Log Message:
mame: updated to 0.203

MAME 0.203

With Hallowe’en basically over, the only thing you need to make October \ 
complete is MAME 0.203. Newly supported titles include not just one, but two \ 
Nintendo Game & Watch classics: Donkey Kong and Green House, and the HP \ 
9825B desktop computer. We’ve added dozens of new versions of supported \ 
systems, including European bootlegs of Puck Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Phoenix, Pengo \ 
and Zero Time, more revisions of Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II, \ 
and a version of Soldier Girl Amazon made under license by Tecfri.

There are major improvements to plug-in TV games in this release, specifically \ 
systems based on the XaviX and SunPlus µ'nSP processors. The Vii is now \ 
playable with sound, and the V.Smile can boot games. Tiger Game.com emulation \ 
has come to the point where all but one of the games are playable. Some \ 
long-standing issues with Tandy CoCo cartridges have been fixed.

It isn’t just home systems that have received attention this month: Namco \ 
System 22 emulation has leapt forward. Yes, the hit box errors making it \ 
impossible to pass the helicopter (Time Crisis) and the tanks (Tokyo Wars) have \ 
finally been fixed. On top of that, video emulation improvements make just about \ 
everything on the system look better. In particular, rear view mirrors in the \ 
driving games now work properly. If that isn’t enough for you, the code has \ 
been optimised, so there’s a good chance you’ll get full speed emulation on \ 
a modern PC. There have been less dramatic improvements to video emulation in \ 
other Namco and Tecmo systems, and CPS-3 row scroll effects have been \ 
implemented.

MAME 0.203 should build out-of-the-box on macOS “Mojave” with the latest \ 
Xcode tools (provided your SDL2 framework is up-to-date), a number of lingering \ 
debugger issues have been fixed, and it’s now possible to run SDL MAME on a \ 
system with no display. MAME’s internal file selection menus should behave \ 
better when you type the name of a file to select it.