kadioguy
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Progress Report July 2020
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Paper Mario: The Origami King fixes
To begin with, Rodrigo implemented several fixes to make Paper Mario: The Origami King playable: [...]
New GPU Virtual Memory Manager
bunnei brings the big guns. The complete rewrite of the GPU Virtual Memory Manager fixes several bugs in many games, with the two strongest examples being Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Now several graphical bugs are fixed in Mario Kart 8, including tracks that show invisible terrain or missing graphics. In Smash’s case, there are no more vertex explosions now.
[...]
Bug fixes and improvements
Accompanying the recent addition of 32-bit emulation support, bunnei implemented support for the creation of random and default Miis. This does not include full support for custom ones for now. With Miis in place, games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe can now get past their menus and become playable.
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That’s all for now, folks! Until the August progress report!
https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jul-2020/
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1. The blue parts are in the present tense while the red parts in the past simple. I don't understand the use of the former. For me, I think that those have happened, when the writer is writing the article. Why not just use the past simple? Is the writer giving them a sense of immediacy?
2. As for the green part, can I take it to mean something like:
(We won't meet) Until the August progress report!
[...]
Paper Mario: The Origami King fixes
To begin with, Rodrigo implemented several fixes to make Paper Mario: The Origami King playable: [...]
- Lighting issues were fixed by implementing the S2R.LaneId instruction in the shader decoder.
New GPU Virtual Memory Manager
bunnei brings the big guns. The complete rewrite of the GPU Virtual Memory Manager fixes several bugs in many games, with the two strongest examples being Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Now several graphical bugs are fixed in Mario Kart 8, including tracks that show invisible terrain or missing graphics. In Smash’s case, there are no more vertex explosions now.
[...]
Bug fixes and improvements
Accompanying the recent addition of 32-bit emulation support, bunnei implemented support for the creation of random and default Miis. This does not include full support for custom ones for now. With Miis in place, games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe can now get past their menus and become playable.
[...]
That’s all for now, folks! Until the August progress report!
https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jul-2020/
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1. The blue parts are in the present tense while the red parts in the past simple. I don't understand the use of the former. For me, I think that those have happened, when the writer is writing the article. Why not just use the past simple? Is the writer giving them a sense of immediacy?
2. As for the green part, can I take it to mean something like:
(We won't meet) Until the August progress report!