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0.145
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Happy 15th Anniversary! Over its 15 years of existence since MAME
0.01 was released for MS-DOS with an initial library of 5 sets, MAME
has grown exponentially to the point that no one thought we would be,
boasting 18,650 different sets and operable on more OS platforms than
thought possible. While video-based arcade games were the original
targets for MAME, the scope of the project has grown to include
documentation of virtually all coin-operated amusement devices
including gambling (video/slots), coin droppers, pinball machines and
more. Through the efforts of the literally thousands of developers,
players and others who have provided assistance and feedback over the
project´s history, we would like to thank all of them that made this
possible!

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 04455: [Crash/Freeze] All sets in cliffhgr.c: Crash/assert and
graphic issues (Aaron Giles)
- 04644: [Core] Tilemap viewer always broken / displays in shades of
Blue (Aaron Giles)
- 04607: [Graphics] All sets in cliffhgr.c: Video playback is faulty -
screen flashes (Aaron Giles)
- 04656: [Misc.] Various Sets: "Timer Error" shows before start of
game each time, showing odd time during setting (Angelo
Salese)
- 04661: [Crash/Freeze] calchase: Assert while doing initial memory
test (Carl)
- 04622: [Crash/Freeze] anmlbskt: Crash before OK (R. Belmont)
- 04636: [Crash/Freeze] mquake: [debug] Exception after OK
(R. Belmont)
- 04654: [Timing] All sets in stv.c: All sets do not start or play
correctly (Timing, Auto Credit, Sound) (R. Belmont)
- 04650: [Documentation] m1coro11n, m1coro11np, m1coro12n, m1coro12np,
m1coro21n, m1coro21np, m1coro22n, m1coro31p, m1coro32n,
m1coro32np: Game descriptions contain a TAB character.
- 04648: [Graphics] All sets in btime.c: Misplaced graphics for player
2 in cocktail mode (hap)
- 04635: [Graphics] terrafb, terrafjb: [debug] Graphics corruption on
both sides of the screen (David Haywood)
- 04632: [Crash/Freeze] oldsplus: [debug] Assert before OK (David
Haywood)
- 04626: [DIP/Input] ddragon2 and clones: Wrong dipswitch settings -
default settings
- 04647: [DIP/Input] cabal and all clones: "Bonus Lives" settings are
wrong (stephh)
- 04628: [Crash/Freeze] agress, agressb: Black screen (R. Belmont)
- 03444: [Debugger] Registered ram blocks registered with save state
cannot be viewed with debugger (R. Belmont)

Source Changes
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Fixed disassembly of far jump instructions in the u´nSP core [trap15]

Correct loading for dragngun video data, identified as standard DVI
data [David Haywood]

Slight fix to the way captaven rasters were handled [David Haywood]

Added proper widescreen layout on Super Chase [David Haywood]

Improved inputs in Tourvision driver [Stephh]

Added sprites wrap-around in Donkey Kong HW, seen in DK3 when clearing
stage 1 [hap]

chd: Fix error where FLAC was encoding 4 times too much data (samples
vs. bytes) [David Haywood]

Converted Boogie Wings to generic sprite device plus added manual
mixing. Converted various bootleg implementations of the chip to use
the common code as well. (tumbleb.c, esd16.c, crospang.c, nmg5.c)
[David Haywood]

Implemented preliminary support for Trident SVGA cards, fixes graphics
in California Chase loading screen [Grull Osgo, Angelo Salese]

Hooked up inputs and sound in california chase, game is now more or
less working without steer inputs and still needs the user to launch
boot.exe first from MS-DOS prompt. [Grull Osgo, Angelo Salese]

Various wav/flac sample changes: [David Haywood]
* Remove hardcoded ".wav" sample extensions from within drivers
* Update samples.c to check for both .flac and .wav extensions when
loading a sample
* Made sample loading failure a bit more verbose (various zips
contained 0 byte samples, I assume to keep clrmame happy or
something)
* Fixed memory allocation with 8-bit flac samples

Act Fancer: fixed background tilemap size, corrects level boss bg
(partial fix for MT #4585) [David Haywood]

RDP optimizations and memory system shunting in N64 driver; relative
speedup of 1.4x to 1.5x [MooglyGuy]

Truco Tron reverse engineering [Roberto Fresca]
* Identified and added EF6821P PIA for I/O.
* Identified and added the CRTC as HD/UM6845.
* Identified a Maxim MAX691 and hooked watchdog/reset functions based
on the PIA line where is tied. Also hooked others minor related
things.
* Identified a Darlington Array ULN2003.
* Added correct clocks for main crystal, CPU and CRTC through
#define.
* Improved inputs/jumpers with PCB traces.
* Added technical notes.

Model 1: add skeleton device for Z80 version of the MPEG sound board.
No playback, just running the Z80. [R. Belmont]

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Street Games II [Angelo Salese, Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (Spank´em!)
[R. Mucciarelli, pongplaya, ranger_lennier, Kevin Eshbach, gamerfan,
M. Ponweiser, emuLOAD, R. Gatzke, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union,
Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

New clones added
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Warriors of Fate (´sgyxz´ bootleg) (not working) [angelosa]
Print Club 2 Felix The Cat (Rev. A)
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Print Club 2 ´98 Spring Ver
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Hyperspace (bootleg of Asteroids) [Byte Surfer]
Tekken Tag Tournament (Asia, TEG2/VER.C1, set 1)
[Brian Troha, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
X-Men (4 Players ver ADA) [Bonky0013]
Print Club Goukakenran (J 991104 V1.000)
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Print Club Olive (J 980717 V1.000)
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Print Club 2 ´98 Autumn Ver (J 980827 V1.000)
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Print Club Kome Kome Club (J 970203 V1.000)
[f205v, ranger_lennier, dopefishjustin, Yohji, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Ultimate Arctic Thunder [gamerfan, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Dumped HDD for Photo Play 2000 v2.01 [Team Europe]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Dungeon Explorer (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
[Charles McDonald, Clawgrip, AUMAP]
Unknown BMC Poker Game
Gone Fishing 2
Chess Challenge 2 [SoftwareThis]
EZ Touch [XingXing]
Sega Shooting Zone
Bounty Hunter [Gatinho]