Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/emulators/mame
From: Thomas Klausner
Date: 2023-04-27 10:05:42
Message id: 20230427080542.4FBC4FA87@cvs.NetBSD.org

Log Message:
mame: update to 0.254.

MAME 0.254, the most hotly anticipated emulator release in recent
memory, is ready today! Yes, it finally happened: the first batch
of Namco System 10 games have been emulated! It’s been a real team
effort, with contributors around the world working on emulation,
cracking encryption, and properly dumping the Flash memory chips.
You’ll be able to enjoy Namco’s Mr. Driller 2 and Mr. Driller G,
as well as the spin-off Star Trigon. System 10 was home to Mitchell’s
final two arcade games, Gamshara and Kono e Tako. From Metro, there
are two GAHAHA Ippatsudou mini-game collections and the two-in-one
mahjong tile puzzle game GekiToride-Jong Space. Other working Namco
games include Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan, Panikuru Panekuru, and
Uchuu Daisakusen: Chocovader Contactee.

Quite a few of the System 10 games that are still marked as not
working are already playable. Taiko no Tatsujin 2, 4 and 6 are
playable, although we aren’t confident enough in the timing accuracy
of MAME’s PlayStation emulation to mark rhythm games as working at
the moment. You can play the light gun shooter Golgo 13: Juusei no
Requiem, but it’s missing sounds and voice acting at the moment.
Several coin pushers on the closely related WIDEISM SP-02 platform
run; you can trigger various animations, but there’s no gameplay
as such.

Of course, Namco System 10 emulation isn’t the only thing that’s
updated in this release. Almost a dozen Yamaha keyboards based on
the GEW7 CPU are now working. Interestingly, their sound synthesis
capabilities are closely related to the MultiPCM chip used in
various Sega arcade games. Another game from SNK’s early Micon Kit
series has been dumped and emulated. There are also two more working
Brother word processors and two working Liberty Electronics serial
terminals.

Cave CV1000 games now have more realistic blitter performance,
meaning you don’t need to tweak settings to get close to the arcade
experience. Properly emulating the absence of a memory management
unit in the R4650 CPU used by Namco’s System 23 solves crashes in
Time Crisis 2. Some fixes in SGI workstation emulation have IRIX
running again. A few bugs affecting PC Engine and Virtual Boy games
have been fixed. Issues with certain sound effects in classic Konami
arcade games have been fixed, too.

Files:
RevisionActionfile
1.168modifypkgsrc/emulators/mame/Makefile
1.76modifypkgsrc/emulators/mame/PLIST
1.131modifypkgsrc/emulators/mame/distinfo