Stolistic and Guru have posted news regarding their WIP for MAME. Stolistic of course is the MAME Poker guy! :D

Stolistic Poker MAMEWIP

Three new games to report on this update. The first game is Jokers Wild Poker. It plays much like other draw poker games, but includes a joker in the deck.

Next is Double Down Stud Poker. In this game you are dealt four cards and can decide to double your wager on the last card, or just play with your initial bet. After you bet or pass, the game reveals the last card and pays

ccordingly.

Finally is a payout percentage variation on Standard Draw Poker.

Guru – ROM dump news -
21st January, 2008
We have an opportunity to buy this….

I don’t want to mention pricing, but we will probably need A LOT. Any help is appreciated. If we can’t secure it, I’m happy to return the funds (Paypal) or we can keep it for other much needed purchases. Let me know using the Paypal donations button and add a note if you want the money returned, assuming we can’t get it due to lack of funds. Thanks!
Once finished with it, I’m happy to give this away to whoever donates the highest amount. So the highest donation essentially buys it from me for that amount or I can re-sell it if that person wishes :-)

In other news, I’ve been working with Charles on the Bubble system I have here and we’ve managed to find the missing 68000 loader code. It appears it’s in a MCU (a custom Konami chip) in shared RAM (put there by the MCU, which we have partly extracted) and then pulls the data out of the bubble memory IC’s one bit at a time. Yes that’s right, we’ve got part of the bubble memory now (about 4k of it). Still a alot of work to do though before we get it all. So the above item is very on-topic with regards to my current WIP work :-)

20th January, 2008
This should be the final installment with regards to reversing the road logic. Phil informs me the road (at least) is complete. Looks real sweet, doesn’t it :-)