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Whether you?re experiencing a cold snap in Spring or an Autumn
heatwave, we hope you?ll enjoy MAME 0.195 just in time for the last
day of February. Goodies in this release include further
improvements to V.R. Technologies NES-derived hardware, a few more Tiger
handhelds, a number of Donkey Kong hacks, the original version of Gigas
Mark II, the official Taiwanese release of Street Fighter II': Champion
Edition, and more BBC Electron cartridges. If you?re interested in
home-to-arcade conversions, you might want to check out the ultra-rare
Spanish title Hammer Boy, developed by Dinamic and brought to arcades by
Inder ? it plays like an oversize Game & Watch.



Namco NA1 emulation has been overhauled, with big visual improvements
for Numan Athletics and X-Day 2. Background alignment has been fixed in
Popeye, and the driver has been cleaned up overall. We?ve received lots
of patches from cam900, covering a large number of drivers. As well as
a lot of code cleanup, highlights include ES5510 DSP effects for Taito?s
Ensoniq-based sound hardware, improved graphics priorities in Sand
Scorpion and Jackie Chan, graphical improvements in Data East MLC games
(Skull Fang is closer to working), and K051649 support in the vgmplay
driver.



Besides the new working systems, this release includes preliminary
support for a number of interesting systems. These include the XaviX
platform (used for the Taito Nostalgia and Play TV/ConnecTV lines), the
Olympia BOSS, and the Panafacom Duet. IPL-disable has been fixed for
Flash-based TI-8x series calculators. At opposite ends of the spectrum,
graphics emulation is noticeably better for Sega Model 2 and the
Interpro workstations. We?ve also added VM Labs Aries disassembly
support (this is the multi-core VLIW processor used in NUON-enhanced
DVD players).



This month, we?ve seen far more internal improvement, code cleanup
and modernisation than user-visible improvements. This is all part of
our effort to make the code more maintainable, paving the way for future
improvements and keeping MAME relevant. That said, the list of
emulation improvements and newly supported systems is quite impressive.
We?d like to thank all the contributors helping make MAME what it is
today.



You can read all about our progress in the <a
href="http://mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0195.txt">whatsnew.txt
file, or get the source or Windows binaries from <a
href="http://mamedev.org/release.html">the download page.
Remember we appreciate reproducible regression reports at <a
href="http://mametesters.org/">MAME Testers or <a
href="https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/">github.




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28 Feb 2018


Today we’re proud to deliver MAME 0.194, the first MAME release of 2018. Following on from the optimisation in last month’s release, MAME now features a Hyperstone E1-XS recompiler, giving substantial performance improvements in a number of Korean games. Several issues affecting cheats, lua scripting, the internal debugger, and disassembly have been resolved. We’ve added support for the prototype Atari game Cyberstorm, and Gaelco’s Last KM which was designed to integrate with an exercise bike. This release expands and improves support for TV games with fixed software. Additions include the TV Boy II, Super TV Boy, and Radica Space Invaders. Emulation has been substantially improved for games using NES-derived hardware from V.R. Technologies.

The flow of LCD handheld games shows no sign of abating This month we’ve added Thief in Garden, Super Double Dragon, Vindicators, Skeleton Warriors, and The Incredible Crash Test Dummies. There are plenty more improvements to FM Towns emulation in this release, allowing more games to boot and fixing graphical errors. The Matsushita MyBrain 3000 and closely-related Ericsson Step/One have been promoted to working. Acorn Electron peripherals have been overhauled and several new options are available.

In arcade emulation, we’ve got improved graphics emulation for Nintendo’s Popeye, and support for two more bootleg versions. There are also improvements to graphical effects in several Data East games, and improvements to IGS PGM2 emulation making Knights of Valour 3 playable. Plenty more alternate versions of supported arcade games have been added. One does deserve a mention, and that’s Bioplaything Cop, a prototype of Gaelco’s Biomechanical Toy.

You can read about the rest of the changes, improvements, fixes, and newly emulated systems in the whatsnew.txt file, and as always, you can get the source or Windows binaries from the download page.

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