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Arcade: 1943 for MiSTer

JT_GNG FPGA Clone of Ghosts'n Goblins by Jose Tejada (@topapate)

JT1943 FPGA clone of 1943 arcade faithful to original hardware

Please, read the main README file too.

You have just got an expensive $500 PCB according to eBay. You have in your hands a faithful conversion of the circuits on the 1943 PCB to FPGA. If you come from the emulation world here are some of the things different from emulators:

-Real CPU/GPU bus sharing with delays -Sprites handled with DMA exactly as in the original hardware -Palettes determined by the original PROMs -Graphics priority handled by the original PROM -No lag between image and input. Data is being sent to the screen in real time. -3 button input (although the game seems to use only two buttons) -Sound sampling rate: 41.663 kHz (original, 125/3 kHz)

These technical aspects mean that the game play will be different from an emulator in a number of ways and that some hardware tricks that were not emulated will work here as in the original hardware.

Original repository: http://github.com/jotego/jt_gng

Installation

Copy the *.rbf and a.1943.rom into the root folder of the SD card.

Keyboard inputs

Key Function
F1 Start 1 player
F2 Start 2 players
F3 Add Coin
F4 Pause
F5 Test Switch
SPACE Jump
CTRL,ALT Fire
UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT Movements

Joystick support

  • Note1: in continue screen use combo Fire + 1P/2P to continue

Building ROM

🚨 🚨 🚨 Attention!! 🚨 🚨 🚨

ROM is not included. In order to use this arcade, you need to provide a correct ROM file.

  1. Put bat and 7za.exe files from releases folder into the same folder on PC.
  2. Execute bat file - it will show the name of zip file containing required files.
  3. Find this zip file somewhere. You need to find the file exactly as required. Do not rename other zip files even if they also replresent the same game - they are not compatible! The name of zip is taken from M.A.M.E. project, so you can get more info about hashes and contained files there.
  4. Put required zip into the same folder and execute the bat again.
  5. If everything will go without errors or warnings, then you will get the rom file.
  6. Place the rom file into root of SD card.

GAME PLAY

It is obvious what you have to do except:

-Press fire 1 and 2 to roll -Hold the coin button during power up to test mode in order to be able to access al test options -Hold fire 1 at the end of an air carrier phase to receive a weapon at the beginning of the next phase

CREDITS

Brought to you by Jose Tejada, aka jotego. Meet me in twitter @topapate Checkout my patreon page here: http://patreon.com/topapate

Special thanks to all March '19 patrons.

Tier +3 Patrons Thanks!!

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