0.118u5 [Luca Elia]
< Japan >
WIP:
- 0.179: Changed description to 'Bishou Jan (Japan, Ver. 203)'.
- 0.173: Luca Elia mapped missing controls in Bishou Jan.
- 0.141u2: Luca Elia added hopper emulation in Bishou Jan. Changed description to 'Bishou Jan (Japan, Ver. 2.03)'.
- 0.129: Improved Bishou Jan [Luca Elia]: Converted the tilemaps chip to an 8-bit bus width, and added 16-bit handlers using the macros in memconv.h. Improved bishjan memory map. Implemented line scroll emulation. Changed description to 'Bishou Jan (Japan 203)'.
- 0.122u8: Replaced H8/3002 CPU1 with H8/3044.
- 0.118u5: Luca Elia added 'Bishou Jan' (Subsino 1999).
- 22nd April 2007: Luca Elia - I've been working on two games by Taiwanese Subsino. They use the Hitachi H8/3044 CPU, which features an undumped internal ROM, and whose emulation in MAME is somewhat incomplete. Add to that a bit of protection, and the prospects of getting the games to work were limited. Fortunately, though, it looks like the internal ROM is not critical, as I got Bishou Jan (Smiling Jan) (Subsino 1999) to work, albeit with some issues. The video hardware is tilemap based. At the moment there is no sound: the sound chip is unknown, nor do I see sound related writes. Furthermore I had to slightly patch the interrupt routines, and skip what appears to be protection checks. I also had to fix/add the emulation of several instructions in the CPU core. The other Subsino game is Last Fighting, a Bomberman clone currently in MAME as non-working. Same CPU but different, blitter based, video hardware. I'm starting to implement that and, even if much work is still needed, I'm now hopeful to get it to run.
- 25th September 2006: Guru - Bishou Jan (Smiling Jan) arrived a few days ago from Japan with the latest PCB shipment. Thanks to Dyq and BNathan for the funds used to purchase most of the Mahjong games.
