Danthrax (Sega Saturn SHIRO!)

Radiant Silvergun, Cotton 2 See Improvements in MiSTer Saturn Core

A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose VDP2-drawn backgrounds were reported in January as having problems. “I’ve seen that srg320 is working quite intensively on the VDP2 these last days,” said Kubo, […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Should You Buy a SAROO Saturn Flash Cart?

The SAROO (SEGA Saturn flash cart) project by TPUinx has been building steam over the past year since our initial coverage, and many folks have picked one up to see what all the fuss is about. From the project’s initial conception a decade ago to its dormancy and revitalization, it finally came to market last […]

Danthrax (Sega Saturn SHIRO!)

MiSTer Main Branch Update for Saturn Core Fixes Gouraud Shading

The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The March 23 update was the first one to the core’s main branch since it was first added there in October. When a core’s update is […]

Alex Mitchell

State of the Analogue Pocket – November ’22

Since the last time we featured the Analogue Pocket on our front page, a variety of utilities, cores, and firmware updates have been released that have refined and expanded its capabilities: Cores: Spiritualized1997 releases another 17 cores, bringing the total up to 23 Spiritualized1997, the developer behind some of the first cores released for the […]

Alex Mitchell

srg320’s SNES Core Ported To Analogue Pocket

(Update 22-09-19: An update has been released for the SNES core, bringing a few fixes and enhancement chip changes. Because the Pocket is designed differently than the DE-10 Nano board that powers the MiSTer, it’s going to take a little more time for the Pocket port of the SNES core to support all of the […]

Rany Battikh

MemCard Pro firmware update v1.1.1

8BitMods just released a firmware update for their SD-card based Playstation 1 memory card, the MemCard Pro. The new firmware 1.1.1 addresses a few minor bugs and fixes a particular issue that XStation users were facing when using the ODE’s Memory Card Browser. Also, 8BitMods introduced support for Lattice FPGAs. With the upcoming Memcard Pro […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

WASCA Cart Migrates to Faster, Modular Architecture

In a community announcement today, March 28, 2022, hitomi2500 stated that WASCA (an aspiring “Swiss Army Knife” -type cart solution for Sega Saturn) would be migrating over to the much faster, modular (and perhaps more available) iCESugar-pro architecture, suggesting the possibility of a release for purchase perhaps some time later this year… The iCESugar-pro will […]

Lu

MiSTer FPGA News & Updates – New Cores, NES Mappers, Help System and more

Jotego Updates Get ready for some button mashing because Jotego has released a beta core for Hyper Sports to his Patreon subscribers. Developed by Konami, Hyper Sports was an Olympic sports arcade game from 1984. Players would compete in different events like swimming, Skeet shooting, archery and more. Jotego also fixed a bug in Forgotten […]