Log Message:
mame: update to 0.225.

Whether it’s the Autumn harvest moon, or the ornamental plum blossoms
are blowing in the Spring breeze, it’s time for something special:
MAME 0.225 is out today! We’ve got some big updates that benefit
everyone! First of all, MAME’s sound output system has been
overhauled, with better sample rate conversion and mixing. This
makes pretty much everything sound sweeter, but on top of that,
the Votrax SC-01 speech synthesiser has been tuned up. Does anyone
here speak Q*Bertese? SC-01 speech has been added to the Apple II
Mockingboard card, too. While we’re talking about Apple II cards,
Rhett Aultman has ported the CS8900A Crystal LAN Ethernet controller
from VICE, allowing MAME to emulate the a2RetroSystems Uthernet
card.

Other across-the-board enhancements include more artwork system
features (you’ll start to see this show up in external artwork
soon), an option to reduce repeated warnings about imperfectly
emulated features, and several internal improvements to make
development simpler. Significant newly emulated system features
include the Philips P2000T’s cassette drive from Erwin Jansen, the
Acorn BBC Micro Hybrid Music 4000 Keyboard, internal boot ROM
support for the WonderSwan hand-helds, and initial support for the
NS32000 CPU.

Newly emulated systems include several TV games from MSI based on
arcade titles, a couple of Senario Double Dance Mania titles, Sun
Mixing’s elusive Super Bubble Bobble, a location test version of
Battle Garegga, a couple more versions of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure,
and three more Street Fighter II': Champion Edition bootlegs. Some
of the immediately noticeable fixes this month include 15-bit
graphics mode refinements for FM Towns from r09, gaps in zoomed
sprites on Data East MLC and Seta 2 fixed by cam900, Galaga LED
outputs lost during refactoring restored, and clickable artwork
remaining clickable when rotated.