I’m not going to make a Uranus joke

Thanks to work by Kale, MESS is starting to run commercial Sega Saturn games. Check out the ongoing saga on this thread on the MESS forum.

MAME-side I added the Crystal System game Donggul Donggul Haerong which Guru had dumped a few months back but got overlooked, and Luca Elia got it to boot, so that’s a win. Guru also dumped Special Forces Elite Training by ICE/Play Mechanix which runs on similar custom 3D hardware to Johnny Nero: Action Hero but without the PIC protection.

The DU came through with complete dumps of another region for Tekken 3 version A, which both adds a new region and fixed some missing ROMs in the existing sets. This in turn wipes out 2 MAMETesters bugs, which is always good. Incoming: 14 (!) new ST-V “Print Club” cartridges. I mention this mostly because one of them is themed to the legendary Felix the Cat, which is pretty cool. And also because Sixtoe has some work to do

SDL-side we fully support GCC 4.6.0 and Fedora 15 now as previously mentioned, and the SDL Cabal (it sounds good but we’re not that organized) is planning to port the HLSL effects once they’ve stablized. In more major news, we’re going to rewrite the Linux debugger in Qt instead of GTK+ which should make it easier to maintain and add features to. Yes I realize this is going to result in a dependency fire drill for packagers, and I ask in advance that all the great people who package MAME and MESS be patient with us.

I’m also looking into providing a native direct PulseAudio output path on Linux, because Pulse-via-SDL imposes a weird delay of several seconds when closing the app and you’re not always sure if MAME saw you press Esc. The existing SDL path will of course remain in place and will still be fully supported.

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