Tag: ghosts ‘n goblins

DisplacedGamers

NES Ghosts ‘n Goblins, 60 fps, and Micronics’ Bloated Sprite Engine – Behind the Code

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Can we run Ghosts ‘n Goblins on the NES at 60 fps? Yes! …Kinda? It’s complicated. Micronics was responsible for developing several games on the NES, and their results were a bit messy at times. Let’s dive into what Micronics did to update NES graphics between video output frames and also figure out why the […]

SmokeMonster

MiSTer Ghosts ‘n Goblins Core Released: Things just got serious.

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Sorge–AKA Alexey, the mastermind behind MiSTer–ported Jotego’s (Jose Tejada) open-source Ghosts ‘n Goblins MiST FPGA core to MiSTer, and released it today. A user shared a pre-compiled ROM here, and the core itself can be obtained using the Updater Script or on Github. The Ghosts ‘n Goblins [Makaimura] arcade PCB platform was similar to several […]