Log Message:
mame: update to 0.250.

November has passed us by, and it’s time for MAME 0.250, with a
distinct Konami flavour! On the arcade side, the third and fourth
player positions are supported in NBA Play By Play, and lots of
regional variants have been added for games running on Hornet
hardware. We’ve also added support for a Konami hand-held LCD game,
a Tiger LCD game based on a popular Konami franchise, and a prototype
of an unreleased Game.com title in the same series. In addition to
the Castlevania-themed LCD game, we’ve added licensed Tiger LCD
games featuring Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, Superman and Gargoyles
characters, although the latter two are different skins for the
same game.

MSX computer emulation has had a major overhaul, with more supported
systems and peripherals, including lots of cartridge port floppy
drives. As a bonus, the Fujitsu FM Towns family gained support for
more controllers, including the Marty Pad and the twin-stick Libble
Rabble joypad. Hard disk issues affecting the FM Towns family were
also tracked down and fixed. Atari 8-bit computer cartridge emulation
has been modernised, and a few more unlicensed Game Boy cartridges
are supported (you can now play some very famous unauthorised
translations in MAME). The Quantel DPB-7000 is looking much better,
with lots of progress on video output and peripheral support.

Namco’s Alpine Surfer is now playable in MAME, and several graphical
glitches that had plagued System 22 emulation have been banished.
Support for Italian versions of Quizard has been added, and German
versions of Quizard 3 and Quizard 4 Rainbow are now working, as
well as a Czech version of Quizard 4 Rainbow. A missing line scroll
effect in Seta’s Caliber 50 is now emulated, and some flickering
graphics in Atari’s Return of the Jedi have been fixed.

Other improvements include lots of fixes for invalid memory accesses,
function keys for the Franklin Ace (Apple II clone) computers,
proper DIP switch labels for Nintendo Vs. Mahjong, and much, much
more.