Mamesick].
- Hooked up Polynet Warriors joystick properly [Andrew Gardner].