Marching On
If previous recent years are anything to go by we’ve probably seen the early year flurry of activity MAME gets towards the end of December through to February. So a summary of the major things. CHD...
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In Brazil *Everything* is Fantastic
Taito do Brazil (the Brazilian Taito division) seem to have been something of an oddity. While no official Japanese release of Taito games contained any strings relating to the Brazil they would import...
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Stalactites & Stalagmites
‘Fantastic’ and ‘Kong’ both of which featured in my previous WIP update here were cheap Brazilian produced rip-offs of classic games which made use of graphics from the original games but were...
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Give me all your demons / They don’t scare me now
The IGS027A chips are meant to be scary boxes of hell, and in most cases they are. ** If used correctly ** I was looking at Demon Front and noticed something odd. Unlike ‘The Gladiator’ and most of the...
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My Luck is Booming
f205v dumped a Playmark game called Lucky Boom, it appears to be a cross between Pang and a gambling game. Recognized it as the same hardware as ‘Super Derby’ which I did a driver for many years ago,...
View ArticleCurrent State of Combined Projects
I’ve had a number of people ask about this… The current state of the universal / combined MAME+MESS builds is simple. The patch for the universal build target (posted 14th Feb 2012) still works as...
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