0.105u1
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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metmqstr0105yel [Aaron Giles]



Source Changes
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Cleaned up the usage of includes/*.h files across the project, by
ensuring that:
1. All includes/foo.h files are annotated with comments describing
the source of the declarations.
2. Each source file so annotated also explicitly does an
#include "includes/foo.h" to ensure consistent definitions.
Along the way a number of inconsistent, irrelevant, and incomplete
declarations were removed/cleaned up. [Atari Ace]

Moved calls to ui_set_visible_area() into set_visible_area() to work
around timing problems when they are called at separate times during
a single frame. [Nathan Woods]

Updated CPS driver to more accurately draw tilemaps, based on
evidence from a board with mixed ROMs. [David Haywood]

Fixed crash bug in old debugger introduced in the last release.
[Olivier Galibert]

Added demo sounds DIP switch to Pig Newton. [Derrick Renaud]

Fixed DIP switches in gunmast, batlbubl. [Brian Troha]

Added simulated sound for tumbleb2 and pangpang. [David Haywood]

Added accessors for the CA2, CB2 and IRQ signals on the 6821 PIA.
[Nathan Woods]

Accurate C-Chip emulation in Bonze Adventure to fix protection
problems (no more missing or made up data, all data extracted from
working pcb). [Bryan McPhail]

Some cleanups to the Taito F3 naming. [Marco, Bryan McPhail]

Fixed the Z80 PIO code to prevent an interrupt to occur between the
PIO_OP_MODE byte and mask which follows. According to the datasheet,
this is not permitted in hardware. [Robert]

Added many FPU opcodes to the M68040 core. [Ville Linde]

Fixed rom loading in all Taito JC games. [Ville Linde]

Added TMS320C51 cpu core. [Ville Linde]

Split out some of the Nintendo 64 core pieces into MESS-shareable
modules. [R. Belmont]

Removed hard linkage of game driver clones. This reduces hard
inter-driver dependencies and allows for easier usage of tiny.mak.
[Atari Ace, Aaron Giles]

Updates to the PGM driver: [El Semi]
- Corrected mask on sprite width parameter in sprite list
- Corrected decryption function for The Killing Blade
- Fixed GFX Rom loading in The Killing Blade
- Added set The Killing Blade (Taiwan?)
- Added some WIP protection simulation for The Killing Blade
(Taiwan?), game boots but at least one stage is broken

Added $(OBJ)/%.s target to the makefile for easy disassembly
analysis of generated code (you can also use the $(OBJ)/%.pp to
examine preprocessor output). [Nathan Woods]

Moved region and address space names out of the Windows-specific
code and into more common locations. [Olivier Galibert]

Fixed a bug with code comments that led to incorrect display for
long comments. [Andrew Gardner]

Added several missing H8 opcodes to the core and color DAC to
lastfght.c. [Tomasz Slanina]

Changed -romident option so that it returns errorlevels based on how
many ROMs were identified (0=all files identified, 1=all files except
some non-ROM files identified, 2=some files identified, 3=no files
identified). [Aaron Giles]

Added stricter type checking for save state registrations (only works
in gcc). [Aaron Giles]

Changed automatic ROM assignment logic in the memory system so that
it doesn´t auto-assign out-of-bounds ROM regions. [Aaron Giles]

Changed memory save state registration so it doesn´t register for
saving memory areas that overlap memory regions. This means that
drivers which rely on extra memory regions for RAM will need to fix
that before supporting save. [Aaron Giles]

Modified a number of drivers that were using empty RAM regions for
RAM or which had extraneous memory regions. Most significant changes
were to the arcadia, nss, and stv drivers. [Aaron Giles]

Added a warning during validity checks to point out empty memory
regions. These should either be eliminated, or marked with an
explicit fill value (ROMREGION_ERASE00 or ROMREGION_ERASEFF) to clear
the warnings. [Aaron Giles]

Rewrote a large chunk of the Amiga emulation to support sound and
additional video modes/effects including extra half-bright mode,
manual sprites, and mid-scanline changes. This is still a work
in progress. [Aaron Giles]


New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Pang Pang [David Haywood]
Crazy Fight [Luca Elia]
Puzzle King (Dance & Puzzle) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Fighter´s History [Bryan McPhail]
Sex Triv [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]



New clones added
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Battle Bubble [f205v, Corrado Tomaselli]
Bonze Adventure (World, Older) [Bryan McPhail]
Fantasia II (set 2, less explicit) [HIGHWAYMAN]
The Killing Blade (Taiwan?) [El Semi]