Important: due to changes in the palette system, there might be games that
had correct colors before, and wrong now. Please let us know if you find
any.
 

New games supported:
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Kick and Run [Nicola Salmoria, Ernesto Corvi]
KiKi KaiKai [Nicola Salmoria, Ernesto Corvi]
Perfect Soldiers [Bryan McPhail]
Big Striker [Luca Elia]
Kick Off [Luca Elia]
Dream Soccer '94 [Bryan McPhail]
Kageki [Takahiro Nogi]
 

New clones supported:
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Mega Zone (Konami)
Donkey Kong 3 (Japan)
Ajax (Japan)
Ring no Ohja (= The Main Event)
Thunder Blaster (= Lethal Thunder)
Fantasy (SNK)
Blue Print (Jaleco)
X-Men (2 Players Japan)
Checkman (Galaxian hardware) [Zsolt Vasvari]
Contra (Japan)
Karate Dou (= Karate Champ)
Undercover Cops (Japan)
Dump Matsumoto (= Body Slam)
 

These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed raster effects in Turf Masters (Japan course) and Zed Blade.
Improved
  Super Sidekicks 2. [Massimo Morra]
 

Other drivers changes:
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- Fixes to Lazer Command and Meadows Lanes. [Malcolm Lear]
 

Changes to the main program:
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- 16 bit support in the tilemap manager, so the Namco System 2 games no
longer
  require -depth 8. [Phil Stroffolino]

- [DOS] Changed the -depth option behaviour, now it can be either 8, 16, or
  auto. The default is auto, which uses the color depth appropriate for the
  game. 8 forces use of a 256 colors display (faster but less accurate), 16
  forces use of a 16-bit display (not suggested, doesn't work with all
games).
  MAKE SURE TO SET depth = auto IN MAME.CFG, OR YOU'LL USE 16-BIT IN ALL
GAMES.

- Fixed a few bugs in the NEC CPU core that caused problems in Hook,
Gunforce,
  Lethal Thunder and maybe others. [Bryan McPhail, Nao]

- Several changes and improvements to the TMS34010 emulation and to the
  Williams games using CVSD sound. [Aaron Giles]
 

Source:
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- [DOS] Now compiled with Allegro 3.9.27 WIP.

- Replaced MachineDriver->video_attributes VIDEO_SUPPORTS_16BIT with
  GameDriver->flags GAME_REQUIRES_16BIT.
  Added color_depth to struct RunningMachine and struct GameOptions. OS
  dependant code may set it to force a specific depth.
  Added depth parameter to osd_create_display(). The OS dependant code MUST
  respect it - if it has special requirements, it must set the GameOptions
  flag beforehand.

- Calling palette_recalc() is now *MANDATORY* in all drivers that modify the
  palette. The palette will not be updated otherwise.

- Removed adpcm_sample_list, palette and colortable from struct GameDriver.
  Changed char *color_prom to int prom_memory_region.

- Updated the TMS9900 emulator. [Raphael Nabet]