According to the Japanese PC gaming site 4Gamer.net, JCE have confirmed that the development of Shenmue Online has been halted. Though the reason for ceasing development is unknown as of now, JCE will be making an announcement on the matter next week.

 

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For more on this, please check this forum topic.

 

More to come as we receive it.

 

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0.98u4

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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absoluteanalog098u2gra [Anssi]

 

 

 

Source Changes

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Improvements to the MCR games: [Aaron Giles]

- Hooked up cassette sample in Journey

- Fixed sprite colors in Journey

- Consolidated the MCR 1/2/3 drivers and documented all the PCBs

 

Added pause/resume support for sample playback. [Aaron Giles]

 

Bunch of changes/fixes to the deco156 drivers: [David Haywood]

- hooked up EEPROM correctly

- fixed sound ROM decoding and banking

- fixed tile banking

- fixed video priorities

 

Fixed unaligned 32-bit reads in the ARM core. [Tomasz Slanina]

 

Fixed several bugs in the ARM core which break Captain America but fix some

other issues. [bryan McPhail]

 

Fixed sprite rendering in Double Wings. [David Haywood]

 

Fixed the question roms reading for Phraze Craze and fixed some loading based

on new info discovered. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

Fixed sound effects in The Next Space. [MASH]

 

 

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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Double Cheese [Aaron Giles]

Chain Reaction [David Haywood]

Magical Drop [David Haywood]

Osman [David Haywood]

Super Triv [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Charlie Ninja [David Haywood]

Romar Triv [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

 

 

New clones added

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Cannon Dancer (Japan) [David Haywood]

Cannonball set 2 [David Widel]

 

 

 

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

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Pit Boss [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

MAME32 released!

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MAME32FX released!

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MAMEplus! released!

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08/03/2005 - bsnes v0.010 released

      bsnes now supports SPC700 emulation (no DSP or sound support, however), and has greatly improved compatibility. It also now contains a keyboard-only joypad configuration tool.

      Since the last news update, I finished the APU core and fixed a lot of bugs (incw/decw writing to the wrong locations, movw ya, dp not setting n/z flags, and a couple others), and ended up getting pretty much every game I had working, including DQ5 and Tekkaman Blade. I modified the OAM renderer to maintain a list of sprite information for all 128 sprites all the time, rather than loading all of that info 128 times a scanline (the PPU runs a little faster now), removed the HDMA base init timing and rewrote the DMA timing, greatly improved the IRQ timing, slightly improved the NMI timing, fixed the ExHiROM memory mapping to what Overload specified, and did a few other misc. things I can't recall at the moment.

    Of course, that's only in the last few days. There's been probably a hundred or so changes/fixes since the last release, but unfortunately I didn't keep a list this time. Sorry about that.

    I tried to make sure nothing major was broken, but I always seem to miss something. The only thing I'm aware of at the moment is that frameskipping can sometimes cause slightly corrupt graphics to appear on screen (or maybe I've since fixed it?), but everything works fine otherwise. This release is also substantially slower than the last release, almost entirely due to proper DMA timing. But that's a neccesity as it will be needed for HDMA timing, and possibly NMI/IRQ timing as well in the future. I'll work on speeding things up later.

    Oh, as a sidenote: the 'Enable APU' option requires the emulator to be restarted before it takes effect.

    This version also works on Linux/BSD (or any little endian platform with SDL, really). To use this, you have to compile it yourself. I only have FreeBSD, so releasing a binary image probably wouldn't help many people. To compile bsnes, go to src/sdl, and edit sdlmain.cpp. Comment out #define _WIN32_, and then edit the Makefile, set the path to your SDL config tool (it is sdl11-config on FreeBSD, I believe it is just sdl-config on Linux), and then run make. It will generate the binary which can be run via 'bsnes_sdl '. It generates bsnes_sdl.cfg which can be used to configure the emulator somewhat. I am only able to test this release on FreeBSD, so if anyone uses the Linux port and has trouble getting it to work, and bothers to fix the problem, please tell me what to do to fix it.

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3.71c (03-Aug-2005)

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fixed: backup doesn't remove a temporary backupfolder when > 1 files were used in the current backup operation

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