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Playtest should probably go as a separate thread, interested in stuff that is not listed in hash/supracan.xml.

Basic Master Jr.



... which also implicitly includes Basic Master Level 2 support:



Beyond the inufuto SWs there's not much else available to test here: best thing you can otherwise do with the (infamously known as bad) Basic parser is fiddling with MUSIC commands in katakana.
And not that the HW itself has all that many SWs or bus options to begin with ...

Not because you should, but because you can:

You can now see what it’s sending to the UART without needing to look at the debug log:


How cute, it thinks it’s a DECstation with 16 MiB of RAM.

With -frameskip 10 -nothrottle -window -nomax -video d3d it takes under five hours to boot in a debug build on my Coffee Lake i7 notebook, compared to over five days on real hardware.

edit: This was a reply to a comment that was deleted.

IGT GameKing 960, which means I bothered to make `ms3` to boot locally which was the perfect chance to fix `gkigt4` tilemap banks as well





From here it needs a shopping list of things being done ...

Apologies, I deleted my earlier comment as I saw it was already being discussed in the ShoutChat window. A very impressive technical achievement though, on top of another very impressive technical achievement

It's that time again:

Studying assembly,
Listenin' to my screams of pain.
Headache made of tension,
All this for a lightgun game.

HIGHWAY TO THE CRISIS ZONE
GONNA RIDE IN TO THE CRISIS ZONE

[video:youtube][/video]

A dump of the Task Force Harrier bootleg MCU was recently made available. Hooking it up allows the test mode to finally work:




Potentially this could help improve the graphics. For example, 4x4 obj size looks like this:



Obviously this needs to be verified with real hardware since the game doesn't show any obvious issues in MAME.

To enter test mode you need this arcane initiation:

- Hold P2 Button 1+2 then reset (a message will show)
- Push P1 B2, B1, B2, B2, B1, B1, Down, Down