Log Message:
mame: update to 0.228.

Has it already been an entire month? It must have been, because
MAME 0.228 is ready today! We’ve added support for two very rare
arcade games this month. The first is Namennayo, an overhead-view
obstacle course game making unauthorised use of Satoru Tsuda’s
Nameneko characters. The second is Get A Way, an overhead-view
racing game made by Universal, touted as the “first game in the
world to feature a 16-bit microcomputer.” Universal went on to
create the much loved Mr. Do! character. Emulation is preliminary
– while the game is playable, there are some graphical issues, and
sound is absent.

In other arcade emulation news, Windy Fairy has made a triumphant
return, bringing numerous fixes for issues affecting Bemani rhythm
games running on System 573 hardware. Thanks to the persistent
efforts of David “Haze” Haywood, various fruit machines from JPM
are starting to become playable in MAME. Interestingly, these
machines rely on similar Brooktree RAMDACs to NCD X11 terminals,
and Motorola DUARTs used by numerous other systems emulated in
MAME. A complete dump of the type 01 program for Zaccaria’s Cat
and Mouse has finally been obtained, making both known versions of
this obscure game playable at last.

For hand-held consoles, the WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color have
had an overhaul, and Game Gear X-Terminator cartridges are now
supported. Several Bandai RX-78 cartridges have been dumped,
exercising more aspects of the emulation and allowing several
shortcomings to be fixed. We’ve also made some progress on emulating
Apple’s floppy drive controllers, providing a path to support for
SuperDrive high-density floppy drives, and eventually the HD20
external hard disk.

There’s been plenty more happening, including a new LCD shader from
cgwg, all the latest FM Towns software dumps, fixes for recent
regressions, and more code modernisation.