In 2015, I created a list titled, “Top10ner’s 1001 'Greatest' Movies of All Time” and many of you seemed to enjoy it and still use it today so I thought it was about time that I updated it..
The original 2015 thread can be found here as well as the initial update for those curious about the algorithm.
Basically I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (UseCritic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average) & (Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). Each site’s average rating was then weighted so that no site’s ratings were favoured above the rest. The next step was to make sure that each film was treated equally. Rather than eliminating films that had little votes, I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it.
I then finally put the list through a final adjustment, where I applied aspects such as critical reception (# of official lists movie is in), audience reception and overall likability/popularity. These figures were determined using sources such as iCheckmovies, Letterboxd and TSPDT?.
I've created the following lists for both Letterboxd and iCheckMovies, as well as a Google spreadsheet where you can check out the full list and search for particular films easier.
Letterboxd - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
IMDb - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
iCheckMovies - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
Google Spreadsheet - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
ANYWAY, here is the 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time. Enjoy! (NOTE: Could only include the first 750 movies due character limit)

RANK	TITLE	YEAR	DIRECTOR
1	The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
2	The Godfather: Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
3	Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
4	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
5	12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet
6	Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki
7	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg
8	Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
9	Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
10	Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese
11	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
12	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone
13	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
14	City Lights	1931	Charlie Chaplin
15	Sunset Boulevard	1950	Billy Wilder
16	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola
17	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont
18	Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
19	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner
20	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
21	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
22	M	1931	Fritz Lang
23	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Miloš Forman
24	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
25	The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan
26	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme
27	Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin
28	Star Wars - A New Hope	1977	George Lucas
29	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick
30	Come and See	1985	Elem Klimov
31	Bicycle Thieves	1948	Vittorio De Sica
32	Tokyo Story	1953	Yasujirō Ozu
33	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra
34	Rashomon	1950	Akira Kurosawa
35	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone
36	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
37	Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa
38	Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang
39	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer
40	Alien	1979	Ridley Scott
41	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
42	All About Eve	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
43	Fanny and Alexander	1982	Ingmar Bergman
44	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
45	City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund
46	Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder
47	Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick
48	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg
49	Andrei Rublev	1966	Andrei Tarkovsky
50	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder
51	Harakiri	1962	Masaki Kobayashi
52	Parasite	2019	Bong Joon-ho
53	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson
54	The 400 Blows	1959	François Truffaut
55	Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky
56	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder
57	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	F.W. Murnau
58	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	Guillermo del Toro
59	Ran	1985	Akira Kurosawa
60	Sherlock, Jr.	1924	Buster Keaton
61	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson
62	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton
63	A Separation	2011	Asghar Farhadi
64	Grave of the Fireflies	1988	Isao Takahata
65	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
66	Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman
67	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry
68	Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis
69	The Battle of Algiers	1966	Gillo Pontecorvo
70	Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter
71	Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese
72	8½ (Eight and a Half)	1963	Federico Fellini
73	Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg
74	On the Waterfront	1954	Elia Kazan
75	The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick
76	Three Colors: Red	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski
77	The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin
78	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn…
79	The Wages of Fear	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot
80	In the Mood for Love	2000	Wong Kar-wai
81	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	2018	Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey…
82	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	John Huston
83	The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman
84	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson
85	The Red Shoes	1948	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
86	The General	1926	Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
87	The Gold Rush	1925	Charles Chaplin
88	Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
89	WALL-E	2008	Andrew Stanton
90	Aliens	1986	James Cameron
91	Wild Strawberries	1957	Ingmar Bergman
92	Paris Texas	1984	Wim Wenders
93	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
94	La Grande Illusion	1937	Jean Renoir
95	There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson
96	Amadeus	1984	Miloš Forman
97	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen
98	Whiplash	2014	Damien Chazelle
99	Pather Panchali	1955	Satyajit Ray
100	Cinema Paradiso	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore
101	It Happened One Night	1934	Frank Capra
102	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
103	The Lives of Others	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
104	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron
105	Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott
106	Yojimbo	1961	Akira Kurosawa
107	Ugetsu	1953	Kenji Mizoguchi
108	Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino
109	Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan
110	Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki
111	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller
112	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski
113	Wings of Desire	1987	Wim Wenders
114	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	1920	Robert Wiene
115	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler
116	Inception	2010	Christopher Nolan
117	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
118	Fargo	1996	Joel & Ethan Coen
119	La Dolce Vita	1960	Federico Fellini
120	Oldboy	2003	Chan-wook Park
121	Nights of Cabiria	1957	Federico Fellini
122	Toy Story 3	2010	Lee Unkrich
123	Children of Paradise	1945	Marcel Carné
124	Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming,George Cukor...
125	Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg
126	Das Boot	1981	Wolfgang Petersen
127	High and Low	1963	Akira Kurosawa
128	The Mirror	1975	Andrei Tarkovsky
129	L.A. Confidential	1997	Curtis Hanson
130	Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood
131	Amelie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
132	My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki
133	Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick
134	Le Samouraï	1967	Jean-Pierre Melville
135	Ordet	1955	Carl Theodor Dreyer
136	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
137	No Country for Old Men	2007	Joel & Ethan Coen
138	Solaris	1972	Andrei Tarkovsky
139	Coco	2017	Lee Unkrich
140	Your Name.	2016	Makoto Shinkai
141	Fight Club	1999	David Fincher
142	The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston
143	The Kid	1921	Charles Chaplin
144	Woman in the Dunes	1964	Hiroshi Teshigahara
145	Se7en	1995	David Fincher
146	Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee
147	The Rules of the Game	1939	Jean Renoir
148	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
149	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford
150	La Haine	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz
151	Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone
152	Throne of Blood	1957	Akira Kurosawa
153	Notorious	1946	Alfred Hitchcock
154	Badlands	1973	Terrence Malick
155	A Man Escaped	1956	Robert Bresson
156	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
157	Rosemary's Baby	1968	Roman Polanski
158	Before Sunrise	1995	Richard Linklater
159	The Lion King	1994	Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
160	Before Sunset	2004	Richard Linklater
161	Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
162	La strada	1954	Federico Fellini
163	Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey
164	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino
165	Sansho the Bailiff	1954	Kenji Mizoguchi
166	The Philadelphia Story	1940	George Cukor
167	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford
168	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan
169	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam
170	Sweet Smell of Success	1957	Alexander Mackendrick
171	The Departed	2006	Martin Scorsese
172	Three Colors: Blue	1993	Krzysztof Kieślowski
173	The Last Picture Show	1971	Peter Bogdanovich
174	Rome, Open City	1945	Roberto Rossellini
175	Up	2009	Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
176	The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner
177	Breathless	1960	Jean-Luc Godard
178	Dog Day Afternoon	1975	Sidney Lumet
179	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
180	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan
181	Chungking Express	1994	Wong Kar-wai
182	The Conversation	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
183	Rio Bravo	1959	Howard Hawks
184	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick
185	The Handmaiden	2016	Chan-wook Park
186	A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
187	A Woman Under the Influence	1974	John Cassavetes
188	All the President's Men	1976	Alan J. Pakula
189	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	2019	Céline Sciamma
190	The Matrix	1999	Lilly & Lana Wachowski
191	12 Years a Slave	2013	Steve McQueen
192	Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
193	Shoplifters	2018	Hirokazu Kore-eda
194	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes
195	His Girl Friday	1940	Howard Hawks
196	The Usual Suspects	1995	Bryan Singer
197	The Graduate	1967	Mike Nichols
198	Jurassic Park	1993	Steven Spielberg
199	Memories of Murder	2003	Bong Joon-ho
200	King Kong	1933	Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
201	Inside Out	2015	Pete Docter
202	Yi yi	2000	Edward Yang
203	Raise the Red Lantern	1991	Zhang Yimou
204	Rififi	1955	Jules Dassin
205	Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
206	Army of Shadows	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville
207	This Is Spinal Tap	1984	Rob Reiner
208	The Wild Bunch	1969	Sam Peckinpah
209	Witness for the Prosecution	1957	Billy Wilder
210	Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei M. Eisenstein
211	Strangers on a Train	1951	Alfred Hitchcock
212	The Searchers	1956	John Ford
213	The Big Lebowski	1998	Joel & Ethan Coen
214	Nosferatu	1922	F.W. Murnau
215	Network	1976	Sidney Lumet
216	The Hustler	1961	Robert Rossen
217	The Exterminating Angel	1962	Luis Buñuel
218	Days of Heaven	1978	Terrence Malick
219	Finding Nemo	2003	Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich
220	Heat	1995	Michael Mann
221	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges
222	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan
223	Diabolique	1955	Henri-Georges Clouzot
224	The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill
225	Night of the Living Dead	1968	George A. Romero
226	The Thing	1982	John Carpenter
227	Mulholland Drive	2001	David Lynch
228	The Conformist	1970	Bernardo Bertolucci
229	The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	Wes Anderson
230	A Brighter Summer Day	1991	Edward Yang
231	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones
232	Umberto D.	1952	Vittorio De Sica
233	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Mike Nichols
234	Stagecoach	1939	John Ford
235	Beauty and the Beast	1991	Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
236	The Big Sleep	1946	Howard Hawks
237	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino
238	Viridiana	1961	Luis Buñuel
239	Incendies	2010	Denis Villeneuve
240	The Terminator	1984	James Cameron
241	Bride of Frankenstein	1935	James Whale
242	Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges
243	Playtime	1967	Jacques Tati
244	Ivan's Childhood	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky
245	Life Is Beautiful	1997	Roberto Benigni
246	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	George Roy Hill
247	Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen
248	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle
249	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone
250	The Young and the Damned	1950	Luis Buñuel
251	The Elephant Man	1980	David Lynch
252	All About My Mother	1999	Pedro Almodóvar
253	Le Trou	1960	Jacques Becker
254	The Leopard	1963	Luchino Visconti
255	Laura	1944	Otto Preminger
256	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock
257	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra
258	Hiroshima Mon Amour	1959	Alain Resnais
259	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks
260	Out of the Past	1947	Jacques Tourneur
261	Anatomy of a Murder	1959	Otto Preminger
262	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	Ang Lee
263	L'avventura	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni
264	Beauty and the Beast	1946	Jean Cocteau
265	The Hunt	2012	Thomas Vinterberg
266	Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis
267	Ace in the Hole	1951	Billy Wilder
268	Late Spring	1949	Yasujirō Ozu
269	The Celebration	1998	Thomas Vinterberg
270	Au Revoir Les Enfants	1987	Louis Malle
271	Spotlight	2015	Tom McCarthy
272	Roman Holiday	1953	William Wyler
273	Amour	2012	Michael Haneke
274	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	1974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
275	Paddington 2	2017	Paul King
276	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
277	The French Connection	1971	William Friedkin
278	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	1972	Luis Buñuel
279	High Noon	1952	Fred Zinnemann
280	Akira	1988	Katsuhiro Otomo
281	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	2007	Cristian Mungiu
282	Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler
283	Let the Right One In	2008	Tomas Alfredson
284	Nashville	1975	Robert Altman
285	Room	2015	Lenny Abrahamson
286	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938	Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
287	Jules and Jim	1962	François Truffaut
288	Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus Van Sant
289	Young Frankenstein	1974	Mel Brooks
290	White Heat	1949	Raoul Walsh
291	Short Term 12	2013	Destin Cretton
292	The Killing	1956	Stanley Kubrick
293	In a Lonely Place	1950	Nicholas Ray
294	Frankenstein	1931	James Whale
295	Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh
296	Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino
297	Call Me by Your Name	2017	Luca Guadagnino
298	Magnolia	1999	Paul Thomas Anderson
299	Being There	1979	Hal Ashby
300	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer
301	Paper Moon	1973	Peter Bogdanovich
302	The Shop Around the Corner	1940	Ernst Lubitsch
303	Halloween	1978	John Carpenter
304	The World of Apu	1959	Satyajit Ray
305	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2003	Kim Ki-duk
306	L'Atalante	1934	Jean Vigo
307	The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird
308	The Exorcist	1973	William Friedkin
309	Amores Perros	2000	Alejandro González Iñárritu
310	Central Station	1998	Walter Salles
311	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Arthur Penn
312	Persepolis	2007	Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
313	The Best of Youth	2003	Marco Tullio Giordana
314	The Spirit of the Beehive	1973	Víctor Erice
315	Z	1969	Costa-Gavras
316	Underground	1995	Emir Kusturica
317	The Killer	1989	John Woo
318	Kes	1969	Ken Loach
319	Moonlight	2016	Barry Jenkins
320	Howl's Moving Castle	2004	Hayao Miyazaki
321	Her	2013	Spike Jonze
322	Requiem for a Dream	2000	Darren Aronofsky
323	The Truman Show	1998	Peter Weir
324	The Incredibles	2004	Brad Bird
325	Cries and Whispers	1972	Ingmar Bergman
326	Stand by Me	1986	Rob Reiner
327	Before Midnight	2013	Richard Linklater
328	Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis
329	Little Women	2019	Greta Gerwig
330	The Social Network	2010	David Fincher
331	The Right Stuff	1983	Philip Kaufman
332	Get Out	2017	Jordan Peele
333	It's Such a Beautiful Day	2012	Don Hertzfeldt
334	Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson
335	Fantasia	1940	Samuel Armstrong, James Algar...
336	Black Narcissus	1947	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
337	Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger
338	Children of Men	2006	Alfonso Cuarón
339	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg
340	Toy Story 2	1999	John Lasseter
341	Leon: The Professional	1994	Luc Besson
342	Cabaret	1972	Bob Fosse
343	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	2007	Julian Schnabel
344	Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird
345	The Cranes Are Flying	1957	Mikhail Kalatozov
346	Day for Night	1973	François Truffaut
347	Withnail & I	1987	Bruce Robinson
348	Safety Last!	1923	Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
349	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	1964	Jacques Demy
350	Shaun of the Dead	2004	Edgar Wright
351	Song of the Sea	2014	Tomm Moore
352	Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma
353	Harold and Maude	1971	Hal Ashby
354	Platoon	1986	Oliver Stone
355	The Nightmare Before Christmas	1993	Henry Selick
356	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg
357	Talk to Her	2002	Pedro Almodóvar
358	Wild Tales	2014	Damián Szifrón
359	Close-Up	1990	Abbas Kiarostami
360	Time of the Gypsies	1988	Emir Kusturica
361	Mary and Max	2009	Adam Elliot
362	The Return	2003	Andrey Zvyagintsev
363	Logan	2017	James Mangold
364	For a Few Dollars More	1965	Sergio Leone
365	A Prophet	2009	Jacques Audiard
366	La La Land	2016	Damien Chazelle
367	The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise
368	The King of Comedy	1982	Martin Scorsese
369	The Big Heat	1953	Fritz Lang
370	In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison
371	Amarcord	1973	Federico Fellini
372	A Night at the Opera	1935	Sam Wood
373	Repulsion	1965	Roman Polanski
374	Freaks	1932	Tod Browning
375	Au Hasard Balthazar	1966	Robert Bresson
376	Downfall	2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel
377	Lost in Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola
378	Belle de Jour	1967	Luis Buñuel
379	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962	Robert Aldrich
380	The Circus	1928	Charles Chaplin
381	How to Train Your Dragon	2010	Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois
382	Crimes and Misdemeanors	1989	Woody Allen
383	Breaking the Waves	1996	Lars von Trier
384	Brokeback Mountain	2005	Ang Lee
385	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	1928	Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner
386	Werckmeister Harmonies	2000	Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
387	Greed	1924	Erich von Stroheim
388	Roma	2018	Alfonso Cuarón
389	Make Way for Tomorrow	1937	Leo McCarey
390	The Lady Eve	1941	Preston Sturges
391	The Straight Story	1999	David Lynch
392	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion	1997	Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hideaki Anno
393	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg
394	Peeping Tom	1960	Michael Powell
395	The Secret in Their Eyes	2009	Juan José Campanella
396	Cleo from 5 to 7	1962	Agnès Varda
397	Aladdin	1992	Ron Clements & John Musker
398	Rocco and His Brothers	1960	Luchino Visconti
399	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	Woody Allen
400	My Darling Clementine	1946	John Ford
401	Avengers: Endgame	2019	Joe & Anthony Russo
402	Infernal Affairs	2002	Alan Mak & Andrew Lau
403	Patton	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner
404	Mary Poppins	1964	Robert Stevenson
405	Monsters, Inc.	2001	Pete Docter
406	Hunt for the Wilderpeople	2016	Taika Waititi
407	Children of Heaven	1997	Majid Majidi
408	Last Year at Marienbad	1961	Alain Resnais
409	Sanjuro	1962	Akira Kurosawa
410	1917	2019	Sam Mendes
411	Avengers: Infinity War	2018	Joe & Anthony Russo
412	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	2013	Isao Takahata
413	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2017	Martin McDonagh
414	Through a Glass Darkly	1961	Ingmar Bergman
415	The Thin Man	1934	W.S. Van Dyke
416	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye
417	Knives Out	2019	Rian Johnson
418	Orpheus	1950	Jean Cocteau
419	Evil Dead II	1987	Sam Raimi
420	Airplane!	1980	Jim Abrahams, Jerry & David Zucker
421	Red River	1948	Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson
422	Rope	1948	Alfred Hitchcock
423	Y tu mamá también	2001	Alfonso Cuarón
424	Million Dollar Baby	2004	Clint Eastwood
425	Pickpocket	1959	Robert Bresson
426	Being John Malkovich	1999	Spike Jonze
427	The Cameraman	1928	Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick
428	Satantango	1994	Béla Tarr
429	Hard Boiled	1992	John Woo
430	Naked	1993	Mike Leigh
431	The Double Life of Veronique	1991	Krzysztof Kieślowski
432	Arrival	2016	Denis Villeneuve
433	Rushmore	1998	Wes Anderson
434	Sing Street	2016	John Carney
435	Rebel Without a Cause	1955	Nicholas Ray
436	The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
437	The Last Laugh	1924	F.W. Murnau
438	The Green Mile	1999	Frank Darabont
439	Vivre Sa Vie	1962	Jean-Luc Godard
440	Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick
441	A Hard Day's Night	1964	Richard Lester
442	Autumn Sonata	1978	Ingmar Bergman
443	Ghostbusters	1984	Ivan Reitman
444	The Hidden Fortress	1958	Akira Kurosawa
445	Capernaum	2018	Nadine Labaki
446	Mommy	2014	Xavier Dolan
447	Le Cercle Rouge	1970	Jean-Pierre Melville
448	Down by Law	1986	Jim Jarmusch
449	Stalag 17	1953	Billy Wilder
450	Boyhood	2014	Richard Linklater
451	Trouble in Paradise	1932	Ernst Lubitsch
452	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961	Stanley Kramer
453	Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese
454	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	Robert Altman
455	The Prestige	2006	Christopher Nolan
456	The Irishman	2019	Martin Scorsese
457	Blade Runner 2049	2017	Denis Villeneuve
458	Faust	1926	F.W. Murnau
459	Marriage Story	2019	Noah Baumbach
460	Fireworks	1997	Takeshi Kitano
461	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	1983	Richard Marquand
462	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984	Hayao Miyazaki
463	Goldfinger	1964	Guy Hamilton
464	Gangs of Wasseypur	2012	Anurag Kashyap
465	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	David Hand
466	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956	Don Siegel
467	Top Hat	1935	Mark Sandrich
468	The King's Speech	2010	Tom Hooper
469	Farewell My Concubine	1993	Chen Kaige
470	The Breakfast Club	1985	John Hughes
471	Wolf Children	2012	Mamoru Hosoda
472	The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan
473	Boyz n the Hood	1991	John Singleton
474	In the Name of the Father	1993	Jim Sheridan
475	Gladiator	2000	Ridley Scott
476	The Phantom Carriage	1921	Victor Sjöström
477	Dead Poets Society	1989	Peter Weir
478	What We Do in the Shadows	2014	Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi
479	The Birds	1963	Alfred Hitchcock
480	Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson
481	A Fistful of Dollars	1964	Sergio Leone
482	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	2003	Quentin Tarantino
483	Manchester by the Sea	2016	Kenneth Lonergan
484	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	1988	Robert Zemeckis
485	Almost Famous	2000	Cameron Crowe
486	Lady Bird	2017	Greta Gerwig
487	To Have and Have Not	1944	Howard Hawks
488	Kiki's Delivery Service	1989	Hayao Miyazaki
489	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	2004	Quentin Tarantino
490	Eyes Without a Face	1960	Georges Franju
491	Blazing Saddles	1974	Mel Brooks
492	The Sacrifice	1986	Andrei Tarkovsky
493	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
494	Donnie Darko	2001	Richard Kelly
495	Gone Girl	2014	David Fincher
496	Eraserhead	1977	David Lynch
497	Hero	2002	Zhang Yimou
498	Ghost in the Shell	1995	Mamoru Oshii
499	Miller's Crossing	1990	Joel & Ethan Coen
500	Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	Vincente Minnelli
501	Great Expectations	1946	David Lean
502	Contempt	1963	Jean-Luc Godard
503	Scarface	1932	Howard Hawks
504	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	1975	Chantal Akerman
505	My Left Foot	1989	Jim Sheridan
506	The Long Goodbye	1973	Robert Altman
507	Zootopia	2016	Byron Howard
508	Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg
509	Fitzcarraldo	1982	Werner Herzog
510	West Side Story	1961	Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
511	All That Jazz	1979	Bob Fosse
512	Castle in the Sky	1986	Hayao Miyazaki
513	Kagemusha	1980	Akira Kurosawa
514	The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese
515	My Fair Lady	1964	George Cukor
516	Dunkirk	2017	Christopher Nolan
517	Guardians of the Galaxy	2014	James Gunn
518	The Lost Weekend	1945	Billy Wilder
519	The Intouchables	2011	Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache
520	Nightcrawler	2014	Dan Gilroy
521	Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman
522	A Silent Voice	2016	Naoko Yamada
523	The Innocents	1961	Jack Clayton
524	Nostalgia	1983	Andrei Tarkovsky
525	Mean Streets	1973	Martin Scorsese
526	Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen
527	I Am Cuba	1964	Mikhail Kalatozov
528	3-Iron	2004	Kim Ki-duk
529	Dirty Harry	1971	Don Siegel
530	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981	George Miller
531	The Crowd	1928	King Vidor
532	The Triplets of Belleville	2003	Sylvain Chomet
533	Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky
534	Mon Oncle	1958	Jacques Tati
535	The Piano	1993	Jane Campion
536	Ed Wood	1994	Tim Burton
537	Head-On	2004	Fatih Akin
538	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	2004	Alfonso Cuarón
539	The Insider	1999	Michael Mann
540	Forbidden Games	1952	René Clément
541	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	2011	David Yates
542	When Harry Met Sally...	1989	Rob Reiner
543	The Wrestler	2008	Darren Aronofsky
544	The Player	1992	Robert Altman
545	Inside Llewyn Davis	2013	Joel & Ethan Coen
546	Blow-Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni
547	The Remains of the Day	1993	James Ivory
548	The Man Who Would Be King	1975	John Huston
549	The Florida Project	2017	Sean Baker
550	Napoleon	1927	Abel Gance
551	Suspiria	1977	Dario Argento
552	Drive	2011	Nicolas Winding Refn
553	The Producers	1967	Mel Brooks
554	That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	Luis Buñuel
555	The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976	Clint Eastwood
556	Klaus	2019	Sergio Pablos
557	The African Queen	1951	John Huston
558	Ninotchka	1939	Ernst Lubitsch
559	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	Danny Boyle
560	My Man Godfrey	1936	Gregory La Cava
561	Dangal	2016	Nitesh Tiwari
562	Blood Simple.	1984	Joel & Ethan Coen
563	Interstellar	2014	Christopher Nolan
564	About Elly	2009	Asghar Farhadi
565	Hot Fuzz	2007	Edgar Wright
566	Johnny Guitar	1954	Nicholas Ray
567	Planet of the Apes	1968	Franklin J. Schaffner
568	The Quiet Man	1952	John Ford
569	Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	Wes Anderson
570	Casino Royale	2006	Martin Campbell
571	Monsieur Hulot's Holiday	1953	Jacques Tati
572	Adaptation.	2002	Spike Jonze
573	American Graffiti	1973	George Lucas
574	Barton Fink	1991	Joel & Ethan Coen
575	Tampopo	1985	Juzo Itami
576	Little Miss Sunshine	2006	Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
577	Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton
578	The Earrings of Madame de…	1953	Max Ophüls
579	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Frank Capra
580	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean
581	The Virgin Spring	1960	Ingmar Bergman
582	Jean de Florette	1986	Claude Berri
583	Zodiac	2007	David Fincher
584	Aparajito	1956	Satyajit Ray
585	The Asphalt Jungle	1950	John Huston
586	Ex Machina	2014	Alex Garland
587	The Favourite	2018	Yorgos Lanthimos
588	The Royal Tenenbaums	2001	Wes Anderson
589	The Twilight Samurai	2002	Yôji Yamada
590	Pierrot le Fou	1965	Jean-Luc Godard
591	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951	Robert Wise
592	Enter the Dragon	1973	Robert Clouse
593	Batman Begins	2005	Christopher Nolan
594	Hell or High Water	2016	David Mackenzie
595	Dersu Uzala	1975	Akira Kurosawa
596	Letter from an Unknown Woman	1948	Max Ophüls
597	Sleuth	1972	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
598	Whisper of the Heart	1995	Yoshifumi Kondô
599	Nobody Knows	2004	Hirokazu Koreeda
600	Glengarry Glen Ross	1992	James Foley
601	Dogville	2003	Lars von Trier
602	Nine Queens	2000	Fabián Bielinsky
603	The Sweet Hereafter	1997	Atom Egoyan
604	Dazed and Confused	1993	Richard Linklater
605	True Romance	1993	Tony Scott
606	The Great Beauty	2013	Paolo Sorrentino
607	Band of Outsiders	1964	Jean-Luc Godard
608	Eighth Grade	2018	Bo Burnham
609	The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé
610	Once	2007	John Carney
611	The Artist	2011	Michel Hazanavicius
612	Sling Blade	1996	Billy Bob Thornton
613	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	1986	John Hughes
614	Dial M for Murder	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
615	The Farewell	2019	Lulu Wang
616	Limelight	1952	Charles Chaplin
617	Charade	1963	Stanley Donen
618	Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve
619	Mildred Pierce	1945	Michael Curtiz
620	Kubo and the Two Strings	2016	Travis Knight
621	Winter Sleep	2014	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
622	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	John Cameron Mitchell
623	Kiss Me Deadly	1955	Robert Aldrich
624	Pride	2014	Matthew Warchus
625	After Hours	1985	Martin Scorsese
626	East of Eden	1955	Elia Kazan
627	Mission: Impossible - Fallout	2018	Christopher McQuarrie
628	The Mother and the Whore	1973	Jean Eustache
629	Perfect Blue	1997	Satoshi Kon
630	The Blues Brothers	1980	John Landis
631	Elevator to the Gallows	1958	Louis Malle
632	Pain and Glory	2019	Pedro Almodóvar
633	The Fugitive	1993	Andrew Davis
634	The Vanishing	1988	George Sluizer
635	Hidden Figures	2016	Theodore Melfi
636	JFK	1991	Oliver Stone
637	Dancer in the Dark	2000	Lars von Trier
638	Don't Look Now	1973	Nicolas Roeg
639	Dallas Buyers Club	2013	Jean-Marc Vallée
640	Hotel Rwanda	2004	Terry George
641	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Ang Lee
642	The Avengers	2012	Joss Whedon
643	Vampyr	1932	Carl Theodor Dreyer
644	Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam
645	Rain Man	1988	Barry Levinson
646	Pinocchio	1940	Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen
647	The White Ribbon	2009	Michael Haneke
648	Zelig	1983	Woody Allen
649	The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles & Fred Fleck
650	Stranger Than Paradise	1984	Jim Jarmusch
651	Picnic at Hanging Rock	1975	Peter Weir
652	3 Idiots	2009	Rajkumar Hirani
653	Phantom Thread	2017	Paul Thomas Anderson
654	The Last Emperor	1987	Bernardo Bertolucci
655	Birdman	2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu
656	Day of Wrath	1943	Carl Theodor Dreyer
657	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	1974	Tobe Hooper
658	Deliverance	1972	John Boorman
659	Gandhi	1982	Richard Attenborough
660	Warrior	2011	Gavin O'Connor
661	In Bruges	2008	Martin McDonagh
662	C.R.A.Z.Y.	2005	Jean-Marc Vallée
663	To Live	1994	Zhang Yimou
664	The Fly	1986	David Cronenberg
665	The Lego Movie	2014	Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
666	Volver	2006	Pedro Almodóvar
667	The Thin Red Line	1998	Terrence Malick
668	Our Hospitality	1923	John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton
669	La Notte	1961	Michelangelo Antonioni
670	The Holy Mountain	1973	Alejandro Jodorowsky
671	Malcolm X	1992	Spike Lee
672	The Dark Knight Rises	2012	Christopher Nolan
673	The Purple Rose of Cairo	1985	Woody Allen
674	Isle of Dogs	2018	Wes Anderson
675	The Lion in Winter	1968	Anthony Harvey
676	A Short Film About Killing	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
677	Black Cat, White Cat	1998	Emir Kusturica
678	Mother	2009	Bong Joon-ho
679	Snatch.	2000	Guy Ritchie
680	If....	1968	Lindsay Anderson
681	Toy Story 4	2019	John Lasseter
682	Godzilla	1954	Ishirô Honda
683	A Short Film About Love	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
684	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	1916	D.W. Griffith
685	Carol	2015	Todd Haynes
686	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	Clint Eastwood
687	Fiddler on the Roof	1971	Norman Jewison
688	Moon	2009	Duncan Jones
689	L'Eclisse	1962	Michelangelo Antonioni
690	Serpico	1973	Sidney Lumet
691	Porco Rosso	1992	Hayao Miyazaki
692	The Heiress	1949	William Wyler
693	Winter Light	1963	Ingmar Bergman
694	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	1958	Richard Brooks
695	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	2010	José Padilha
696	Deep Red	1975	Dario Argento
697	The Ox-Bow Incident	1942	William A. Wellman
698	Pride & Prejudice	2005	Joe Wright
699	The Blue Angel	1930	Josef von Sternberg
700	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	Pedro Almodóvar
701	Three Colors: White	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski
702	The Ladykillers	1955	Alexander Mackendrick
703	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961	Blake Edwards
704	Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India	2001	Ashutosh Gowariker
705	Baby Driver	2017	Edgar Wright
706	Iron Man	2008	Jon Favreau
707	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	Robert Benton
708	The Martian	2015	Ridley Scott
709	The Bourne Ultimatum	2007	Paul Greengrass
710	Thor: Ragnarok	2017	Taika Waititi
711	Burning	2018	Lee Chang-dong
712	The Wind Rises	2013	Hayao Miyazaki
713	Jojo Rabbit	2019	Taika Waititi
714	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2	2013	Jay Oliva
715	Cache (Hidden)	2005	Michael Haneke
716	Delicatessen	1991	Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
717	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	1971	Mel Stuart
718	Shrek	2001	Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
719	A Christmas Story	1983	Bob Clark
720	The Life of Oharu	1952	Kenji Mizoguchi
721	Pandora's Box	1929	G.W. Pabst
722	Five Easy Pieces	1970	Bob Rafelson
723	Thelma & Louise	1991	Ridley Scott
724	Andhadhun	2018	Sriram Raghavan
725	The Big Sick	2017	Michael Showalter
726	Gilda	1946	Charles Vidor
727	Creed	2015	Ryan Coogler
728	Blue Is the Warmest Color	2013	Abdellatif Kechiche
729	RoboCop	1987	Paul Verhoeven
730	Shane	1953	George Stevens
731	A Face in the Crowd	1957	Elia Kazan
732	Moana	2016	Ron Clements & John Musker
733	Argo	2012	Ben Affleck
734	Gravity	2013	Alfonso Cuarón
735	BlacKkKlansman	2018	Spike Lee
736	I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang	1932	Mervyn LeRoy
737	The Magnificent Seven	1960	John Sturges
738	Run Lola Run	1998	Tom Tykwer
739	A Star Is Born	1954	George Cukor
740	Mystic River	2003	Clint Eastwood
741	Brooklyn	2015	John Crowley
742	The Ten Commandments	1956	Cecil B. DeMille
743	Miracle on 34th Street	1947	George Seaton
744	Into the Wild	2007	Sean Penn
745	This Is England	2006	Shane Meadows
746	Love and Death	1975	Woody Allen
747	Mustang	2015	Deniz Gamze Ergüven
748	Departures	2008	Yojiro Takita
749	Star Trek	2009	J.J. Abrams
750	Selma	2014	Ava DuVernay

Please let me know if there are any glaring omissions, mistakes, or possible bias, as well as any other feedback that you have that could improve the list. Thank you.
Extra Lists:
500 ‘Greatest’ Movies of the 21st Century
CRITIC EDITION: Top10ner’s 1000 ‘Greatest’ Films of All Time
AUDIENCE EDITION: Top10ner’s 1000 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time

MAME 0.191

It’s the end of October, and time for the hotly anticipated MAME 0.191 release. This release includes an experimental Hitachi SH3 recompiler from frequent contributor David “Haze” Haywood that shows promising performance improvements for Cave CV-1000 emulation, and holds the tantalising possibility of bringing similar gains to systems based on the SH4 in the future (including Sega NAOMI). Bug fixes to the Saturn/ST-V emulation will enhance your enjoyment of numerous Sega titles from the ’90s. There have also been some optimisations and improvements to MIPS3 and Voodoo emulation, as used in a number of 3D arcade systems.
For fans of systems more often experienced at home, David Haywood also rewrote most of the Gamate emulation, taking it from mostly broken to (hopefully) best-in-class. We’ve also got some important bug fixes for the Tatung Einstein, the NEC PC-Engine console, and the M6809 CPU used by the Tandy CoCo family (among other things). Three more Tiger handhelds have been added for this release, namely Batman, Judge Dredd, and Swamp Thing. The hard limit of four emulated screens has been lifted, allowing you to plug in more video cards, more serial terminals, or just emulate systems that just have lots of screens.
We’ve got some big updates to the software lists this month, with plenty of Apple II cassettes, RM Nimbus software, and over seventy new PlayStation dumps. BBC Torch floppies and Gamate cartridges are now considered working, and Kiki Inland for Gamate has been added. A number of titles that don’t require a PC/AT have been moved from the IBM 5170 list to the IBM 5150 list. There are also some nice additions to the IBM PC and Fujitsu FM Towns software.
Of course, there are lots more bug fixes and newly dumped versions of emulated games. You can get the source/Windows binaries from the download page and start emulating.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

• 00759: [Misc.] (mystwarr.cpp) mtlchamp and clones: Problem with NVRAM in the RAM/ROM check after changing settings in service mode. (MetalliC)
• 04910: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce, tg16 [dslaylh, dslayedj]: No inputs and Black Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 04950: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce [draculax]: Game freezes at start of Stage 5. (Angelo Salese)
• 05192: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) tg16 [airzonk]: Graphics freeze when traversing too far up the screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 05994: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce [imagef2]: Freezes before displaying title screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06154: [DIP/Input] Games with a rotary positional joystick: Some positions are skipped. (Angelo Salese)
• 06387: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) pce [finalsol, finalsols]: Messed up/disappearing tiles. (Angelo Salese)
• 06487: [Documentation] tonton, ppj, big10: Documentation found on Success website. (D Go Go Fan)
• 06622: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) pce [beball]: Garbage appears when collecting the dual arrow item. (Angelo Salese)
• 06637: [Interface] Internal UI does not save entire configuration. (AJR)
• 06656: [Interface] Configuring Machine level “Video Option” causes CRASH. (Nathan Woods)
• 06689: [Crash/Freeze] (amstrad.cpp) cpc6128: Loading a disk freezes the emulator. (Patrick Mackinlay)
• 06690: [ColoPalette] (bottom9.cpp) bottom9n: Sprites have incorrect colors. (Angelo Salese)
• 06691: [Graphics] tokio and clones: Tokio – graphic glitches on the right side of the screen. (Lord Nightmare)
• 06696: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) tg16 [turrican]: Not showing Title Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06697: [Crash/Freeze] (stv.cpp) grdforce: Hangs after insert coin. (Angelo Salese)
• 06701: [Gameplay] (pce.cpp) pce [shingen, shingen1]: Extended/Unexpected periods of Black Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06708: [Media Support] (tandy2k.cpp) tandy2k: Does not boot from disk (regression). (Carl)
• 06711: [Interface] UI: If you exit with the Exit option, the last used game is not saved. (Vas Crabb)
• 06713: [Misc.] (dbz.cpp) dbz, dbza, dbz2: Correct names for these three games. (Fortuna)
• 06719: [Core] (coco12.cpp) coco12, coco3, other 6809?: SBCB instruction returns the wrong result. (hap)
• 06720: [Interface] Prescale option allows invalid values. (Tafoid)
• 06723: [DIP/Input] (einstein.cpp) einstein [hustler, starq]: Keyboard is not responding! (Dirk Best)
• 06724: [Gameplay] (vegas.cpp) gauntleg, gauntdl: Various Effects Cause More Damage than they should (64-bit Only). (Ted Green)
• 06727: [Documentation] (ibmpc.cpp) Parent/Clone Issues for IBM5170 softlist. (Justin Kerk)
• 06728: [Timing] (einstein.cpp) einstein: In Xtal Basic the PRINT TI$ always gives "000000" ?. (Dirk Best)

New working machines

• Batman (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
• Judge Dredd (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
• Mephisto Mondial II [yoyo_chessboard, Sandro Ronco]
• Swamp Thing (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]

New working clones

• Alien3: The Gun (Japan) [ShouTime]
• Athena (bootleg) [Porchy, The Dumping Union]
• Biomechanical Toy (Ver. 1.0.1878) [Jorge Silva]
• Cabal (UK, Joystick) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• Cobra Command (M.A.C.H. 3 hardware, set 2) [f205v]
• Cyberball (rev 1) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
• Fidelity Elite Avant Garde (model 6117-7, set 2) [CB-Emu]
• G-LOC R360 (Japan) [ordyne, The Dumping Union]
• Kaypro 16 [rfka01]
• Knights of the Round (bootleg, World 911127) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• Rod-Land (World, set 2) [frsj8112]
• Super Hang-On (Hang-On conversion, Beta bootleg) [Cmonkey]
• Target Hits (ver 1.1, Checksum 86E1) [Peter Wilhelmsen, Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, Clawgrip, Brian Troha, David Haywood]
• Tecmo World Cup ’94 (set 3) [caius, Angelo Salese, The Dumping Union]
• TH Strikes Back (Non North America, Version 1.0, Checksum 020EB356) [caius, The Dumping Union]
• unknown ‘Space Invaders’ gambling game (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Arzeno Fabrice]
• World Series: The Season (rev 0) [f205v, The Dumping Union]

Machines promoted to working

• Big Casino [Ivan Vangelista]
• Votrax Personal Speech System [Robbbert]
• Votrax Type ’N Talk [Robbbert]

Clones promoted to working

• Terco 4426 CNC Programming station [Edström]
• Torch CF240 [Nigel Barnes]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

• Baby Boom Challenge [f205v]
• Casino Strip I (Poker version, for Pioneer LD, set 1) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip II (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip III (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip IX (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip Private Eyes / All Start (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip V (Poker version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip V (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VI (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Casino Strip VI (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VIII (Poker version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VIII (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip Vivid 1 (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip X (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Casino Strip XI (Poker version, for Sony LD, set 1) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip XI (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip XII (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Dobou-Chan (ver. JAA) [R. Belmont, Rod_Wod]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #2: Joshiryou de NE! [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #6: Scandal Blue - Midara na Daishou [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #7: Trap Zone - Yokubou no Kaisoku Densha [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• Elektronika MS 6102.02 [shattered]
• Gokidetor [Surgeville, Sean Sutton, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Mikrocomputer fuer Ausbildung [rfka01, Robbbert]
• Note Chance [Roberto Fresca, Ryan Holtz, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Ocha-Ken Hot Medal [Darksoft]
• Ton Puu Mahjong [ShouTime, The Dumping Union]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• 301/Bullseye (Traditional Scoring) [barakandl]
• A.G. Soccer Ball (R07u) [PinMAME]
• Casino Strip XI (Poker version, for Sony LD, set 2) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Cheetah (Blue cabinet version - Stern Pinball) [Cooke/LondonPinball]
• Eight Ball (rev. 17) [Quench]
• Epson CM6000 [Colin McDougall]
• Flash Point (Japan, bootleg set 2) [Arzeno Fabrice, David Haywood]
• Horizon (North Star Computers, 2MHz) [AJR]
• Knights of Valour 3 (V100, China) [XingXing]
• Knights of Valour 3 (V104, China) [XingXing]
• Mikrocomputer fuer Ausbildung MAT85 [rfka01, Robbbert]
• Omni 4 Logic Analyzer [rfka01]
• Poker Ladies (Censored bootleg, set 2) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Korea) [Rod_Wod, The Dumping Union]
• Time Warp (L-3) [PinMAME]
• Trident (Later version - Stern Pinball) [Quench]
• Virtua Athletics / Virtua Athlete (prototype) [antron, MetalliC, rtw]

New working software list additions

• apple2_cass: Alignment Test Tone / Renumber, Alignment Test Tone / Sampler, Apple Bowl, Applesoft IIa, Applesoft ][ Floating Point BASIC / Floating Point BASIC Demo, Apple Trek, Apple-2 Trek, Apple-Vision / Biorhythms, Basic Finance I/ Penny Arcade, Brian’s Theme / Phone List, Brick out / Color Demonstration Programs, Breakout / Color Graphics, Breakout / Color Demos, Checkbook, Color Sketch / Supermath, Datamover / Telepong, High Resolution Graphics, Hangman / Color Math, Hopalong Cassidy / Lemonade Stand, Leases / Loans, Savings / Finance [Dagarman]
• bbc_flop_torch: Hard Disc Utilities v4.1, Torch System Disc v1.7 [Nigel Barnes]
• fmtowns_cd: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu III SP, Gulf War Soukouden, New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta, TownsPAINT V1.1L20, Video Koubou V1.3L10 [r09]
• fmtowns_flop: Sweet Angel [r09]
• gamate: Kiki Inland [Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, Peter Wilhelmsen]
• ibm5150:
  • The Adventures of Captain Comic, Back to the Future Part II, Dragons of Flame, Gryzor, Loom (French), Kings of the Beach (3.5"), Leisure Suit Larry 3 (French), Le Manoir de Mortevielle (3.5"), Operation Wolf (3.5"), Out Run, Super Ski, Zombi [breiztiger]
  • Drakkhen, Kaypro 16 Autoload, Kaypro 16 Master Disks, Leisure Suit Larry 3, Loom (German), Manhunter - New York, Manhunter 2 - San Francisco, Police Quest II - The Vengeance, Silpheed, Space Quest II - Vohaul’s Revenge [Justin Kerk]
  • MS-DOS (Version 3.30B) (V1.2) (Schneider) (German) [rfka01]
• ibm5170:
  • Amazon - Guardians of Eden, Arcade Pool, Zool 2 [ArcadeShadow]
  • Crash Course [breiztiger]
  • Sneakers Computer Press Kit [Justin Kerk]
• lynx: MegaPak 1 [anonymous]
• msx1_cart: Roc’n Rope [Anonymous]
• nimbus: BBC BASIC V1.00a, IBM Mode Software For Nimbus PC V2.61, IBM Mode Software for Nimbus PC Rel.3, Microsoft Windows 2.03 for Nimbus PC System, Microsoft Windows 3 Standalone PC 186, Microsoft Windows ISV Toolkit Release 1.02, Microsoft Windows Release 1.02 Stand Alone, Microsoft Windows Release 1.03 Stand Alone, Microsoft Windows V2.1 Presentation Manager for Nimbus PC186, Nimbus Winchester Format Tools, Parallel Printer Driver Parallel Board For I/O Board Version V1.0G, RM BASIC V1.0F, RM LOGO V1.0D, RM Nimbus General Utility Disk, RM Nimbus PC Upgrade Disk DOS 3.1 Rel 3.10.A, RM Nimbus Sketchpad Driver V1.0B, Release Disk SetPC V2.90 IBM Mode, Steed Ver 1.4A, WordStar Rel. 3.30, XferCPM V1.0A [Nigel Barnes]
• pv2000: Exciting Jockey, Real Number Basic [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]
• smondial2: Mephisto College Module [yoyo_chessboard]

Software list items promoted to working

• bbc_flop_torch: Adventure B01 - 550 points, Torch BBC BASIC (Z80) v2.30, Comanex, dBASE-II, Hard Disc Utilities v4.4, Kermit-80 v4.05, Perfect Software Suite, Standard Utilities v2.0, Turbo Pascal v3.0A, UniComm, WordStar [Nigel Barnes]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• apple2_cass: Apple Stock Quote Reporter, Tape Measure / Alignment Test Tone [Dagarman]
• bbc_flop_torch: Basic Pack v2.0, Prog Dev Pack v2.0, Text Pack v2.0, Unix Upgrade Pack release 1.0 to 2.0 [Nigel Barnes]
• hx20_rom: SkiWriter [Nigel Barnes]
• rx78: Challenge Golf [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]

Translations added or modified

• Chinese (Simplified) [YuiFAN]
• Chinese (Traditional) [YuiFAN]
• German [Raf Tacker]
• Greek [BraiNKilleRGR]
• Japanese [Katsuhiko Kagami]
• Portuguese [Pedro Simoes]
• Russian [Nikita Zimin, MetalliC]

Source Changes

• coco3: Made banked cartridges actually work. [AJR]
  
• z8: Fixed disassembly of LDE Irr, r. [AJR]
  
• am9513: Implemented time-of-day mode. [AJR]
  
• Actually make sure OSD options are included when saving through UI. [AJR]
  
• Draw a nominal distinction between PC060HA and TC0140SYT. [AJR]
  
• Explicitly allow floating point values for state registration. [AJR]
  
• ccs2810: Major refinements. [AJR]
  
  • Implemented power-on jump in a hardware-accurate manner, including full configuration options.
  • Hooked up INS8250 device for RS-232 serial communication (requires ROM wait states simulation for baud rate to be recognized).
  • Made serial port address configurable as well (although monitor expects it to be at the default setting).
• S-100 bus refinements: [AJR]
  
  • Made slots subdevices, eliminating the need to hardcode the bus tag.
  • Clock the bus and its slots.
  • Use correct XTAL for nshrz and added 2MHz variant.
• legionna.cpp: Fixed Denjin Makai background pen colors. [Angelo Salese]
  
• rx78.cpp: Added border area. [Angelo Salese]
  
• ygv608.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Fixed page select boundaries for tilemap drawing (fixes Namco Classics Vol. 2 garbage GFX in attract mode).
  • Reset pattern name table states on mode changes (fixes Mappy Arrange corrupt tiles).
  • Enabled sprite wraparound when both sx and sy pass clipping boundaries (fixes disappearing char on NCV2 game select screen).
  • Fixed CRTC vblank period (fixes NCV2: Dig Dug Original regression). [Angelo Salese]
• huc6270: Invert h/vsync logic for interrupts – fixes several PC Engine hangs. [Angelo Salese]
  
• saturn.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Rewrote SMPC as a device, merging ST-V and Saturn implementations.
  • Moved SCU-related functions insto a device. [Angelo Salese]
• smpc: Simulate SETTIME bit behaviour if invalid NVRAM data is found for Sega Saturn. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • All Sega Saturn ROM sets now calls the BIOS setup if NVRAM is uninitialized, setting up proper defaults.
• stv.cpp: Patch Sport Fishing 2 BIOS to actually return a country code, and added bare bones MPEG CD commands. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Game now loops into attract mode with mostly missing graphics (MPEG video logic not yet added).
• stvvdp2.cpp: Added ROZ mode 3. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Fixes split screen in Sasissu, backgrounds in Elandore, and Guy stage in Final Fight Revenge.
• jalmah.cpp: Improved fake palette DMA behaviour – avoids corrupt colors for girls. [Angelo Salese]
  
• stvvdp1.cpp: CEF bit gets reset when the framebuffers get swapped (fixes Twinkle Star Sprites Arcade Mode hang). [Angelo Salese]
  
• dec0.cpp: Updated inputs in all games in the driver. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Added input labels for most games in the driver, and removed unused buttons.
  • Updated positional rotary for Heavy Barrel/Midnight Resistance to use remap table.
  • Made Boulder Dash use 4-way stick as per manual.
• dec0.cpp: Hooked up priority video port to Midnight Resistance bootlegs. [Angelo Salese]
  
• taito_b.cpp: Fixed pixel layer offset and enable for Hit the Ice. [Angelo Salese]
  
• taito_z.cpp: Saner interleave CPU timings for Double Axle, attempted to fix road layer getting stuck on continue. [Angelo Salese]
  
• wheelfir.cpp: Converted to RAMDAC device. [Angelo Salese]
  
• Made some small fixes to general info panel on the system selection menu. [BraiNKilleRGR]
  
• Added lua translation to makefile and regenerated translations. [Carl]
  
• plugins/cheat: Added input sequence cheats. [Carl]
  
• abc800 updates: [Curt Coder]
  
  • Corrected Turbo Kontroller name to UNI DISK and identified CPU type.
  • Added skeleton for Databoard 4112-23 floppy disk controller.
  • Fixed Luxor 55-10828 “slow” floppy controller board logic.
• Updated androidp year to 1987 based on in-game date showed after end credits. [David Haywood]
  
• Documented that the ‘oldsplus’ set identifies as “Oriental Legend 2” when the protection device supplies Korea as the region. [David Haywood]
  
• Gamate overhaul, fixes many games: [David Haywood]
  
  • Sound is 100% AY8910 compatible according to kevtris and Peter Wilhelmsen – use the AY8910 core.
  • Rewrote the video implementation from scratch using kevtris’ document and Peter Wilhelmsen’s notes this fixes many games.
  • Added some mirroring to memory map.
  • Converted cartridges to slot devices that handle protection themselves.
  • Rewrote protection emulation from scratch based on notes from kevtris and Peter Wilhelmsen.
• Merged Hitachi SuperH CPU cores and implemented a preliminary SH3/SH4 recompiler. [David Haywood]
  
  • Recompiler is currently enabled for Cave CV-1000 but disabled for Sega NAOMI.
  • Recompiler can more than double the benchmark speed of CV-1000 games.
• supbtime.cpp: Cleaned up and merged with tumblep. [Dirk Best]
  
  • Removed duplicate code, used screen raw parameters and XTAL values, added DIP switch locations to all games.
• z80sio/z80scc: Return CPU-specific default vector when no interrupt found to acknowledge. [Edström]
  
• t4426 cart: Added MC14411 BRG, 6850 ACIA as a second RS232 port and fixed banking; promoted to working. [Edström]
  
• proteus3: Added MC14411 bit rate generator device and replaced the timer based clocks for the ACIAs. [Edström]
  
• imgtool: Added support for HP85 tape. [F.Ulivi]
  
• mc146818: Fixed main interrupt flag. [Jean-François DEL NERO]
  
• Fixed crash loading 80-track .mfm dumps of 40-track floppy disks on 40-track drives. [Justin Kerk]
  
• Hacked around MT06691 by suppressing partial updates in Tokio video – timing is likely wrong. [Lord Nightmare]
  
• mc68901: Fixed TCDCR register – bits 6-4 are used for timer C bits 2-0 are used for timer D. [Nicolas PLANEL]
  
• abc310: Added 80286 2nd processor. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• tube_z80: Check NMI state when paging in ROM. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• acorn_dsk: Improved identifying SSD/DSD by comparing image size with sector counts. [Nigel Barnes]
  
  • Also fixed DDCPM format to handle correct image of Double Density CP/M.
• bbc: Added Torch Z80 Communicator as Tube slot device. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• acorn_dsk: Removed CPN format, now handled with SSD/DSD. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• hx20: Added optional ROM slot and software list. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• z80scc: Fixed interrupt mask generation. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• Added new bt459 device (Brooktree RAMDAC used in InterPro graphics boards). [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• ms6102: Decrypted chargen. [Robbbert]
  
• ts803: Fixed and used z80sti; cleanup and notes. [Robbbert]
  
• mc8030: Added random ROMs, to be sorted. [Robbbert]
  
• p8000: Added WDC ROMs. [Robbbert]
  
• ax80: Added roms, notes, and flesh. [Robbbert]
  
• Note Chance: Added skeleton driver with front panel layout, sound, and extensive notes. [Roberto Fresca]
  
• vme_hcpu30: Added Besta HCPU30 VME board skeleton device. [shattered]
  
• Generate tiled layouts for systems with three or more screens (fixes crash with four or more emulated screens). [Vas Crabb]
  
• Eliminated vestigial palette that was breaking generic terminal when it isn’t first screen. [Vas Crabb]
  
• Improved PORT_CHAR (natural keyboard/paste/key post mapping) for US Apple IIe/IIc (thanks to Golden Child for report). [Vas Crabb]
  
• Exposed condition for DIP switches, configuration entries, and adjusters in –listxml output. [Vas Crabb]
  
• dynax.cpp: Fixed credits lost after exiting the game in tenkai. [Wei Mingzhi]
  
• psx.xml: Synchronized with redump.org, adding 76 new dumps and replacing two bad dumps. [aeternal606]
  
• gaelco.cpp: Corrected various clock speeds and added PCB layout for Biomechanical Toy. [Brian Troha]
  
• naomi.cpp: Decapped and identified Atomiswave ‘ROMEO’ ASIC. [brizzo]
  
• segasp.cpp: Dumped Network firmware ver 1.25. [Darksoft]
  
• segas16b.cpp: Made some corrections to Aurail documentation. [ekorz]
  
• gauntlet.cpp: Reinstated correct size for ‘gfx1’ ROM, which was chopped off a long time ago. [f205v]
  
• Added PAL dumps for supbtime. [Luiskiko/jammarcade.net]
  
• Dumped touchgo SRAM from two more boards, and used that dump to verify/correct the SRAM image. [Peter Wilhelmsen, Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, David Haywood]
  
• Fixed zexall build target. [RandomArts]
  
• EuroPC: Added first and last known BIOS versions. [rfka01]
  
• taitoair.cpp: Dumped ainferno’s Controller PCB ROM. [ShouTime, The Dumping Union]
  
• qix.cpp: Added some documentation to the qixb set. [ShouTime]
  
• Corrected years for Final Furlong 2, Crisis Zone, Big 10, Waku Waku Doubutsu Land TonTon, Pyon Pyon Jump, and Sui Sui Pyon Pyon. [sjy96525]
  
• pv2000.xml: Desoldered and redumped ROMs for rakugaki and excitem2. [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]
  
• Added newer version of Mephisto Academy (German) as BIOS option. [yoyo_chessboard]
  
• Added support for multiple PORT_CHAR() bindings, and adopted in the CoCo driver. [Nathan Woods]
  
• Created a more flexible date/time structure for use within imgtool intended to replace most usage of time_t. [Nathan Woods]
  

Chaotic States of Amnesia (Part 1)
by Jayge 8^J
I can't produce as revealing & depressing a book as Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges' work America: The Farewell Tour, but I can write about my impressions & insights from it. All 4 library books here are borrowed & UH will buy it if any student, faculty, or staff asks. Its 7 chapter headings alone offer enough clues: Decay, Heroin, Work, Sadism, Hate, Gambling, & Freedom. His 1st chapter said that Karl Marx foresaw Capitalism's inevitable collapse & parasitic feeding off its host, like what's happening to some rustbelt cities. Despite nearly daily mass shootings, we haven't seen any levels of violence Marx predicted. Maybe we can expect them in Trump's 2nd term, once the privatization & gutting of infrastructure, education, & social programs are well underway. Big Pharma has dumped opiates onto underemployed whites with similar intensity as CIA heroin & crack infested Black & Latin communities. Wealth-sucking casinos increasingly replace union jobs in manufacturing. Politicians, bribed & cajoled by slick lobbyists, give more tax breaks, favors, & government contracts to corporations & the uber-rich. The rest of us are free to be their slaves.
"...The United States of Amnesia...Gore Vidal coined the expression 'the United States of Amnesia' in a 2004 book about George W. Bush’s America. The particular instance of amnesia Vidal highlighted with that phrase was the failure of those then waging the 'war on drugs' to remember the disasters of the prohibition of alcohol sales in the 1930s, and the ensuing corruption, gangsters, and smuggling rings that came with it. His larger point, however, was that, in general, American historical memory is short. Thirteen years after Vidal’s book appeared, and with a new Republican administration ascendant, it seems that this country is in danger of sinking ever deeper into a state of amnesia. And can there be any question that, in a distinctly Orwellian fashion, the new administration is doing everything in its power to hasten that process? As the Trump administration prepares for a new 'surge' on the perpetual battlefield that is Afghanistan, we’ve conveniently forgotten how little the last one achieved. We’ve forgotten how deregulation led to the Great Recession, as the federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission concluded in 2011. 'The greatest tragedy,' that panel wrote, 'would be to accept the refrain that no one could have seen this coming and thus nothing could have been done. If we accept this notion, it will happen again.' Yet the Republicans in Congress can’t wait to repeal Dodd-Frank, the law that restored a semblance of regulation to the world of commercial banking. The fifth-century African bishop St. Augustine was probably the first western thinker to pay attention to human memory. In his Confessions, Augustine observes that it is memory – the ability to bring into present awareness past experiences and the ability to recognize the difference between past, present, and future – that makes us self-aware beings. He described the 'vast hall of my memory,' where 'I meet myself and recall what I am, what I have done, and when and where and how I was affected when I did it.' It is on the basis of memory, he added, that 'I reason about future actions and events and hopes, and again think of all these things in the present. ‘I shall do this and that,’ I say to myself within that vast recess of my mind which is full of many rich images, and this act or that follows.' If Augustine was right and memory gives us our selves, allowing us to 'reason about future actions and events and hopes,' then a political regime that seeks to destroy its people’s memory is an existential threat. In that case, the first act of resistance is to remember who we are." -- https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/05/26/down-the-memory-hole/
"We Are Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia By Rebecca Gordon & Tom Dispatch May 25, 2017, 6:46 AM GMT The Trump administration seems intent on tossing recent history down the memory hole. Admittedly, Americans have never been known for their strong grasp of facts about their past. Still, as we struggle to keep up with the constantly shifting explanations and pronouncements of the new administration, it becomes ever harder to remember the events of yesterday, let alone last week, or last month. The Credibility Swamp...Trump and his spokespeople routinely substitute “alternative facts” for what a friend of mine calls consensus reality, the world that most of us recognize. Whose inaugural crowd was bigger, Barack Obama’s or Donald Trump’s? It doesn’t matter what you remember, or even what’s in the written accounts or photographic record. What matters is what the administration now says happened then. In other words, for Trump and his people, history in any normal sense simply doesn’t exist, and that’s a danger for the rest of us. Think of the Trumpian past as a website that can be constantly updated to fit the needs of the present. You may believe you still remember something that used to be there, but it’s not there now. As it becomes increasingly harder to find, can you really trust your own memory? In recent months, revisions of that past have sometimes come so blindingly fast that the present has simply been overrun, as was true with the firing of FBI Director James Comey. First, the president ordered up some brand new supporting documents from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein. These were designed to underpin his line that Comey was fired on their recommendation -- for being “unfair” to Hillary Clinton. Then, even as his surrogates were out peddling that very story, Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt that, “regardless of [Sessions’ and Rosenstein’s] recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.” And he explained why: “And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.’” Which rationale for Comey’s departure is true? Both? Neither? What is “truth” after all? When the need to ask such questions occurs once in a while, it’s anomalous enough that we notice. We have time to remark that someone or various people in this story -- Sessions, Rosenstein, the surrogates, Trump himself -- are mistaken or even lying. Fortunately, in the case of Comey’s firing, journalists are still reporting the lies, but what happens if the rewrites of our recent history begin to come so fast that we stop keeping up? During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson was famously said to have a “credibility gap.” People, including journalists, had stopped believing everything his administration said about one very important topic: the war. Trump doesn’t have a credibility gap; he’s tossed us into a credibility swamp. We’re all there together swimming in a mire of truth and lies, with the occasional firecracker thrown in just to see if we’re still paying attention. If the age of Trump doesn’t end relatively soon, the daily effort to sort out what happened from what didn’t may eventually become too much for many of us. Memory fatigue may set in, and the whole project of keeping the past in focus shelved. In that case, we might very well start to give up the concept of citizenship altogether and decide instead to just get on with our own private uninsured, underpaid, and overworked lives. Sometimes it's easier to simply adjust to an ever-changing official version of reality than to keep up a constant, unrewarding struggle to remember. This was the phenomenon George Orwell described so unforgettably in his dystopian novel 1984. His hero, Winston Smith, becomes aware that the sole party that runs his country incessantly rewrites the past to its own liking and advantage. In fact, he realizes that “the past not only changed, but changed continuously.” Like most inhabitants of the mega-state of Oceania, it wasn’t that Smith couldn’t accept such a reality. He could. What he couldn’t shake was a nightmarish sense “that he had never clearly understood why” the Party needed to do it. “The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious” to him. That “ultimate motive,” he eventually realizes, is to so destroy people’s hold on memory that they come to believe that truth genuinely is whatever the Party says it is. ”In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable?” Does President Trump know what he’s doing? Does he know that, in a more chaotic fashion than Orwell’s “Big Brother,” he’s grinding away at American memories, threatening to turn them into so much rubble? It’s hard to say; he appears to be incapable of either self-reflection or planning, indeed of acting in any way except on impulse. He does, however, seem to know in an intuitive way what works for him, what gets him things he wants, as he has his whole professional life. He’s called his method “truthful hyperbole.” And regardless of what he himself understands, there are certainly people around him who do grasp all too well the usefulness of that “ultimate motive,” of convincing the public that facts are not all that stubborn after all. The Memory Hole...Supplying alternative facts is one way of destroying memory. Erasing real facts is another. In Orwell’s 1984, there was a slot in the wall at the Ministry of Truth where Winston Smith worked, a memory hole, into which inconvenient documents could be fed to be consumed forever by a huge basement furnace. There are, it seems, plenty of memory holes in Washington these days. Since January, the Trump administration has been systematically removing from federal websites inconvenient information on subjects as diverse as climate change and occupational health and safety, and replacing it with anodyne messages. Take, for instance, this one, which you get when you search the Environmental Protection Agency’s website for the term “climate change” and click on links that search turns up: “This page is being updated. “Thank you for your interest in this topic. We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator [Scott] Pruitt. If you're looking for an archived version of this page, you can find it on the January 19 snapshot.” " -- https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/we-are-living-trumps-united-states-amnesia
"The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution by Chris Hedges 10/22/2018 At the age of 10 I was sent as a scholarship student to a boarding school for the uber-rich in Massachusetts. I lived among the wealthiest Americans for the next eight years. I listened to their prejudices and saw their cloying sense of entitlement. They insisted they were privileged and wealthy because they were smarter and more talented. They had a sneering disdain for those ranked below them in material and social status, even the merely rich. Most of the uber-rich lacked the capacity for empathy and compassion. They formed elite cliques that hazed, bullied and taunted any nonconformist who defied or did not fit into their self-adulatory universe. It was impossible to build a friendship with most of the sons of the uber-rich. Friendship for them was defined by “what’s in it for me?” They were surrounded from the moment they came out of the womb by people catering to their desires and needs. They were incapable of reaching out to others in distress—whatever petty whim or problem they had at the moment dominated their universe and took precedence over the suffering of others, even those within their own families. They knew only how to take. They could not give. They were deformed and deeply unhappy people in the grip of an unquenchable narcissism. It is essential to understand the pathologies of the uber-rich. They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration. The uber-rich cannot see the world from anyone’s perspective but their own. People around them, including the women whom entitled men prey upon, are objects designed to gratify momentary lusts or be manipulated. The uber-rich are almost always amoral. Right. Wrong. Truth. Lies. Justice. Injustice. These concepts are beyond them. Whatever benefits or pleases them is good. What does not must be destroyed. The pathology of the uber-rich is what permits Trump and his callow son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to conspire with de facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman, another product of unrestrained entitlement and nepotism, to cover up the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom I worked with in the Middle East. The uber-rich spend their lives protected by their inherited wealth, the power it wields and an army of enablers, including other members of the fraternity of the uber-rich, along with their lawyers and publicists. There are almost never any consequences for their failures, abuses, mistreatment of others and crimes. This is why the Saudi crown prince and Kushner have bonded. They are the homunculi the uber-rich routinely spawn. The rule of the uber-rich, for this reason, is terrifying. They know no limits. They have never abided by the norms of society and never will. We pay taxes—they don’t. We work hard to get into an elite university or get a job—they don’t. We have to pay for our failures—they don’t. We are prosecuted for our crimes—they are not. The uber-rich live in an artificial bubble, a land called Richistan, a place of Frankenmansions and private jets, cut off from our reality. Wealth, I saw, not only perpetuates itself but is used to monopolize the new opportunities for wealth creation. Social mobility for the poor and the working class is largely a myth. The uber-rich practice the ultimate form of affirmative action, catapulting white, male mediocrities like Trump, Kushner and George W. Bush into elite schools that groom the plutocracy for positions of power. The uber-rich are never forced to grow up. They are often infantilized for life, squalling for what they want and almost always getting it. And this makes them very, very dangerous. Political theorists, from Aristotle and Karl Marx to Sheldon Wolin, have warned against the rule of the uber-rich. Once the uber-rich take over, Aristotle writes, the only options are tyranny and revolution. They do not know how to nurture or build. They know only how to feed their bottomless greed. It’s a funny thing about the uber-rich: No matter how many billions they possess, they never have enough. They are the Hungry Ghosts of Buddhism. They seek, through the accumulation of power, money and objects, an unachievable happiness. This life of endless desire often ends badly, with the uber-rich estranged from their spouses and children, bereft of genuine friends. And when they are gone, as Charles Dickens wrote in “A Christmas Carol,” most people are glad to be rid of them. C. Wright Mills in “The Power Elite,” one of the finest studies of the pathologies of the uber-rich, wrote: They exploited national resources, waged economic wars among themselves, entered into combinations, made private capital out of the public domain, and used any and every method to achieve their ends. They made agreements with railroads for rebates; they purchased newspapers and bought editors; they killed off competing and independent businesses and employed lawyers of skill and statesmen of repute to sustain their rights and secure their privileges. There is something demonic about these lords of creation; it is not merely rhetoric to call them robber barons. Corporate capitalism, which has destroyed our democracy, has given unchecked power to the uber-rich. And once we understand the pathologies of these oligarchic elites, it is easy to chart our future. The state apparatus the uber-rich controls now exclusively serves their interests. They are deaf to the cries of the dispossessed. They empower those institutions that keep us oppressed—the security and surveillance systems of domestic control, militarized police, Homeland Security and the military—and gut or degrade those institutions or programs that blunt social, economic and political inequality, among them public education, health care, welfare, Social Security, an equitable tax system, food stamps, public transportation and infrastructure, and the courts. The uber-rich extract greater and greater sums of money from those they steadily impoverish. And when citizens object or resist, they crush or kill them. The uber-rich care inordinately about their image. They are obsessed with looking at themselves. They are the center of their own universe. They go to great lengths and expense to create fictional personas replete with nonexistent virtues and attributes. This is why the uber-rich carry out acts of well-publicized philanthropy. Philanthropy allows the uber-rich to engage in moral fragmentation. They ignore the moral squalor of their lives, often defined by the kind of degeneracy and debauchery the uber-rich insist is the curse of the poor, to present themselves through small acts of charity as caring and beneficent. Those who puncture this image, as Khashoggi did with Salman, are especially despised. And this is why Trump, like all the uber-rich, sees a critical press as the enemy. It is why Trump’s and Kushner’s eagerness to conspire to help cover up Khashoggi’s murder is ominous. Trump’s incitements to his supporters, who see in him the omnipotence they lack and yearn to achieve, to carry out acts of violence against his critics are only a few steps removed from the crown prince’s thugs dismembering Khashoggi with a bone saw. And if you think Trump is joking when he suggests the press should be dealt with violently you understand nothing about the uber-rich. He will do what he can get away with, even murder. He, like most of the uber-rich, is devoid of a conscience. The more enlightened uber-rich, the East Hamptons and Upper East Side uber-rich, a realm in which Ivanka and Jared once cavorted, look at the president as gauche and vulgar. But this distinction is one of style, not substance. Donald Trump may be an embarrassment to the well-heeled Harvard and Princeton graduates at Goldman Sachs, but he serves the uber-rich as assiduously as Barack Obama and the Democratic Party do. This is why the Obamas, like the Clintons, have been inducted into the pantheon of the uber-rich. It is why Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump were close friends. They come from the same caste. There is no force within ruling institutions that will halt the pillage by the uber-rich of the nation and the ecosystem. The uber-rich have nothing to fear from the corporate-controlled media, the elected officials they bankroll or the judicial system they have seized. The universities are pathetic corporation appendages. They silence or banish intellectual critics who upset major donors by challenging the reigning ideology of neoliberalism, which was formulated by the uber-rich to restore class power. The uber-rich have destroyed popular movements, including labor unions, along with democratic mechanisms for reform that once allowed working people to pit power against power. The world is now their playground. In “The Postmodern Condition” the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard painted a picture of the future neoliberal order as one in which “the temporary contract” supplants “permanent institutions in the professional, emotional, sexual, cultural, family and international domains, as well as in political affairs.” This temporal relationship to people, things, institutions and the natural world ensures collective self-annihilation. Nothing for the uber-rich has an intrinsic value. Human beings, social institutions and the natural world are commodities to exploit for personal gain until exhaustion or collapse. The common good, like the consent of the governed, is a dead concept. This temporal relationship embodies the fundamental pathology of the uber-rich. The uber-rich, as Karl Polanyi wrote, celebrate the worst kind of freedom—the freedom “to exploit one’s fellows, or the freedom to make inordinate gains without commensurable service to the community, the freedom to keep technological inventions from being used for public benefit, or the freedom to profit from public calamities secretly engineered for private advantage.” At the same time, as Polanyi noted, the uber-rich make war on the “freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of meeting, freedom of association, freedom to choose one’s own job.” The dark pathologies of the uber-rich, lionized by mass culture and mass media, have become our own. We have ingested their poison. We have been taught by the uber-rich to celebrate the bad freedoms and denigrate the good ones. Look at any Trump rally. Watch any reality television show. Examine the state of our planet. We will repudiate these pathologies and organize to force the uber-rich from power or they will transform us into what they already consider us to be—the help." -- https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-rule-of-the-uber-rich-means-tyranny-or-revolution/
"Profiting from pain: Big Pharma, big marketing, and opiate addiction by Marc on January 30, 2018 in Connect This guest post addresses a complex and emotionally-loaded issue: the link between pharmaceutical opiates (and the questionable way they’ve been advertised and marketed) and the current “opioid crisis” or overdose epidemic. Nick does a splendid job of recounting key milestones and contextualizing them within the history of Big Pharma...by Nick Johns...With the number of regulatory departments and protective measures in place today, we as consumers are inclined to believe that a product or service has been proven safe before it’s approved for public use. We’d like to think that if something turns out to be dangerous or harmful, the responsible party will be held accountable and similar situations will be prevented in the future. Unfortunately, in the complex and tangled world of pharmaceutical drugs, that is frequently not the case. Take for example Pradaxa, an anticoagulant and blood thinner most often prescribed to treat and prevent blood clots and reduce the risk of stroke following hip or knee replacement surgery. The medication managed to obtain FDA approval five years before its reversal agent, Praxbind (an antidote to Pradaxa designed to reverse its effects and prevent uncontrollable bleeding) became available, leading to incidents of severe bleeding and hundreds of deaths. Companies with ties to multiple other entities and those that have major influence on the healthcare economy are able to skirt the rules and make deals with federal agencies or court systems to avoid serious legal repercussions. Pfizer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, marketed a drug called Bextra in 2001, a Cox-2 inhibitor. While the FDA rejected the drug at high doses for acute surgical pain, Pfizer and its marketing partner Pharmacia pitched it to anesthesiologists and surgeons anyway — at doses up to twice what the FDA had approved as safe. What effect have these historically loose controls had on the present overdose epidemic? Sidestepping regulations to bring potentially unsafe drugs to market is only part of a larger problem, and it isn’t the only method that pharmaceutical companies have employed in pursuit of profit. When it was released in 1995, Purdue Pharma’s now-infamous opiate painkiller OxyContin was hailed as a breakthrough in pain management. The active ingredient of OxyContin is oxycodone, a long-lasting narcotic with up to twice the strength of morphine (milligram by milligram). Prior to OxyContin, doctors had historically been reluctant to write prescriptions for powerful opioids outside of end-of-life care or acute cancer pain due to fear of the addictive properties of the drugs. In order to shift this perception, Purdue Pharma launched a massive marketing campaign to diminish concerns about addiction and to promote OxyContin as a safe treatment for an increasing range of ailments. At the forefront of the campaign, and differentiating OxyContin from other narcotics on the market such as Vicodin and Percocet, was the patented time-release formula — a characteristic which Purdue claimed was responsible for the drug’s purported addiction rate of “less than 1 percent”. This, employees of Purdue claimed, made the drug a safe choice for CNCP (chronic non-cancer pain) patients. In an effort to maximize the efficacy of their marketing efforts, Purdue compiled profiles of doctors and their prescribing habits into databases used to identify where their campaigns would have the most success. This aggressive marketing tactic coupled with an incredibly lucrative bonus structure for sales representatives (a range of $15,000 to nearly $240,000 on top of a representative’s average annual salary of $55,000 in 2001) led to a tremendous increase in the number of visits to physicians with higher than average rates of opioid prescription. While pitching OxyContin, sales representatives for Purdue even reportedly claimed to some healthcare providers that the drug, now frequently compared to heroin in terms of potency and risk of addiction, didn’t even cause a buzz. For millions of patients, a prescription for OxyContin provided crucial relief from debilitating pain. For many, however, addiction became so severe that the period of withdrawal between doses became unbearable — especially if the recommended dosage was exceeded. Purdue’s marketing campaign for OxyContin reached its peak in the early 2000s, and sales of prescription opioids (with Oxycontin in the lead) quadrupled between 1999 and 2016. During that same period, over 200,000 people died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids — with many cases involving a mix of other drugs and/or alcohol. While federal regulations have since cracked down on OxyContin and tightened around pharmaceutical practices, the opioid epidemic is far from over. Patients addicted to prescription painkillers can eventually find them too expensive or too difficult to obtain, and may turn to other drugs instead — heroin in particular. Drug-related deaths are climbing at an alarming rate, and many can be linked to the addition of fentanyl to street drugs. But there’s little doubt that Oxycontin prescriptions greatly contributed to a wave of addictions that has yet to subside. With prescription opioids potentially serving as dangerous gateways to fentanyl-laced illicit drugs, it’s clear that attention needs to shift to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and physicians. Doctors and healthcare professionals can help by screening and regularly monitoring for substance overuse or addiction, and by prescribing painkillers only when other treatment options have proven ineffective. Patients can help by never sharing or selling prescription pain medications, and by taking steps to ensure that they are the only ones with access to their painkillers. Friends and loved ones can help by monitoring patients for correct usage of prescription pain medications, staying alert for any signs of prescription drug overuse, and questioning and challenging potentially dangerous habits before they become entrenched. The battle can be won, but we all must fight together." -- http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/profiting-from-pain-big-pharma-big-marketing-and-opiate-addiction/
"Government-organized pogroms against the Jews deflected attention from the corrupt regime. It is arguable which of the Russian Czars was the worst to the Jews. We'll start with Czar Nicholas I (who ruled from 1825 to 1855) as one of the prime contenders and work our way down. In 1827, Czar Nicholas I introduced what became known as the Cantonist Decrees. (The name came from the word "canton," meaning "military camp.") These decrees called for the forced conscription of Jewish boys into the Russian Army. These boys were between the ages of 12 and 18 and were forced to serve for 25 years! During their army service, every effort was made to convert them to Christianity. Due to the horrendous conditions under which they were forced to serve, many of the boys who were conscripted didn't survive, and if they did, few continued to identify themselves as Jews. As far as the Jewish community was concerned, either way was a death sentence. Some Jewish parents were so desperate they would actually cut off the right index finger of their sons with a butcher's knife ― without an index finger you couldn't fire a gun and you were exempt from service. Other people would try and bribe their kid's way out. The Cantonist Decrees raise the level of pressure on the Jewish community to new extremes. Each Jewish community was responsible to produce a certain number of boys for the army and the community leadership was held responsible for failure to meet this quota. It's not to hard to imagine the turmoil caused by forcing community leaders to decide which boys had to go and which boys could stay. If that wasn't bad enough, there was the government-sponsored anti-Semitism. Protocols of the Elders of Zion...Around the turn of the century (It was first published in 1903), the Russian secret police began to circulate a forgery which became the most famous anti-Semitic "document" in history ― The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. These protocols purported to be the minutes of a secret meeting of world Jewish leaders, which supposedly took place once every hundred years for the purpose of plotting how to manipulate and control the world in the next century. As ridiculous as this might sound to us today, the Protocols were seized upon as "proof" that the world was dominated by Jews who were responsible for all of the world's problems. Fans and proponents of the Protocols have included such anti-Semites as: Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company; Adolf Hitler, as might be expected; Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser; and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, among others. Despite the fact that the Protocols are a proven forgery whose allegations are completely ridiculous, an expression of the worst kind of anti-Semitism, the Protocols continue to sell briskly today and are carried by such huge bookstore chains as Barnes and Noble and amazon.com in the name of freedom of speech. Pogroms...We spoke of pogroms ― mob violence against Jews ― in Part 49 when we covered the murderous attacks of the Ukrainian Cossack Bogdan Chmielnicki in 17th century Poland. In Czarist Russia, there were so many pogroms against the Jews that it is simply impossible to even begin to list them all. (In one four year period there were 284 pogroms, for example.) These pogroms were seldom spontaneous, though incitement by Christian clergy around the Christian holidays could drive the masses into a frenzy. However, in Czarist Russia, most of the pogroms were government organized. Why would the Czarist government organize mobs to target Jews? Because Jews were the classic scapegoats for the economic problems of Russia (and many other countries in history). Of course, the problems of Russia had nothing to do with the Jews. The problems of Russia had to do with a totally backward, feudal, and highly corrupt regime. One of the ways of diverting attention from the corruption was to blame the Jews and to allow the masses to blow off steam by taking it out on the Jews. The problems of Russia got worse after Czar Alexander II (who was one of the more competent Czars and who was relatively benign to the Jews) was assassinated in 1881 by an anarchist who threw a bomb at his carriage. And when the problems of Russia got worse, the problems of the Jews got worse as well. The government of the new Czar, Alexander III (who ruled 1881-1894) organized one pogrom after another to keep the anger of the masses focused on the Jews. In addition to the pogroms, Alexander III promulgated a series of laws against the Jews. These laws were called the May Laws and they included such prohibitions as: "It is henceforth forbidden for Jews to settle outside the cities and townships." "The registration of property and mortgages in the names of Jews is to be halted temporarily. Jews are also prohibited from administering such properties."
"It is forbidden for Jews to engage in commerce on Sundays and Christian holidays." Writes Berel Wein in Triumph of Survival (p. 173) of the reign of Alexander III: "Expulsions, deportations, arrests, and beatings became the daily lot of the Jews, not only of their lower class, but even of the middle class and the Jewish intelligentsia. The government of Alexander III waged a campaign of war against its Jewish inhabitants... The Jews were driven and hounded, and emigration appeared to be the only escape from the terrible tyranny of the Romanovs." It did not help matters any that during the reign of Alexander III a terrible famine struck Russia in which 400,000 peasants died. Those who survived were bitter and their resentments grew (which would erupt eventually in an aborted revolution in 1905 and the successful Russian Revolution which ushered in Communist rule in 1917.) The Last Romanov...When Alexander III died, he was succeeded by Nicholas II, the last of the Romanovs whose incompetence and inflexibility helped bring about the Russian Revolution. The new Czar had to cope with the mess left behind by his father and he did so badly. During his reign one of the most famous pogroms took place ― in Kishinev, on Easter (April 6-7), 1903. The Kishinev pogrom happened when there was a lot of tension in Russia (two years before the first, unsuccessful revolution). Wanting to dispel the tension, the Czarist government once again organized a pogrom against the Jews. Strange as it may sound, the Kishinev pogrom received a lot of international attention. This was because by this time pogroms were something that the "enlightened" Western World no longer found acceptable. (If only they knew what they themselves would do to the Jews 40 years later!) Here is an excerpt from a description of the pogrom printed in the New York Times: "It is impossible to account the amounts of goods destroyed in a few hours. The hurrahs of the rioting. The pitiful cries of the victims filled the air. Wherever a Jew was met he was savagely beaten into insensibility. One Jew was dragged from a streetcar and beaten until the mob thought he was dead. The air was filled with feathers and torn bedding. Every Jewish household was broken into and the unfortunate Jews in their terror endeavored to hide in cellars and under roofs. The mob entered the synagogue, desecrated the biggest house of worship and defiled the Scrolls of the Law. "The conduct of the intelligent Christians was disgraceful. They made no attempt to check the rioting. They simply walked around enjoying the frightful sport. On Tuesday, the third day, when it became known that the troops had received orders to shoot, the rioters ceased." After two days of mayhem, the Czar said, "Okay enough ― mission accomplished. Now it's time to stop it." And it stopped. 118 Jewish men, women and children were murdered, 1,200 were wounded and 4,000 families were rendered homeless and destitute. There were also 12,000 Russian soldier in the city who did nothing for two days. Until the next time. Between 1903 and 1907 was a period of great internal unrest in Russia. Nicholas's incompetence coupled with excessive taxation and the humiliating defeat of Russia during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) let to the first Russian Revolution in 1905 which led to a few short-lived reforms in the government. This period also proved disastrous for the Jewish community there were 284 pogroms with over 50,000 casualties. The level of violence was unbelievable. There was only so much of this kind of thing that people could take. The Jewish community was being devastated and people were looking for a way out. Jews were running out of the shtetls and joining all of the anarchist, communist, socialist, Bundist movements that they could find in the hopes that they would be able to change the situation in Russia. Jews have been history's great idealists and during this time they were desperate to find some way of making things better. (We will cover their activism when we discuss the events surrounding World War I.) Another thing that was happening in this time period was emigration. We see mass emigration of Jews out of Russia. Between 1881 and 1914, some 50,000 or more Jews left every year to a estimated total of 2.5 million Jews. Despite these migrations, the Jewish population of Russia stayed constant ― at about 5 million Jews, due the very high birthrate. Had these Jews not left Russia there would have been 7-8 million Jews there. And it was America which absorbed most of the Jewish immigrants during this period of time. Golden Land...We might recall (from Part 23) when the Jews were exile by the Babylonians, the exile had happened in two stages. First the Babylonians took away 10,000 of the best and the brightest, and that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because when the Jews arrive in Babylon, there is a Jewish infrastructure in place. Yeshivas had been established, synagogues built, there was a kosher butcher and a mikveh. Jewish life could continue and as a result we saw hardly any assimilation during the Babylonian exile. However, when the poor Jews of Russia arrived en masse in America at the end of the 19th century ― passing through the famous Ellis Island ― they found no Jewish infrastructure in place. The Jews who had preceded them in the migration of the 1830s were German Jews (about 280,000 of them). These German Jews ― who resented the poorer Russian Jews ― were either Reform, (and did not believe that the Torah was God-given nor in any specific God-given law that Jews had to keep) or they were secular Jews who totally eschewed Jewish tradition. Thus, the poor Russian Jews stepped into the Golden Land of Assimilation as we shall see in the next installment." -- aish.com

MAME 0.191

It’s the end of October, and time for the hotly anticipated MAME 0.191 release. This release includes an experimental Hitachi SH3 recompiler from frequent contributor David “Haze” Haywood that shows promising performance improvements for Cave CV-1000 emulation, and holds the tantalising possibility of bringing similar gains to systems based on the SH4 in the future (including Sega NAOMI). Bug fixes to the Saturn/ST-V emulation will enhance your enjoyment of numerous Sega titles from the ’90s. There have also been some optimisations and improvements to MIPS3 and Voodoo emulation, as used in a number of 3D arcade systems.
For fans of systems more often experienced at home, David Haywood also rewrote most of the Gamate emulation, taking it from mostly broken to (hopefully) best-in-class. We’ve also got some important bug fixes for the Tatung Einstein, the NEC PC-Engine console, and the M6809 CPU used by the Tandy CoCo family (among other things). Three more Tiger handhelds have been added for this release, namely Batman, Judge Dredd, and Swamp Thing. The hard limit of four emulated screens has been lifted, allowing you to plug in more video cards, more serial terminals, or just emulate systems that just have lots of screens.
We’ve got some big updates to the software lists this month, with plenty of Apple II cassettes, RM Nimbus software, and over seventy new PlayStation dumps. BBC Torch floppies and Gamate cartridges are now considered working, and Kiki Inland for Gamate has been added. A number of titles that don’t require a PC/AT have been moved from the IBM 5170 list to the IBM 5150 list. There are also some nice additions to the IBM PC and Fujitsu FM Towns software.
Of course, there are lots more bug fixes and newly dumped versions of emulated games. You can get the source/Windows binaries from the download page and start emulating.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

• 00759: [Misc.] (mystwarr.cpp) mtlchamp and clones: Problem with NVRAM in the RAM/ROM check after changing settings in service mode. (MetalliC)
• 04910: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce, tg16 [dslaylh, dslayedj]: No inputs and Black Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 04950: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce [draculax]: Game freezes at start of Stage 5. (Angelo Salese)
• 05192: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) tg16 [airzonk]: Graphics freeze when traversing too far up the screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 05994: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.cpp) pce [imagef2]: Freezes before displaying title screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06154: [DIP/Input] Games with a rotary positional joystick: Some positions are skipped. (Angelo Salese)
• 06387: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) pce [finalsol, finalsols]: Messed up/disappearing tiles. (Angelo Salese)
• 06487: [Documentation] tonton, ppj, big10: Documentation found on Success website. (D Go Go Fan)
• 06622: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) pce [beball]: Garbage appears when collecting the dual arrow item. (Angelo Salese)
• 06637: [Interface] Internal UI does not save entire configuration. (AJR)
• 06656: [Interface] Configuring Machine level “Video Option” causes CRASH. (Nathan Woods)
• 06689: [Crash/Freeze] (amstrad.cpp) cpc6128: Loading a disk freezes the emulator. (Patrick Mackinlay)
• 06690: [ColoPalette] (bottom9.cpp) bottom9n: Sprites have incorrect colors. (Angelo Salese)
• 06691: [Graphics] tokio and clones: Tokio – graphic glitches on the right side of the screen. (Lord Nightmare)
• 06696: [Graphics] (pce.cpp) tg16 [turrican]: Not showing Title Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06697: [Crash/Freeze] (stv.cpp) grdforce: Hangs after insert coin. (Angelo Salese)
• 06701: [Gameplay] (pce.cpp) pce [shingen, shingen1]: Extended/Unexpected periods of Black Screen. (Angelo Salese)
• 06708: [Media Support] (tandy2k.cpp) tandy2k: Does not boot from disk (regression). (Carl)
• 06711: [Interface] UI: If you exit with the Exit option, the last used game is not saved. (Vas Crabb)
• 06713: [Misc.] (dbz.cpp) dbz, dbza, dbz2: Correct names for these three games. (Fortuna)
• 06719: [Core] (coco12.cpp) coco12, coco3, other 6809?: SBCB instruction returns the wrong result. (hap)
• 06720: [Interface] Prescale option allows invalid values. (Tafoid)
• 06723: [DIP/Input] (einstein.cpp) einstein [hustler, starq]: Keyboard is not responding! (Dirk Best)
• 06724: [Gameplay] (vegas.cpp) gauntleg, gauntdl: Various Effects Cause More Damage than they should (64-bit Only). (Ted Green)
• 06727: [Documentation] (ibmpc.cpp) Parent/Clone Issues for IBM5170 softlist. (Justin Kerk)
• 06728: [Timing] (einstein.cpp) einstein: In Xtal Basic the PRINT TI$ always gives "000000" ?. (Dirk Best)

New working machines

• Batman (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
• Judge Dredd (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]
• Mephisto Mondial II [yoyo_chessboard, Sandro Ronco]
• Swamp Thing (Tiger handheld) [hap, Sean Riddle]

New working clones

• Alien3: The Gun (Japan) [ShouTime]
• Athena (bootleg) [Porchy, The Dumping Union]
• Biomechanical Toy (Ver. 1.0.1878) [Jorge Silva]
• Cabal (UK, Joystick) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• Cobra Command (M.A.C.H. 3 hardware, set 2) [f205v]
• Cyberball (rev 1) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
• Fidelity Elite Avant Garde (model 6117-7, set 2) [CB-Emu]
• G-LOC R360 (Japan) [ordyne, The Dumping Union]
• Kaypro 16 [rfka01]
• Knights of the Round (bootleg, World 911127) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• Rod-Land (World, set 2) [frsj8112]
• Super Hang-On (Hang-On conversion, Beta bootleg) [Cmonkey]
• Target Hits (ver 1.1, Checksum 86E1) [Peter Wilhelmsen, Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, Clawgrip, Brian Troha, David Haywood]
• Tecmo World Cup ’94 (set 3) [caius, Angelo Salese, The Dumping Union]
• TH Strikes Back (Non North America, Version 1.0, Checksum 020EB356) [caius, The Dumping Union]
• unknown ‘Space Invaders’ gambling game (set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Arzeno Fabrice]
• World Series: The Season (rev 0) [f205v, The Dumping Union]

Machines promoted to working

• Big Casino [Ivan Vangelista]
• Votrax Personal Speech System [Robbbert]
• Votrax Type ’N Talk [Robbbert]

Clones promoted to working

• Terco 4426 CNC Programming station [Edström]
• Torch CF240 [Nigel Barnes]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

• Baby Boom Challenge [f205v]
• Casino Strip I (Poker version, for Pioneer LD, set 1) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip II (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip III (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip IX (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip Private Eyes / All Start (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip V (Poker version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip V (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VI (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Casino Strip VI (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VIII (Poker version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip VIII (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip Vivid 1 (Poker version, for Sony LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip X (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Casino Strip XI (Poker version, for Sony LD, set 1) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip XI (Shooting Game version, for Pioneer LD) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Casino Strip XII (Poker version, for Sony LD) [ANY, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Dobou-Chan (ver. JAA) [R. Belmont, Rod_Wod]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #2: Joshiryou de NE! [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #6: Scandal Blue - Midara na Daishou [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• E-Touch Mahjong Series #7: Trap Zone - Yokubou no Kaisoku Densha [ShouTime, Team Japump, The Dumping Union]
• Elektronika MS 6102.02 [shattered]
• Gokidetor [Surgeville, Sean Sutton, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Mikrocomputer fuer Ausbildung [rfka01, Robbbert]
• Note Chance [Roberto Fresca, Ryan Holtz, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
• Ocha-Ken Hot Medal [Darksoft]
• Ton Puu Mahjong [ShouTime, The Dumping Union]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• 301/Bullseye (Traditional Scoring) [barakandl]
• A.G. Soccer Ball (R07u) [PinMAME]
• Casino Strip XI (Poker version, for Sony LD, set 2) [Dragon’s Lair Project]
• Cheetah (Blue cabinet version - Stern Pinball) [Cooke/LondonPinball]
• Eight Ball (rev. 17) [Quench]
• Epson CM6000 [Colin McDougall]
• Flash Point (Japan, bootleg set 2) [Arzeno Fabrice, David Haywood]
• Horizon (North Star Computers, 2MHz) [AJR]
• Knights of Valour 3 (V100, China) [XingXing]
• Knights of Valour 3 (V104, China) [XingXing]
• Mikrocomputer fuer Ausbildung MAT85 [rfka01, Robbbert]
• Omni 4 Logic Analyzer [rfka01]
• Poker Ladies (Censored bootleg, set 2) [hammy, The Dumping Union]
• SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki (Korea) [Rod_Wod, The Dumping Union]
• Time Warp (L-3) [PinMAME]
• Trident (Later version - Stern Pinball) [Quench]
• Virtua Athletics / Virtua Athlete (prototype) [antron, MetalliC, rtw]

New working software list additions

• apple2_cass: Alignment Test Tone / Renumber, Alignment Test Tone / Sampler, Apple Bowl, Applesoft IIa, Applesoft ][ Floating Point BASIC / Floating Point BASIC Demo, Apple Trek, Apple-2 Trek, Apple-Vision / Biorhythms, Basic Finance I/ Penny Arcade, Brian’s Theme / Phone List, Brick out / Color Demonstration Programs, Breakout / Color Graphics, Breakout / Color Demos, Checkbook, Color Sketch / Supermath, Datamover / Telepong, High Resolution Graphics, Hangman / Color Math, Hopalong Cassidy / Lemonade Stand, Leases / Loans, Savings / Finance [Dagarman]
• bbc_flop_torch: Hard Disc Utilities v4.1, Torch System Disc v1.7 [Nigel Barnes]
• fmtowns_cd: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu III SP, Gulf War Soukouden, New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta, TownsPAINT V1.1L20, Video Koubou V1.3L10 [r09]
• fmtowns_flop: Sweet Angel [r09]
• gamate: Kiki Inland [Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, Peter Wilhelmsen]
• ibm5150:
  • The Adventures of Captain Comic, Back to the Future Part II, Dragons of Flame, Gryzor, Loom (French), Kings of the Beach (3.5"), Leisure Suit Larry 3 (French), Le Manoir de Mortevielle (3.5"), Operation Wolf (3.5"), Out Run, Super Ski, Zombi [breiztiger]
  • Drakkhen, Kaypro 16 Autoload, Kaypro 16 Master Disks, Leisure Suit Larry 3, Loom (German), Manhunter - New York, Manhunter 2 - San Francisco, Police Quest II - The Vengeance, Silpheed, Space Quest II - Vohaul’s Revenge [Justin Kerk]
  • MS-DOS (Version 3.30B) (V1.2) (Schneider) (German) [rfka01]
• ibm5170:
  • Amazon - Guardians of Eden, Arcade Pool, Zool 2 [ArcadeShadow]
  • Crash Course [breiztiger]
  • Sneakers Computer Press Kit [Justin Kerk]
• lynx: MegaPak 1 [anonymous]
• msx1_cart: Roc’n Rope [Anonymous]
• nimbus: BBC BASIC V1.00a, IBM Mode Software For Nimbus PC V2.61, IBM Mode Software for Nimbus PC Rel.3, Microsoft Windows 2.03 for Nimbus PC System, Microsoft Windows 3 Standalone PC 186, Microsoft Windows ISV Toolkit Release 1.02, Microsoft Windows Release 1.02 Stand Alone, Microsoft Windows Release 1.03 Stand Alone, Microsoft Windows V2.1 Presentation Manager for Nimbus PC186, Nimbus Winchester Format Tools, Parallel Printer Driver Parallel Board For I/O Board Version V1.0G, RM BASIC V1.0F, RM LOGO V1.0D, RM Nimbus General Utility Disk, RM Nimbus PC Upgrade Disk DOS 3.1 Rel 3.10.A, RM Nimbus Sketchpad Driver V1.0B, Release Disk SetPC V2.90 IBM Mode, Steed Ver 1.4A, WordStar Rel. 3.30, XferCPM V1.0A [Nigel Barnes]
• pv2000: Exciting Jockey, Real Number Basic [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]
• smondial2: Mephisto College Module [yoyo_chessboard]

Software list items promoted to working

• bbc_flop_torch: Adventure B01 - 550 points, Torch BBC BASIC (Z80) v2.30, Comanex, dBASE-II, Hard Disc Utilities v4.4, Kermit-80 v4.05, Perfect Software Suite, Standard Utilities v2.0, Turbo Pascal v3.0A, UniComm, WordStar [Nigel Barnes]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• apple2_cass: Apple Stock Quote Reporter, Tape Measure / Alignment Test Tone [Dagarman]
• bbc_flop_torch: Basic Pack v2.0, Prog Dev Pack v2.0, Text Pack v2.0, Unix Upgrade Pack release 1.0 to 2.0 [Nigel Barnes]
• hx20_rom: SkiWriter [Nigel Barnes]
• rx78: Challenge Golf [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]

Translations added or modified

• Chinese (Simplified) [YuiFAN]
• Chinese (Traditional) [YuiFAN]
• German [Raf Tacker]
• Greek [BraiNKilleRGR]
• Japanese [Katsuhiko Kagami]
• Portuguese [Pedro Simoes]
• Russian [Nikita Zimin, MetalliC]

Source Changes

• coco3: Made banked cartridges actually work. [AJR]
  
• z8: Fixed disassembly of LDE Irr, r. [AJR]
  
• am9513: Implemented time-of-day mode. [AJR]
  
• Actually make sure OSD options are included when saving through UI. [AJR]
  
• Draw a nominal distinction between PC060HA and TC0140SYT. [AJR]
  
• Explicitly allow floating point values for state registration. [AJR]
  
• ccs2810: Major refinements. [AJR]
  
  • Implemented power-on jump in a hardware-accurate manner, including full configuration options.
  • Hooked up INS8250 device for RS-232 serial communication (requires ROM wait states simulation for baud rate to be recognized).
  • Made serial port address configurable as well (although monitor expects it to be at the default setting).
• S-100 bus refinements: [AJR]
  
  • Made slots subdevices, eliminating the need to hardcode the bus tag.
  • Clock the bus and its slots.
  • Use correct XTAL for nshrz and added 2MHz variant.
• legionna.cpp: Fixed Denjin Makai background pen colors. [Angelo Salese]
  
• rx78.cpp: Added border area. [Angelo Salese]
  
• ygv608.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Fixed page select boundaries for tilemap drawing (fixes Namco Classics Vol. 2 garbage GFX in attract mode).
  • Reset pattern name table states on mode changes (fixes Mappy Arrange corrupt tiles).
  • Enabled sprite wraparound when both sx and sy pass clipping boundaries (fixes disappearing char on NCV2 game select screen).
  • Fixed CRTC vblank period (fixes NCV2: Dig Dug Original regression). [Angelo Salese]
• huc6270: Invert h/vsync logic for interrupts – fixes several PC Engine hangs. [Angelo Salese]
  
• saturn.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Rewrote SMPC as a device, merging ST-V and Saturn implementations.
  • Moved SCU-related functions insto a device. [Angelo Salese]
• smpc: Simulate SETTIME bit behaviour if invalid NVRAM data is found for Sega Saturn. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • All Sega Saturn ROM sets now calls the BIOS setup if NVRAM is uninitialized, setting up proper defaults.
• stv.cpp: Patch Sport Fishing 2 BIOS to actually return a country code, and added bare bones MPEG CD commands. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Game now loops into attract mode with mostly missing graphics (MPEG video logic not yet added).
• stvvdp2.cpp: Added ROZ mode 3. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Fixes split screen in Sasissu, backgrounds in Elandore, and Guy stage in Final Fight Revenge.
• jalmah.cpp: Improved fake palette DMA behaviour – avoids corrupt colors for girls. [Angelo Salese]
  
• stvvdp1.cpp: CEF bit gets reset when the framebuffers get swapped (fixes Twinkle Star Sprites Arcade Mode hang). [Angelo Salese]
  
• dec0.cpp: Updated inputs in all games in the driver. [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Added input labels for most games in the driver, and removed unused buttons.
  • Updated positional rotary for Heavy Barrel/Midnight Resistance to use remap table.
  • Made Boulder Dash use 4-way stick as per manual.
• dec0.cpp: Hooked up priority video port to Midnight Resistance bootlegs. [Angelo Salese]
  
• taito_b.cpp: Fixed pixel layer offset and enable for Hit the Ice. [Angelo Salese]
  
• taito_z.cpp: Saner interleave CPU timings for Double Axle, attempted to fix road layer getting stuck on continue. [Angelo Salese]
  
• wheelfir.cpp: Converted to RAMDAC device. [Angelo Salese]
  
• Made some small fixes to general info panel on the system selection menu. [BraiNKilleRGR]
  
• Added lua translation to makefile and regenerated translations. [Carl]
  
• plugins/cheat: Added input sequence cheats. [Carl]
  
• abc800 updates: [Curt Coder]
  
  • Corrected Turbo Kontroller name to UNI DISK and identified CPU type.
  • Added skeleton for Databoard 4112-23 floppy disk controller.
  • Fixed Luxor 55-10828 “slow” floppy controller board logic.
• Updated androidp year to 1987 based on in-game date showed after end credits. [David Haywood]
  
• Documented that the ‘oldsplus’ set identifies as “Oriental Legend 2” when the protection device supplies Korea as the region. [David Haywood]
  
• Gamate overhaul, fixes many games: [David Haywood]
  
  • Sound is 100% AY8910 compatible according to kevtris and Peter Wilhelmsen – use the AY8910 core.
  • Rewrote the video implementation from scratch using kevtris’ document and Peter Wilhelmsen’s notes this fixes many games.
  • Added some mirroring to memory map.
  • Converted cartridges to slot devices that handle protection themselves.
  • Rewrote protection emulation from scratch based on notes from kevtris and Peter Wilhelmsen.
• Merged Hitachi SuperH CPU cores and implemented a preliminary SH3/SH4 recompiler. [David Haywood]
  
  • Recompiler is currently enabled for Cave CV-1000 but disabled for Sega NAOMI.
  • Recompiler can more than double the benchmark speed of CV-1000 games.
• supbtime.cpp: Cleaned up and merged with tumblep. [Dirk Best]
  
  • Removed duplicate code, used screen raw parameters and XTAL values, added DIP switch locations to all games.
• z80sio/z80scc: Return CPU-specific default vector when no interrupt found to acknowledge. [Edström]
  
• t4426 cart: Added MC14411 BRG, 6850 ACIA as a second RS232 port and fixed banking; promoted to working. [Edström]
  
• proteus3: Added MC14411 bit rate generator device and replaced the timer based clocks for the ACIAs. [Edström]
  
• imgtool: Added support for HP85 tape. [F.Ulivi]
  
• mc146818: Fixed main interrupt flag. [Jean-François DEL NERO]
  
• Fixed crash loading 80-track .mfm dumps of 40-track floppy disks on 40-track drives. [Justin Kerk]
  
• Hacked around MT06691 by suppressing partial updates in Tokio video – timing is likely wrong. [Lord Nightmare]
  
• mc68901: Fixed TCDCR register – bits 6-4 are used for timer C bits 2-0 are used for timer D. [Nicolas PLANEL]
  
• abc310: Added 80286 2nd processor. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• tube_z80: Check NMI state when paging in ROM. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• acorn_dsk: Improved identifying SSD/DSD by comparing image size with sector counts. [Nigel Barnes]
  
  • Also fixed DDCPM format to handle correct image of Double Density CP/M.
• bbc: Added Torch Z80 Communicator as Tube slot device. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• acorn_dsk: Removed CPN format, now handled with SSD/DSD. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• hx20: Added optional ROM slot and software list. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• z80scc: Fixed interrupt mask generation. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• Added new bt459 device (Brooktree RAMDAC used in InterPro graphics boards). [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• ms6102: Decrypted chargen. [Robbbert]
  
• ts803: Fixed and used z80sti; cleanup and notes. [Robbbert]
  
• mc8030: Added random ROMs, to be sorted. [Robbbert]
  
• p8000: Added WDC ROMs. [Robbbert]
  
• ax80: Added roms, notes, and flesh. [Robbbert]
  
• Note Chance: Added skeleton driver with front panel layout, sound, and extensive notes. [Roberto Fresca]
  
• vme_hcpu30: Added Besta HCPU30 VME board skeleton device. [shattered]
  
• Generate tiled layouts for systems with three or more screens (fixes crash with four or more emulated screens). [Vas Crabb]
  
• Eliminated vestigial palette that was breaking generic terminal when it isn’t first screen. [Vas Crabb]
  
• Improved PORT_CHAR (natural keyboard/paste/key post mapping) for US Apple IIe/IIc (thanks to Golden Child for report). [Vas Crabb]
  
• Exposed condition for DIP switches, configuration entries, and adjusters in –listxml output. [Vas Crabb]
  
• dynax.cpp: Fixed credits lost after exiting the game in tenkai. [Wei Mingzhi]
  
• psx.xml: Synchronized with redump.org, adding 76 new dumps and replacing two bad dumps. [aeternal606]
  
• gaelco.cpp: Corrected various clock speeds and added PCB layout for Biomechanical Toy. [Brian Troha]
  
• naomi.cpp: Decapped and identified Atomiswave ‘ROMEO’ ASIC. [brizzo]
  
• segasp.cpp: Dumped Network firmware ver 1.25. [Darksoft]
  
• segas16b.cpp: Made some corrections to Aurail documentation. [ekorz]
  
• gauntlet.cpp: Reinstated correct size for ‘gfx1’ ROM, which was chopped off a long time ago. [f205v]
  
• Added PAL dumps for supbtime. [Luiskiko/jammarcade.net]
  
• Dumped touchgo SRAM from two more boards, and used that dump to verify/correct the SRAM image. [Peter Wilhelmsen, Morten Shearman Kirkegaard, David Haywood]
  
• Fixed zexall build target. [RandomArts]
  
• EuroPC: Added first and last known BIOS versions. [rfka01]
  
• taitoair.cpp: Dumped ainferno’s Controller PCB ROM. [ShouTime, The Dumping Union]
  
• qix.cpp: Added some documentation to the qixb set. [ShouTime]
  
• Corrected years for Final Furlong 2, Crisis Zone, Big 10, Waku Waku Doubutsu Land TonTon, Pyon Pyon Jump, and Sui Sui Pyon Pyon. [sjy96525]
  
• pv2000.xml: Desoldered and redumped ROMs for rakugaki and excitem2. [SSJ, Team Europe, Dustin Hubbard]
  
• Added newer version of Mephisto Academy (German) as BIOS option. [yoyo_chessboard]
  
• Added support for multiple PORT_CHAR() bindings, and adopted in the CoCo driver. [Nathan Woods]
  
• Created a more flexible date/time structure for use within imgtool intended to replace most usage of time_t. [Nathan Woods]