This gets the characters and backgrounds largely working on PowerPC systems. The text layer doesn't draw (so no health bars) but it's playable.
Get the replacement file
here. Unzip it, copy the resulting cps3.c to src/mame/drivers in your SDLMAME setup, and recompile. Folks on Intel don't need to bother

ETA: fixed the colors, and improved the link ;-)
Last edited by R. Belmont; 06/24/07 08:30 AM.