0.34 BETA 3

New ROM sets supported (in no particular order):
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Terra Cresta (two sets merged) [Carlos A. Lozano]
Regulus [Nicola Salmoria]
SWAT [Nicola Salmoria]
Heavy Metal [Nicola Salmoria]
Brain [Nicola Salmoria]
Toki no Senshi [Nicola Salmoria]
Gardia (not decrypted YET) [Nicola Salmoria]
DakkoChan Jansoh (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria]
Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria]
Wonder Boy (three more sets but I haven't decrypted one of them) (merged)
  [Nicola Salmoria]
Pitfall II (encrypted version) (the other has been renamed pitfallu) (merged)
  [Nicola Salmoria]
Water Ski [Nicola Salmoria]
Last Duel (bootleg) (this fixes the graphics) [Bryan McPhail]
Lady Bug (bootleg) (merged) [Marco Cassili]
Lode Runner (set 1) (merged) (note that the old set has been renamed "ldruna")
  [Nicola Salmoria]
Lode Runner (2 Players) (this is different from the other) [Nicola Salmoria]
Penguin-Kun Wars (two sets merged) [Allard van der Bas]
Stinger [Nicola Salmoria]
Zig Zag (2 sets merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
River Patrol / Silver Land [Zsolt Vasvari]
Jumping (merged with Rainbow Islands) [Mike Coates]
600 (merged with Turtles) [John Dondzila]
Area 88 (merged with UN Squadron) [Santeri Saarimaa]
720 Degrees (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Crystal Castles (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Kangaroo (bootleg) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Klax (set 3) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Missile Command (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Pooyan (Konami) (merged) (the Stern set is now called "pooyans")
  [Nicola Salmoria]
Neo Mr. Do [Bud Crittenden]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
-------------------------------------

- Fixed fg/bg priority in TeddyBoy Blues and Choplifter. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Colors in Shark Attack. [Mike Balfour]

- Fixed transparency in Fire Trap. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Fixed gfx banks in Pop Flamer. [Brad Oliver]


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
-----------------------------------------

- Fixed speech in Karate Champ. [Ernesto Corvi]

- Fixed pitch in the System 8 games. [Hiromitsu Shioya]

- Sound in Exterminator. Have your PII/900 handy ;-) [Zsolt Vasvari]

- Added smoothing to ADPCM playback. [Juergen Buchmueller]

- Added RC filter emulation to Gyruss. This improves some sound effects, e.g.
  the force field noise. [Francesco Caporali]

- Added ADPCM sounds to Renegade. [Phil Stroffolino]

- Fixed speech in King & Balloon. [Brad Oliver]

- Added ADPCM sample playback to the bootleg Hyper Olympic. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Sound in Mysterious Stones. [Nicola Salmoria]


These drivers have HIGH SCORE support:
--------------------------------------

- Shark Attack. [Mike Balfour]

- Flicky, Bull Fight, I'm Sorry, Star Jacker, Mr Viking, 4d Warrior, TeddyBoy
  Blues, Beastie Feastie, Contra, Cobra Command, Super Qix, Vigilante, Pang,
  HigeMaru, Hexa. [Juan Carlos Lorente]

- Tiger Road, Karnov, Chelnov, Heavy Barrel, Bad Dudes, Robocop, Hippodrome,
  Sly Spy, Midnight Resistance. [Dani Portillo]

- Fixed Star Force. [Dani Portillo]


Other drivers changes:
----------------------

- Improved Gladiator input handling. [Tatsuyuki Satoh]

- Improved the System 16 drivers. [Phil Stroffolino]

- Fixed movement of the squares in Checkman. [Brad Oliver]


Changes to the main program:
----------------------------

- Rewritten the SN76496 emulator. This fixes speech in Choplifter.
  [Nicola Salmoria]

- [DOS] New -romident option. Use "MAME -romident dirname" to identify unknown
  ROM sets.


Source:
-------

- Improved unzip code robustness when dealing with corrupt archives.
  [John Butler]

- Fixed SBCD in M68000 disassembler. [Mike Coates]

- CRC-32 checksums for most files are in place. [Bernd Wiebelt]


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0.34 BETA 2

New ROM sets supported (in no particular order):
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F1 Dream (bootleg) (merged) (this one works) [Paul Leaman]
Pang [Paul Leaman]
Pac Man Plus [Clay Cowgill, Mike Balfour]
Beastie Feastie [Clay Cowgill, Mike Balfour]
Tecmo Knight [Nicola Salmoria]
Bull Fight [Nicola Salmoria]
4D Warriors [Nicola Salmoria]
Block Gal (not working due to encryption) [Nicola Salmoria]
Wonder Boy (three sets, all merged with WB Deluxe) [Nicola Salmoria]
I'm Sorry (Japan) (merged) [Marco Cassili]
My Hero (Japan) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Flicky (set 2) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Ninja Princess (original) (merged) (the other set, which seems to be a bootleg,
  has been renamed "nprincesb") [Nicola Salmoria]
Frogs [Nicola Salmoria]
Samurai [Nicola Salmoria]
Sasuke vs. Commander [Nicola Salmoria]
Subs [Mike Balfour]
Vigilante (two sets merged) [Mike Balfour, Phil Stroffolino]
Exterminator (VERY SLOW) [Alex Pasadyn, Zsolt Vasvari]
COP 01 [Carlos A. Lozano]
Renegade (two sets, only the bootleg works) [Phil Stroffolino]
Hustle [Frank Palazzolo]
Tomahawk 777 (two sets merged) [Zsolt Vasvari]
Karate Champ (VS and Karatedo, merged) [Ernesto Corvi]
Astro Fighter (set 3) (merged) [Zsolt Vasvari]
Side Track [Al Kossow]
Spectar (revision 3) (merged) (the previous one has been renamed "spectar1")
  [Al Kossow]
Venture (version 4) (merged) [Al Kossow]
Venus (merged with Gyruss) [Nicola Salmoria]
APB (set 2) (merged) (this fixes the title screen)
Lost Tomb (hard) (merged) [Michael Appolo]
Hyper Olympic (bootleg) (merged) [David Winter]
Brix (merged with zzyzzyxx) [Brad Oliver]
Shark Attack [Victor Trucco]
Mikie (headbutt version) (merged) (the other set has been renamed "mikiehs")
  [Nicola Salmoria]
And a whole new bunch of Neo Geo games (NOT TESTED)


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
-------------------------------------

- The background in Golden Star changes color correctly. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Accurate colors in Astro Fighter (PROMs required). [Zsolt Vasvari]

- Accurate colors in Lost Tomb (PROMs required). [Michael Appolo]

- Fixed tile flipping bug in Solomon's Key. [Nicola Salmoria]


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
-----------------------------------------

- The music in Bubble Bobble seems to stay in sync now. [Tatsuyuki Satoh]


Other drivers changes:
----------------------

- Dynasty Wars works (actually it was already working, it's just that the dip
  switches had Freeze on by default).

- Front Line and Tin Star have the aiming dial (using a dual joystick setup).
  Also, you can now kill and be killed in Front Line. However, collision
  detection is not accurately emulated. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Fixed ending in Robocop. [JC Alexander]

- *FINALLY* fixed Commando sometimes not starting. It was a bug in the decode
  routine, which has been completely rewritten. [Nicola Salmoria]


Changes to the main program:
----------------------------

- Vector translucency can be turned off with -notranslucency.
  [Valerio Verrando]


Source:
-------

- TMS34010 emulator. [Alex Pasadyn, Zsolt Vasvari]

- Replaced the 6502 emulator with a new one which also supports 65C02 and 6510.
  Marat Fayzullin's core is no longer used. [Juergen Buchmueller]

- Fixed a bug in the 68000 BCD emulation which caused the F1 Dream timer to
  malfunction. [Nicola Salmoria]

- New function osd_on_screen_display() to show text over the game screen.
  [Nicola Salmoria]

- Fixed bug in the Z80 block I/O instructions (INI, IND, INIR, INDR, OUTI,
  OUTD, OTIR, and OTDR). [Frank Palazzolo]

- Updated the FM emulation and the way the 8910 updates its buffers. FM also
  has support for YM2608 and YM2612, though they are not compiled in.
  [Tatsuyuki Satoh]

- [DOS] Rearranged the makefile using archives to work around E2BIG error on
  some machines. [Juergen Buchmueller]

- Support for CRC-32 checksums instead of MAME's custom ones. The actual CRCs
  will be added later to the drivers. [John Butler]

==========================================================================


0.34 BETA 1

IMPORTANT: now most games load the color PROMs from disk. You'll have to add
the missing files to the archives.


New ROM sets supported (in no particular order):
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HigeMaru [Mirko Buffoni]
Sega Ninja / Ninja Princess (merged) [Jarek Parchanski, Nicola Salmoria]
My Hero [Jarek Parchanski]
I'm Sorry [Nicola Salmoria]
Flicky [Nicola Salmoria]
TeddyBoy Blues [Nicola Salmoria]
Star Jacker [Nicola Salmoria]
Mister Viking [Nicola Salmoria]
Future Spy [Nicola Salmoria]
Avengers (two sets merged) (not working due to protection) [Paul Leaman]
Bionic Commando [Steven Frew, Phil Stroffolino, Paul Leaman]
Dynasty Wars (not working) [Paul Leaman]
Varth [Paul Leaman]
Electric Yo-Yo (not working due to protection) [Al Kossow]
Tag Team Wrestling [Steve Ellenoff, Brad Oliver]
Gridiron Fight [Nicola Salmoria]
several Neo Geo games (NOT TESTED) [Shin Emu Keikaku team]
King & Balloon [Brad Oliver]
Super Mouse [Brad Oliver]
Intrepid [Zsolt Vasvari]
Moon War II [Brad Oliver]
Calipso [Brad Oliver]
Hard Hat [Al Kossow]
Psychic 5 [Jarek Parchanski]
Great Swordsman [Steve Ellenoff]
Max RPM (no sound due to missing ROMs) [Aaron Giles]
The Tin Star (not complete) [Nicola Salmoria]
several 8080 games [Al Kossow]
Pot of Gold [Nicola Salmoria]
M79 Ambush [Al Kossow]
Twin Cobra (preliminary) [Quench]
Kick (upright version) (merged) [Nicola Salmoria]
Golden Castle (merged with gladiatr) [Steve Ellenoff]
Speak & Rescue ("speakres") [Al Kossow]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
-------------------------------------

- Fixed colors in Fast Freddie (sorry... this slipped by in 0.33 final).

- In Mario Bros., the screen bounces when you hit POW. [Brad Oliver]

- Improved Slap Fight. [Christoff Feldtmann]

- Accurate colors in Money Money and Jack Rabbit. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Enemies in TNZS are now visible, using the gfx ROMs from a new set (which is
  not supported yet). [Chris Moore]

- Fixed sticking sprites in Pnickies and Nemo. [Paul Leaman]


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
-----------------------------------------

- Sound in Gladiator. [Steve Ellenoff]


These drivers have HIGH SCORE support:
--------------------------------------

- Pinball Action. [Dani Portillo]


These drivers have HIGH SCORE support:
--------------------------------------

- Xain'd Sleena/Solar Warrior. [Dani Portillo]


Other drivers changes:
----------------------

- The original Elevator Action now works, using the 68705 mcu ROM which was
  missing. Since there is one additional CPU to emulate, it is slower than the
  bootleg version. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Replaced Front Line with the complete set containing the 68705 code. It
  still doesn't work though. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Replaced Golden Star with the original, encrypted set. [Mirko Buffoni]

- Improvements to the System 8 driver. [Nicola Salmoria]


Changes to the main program:
----------------------------

- Fixed a bug in the NOT instruction of the 68000 core. [Mike Coates]

- You can proceed from the "press OK to continue" screen by pushing left then
  right. You can also immediately quit by pressing ESC. [Nicola Salmoria]


Source:
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- Moved the Sega encryption code used by Flicky, Future Spy, and many others,
  to machine/segacrpt.c. [Nicola Salmoria]

- Added memory_region_length field to the RunningMachine structure. This could
  be useful for drivers which handle several games on similar hardware.
  [Nicola Salmoria]
