David Haywood’s MAME(tm) WIP

I’ve disabled comments (set to always moderate) for the next week as I’m on holiday and won’t be able to remove any posts if people post inappropriate material.

0.90 was Released on the 4th Jan 2005
0.103 will almost certainly be released within the next week or two.

13 full MAME releases, and countless ‘u’ updates mark a very productive year in terms of MAME development.

The highlights of the year for me were without doubt the emulation of the games using the Data East encrypted CPUS ‘102′ and ‘156′ and the Seibu SPI graphic decryption+emulation; all of which the original creator of MAME, Nicola Salmoria, played a big role in making a reality.

Exactly what 2006 has in store nobody quite knows. 2006 was always the year quoted for the big Sega rewrite, but that’s now mostly done thanks to the dedication of Aaron Giles, Charles MacDonald and Nicola over the past year and a half although we’re still no closer to finding some of the Sega boards we need in working condition.

I’d like to hope the Seibu protection gets sorted out this coming year, it’s been sitting there holding back a number of drivers for quite a while. CPS3, the remaining Data East titles, Kaneko, Gaelco? I don’t know, We’ll just have to see what happens. Emulation is unpredictable, sometimes you just need to observe the smallest detail you missed before and everything falls into place. As long as there are still things to emulate we’ll look for ways to emulate them.

Anyway, I’d just like to say thanks to all the developers who’ve worked on MAME over the past year, some amazing progress has been achieved and every day brought some new surprises. I hope I’ll be able to say the same this time next year.

I’ve added support for another Korea only game, this time it’s a Baseball game from SemiCom.

SemiCom are IMO the best of the Korean developers.

another obscure Korean game.. I don’t think I’ll be able to finish the emulation of this one myself because I really don’t understand the game and don’t really know what’s meant to be going on.

Started emulating this strange game from SNK, thanks to Stefan Lindberg