2017.04.16
Fixes and new features
- Added Favorites feature: mark games as favorite from the Game Info window,
or right-click in the list. Toggle favorites mode in the "Filters" section
[dink]
- Added right-click context menu (Play game, View in Progetto Emma, Game Info
and Mark as Favorite) [Barry]
- Added a gear-shifter display for Chequered Flag, Contental Circus, Super
Chase, Chase HQ, SCI, Double Axle, Racing Beat, Top Speed, KonamiGT / RF2,
OutRun / Turbo Outrun and Power Drift. Can be enabled/disabled in Misc ->
Options. [dink]
- Hooked up newly dumped sound-MCU's in Fire Shark, Vimana and Teki Paki,
giving these games sound! Thank you CapsOff!! [dink]
- Added bSkipStartupCheck - hidden .ini option for developers or those who
never scan their romsets [dink]
- Fixed odd-word/long reads and writes in the m68000 cpu interface which in
turn fixes the nasty 68x020 bug that has been plaguing us for ages. This
fixes freeze-ups in Asura Buster and other 68ec020-based games. [iq_132/dink]
Fixed in Asura Buster / Blade: Sprite & tile glitches, music synchronization
[dink]
- Fixed several issues which caused FBAlpha to crash when loading romsets with
missing roms [dink]
- Fixed Tail 2 Nose missing backgrounds [dink]
- Added TMS32010 cpu core for the Flying Shark/Twin Cobra/Wardner drivers [dink]
- Fixed Demon World sprite and tile offsets, also hooked up TMS32010 cpu and
removed the no-TMS32010 hack [iq_132 / dink]
- Fixed Flicky on SG-1000 hw [dink]
- Fixed default eeprom settings for Charlie Ninja [dink]
- Fixed sound in regulusu [dink]
- Fixed Head Panic default settings, game is now playable [dink]
- Fixed broken graphics/corruption in Mille Miglia 2: Great 1000 Miles Rally
[dink]
- Increased the Icon limit [dink]
- Fixed P2 Start in Asterix [dink]
- Added 1-bit dac/key clicker, map joy to cursor keys, Swap tape side A/B and
lots of games to the MSX driver [dink]
- Improved savestate stability/reliability with the MSX driver [dink]
- Improved the MSM5205 interface w/MSM5205NewFrame() and
MSM5205UpdateScanline(), for games that need a 256 interleave. [dink]
- Fixed diagonal movements in Toaplan/Taito's GetStar / Guardian [dink]
- Fixed a crash-scenario w/DonPachi on ARM and 64-bit systems [dink]
- Fixed sound in Speed Spin [iq_132]
- Added encrypted DataEast cpus to the M6502 core [iq_132]
- Fixed service mode, sprite offsets and corrupt tilemaps in G.I.Joe [dink]
- Fixed audio issues, movement issues, slowdowns in Captain Silver [dink]
- Mega-update to the ES5506 core: dynamic resampling, volume functions
[iq_132], 5505-interface fix, clipping issues and savestate support [dink]
- Add NEC-V60 CPU Core [iq_132 / Romhack]
- Add UPD-7725 DSP Core [iq_132]
- Fixed sound, video issues and crash issues in Welltris [dink]
- Fixed sound and hooked up proper analogue inputs for Taito's Super Chase
[dink]
- Fixed DAC speech and reboot issues in Baraduke / Alien Sector [dink]
- Fixed missing sounds in Pac-Land and Sky Kid [dink]
- Fixed a bug in the M6502 core where it wouldn't save the subtype and
instruction handler [dink]
- Added rotation code for Caliber 50 and DownTown [dink]
- Fixed video layer offsets in namcos86 driver, improving video for Rolling
Thunder, Hopping Mappy and SkyKid DX [dink]
- Fixed Taito/Toaplan's RallyBike titlescreen [dink]
- Added M6502ReleaseSlice() the the M6502 cpu core interface [dink]
- Add UPD-7810 CPU Core [iq_132]
- Fixed Thunder Cross 2 Japan and Asian versions [dink]
- Fixed dim palette in Lightning Fighters [dink]
- Enhanced the glass effect in Surprise Attack [dink]
- Fixed grapics issues in Konami's Xexex: Sprite masking effect in intro,
flashes between scene changes, offset issue in the highscore table, missing
effect in Japanese version continue screen [dink]
- Added new tilemap system with all the bells & whistles [iq_132]
- Fixed dips in Dam Busters [dink]
- Fixed gameover animation in Vapor Trail [rb6502]
- Fixed titlescreen raster effect in R-Type Leo [dink]
- Fixed sprite glitching in Shogun Warriors [dink]
- Fixed strangely flipped tiles in Cosmic Cop [dink]
- Ported latest i8051 core with DS5002FP support [dink]
- Added support for 6821 PIA devices [dink]
- Added apan callback support to the K054539 soundchip [dink]
- Fixed service mode in Xexex. Bucky O`Hare and Moo Mesa [dink]
- Fixed tile priority issue in Shackled [dink]
- Re-wrote driver for Shadow Force and added raster effects [iq_132]
- Re-wrote driver for Exed Exes [iq_132]
- Fixed screen priority & graphics issues in Chase HQ, SCI and Night Striker
[dink]
- Fixed DIPs for Mars by Artic [dink]
- Added proper MCU emulation on Heavy Barrel with the new i8051 core [dink]
- Fixed Speed Coin - freezes up when the coin breaks if audio set to 48khz
[dink]
- timer.cpp: added ability to attach a timer to a NULL cpu for for instances
where the main cpu cycles possibly vary [dink]
- Added BDF_GAME_NOT_WORKING flag to burn.h [dink]
- Fixed 8-way movements in Jump Shot [dink]
- System 16 Updates [Barry]
* Added support for the Sega 315 5195 Memory Mapper chip
- Hooked up in Sega System 16B driver
- Hooked up in Sega OutRun driver
- Hooked up in Sega System 18 driver
- Added Moonwalker and clones to the Sega System 18 driver now they can
be supported
* Properly emulate the shadow/hilight palettes in Sega System 16 and associated
drivers
* Emulate priority buffer for Y-Board driver when mixing in System 16B sprites
* Added Lock On (Philko) to the Sega System 16B driver
* Fixed tile banking in some Altered Beast sets
* Emulated the I8751 MCU in the parent set of Altered Beast
* Emulated the I8751 MCU in the parent set of Golden Axe
* Emulated the I8751 MCU in the parent set of Body Slam
* Emulated the I8751 MCU in the clone Quartet 2 (8751 317-0010)
* Added 5 bootlegs of SDI to the Sega System 16B driver
* Fixed game ini saving for SDI & clones
* Implemented full controls in Ace Attacker in the Sega System 16B driver
* Fix outrundxj
* Hooked up PPI8255 reads in Major League
* Fix life counter in Space Harrier
* Added support for screen flipping in Sega System 16A/16B drivers - fixes
some levels of SDI which rely on it
- Added a module for Resister Networks (Palette Generation) [Barry]
- Update lzma sdk to 16.04 [Barry]
- Update libpng to 1.6.28 [Barry]
- Update zlib to 1.2.11 [Barry]
- Synchronize romsets with the latest MAME [Barry]
- Fixed sprite priority issues in Task Force Harrier [dink]
- Fixed alignment issues in Swat Police and Head Panic, x-scroll issues, and
added missing flashing sprite effect on ESD16 Hardware [dink]
- Synthesized a proper color palette for Time Limit [dink]
- Improvements/Fixes for Super Kaneko Nova System: [dink]
* New cpu-based speedhack for most games - dip option
* Fixed Music and SFX in Gals Panic S
* Fixed attract-mode music cut short in VS Block Breaker/Saru Kani
* Fixed garbage on screen when the game starts in VS Block Breaker/Saru Kani
- Updated KonamiBlendCopy() to be faster/more efficient [iq_132]
- Fixed a crash in Donkey Kong 3 Japanese version [dink]
- Fixed Z80's ZetRunEnd(); *revisited*. This fixes slowdown issues with
- Strikers 1945 Plus [dink]
- Added newer-style VezMapMemory() function to the NEC V20-35 cpu interfaces.
[dink]
- Fixed a masking issue in NEC V20-35's read port interface [dink]
- Fixed a blitter issue in Kangaroo, fixed savestates: video banking and lost
music [dink]
- Fixed nasty crackling/popping noises in Darius 2 [dink]
- Hooked up shot and explosion samples to Seibu Stinger and Scion[c] [dink]
- Fixed sprite flickering and freeze-ups in Xain'd Sleena [dink]
- Front-End fix: when starting a game from the commandline, only init the
blitter once. also don't get stuck in fullscreen when loading fails due to a
bad romset [dink]
- Fix some structure alignment issues so drivers can benefit from
vectorization/SIMD optimizations present in latest gcc w/ -O3 and other
recent compilers [dink, barbudreadmon]
- Fix dipswitch issues in several games thanks to info from the libretro/fba
guys [barbudreadmon, dink]
- Fixed Dac and scrolling issues in Konami's Finalizer [dink]
- Fixed a crash issue in Super-X (NTC) when up + down was pressed [dink]
- Default Full Screen depth to 32bpp [dink]
- Fixed DAC DC Offset on some System16 games: Shinobi, Quartet 1 and 2,
eliminating pops and clicks [dink]
- Added proper inputs for Wall Crash [dink]
- Add default gun calibrations and fix sprite:tile priority issues in Operation
Wolf 3 [dink]
- Reduce the time duration "state loaded/saved" is displayed on the screen
[dink]
- Fixed mosaic tile effect on scene transitions in FixEight [dink]
- Fixed sound synchronization issues in Batrider [dink]
- Improvements and Fixes to the Input (re)Recording/Playback feature: [dink]
* Add Record from Power On option to replay/input recording
* Shift+Backspace to disable/enable the frame counter while recording or
playing back recordings
* Fix a nasty bug that caused desynchs in some recordings
- Add original author(s) credit to each driver and core [iq_132]
- Add trackball support to Capcom Bowling and Krazy Bowl [dink]
- Fix crash with Force 16bit Emulation and Megadrive [dink]
- Fix Gun & Frontier sprite lag issue [dink]
- Fix Zero Point 1 and 2 Sprite priorities and sound effects in Zero Point 2
[dink]
- Slight speedup with the search function [tumu]
- Fix Demon World savestates [dink]
- Fix timing issue in D-Con [dink]
- Fix sprite alignment in oisipuzl [dink]
- Fix savestate compatibility between 32bit/64bit systems [barbudreadmon &
libretro guys, dink]
- Fix Ghost 'n Goblins savestate banking issue, improve timing [dink]
- Fix timing issue in Toki that occasionally caused tiles in the map-screen to
jitter [dink]
- Fix Hit the Ice inputs and graphics issues [dink]
- Fix timing issues in 4 En Raya [dink]
- Fix missing button #3 and video issues in Strategy X [dink]
- Hook up trackball and fix palette issues - U.S. Classic now playable [dink]
- Fix music and banking issues in Funny Bubble [dink]
- Fix soundfx and timing in Tripool [dink]
- Fixed soundcpu communications in Gauntlet, hooked up the Pokey sound
generator and savestates [dink]
- Improved M6502 core by properly handling indexed read/writes, fixed pulsing
the nmi line with CPU_IRQSTATUS_AUTO [dink]
New drivers
- Konami's The Main Event and Cosmo Police Galivan / Ninja Emaki / UFO Robo
- Dangar were accidentally left out of the last release, sorry!
- Added driver for Twin Cobra, Flying Shark / Sky Shark / Gulf War II [iq_132]
- Added driver for Wardner [iq_132]
- Added driver for Taito System-L (Fighting Hawk, Raimais, Champion Wrestler,
- Puzznic, Kuri Kinton, Evil Stone, etc) [iq_132]
- Added driver for Dacholer / KickBoy and Itazura Tenshi [iq_132]
- Add driver for games on SSV hardware: Twin Eagle 2, Vasara I and II, Change
- Air Blade, Dyna Gear, Survival Arts, Drift Out '94, Mobil Suit Gundam Final
- Shooting, Ultra-X-Weapons, Storm Blade and more [iq_132]
- Added driver for FireTrap by WoodPlace [iq_132]
- Added driver for games on Metro hardware: Blazing Tornado, Gun Master, Pang
- Poms, Sky Alert, Puzzli, Mouse Shooter GoGo/Bang Bang Ball/Battle Bubble, Bal
Cube, Dharma Doujou [iq_132]
- Added driver for Bogey Manor by Technos on modified Data East hardware
[iq_132]
- Added driver for Cloak and Dagger [iq_132 w/dink]
- Added driver for B-Wings and Zaviga [iq_132]
- Added driver for Sigma's Submarine [iq_132]
- Added driver for Macross Plus [iq_132]
- Added driver for Atari's Canyon Bomber [iq_132]
- Added driver for Gaelco's World Rally [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Dream World, Cute Fighter, Baryon Future Assault, Rolling
Crush, Gaia on SemiCom DreamWorld Hardware [iq_132]
- Added driver for Puzzle Bobble 2, 3 & 4, Gunlock/Rayforce, Bubble Bobble 2 &
3, Gekirindan, Grid Seeker, Twin Cobra II, Recalhorn, Land Maker and a whole
bunch more on Taito F3 hardware [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Shadow Land, Dragon Spirit, Pac-Mania, Galaga '88, Splatter
House and others on Namco System 1 Hardware [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Fantasy Land, Galaxy Gunner and Wheels Runner [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Susume! / Go Go! Mile Smile and Gyakuten! Puzzle Bancho on
Fuuki 16-bit Hardware [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Karate Champ by Data East [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Shot Rider, Zippy Race / Traverse USA [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Konami's Hyper Sports and Road Fighter [iq_132]
- Added driver for Konami's Juno First [iq_132]
- Added driver for Battle Cross and DodgeMan [iq_132]
- Added driver for Shoot Out by Data East [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Acrobatic Dog Fight [iq_132, dink]
- Added driver for Tetris, Hang-On Jr. and Transformer on Sega System E
hardware [vbt]
- Added drivers for Big Striker bootlegs [iq_132]
- Added driver for Kusayakyuu (Baseball) [iq_132]
- Added driver for Paddle Mania and The Next Space on Alpha 68k I hardware
[iq_132]
New additions to existing drivers
- Added Mini Planets (REV02) to the Megadrive driver [dink]
- Added Miss World 2002 [NeoGeo de Ahuizotla, Artemio Urbina, The Dumping
Union, JacKc]
- Added Eeekk!! on pacman hardware [iq_132]
- Added Sky Robo and Tatakae! Big Fighter to the armedf driver. Thanks to
CapsOff for dumping the impossible protection MCU! [dink]
- Added Hangzo! to the DataEast Rohga driver [iq_132]
- Added Gals Panic S2 (Europe), now its the parent [rtw, JacKc]
- Added Samurai Shodown II (Spacial 2017) [GSC2007, JacKc, iq_132]
Finished emulation of early Seta games: Caliber 50, ThunderCade, Twin Eagle,
DownTown, Meta Fox and Arbalester [dink]
- Added Ken Sei Mogura: Street Fighter II (Japan 940418, Ver 1.00) [Barry]
Clones and updated romsets in existing drivers
- Update kof98cb to 20170108 version [JacKc]
- Replaced Mutant Night (mnight) with World version, Kawakus license now
mnightj [JacKc]
- Added clone of Burning Fight (prototype, ver 23.3, 910326) [Collin Foust,
JacKc]
- Added clone of WWF WrestleFest (World) [Hammy, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Mustache Boy (Italy) [ShouTime, JacKc]
- Added clone of ORIENTAL SOFT 1945k III OPCX1 2000 Version (Korea) [ShouTime,
JacKc]
- Added clone of Forgotten Worlds (USA, B-Board 88618B-2, Rev. E) [Corrado
Tomaselli, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Vendetta (World, 2 Players, ver. ?) [Corrado Tomaselli, The
Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Sol Divide - The Sword Of Darkness (Korea) [Nomax, The Dumping
Union, JacKc, dink]
- Added clone of Raiden (Korea, bootleg) [Tirino73, JacKc]
- Added clone of Real Bout Fatal Fury / Real Bout Garou Densetsu (Korean
release) [Brian Hargrove, JacKc]
- Added clone of Flicky (128k Version, 315-5051, larger roms) [system11, JacKc]
- Added clone of Momoko 120% (English text) [Paul Hogger, JacKc]
- Added clone of The NewZealand Story (World, old version) (older PCB) [Porchy,
The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Dynamite Duke (Japan, 25JUL89) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping
Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Fighting Fantasy (Japan revision ?) [Hammy, The Dumping Union,
JacKc]
- Added clone of King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing (older) [NeoSD, JacKc]
- Added clone of Three Wonders (3wondersha) [Barry]
- Added clone of The King of Fighters '99 - Millennium Battle (Korean release)
[Brian Hargrove, JacKc]
- Added clone of Deroon DeroDero (alt set) [arcademodbios, JacKc]
- Added clone of Puzznic (US) [Coolmod, JacKc]
- Added clone of Head Panic (ver. 0702, 02/07/1999) [hammy, Brian Troha, The
Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Red Hawk (Greece) [Abelardator2, JacKc, iq_132]
- Added clone of Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Japan 960223)
[ShouTime, Steven Fairbrother, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Raiden II (Germany) [Caius, JacKc]
- Update Samurai Shodown II Special to v1.0.0311 [GSC2007, JacKc]
- Added clone of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (World 910129) [Janniz,
JacKc]
- Added clone of Radical Radial (Japan) [ShouTime, JacKc]
- Added clone of Flashgal (set 1, Kyugo logo) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping
Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Martial Masters / Xing Yi (V103, 102, 102, China) [kuze, JacKc]
- Added clone of Rastan (World, Earlier code base) [System11, The Dumping
Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (911210 Japan, rev L)
[Bonky0013, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Sonic Blast Man (US) [coolmod, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (UPL bootleg) [Shoutime,
The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (World, bootleg) [The Iron Goat,
JacKc]
- Added clone of Knights of Valour - Sangoku Senki (V100, Hong Kong) [Pasky
Junk, JacKc]
- Added clone of Sangokushi II: Sheng Jian Sanguo (Chinese bootleg set 4,
921005 Asia) [Unknown, Barry]
- Sync. PGM romsets with MAME 0.184 [JacKc]
- Added clone of Bionic Commandos (bootleg, set 2) [The Dumping Union, JacKc]
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