* Super Pinball Action protoype - add emulation of 2nd screen
Clones promoted to working
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Super Pinball Action (US, prototype, dual screen) [David Haywood]
-Moved some stuff out of misc and skeleton:
* Moved Innovative Concepts machines to their own project.
* Moved various things out of skeleton to existing company projects.
Added minimal support for manipulating bitmaps and drawing them in
render containers. Y'CbCr 4:2:2, RGB and ARGB are supported. Argument
order doesn't always match the underlying classes to make the Lua
interface more consistent with render bounds and render containers.
Added bindings for device_palette_interface.
Fixed some errors in the documentation as well as documenting new
functionality.
* added emulation of required/used AXC51 / AX208 extended operations
* added preliminary emulation of required/used AXC51 / AX208 features
* added support for many Monon specific features, such as the video controller
* most games are playable, those not requiring a card/badge scanner to function at all are promoted
* no music, as it's contained in a game specific MCU under a glob on each cart
* Combined driver source files.
* Split up state classes and got rid of legacy start/reset callback
overrides.
* Use configured banking for GBC RAM (fixes some save state issues, but
there could be more lurking).
* Moved notes about cartridge hardware to more appropriate places.
Currently the speaker device is the only way sound can get to the OSD
layer, so its presence or absence determines whether the emulated system
is capabale of producing sound. A few systems use chips with sound
capability for other purposes (typically I/O or video) while leaving the
sound outputs disconnected. These systems should display the notice
about the absence of sound output.
The implementation details of how the cartridges allocate storage for
memory really shouldn't be part of the interface. Having tags in the
headers encourages people to depend on these implementation details.
This gets rid of it in most of the headers. A few particularly leaky
abstractions (bbc/rom, electron/cart, gba, generic, jakks_gamekey, m5)
depend on this, so it can't be removed in those cases without further
refactoring to encapsulate the slot devices better.
This doesn't change behaviour, it just mechanically removes stuff from
the headers and uses device_t::subtag rather than string manipulation on
tags. Most of the cartridge devices shouldn't have rom_alloc member
functions at all - the region created by the software list loader can be
used directly when loading from the software list, and the slot can
allocate a region with the same tag when loading loose software. This
avoids creating an extra region and copying the data when loading from
the software list. See vboy for an example that doesn't allocate a
superfluous region.
* sony_news/news_hid.cpp: Added APbus I/O mapping.
* bus/nscsi/cd.cpp: Added Sony CD-ROM CDU-541 1.0A recognised by NEWS-OS.
* machine/upd765.cpp: Added National Semiconductor PC8477B clone.
New machines marked not working
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Sony NET WORK STATION NWS-5000X
- Use ioprocs methods and do a single read for normal input files (i.e. without an additional memcpy)
- Compute pc_mask without using loop
- Correct likely mistake in calculation of rounded_size
- Split main function in two
* ioprocs.cpp: Remove no longer needed #include
The US Title (Sega Super GT) is known to exist on most sets via service mode when you change region settings.
For some reason the parent allows you to change regions (Japan, USA, Export) which is interesting about this export set.
- Also fix baud counter registers
Reference: http://www.zilog.com/docs/serial/ps0117.pdf
The X68000 uses the Clock Mode feature of the SCC, which multiplies the baud period by 16. Combined with a bug that read the baud counter from the wrong registers, this meant the emulator had two baud rate expiry callbacks running at some MHz.
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Hold & Draw [Siftware]
- technos/bogeyman.cpp, technos/dogfgt.cpp, technos/matmania.cpp: consolidated drivers in single files, minor cleanups
* Emulated the "CPU Code" protection in newer games (astoneag, dinodino, hacher, magibombd, winbingo, winbingoa, zoo).
* Expanded ROM patches to work around imperfect data in the first 0x400 bytes (ROM overlay?), getting all games to boot.
* Implemented 16x32 sprites in astoneag.
* Created layouts and factory defaults EEPROMs for all sets.
* showhand: Fixed regression that caused the new opponent face to be invisible while entering the screen.
Machines promoted to working
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Magic Bomb (Ver. L3.5S) [Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, Angelo Salese, Phil Bennett, Cristiano MDQ]
Dino Dino (Ver. A1.1, 01/13/2005) [Olivier Galibert, Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, Guru]
Stone Age (Astro, Ver. EN.03.A, 2005/02/21) [Olivier Galibert, Luca Elia, ANY, The Dumping Union]
Win Win Bingo (Ver. GM.03.3, Feb 23 2006) [Olivier Galibert, Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, f205v, Filippo Tarderia]
Zoo (Ver. ZO.02.D, Aug 27 2004) [Olivier Galibert, Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Clones promoted to working
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Magic Bomb (Ver. A3.1) [Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, Angelo Salese, Phil Bennett, Cristiano MDQ]
Hacher (hack of Win Win Bingo EN.01.6) [Olivier Galibert, Luca Elia, Ivan Vangelista, ANY, The Dumping Union]
* Removed nonexistent P3 and P4 controls from starlstr.
* Corrected credits per game mode DIP switch for vstennis.
* Removed redundant inputs for vsbballj, which are identical to vsbball.
* Corrected which smgolf clones use P3/P4 start button inputs.
* Added missing cluclu DIP setting: credits for 2 players.
* Removed fake remapping of buttons for vspinbalj.
* Added Lives and Bonus Life DIP settings for supxevs.
* Updated note about Sun prototypes.
* Added finders for joystick and gun inputs.
* Fixed some bad masks (sprite DMA write and Pin-Bot).
* Made color PROM loading more concise.
* Removed pc_1942 imperfect graphics flag. It looks as bad as it should.
* Various other minor cleanups.
* bus/snes: Fixed address mask error for Soul Blade and Hercules pirate carts. Games run now.
* Marked digimon as not working, hercules and squirrel as partial until further investigated.
* Also tidied a few spots missed in description metadata cleanup.
-a800_flop.xml: Marked Elektra Glide as not working.
New working software list additions
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Hercules (pirate) [Revenant]
Hercules (pirate, hacked) [Revenant]
The King of Fighters '98 (pirate, hacked) [Revenant]
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (pirate, hacked) [Revenant]
Squirrel [Revenant]
Squirrel (pirate, hacked) [Revenant]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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The King of Fighters '98 (pirate) [ALMCLE]
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (pirate) [ALMCLE]
* use active super/user address translation in debugger
* ensure CXP, RXP, RETT, RETI, ENTER and CXPD instructions restart properly after a fault
* correct RDVAL/WRVAL logic
* Added watchdog timer (currently only active on DualSystem games).
* Set perfect quantum for vsmahjng, just like all the other DualSystem games.
* Switched vssoccera from bnglngby's init, which installs a fake IRQ hack, to standard init.
* Switched suprmriobl to empty_init and gave it more consistent function naming.
* Added a postload callback to fix j_ewnc not updating reels after loading a save state.
* Changed order of display digit outputs to reflect actual order in the memory map.
* Cleaned up layouts.
New machines marked not working
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Lite a Line (Dutch) (JPM) (SRU) (revision 52)
- Remove the confusing driver_init virtual override. The function has been de-virtualized in most drivers that were calling it explicitly, and replaced by alternate overrides in others.
- Remove MCFG_VIDEO_RESET_OVERRIDE (not used anymore).
- Provide MCFG_MACHINE_START_REMOVE and MCFG_VIDEO_START_REMOVE for consistency.
* Merged vsnes_m.cpp and vsnes.h into vsnes.cpp.
* Split into base class and three separate classes for UniSystem, DualSystem, and SMB bootleg machines.
* Merged DualSystem's main/sub VROM banking functions.
* Added a separate speaker for each screen on VS. DualSystem - sound from the two APUs is not mixed.
New machines marked not working
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Golden Nudge It (Barcrest) (MPU1) (5p Stake, £1 Jackpot)
Match It (Barcrest) (MPU1) (5p Stake, £1 Jackpot)
Match Up (Barcrest) (MPU1) (10p Stake, £2 Jackpot)
Lucky Nudge (Leisure Games) (MPU1) (5p Stake, £1 Jackpot)
Big Apple (Leisure Games) (MPU1) (5p Stake, £1 Jackpot)
Big Apple (Leisure Games) (MPU1) (5p Stake, £2 Jackpot)
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Language Teacher [hap, Sean Riddle]
New working software list additions
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lanteach: German For Travel [hap, Sean Riddle]
Steven Coomber