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MiSTer FPGA News – 3DO, Huge Sega Saturn Udpate, Jaguar Single RAM & More

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Kiki Kaikai

Developer Raki posted that their next possible release is an arcade core for Kiki Kaikai, a vertically scrolling shoot’em up. Later games in this series would be know as the Pocky & Rocky series on the SNES.

 

Playstation FPGA Console

Retroremake showed what the packaging will look like for their FPGA console. The real name still has not been revealed so this post shows the code name in the packaging.

The post also mentions something about a dock. I wasn’t aware of this dock, but I saw someone mention that the disc reader is supposed to go on the bottom, so that’s what I assume the dock is for.

TimeExtension also has an interview with Taki Udon discussing the new PSX FPGA console.

 

Sega Saturn

The Sega Saturn core has had a huge update. There have been fixes to all the main parts of the Saturn which has increased compatibility. There are way too many fixes to mention, but some notable games affected are:

Albert Odyssey
Battle Garegga
Rayman
Magic Knight Rayearth
Panzer Dragoon
Legend of Oasis
Virtua Cop
Nights into Dreams
Radiant Silvergun
and many more.

-There have also been some RAM updates that improve fighting games for both dual and single RAM setups.
-Backup cart support has been added

Jaguar Single RAM Test Core

You can now download some test builds for the Atari Jaguar core that runs on a single RAM stick. These test cores are available on Discord.

 

M.2 Enclosure

Greg from Laser Bear is doing an interest check for an M.2 enclosure designed to fit under or over a MiSTerFPGA setup. This can give users another option to store their games. If this is something that you would like, head over to the post and let Greg know.

 

3DO Core

srg320 announced that he’s working on a 3DO core. Games are already running and a video on YouTube shows what’s working. There is no release available yet.

 

Gradius 2

Jotego fixed the collision issues that Gradius 2 had on the JTTWIN16 core and it is now supported and working. This game was originally failing because the scroll settings that affect the sprite location were not applied at the expected time.

JTTWIN16 is still a beta core so it’s only available to Patreon subscribers, but as soon as the core is stable it will be freely available to everyone.

 

New GUI

BossRighteous on GitHub is creating a new GUI for the MiSTerFPGA. It’s supposed to be fast and responsive and compatible with low res CRT’s. At the moment it’s only a proof of concept but you can download it to try it out.