What's new in 1.

48:
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* New drivers:
- Art of Fighting 2 (set 2)
- Fight Fever (alternate set)
- Fatal Fury Special (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '96 (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '97 Plus (bootleg)
- The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest (Korean M1)
- Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (set 2)
- Robo Army (alternate set)

* Added the ability to change gamma settings (video menu).

* Updated 'Robo Army' and 'Sengoku 2' ROMs to match MAME.
* Renamed XMVSFU to XMVSFUR1.
* Renamed ARMWAR to ARMWARR1.

1.47b* Now using the S1 from a different CTHD2003 cart, this one fixes the power
bars.
* Set NeoGeo Z80 speed back to 6mhz as to many sound related things broke.

1.47a* Fixed various missing sprites in several CPS1 games (SF2 and DINO for
example)
that got broke in v1.47.
* Fixed Graphic errors in KOF95.
* Fixed sound disapeering in MSLUG 2,X,3 that got broke in v1.47 by upping z80
frequency to 4.4mhz.

1.47 * New drivers:

- Capcom Sports Club (Euro 970722)
- 19XX: The War Against Destiny (Japan 951207)
- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Euro 960619)
- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Japan 960619)
- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Asia 960619)
- Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (Euro 950718)

- Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 911101)

- Final Fight (Japan 900305)

- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2003

- Puzzle Bobble (set 2)
- Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '95 (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '97 (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest (set 2)
- The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (set 2)
- The Last Blade (set 2)
- World Heroes (set 2)

* Added a zoom window 150% and 250%. These look nice with scanline blitters if
'correct window ratio' option is set to smaller.
* Fixed blue squares on screen after highscore entry in sfa2 / sfz2.
* kof99nd decrypted C roms are now ones created from a 'save decrypted C's
after loading'
 from the parent kof99 set and not the C roms used in the kof99p prototype
set.
* Fixed some name descriptions in the NeoGeo sets.
* Fixed a minor merging issue in sf2uf and sf2ui (thanks LogiqX).
* Correct P1 rom now used in Sengoku3 instead of the bad dumped one.
* Changed NeoGeo bios ROM names to match those in MAME 0.68 and above.
* Added a fifth Rom Path setting.
* Removed androdun c3 and c4 ROM's as they are filled with garbage.
* Renamed shocktrj to shocktra (this was never a japan only version).
* Changed NeoGeo z80 speed from 6mhz to 4mhz as confirmed on real hardware.
* Kawaks window position is now remembered.
* Fixed slow sound in the CPS1 Qsound games.

1.46 * New drivers:

- Mighty! Pang (Japan 001011)

- 1944: The Loop Master (US 000620)
- Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting (US 000412)
- Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting (Japan 000412)
- Dimahoo (US 000121)
- Great Mahou Daisakusen (Japan 000121)
- Battle Circuit (Euro 970319)
- GigaWing (US 990222)
- GigaWing (Japan 990223)
- Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (US 950424)
- Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers (World 930911)

- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (US)

- Carrier Air Wing (US 901012)
- Magic Sword - Heroic Fantasy (World 900623)
- Mercs (US 900608)
- Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (World 910522)
- Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910318)
- Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910411)
- Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (US 920803)
- Strider (US set2)
- Willow (US)

- The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (earlier)

- The King of Fighters '2001
- The King of Fighters '2001 (decrypted C)
- Jockey Grandprix

* Added CPS2 z80 reset line emulation, fixes ecofighters test mode exit
(thanks Elsemi).
* Added developer mode support for NeoGeo games.
* Added revision dates to CPS1 game descriptions excluding hacks where
possible.
* Added correct emulation for NeoGeo Game and Bios vector table swapping.
* Added support for the UNIVERSE BIOS (universe bios must be unzipped and in
the same directory as your WinKawaks.exe).
* Changing NeoGeo region or mode settings during game play will force the game
to
reset so new setting can take affect.
* Changed Blue's Journey ROM names to match MAME v0.62.
* Removed a uneeded patch to 'fatfury3' vector table.
* Fixed graphics decryption in the encrypted version of Bangbead.
* Fixed resolution saving for rotated CPS2 games via menus.
 * Fixed tileviewer when viewing 16x16 CPS-2 tiles.
* Fixed a bug that could under certain circumstances cause Insert Coin to
stop working during NeoGeo netplay.
* Fixed buttons 4,5 and 6 in sf2ue.
* Fixed slowdowns in s1945p.

1.45 * New drivers:

- Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (US 960708)
- Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Asia 960826)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (Asia 941217)
- Neo No Panepon
* Fixed sound in Ninja Commando, Ninja Combat, Crossed Swords, Trash Rally,
Blues Journey thanks to Acho A. Tang
* Fixed NeoGeo autoanim, thanks to Razoola and ElSemi
(fixes bugs in WakuWaku7, SuperDodgeBall, and probably several others)
* Included correct random number generation thanks to Razoola and smf
* Added 16 to 32bpp wrapper: Now all blitters work in 32bpp windowed mode
(be aware this is quite a bit slower than using 16bpp windowed mode)
* Added menu item to control Multitask Friendly for netplay
* Kawaks won't overwrite your old screenshots anymore when doing a capture
* Fixed Select button not working in some NeoGeo games in console mode
* Added debug dipswitches support for NeoGeo games
* Tons of rewrites and cleanups
* Fixed Twinkle Star Sprites hang (introduced in 1.44)

1.44a* Oooooops, forgot driver for Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (US
960619)
in last build. And ignore "Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (US 940125)"
too :P

1.44 * New drivers:

- Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (US 940125)
- Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (US 970827)
- Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers Revenge (Japan 970913)
- Sengoku 3
- Sengoku 3 (Decrypted Cs)
- Zuppapa
- Zuppapa (Decrypted Cs)
- Vliner
- Street Fighter II' (YYC)
* New blending effect: Motion blur (MMX and non MMX versions)
* Support for the Savage Reign V2 rom redump
* Changed the NeoGeo romsets according to the latest MAME conventions
* Added menu items to control fullscreen resolution in Video menu
* Added menu items to task priority level in Misc menu
* Fixed Quiz & Dragons (Japan) (CPS1)
* Fixed Use transparencies option not beeing saved in INI
* Set Kawaks to use High task priority level by default (used to be Normal)
* When Netplaying, Multitask friendly is forced OFF (reduces desync risks)

1.43 * New drivers:

- Bang Bead
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge (US 950406)
- Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers Revenge (Japan 950316)
- Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers Revenge (Japan 950302)
 - Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (Hispanic 940125)
* New "KScale" blitter. This is a new edge enhancement blitter with zero blur.
It's also insanely fast compared
to the traditionnal 2xSai/Super2xSai/SuperEagle. Comes in 4 variations:
Plain, and 25%/50%/75% scanlines.
I personnally feel KScale+75%Scanlines is the best blitter in Kawaks, try it
:) (MMX only)
* Shiny new "Smart Interframe blending" mode. (MMX and non MMX versions)
This new blending mode replaces all flickers (Samurai Shodown 4 life bars,
King of Fighters shadows, etc ...)
by transparencies; and the rest of the picture retains all its sharpness (no
blurry scrollings)
* Made it so interframeblending occurs before the video processing stage
(speed boost)
* New keyboard shortcut : Alt+B toggles between Interblending modes
* New sound option : Low pass filter
* Fixed ShumaGorath's Chaos dimension in Marvel Super Heroes
* Rewrote Kaillera support. Now, emu will accept to run if you don't have
Kailleraclient.dll, and
noone should see Kaillera errors on startup anymore.
* Sound logging option now saves a WAV, not a RAW
* Ctrl Numpad + and Ctrl Numpad - now control volume
* Fixed Cheater support
* Minor changes to Batcirc & Csclub to accommodate the latest CPS2 conventions
* Changed driver for NeoPong to use NeoPong 1.1 roms instead

1.42 * New drivers:

- Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix (US 970904)
- Pocket Fighter (Japan 970904)
- Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix (Asia 970904)
- Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo (US 960620)
- Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers (Asia 931003)
- Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers (Asia 930914)
- Dynasty Wars (World)
- Knights of the Round (Hack)
- Neo Pong
* Fixed The King of Dragons (bootleg)
* A _lot_ of rewrites, notably in the video system and the general Kawaks
architecture,
which gives a significant speedup on 2xSai, SuperEagle, SuperSai, Scanlined
2xSai,
will make the eventual addition of new systems easier, faster and more
stable,
and allows the following :
* Added sprite transparencies, using Nebula tables.
Tables should be named gamename.bld and put in the BLEND directory (ex:
SFA3.BLD)
* Added "Monitor dot matrix" blitter. Give it a try :)
* Added support for ElSemi's Cheater program. Cheater must be started before
Kawaks
* Added menu items to control sound frequency. No need to edit WinKawaks.ini
anymore for that.
* Optimised 'Interframe blending' code. Should be significantly faster with
most blitters, now
* Rewrote DirectInput code: Hopefully fixes most controler problems
(mail me if it fixes your controler problems or not)
* Fixed Screenshot Factory blink and Tile viewer if Interframe Blending is
enabled
 * Fixed Scanlines 50% for some video cards (S3...)
* Hopefully fixed some screenshot issues
* Fixed flash frames in Marvel Vs Capcom
* Fixed ending in Marvel Vs Capcom
* NeoGeo isn't affected anymore by correct ration settings. Meaning it now
looks better if these
options are enabled (espeacially with Normal blitter)
* Changed the way the video blitter selection works. For example, now,
Shift+F3 is a toggle between
scanlines, 50% scanlines, and zoomX2...
* Added some keyboard shortcuts to the Load game, Screenshot Factory, Cheat
boxes
* Added some keyboard shortcuts to the English menus
* Fixed Shot factory window size
* A few romset changes to match the latest conventions and dumps (affects
CYBOTSJ, DDSOMU, SFAR1)

1.41 * New drivers:

- Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (US 980123)
- Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Japan 980123)
- Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Japan 980112)
- Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Asia 980112)
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Euro 940705)
* Changed kof2000, garou, kof99 and clones romsets to be MAME 57 compliant.
## READ THE INCLUDED 'ROMCHANGES.TXT' FILE FOR MORE INFO. ##
* Big optimisations to NeoGeo rendering
* Added frame interpolation (replaces flickering by transparencies)
I recommend you use this only if you have a powerfull PC enough, and with
AutoFrameskip disabled
* Added starfield emulation (CPS1. Affects Strider, Forgotten Worlds and their
clones)
* Fixed a NeoGeo calendar bug. Date is correct now
* Fixed Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (Japan) (CPS1)
* Changed tracklists format for the better (more compact, and more flexible)
The format it now the same as ElSemi's excellent JukeBox program
Also, tracklist is handled dynamically: no need to reload the game to reload
the tracklist.
* Added the ability to cycle thru sound codes for CPS1 and NeoGeo games. Use
Numpad +/-
(It was already implemented for CPS2 games)
* Hopefully fixed sound issues in Kof99 and clones thanks to Overlander
* Fixed missing button 4 for CPS1 Quiz games
* Hopefully fixed crashes if the Kawaks is run from a CD (or a non writeable
directory)
* Fixed bug causing (for example) Kof2000 chars to taunt at the end of a movie
replay
* Fixed some tick marks errors for record input slot and bg color in menus

1.40b* Fixed movie support. Oops :)

1.40 * New drivers:

- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Asia 940705)
- Marvel Super Heroes (Asia 951024)
- Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (Japan 960708)
- Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia 960227)
- Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Euro 970519)
 - Metal Slug 3 (encrypted)
- Garou: Mark Of The Wolves
This is a new encrypted set
The older "Garou: Mark Of The Wolves" becomes "Garou: Mark Of The Wolves
(alternate set)"
- The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (nonecrypted P)
This one uses encrypted Cs and non encrypted Ps. It's just here for
completeness sake
- The King of Fighters 2000 (nonecrypted P)
Same. This one uses encrypted Cs and non encrypted Ps. It's just here for
completeness sake
* Triple buffering. Makes things as smooth as a baby's butt :)
Even if you don't use triple buffering, things should be smoother than
before
* CPS2 rasters emulation. Fast and accurate :D
* Improved sound sync a bit in CPS2 games. Is now 100% perfect
* Record input aka Movie recording/replaying support. Now you can show
everyone your 123Hits combo :)
* Optimisations to the video rendering for both NeoGeo and Capcom games
* Kawaks now remembers window zoom level
* New macro token: ~ which means "hold this for 20 frames"
Examples:
B~~~,F3 Sonic Boom: Back for 60 frames (1 second), then
Forward + Strong punch.
DB~~~,DF,DB,UF6 Charlie's SuperSommersault
* Added a Freeplay setting for NeoGeo games
* Made it so if no cheat file is available for the current game, the cheat
file for
the parent is loaded instead
* Added a menu item to save cheat search matches to a file.
Handy when you can't get under 20 matches...
* New features for you gfx rippers :
- Added option to delete emu text when making screenshots
- Implemented Background color change for NeoGeo games
- Changes in the Shot Factory:
+ you can now select more than one sprite at once
+ new button in Shot Factory to disable all selected sprites
+ new button in Shot Factory to reenable all selected sprites
+ added layer enable/disable buttons
* Fixed: NeoGeo game settings and hiscores aren't lost anymore when reseting
the game
* Fixed some sound issues with Metal Slug 1/2/X
* Fixed cheats not applying when using Step Frame
* Fixed savestate bug for CPS1 & NeoGeo when using states saved at a different
sound frequency
* Fixed Kawaks crashing when display was beeing destroyed (starting a
fullscreen DOS prompt...)
* Fixed button 3 not working in some CPS1 games (Mega Twins...)
* Fixed crash on 1941's Test menu
* Fixed occasionnal crash on Pang 3 and Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ba
(CPS1 games)
* Fixed 68000 debugger register modifications
* Savestate format change to accommodate the changes (rasters...)
Old savestates are still 100% compatible though
* Updated languages packs to reflect changes

1.38 * New games supported :

- Metal Slug 3 (non encrypted P)
 - Metal Slug 3 (non encrypted P, decrypted C)
* New language packs : Hebrew, Russian, Swedish, Greek

1.37c* Added more Language packs, and fixed a couple. Thanks to their authors
* Fixed Japanese text in Garou (Grant cinematic, namely)
* Fixed the most debated Close C attacks in Garou (weird bug, really)
* As for the Select key not working (supposed to be the Insert Coin when in
console mode)
this one is a total mystery. It works good in other games (try kof99), just
not Garou...

1.37b* Hopefully fixed bug introduced in 1.37 which caused blinking borders in
fullscreen
* Added Japanese, Catalan, Polish, Chinese (simplified) language packs.
Thanks a lot to their respective authors :)

1.37 * New drivers:

- Garou: Mark of the Wolves (this is the retail, non
prototype game)
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves (decrypted C) (same game as above, with
decrypted GFX roms)
- The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted) (this is the retail, non
prototype game)
* The old "The King of Fighters 2000" set is now named "The King of Fighters
2000 (fully decrypted)"
* Direct Draw rewrite: Kawaks should run fine with DirectX 5 now (that means
no more DDRAW.DLL error)
* Added a "Multitask friendly" switch (Misc menu) for those who think 1.35 was
faster than 1.36
* Language pack support. Now you can have Kawaks in your mother tongue :)
If you do your own translation consider sending it to me
* Added a hack to prevent crash while loading in kof2000n for those who still
have the bad M1 rom
* Fixed columns width in Shot Factory
* Added many tracklists, courtesy of DarkCloud

1.36 * New games supported :

- Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Euro 940412)
- Street Fighter Zero 3 (Asia 980701)
- Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Asia 970519)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (Euro 950105)
- X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Euro 960910)
- The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted C) (Thanks to Nicola Salmoria)
The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted C) is the exact same game as the other
KOF2000
The difference only lies in the romset used (Encrypted gfx roms)
The Encrypted C set will load significantly slower though especially for low
RAM PCs
so I'd suggest you still use the older set...
* Added trackball emulation for The Irritating Maze
* Fixed 257-m1.bin merge info for kof2000/kof2000n
* Fixed a last bug in the Romcenter DAT generation.
* Found a bug in the sound sync code. May fix some jerkiness for some people.
* Included some code to try to make Kawaks less CPU intensive and more
multitask friendly
 (meaning CPU shouldn't be 100% usage when you use Kawaks)
* Changed Step frame from Space to Shift+Space (caused problems if you were
using Space as in
your game keys)
* Added some keyboard shortcuts to modify cheats.
(allows to activate/desactivate quickly some cheats without even leaving
fullscreen)
* Fixed the puzzle game in Three Wonders (CPS1)
* Fixed macros for NeoGeo games
* Changed Redefine keys dialog box so it shows macro text next to the macro
key
* New Shot factory (Tools menu). Works very nicely with NeoGeo games :)

I'd like feedback about this version beeing faster/slower for you if you
notice differences

1.35 * New games supported :

- The King of Fighters 2000
- Ganryu (decrypted C)
- Nightmare in the Dark (decrypted C)
- Strikers 1945+ (decrypted C)
- Prehistoric Isle 2 (decrypted C)
The "(decrypted C)" games load faster, require less RAM than their counter
part,
and are gameplay wise identical.
See the following feature for how to obtain theyr decrypted roms :
* Added feature to save decrypted Cs from encrypted games.
Enable "Enable save decrypted Cs after loading" in the Tools menu before
loading
an encrypted NeoGeo game.
* Support for the new WinJammer S1 rom
* Rewrote audit. It's now a lot more accurate
It can now detect roms with a bad name, a bad crc, or that are missing; and
reports
correct rom sizes
* Rewrote Romcenter dat generator. Should be 100% perfect now :)
* New ClrMAMEPro dat generator.
* Changed it so the Load dialog box filters don't act on Audit or DAT
generation anymore
* Changed 'Use HotRod configuration' map things more cleverly for NeoGeo games
* Tidied the menus a bit :)

1.34 * New games supported :

- Ganryu
- Nightmare in the Dark
- Strikers 1945+
- Prehistoric Isle 2
Kudos to Nicola Salmoria for breaking the encryption. Impressive job.
* Alpha Mission 2 romset has changed to match the latest MAME
* Changed The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle so it uses the real
encrypted gfx roms.
This is the standard MAME set, with encrypted roms, encrypted Ps, no S1, the
standard Vs
This has the inconvenient of making load times a LOT longer for people who
have 128mb of RAM
or less, so I added a new subset of kof99:
"The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (full decrypted)"
(kof99nd.zip)
which is exactly the same game, but uses different roms, requires
significantly less ram, and
loads really faster.
It uses :
- kf99p_c*.rom from the prototype (this makes NO difference game wise
compared to
using the real encrypted roms)
- kf99_s1d.rom which was released some time ago
- kof99_v*.rom and kof99_m1.rom from kof99.zip
- kf99n_p1.rom and kf99n_p2.rom from the new kof99n.zip from MAME 0.56
That gives a simple standard NeoGeo set, gamewise identical to the big
encrypted one, that
could even run in NeoRAGE X :)
* Fixed a bug where tick marks in the menus where cleared by changing the
video memory settings
from the menu or on the first launch

1.33 * Driver for Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire (Japan 970913)
* Added region switches and automatic macro reverse in MSHVSFJ and MSHVSFJ1
(totally forgot about these in 1.32...)
* Added Paths configuration dialog box (in File menu)
* Changed The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle to support
MrLee/BillyJr's new dumps.
No need for kf99_s1d.rom anymore.
* Added All/Only available/Only missing filters for Load game dialog box.
* Changed the save state format for the better:
Kawaks can still read all the old saves, but new savestates are about 7
times smaller !
* Command line support. You can start a game from command line, now.
Type WinKawaks.exe -help at command prompt for more info
Example: WinKawaks.exe ffight -fullscreen
* Added some new tracklists, courtesy of DarkCloud
* Added video memory allocation control in the Video menu
* Added autodetection of the best video memory allocation on first time run
* Added PNG screenshot functions.
- Screenshot (unfiltered) saves a screenshot without edge enhangement or
scanline effects
- Screenshot (filtered) saves exactly what you see on screen

1.32 * Drivers for

- Armored Warriors (Euro 941011)
- Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (US 970625)
- Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (Japan 970707)
- Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (Japan 970702)
- Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (US 970519)
* Fixed the driver for Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (US 950627)
(SFAU.ZIP)
The correct roms for SFAU.ZIP are
- sfzu.03a
- sfzux.03a
- sfz.04a
* King of Fighter 99 now uses the MAME CPU roms:
- kof99_p1.rom (4mb, CRC32 006e4532)
- kof99_p2.rom (4mb, CRC32 90175f15)
- the older kf99_p1d.rom (1mb, CRC32 909b18c4) is *still needed*
- the older kf99_p2d.rom and kf99_p2x.rom aren't needed anymore.
 * Various other CPS2 romset changes to accommodate the new games, and the
latest
MAME conventions. PLEASE READ SET_CHANGES.TXT FOR MORE INFORMATION
* Louder (better) QSound and YM2151/OKI (CPS2 and CPS1 games)
* Added option to control QSound amplification in WinKawaks.ini and Sound menu
* NeoGeo sound interpolation (Thanks ElSemi :))
* Fix in NeoGeo savestates (still compatible with old ones)
* Corrected NeoGeo Y zoom to use the real hardware method. Needs NG-LO.ROM.
* Finally added an "Auto start game" option :)
* Added individual saving for 68000 overclocking (saves setting in the game's
ini)
* Fixed protection for RealBout Fatal Fury 2
* Added protection for Fatal Fury 2
* New, much improved Redefine Keys dialog box
* Changed the Joypad code. Hopefully, this should solve the problems some
people have
had with their pads.
* Added support for screenshots for Load game dialog box. Shots should be in
BMP format
and stored in your screenshot directory (subdirectory SSHOTS by default)
* Somewhat Skin support :) Just put a SKIN.BMP in your Kawaks directory to
change the
background image

1.31 * Corrected the NeoGeo zoom system. Now uses the true original zoom patterns,
verified
on the real system
* Support for the new kf99_s1d.rom in the KOF99 romset
* Many CPS1 fixes:
- Captain Commando set to 4 player for netplay
- Player 4 mapped in Captain Commando
- Player 3 mapped in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Warriors of Fate
- Test menu for all CPS1 games (press F11 or whatever you redefined it to
access it)
- EEPROM no longer saved for EEPROMless games
- Timing fixes (fixes Mercs splash screen, Pang 3 bottom of screen...)
- Sprite/bg sync fix
* Added language switch for Dungeons & Dragons (uses Region switch)
* Drivers for
- Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Euro 960209)
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (US 940818)
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (US 940705)
- Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (Euro 950727)
- Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (Euro 950605)
* Various romset changes to accommodate the above new games, and the latest
MAME conventions
PLEASE READ NEW_SETS.TXT FOR MORE INFORMATION

1.30 * NeoGeo emulation !

- Support for 136 games
- Runs the new King of Fighters 99 dump ! (see FAQ for details)
- Excellent compatibility: runs all games with sound
- Works with macros, netplay, sprite table, etc
- Specific settings in the INI for the fullscreen resolution
- Please read the FAQ for eventual troubleshooting
* New enhanced Load game dialog box
* CPS2 timing fixes
 * defaultkeys.ini becomes
- defaultkeysCPS.ini for CPS1/2 games
- defaultkeysMVS.ini for NeoGeo games
So, rename your defaultkeys.ini to defaultkeysCPS.ini
and create a new one for NeoGeo games named defaultkeysMVS.ini

1.20 * New drivers

- Battle Circuit (Japan 970319)
- Eco Fighters (World 931203)
- Vampire: The Night Warriors (Japan 940630)
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 (US 980904)
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 (US 980629)
- Street Fighter Zero 3 (Japan 980727)
- Saturday Night Slam Masters (World)
- Saturday Night Slam Masters (US)
- Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion (Japan)
- Muscle Bomber Duo - Ultimate Team Battle (World)
- Muscle Bomber Duo - Heat Up Warriors (Japan)
- Three Wonders (US)
- Pang! 3 (Japan)
* Kaillera support ! (That's netplay)
- Allows D&DSOM 4 players, AVSP 3 players and BatCirc 4 players
- Capcom Sport Club extra chars cheat is performed automatically in
netplay too
- Net chat macros. You can define 5 chat keys for each game. To each key
corresponds
a sentence you define in the game's ini. Taunts at your fingertips :)
- Net chat key. Hit backspace in netplay to chat :)
Please read the FAQ for more info
* Better speed
- Changed the 68000 CPU core (now A68K. Faster and more accurate)
- Optimised Rowscroll
- Optimised sprites
- Optimised Z80 handling
* Better compatibility
- Fixed just every known CPS1 bug !
- Added P3 and P4 to CPS1 games
- Added P3 for Armored Warriors and its clones
- Fixed missing rowscroll on Vampire "VS" screen
- Modification in the sprite banking system. Makes Vampire and SSF2T a lot
smoother.
- Various glitches thanks to new 68000 core. CPS2 games run at 11.8MHz
too, now (that's the true hardware speed)
* Better macros
New '+' token. If you use '+' in a macro, this macro will allow
input from the player during its execution.
Ex: Macro1A=123+ Will allow you to press one direction while
executing the 3 punch macro. (SFA3 projections...)
* Better savestates.
Because of new core, savestate format had to be updated.
Most savestates from anterior versions are accepted by this version, but
savestates generated with this version can't be used on older Kawaks.
New saves are a lot smaller, because they are now RLE compressed.
* Dipswitches for CPS1 games. They are saved to each game's ini.
* New font for on screen display and added settings in the INI to control its
color.
* Fixed the glitch in the last line in fullscreen 2xSai and spin-off engines
* Fixed a border blinking bug with some gfx cards in full screen
 * New "Mono sound" option. My mono headphones likes that.
* Added option to log sound to HD
(16Bits Stereo RAW format, any sound editor can read that...)
* New options to disable individually the 4 OKI channels (CPS1 sound effects)
Handy to rip those SF2 musics :D
* Fixed some editing errors in the Kawaks mascots :)
* The stuff I eventually forgot to write down ...

1.14 * New drivers & region switch for :

- Super Muscle Bomber: The International Blowout (Japan 940831)
- Super Muscle Bomber: The International Blowout (Japan 940808)
- Marvel Super Heroes (Japan 951024)
* Some ZIP change names to fit the latest MAME specifications :
- DDSOMJ.ZIP becomes DDSOMJR1.ZIP
- SLAM2E.ZIP becomes RINGDEST.ZIP
- sfzu.03a, sfz.04a and sfzux.03a from SFA.ZIP form a new clone: SFAU.ZIP
* Totally new macro system. You can now create your own complex macros.
You can assign a special move, or a combo to a simple key !
See the included FAQ for more info.
* Hopefully fixed CPS2 savestates bugs (still compatible with old saves)
* Implemented savestates for CPS1
* Fixed flickering issues at the bottom of the screen when in fullscreen.
* Fixed some CPS1 BgHi issues (Sodom stage in Final Fight...)
* Fixed some CPS1 sprite/background sync issues (Ghouls and Ghosts...)
* Fixed sound for Pang and maybe some others
* Fixed Dai Makai-Mura (Ghouls and Ghosts Japan)
* Fixed Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Japan 910214)
* Fixed Carrier Air Wing's helicopters and destroyed buildings bugs
* Fixed MMX blitters which crashed for some people.
* Replaced Super2xSai blitter by ASM counterpart, which requires MMX
but is over twice as fast.
* Replaced scanlined 2xSai by an ASM 75% scanlines 2xSai which looks
damn good :)
* Super Street Fighter 2 Tournament Battle will now display Terminal Check
unless you enable normal play in the Test menu. This is the correct
behaviour.
* Hopefully fixed bug in the Redefine Keys dialog box that caused the
key redefinitions to loop sometimes.
* Various optimisations

1.13 * New frameskip code. Should perform a LOT better for slower computers.
* Added Nebula cheat support. 100% compatible :)
* Added features to search for new cheats.
* Replaced 2xSai and SuperEagle blitters by ASM counterparts, which require
MMX but are over twice as fast.
* Modified ADPCM so it's mono (the way it should be) and a bit softer
to avoid static.
* Added new options for correct windowed aspect ratio and full screen
aspect ratio.
Note that using the "smaller display" setting for your full screen
ratio will allow you to use 640x480 :). Read the INI for more info.
* Added option to save current key settings to defaultkeys.ini
* Suppressed the NoSound flag. Since 1.11, sound IS required for
Kawaks to run.
* Added driver for Pang! 3 (Euro). Has lousy sound, however...
* Better sound for Final Fight and Strider
 * Fixed Carrier Air Wing palette
* Fixed a sprite clipping issue in CPS1 games.
* Fixed HotRod Player 2 keys.
* Fixed Capcom Sports Club button 3

OTE ABOUT CHEATS :

Since I was at it, I also enhanced the DAT format in the following
way: You can now autoenable some cheats. For example :

[1]
Name=Infinite health P1
0=No,0,0
1=Yes,FF8450,90

Say you always want Infinite health enabled. Just put a Default=1 :

[1]
Name=Infinite health P1
Default=1
0=No,0,0
1=Yes,FF8450,90

The 1 in Default=1 refers to 1=Yes,FF8450,90

Adding Default entries should break nothing, your DAT should still
work in Nebula. You don't have to add Default entries everywhere,
they are optional. Use them just to autoenable some cheats
Simple and convenient isn't it :)

1.12 * Sound REALLY fixed. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused by 1.11

1.11 * That bad, naughty, evil, and overall not very nice sound issue should be
fixed now :))
(Jesus, why did GetCurrentPosition have to report bytes instead of
samples ?)
* Modified autoframeskip code to adapt to new timing system. Should be better
too, now.
* Added a system to autodetect for each frame wether sprite masking is needed
or not.
Since it is not, most of the time, this speeds up things nicely in many
games :)
* Fixed Street Fighter Zero - CPS Changer (Japan 951020) backgrounds (broken
in 1.10)
* Macros for Player 2, Player 3 and Player 4. Have a look at updated
Defaultkeys.ini
* New blitter: Zoom 2x software. In other words, 200% without blur effect.
If you like "correct ratio" and not blur, I'd suggest you give a try to this
blitter + stretch + eventually fullscreen.
Keep in mind that this blitter is however significantly slower than Normal,
Alternate
scanlines or even regular scanlines.
* Fixed XMen Versus Street Fighters hanging when beginning fight against
Apocalypse
* Faster loading for Capcom Sports Club
* Correct the CRCs for Capcom Sports Club XORs (didn't cause bugs, just
reported XORs to
be bad in audit)
 * New function to redraw the current frame without the on screen messages.
Handy if you
want to make a screenshot.
* Added a few background colors in the menu
* Added Zoom window 100%/200%/300% in the menu
* Made the Reset key redefinable, since everyone seems to hate F10 :)
* The usual batch of cosmetic changes :)

1.10 * Sound for Punisher, Cadillac & Dinosaurs, Warriors of fate works again
(broken in 1.09)
* Added BackgroundRed, BackgroundGreen, BackgroundBlue options in the INI.
Those control the background color (default, black: 0 0 0)
Added Pink and Black setting in the menu.
* Added option to disable individual sprite layers for CPS2 games.
* Added Hotrod autoconfiguration in Game menu.
* Added option to disable all keyboard shortcuts while playing (handy for
Hotrod users)
* When menu is hidden after pressing TAB (windowed mode), pressing Alt won't
pause the
game anymore (yet another handy thing for Hotrod users).
* Unassigned keys 0 to 9, so now, you can redefine your Insert Coins and Start
keys
to them without having it switching save slot.
* New Next save slot (F6) and Preceding save slot (F8) to compensate preceding
modification
* Modified 68000 core, which allows new VRAM code. Fixes many issues
introduced in
version 1.08, fixes additionnal gfx glitches and gives a speed boost.
* Added sprite priorities and masking.
Corrects SFA2 select char screen, SFA3 intro, VSav's intro, a Cyberbots
level, etc...
Since it is a slight performance hit, I also added an option to disable it.
* Suppressed the "Show only available sets" option, since it caused so many
problems.
I'll re-add it someday, when I'm sure it's 100% working...
* Fixed the overclock functionnality (broken in 1.09)
* New drivers :
- Capcom Sports Club (Japan 970722)
- Capcom Sports Club (Asia 970722)
- Capcom World 2 (Japan) (CPS1)
- Super Street Fighter 2: The Tournament Battle (ETC 931119)
* Updated the FAQ

1.09 * 1.08 was a lot slower than previous releases due to the new VRAM lag code.
I have now optimised that code, and also optimised various other things, so
hopefully, 1.09 should be as fast as older Kawaks.
Still, since VRAM can still be a slowdown factor, I have included an option
to disable it. (enabling VRAM lag only fixes a few minor gfx glitches, so
you slower PC uses may want to let it disabled. Try and see for yourself)
* Optimised 2xSai, Super2xSai, SuperEagle blitters.
* Added a scanlined 2xSai blitter (much faster than 2xSai, slower than
scanlines)
* 2xSai, SuperEable and Super2xSai should work on S3/S4 cards, and some other
exotic ones, now (I'd like feedback on that...)
* Added a DisableJoystick option, since joystick management is a performance
hit.
* Fixed "Show if available" crash
 * Fixes in the menu code (better "ticks" management)
* Support for a default generic key setting :
Put your usual key definitions in a file named defaultkeys.ini, which
should be located in the same directory as WinKawaks.exe (not the INI
directory)
A defaultkeys.ini is included in this zip, just modify it to suit your
needs.
(You can use the INI of one of your configured games to help you.)
Note that a game's ini has the priority to defaultkeys.ini.
You may want to edit your defaultkeys.ini and delete all of your game's inis
to make sure they all use the new settings on they next launch.
* Alt+A toggles Autoframeskip. Also shows a message on screen, now.

1.08 * Added option to display only romsets that are available in the load game
dialog box.
* Fixed Alien vs. Predator (Euro 940520) driver (sound bugs)
* Fixed CPS1 sprite issues (Punisher bus wheels, Andor disappearing when he
jumps, etc)
* Fixed YM2152 (CPS1 music) tempo, but that causes new bugs: some sound codes
mysteriously vanish now. That means sometimes, no music will play, or some
sfx won't be played.
* Much improved Z80/68000 synchronisation, which allows the following :
* Fixed QSound tempo. Faster music, music synced to intro in VSav, etc etc
* Overclocked CPS2 games to 12.8MHz (instead of theorical 11.8MHz)
This fixes many glitches. It's likely the 11.8MHz errors are due to timing
errors in the 68000 core I use...
* Now lagging not only palette but entire VRAM. Fixes some layer/palette
errors.
* Various CPS1 fixes:
- Mercs 'dirt on the sprites' should be fixed.
- Carrier Air Wing won't freeze anymore (game still buggy however, weird
palette issues)
- The King of Dragons's in game backgrounds show. Fully playable now.
- 1941 won't freeze anymore when game starts.
* Added a setting in the INI to control sound emulation frequency (44100
default)
* New option in the INI to control the sound playback. If sound is bad on your
system
try playing with the SoundSegs and SoundSegLag settings. (6 and 5 are the
default).
For example, some older versions of Kawaks used 4 and 2. You may want to use
them.
(Note that SoundSegLag should be superior to 0 and inferior to SoundSegs)
* Now compiled with Turbo68K Version 0.5 (The Cpu Core Formerly Known As
Genital68K)
* Redid the Kawaks splash screen code. Should display things correctly for
vertical games
and it looks better in fullscreen.
* New Alternate scanlines blitter. If you have a slower PC and are using
scanlines,
I recommend using those, since they should be quite faster.
* New image enhancement blitters : 2xSai, Super2xSai, Eagle. They are quite
slow for now
because those versions are pure C, without MMX optimisations.
If you have a S3 or S4 card, I'd like to know if those blitters work for
you...
* Changed the way the video blitters are handled (many internal changes to
allow the
 future blitters). Now a unique Engine setting in the INI :
0 = Normal (default)
1 = Scanlines
2 = Scanlines 50%
3 = Alternate scanlines
4 = 2xSai
5 = Super2xSai
6 = SuperEagle
Modified the menu to reflect the changes.
In terms of speed, from fastest to slowest, the blitters are 0 3 1 2 6 4 5
* Added an extra set of resolutions in the INI to differenciate fullscreen
resolution for
normal blitter which needs a lower res from enhanced blitters (which need a
twice bigger
resolution) :
* HorizontalFullScreenWidth Resolution for horizontal games
with
+ HorizontalFullScreenHeight non Normal blitter (scanlines,
2xSai, etc)

* VerticalFullScreenWidth Resolution for vertical games with

+ VerticalFullScreenHeight non Normal blitter (scanlines,
2xSai, etc)

* HorizontalFullScreenWidthNormal Resolution for horizontal games

with
+ HorizontalFullScreenHeightNormal Normal blitter

* VerticalFullScreenWidthNormal Resolution for vertical games with

+ VerticalFullScreenHeightNormal Normal blitter

1.07 * Region switches for Street Fighter Zero CPS Changer and Pnickies
* YM2151 logging. Logs to Callus style CYM file. Works better if enabled
from the start of the game (before pressing Enter, after loading)
* Changed the balance so OKI is louder compared to YM2151 (clearly, better
CPS1
sound :P)
* Cleaned the startup code. May fix some crashing issues...
* New windowed mode features :
- Tab shows/hides the menu bar
- Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 resize the window to 100%, 200%, 300%
* Added a DirectX check. DirectX is needed for Kawaks to run. If you don't
have
DirectX, Kawaks will display an error and quit cleanly. (you can't imagine
all the "bug reports" I get from people who don't have DX installed...)
* Alien vs. Predator (Euro 940520)
* Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Japan 960805)

1.06 * Fix for Mercs' backgrounds.

* Added Forgotten Worlds (USA)
* Added Lost Worlds (Japan)
* Strider starts, now. Still will freeze after title screen, of after you
try starting a new game. Odd, that game used to work in old versions...
* Pixel format autodetection. No need to mess with INI anymore.
* Kawaks will now refuse to run if you are not using a 16bits or 32bits
desktop
palette, since those are the only one supported at the moment.
 * Kawaks will now refuse to switch to fullscreen if the video mode specified
in
the ini is to small for the game screen to fit.
* Fixed another S3/S4, which affected Double mode, with no 50% scanlines.
I expect diplay to be correct for everyone now.
* New autoframeskip code. Should perform a lot better on slower machines
* CPS1 sound ! Yup, that's right. But YM2151 (that's music) requires
a good CPU.
* Options to enable/disable OKIM6295 and/or YM2151
* Changed many things in the menus. "Emulation" menu was getting too crowded.
* Added a 4th rompath (requested by someone. Don't ask a 5th one however)
* Changed the way the "This is a cps2 only feature" message is displayed
when you try to save/load state with a CPS1 game:
If you are playing, the message will appear in the game area instead of
poping up that annoying message box
* Enter/Enter Sound glitch should be VERY rare now.
If you have a very slow PC and still experience choppyness, I included
a setting to control the sound buffer size in the INI. You may want
to fiddle with it. Slower PCs may have luck increasing it.

1.05 * Various emulation fixes :

- In the sprite system. Fix for some PGear bugs.
- In the layer system. Fix for Ring of Destructions backgrounds.
Fix for a small XvSF attract demo glitch.
- In the palette system. Fix for flash intros before fight in SFA2,
and SSF2 attract demo.
- General fixes in CPS1 driver. All SF2s should run like a charm now :)
* Added dummy driver for main parents of games that do not have their main
set emulated (ex, sfa3 for sfz3). Generates better RomCenter DAT.
* CPS1 games play with Allow Continue ON, Free Play ON and Demo Sounds ON.
(Does not affect CPS1 games with EEPROM, like Punisher, WoF and Dino)
* Sound in QSound CPS1 games (that's Warriors of Fate, Punisher and
Cadillac & Dinosaurs), thanks to MZ80 hack by ElSemi.
* Started work on "regular" CPS1 sound. CPS1 games now have their Z80
running (preliminary mapper). (No sound output yet, however)
* Upgraded to Genital68k 0.40. Fixes DDSOM's continue countdown.
* New drivers :
Armoured Warriors (US 941024)
Street Fighter Zero - CPS Changer (Japan 951020)
Tenchi wo Kurau (Japan) (Dynasty Wars Japan, CPS1)
* Sorted game list a tad :)
* Sprites Table module works with CPS1 too, now.
* Full support for CPS1's BgHi. This fixes all priority errors in CPS1
games :)
* Those without a sound card should be able to use Kawaks now (if NoSound
is set to 1 in INI, no DirectSound initialisation occurs)
* Hopefully fixed bugs with S3/S4 video cards, and others that don't use
a standard video pitch. Untested, since my own video cards act 'normally'
If you still have problems, please report with:
- If possible, a screenshot of the problem
- Info about your desktop resolution and color depth
- Info about your video card model
- Info about what renderer caused the problem (Double mode ? Non double
mode ?
- Scanlines 50% activated ? Was it a vertical or horizontal game ?)
If your problem is fixed in this version, I'd like to hear about it too.
* Joypad supported in Redefine keys dialog box.
1.04 * Fixed blinking issue when using a fixed frameskip of 1 3 5 7 9 in
fullscreen
* Fixed mirrored menu ?
* New feature: Use numpad + and - while playing. It changes the music
beeing played :)
* Corrected all remaning drivers errors.
Does not affect emulation and gameplay
but corrects some generated RomCenter DAT errors.
Thanks a lot to Razoola and LogiqX.
* Added 'cloneof' field to RomCenter DAT. Still have to add the last
field ('merge')...
* Street Fighter Zero 2 (Japan 960227) + Region switch
* Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (Rainbow set 2)
* Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Japan 910306)
* Upgraded to the latest Genital68k. This fixes the Memory Test from the
test menu in CPS2 games.

1.03 * Rom loading by CRC. First tries to locate a file that has a good CRC32.
Then, if it fails it tries and load a file according to its name.
This should get rid of the rom loading problems for those who don't
want to fix their romsets...
* Fixed some issues about RomCenter DAT generation. Still not 100%
correct however.
* Kileed DX 8 code. Kawaks runs with regular dinput.dll now.
And DX7 or less maybe.
* You can back out from fullscreen with ESCAPE.
* Added OK/Cancel buttons to Load game dialog box.
* Fixed CPS1 Z80 ROM sizes. Actually saves a little RAM for those games
too.
* Much improved sprites/background synchronisation. Remaining glitches
are likely to be a CPU timing issue.
* Fixed CPU timing for CPS1 games. They now run smoooooth :)
* Joypad support ! Until I remake the Refine keys box, you'll have to
configure your joypad yourself in the games' ini. Flame me.
Here are the codes to use
256 = Pad 1 Up
257 = Pad 1 Down
258 = Pad 1 Left
259 = Pad 1 Right
260 = Pad 1 Button 1
261 = Pad 1 Button 2
262 = Pad 1 Button 3
...

512 = Pad 2 Up
513 = Pad 2 Down
514 = Pad 2 Left
515 = Pad 2 Right
516 = Pad 2 Button 1
517 = Pad 2 Button 2
518 = Pad 2 Button 3
...
* Not using font from loaded game anymore for on screen display.
This build uses a fixed XVSF font for every game.
This fixes on screen display for CPS1 games, which don't
have a fixed font like CPS2 games do.
Also allowed to generate a much more readable palette.
 * Added 1 frame of sprite lag for CPS1 games. Sprites move in sync

1.02 * X-men COTA (Japan 941208 rent version) + Region switch

1.01 * The unwanted turbo effect should be fixed on most PCs. Well, I wish :)
* Nothing more really :) I thought some would like that already...