Hello folks,
For my research analysis and writing class my professor let me pick any topic I want. (her mistake) So for my final term paper I chose to come up with a method of determining a guide to the use of the "rule of cool." I got a A on the paper so I figured I'd share it with you fine folks as well. It is rather lengthy so I've included the abstract first. The 8 tips for dungeon masters is near the end (third session), the first and second parts deal more with the philosophical and ethics of games. So, if situational ethics and a discussion on the Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics of Play are of use for you, be my guess.
I am a relatively new DM so I spent a long time researching and trying to absorb what would make me a "good DM". With that cavate please keep in mind I know next to nothing compared to a vast majority of the DMs here. I can think of no place better to have this paper peer-reviewed, picked apart and "rebutalled" to death than here. If you feel offended, challenged, or angry reading this... Please understand I am a moron borrowing the works and words of far smarter people. If you feel that "this is the WAY" again... I am a moron... so ... with out further ado.

Abstract:

The choice to be a stringent rule-follower without leniency using fanatical legalism in a game can be a source of contention between someone acting as a referee and/or “Game Master” and players of a game. Likewise, to approach games with a sense of fanatical antinomianism, or to completely ignore the rules and simply let players do whatever they want, tends to offer no challenge, and or reason to play that specific game. Using ethical theory frameworks such as situational ethics, natural law, and utilitarianism this paper seeks find the philosophical principles of what moments are acceptable and actually beneficial to bend the rules of a game. As such, it is important to define games, briefly discuss why games are played, and roles rules have on games. The game Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition will be used as the principal example. With “rule for rules” established, seven tips on how to implement it this rule using advice and guidance from some of the most well known “Dungeon Masters” in the modern era will be provided.
Much of this paper relies on the works of Joseph Fletcher, Sheila Murphy; Benard Suits, Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, and Robert Zubek for the ethical and philosophical discussions around games. For the practical advice, it relies primarily on the works of Matthew Mercer, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Benjamin Scott, Patrick Tracy, Kelly Mclaughlin and Monty Martin.
Players are your friends, or at the very least your fellow human beings. As such, seek out what is best for them. Games are about many things but principally about enjoyment. It’s okay if the player does not get exactly what they want, so long as they still had enjoyment. How it happens is up to the players, the one running the game, and whether the rules were used to enhance the experience or not. It’s possible to find that balance by asking these questions in order: “How will this decision affect: the final enjoyment of all at the table? the narrative? the rules in the future?”

**“Once upon a time, around a table…”

A man behind a cardboard screen sits across from a woman wearing a funny hat. He is frantically reading through the pages of the various books at his disposal. He finds the reference he is looking for, but it is not clear. “It is technically against the rules, it is barely within the realm of possibility, but the idea is so creative…” the man murmurs to himself. Exasperated, the man smiles a crooked grin and explains, “Well you can certainly try… give me an acrobatics check.” The woman throws a piece of plastic resin on to the table. The dice reads, “18.” The man sighs and then laments, “fine… how do you want to do this?” The table erupts in cheers, as high-fives are given from the others around the table. The woman adjusts her hat, as she gleefully explains how her character will use the momentum of several falling barrels to move across the map in a single turn without having to use all her character’s movement.
As a “Dungeon Master” (DM) for the tabletop role playing game, Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), I can say without a doubt that many DMs have encountered extremely similar events as the one described above. The choice to be a stringent rule-follower without leniency can be a source of much resentment between the DM and the players around the table. Likewise, to completely ignore the rules and simply let players do whatever they want offers no challenge, no reason to play. In terms of D&D rule enforcement, as is with many events in life, the choice of always being either a “Harsh Disciplinarian” or the lenient, “Laissez Faire Guide” is a false dichotomy. Instead, seeking balance between the two choices based first on the overall needs of the players, second on the needs of the story, and third on requirements and rules of the game should be the norm.

Session 1: What is the Relationship between, Players, Games and Rules?

The 19th century philosopher and founder of modern cultural history, John Hughes once wrote, “Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadvertently defined, always presupposes human society and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.” ¹ Why do humans play? Is it instinctual? Bernard Suits was a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Philosophy for the University of Waterloo and his essays are in part responsible for the field of philosophy of games in the late 20th century. In his book, “The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia,” Suits’ book uses Aesop’s fable about the grasshopper to argue that play is what we would do in a perfect civilization. He believed that in a world devoid of work, humans would still seek out challenges through play, suggesting that it is human nature to challenge ourselves.² But is that the only reason someone plays a game?
One YouTuber opined that “In a practical sense, games facilitate systemic thinking by getting us to view abstractions, but also engender creativity by getting us to play.”³ If true, these are essential tools for humanity to function as an intelligent race. This makes sense from an evolutionary level as to why humanity would develop play, but is there more to it than “games encourage outside the box thinking?”
The landmark paper titled, “MDA: A formal approach to game design and game research” is one of the earliest attempts to formalize the field of video game design theory and it is fundamental to how modern game designers look at these systems. It serves to define the importance of mechanic, dynamics, and aesthetics of play and is instrumental to helping understand what players will expect out of a game. We will discuss more about dynamics and mechanics later, but first let us focus on aesthetics.
Aesthetics of Play Defined

Term	Definition	Examples
Sense Pleasure	Enjoyment derived from how it stimulates the senses	The visuals of a game, sound, and music, feel of the dice, etc.
Fantasy	Enjoyment derived from the ability to step into a role that cannot be experienced in real life	Playing a game as a magic wielding sorcerer or rocks in the far flung reaches of outer space
Narrative	Enjoyment derived from game as drama, it is about the stories and experience gained	Heavily story driven games such as Last of Us, Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy
Challenge	Enjoyment derived from overcoming an arbitrary obstacle	Platformers like Mario, or even drinking games like beer pong, or corn hole; social games like charades, etc.
Fellowship	Enjoyment from working cooperatively as a group to accomplish a goal	Team based or social games such as Among Us, the card game Spades; save the world mode on Fortnite
Competition	Enjoyment from showing dominance	Chess or Go, Battle royal games such as Fortnite or PubG or Call of Duty; Fallguys; darts Poker; Uno, Killer bunnies or Magic the Gathering;
Discovery	Enjoyment from uncovering the new or discovering news ways to play a game.	These can range from searching to find things to choose your own adventure Minecraft; Zelda Breath of the Wild; simple matching games; the board game Betrayal at the House on the Hill; or games like Fable; Dragon Age Inquisition; or Mass effect
Expression	Enjoyment from showing an aspect of one’s self; or games that allow full customization of characters	Creation games like Minecraft; role play games like fallout 4; world of warcraft or Fortnite
Submission (aka Abnegation)	Enjoyment from being able to “turn of the brain; and tune out the world” or what is also known as zone out factor.	Bejeweled; candy crush; the lever-pull games at casinos, solitaire, etc.
	(Source: Portnow & Floyd, October 2012)⁵

Aesthetics are things like sense pleasure, fantasy, the narrative of the story, challenge, fellowship, discovery, expression, and something called submission.⁴ There is an additional aesthetic that most game designers also consider when designing games termed as “competition”.⁵ These are all reasons people play games and it is important to keep all these in mind when acting as a DM.
The table above works to define these terms more appropriately and makes it easier to reference later. The reasons a player may want to play a game vary and change over time. If a DM can understand their players’ goals (i.e., what the player hopes to get out of the game) the DM will be able to understand why someone might want to perform a certain action, play a game, or want to ignore a certain rule in the first place.
On that note, what are rules in games? Think about it… Games are weird… well I should say the act of playing a game… is weird. Suits once wrote in his article, for the “Philosophy of Science Association Journal,” "To play a game is to engage in activity directed towards bringing about a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit more efficient [means] in favor of less efficient means, and where such rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity."⁶ In other words, to play a game we create rules that prevent us from achieving a goal through the easiest means available. Instead, we make something more difficult and we play a game. For instance, in basketball, it would be far easier to simply carry the ball all the way to the basket instead of dribbling it.
In D&D, there is a similar activity to dribbling. It is called a “dice roll.” It is something that players must make to see if they succeed or fail at a task. The player rolls a 20-sided die and tries to get above a certain score to succeed. Players can roll normal, with advantage, or with disadvantage. Rolling with advantage allows the player to roll the D-20 (the 20-sided die) twice and use the higher number. Rolling with disadvantage also has the player roll the D-20 twice, but they must take the lower number rolled instead. It introduces a chance of randomness, and players will find any excuse they can to avoid having to make a roll with "disadvantage." In his book, The Grasshopper, Suits argues that we do this because it is the act of overcoming that limitation that we find enjoyment. By taking on these restrictions and accepting these limitations, we take on what he coins as a "lusory attitude" which allows us to play the game as it is meant to be played.
Suits would argue that by not playing the game according to the rules as written, the player would have only achieved a “quasi-victory” not really worthy of achievement. He also goes on to say that even the act of “failing to win the game by virtue of losing it implies an achievement, in the sense that the activity in question -- playing the game -- has been successfully, even though not victoriously, complete.”⁷ So, according to Suits, it’s better to follow the rules of the game and loose than to not follow the rules and win. It’s important to point out that the aesthetics of play had not yet been defined and Suits’ work mainly focused on the “challenge” aspect of play. This is where many sports and game philosophers begin to find fault with Suits. In the “Journal of Philosophy of Sport,” a rebuttal of Suits’ work by David Myers asks, “What if the goal of the player isn't to follow the rules or even play the game?”⁸ For instance, what happens if the player is motivated by competition and doesn’t care about rules so long as “they win?” While an extreme example, this paradox isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Therefore, focusing on just the challenge aesthetic of game play and simply playing the game “rules as written” can lead to a disconnect between what the player desires and the game itself.
Jesper Juul, an Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, wrote in his textbook on video game design, “Rules specify limitations and affordances. They prohibit players from performing actions such as making jewelry out of dice, but they also add meaning to the allowed actions, and this affords players meaningful actions that were not otherwise available; rules give games structure”⁹ Basically, without rules we cannot even have play. However, if the player ignores the rules that player won’t be able to enjoy the full experience of the game, because the rules both afford the opportunity to enjoy the game and provide the obstacles in the first place.
How the rules affect actual game play is where Mechanics and Dynamics come into play. (See, I told you we would get back to it eventually.) Mechanics are the rules and systems that govern chance to create the game we experience. Dynamics are how those rules come together to govern the strategies of that game. In D&D, an example of mechanics is how a player would have to roll a 20-sided dice to see if an action would succeed. Dynamics are the actions the player takes to manipulate the situation and give themselves advantage in the roll. Some examples of this are using a spell caster’s familiar, flanking an enemy in combat, using the bend luck trait, or lucky feat. This is akin to how the rules of poker dictate that bluffing is allowed (mechanics); but how the bluffing player conceals their tells and bets is entirely up to that player (dynamics).
What happens when the player’s desired aesthetics and the mechanics don’t allow for the dynamics the player wants to use? This is where it falls on the DM to determine if the game can handle a little rule bending. In the Dungeon Master Guide’s introduction, it states “The D&D rules help you and the other players have a good time, but the rules aren’t in charge. You’re the DM, and you are in charge of the game…” However! It goes on to say, “The success of a D&D game hinges on your ability to entertain the other players at the game table.” What is a good way to approach this? Is it THE DM IS ALWAYS RIGHT, able to enforce their will on the players whenever it suits their need? Should the DM strictly enforce the rules and narrative of their planned story without the need to appease the players’ wants and desires?... well… The DM COULD do it, but it won’t be long before their players stop showing to game sessions. Just like the rules, without players, there is no game. Or as one notable professional DM and YouTuber once put it:

“The game you weave belongs to the players as much as yourself… so make sure to humor them every once in awhile by giving them a chance to be extraordinary" - Patrick "the Goddam DM" Tracy ¹⁰

Session 2: The Ethics of a Dungeon Master

So how does someone seek a balance between the rules and the players? Enter situational ethics. Situational ethics, first proposed by philosopher and first professor of ethics at Harvard Medical School, Joseph Fletcher,** is an attempt to seek a middle ground between two ethical schools of thought: Legalism and Antinomianism. In legalism, morality must come from a strict set of rules that must be obeyed at all times and cannot be deviated from or broken for any reason. Antinomianism, on the other hand, is the idea that there should be no rules, you should be able to do what you want, whenever you want (lawless society). ¹¹
In D&D terms, "Fanatical Legalism" would be similar to what many DMs would characterize as "Lawful Stupid," where a certain player's character enforces harsh judgement without ever showing mercy to those who would break the law regardless of the circumstances… even to the detriment of the party… or that small band of orphans who were stealing food out of desperation…
Likewise, in D&D terms, "Fanatical Antinomianism" would be similar to what DMs would characterize as "Chaotic Stupid," where a player's character completely ignores consequences an action would bring and simply act according to their whims… even when it's an obvious trap… that has a 100 percent chance to damage not only your character, but the other players as well.
Fletcher's work states that the morally right thing to do depends on the situation and can change throughout the situation, but at the same time, there is a universal “moral law” on which to base our actions that he called "Agape" love. Derived from the Greek word of similar pronunciation, Fletcher sought to define Agape as a means to show love for your fellow human. In his book titled “Situational Ethics,” Fletcher states, "All laws, rules, principles, ideals and norms, are only contingent, only valid if they happen to serve love."¹² Or to put it a different way, a desire to see your fellow human be happy is and should be the goal. It is not really a feeling, but an attitude to do what is best for others.
In terms of the D&D alignment chart, this would be easiest to define as whether someone is "Good" or "Evil." Whereas a “good character” is someone who acts for the betterment of others regardless of personal motivations, conversely an “evil character” acts out of their own self-interests regardless of how this action would affect others. Those that follow the concept of Agape would be “good characters.” Those that do not, would be evil.
This is where the so-called “Rule of Cool” comes into play. Mathew Mercer, an extremely acclaimed DM, comedian, and writer of D&D’s “Explorer’s Guide to Wild Mount,” and host of the show “Critical Roll,” defines the Rule of Cool as a trope in the D&D community that is “the willing suspension of disbelief for the sake of a cool moment.”¹³ It’s used in moments where the use of an certain object or action would be nearly impossible according to the mechanics of the game, but because it is a “cool dynamic,” the DM allows it. But what is “cool?” Is it a player that is normally too nervous to speak up being able to do something unique on time despite it being against the rules? Is it a player that has spent considerable time perfecting a skill and being able to perform a truly “epic task” (such as the jumping across barrels to effectively triple their movement distance)? Is it succeeding in persuading the main villain to befriend the party through a series of increasingly complex but successful rolls?
In all these situations listed above, there is a common theme that ties all the principles of what this paper is trying to address together in a simple phrase. As a DM, before making a ruling ask, "How will this decision affect the final enjoyment of all at the table?" Now a DM cannot give the players everything they want. Doing so cheapens the truly extraordinary moments. Finding the right balance can be difficult. That is why the flow chart above is suggested when trying to figure out whether it is a good time to “Remember the Rule of Cool.”
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Session 3: “Well… You can Certainly Try”- Some Famous DM

Finally, we can discuss how the desire to make the most enjoyable experience for everyone at the table plays out using real-world examples and advice from some of the most well-known DMs in the business. Using the concept of Situational Ethics’ Agape, we can see how to work in the rule of cool using eight tips for Dungeon Masters.
Tip 1: It is advised to know your audience.
Not everything is as it seems, so be sure to pay attention to your players and look at them when you are describing the situation. Make note of how they react when tones or themes change. Remember those reasons people play games mentioned earlier? This is where those come into play. Additionally, while not something outright suggested, it is nevertheless important to take team dynamics into account.
The book “Four lenses unfolded” describes how various personality types can interact and work to solve problems. In it, the book describes four primary temperaments: Green (analytical), Blue (empathetic), Orange (adventurous), and Gold (goal oriented). Unlike most other personality tests, four lenses theory suggests that while we have a dominant personality at any given moment, other aspects of these personalities can manifest as well. Being able to draw on these aspects at will is the mark of a “mature” individual.¹⁴ As a DM/referee, coach, or manager, being able to do this and adapt to the needs of the players will take player engagement to the next level.
Tip 2: Establishing and Managing Expectations Early and Often, Works to Prevent Disappointment and Confusions
Mercer once put it this way, “Establish early on in your campaign how much of a level of crazy you're willing to allow. This allows for players to better understand what to try for and what not to try for.”¹⁵ Whether you are a teacher, referee, coach, parent, supervisor, or mentor, establishing expectations with those involved mitigates problems before they arise.
One of the main tools DM’s have for this is that is recommended by Mercer, as well as nearly every DM in existence on the internet, is the “Session Zero.” Session Zero is a term used to describe a session where no play occurs but instead rules that will be used and rules that will be ignored or bent is established. It also serves to establish a theme the players can expect from any campaign. Using the first chapter of the DMs guide will help considerably in establishing this. Additionally, one of the best guides for this is laid out by the DM YouTubers known as “the Dungeon Dudes” in their video titled, “How to Run a Session Zero for Dungeons and Dragons 5e.”¹⁶ But always keep Agape in mind throughout this process. In this step, it means actively listening to the players. The DM may want a gritty, tough, realistic, and challenging campaign. But if the players want a high fantasy power trip, some adjustments are going to need to be made to the campaign. Listening to players and changing the plans accordingly is not easy. It requires A LOT of humility and ego suppression. Especially when the DM has already designed how the game is going to go… which leads us to the next tip.
Tip 3: It is important to develop a healthy relationship with failure.
Celebrated author Orson Wells once wrote; “If you want a happy ending, that of course, is dependent of where you stop your story.”¹⁷ This applies to both the players and DM. There will be times when the DM is tempted to ignore the rules because the consequences seem dire. The player fails an athletics check trying to use a dynamic that had a high-risk, high-reward moment. Now the player’s character is doomed to fall several hundred feet down a ravine to what is likely certain doom in lava. But this isn’t the end. That player’s character is most likely dead, but their death could result in a moment of drama and tension for the players. It’s the very real chance of failure that encourages players to think critically about a situation and experience excitement and tension. Brennon Lee Mulligan, the DM of the D&D streaming show, “Dimension 20,” put it this way… “if you are not allowing for failure, you are essentially just telling a story,” and thus never actually playing a game (make-believe as Suits would put it). ¹⁸
Another thing to consider is that through failure, we can often find comedy as well as ways to encourage players to think critically and find new escapes, ¹⁹ at least according to the mind behind the “Replaying the Curse of Strahd” videos, Benjamin (Puffin Forest) Scott. Lastly, Mercer strongly advises that if a DM allows too many “rule of cool moments” to happen in succession, the weight of the moments and consistency of the game will be lost. ²⁰
Players that are afraid to fail will not try. Mercer explains that “Most role play games are designed to forge a heroic story (showing feats of legend) so let the players try! Let them fail, and occasionally succeed!” This is where his catch phrase “you can certainly try” comes from. ²¹
Tip 4: Whenever Possible, Avoid Taking Things Personally
In his lecture on not talking things personally, soccer referee and public speaker, Frederik Imbo, explained there are two sides of a coin to keep in mind when trying not to take things personally: “It is not about you,” and “it is about you.” ²² Look at the other person’s intentions not just yours. With that in mind, it is okay to give yourself empathy and speak up. When someone seems upset with you, ask what are they hoping to get out of this releasing of emotions? Additionally, ensure that your pride isn’t preventing you from making the correct call. Yes I am talking about Ego again; it is that important! It is the DM’s world, but it is the players’ game. Without both, the world and the game, you do not have D&D.
D&D has a weird paradox of being both a story and a game. It has both a narrative as its core premise, but it is, in fact, also a multi-player game. Without at least two people you cannot really have much fun. DMs should make sure that everyone at the table enjoys themselves.
Tip 5: Mechanics are important precisely because they are a means of delivering impactful story moments.
Remember that rule of cool concept? Extraordinary moments don’t happen often, and this is by design of the mechanics of the game. Humans remember the novel and unique way more often than the mundane. Mundane things tend to blend into the background. It’s the unexpected moments that highlight the more impactful story moments, especially if that moment is tied to strong emotions.²³
With that in mind, Mulligan suggests looking at where the players are putting their resources before deciding how to rule on a situation. Have they invested experience points/levels into a specific skill that is relevant to this situation instead of just something they can use in combat? If so, reward them for wanting to do something that is a part of the world you are creating together. ²⁴
Tip 6: Discourage metagaming but allow it whenever possible.
Look for any and every excuse you can to give advantage on an arcana check by setting the DC low (10 or higher). If the player succeeds, they can use what they know… they are going to anyway, but at least then they can talk about it with the other players.
According to the DM guide Chapter 8, metagame thinking means “thinking about the game as a game,” Examples would be thinking “the DM wouldn’t throw such a powerful monster at us so early in the game, so we will surely be saved and not have to take this fight seriously,” or “the DM spent A LOT of time describing that door… maybe we should search it again!” ²⁵
The problem with metagaming isn’t really about what advantage the players are getting in the game. The problem is that manipulation of the dynamics, when used to extremes, can spoil the plot line of the cumulative story being told. This can lessen the drama and tension elements resulting in decreased enjoyment of those involved. Additionally, it can create a dynamic where the DM is constantly having to escalate encounters to challenge the player, encouraging a potentially toxic “DM vs player” mentality.
For instance, how would a street orphan barbarian with no formal education and a wisdom of …let’s say very low…be able to know that liches phylactery is the source of their power. The solution here depends on why the players are playing this specific game. Is it the narrative of the story? Is it discovery? If these aren’t anywhere close to the reasons these players came to the game table in the first place, the narrative is not going to take as much of a factor into decisions. Metagaming in this instance isn’t going to be much of a problem.
Tip 7: Keep in mind, the ending is “A” destination, but the story is about how you get there.
A DM may hold off the extra cool moments for the final parts of the game, keeping their players in complete darkness and grit the entire way. However, without at least some levity along the way, some “water for the weary travelers,” as Mercer put it, they may not make it to the end.²⁶ So, do not be afraid to relax the rules from time to time to give them those cool moments, but do so sparingly lest the destination lose its luster as well. Always keep in mind it’s about the enjoyment of crafting and playing in the world together that makes this, or really any game, fun.
Tip 8: When all else fails… take a break and have the Tarrasque attack the party.
When all else fails, roll two D-20s out of players’ views… fake a worried expression… role a D-100 (also out of player’s view) look over the score concerned as you pour through your notes… then explain sorrowfully… “I’m sorry… The Tarrasque has risen and has attacked the party. Everyone roll initiative.” This is actual advice from the DM manual. It is right under “faking illness and running away.”²⁷ The point is this: never be afraid to pause or call a game when it’s over or needed.
Maybe something incredibly uncomfortable for a player has happened. Maybe the DM has reached the end of what they were able to prepare for that session. Perhaps everyone is hungry or needs a bathroom break. Maybe the entire table has gotten to a point where no one can agree on anything and team dynamics are breaking down. That game world will always be there… but your friends won’t. Cherish that moment and make as many good moments as possible. Additionally, taking breaks both in-game and in the real world allow for quiet moments. These allow for the greater moments to shine through and the players will enjoy their experience more.
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The graphic above serves to summarize the eight tips above and show their relationship with the narrative, enjoyment, and the rules when put in the context of situational ethics. From this graph, the relationship between the eight tips and how they play into the narrative, enjoyment, and rules of the game can be seen. Each of the tips can influence many parts of the game but they are intended to primarily influence the aspect of the game they are adjacent to. “Knowing the players” should influence the narrative and what kind of enjoyment the players receive. What mechanics are used to enable the game is causally related to how the rules are used and so on. Please note that Agape is at the center as, with every decision a DM makes, considering what is best for the players should be central to the experience of any game.
The Epic Conclusion
Through crafting a game-world together with your players, a DM has the potential to tap into one of the greatest traditions humanity has: camaraderie with friends. At the end of the day, these players are your friends, or at the very least your fellow human beings. As such, you should want what is best for them. Through trials, hardships, and drama, we get to put the punctuation on the moments of excitement, joy, happiness, and bliss. It is okay if the player does not get exactly what they want, so long as they still had enjoyment. This is because getting everything we expect is sometimes boring. However, always keep in mind that at the end of the day, games are about having fun. How that happens is up to the players, the DM, and whether the rules were used to enhance the experience or not. It’s possible to find that balance by asking these questions in order: “How will this decision affect: the final enjoyment of all at the table? the narrative? the rules in the future?”
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9 Juul, Jesper. "Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds", MIT Press, (Aug 19, 2011) pp.57-59
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**Please note that just because Fletcher’s Situational Ethics is used prominently, this is not an endorsement of all his views. Fletcher’s work has been used to justify terrible atrocities, such as eugenics, this should serve to point out that any philosophy taken to extremes can lead to terrible outcomes
12 Fletcher, Joseph F. Situation Ethics: The New Morality. (1997)
13 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). Geek & Sundry. (February 16, 2016). Accessed December 30, 2020. Video. 5:52 https://youtu.be/fWZDuFIYkf0
14 Bryce, Nathan K., “Four Lenses Unfolded: A Deeper Understanding of Temperament Values,” Insight; (January 29, 2002,).
15 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016).
16 McLaughlin, Kelly; Martin, Monty. "How to Run a Session Zero for Dungeons and Dragons 5e". Dungeon Dudes. (September 3, 2020), Accessed 12 30, 2020. Video. https://youtu.be/2MA-z5Ai-bQ
17 Wells, Orson, "The Big Brass Ring." Santa Teresa Press (1987, January 1) 1-148
18 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) | Adventuring Academy Season 2 | Ep. 16 |” Adventuring Academy. Dimension (2020, December 28). Accessed December 30, 2020. Video 1:24:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbVxEKpipo
19 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) (2020)
20 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016)..
21 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016)
22 Imbo, Frederik, "How not to take things personally? | Frederik Imbo | TEDxMechelen" TEDx Talks; (March 4, 2020) accessed 10 Jan 2021, video 17:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJwH_PZXnM&t=381s
23 Kensinger, Elizabeth. Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. (May 4, 2009) Accessed 2021, January 30 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676782/
24 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) (2020)
25 Mearls, Mike, and Jeremy Crawford. "Dungeons Master's guide". Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. (2014) accessed 29 January 2021 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/running-the-game#MetagameThinking
26 Mulligan, Brennan; Mercer, Matthew. Building Your Own Campaign Setting (with Matthew Mercer) | Adventuring Academy. Dimension 20. (2019, April 3) Accessed December 30, 2020. Video 57:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sig8X_kojco&t=2867s
27 Mearls, Mike, and Jeremy Crawford. "Dungeons Master's guide". Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. (2014)-accessed 20 January 2021. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg

How do you want to do this? A Discussion on Selective Rule Enforcement

Abstract:

**“Once upon a time, around a table…”

Session 1: What is the Relationship between, Players, Games and Rules?

Term	Definition	Examples
Sense Pleasure	Enjoyment derived from how it stimulates the senses	The visuals of a game, sound, and music, feel of the dice, etc.
Fantasy	Enjoyment derived from the ability to step into a role that cannot be experienced in real life	Playing a game as a magic wielding sorcerer or rocks in the far flung reaches of outer space
Narrative	Enjoyment derived from game as drama, it is about the stories and experience gained	Heavily story driven games such as Last of Us, Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy
Challenge	Enjoyment derived from overcoming an arbitrary obstacle	Platformers like Mario, or even drinking games like beer pong, or corn hole; social games like charades, etc.
Fellowship	Enjoyment from working cooperatively as a group to accomplish a goal	Team based or social games such as Among Us, the card game Spades; save the world mode on Fortnite
Competition	Enjoyment from showing dominance	Chess or Go, Battle royal games such as Fortnite or PubG or Call of Duty; Fallguys; darts Poker; Uno, Killer bunnies or Magic the Gathering;
Discovery	Enjoyment from uncovering the new or discovering news ways to play a game.	These can range from searching to find things to choose your own adventure Minecraft; Zelda Breath of the Wild; simple matching games; the board game Betrayal at the House on the Hill; or games like Fable; Dragon Age Inquisition; or Mass effect
Expression	Enjoyment from showing an aspect of one’s self; or games that allow full customization of characters	Creation games like Minecraft; role play games like fallout 4; world of warcraft or Fortnite
Submission (aka Abnegation)	Enjoyment from being able to “turn of the brain; and tune out the world” or what is also known as zone out factor.	Bejeweled; candy crush; the lever-pull games at casinos, solitaire, etc.
	(Source: Portnow & Floyd, October 2012)⁵

“The game you weave belongs to the players as much as yourself… so make sure to humor them every once in awhile by giving them a chance to be extraordinary" - Patrick "the Goddam DM" Tracy ¹⁰

Session 2: The Ethics of a Dungeon Master

Session 3: “Well… You can Certainly Try”- Some Famous DM

Finally, we can discuss how the desire to make the most enjoyable experience for everyone at the table plays out using real-world examples and advice from some of the most well-known DMs in the business. Using the concept of Situational Ethics’ Agape, we can see how to work in the rule of cool using eight tips for Dungeon Masters.
Tip 1: It is advised to know your audience.
Not everything is as it seems, so be sure to pay attention to your players and look at them when you are describing the situation. Make note of how they react when tones or themes change. Remember those reasons people play games mentioned earlier? This is where those come into play. Additionally, while not something outright suggested, it is nevertheless important to take team dynamics into account.
The book “Four lenses unfolded” describes how various personality types can interact and work to solve problems. In it, the book describes four primary temperaments: Green (analytical), Blue (empathetic), Orange (adventurous), and Gold (goal oriented). Unlike most other personality tests, four lenses theory suggests that while we have a dominant personality at any given moment, other aspects of these personalities can manifest as well. Being able to draw on these aspects at will is the mark of a “mature” individual.¹⁴ As a DM/referee, coach, or manager, being able to do this and adapt to the needs of the players will take player engagement to the next level.
Tip 2: Establishing and Managing Expectations Early and Often, Works to Prevent Disappointment and Confusions
Mercer once put it this way, “Establish early on in your campaign how much of a level of crazy you're willing to allow. This allows for players to better understand what to try for and what not to try for.”¹⁵ Whether you are a teacher, referee, coach, parent, supervisor, or mentor, establishing expectations with those involved mitigates problems before they arise.
One of the main tools DM’s have for this is that is recommended by Mercer, as well as nearly every DM in existence on the internet, is the “Session Zero.” Session Zero is a term used to describe a session where no play occurs but instead rules that will be used and rules that will be ignored or bent is established. It also serves to establish a theme the players can expect from any campaign. Using the first chapter of the DMs guide will help considerably in establishing this. Additionally, one of the best guides for this is laid out by the DM YouTubers known as “the Dungeon Dudes” in their video titled, “How to Run a Session Zero for Dungeons and Dragons 5e.”¹⁶ But always keep Agape in mind throughout this process. In this step, it means actively listening to the players. The DM may want a gritty, tough, realistic, and challenging campaign. But if the players want a high fantasy power trip, some adjustments are going to need to be made to the campaign. Listening to players and changing the plans accordingly is not easy. It requires A LOT of humility and ego suppression. Especially when the DM has already designed how the game is going to go… which leads us to the next tip.
Tip 3: It is important to develop a healthy relationship with failure.
Celebrated author Orson Wells once wrote; “If you want a happy ending, that of course, is dependent of where you stop your story.”¹⁷ This applies to both the players and DM. There will be times when the DM is tempted to ignore the rules because the consequences seem dire. The player fails an athletics check trying to use a dynamic that had a high-risk, high-reward moment. Now the player’s character is doomed to fall several hundred feet down a ravine to what is likely certain doom in lava. But this isn’t the end. That player’s character is most likely dead, but their death could result in a moment of drama and tension for the players. It’s the very real chance of failure that encourages players to think critically about a situation and experience excitement and tension. Brennon Lee Mulligan, the DM of the D&D streaming show, “Dimension 20,” put it this way… “if you are not allowing for failure, you are essentially just telling a story,” and thus never actually playing a game (make-believe as Suits would put it). ¹⁸
Another thing to consider is that through failure, we can often find comedy as well as ways to encourage players to think critically and find new escapes, ¹⁹ at least according to the mind behind the “Replaying the Curse of Strahd” videos, Benjamin (Puffin Forest) Scott. Lastly, Mercer strongly advises that if a DM allows too many “rule of cool moments” to happen in succession, the weight of the moments and consistency of the game will be lost. ²⁰
Players that are afraid to fail will not try. Mercer explains that “Most role play games are designed to forge a heroic story (showing feats of legend) so let the players try! Let them fail, and occasionally succeed!” This is where his catch phrase “you can certainly try” comes from. ²¹
Tip 4: Whenever Possible, Avoid Taking Things Personally
In his lecture on not talking things personally, soccer referee and public speaker, Frederik Imbo, explained there are two sides of a coin to keep in mind when trying not to take things personally: “It is not about you,” and “it is about you.” ²² Look at the other person’s intentions not just yours. With that in mind, it is okay to give yourself empathy and speak up. When someone seems upset with you, ask what are they hoping to get out of this releasing of emotions? Additionally, ensure that your pride isn’t preventing you from making the correct call. Yes I am talking about Ego again; it is that important! It is the DM’s world, but it is the players’ game. Without both, the world and the game, you do not have D&D.
D&D has a weird paradox of being both a story and a game. It has both a narrative as its core premise, but it is, in fact, also a multi-player game. Without at least two people you cannot really have much fun. DMs should make sure that everyone at the table enjoys themselves. Tip 5: Mechanics are important precisely because they are a means of delivering impactful story moments.
Remember that rule of cool concept? Extraordinary moments don’t happen often, and this is by design of the mechanics of the game. Humans remember the novel and unique way more often than the mundane. Mundane things tend to blend into the background. It’s the unexpected moments that highlight the more impactful story moments, especially if that moment is tied to strong emotions.²³
With that in mind, Mulligan suggests looking at where the players are putting their resources before deciding how to rule on a situation. Have they invested experience points/levels into a specific skill that is relevant to this situation instead of just something they can use in combat? If so, reward them for wanting to do something that is a part of the world you are creating together. ²⁴
Tip 6: Discourage metagaming but allow it whenever possible.
Look for any and every excuse you can to give advantage on an arcana check by setting the DC low (10 or higher). If the player succeeds, they can use what they know… they are going to anyway, but at least then they can talk about it with the other players.
According to the DM guide Chapter 8, metagame thinking means “thinking about the game as a game,” Examples would be thinking “the DM wouldn’t throw such a powerful monster at us so early in the game, so we will surely be saved and not have to take this fight seriously,” or “the DM spent A LOT of time describing that door… maybe we should search it again!” ²⁵
The problem with metagaming isn’t really about what advantage the players are getting in the game. The problem is that manipulation of the dynamics, when used to extremes, can spoil the plot line of the cumulative story being told. This can lessen the drama and tension elements resulting in decreased enjoyment of those involved. Additionally, it can create a dynamic where the DM is constantly having to escalate encounters to challenge the player, encouraging a potentially toxic “DM vs player” mentality.
For instance, how would a street orphan barbarian with no formal education and a wisdom of …let’s say very low…be able to know that liches phylactery is the source of their power. The solution here depends on why the players are playing this specific game. Is it the narrative of the story? Is it discovery? If these aren’t anywhere close to the reasons these players came to the game table in the first place, the narrative is not going to take as much of a factor into decisions. Metagaming in this instance isn’t going to be much of a problem.
Tip 7: Keep in mind, the ending is “A” destination, but the story is about how you get there.
A DM may hold off the extra cool moments for the final parts of the game, keeping their players in complete darkness and grit the entire way. However, without at least some levity along the way, some “water for the weary travelers,” as Mercer put it, they may not make it to the end.²⁶ So, do not be afraid to relax the rules from time to time to give them those cool moments, but do so sparingly lest the destination lose its luster as well. Always keep in mind it’s about the enjoyment of crafting and playing in the world together that makes this, or really any game, fun.
*Tip 8: When all else fails… take a break and have the Tarrasque attack the party. *
When all else fails, roll two D-20s out of players’ views… fake a worried expression… role a D-100 (also out of player’s view) look over the score concerned as you pour through your notes… then explain sorrowfully… “I’m sorry… The Tarrasque has risen and has attacked the party. Everyone roll initiative.” This is actual advice from the DM manual. It is right under “faking illness and running away.”²⁷ The point is this: never be afraid to pause or call a game when it’s over or needed.
Maybe something incredibly uncomfortable for a player has happened. Maybe the DM has reached the end of what they were able to prepare for that session. Perhaps everyone is hungry or needs a bathroom break. Maybe the entire table has gotten to a point where no one can agree on anything and team dynamics are breaking down. That game world will always be there… but your friends won’t. Cherish that moment and make as many good moments as possible. Additionally, taking breaks both in-game and in the real world allow for quiet moments. These allow for the greater moments to shine through and the players will enjoy their experience more.
https://i.redd.it/1ncu361zlqf61.png
The graphic above serves to summarize the eight tips above and show their relationship with the narrative, enjoyment, and the rules when put in the context of situational ethics. From this graph, the relationship between the eight tips and how they play into the narrative, enjoyment, and rules of the game can be seen. Each of the tips can influence many parts of the game but they are intended to primarily influence the aspect of the game they are adjacent to. “Knowing the players” should influence the narrative and what kind of enjoyment the players receive. What mechanics are used to enable the game is causally related to how the rules are used and so on. Please note that Agape is at the center as, with every decision a DM makes, considering what is best for the players should be central to the experience of any game.
The Epic Conclusion
Through crafting a game-world together with your players, a DM has the potential to tap into one of the greatest traditions humanity has: camaraderie with friends. At the end of the day, these players are your friends, or at the very least your fellow human beings. As such, you should want what is best for them. Through trials, hardships, and drama, we get to put the punctuation on the moments of excitement, joy, happiness, and bliss. It is okay if the player does not get exactly what they want, so long as they still had enjoyment. This is because getting everything we expect is sometimes boring. However, always keep in mind that at the end of the day, games are about having fun. How that happens is up to the players, the DM, and whether the rules were used to enhance the experience or not. It’s possible to find that balance by asking these questions in order: “How will this decision affect: the final enjoyment of all at the table? the narrative? the rules in the future?”
1 Huizinga, Johan . "Homo Ludens". Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. (1980), pp. 1., accessed January 19, 2021. http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/1474/ homoludens_johan_huizinga_routledge_1949.pdf
2 Suits, Bernard, “The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia,” Broadview Press. Ed. 3. (November 29, 2005): 54–55. Accessed December 31, 2020. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/803547.The_Grasshopper
3 The Game Overanalyzer, The Aesthetics of Play | Why We Play Games, and the Search for Truth and Beauty in Game Design. The Game Overanalyzer. (January 11, 2020), accessed 6 January 2021. Video 18:44. https://youtu.be/lONsZwjVDzg
4 Hunicke, Robin, Marc LeBlanc, and Robert Zubek. "MDA: A formal approach to game design and game research." Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Challenges in Game AI, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 1722. (2004). Accessed January 11, 2020 https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2004/WS-04-04/WS04-04-001.pdf
5 Portnow, James; Floyd, Daniel; Aesthetics of Play- Redefining Genres in Gaming. Extra Credits; (October 17, 2012), Video 9:13. Accessed December 30, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepAJ-rqJKA&list=PL3N9QD4_yI-BlnwWUL8hhjpKgqRul3xAa&index=11
6 Suits, Bernard. “Discussion: Games and Paradox.” Chicago University Press. Philosophy of Science Association Journal, Vol 36, no. 3 (September 1, 1969). pg 316–.321. Accessed December 30, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/186226
7 Suits, Bernard. “Discussion: Games and Paradox (1969)
8 Myers, David. “Game as Paradox: A Rebuttal of Suits.” Journal of the philosophy of Sport 39, no. 1 (May 1, 2012). Accessed December 30, 2020. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=s3h&AN=87342252&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
9 Juul, Jesper. "Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds", MIT Press, (Aug 19, 2011) pp.57-59
10 Tracy, Patrick. DM Tips: The Rule of Cool. Fantasy Bango. (October 20, 2017). Accessed December 30, 2020. Video 2:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8aAIFalx6s
11 Fletcher, Joseph F. Situation Ethics: The New Morality. Westminster John Knox Press, (1997). Page 17-26 (accessed January 20, 2021) http://bit.ly/Googlescholar_SItuational_Ethics
**Please note that just because Fletcher’s Situational Ethics is used prominently, this is not an endorsement of all his views. Fletcher’s work has been used to justify terrible atrocities, such as eugenics, this should serve to point out that any philosophy taken to extremes can lead to terrible outcomes
12 Fletcher, Joseph F. Situation Ethics: The New Morality. (1997)
13 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). Geek & Sundry. (February 16, 2016). Accessed December 30, 2020. Video. 5:52 https://youtu.be/fWZDuFIYkf0
14 Bryce, Nathan K., “Four Lenses Unfolded: A Deeper Understanding of Temperament Values,” Insight; (January 29, 2002,).
15 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016).
16 McLaughlin, Kelly; Martin, Monty. "How to Run a Session Zero for Dungeons and Dragons 5e". Dungeon Dudes. (September 3, 2020), Accessed 12 30, 2020. Video. https://youtu.be/2MA-z5Ai-bQ
17 Wells, Orson, "The Big Brass Ring." Santa Teresa Press (1987, January 1) 1-148
18 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) | Adventuring Academy Season 2 | Ep. 16 |” Adventuring Academy. Dimension (2020, December 28). Accessed December 30, 2020. Video 1:24:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbVxEKpipo
19 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) (2020)
20 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016)..
21 Mercer, Matthew. The Rule of Cool! (Game Master Tips). (2016)
22 Imbo, Frederik, "How not to take things personally? | Frederik Imbo | TEDxMechelen" TEDx Talks; (March 4, 2020) accessed 10 Jan 2021, video 17:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJwH_PZXnM&t=381s
23 Kensinger, Elizabeth. Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. (May 4, 2009) Accessed 2021, January 30 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676782/
24 Mulligan, Brennan; Scott, Benjamin. “Animating Your Table (with Benjamin Scott) (2020)
25 Mearls, Mike, and Jeremy Crawford. "Dungeons Master's guide". Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. (2014) accessed 29 January 2021 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/running-the-game#MetagameThinking
26 Mulligan, Brennan; Mercer, Matthew. Building Your Own Campaign Setting (with Matthew Mercer) | Adventuring Academy. Dimension 20. (2019, April 3) Accessed December 30, 2020. Video 57:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sig8X_kojco&t=2867s
27 Mearls, Mike, and Jeremy Crawford. "Dungeons Master's guide". Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. (2014)-accessed 20 January 2021. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg

MAME 0.213

It's really about time we released MAME 0.213, with more of everything we know you all love. First of all, we’re proud to present support for the first Hegener + Glaser product: the “brikett” chess computers, Mephisto, Mephisto II and Mephisto III. As you can probably guess, there’s an addition from Nintendo’s Game & Watch line. This month it’s Mario’s Bombs Away. On a related note, we’ve also added Elektronika’s Kosmicheskiy Most, exported as Space Bridge, which is an unlicensed total conversion of the Game & Watch title Fire. If you haven’t played any of the handheld LCD games in MAME, you’re missing something special – they look superb with external scanned and traced artwork.
On the arcade side, we’ve added The Destroyer From Jail (a rare Philko game), and alternate regional versions of Block Out and Super Shanghai Dragon’s Eye. The CD for Simpsons Bowling has been re-dumped, resolving some long-standing issues. With its protection microcontroller dumped and emulated, Birdie Try is now fully playable. Protection microcontrollers for The Deep and Last Mission have also been dumped and emulated. Improvements to Seibu hardware emulation mean Banpresto’s SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki is now playable, and sprite priorities in Seibu Cup Soccer have been improved.
In computer emulation, two interesting DOS compatible machines based on the Intel 80186 CPU are now working: the Mindset Personal Computer, and the Dulmont Magnum. The Apple II software lists have been updated to include almost all known clean cracks and original flux dumps, and the Apple II gameport ComputerEyes frame grabber is now emulated. We’ve received a series of submissions that greatly improve emulation of the SWTPC S/09 and SS-30 bus cards. On the SGI front, the 4D/20 now has fully-working IRIX 4.0.5 via serial console, and a whole host of improvements have gone into the Indy “Newport” graphics board emulation. Finally, MAME now supports HDI, 2MG and raw hard disk image files.
As always, you can get the source and Windows binary packages from the download page.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

00148: [Sound] (mappy.cpp) todruaga: The sound of the first credit is not played. (Angelo Salese)
07379: [Interface] artwork: Automatically computed group bounds behaviour is not intuitive. (Vas Crabb)
07382: [Debugger] Hang and memory leak when using save command. (hap)
07388: [Graphics] (sms.cpp) smsj: Default view does not display video in OpenGL mode. (hap)
07396: [DIP/Input] (tmnt.cpp) tmnt24pu: Start buttons do not work. (Tafoid)
07398: [Crash/Freeze] (goldstar.cpp) mbs2euro: Exception at emulation start. (AJR)
07400: [Interface] clickable artwork: Dummy input listener is ignored. (hap)
07401: [Graphics] (nemesis.cpp) salamand and clones: Sprite flickers randomly. (hap)

New working machines

The Destroyer From Jail (Korea) [system11, Angelo Salese, The Dumping Union]
DVW Microelectronics Husky [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
Game & Watch: Mario's Bombs Away [algestam, Mr. Do]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto II [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto III [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Mirage [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto MM I (ver. A) [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Mondial 68000XL [Sandro Ronco, Berger]
Potten's Poker stealth with Breakout front game [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo, Pako Ortiz, Rockman, Recreativas.org]
SciSys Superstar 28K [hap, Berger]

New working clones

Block Out (Europe and Oceania) [ClawGrip, Recreativas.org]
Commando (bootleg set 3) [Guru]
Crazy Kong Part II (bootleg) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping Union]
Elektronika Space Bridge [algestam, Ryan Holtz]
Exidy Inc Sorcerer (with Digitrio fdc) [Robbbert]
Exidy Inc Sorcerer (with Dreamdisk fdc) [Robbbert]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Amsterdam (Glasgow hardware) [Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Dallas 68000 (Glasgow hardware) [Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto MM I (ver. B) [Achim]
Joker Card (witch game) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Lady Liner (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 8, W-4) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 9, W-4, Eagle, licensed by Wing) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines Super Turbo (Hack) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Player's Edge Plus (X000057P+XP000038) Deuces Wild Poker (MGM Grand Casino) [Brian Troha]
Punk Shot (World 2 Players) [frsj8112]
Richard Lang Mephisto London 16 Bit [Berger]
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (RE, bootleg) [ClawGrip, hammy]
Super Shanghai Dragon's Eye (Korea) [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Victor 5 [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]

Machines promoted to working

Birdie Try (Japan revision 2) [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Ivan Vangelista]
Casino Poker (Ver PM88-01-21, German) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Dulmont Magnum [Carl]
Hasbro Dream Life (Version 1.0, Feb 07 2005) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
Mindset Corporation Mindset Personal Computer [O. Galibert, Al Kossow]
SciSys / Novag Chess Champion: Super System III [hap, Berger, MikeChess]
SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Japan) [Angelo Salese]
Tatung Einstein 256 [Nigel Barnes, jltursan]

Clones promoted to working

SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Korea) [Angelo Salese]
SWTPC swtpc S/09 Sbug + piaide [68bit]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

Bonus Poker (Atronic) [Priit Laes]
Bubble Torneo [TeamEurope]
Colex VME-80186 [Al Kossow, Bitsavers]
Digitek Micrologic 20 [ClawGrip, Dirk Best]
Estron Juku E5101 [Dirk Best]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hawk [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
I C Money (Atronic) [Priit Laes]
Microdar SPD [jordigahan, ClawGrip]
Miss Americana (Bingo) [IPDB]
Rock 'n' Roll [jordigahan, ClawGrip]
SNES 4 Slot arcade switcher [ClawGrip, Roberto Fresca, Recreativas.org, The Dumping Union, system11, Dirk Best]
Wanted (Sega) [Jamesv833, SeanC]
Wild Thing (Atronic) [Priit Laes]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

Cyclopes (11/85) [IPDB, PinMame]
Fish Tales (P-2) [IPDB, PinMame]
Flash Gordon (French Vocalizer sound) [IPDB, PinMame]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hunter [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hunter 2/16 [Phill Harvey-Smith]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 1) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 2) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 3) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 4) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Luck (Bellfruit) (Adder 5) [TeamEurope, jordigahan, ClawGrip]
Lovely Cards (encrypted) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Magic Export (V.211A) [TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 10, W-4, encrypted NEC D315-5136) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines Crown Turbo (Hack) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Police Force (LG-4) Germany [IPDB, PinMame]
Power Instinct (USA, bootleg set 3) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
Robocop (2.9) [IPDB, PinMame]
Star Wars Arcade (US) [coolmod, Mike Moffitt, Phil Bennett]
Tiger Heli (bootleg set 4) [Sean Riddle, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
El Trebol de la Suerte (Bellfruit) (Adder 5) [TeamEurope, jordigahan, ClawGrip]
WWF Royal Rumble (1.03 French) [IPDB, PinMAME]
Yamaha MU100B [Alexander Troosh, R. Belmont]

New working software list additions

apple2_flop_clcracked:
- The Addition Facts (cleanly cracked), Algebra Volume 3 (Version 1.0, 10 June 1982) (cleanly cracked), BackAid (cleanly cracked), Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Version 07/12/84) (cleanly cracked), BIG & little (cleanly cracked), A Bird's Eye View of The Main Idea (cleanly cracked), Calendar Fun with the Lollipop Dragon (cleanly cracked), Castle Wolfenstein (Version 06/19/84) (cleanly cracked), Dinosaur Days Plus (cleanly cracked), The Division Facts (cleanly cracked), Dr. Ruth's Computer Game of Good Sex (cleanly cracked), Draw Your Own Conclusions (cleanly cracked), Flashcards (cleanly cracked), Flights Into Fiction: Classic Stories (cleanly cracked), Flights Into Fiction: Fairy Tales (cleanly cracked), Focus on Physical Science: Chapter Review (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Grid Designer (cleanly cracked), Hinky Pinky (cleanly cracked), The Human Body: Circulation and Respiration (cleanly cracked), KidWriter (German Level I, II) (cleanly cracked), Mission: Asteroid (cleanly cracked), The Multiplication Facts (cleanly cracked), Muppet Slate (Version 1.01) (cleanly cracked), New Kid on the Block (Version 02.09.89) (cleanly cracked), A Newbery Adventure: Charlotte's Web (cleanly cracked), NLP Tools Vol. 1 (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Phi Beta Filer (cleanly cracked), Poetry Express (cleanly cracked), Practicalc II XC (Version 2.00) (cleanly cracked), Punctuation Put-On (cleanly cracked), Un Repas Francais (cleanly cracked), Roots/Affixes 1 (Version 09.14.87) (cleanly cracked), The Subtraction Facts (cleanly cracked), Theorems and Proofs of Theorems (cleanly cracked), Troll Sports Math (cleanly cracked), Verb Usage 3 (Version 01.31.89) (cleanly cracked), Wally's Word Works (cleanly cracked), What's The Big Detail (cleanly cracked), Work Force II (Version 2.10) (cleanly cracked), Writer's Choice (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Zandar The Wizard (cleanly cracked), Zork I Demo (Catch A Butterfly) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
- Chipwits [LoGo, Firehawke]
apple2_flop_misc: Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative (Version 4.0) [anonymous]
apple2_flop_orig: Alge-Blaster Plus! (Version 1.0), The Ancient Art of War at Sea, Arcticfox, Battle Chess, Beach-Head, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Black Magic, Castle Wolfenstein (1981 Version), Castle Wolfenstein (Version 06/19/84), Chipwits, Cranston Manor, David's Midnight Magic, Escape (Bantam Publishing), Essex, Injured Engine, King's Quest, King's Quest II, King's Quest III, King's Quest IV, Labyrinth: The Computer Game (Lucasfilm Games), Mabel's Mansion, Mindshadow, Mission: Asteroid, Moptown, Puzzle Tanks, Race For Midnight, Return of Heracles, Sir Isaac Newton's Games, Soko-Ban, Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (Version 2.0A, interpreter 0.089), Times of Lore, Tip 'N Flip, Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom [4am, Firehawke]
coco_flop: 512K CoCo 3 Memory Test, CoCo Max II (Input Selector Modified), CoCo Max II (Version 51016), CoCo Max III (Version 3.0), CoCo Max III (Version 3.1), CoCo Newsroom, DeskMate (Version 1.00.00), DeskMate 3 (Version 1.00.00), Disk EDTASM, Micro Works 16-Level Picture Display Utility, The Newspaper, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Telewriter-64 [TRS-80 Color Computer Archive]
hp_ipc: Demo Disc, HP-UX Communications & Maintenance A (VI), HP-UX Communications & Maintenance B (VII), HP-UX Documentation (X), HP-UX Miscellaneous Tools (IX), HP-UX Nucleus (VIII), HP-UX Programmers Tools (I), HP-UX Software Development (II), HP-UX Software Development (III), HP-UX Writers Tools A (IV), HP-UX Writers Tools B (V), RCS (Revision Control System), Software Engineering Module - C Development Supplement (IV), Software Engineering Module - Communication and Maintenance Tools (II), Software Engineering Module - Programmers's and Miscellaneous Tools (I), Software Engineering Module - Section 1 & 1m Documentation (V), Software Engineering Module - Sections 2, 3, 4 and l Documentation (VI), Software Engineering Module - Writer's Tools (III), System Disc Release 5.0.2 [shattered]
ibm5150: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer (3.5"), Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer (5.25", French), Empire - Wargame of the Century, Loom (5.25"), Lunar Explorer - A Space Flight Simulator, Mean 18, Mines of Titan, Olivetti Prodest PC1 - Per Cominciare, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 7, Olivetti Prodest PC1 MS-DOS 3.20 (Spanish), Olivetti Prodest PC1 MS-DOS 3.20 / GW BASIC / Lode Runner, Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1987 No. 1), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 1, Jan/Feb), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 2, ApMay), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 4, Aug/Sep), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 5, Nov/Dec), P.H.M. Pegasus, Pitstop II (3.5") [Justin Kerk]
ibm5170: Novell DOS 7 (3.5"), Novell DOS 7 (5.25"), Novell DR Multiuser DOS Release 5.1, blueflops-2.0.10, blueflops-2.0.11, blueflops-2.0.12, blueflops-2.0.13, blueflops-2.0.14, blueflops-2.0.15, blueflops-2.0.2, blueflops-2.0.3, blueflops-2.0.4, blueflops-2.0.5, blueflops-2.0.6, blueflops-2.0.7, blueflops-2.0.9 [Justin Kerk]
juku: CP/M 2.2 [Bashkiria-2M, Dirk Best]
mephisto_mm1: Mephisto HG 170 Opening Library [Achim]
mindset_flop: Vyper [Al Kossow]
pentagon_cass: Old Tower [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
smc777: Yakyuu-Kyou [TurboMajikon]
specpls3_flop: Redshift [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_betadisc_flop: DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (Pentagon), Gravibots, Lirus, Log Cabin Dizzy (v1.04, English), Log Cabin Dizzy (v1.04, Russian), Mighty Final Fight (v1.0), Mighty Final Fight (v1.1), Mighty Final Fight (v1.2), Mighty Final Fight (v1.2, Wally music hack), MultiDude (Pengaton), Redshift, Sector: Invasion, Twinlight [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_cass: Aahku al Rescate (set 1), Aahku al Rescate (set 2), Aahku al Rescate (set 3, beta 01, April 2011), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Egg Diamond (set 1), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Egg Diamond (set 2, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 2), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 2, older), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 2, older), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), Altair (set 3, release 2, English), Altair (set 4, release 2, Spanish), Altair (set 5, English), Altair (set 6, Spanish), Altair ZX (set 1, English), Altair ZX (set 2, Spanish), Alter Ego (set 3), Androide (2014, Pixelsoft) (set 2), Androide (2014, Pixelsoft) (set 3), Antiquity Jones (set 2, v1.2), Antiquity Jones (set 3), Arcade Game Designer v1.0, Arcade Game Designer v1.3, Arcade Game Designer v1.5, Arcade Game Designer v2.0, Arcade Game Designer v2.3, Arcade Game Designer v2.4, Arcade Game Designer v2.6, Arcade Game Designer v3.0, Arcade Game Designer v3.3, Arcade Game Designer v3.4, Arcade Game Designer v3.5, Arcade Game Designer v4.0, Arcade Game Designer v4.1, Arcade Game Designer v4.2, Arcade Game Designer v4.3, Arcade Game Designer v4.4, Arcade Game Designer v4.5, Arcade Game Designer v4.6, Astronaut Labyrinth (set 1), Astronaut Labyrinth (set 2, easy boss), Astronaut Labyrinth (set 3, turbo loader, normal & easy boss, with trainer), Attack Of The RGBobots, B-Squared (set 1), B-Squared (set 2), Baffo Jones, Baldy ZX (set 2), Bauble Blast!, Billy Box (set 1, English), Billy Box (set 2, French), Blimpgeddon (set 1, v1.02, Final, QAOPM controls), Blimpgeddon (set 2, v1.02, Final, ESDFO controls), Blizzard's Rift, Bluber (set 1, release 2), Bluber (set 2, release 2), Bluber (set 3, release 1), Bob The Space Janitor (version 2), Bobby Carrot (set 1, v1.01, 128k), Bobby Carrot (set 2, v1.01, 128k), Bobby Carrot (set 3, v1.01, 48k), Bobby Carrot (set 4, v1.01, 48k), Bomberman (2016, Cristian Gonzalez) (set 2, demo, v01), Bomberman (2016, Cristian Gonzalez) (set 2, demo, v03), Booty - The Remake (set 1, v1.2, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 3, v1.2), Booty - The Remake (set 4, v1.2 - Black Edition, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 5, v1.2 - Black Edition), Booty - The Remake (set 6, v1.2 - Black Edition), Booty - The Remake (set 7, v1.1, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 8, v1.1), Booty - The Remake (set 9, v1.1), Bounty - The Search for Frooge (set 1), Bounty - The Search for Frooge (set 2), Brian vs. The Bullies, A Broken Friend (set 2), Bubble Frenzy, Bubble Monkey Bros, Cap'n Rescue (v3.0), Cap'n Rescue 2 - The Escape (v3.4), Car Wars (set 1, v1.1, English), Car Wars (set 2, v1.1, Spanish), Car Wars (set 3, English), Car Wars (set 4, Spanish), Catch A Hare, Char Set Finder, CharAde Editor & Demo, The Chard, Chessboard Attack (set 1, v1.2), Chip Rescue, Chopper Drop (set 2, release 2), Christmas Cracker, Christmas Gift Hunt (set 1, v2.0, 128k), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 2, v2.0, 48k), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 3, beta), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 4, ULA Plus), Chunk Zone, Clopit!, Code Zero (set 1), Code Zero (set 2), Columns (set 2, Physical Version), Crappy Crates, The Dark (2016 cassette release), Davey-Dudds Loves Peas, Dead By Dawn (set 2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 1, v2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 2, v2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 3, v1), Dead Flesh Boy (set 4, v1, no loading screen), Deep Core Raider (set 1, v1.1), Deep Core Raider (set 2, v1.1), Donkey Kong Jr. (2016, Gabriele Amore) (corrected jump), DragonBall - El desafio del Dr Gero (1994), DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (set 1, 128k), DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (set 2, 48k), Dung Darach, F'n Balls (set 1, ULA rain fix), Flash Beer Trilogy, Flynn's Adventure (set 3, tech demo 01-04-12), Flynn's Adventure In Bombland (set 1, v1), Flynn's Adventure In Bombland (set 2, demo), Fn Balls (set 2, older), Forest Raider Cherry, Frank N Stein (set 3, pre-release), Future Looter (set 1, release 2), Future Looter (set 2, release 1), Future Looter (set 3, demo 18122011), Genehtik (set 2), Ghost Castles (cassettte version), Grumpy Santa (set 1), Grumpy Santa (set 2), Hunchy (1983, Mr. Micro), Invasive Species (48k version), Jaws - The Text Adventure, Join, Knight Hero (Black version), Knight Hero (White version), Knights & Demons, Knights & Demons DX (set 2), Knights (set 1), Knights (set 2, BASIC version), Knights (set 3, turbo loader), Krap Park (set 1, fixed version, with screen magic), Krap Park (set 2, fixed version, without screen magic), Krap Park (set 3, older, with screen magic), Krap Park (set 4, older, without screen magic), Kyd Cadet (set 2, v1.2), Kyd Cadet II (set 2), Kyd Cadet III - The Eyeburx Plee (set 2), Laetitia, Little Dragon 2 (128k, AY Sounds), Little Dragon 2 (48k), Little Dragon 2 - Hikoki's Cut, El Loco, Loco Bingo (set 2, RetroBytes demo), Lost In My Spectrum (set 1, v2.0, 128k, English, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 2, v2.0, 128k, English), Lost In My Spectrum (set 3, v2.0, 128k, German, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 4, v2.0, 128k, German), Lost In My Spectrum (set 5, v2.0, 128k, Spanish, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 6, v2.0, 128k, Spanish), Lost In My Spectrum (set 7, v2.0, 128k, French, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 8, v2.0, 128k, French), Lost In My Spectrum (set 9, v2.0, 128k, Italian, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 10, v2.0, 128k, Italian), Lost In My Spectrum (set 11, v2.0, 128k, Portuguese, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 12, v2.0, 128k, Portuguese), Lost In My Spectrum (set 13, v2.0, 48k, English), Lost In My Spectrum (set 14, v2.0, 48k, German), Lost In My Spectrum (set 15, v2.0, 48k, Spanish), Lost In My Spectrum (set 16, v2.0, 48k, French), Lost In My Spectrum (set 17, v2.0, 48k, Italian), Lost In My Spectrum (set 18, v2.0, 48k, Portuguese), Micro Inc, Mighty Final Fight (v1.1), Mike, The Guitar (set 1), Mike, The Guitar (set 2, turbo loader), Mike, The Guitar (set 3), Mike, The Guitar - The Shooter, Moritz - The Dog That Caught The Car, Moritz Strikes Back, Moritz To The Moon, Mr Do!, MultiDude (set 1, AY sounds), MultiDude(set 2, beeper sounds), Mysterious Dimensions, Mystery (set 1, 128k version), Mystery (set 2, 48k version), Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors, Nirvana Engine, Old Tower (set 1, 128k), Old Tower (set 2, 48k), The Order Of Mazes, Ossuary, Page And The Curse Of The Pharaoh, Page's Castle Quest (set 2), Pariboro, Pentacorn Quest (set 1, English), Pentacorn Quest (set 2, Spanish), Percy Penguin (set 1, Vs3), Percy Penguin (set 2, demo, b68), Pets vs Aliens Prologue (set 1), Pets vs Aliens Prologue (set 2), Pink Pills: Manic Moritz and the Meds, Pip The Pipistrelle, Pooper Scooper, Pretty Gambler, PTM, Push 'n' Chase, Pyromania II: Chopper Rescue, Pyromania: Trial by fire, Quahappy (set 1), Quahappy (set 2, turbo loader), Rabid Mower, Raw Battle, Red Planet (English), Red Planet (Spanish), Rediscovered Realms (set 1), Rediscovered Realms (set 2), Redshift (set 1, turbo load), Redshift (set 2), Redshift (set 3), Rescue Lander, ROVR - Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery (set 1), ROVR - Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery (set 2), SIP - Special Intergalactic Painter (set 2), Sixteen Skirmish, Space Disposal (set 2), Speccy Bros - Nick & Tom, Speed Ball, Stormfinch, Super Moritz, Tales Of Grupp, Tea-Leaf Ted (set 1, man version), Tea-Leaf Ted (set 2, bear version), Terrorlandia, Terry The Turtle Vektor, The Time Of The End (set 2, side 1 only), Toofy In Fan Land (set 2), Toofys Winter Nuts (set 2, v1.2), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 1, English, ver 1.03), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 2, English, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 3, Russian, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 4, Russian, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 5, Spanish, ver 1.03a), ZX Destroyer, Zukinox (set 1, final cassette version), Zukinox (set 2) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
st_flop:
- Highway Encounter (unreleased) [ICEknight]
- Toi Acid Game (unreleased) [José Luis Correa, ICEknight]
vsmile_cart: Alfabet Pretpark (NL), Disney's Aladdin - De wonderwereld van Aladdin (Netherlands), Flitzers Schlaue Städtetour (Germany), Scooby-Doo! - Griezelen in het Pretpark (Netherlands), V.Smile Mein erster Mausklick (Germany), Walt Disney's Assepoester - De wonderwereld van Assepoester (Netherlands) [TeamEurope]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

ibm5150: Bobo, Captain Blood, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 1, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 6, Olivetti Prodest PC1 HDU Install, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Mouse Driver [Justin Kerk]
ibm5170: blueflops-1.0.0, blueflops-1.1.0, blueflops-1.1.1, blueflops-1.1.2, blueflops-2.0.0, blueflops-2.0.1-pre1, blueflops-2.0.8 [Justin Kerk]
spectrum_betadisc_flop: Bobby Carrot [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_cass: Booty - The Remake (set 2, v1.2), Mister Kung-Fu (set 1, v1.3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 2, v1.3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 3, v1.3, Plus 2a / Plus 3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 4, Plus 2a / Plus 3) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_microdrive: Outlet (Issue 001 through 038) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_wafadrive: Spectral Writer [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
vsmile_cart: Disney's Winnie de Poeh - De wonderwereld van Poeh (Netherlands), Disney/Pixar Ratatouille - Remy's Nieuwe Recepten (Netherlands), Nick Jr. Dora the Explorer - Dora's Fix-it Adventure (USA), Scooby-Doo! - A Night Of Fright Is No Delight (Smartbook) (USA) [TeamEurope]
vsmilem_cart: Disney Princess - The Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Big Dream (UK), Disney/Pixar Wall-E (Germany), DreamWorks Monsters vs. Aliens (Germany), Mijn Puppy! (Netherlands), Nick Jr Dora - Dora's Reparatie Avontuur (Netherlands), Nickelodeon Wonder Pets! - Save the Animals! (UK), Sport Games (Netherlands) [TeamEurope]

Source Changes

wd_fdc.cpp: Allow SSO signal to be routed by driver for cases where it isn’t used to select side. [68bit]
bus/ss50: Added support for additional SS-30 cards. [68bit]
- MP-T timecounter, MP-S2 dual serial interface, SS-30 DC5 floppy disk interface, PIA IDE hard disk interface.
swtpc09.cpp updates: [68bit]
- Added support for UniFLEX floppy disk image files.
- Added SS-30 bus, and removed peripherals on SS-30 cards from driver.
- Fixed banked memory implementation.
- Added configuration options for CPU clock speed variations, and SWTBUG patches needed for floppy support.
- Added DC5 floppy controller as default slot option.
formats/flex_dsk.cpp: Re-wrote using wd177x_format as a base class. [68bit]
- Now supports single- and double-density disks, dynamically identifies boot sector IDs, and writing image files.
Made debugger memory views show correct data when chunks are too small for the space’s address shift. [AJR]
unidasm updates: [AJR]
- Added r65c02, score7, unsp12 and unsp20 support.
- Fixed address shift for scudsp and hd61700.
upd7810: Fixed breakpoints, and added notes. [AJR]
trocana: Added preliminary MSM6650 device and some test inputs. [AJR]
Reverted change making SGI CD-ROM identify as a hard disk, as it causes indy_4610 to fail its SCSI test. [AJR]
m65c02, r65c02: Corrected memory access patterns for read-modify-write instructions. [AJR]
cosmac updates: [AJR, hap]
- Added preliminary CDP1804/CDP1805/CDP1806 emulation.
- Added disassembler support for CDP1805 with extended instruction set.
- Changed register names to use conventional decimal numbering.
- Attach following byte to disassembly of OUT instruction when P = X.
mc68hc11: Add internal latches and direction registers for ports. [AJR]
- Split up internal peripheral register handler functions and made separate I/O maps for each model.
- Removed now-unnecessary read-back handlers from skeetsht.cpp and taitojc.cpp.
Added device emulation for DS17x85 series of MC146818-compatible real-time clocks with additional features. [AJR]
pasopia.cpp: Corrected clocks and metadata. [AJR]
mbs2euro: Fixed graphics corruption and possible crashes when attempting to draw outside screen bounds. [AJR]
legionna.cpp: Fixed sprite priorities for Seibu Cup Soccer and SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow. [Angelo Salese]
seibucop.cpp fixes for SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow: [Angelo Salese]
- Identified sprite priority bit for command $c480 (fixes third level mid-boss being submerged while touching ground layers).
- Disable sprite DMA destination increment if X positions are outside expected ranges (fixes sprite clipping).
riscpc.cpp: Fixed a bug with force IRQ – rpc700 now reaches supervisor prompt. [Angelo Salese]
galaxold.cpp: Fixed stage 3 invisible bullets in Strategy X. [Angelo Salese]
pce.cpp: Added support for Tennokoe Bank extended Backup RAM. [Angelo Salese]
pc9801.cpp: Added proper support for Memory Switch (MEMSW) device. [Angelo Salese]
h6280.cpp: Don’t overwrite current timer value when writing to timer preload register. [Angelo Salese]
VRender0 device refactoring: [Angelo Salese]
- Improved encapsulation of video and other conceptually independent on-board peripherals.
- Moved drivers for different VRender0-based machines out of crystal.cpp to their own source files.
- Untangled reads/writes to draw/display memory bank switches from screen_update – can run un-throttled now.
- Added CRT controller raw screen parameters.
- Implemented DMA hold feature and IRQ on mask writes, used by P's Attack.
- Improved Cross Puzzle Flash loading (currently fails POST with a SPU error).
nexus3d.cpp: Added some preliminary work – will do some VRender3D pipeline fill with a debug trick. [Angelo Salese]
axc51-core: Added disassembler support for AX208 internal ROM symbols. [anonymous]
pcipc: Added a slightly more usable PCI S3 Virge/DX video card. [Barry Rodewald]
s3virge: added PCI interface and linear framebuffer support. [Barry Rodewald]
amstrad: Added Ram Electronics Music Machine MIDI and sampler expansion device. [Barry Rodewald]
Fixed building using system rapidjson. [Belegdol]
Migrated travis-ci configuration to Ubuntu Bionic. [Belegdol]
Worked around [[nodiscard]] warning for std::basic_string::c_str(). [Billy Robert O’Neal III]
nmk16.cpp: Reduced redundant code and updated notes. [cam900]
315_5313.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Derive refresh rate and timer from input clock.
- Simplified DMA behaviour and updated megacd.cpp and mega32x.cpp as appropriate.
- Suppressed read side effects for debugger, cleaned up code, and expanded notes.
megadriv.cpp, segac2.cpp, calcune.cpp: Corrected screen refresh rate and added notes. [cam900]
megadriv.cpp: Added support for Z80 VDP access, and corrected VDP sound balance. [cam900]
seibu_crtc.cpp: Updated notes. [cam900]
formats/m20_dsk.cpp: Added support for writing image files, and added format to floptool. [Christian Groessler]
Fixed cleansrc target for hosts using sh-like shells. [Christian Groessler]
bus/spectrum: Added a post opcode fetch hook to the expansion bus, needed by ZX Interface 1. [David Haywood]
vii.cpp: Added EEPROM support to dreamlif. [David Haywood]
policetr.cpp: Let RAMDAC device handle palette writes – trampolines in driver are no longer needed. [David Haywood]
spectrum_cass.xml: Corrected and cleaned up metadata. [David Haywood]
bionicc: Cleaned up driver: [Dirk Best]
- Cleaned up notes and add to-do list.
- Changed non-maskable interrupts to use pulse_input_line.
- Documented coin lockout and attribute RAM layout.
- Corrected layer to use 3-bit color.
Added driver for Estron Juku E501. [Dirk Best]
- Implemented timers, keyboard, and 5.25" floppy drives.
- Added single- and double-sided CP/M floppy formats.
ml20: Add keypad input, placeholder speaker and DIP switches, and a simple internal layout. [Dirk Best]
- Also added additional logging and started documenting CPU ports.
dec0.cpp Dumped birdtry microcontroller and replaced simulation. [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Ivan Vangelista]
thedeep.cpp: Hooked up thedeep microcontroller and removed simulation. [Dirk Best]
limenko.cpp: Hooked up audio CPU for spotty. [Dirk Best]
Added skeleton driver for SNES 4 Slot arcade switcher, and moved related mk3snes to new driver. [Dirk Best]
dec8.cpp: Dumped and hooked up microcontroller for Last Mission. [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
- Also fixed coinage settings.
- Japanese version is currently using US microcontroller program with ID byte patched.
luaengine.cpp: Exposed sound output buffer and sample rate to Lua scripts. [feos]
- Also corrected some documentation.
imgtool: Added Thomson BASIC tokenizer, implemented Thomson BASIC, and fixed passing --filter= to get verb. [hadess]
- Thanks to Adrien Destugues for information about the format in bastok.cpp.
popeye.cpp: Use real PROM dumps for Popeye Bootleg protection [Joe Magiera, recreativas.org, smf]
imagedev/harddriv.cpp: Added support for HDI image file format. [Justin Kerk]
naomi.cpp, machine/awboard.cpp: Simplified Atomiswave key scheduling, and eliminated 20-bit key files. [MetalliC]
ti99: Changed busmouse to push updates when inputs change, and routed extra mouse button to a separate input line. [Michael Zapf]
Enabled default move constructoassignment operator in core_options, and changed plugin_options code to use them. [Nathan Woods]
Refactored info XML creation code to improve performance. [Nathan Woods]
- Allowed machine info fragments to be generated in parallel.
- Changed formatting code to use I/O streams, and reduced redundant code.
- Sort filtered devices lexically by short name.
Added -attach_window command-line option on Windows to use an existing window as the first emulation window. [Nathan Woods]
Lua engine updates: [Nathan Woods]
- Added a function to instruct MAME to capture input when any input window sharing a thread with an emulation window has focus.
- Added a mechanism for Lua plugins to configure mandatory image devices.
- Exposed input device classes, devices and device items.
- Changed seq_poll_start to take the input item class as a string.
- Added a hook before settings are loaded, allowing default input port values to be changed.
- Exposed additional ioport_field properties, and exposed input sequence cleaning functionality.
- Exposed ioport_manager::type_group() and ioport_field::keyboard_codes().
Properly named the CoCo joysticks “Right Joystick” and “Left Joystick”. [Nathan Woods]
einstein.cpp: Replaced einst256 bad MOS ROM with a good dump, and implemented the rest of the machine. [Nigel Barnes, jltursan]
machine/tube.cpp: Fixed 256-byte transfer mode. [Nigel Barnes]
nsc810: Implemented port bit set/clear. [Nigel Barnes]
hunter16.cpp: Added hunter1680 video RAM and rendering. [Nigel Barnes]
hunter2.cpp: Added appropriate RAM size options, and minor keyboard corrections. [Nigel Barnes]
hd61830: Make number-of-characters command to round up to an even number. [Nigel Barnes]
mindset.cpp updates: [O. Galibert]
- Added 400-high modes, corrected LEDs, added blitter fast mode, and added sound.
- Fixed transparent blit.
- Added modules, and implemented stereo sound module.
mindset.cpp: Fixed the CPU speed, and implemented RS-232 module. [O. Galibert, Al Kossow]
- RS-232 module is missing interrupt support for now.
atronic.cpp: Identified CPU type and fixed ROM loading. [Priit Laes]
apple2.cpp: Added Sirius JoyPort support on compatible models, and 4Play Joystick Card support. [R. Belmont]
imagedev/harddriv.cpp: Added support for 2MG image file format and raw disk image files. [R. Belmont]
Added a still-frame capture image device to simulate digitizers, cameras, etc. using PNG files as input. [R. Belmont]
apple2: Added support for the original gameport ComputerEyes. [R. Belmont, Golden Child]
apple2gs: Made slow-side sync less aggressive (fixes SHOWALL 3200). [R. Belmont]
Added gdbstub debugger module, allowing an external debugger to connect using GDB Remote Serial Protocol. [Ramiro Polla]
- Currently supports i386, arm7, ppc, z80 and m6502.
Fixed build on Solaris 2.11 (non-Oracle). [Rick V]
midvunit.cpp: Added stubs for linking support. [Risugami]
subsino.cpp updates: [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
- Added Victor 5 and Victor 21 speech emulation.
- Added missing sample ROM dumps.
- Confirmed the bipolar PROM dump for Victor 5.
pokerout.cpp: Added ASCII PCB layout, and expanded notes. [Roberto Fresca]
dpb_brushproc: Hooked up 20L10 PAL and the remainder of logic (not untested). [Ryan Holtz]
SGI Newport graphics updates: [Ryan Holtz]
- Re-implemented logging code for external viewer.
- Fixed 8 BPP overlay bit combination.
- Fixed broken blending.
- Added bit lane expansion, needed for proper double-buffered accesses.
- Simplified default color accesses.
dsp56k: Renamed relevant classes, files and namespaces to indicate that it emulates the DSP56156 (not the DSP5600x). [Ryan Holtz]
sec: Converted Barcrest/Bell Fruit Serial Electronic Counter (SEC) to a proper MAME device. [Ryan Holtz]
seta.cpp: Added configuration option to use joystick/buttons in atehate for navigating the hidden test menu. [RyogaMasaki]
Enabled pre-compiled header with Visual Studio compiler for emu, frontend, precompile, dasm and optional libraries. [Samuele Zannoli]
agat: Added support for Nippel Clock slot card. [shattered]
Show decrypted KONAMI1 opcodes in the debugger. [smf]
wd33c9x: Clarified hardware reset behavior, and made all resets trigger a SCSI_STATUS_RESET interrupt. [tyfighter]
mu100: Dumped v1.03 BIOS. [Alexander Troosh]
mu80: Added wave ROMs. [Alexander Troosh]
mephisto_modular.cpp: Added newer Portorose 32 Bit program ROM as a BIOS option. [Berger]
tumbleb.cpp: Added PCB layout for Magic Purple. [Brian Troha]
dec0.cpp: Labeled Birdie Try as revision 2 in case someone ever finds an earlier version. [Brian Troha]
machine/awboard.cpp: Added notes on Atomiswave checksum and keys. [brizzo, MetalliC]
dacholer.cpp: Dumped color PROM for Dacholer. [caius, The Dumping Union]
segasp.cpp: Dumped security PIC microcontroller for Tetris Giant. [CoolFox]
konamigv.cpp: Re-dumped Simpsons Bowling CD and corrected label. [emmanu888]
mystwarr.cpp: Corrected mis-typed Konami number for PAL in comment. [f205v]
dec0.cpp: Dumped PROMs for the dec0 mainboard. [Guru]
sbrkout.cpp: Verified main CPU clock frequency. [Guru]
subsino.cpp: Marked G.E.A. hack as a clone of Victor 5. [MASH]
thedeep.cpp: Corrected audio CPU for The Deep based on PCB photograph. [MASH]
dogfgt.cpp: Corrected sound chip types based on PCB photograph. [MASH]
m72.cpp: Re-redumped GAL for lohtb. [parramon]
model1.cpp: Re-dumped Star Wars Arcade (Japan) mpr-16477.27 and fixed ROM locations. [Phil Bennett]
segaybd.cpp: Fixed Power Drift PCM EPROM locations. [Phil Bennett]
hunter16.cpp: Added later hunter16 ROM v3.04 as a BIOS option. [Phill Harvey-Smith]
at.cpp: Added seven additional BIOS dumps to at. [rfka01]
genpc.cpp: Added ECD Professional Microcomputer BIOS to PC. [rfka01]
at.cpp, genpc.cpp: Updated BIOS date, version and chipset comments. [rfka01]
pc9801.cpp: Re-dumped PC9821AS ROMs. [sampson]
dec0.cpp: Verified that Bad Dudes microcontroller dump is correct, and decapped and dumped Heavy Barrel (World) microcontroller. [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
chinagat.cpp: Updated and corrected PCB information and notes. [yukaritamura]

MAME 0.213

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

00148: [Sound] (mappy.cpp) todruaga: The sound of the first credit is not played. (Angelo Salese)
07379: [Interface] artwork: Automatically computed group bounds behaviour is not intuitive. (Vas Crabb)
07382: [Debugger] Hang and memory leak when using save command. (hap)
07388: [Graphics] (sms.cpp) smsj: Default view does not display video in OpenGL mode. (hap)
07396: [DIP/Input] (tmnt.cpp) tmnt24pu: Start buttons do not work. (Tafoid)
07398: [Crash/Freeze] (goldstar.cpp) mbs2euro: Exception at emulation start. (AJR)
07400: [Interface] clickable artwork: Dummy input listener is ignored. (hap)
07401: [Graphics] (nemesis.cpp) salamand and clones: Sprite flickers randomly. (hap)

New working machines

The Destroyer From Jail (Korea) [system11, Angelo Salese, The Dumping Union]
DVW Microelectronics Husky [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
Game & Watch: Mario's Bombs Away [algestam, Mr. Do]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto II [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto III [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Mirage [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto MM I (ver. A) [hap, Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Mondial 68000XL [Sandro Ronco, Berger]
Potten's Poker stealth with Breakout front game [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo, Pako Ortiz, Rockman, Recreativas.org]
SciSys Superstar 28K [hap, Berger]

New working clones

Block Out (Europe and Oceania) [ClawGrip, Recreativas.org]
Commando (bootleg set 3) [Guru]
Crazy Kong Part II (bootleg) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping Union]
Elektronika Space Bridge [algestam, Ryan Holtz]
Exidy Inc Sorcerer (with Digitrio fdc) [Robbbert]
Exidy Inc Sorcerer (with Dreamdisk fdc) [Robbbert]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Amsterdam (Glasgow hardware) [Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Dallas 68000 (Glasgow hardware) [Berger]
Hegener + Glaser Mephisto MM I (ver. B) [Achim]
Joker Card (witch game) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Lady Liner (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 8, W-4) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 9, W-4, Eagle, licensed by Wing) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines Super Turbo (Hack) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Player's Edge Plus (X000057P+XP000038) Deuces Wild Poker (MGM Grand Casino) [Brian Troha]
Punk Shot (World 2 Players) [frsj8112]
Richard Lang Mephisto London 16 Bit [Berger]
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (RE, bootleg) [ClawGrip, hammy]
Super Shanghai Dragon's Eye (Korea) [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Victor 5 [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]

Machines promoted to working

Birdie Try (Japan revision 2) [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Ivan Vangelista]
Casino Poker (Ver PM88-01-21, German) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Dulmont Magnum [Carl]
Hasbro Dream Life (Version 1.0, Feb 07 2005) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
Mindset Corporation Mindset Personal Computer [O. Galibert, Al Kossow]
SciSys / Novag Chess Champion: Super System III [hap, Berger, MikeChess]
SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Japan) [Angelo Salese]
Tatung Einstein 256 [Nigel Barnes, jltursan]

Clones promoted to working

SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Korea) [Angelo Salese]
SWTPC swtpc S/09 Sbug + piaide [68bit]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

Bonus Poker (Atronic) [Priit Laes]
Bubble Torneo [TeamEurope]
Colex VME-80186 [Al Kossow, Bitsavers]
Digitek Micrologic 20 [ClawGrip, Dirk Best]
Estron Juku E5101 [Dirk Best]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hawk [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
I C Money (Atronic) [Priit Laes]
Microdar SPD [jordigahan, ClawGrip]
Miss Americana (Bingo) [IPDB]
Rock 'n' Roll [jordigahan, ClawGrip]
SNES 4 Slot arcade switcher [ClawGrip, Roberto Fresca, Recreativas.org, The Dumping Union, system11, Dirk Best]
Wanted (Sega) [Jamesv833, SeanC]
Wild Thing (Atronic) [Priit Laes]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

Cyclopes (11/85) [IPDB, PinMame]
Fish Tales (P-2) [IPDB, PinMame]
Flash Gordon (French Vocalizer sound) [IPDB, PinMame]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hunter [Nigel Barnes, Phill Harvey-Smith]
Husky Computers Ltd Husky Hunter 2/16 [Phill Harvey-Smith]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 1) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 2) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 3) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Liner (encrypted, set 4) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Lady Luck (Bellfruit) (Adder 5) [TeamEurope, jordigahan, ClawGrip]
Lovely Cards (encrypted) [TeamEurope, Roberto Fresca]
Magic Export (V.211A) [TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines (set 10, W-4, encrypted NEC D315-5136) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo, TeamEurope]
New Lucky 8 Lines Crown Turbo (Hack) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Police Force (LG-4) Germany [IPDB, PinMame]
Power Instinct (USA, bootleg set 3) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
Robocop (2.9) [IPDB, PinMame]
Star Wars Arcade (US) [coolmod, Mike Moffitt, Phil Bennett]
Tiger Heli (bootleg set 4) [Sean Riddle, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
El Trebol de la Suerte (Bellfruit) (Adder 5) [TeamEurope, jordigahan, ClawGrip]
WWF Royal Rumble (1.03 French) [IPDB, PinMAME]
Yamaha MU100B [Alexander Troosh, R. Belmont]

New working software list additions

apple2_flop_clcracked:
- The Addition Facts (cleanly cracked), Algebra Volume 3 (Version 1.0, 10 June 1982) (cleanly cracked), BackAid (cleanly cracked), Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Version 07/12/84) (cleanly cracked), BIG & little (cleanly cracked), A Bird's Eye View of The Main Idea (cleanly cracked), Calendar Fun with the Lollipop Dragon (cleanly cracked), Castle Wolfenstein (Version 06/19/84) (cleanly cracked), Dinosaur Days Plus (cleanly cracked), The Division Facts (cleanly cracked), Dr. Ruth's Computer Game of Good Sex (cleanly cracked), Draw Your Own Conclusions (cleanly cracked), Flashcards (cleanly cracked), Flights Into Fiction: Classic Stories (cleanly cracked), Flights Into Fiction: Fairy Tales (cleanly cracked), Focus on Physical Science: Chapter Review (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Grid Designer (cleanly cracked), Hinky Pinky (cleanly cracked), The Human Body: Circulation and Respiration (cleanly cracked), KidWriter (German Level I, II) (cleanly cracked), Mission: Asteroid (cleanly cracked), The Multiplication Facts (cleanly cracked), Muppet Slate (Version 1.01) (cleanly cracked), New Kid on the Block (Version 02.09.89) (cleanly cracked), A Newbery Adventure: Charlotte's Web (cleanly cracked), NLP Tools Vol. 1 (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Phi Beta Filer (cleanly cracked), Poetry Express (cleanly cracked), Practicalc II XC (Version 2.00) (cleanly cracked), Punctuation Put-On (cleanly cracked), Un Repas Francais (cleanly cracked), Roots/Affixes 1 (Version 09.14.87) (cleanly cracked), The Subtraction Facts (cleanly cracked), Theorems and Proofs of Theorems (cleanly cracked), Troll Sports Math (cleanly cracked), Verb Usage 3 (Version 01.31.89) (cleanly cracked), Wally's Word Works (cleanly cracked), What's The Big Detail (cleanly cracked), Work Force II (Version 2.10) (cleanly cracked), Writer's Choice (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Zandar The Wizard (cleanly cracked), Zork I Demo (Catch A Butterfly) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
- Chipwits [LoGo, Firehawke]
apple2_flop_misc: Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative (Version 4.0) [anonymous]
apple2_flop_orig: Alge-Blaster Plus! (Version 1.0), The Ancient Art of War at Sea, Arcticfox, Battle Chess, Beach-Head, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Black Magic, Castle Wolfenstein (1981 Version), Castle Wolfenstein (Version 06/19/84), Chipwits, Cranston Manor, David's Midnight Magic, Escape (Bantam Publishing), Essex, Injured Engine, King's Quest, King's Quest II, King's Quest III, King's Quest IV, Labyrinth: The Computer Game (Lucasfilm Games), Mabel's Mansion, Mindshadow, Mission: Asteroid, Moptown, Puzzle Tanks, Race For Midnight, Return of Heracles, Sir Isaac Newton's Games, Soko-Ban, Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (Version 2.0A, interpreter 0.089), Times of Lore, Tip 'N Flip, Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom [4am, Firehawke]
coco_flop: 512K CoCo 3 Memory Test, CoCo Max II (Input Selector Modified), CoCo Max II (Version 51016), CoCo Max III (Version 3.0), CoCo Max III (Version 3.1), CoCo Newsroom, DeskMate (Version 1.00.00), DeskMate 3 (Version 1.00.00), Disk EDTASM, Micro Works 16-Level Picture Display Utility, The Newspaper, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Telewriter-64 [TRS-80 Color Computer Archive]
hp_ipc: Demo Disc, HP-UX Communications & Maintenance A (VI), HP-UX Communications & Maintenance B (VII), HP-UX Documentation (X), HP-UX Miscellaneous Tools (IX), HP-UX Nucleus (VIII), HP-UX Programmers Tools (I), HP-UX Software Development (II), HP-UX Software Development (III), HP-UX Writers Tools A (IV), HP-UX Writers Tools B (V), RCS (Revision Control System), Software Engineering Module - C Development Supplement (IV), Software Engineering Module - Communication and Maintenance Tools (II), Software Engineering Module - Programmers's and Miscellaneous Tools (I), Software Engineering Module - Section 1 & 1m Documentation (V), Software Engineering Module - Sections 2, 3, 4 and l Documentation (VI), Software Engineering Module - Writer's Tools (III), System Disc Release 5.0.2 [shattered]
ibm5150: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer (3.5"), Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer (5.25", French), Empire - Wargame of the Century, Loom (5.25"), Lunar Explorer - A Space Flight Simulator, Mean 18, Mines of Titan, Olivetti Prodest PC1 - Per Cominciare, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 7, Olivetti Prodest PC1 MS-DOS 3.20 (Spanish), Olivetti Prodest PC1 MS-DOS 3.20 / GW BASIC / Lode Runner, Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1987 No. 1), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 1, Jan/Feb), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 2, ApMay), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 4, Aug/Sep), Olivetti Prodest PC1 coverdisk (1989 No. 5, Nov/Dec), P.H.M. Pegasus, Pitstop II (3.5") [Justin Kerk]
ibm5170: Novell DOS 7 (3.5"), Novell DOS 7 (5.25"), Novell DR Multiuser DOS Release 5.1, blueflops-2.0.10, blueflops-2.0.11, blueflops-2.0.12, blueflops-2.0.13, blueflops-2.0.14, blueflops-2.0.15, blueflops-2.0.2, blueflops-2.0.3, blueflops-2.0.4, blueflops-2.0.5, blueflops-2.0.6, blueflops-2.0.7, blueflops-2.0.9 [Justin Kerk]
juku: CP/M 2.2 [Bashkiria-2M, Dirk Best]
mephisto_mm1: Mephisto HG 170 Opening Library [Achim]
mindset_flop: Vyper [Al Kossow]
pentagon_cass: Old Tower [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
smc777: Yakyuu-Kyou [TurboMajikon]
specpls3_flop: Redshift [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_betadisc_flop: DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (Pentagon), Gravibots, Lirus, Log Cabin Dizzy (v1.04, English), Log Cabin Dizzy (v1.04, Russian), Mighty Final Fight (v1.0), Mighty Final Fight (v1.1), Mighty Final Fight (v1.2), Mighty Final Fight (v1.2, Wally music hack), MultiDude (Pengaton), Redshift, Sector: Invasion, Twinlight [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_cass: Aahku al Rescate (set 1), Aahku al Rescate (set 2), Aahku al Rescate (set 3, beta 01, April 2011), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Egg Diamond (set 1), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Egg Diamond (set 2, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 2), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Hotmarmalade (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 2, older), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 1, Bumfun), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 2, older), The Adventures Of Jane Jelly - The Treasure Of Zedin - Nightmare Version (set 3, turbo loader, with trainer), Altair (set 3, release 2, English), Altair (set 4, release 2, Spanish), Altair (set 5, English), Altair (set 6, Spanish), Altair ZX (set 1, English), Altair ZX (set 2, Spanish), Alter Ego (set 3), Androide (2014, Pixelsoft) (set 2), Androide (2014, Pixelsoft) (set 3), Antiquity Jones (set 2, v1.2), Antiquity Jones (set 3), Arcade Game Designer v1.0, Arcade Game Designer v1.3, Arcade Game Designer v1.5, Arcade Game Designer v2.0, Arcade Game Designer v2.3, Arcade Game Designer v2.4, Arcade Game Designer v2.6, Arcade Game Designer v3.0, Arcade Game Designer v3.3, Arcade Game Designer v3.4, Arcade Game Designer v3.5, Arcade Game Designer v4.0, Arcade Game Designer v4.1, Arcade Game Designer v4.2, Arcade Game Designer v4.3, Arcade Game Designer v4.4, Arcade Game Designer v4.5, Arcade Game Designer v4.6, Astronaut Labyrinth (set 1), Astronaut Labyrinth (set 2, easy boss), Astronaut Labyrinth (set 3, turbo loader, normal & easy boss, with trainer), Attack Of The RGBobots, B-Squared (set 1), B-Squared (set 2), Baffo Jones, Baldy ZX (set 2), Bauble Blast!, Billy Box (set 1, English), Billy Box (set 2, French), Blimpgeddon (set 1, v1.02, Final, QAOPM controls), Blimpgeddon (set 2, v1.02, Final, ESDFO controls), Blizzard's Rift, Bluber (set 1, release 2), Bluber (set 2, release 2), Bluber (set 3, release 1), Bob The Space Janitor (version 2), Bobby Carrot (set 1, v1.01, 128k), Bobby Carrot (set 2, v1.01, 128k), Bobby Carrot (set 3, v1.01, 48k), Bobby Carrot (set 4, v1.01, 48k), Bomberman (2016, Cristian Gonzalez) (set 2, demo, v01), Bomberman (2016, Cristian Gonzalez) (set 2, demo, v03), Booty - The Remake (set 1, v1.2, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 3, v1.2), Booty - The Remake (set 4, v1.2 - Black Edition, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 5, v1.2 - Black Edition), Booty - The Remake (set 6, v1.2 - Black Edition), Booty - The Remake (set 7, v1.1, turbo loader), Booty - The Remake (set 8, v1.1), Booty - The Remake (set 9, v1.1), Bounty - The Search for Frooge (set 1), Bounty - The Search for Frooge (set 2), Brian vs. The Bullies, A Broken Friend (set 2), Bubble Frenzy, Bubble Monkey Bros, Cap'n Rescue (v3.0), Cap'n Rescue 2 - The Escape (v3.4), Car Wars (set 1, v1.1, English), Car Wars (set 2, v1.1, Spanish), Car Wars (set 3, English), Car Wars (set 4, Spanish), Catch A Hare, Char Set Finder, CharAde Editor & Demo, The Chard, Chessboard Attack (set 1, v1.2), Chip Rescue, Chopper Drop (set 2, release 2), Christmas Cracker, Christmas Gift Hunt (set 1, v2.0, 128k), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 2, v2.0, 48k), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 3, beta), Christmas Gift Hunt (set 4, ULA Plus), Chunk Zone, Clopit!, Code Zero (set 1), Code Zero (set 2), Columns (set 2, Physical Version), Crappy Crates, The Dark (2016 cassette release), Davey-Dudds Loves Peas, Dead By Dawn (set 2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 1, v2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 2, v2), Dead Flesh Boy (set 3, v1), Dead Flesh Boy (set 4, v1, no loading screen), Deep Core Raider (set 1, v1.1), Deep Core Raider (set 2, v1.1), Donkey Kong Jr. (2016, Gabriele Amore) (corrected jump), DragonBall - El desafio del Dr Gero (1994), DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (set 1, 128k), DreamWalker: Alter Ego 2 (set 2, 48k), Dung Darach, F'n Balls (set 1, ULA rain fix), Flash Beer Trilogy, Flynn's Adventure (set 3, tech demo 01-04-12), Flynn's Adventure In Bombland (set 1, v1), Flynn's Adventure In Bombland (set 2, demo), Fn Balls (set 2, older), Forest Raider Cherry, Frank N Stein (set 3, pre-release), Future Looter (set 1, release 2), Future Looter (set 2, release 1), Future Looter (set 3, demo 18122011), Genehtik (set 2), Ghost Castles (cassettte version), Grumpy Santa (set 1), Grumpy Santa (set 2), Hunchy (1983, Mr. Micro), Invasive Species (48k version), Jaws - The Text Adventure, Join, Knight Hero (Black version), Knight Hero (White version), Knights & Demons, Knights & Demons DX (set 2), Knights (set 1), Knights (set 2, BASIC version), Knights (set 3, turbo loader), Krap Park (set 1, fixed version, with screen magic), Krap Park (set 2, fixed version, without screen magic), Krap Park (set 3, older, with screen magic), Krap Park (set 4, older, without screen magic), Kyd Cadet (set 2, v1.2), Kyd Cadet II (set 2), Kyd Cadet III - The Eyeburx Plee (set 2), Laetitia, Little Dragon 2 (128k, AY Sounds), Little Dragon 2 (48k), Little Dragon 2 - Hikoki's Cut, El Loco, Loco Bingo (set 2, RetroBytes demo), Lost In My Spectrum (set 1, v2.0, 128k, English, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 2, v2.0, 128k, English), Lost In My Spectrum (set 3, v2.0, 128k, German, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 4, v2.0, 128k, German), Lost In My Spectrum (set 5, v2.0, 128k, Spanish, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 6, v2.0, 128k, Spanish), Lost In My Spectrum (set 7, v2.0, 128k, French, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 8, v2.0, 128k, French), Lost In My Spectrum (set 9, v2.0, 128k, Italian, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 10, v2.0, 128k, Italian), Lost In My Spectrum (set 11, v2.0, 128k, Portuguese, turbo loader), Lost In My Spectrum (set 12, v2.0, 128k, Portuguese), Lost In My Spectrum (set 13, v2.0, 48k, English), Lost In My Spectrum (set 14, v2.0, 48k, German), Lost In My Spectrum (set 15, v2.0, 48k, Spanish), Lost In My Spectrum (set 16, v2.0, 48k, French), Lost In My Spectrum (set 17, v2.0, 48k, Italian), Lost In My Spectrum (set 18, v2.0, 48k, Portuguese), Micro Inc, Mighty Final Fight (v1.1), Mike, The Guitar (set 1), Mike, The Guitar (set 2, turbo loader), Mike, The Guitar (set 3), Mike, The Guitar - The Shooter, Moritz - The Dog That Caught The Car, Moritz Strikes Back, Moritz To The Moon, Mr Do!, MultiDude (set 1, AY sounds), MultiDude(set 2, beeper sounds), Mysterious Dimensions, Mystery (set 1, 128k version), Mystery (set 2, 48k version), Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors, Nirvana Engine, Old Tower (set 1, 128k), Old Tower (set 2, 48k), The Order Of Mazes, Ossuary, Page And The Curse Of The Pharaoh, Page's Castle Quest (set 2), Pariboro, Pentacorn Quest (set 1, English), Pentacorn Quest (set 2, Spanish), Percy Penguin (set 1, Vs3), Percy Penguin (set 2, demo, b68), Pets vs Aliens Prologue (set 1), Pets vs Aliens Prologue (set 2), Pink Pills: Manic Moritz and the Meds, Pip The Pipistrelle, Pooper Scooper, Pretty Gambler, PTM, Push 'n' Chase, Pyromania II: Chopper Rescue, Pyromania: Trial by fire, Quahappy (set 1), Quahappy (set 2, turbo loader), Rabid Mower, Raw Battle, Red Planet (English), Red Planet (Spanish), Rediscovered Realms (set 1), Rediscovered Realms (set 2), Redshift (set 1, turbo load), Redshift (set 2), Redshift (set 3), Rescue Lander, ROVR - Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery (set 1), ROVR - Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery (set 2), SIP - Special Intergalactic Painter (set 2), Sixteen Skirmish, Space Disposal (set 2), Speccy Bros - Nick & Tom, Speed Ball, Stormfinch, Super Moritz, Tales Of Grupp, Tea-Leaf Ted (set 1, man version), Tea-Leaf Ted (set 2, bear version), Terrorlandia, Terry The Turtle Vektor, The Time Of The End (set 2, side 1 only), Toofy In Fan Land (set 2), Toofys Winter Nuts (set 2, v1.2), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 1, English, ver 1.03), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 2, English, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 3, Russian, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 4, Russian, ver 1.03a), Xelda 1: Quest for the Golden Apple (set 5, Spanish, ver 1.03a), ZX Destroyer, Zukinox (set 1, final cassette version), Zukinox (set 2) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
st_flop:
- Highway Encounter (unreleased) [ICEknight]
- Toi Acid Game (unreleased) [José Luis Correa, ICEknight]
vsmile_cart: Alfabet Pretpark (NL), Disney's Aladdin - De wonderwereld van Aladdin (Netherlands), Flitzers Schlaue Städtetour (Germany), Scooby-Doo! - Griezelen in het Pretpark (Netherlands), V.Smile Mein erster Mausklick (Germany), Walt Disney's Assepoester - De wonderwereld van Assepoester (Netherlands) [TeamEurope]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

ibm5150: Bobo, Captain Blood, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 1, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Games Collection 6, Olivetti Prodest PC1 HDU Install, Olivetti Prodest PC1 Mouse Driver [Justin Kerk]
ibm5170: blueflops-1.0.0, blueflops-1.1.0, blueflops-1.1.1, blueflops-1.1.2, blueflops-2.0.0, blueflops-2.0.1-pre1, blueflops-2.0.8 [Justin Kerk]
spectrum_betadisc_flop: Bobby Carrot [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_cass: Booty - The Remake (set 2, v1.2), Mister Kung-Fu (set 1, v1.3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 2, v1.3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 3, v1.3, Plus 2a / Plus 3), Mister Kung-Fu (set 4, Plus 2a / Plus 3) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_microdrive: Outlet (Issue 001 through 038) [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
spectrum_wafadrive: Spectral Writer [TZX Vault, SPA2, Steve Brown, Andrew Barker, Paul Hurd, Tony Barnett, Claus Jahn, Donald Graham, Guy Bearman, Jose Luis Soler, Krasimir Hristov, Andrew Blood, Dave Stevens, John Wilson, Edwina Brown, Walter Pooley, Tomaz Kac, Martijn van der Heide, Ramsoft, Dunny, Woody, Mikie, anonymous]
vsmile_cart: Disney's Winnie de Poeh - De wonderwereld van Poeh (Netherlands), Disney/Pixar Ratatouille - Remy's Nieuwe Recepten (Netherlands), Nick Jr. Dora the Explorer - Dora's Fix-it Adventure (USA), Scooby-Doo! - A Night Of Fright Is No Delight (Smartbook) (USA) [TeamEurope]
vsmilem_cart: Disney Princess - The Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Big Dream (UK), Disney/Pixar Wall-E (Germany), DreamWorks Monsters vs. Aliens (Germany), Mijn Puppy! (Netherlands), Nick Jr Dora - Dora's Reparatie Avontuur (Netherlands), Nickelodeon Wonder Pets! - Save the Animals! (UK), Sport Games (Netherlands) [TeamEurope]

Source Changes

wd_fdc.cpp: Allow SSO signal to be routed by driver for cases where it isn’t used to select side. [68bit]
bus/ss50: Added support for additional SS-30 cards. [68bit]
- MP-T timecounter, MP-S2 dual serial interface, SS-30 DC5 floppy disk interface, PIA IDE hard disk interface.
swtpc09.cpp updates: [68bit]
- Added support for UniFLEX floppy disk image files.
- Added SS-30 bus, and removed peripherals on SS-30 cards from driver.
- Fixed banked memory implementation.
- Added configuration options for CPU clock speed variations, and SWTBUG patches needed for floppy support.
- Added DC5 floppy controller as default slot option.
formats/flex_dsk.cpp: Re-wrote using wd177x_format as a base class. [68bit]
- Now supports single- and double-density disks, dynamically identifies boot sector IDs, and writing image files.
Made debugger memory views show correct data when chunks are too small for the space’s address shift. [AJR]
unidasm updates: [AJR]
- Added r65c02, score7, unsp12 and unsp20 support.
- Fixed address shift for scudsp and hd61700.
upd7810: Fixed breakpoints, and added notes. [AJR]
trocana: Added preliminary MSM6650 device and some test inputs. [AJR]
Reverted change making SGI CD-ROM identify as a hard disk, as it causes indy_4610 to fail its SCSI test. [AJR]
m65c02, r65c02: Corrected memory access patterns for read-modify-write instructions. [AJR]
cosmac updates: [AJR, hap]
- Added preliminary CDP1804/CDP1805/CDP1806 emulation.
- Added disassembler support for CDP1805 with extended instruction set.
- Changed register names to use conventional decimal numbering.
- Attach following byte to disassembly of OUT instruction when P = X.
mc68hc11: Add internal latches and direction registers for ports. [AJR]
- Split up internal peripheral register handler functions and made separate I/O maps for each model.
- Removed now-unnecessary read-back handlers from skeetsht.cpp and taitojc.cpp.
Added device emulation for DS17x85 series of MC146818-compatible real-time clocks with additional features. [AJR]
pasopia.cpp: Corrected clocks and metadata. [AJR]
mbs2euro: Fixed graphics corruption and possible crashes when attempting to draw outside screen bounds. [AJR]
legionna.cpp: Fixed sprite priorities for Seibu Cup Soccer and SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow. [Angelo Salese]
seibucop.cpp fixes for SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow: [Angelo Salese]
- Identified sprite priority bit for command $c480 (fixes third level mid-boss being submerged while touching ground layers).
- Disable sprite DMA destination increment if X positions are outside expected ranges (fixes sprite clipping).
riscpc.cpp: Fixed a bug with force IRQ – rpc700 now reaches supervisor prompt. [Angelo Salese]
galaxold.cpp: Fixed stage 3 invisible bullets in Strategy X. [Angelo Salese]
pce.cpp: Added support for Tennokoe Bank extended Backup RAM. [Angelo Salese]
pc9801.cpp: Added proper support for Memory Switch (MEMSW) device. [Angelo Salese]
h6280.cpp: Don’t overwrite current timer value when writing to timer preload register. [Angelo Salese]
VRender0 device refactoring: [Angelo Salese]
- Improved encapsulation of video and other conceptually independent on-board peripherals.
- Moved drivers for different VRender0-based machines out of crystal.cpp to their own source files.
- Untangled reads/writes to draw/display memory bank switches from screen_update – can run un-throttled now.
- Added CRT controller raw screen parameters.
- Implemented DMA hold feature and IRQ on mask writes, used by P's Attack.
- Improved Cross Puzzle Flash loading (currently fails POST with a SPU error).
nexus3d.cpp: Added some preliminary work – will do some VRender3D pipeline fill with a debug trick. [Angelo Salese]
axc51-core: Added disassembler support for AX208 internal ROM symbols. [anonymous]
pcipc: Added a slightly more usable PCI S3 Virge/DX video card. [Barry Rodewald]
s3virge: added PCI interface and linear framebuffer support. [Barry Rodewald]
amstrad: Added Ram Electronics Music Machine MIDI and sampler expansion device. [Barry Rodewald]
Fixed building using system rapidjson. [Belegdol]
Migrated travis-ci configuration to Ubuntu Bionic. [Belegdol]
Worked around [[nodiscard]] warning for std::basic_string::c_str(). [Billy Robert O’Neal III]
nmk16.cpp: Reduced redundant code and updated notes. [cam900]
315_5313.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Derive refresh rate and timer from input clock.
- Simplified DMA behaviour and updated megacd.cpp and mega32x.cpp as appropriate.
- Suppressed read side effects for debugger, cleaned up code, and expanded notes.
megadriv.cpp, segac2.cpp, calcune.cpp: Corrected screen refresh rate and added notes. [cam900]
megadriv.cpp: Added support for Z80 VDP access, and corrected VDP sound balance. [cam900]
seibu_crtc.cpp: Updated notes. [cam900]
formats/m20_dsk.cpp: Added support for writing image files, and added format to floptool. [Christian Groessler]
Fixed cleansrc target for hosts using sh-like shells. [Christian Groessler]
bus/spectrum: Added a post opcode fetch hook to the expansion bus, needed by ZX Interface 1. [David Haywood]
vii.cpp: Added EEPROM support to dreamlif. [David Haywood]
policetr.cpp: Let RAMDAC device handle palette writes – trampolines in driver are no longer needed. [David Haywood]
spectrum_cass.xml: Corrected and cleaned up metadata. [David Haywood]
bionicc: Cleaned up driver: [Dirk Best]
- Cleaned up notes and add to-do list.
- Changed non-maskable interrupts to use pulse_input_line.
- Documented coin lockout and attribute RAM layout.
- Corrected layer to use 3-bit color.
Added driver for Estron Juku E501. [Dirk Best]
- Implemented timers, keyboard, and 5.25" floppy drives.
- Added single- and double-sided CP/M floppy formats.
ml20: Add keypad input, placeholder speaker and DIP switches, and a simple internal layout. [Dirk Best]
- Also added additional logging and started documenting CPU ports.
dec0.cpp Dumped birdtry microcontroller and replaced simulation. [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Ivan Vangelista]
thedeep.cpp: Hooked up thedeep microcontroller and removed simulation. [Dirk Best]
limenko.cpp: Hooked up audio CPU for spotty. [Dirk Best]
Added skeleton driver for SNES 4 Slot arcade switcher, and moved related mk3snes to new driver. [Dirk Best]
dec8.cpp: Dumped and hooked up microcontroller for Last Mission. [Dirk Best, TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
- Also fixed coinage settings.
- Japanese version is currently using US microcontroller program with ID byte patched.
luaengine.cpp: Exposed sound output buffer and sample rate to Lua scripts. [feos]
- Also corrected some documentation.
imgtool: Added Thomson BASIC tokenizer, implemented Thomson BASIC, and fixed passing --filter= to get verb. [hadess]
- Thanks to Adrien Destugues for information about the format in bastok.cpp.
popeye.cpp: Use real PROM dumps for Popeye Bootleg protection [Joe Magiera, recreativas.org, smf]
imagedev/harddriv.cpp: Added support for HDI image file format. [Justin Kerk]
naomi.cpp, machine/awboard.cpp: Simplified Atomiswave key scheduling, and eliminated 20-bit key files. [MetalliC]
ti99: Changed busmouse to push updates when inputs change, and routed extra mouse button to a separate input line. [Michael Zapf]
Enabled default move constructoassignment operator in core_options, and changed plugin_options code to use them. [Nathan Woods]
Refactored info XML creation code to improve performance. [Nathan Woods]
- Allowed machine info fragments to be generated in parallel.
- Changed formatting code to use I/O streams, and reduced redundant code.
- Sort filtered devices lexically by short name.
Added -attach_window command-line option on Windows to use an existing window as the first emulation window. [Nathan Woods]
Lua engine updates: [Nathan Woods]
- Added a function to instruct MAME to capture input when any input window sharing a thread with an emulation window has focus.
- Added a mechanism for Lua plugins to configure mandatory image devices.
- Exposed input device classes, devices and device items.
- Changed seq_poll_start to take the input item class as a string.
- Added a hook before settings are loaded, allowing default input port values to be changed.
- Exposed additional ioport_field properties, and exposed input sequence cleaning functionality.
- Exposed ioport_manager::type_group() and ioport_field::keyboard_codes().
Properly named the CoCo joysticks “Right Joystick” and “Left Joystick”. [Nathan Woods]
einstein.cpp: Replaced einst256 bad MOS ROM with a good dump, and implemented the rest of the machine. [Nigel Barnes, jltursan]
machine/tube.cpp: Fixed 256-byte transfer mode. [Nigel Barnes]
nsc810: Implemented port bit set/clear. [Nigel Barnes]
hunter16.cpp: Added hunter1680 video RAM and rendering. [Nigel Barnes]
hunter2.cpp: Added appropriate RAM size options, and minor keyboard corrections. [Nigel Barnes]
hd61830: Make number-of-characters command to round up to an even number. [Nigel Barnes]
mindset.cpp updates: [O. Galibert]
- Added 400-high modes, corrected LEDs, added blitter fast mode, and added sound.
- Fixed transparent blit.
- Added modules, and implemented stereo sound module.
mindset.cpp: Fixed the CPU speed, and implemented RS-232 module. [O. Galibert, Al Kossow]
- RS-232 module is missing interrupt support for now.
atronic.cpp: Identified CPU type and fixed ROM loading. [Priit Laes]
apple2.cpp: Added Sirius JoyPort support on compatible models, and 4Play Joystick Card support. [R. Belmont]
imagedev/harddriv.cpp: Added support for 2MG image file format and raw disk image files. [R. Belmont]
Added a still-frame capture image device to simulate digitizers, cameras, etc. using PNG files as input. [R. Belmont]
apple2: Added support for the original gameport ComputerEyes. [R. Belmont, Golden Child]
apple2gs: Made slow-side sync less aggressive (fixes SHOWALL 3200). [R. Belmont]
Added gdbstub debugger module, allowing an external debugger to connect using GDB Remote Serial Protocol. [Ramiro Polla]
- Currently supports i386, arm7, ppc, z80 and m6502.
Fixed build on Solaris 2.11 (non-Oracle). [Rick V]
midvunit.cpp: Added stubs for linking support. [Risugami]
subsino.cpp updates: [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
- Added Victor 5 and Victor 21 speech emulation.
- Added missing sample ROM dumps.
- Confirmed the bipolar PROM dump for Victor 5.
pokerout.cpp: Added ASCII PCB layout, and expanded notes. [Roberto Fresca]
dpb_brushproc: Hooked up 20L10 PAL and the remainder of logic (not untested). [Ryan Holtz]
SGI Newport graphics updates: [Ryan Holtz]
- Re-implemented logging code for external viewer.
- Fixed 8 BPP overlay bit combination.
- Fixed broken blending.
- Added bit lane expansion, needed for proper double-buffered accesses.
- Simplified default color accesses.
dsp56k: Renamed relevant classes, files and namespaces to indicate that it emulates the DSP56156 (not the DSP5600x). [Ryan Holtz]
sec: Converted Barcrest/Bell Fruit Serial Electronic Counter (SEC) to a proper MAME device. [Ryan Holtz]
seta.cpp: Added configuration option to use joystick/buttons in atehate for navigating the hidden test menu. [RyogaMasaki]
Enabled pre-compiled header with Visual Studio compiler for emu, frontend, precompile, dasm and optional libraries. [Samuele Zannoli]
agat: Added support for Nippel Clock slot card. [shattered]
Show decrypted KONAMI1 opcodes in the debugger. [smf]
wd33c9x: Clarified hardware reset behavior, and made all resets trigger a SCSI_STATUS_RESET interrupt. [tyfighter]
mu100: Dumped v1.03 BIOS. [Alexander Troosh]
mu80: Added wave ROMs. [Alexander Troosh]
mephisto_modular.cpp: Added newer Portorose 32 Bit program ROM as a BIOS option. [Berger]
tumbleb.cpp: Added PCB layout for Magic Purple. [Brian Troha]
dec0.cpp: Labeled Birdie Try as revision 2 in case someone ever finds an earlier version. [Brian Troha]
machine/awboard.cpp: Added notes on Atomiswave checksum and keys. [brizzo, MetalliC]
dacholer.cpp: Dumped color PROM for Dacholer. [caius, The Dumping Union]
segasp.cpp: Dumped security PIC microcontroller for Tetris Giant. [CoolFox]
konamigv.cpp: Re-dumped Simpsons Bowling CD and corrected label. [emmanu888]
mystwarr.cpp: Corrected mis-typed Konami number for PAL in comment. [f205v]
dec0.cpp: Dumped PROMs for the dec0 mainboard. [Guru]
sbrkout.cpp: Verified main CPU clock frequency. [Guru]
subsino.cpp: Marked G.E.A. hack as a clone of Victor 5. [MASH]
thedeep.cpp: Corrected audio CPU for The Deep based on PCB photograph. [MASH]
dogfgt.cpp: Corrected sound chip types based on PCB photograph. [MASH]
m72.cpp: Re-redumped GAL for lohtb. [parramon]
model1.cpp: Re-dumped Star Wars Arcade (Japan) mpr-16477.27 and fixed ROM locations. [Phil Bennett]
segaybd.cpp: Fixed Power Drift PCM EPROM locations. [Phil Bennett]
hunter16.cpp: Added later hunter16 ROM v3.04 as a BIOS option. [Phill Harvey-Smith]
at.cpp: Added seven additional BIOS dumps to at. [rfka01]
genpc.cpp: Added ECD Professional Microcomputer BIOS to PC. [rfka01]
at.cpp, genpc.cpp: Updated BIOS date, version and chipset comments. [rfka01]
pc9801.cpp: Re-dumped PC9821AS ROMs. [sampson]
dec0.cpp: Verified that Bad Dudes microcontroller dump is correct, and decapped and dumped Heavy Barrel (World) microcontroller. [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
chinagat.cpp: Updated and corrected PCB information and notes. [yukaritamura]

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How do you want to do this? A Discussion on Selective Rule Enforcement

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**“Once upon a time, around a table…”

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