It seems like we’re getting weekly firmware updates from Krikzz lately, especially when it comes to his N8/N8 Pro line of rom-carts. With every new firmware version, additional mappers are being supported, old ones are getting fixed and some features are receiving improvements. Remarkably, established on his research and development work on the powerful Cyclone […]
Krikzz tweeted a picture of a new EverDrive N8 Pro, an update to his N8 flash cart for the Nintendo NES and Famicom. The Pro boasts 16MB of ROM memory (up from 512kb), multi-slot save states, faster ROM loading & OS, audio op amp, an I/O co-processor, an updated Cyclone IV FPGA, an in-game-reset to […]
Knights of Bytes have just shown a teaser of their 2017 hit Commodore 64 game Sam’s Journey running on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The C64 edition of the game was available to purchase both as a physical disk, as well as a digital download. I hope they’ll offer the same with the NES version, as […]
NEScape is the latest title in a resurgence of new games for classic consoles to make its rounds on Kickstarter. Like many of its peers, NEScape met its goal relatively quickly, so it appears that it’s a safe bet that the Kickstarter campaign will be a success when it reaches its funding deadline. https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/3652672/video-960005-h264_high.mp4 Created […]
A new homebrew NES game just made its goal on kickstarter with 17 days left as of the time that I an writing this article. The game, named Soko Bananas is an overhead puzzler that reminds me of classics such as The Adventures of Lolo, and Kickle Cubicle. https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/025/060/588/f129389f3c5aa5e6a981a05df1c37399_h264_high.mp4 Per Flip for Fate, the […]
NES aficionados can rejoice as they have yet another new game in their ranks. A playable ROM dump of SimCity is available. As with any unfinished game, YMMV as there will be glitches. You’ll need an emulator (or flash cart) with MMC5 support. For more info, click here: Link Projects like this are amazing and […]
This week saw another big round of MiSTer core updates primarily focused on fixing bugs and moving to the new open-source scaler by Grabulosaure. The new scaler uses 10% of the resources of the old scaler, is easy and faster to compile using the free Quartus software (instead of the $5,000/year suite required for the […]
A big rounds of MiSTer core updates went out over the weekend. The most important is the addition of Ijor’s cycle-accurate Motorola 68000 soft-core to the Genesis core, as expected. As well as the addition of Sega Game Gear support added to the Sega Master System core, and official Famicom Disk System support added into […]
FirebrandX’s custom NES palettes are coming to MiSTer thanks to Rysha’s new release, and they load straight from the menu. Rysha has provided a test build of the NES core with the new palettes, FDS support, and nearest-neighbor scaling.
MiSTer’s NES core is getting Nintendo Famicom Disk System (FDS) support care of GreyRogue, making it the first FPGA system that natively supports FDS without needing additional hardware to load ROMs. The same update also adds expansion audio for VRC6 and Sunsoft-5B mapper games (Gimmick, Akumajou Dracula, etc). For a first release, it’s relatively mature. […]
