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MiSTer FPGA News & Updates – Joust 2, Konami’s Ping Pong and more

New Joust 2 Arcade Core A new arcade core for Joust 2 – Survival of the Fittest has been released. Originally developed by darfpga on Github and ported to MiSTer by birdybro and JasonA, you can now obtain the core from the official updater. Github: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Joust2_MiSTer Misterfpga.org forum post: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=4407 Tweet: https://twitter.com/MiSTerFPGABot/status/1508207521206607877 Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/tq56q0/joust_2_new_mister_arcade_core_released/ […]

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 […]

Lu

MiSTer FPGA Updates – GunCon 2, MT32 Pi Lite, Filter Presets and More

Hello everyone, below are this week’s MiSTer FPGA news. GunCon 2 Support for Multiple Cores GunCon 2 support is being worked on thanks to Nolbin on Discord. This support is going to support multiple cores and will reduce the amount of lightguns you’ll need for lightgun gaming. https://www.reddit.com/r/fpgagaming/comments/sgsny7/guncon_2_on_snes_via_mister_usb_not_snac_look_for/ MiSTer FPGA Discord: https://discord.com/invite/misterfpga MiSTer FPGA Update: […]

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RetroFrog Neo2USB adapter pre-order for MiSTerFPGA

RetroFrog recently announced pre-orders for the Neo2USB low-latency controller adapter on Wednesday, August 18th at 12:00 EST. The Neo2USB adapter utilizes open source controller code and provides inputs for all directions and four buttons, start, and select. It’s average usb polling is less than 1ms. Who could ask for more? I was able to procure […]

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MiSTerFPGA Sega System 1 / 2 Core Expansion by developer 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕖

For awhile, I had been looking at the Sega System 1 core developed by MiSTer-X for the MiSTerFPGA platform. I had tried to add support for Gardia (ガルディア) since I’m a shmups fan. Unsuccessful in my attempts, I reached out to 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕖 for assistance after learning he was a fan of shooters as well. I passed […]

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NES palette comparisons

The Nintendo NES was a strange beast when it came to how it generated a video signal.  Most other retro video game systems generated colour information internally (and often externally) in a combination of well defined red, green and blue values and then later combine or converted them into various broadcast signals like composite video, […]

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Darksoft Namco System 1 Arcade Multi Announced

Darksoft has unveiled his latest arcade multi system, this time for Namco System 1, a platform with notable games like Splatterhouse, Dragon Spirit (one of my personal favorites), Dangerous Seed, Galaga ’88, Marchen Maze, Pac Mania, and more. It is priced at 320 Euros (about $360 USD), and will require a donor System 1 arcade […]

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