0.143u5
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 02700: [Speed] pocketrc: game runs too fast (hap)
- 04477: [Documentation] naomi: Duplicate File entries in each set in
         driver (Tafoid)
- 04475: [Graphics] quizmeku: Missing gfx (M.A.S.H.)
- 03641: [Graphics] sspirits, gground: Only half of the game's frames
         are rendered. (M.A.S.H.)
- 03195: [Gameplay] crkdown: graphic artifacts and speed drop during
         gameplay (M.A.S.H.)
- 00961: [Sound] raidena: Some music channels go out of sync after a
         while. (Kold666)
- 04397: [HLSL] MAME freezes with a hlsl .ini file. (MooglyGuy)

Source Changes
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Implemented double buffering and improved colors for 3d in Top Landing
[Angelo Salese]

naomi.c: Added rev "A" Japan BIOS, original Korean BIOS as well as rev
"D" Korea [gamerfan, Smitdogg, BrianT, The Dumping Union]

armedf.c: Verified correct sprite roms for Terra Force (Japan)
[ShouTime]

dday.c: Added dipswitch locations to the D-Day sets
[Corrado Tomaselli, Brian Troha]

m68k: Preliminary support for MC68340 (CPU32).  Reorganized to
facilitate C++ conversion. [David Haywood]

m68k: use 68340 instruction table for 68340, cpXXX instructions are
020/030 only, add CINV, CPUSH stubs for 040 [R. Belmont]

Add comment about new raiden2 rom combination, add missing pals as
undumped, fix IC locations on several sets.
[Lord Nightmare, Hammad, EdCosta]

Various HLSL fixes: [Ryan Holtz, Bat Country Entertainment]
 * Created two flags, -hlsl_ini_write and -hlsl_ini_read. The former
    enables custom HLSL INI writing explicitly, the other enables
    loading of the same.
 * Fixed disappearing aperture effect when using custom INI files.
 * Fixed diagonal seam on some games, for serious real this time
 * Fixed phosphor simulation, now works as expected

model3.c: Redumped Spikeout FE. Special thanks to Phil Bennett & Bart
Trzynadlowski for verifying and testing the redumped roms. [Dr.
Spankenstein, wild eyed, Paratech, Layne, Lord Flux, atchoo, cbt,
gatt9, tormod, BrianT, The Dumping Union]

only report samples audit result for sets with required samples
[Fabio Priuli]

fixed segfault when using -verifysamples [Fabio Priuli]

floppy: Refactor slightly.  Name, descrition, etc are now an intrinsic
property of converters. [O. Galibert]

Added some Stern Whitestar older revisions [Miodrag Milanovic]

Preliminary work at the projection calculation for 3d eye-space points
in Air Inferno [Angelo Salese, Andrew Gardner]

es5503: converted to modern device, improved IRQ timing [R. Belmont]

C352: don't try to play zero-length samples [Phil Bennett]

M377xx improvements
 * Respect the restored mode bits for PUL [hap, R. Belmont]
 * Proper cycle counts for PSH/PUL [R. Belmont]
 * Fixed flags for multiply/division and divide by 0 interrupt [hap]
 * Pass program bank to debugger hook so breakpoints work outside
    of bank 0 [R. Belmont]
 * Fixed interrupt flags for internal peripherals, corrected
    BBC/BBS when running outside of bank 0 [R. Belmont]
 * Several other interrupt timing and priority fixes [hap]

whitestar: make modern, add sound system.  no work on main CPU part
yet. [R. Belmont]

floppy: Add brand-new MFI (MESS floppy image) support. [O. Galibert]

mfi: Fix the format thanks to smf's help [O. Galibert]

amigafdc: Modernize, but don't change a thing (yet) [O. Galibert]

floppy: Change the internal format to use magnetic cells.  Temporarily
move the full-track pll bit extraction in the amiga fdc. [O. Galibert]

st_dsk: Add the easy ST formats [O. Galibert]

tempest.c: Corrected the rom labels, description and documentation for
the revised hardware rev 3 of Tempest. Added dipswitch locations for
the Tempest sets. [Brian Troha]

globalfr: filled in a little more of the memory map [R. Belmont]

Yet more Neo-Geo work on game ROMs structures [Johnboy]
 * Continued to document used pcb's for cartridges
 * More removal of .bin extension in favour of chiplabel.socketlabel
    naming convention
 * Added correct v1 to pulstar
 * Corrected layout of pgoal according to original cart
Added redumped c1/c2 and v1 to quizdaisk [DsNo]

Various changes and improvements to the Chihiro emulation
[Samuele Zannoli]
 * modifies the ide device (idectrl.c) so it supports cases where it
    is not connected to an hard disk, but to some different hardware
 * adds PC devices 8259 pic, 8253 pit, ide controller
 * adds "chihiro" command with subcommands "jamdis", "dump_string",
    "dump_process", "dump_list", "help"
 * updates the smbus controller and adds stubs for the pic16lc,
    cx25871, eeprom smbus devices
 * updates the memory map for the newly added devices
 * fixes the size of the "others" region
 * adds hack for the missing dump of the smbus eeprom

Decoded graphics in gigaman2 [iq_132]

Hooked up sound, fixed layer offsets in ppan [iq_132]

Fixed graphics glitches in speedspn on character select screen
[iq_132]

Fixed layer enable in cninjabl, giving it working status [iq_132]


New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Ridge Racer 2
Free Kick [Charles MacDonald, The Dumping Union]


New clones added
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1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan, Rev B) [Foul]
Rad Rally (Japan) [Arcadecomponents.com]
The King of Fighters '97 (Korean release) [DsNo]


New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Fighting Bujutsu [Ville Linde, R. Belmont]