MAME 0.234 Released!

[Tafoid]

MAME 0.234

Hi everyone!  After four busy weeks, MAME 0.234 is ready!  Newly supported systems include Runaway (a licensed version of Sega’s Head On made by Sun Electronics), Konami’s Magical Twin Bee (the European version of Twin Bee Yahhoo!), and Tronica’s LCD hand-held Spider (same program as Space Mission, but with different artwork).  Although it was added last month, VS Mahjong Triangle is now working.  This is a rare early example of a mahjong game supporting two simultaneous single-player games, or a two-player game – a format popularised a decade later by Psikyo’s Taisen Hot Gimmick.

There have been two significant sets of improvements for 3D arcade games this month: rewritten 3dfx Voodoo Graphics emulation, giving significant performance gains in many cases, and continued development on Konami’s ZR017 and GTI Club hardware.  Although not directly related to 3D graphics, bug fixes for the Fujitsu TGP DSP make Motor Raid more playable.  We haven’t forgotten 2D arcade games – Namco racing games have seen another round of fixes for missing or incorrectly positioned sprites, and missing sprites are now drawn in Data East’s Chanbara.

For home systems, our friend kmg has been hard at work adding support for pirate NES/Famicom cartridges, and Brian Johnson has fixed a couple of video issues on the Epson QX-10.  Kelvin Sherlock added support for the LANceGS card, providing another networking option for Apple II users.

You can read about everything that’s been going on in the whatsnew.txt file, and the source and 64-bit Windows binary packages are available from the download page.

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[Stiletto]

Official MAME 0.234 Twitter and Facebook links!
 
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[Vocalitus]

Is this the new mameworld?

[Thenasty]

I love seeing MAME adding clones (Konami’s Magical Twin Bee (the European version of Twin Bee Yahhoo!) that are easy to add to my old version of Mame (v.106).

Keep them Hacks & Clones coming (& make it easy to just do a ROM swap). This is the only thing I'm doing now with my Mame (Cabinet Machine).



Like always Mame Team, Big Thanks.

[Stiletto]

Is this the new mameworld?

I'm sorry, what is wrong?

Should we not be letting you guys know about updates to MAME?

Or was it that my addition of the social media links was not appreciated?

[Vocalitus]

Is this the new mameworld?

I'm sorry, what is wrong?

Should we not be letting you guys know about updates to MAME?

Or was it that my addition of the social media links was not appreciated?

We go to Mameworld for Mame content and update news.  Its the go to place for all Mame related material.

You Devs like to switch and swap venues.  I am asking if Mameworld is no longer your habitat..  Is that a problem?

[Haze]

Mameworld is one of many sites with MAME-related content, this is another.

Neither is the home of MAME.

There have been a lot of really impressive arcade-related developments in MAME over the past year, so it seems natural to spread the news on a site about arcade controls.  Lots of people talk about things like Gauntlet Legends and the other Atari / Midway 3D games, which now run faster than ever, also the Konami 3D games working properly for the first time, massive improvements to older Namco Sprite Scaler racers...  seems like a good of a place as any to keep people updated.

[meyer980]

As someone who doesn't visit MAME World like ever, I appreciate the brief update posts here. I'm all for them continuing, thanks team.

[Endprodukt]

This is amazing news!

[BadMouth]

As someone who doesn't visit MAME World like ever, I appreciate the brief update posts here. I'm all for them continuing, thanks team.

+1

[Vocalitus]

As someone who doesn't visit MAME World like ever, I appreciate the brief update posts here. I'm all for them continuing, thanks team.

Well visit it and support their site.  Its awesome.