MiSTer FPGA: the Saturn core now imitates real LEDs, and City Connection arcade in development
New round of updates for the MiSTer FPGA this week, with a fun improvement on the core Saturn and a promising announcement on the arcade side.
🔴 The core Saturn now mimics real LEDs
The upgrade he most visible update of core Sega Saturn for MiSTer is also one of the most anecdotal in appearance: the LEDs of the DE10-Nano now reproduce the behavior of the real LEDs of an original Saturn. The power LED lights as on the console, and the disc read LED flashes at the rate at which a real Saturn would read its data from the CD-ROM.
This isn't a functional improvement in the strict sense, but it's exactly the kind of detail that shows the attention to authenticity in the MiSTer community. For those who use their MiSTer in a visible configuration in their living room, this is a significant plus. The update also includes timing accuracy improvements and several bugfixes reported by the community.
🚗 City Connection - the next core arcade from Umberto Parisi
Umberto Parisi, the developer at q ui we have the cores Darius I, Darius II and The Ninja Warriors on MiST er, announces his next project: a core for City Connection, the arcade game from Jaleco released in 1985.
In City Connection, the player drives a car and must paint all the platforms in each level green as you drive through them, while avoiding other cars and cats that come up to block the path. Simple, colorful, addicting. The game is known for its immediately recognizable jazzy music.
This core already stands out for one development anecdote: Parisi spent several days disassembling the original 6809 ROM to fix a pixel position bug, and it was by viewing a YouTube video of a real arcade machine (posted by the @Janet-vc2 account) that he was finally able to confirm the correct behavior and resolve the problem. This is exactly the rigorous approach that characterizes his cores. >No downloadable build yet. To be continued on the MiSTer FPGA forum and Discord.
Source: RetroRGB