[Arcade] FinalBurn Alpha v0.2.97.27

Golden Axe (Sega, 1989, System 16B hardware)

FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.27 Release - 24/08/2012

• Sound Improvements
  • Tidied sound chip interfaces, adding support for volume and left/right selection for individual routes. Updated all drivers to support. Many drivers sound much better with these updates [Barry]
  • Fixed an issue with multiple YM2203 chips that resulted in static noise in the sound output [Barry]
  • Added pan support to Taito drivers that use panning with the YM2610 sound chip [Barry]
  • Added pan support to the Darius driver [Barry]
  • Added support for an RC filter, and added support to the Galaxian Konami sound based drivers [Barry]
  • Fixed various drivers that rendered the MSM5205 sound too fast when the sample rate was greater than 22050Hz [Barry]
  • Applied a YM2413 fix from MAME [Barry]
  • Added support for a selectable number of voices in the Namco sound module (fixes sound in the Baraduke, Pac Land and Sky Kid drivers [Barry]
  • Added multiple chip support to the Sega PCM module, updated Super Monaco Grand Prix to support the extra sound board [Barry]
  • Added support for the MSM6585 chip to the MSM5205 core [iq_132]
  • Added multiple chip support to the Y8950 interface, and hooked up in the Cybertank driver [Barry]
  • Small speedup in the DAC core [iq_132]
• Standardised some CPU interfaces [iq_132]
• Improved Atari slapstic emulation, and updated the Gauntlet driver to support it [iq_132]
• Added driver for Atari Tetris [iq_132]
• Added driver for Cybertank [iq_132]
• Hooked up analog inputs in the Cybertank driver [Barry]
• Added driver for games on Donkey Kong hardware [iq_132]
• Tidied Donkey Kong driver to build with current FB Alpha, and fixed some bugs and crashes [Barry]
• Added driver for Konami Test Board (GX800) [iq_132]
• Added Bang 2 Busters to the Neo Geo driver [lantus]
• Added Treasures of the Carribean to the Neo Geo driver [lantus]
• Added Last Survivor to the Sega X-Board driver [Barry, JacKc, ShouTime, Charles MacDonald, Aaron Giles, 9ofzeven, TrevEB, Dr. Spankenstein, ghoolster, Surgeville, Tormod, Tjaberg, Waremonger]
• Added Racing Beats to the Taito Z driver [Barry]
• Added bootleg of 1943 to the driver [Barry, JacKc, bonky0013]
• Added clone of Arkanoid to the driver [Barry]
• Added bootleg of Pang! 3 to the CPS-1 driver [JacKc, porchy]
• Added some bootlegs of Street Fighter II to the CPS-1 driver [Barry, JacKc, smitdogg]
• Added clone of Super Street Fighter II to the CPS-2 driver [JacKc]
• Added two clones of Thunder Zone to the Data East drivers [ShouTime, JacKc]
• Added two clones of Dynamite Duke to the driver [JacKc, Arzeno Fabrice]
• Added clone of War of the Bugs or Monsterous Manouvers in a Mushroom Maze to the Galaxian driver [Barry]
• Added clone of Jumping Pop to the driver [Barry, The Dumping Union]
• Added clone of Parodius to the Konami driver [Barry, Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
• Added King of Gladiators Plus to the Neo Geo driver [JacKc]
• Added homebrew WW2 Demo to the Neo Geo driver [Barry]
• Added homebrew Spiderman Intro demo, and added alt sets of TMNT and Dark Wing Duck intro sets to the Neo Geo driver [Barry]
• Added clone of Ketsui Arrange to the PGM driver [JacKc]
• Added clone of Raiden to the driver [Barry, JacKc]
• Added two clones of Fantasy Zone II (System 16C version) to the Sega System 16B driver [Barry]
• Added clone of Turbo Outrun to the Sega Outrun driver [JacKc]
• Added clone of AB Cop to the Sega X-Board driver [JacKc]
• Added clone of GP Rider to the Sega X-Board driver [Barry]
• Added clone of Deer Hunter to the Seta 2 driver [JacKc]
• Added clone of Drift Out to the Taito F2 driver [JacKc, Hammy]
• Added clone of Rygar to the Tecmo driver [JacKc, smitdogg]
• Added clone of Pipi & Bibis / Whoopee!! to the Toaplan 2 driver [Barry, Antonio Gonzalez Jr.]
• Added bootleg of Toki to the driver [Barry, skiltz]
• Added clone of Trojan to the driver [JacKc]
• Fixed bugs in 4 Fun in 1 and Ghostmuncher Galaxian in the Galaxian driver, promoting them to working [Barry]
• Changed Fantastic to use the proper PROM dump in the Galaxian driver, fixing the game colours [Barry]
• Changed Super Bond to use the proper PROM dump in the Galaxian driver, fixing the game colours [Barry]
• Various PGM improvements [iq_132, JacKc]
• Fixed a graphics glitch in the Super Monaco Grand Prix title screen [Barry]
• Fixed issue with Top Speed crashing on driver init [Barry]
• Big-endian fixes for the Cybertank driver [lantus]
• Big-endian fixes for the Sega System 16A and Tecmo drivers [lantus]
• Big-endian fix for Street Fighter II: Magic Delta Turbo sprite x position [lantus]
• Applied various libretro patches [Twinaphex]
• Updated the zlib library to v1.2.7 [Barry]
• Updated the libpng library to v1.5.12 [Barry]
• Matched the Megadrive sets to MESS 0.146u5 [Barry]
• Synced sets with MAME 0.146u5 [Barry]