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MiSTer FPGA News – Lightning Fighters, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, Thunder Fox & More

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Exidy 440

Anton Gale has been working on an Exidy 440 core, but development has been longer than expected. This is due to Anton wanting to restore an Exidy 440 cabinet, for the game Cheyenne.

Exidy 400 is arcade hardware from the early 80’s that was used to run many lightgun games.

 

MiSTer MIDI Board

hans-tweaker on reddit created an open source MIDI board that allows you to connect an external synthesizer, like a Roland Sound Canvas, to your MiSTer FPGA. This device has the added feature of being able to route audio back to the MiSTer via I2S.

This is a summary of how it works:

  • The MIDI board connects to the MiSTer via the user port on the IO board.
  • The MIDI board connects to the synth using a MIDI cable.
  • The synth’s audio is fed back via a 3.5mm jack.

This should provide a cleaner solution for people wanting to use original external sound modules.

 

MiSTer Organize

The MiSTer Organize project has been updated with the following.

For MiSTer_Computer Additions there are updates for

  • C64, OneLoad64 Games Collection v5
  • AmigaVision 2025.05.05
  • Neon68K
  • MSX (boot.vhd)(21-02-2025)
  • MacPack (2024-08-25 – Release Candidate 1)
  • Atari ST Games Collection
  • TI-99_Mister_Collection_v4.2.0 MegaPack
  • Tomy Tutor Pyuuta Mister_Collection MegaPack –
  • and Several Apple II collections

And there are also updates to

  • SNES MSU-1
  • The latest revisions from Infidelity, Project Nested, and Rumbleminze.
  • Game Boy and Game Boy Color MSU-1 for the Super Game Boy Core.
  • Mega Drive MSU-MD
  • SMB Arena Hacks
  • And RetroAchievements

MiSTer Organize is a project that will help you keep your games organized for browsing games on your MiSTer. It contains custom DAT files that instruct it on how to organize games.

 

Jotego Core Maintenance

Some of Jotego’s older cores have gone through some maintenance updates.

  • jtcircus Fixed jumping for a 4th time in a drum in 3rd stage doesn’t show the clown trespassing the circus tent in Circus Charlie
  • Support for selecting characters for four-player games in JTTMNT,JTRIDERS and JTSIMSON cores

 

Thunder Fox added to F2 Core

The Taito F2 arcade core now supports Thunder Fox, a horizontally side scrolling beat-em-up/run n gun/shoot em up.

Additionally, there have been other fixes to the F2 core that include

  • Fixing some priority issues in Pu.Li.Ru.La
  • More accurate TC0360PRI implementation
  • Added support for MAME keyboard encoders

 

 

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon

The CoinOp Collection team has released a core for another arcade game based on Cave hardware. It is Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, a side scrolling beat-em up. The public Patreon post for the announcement has some history and technical information about the game and core, so you can check that out if you want to find out more.

Installation of this core does require a patched rom that has decrypted sprites. The full instructions are on the public patreon post.

Also announced were some upcoming cores in development:
Air Gallet, a vertically scrolling shooter from 1996.
Metamoqester, another side scrolling beatem up with some great sprite work.

 

Ironclad DX & Lite Updates

The Ironclad Lite IO Board is back in stock at d3fmods website. Also the premium DX version of the board is scheduled to ship during the month of July.

The Ironclad series of boards are IO boards that allow you to use a MiSTer FPGA setup in a PC case.

 

Multisystem 2

MiSTer MultiSystem 2 is still on schedule to ship in August. Their 3D print farm is also running well and keeping up with production.

Additionally, their N64 SNAC cartridge has been modified to be a little more inspired by the original console. The casing has been physically changed from being a chunky square to a rounded shape that makes it look like an N64 cartridge has been inserted onto the Multisystem.

 

Lightning Fighters

Jotego released a beta for the Konami 2 player shooter, Lightning Fighters. It is available only to Patreon subscribers at the moment.

Other MiSTer FPGA Updates

And other miscellaneous MiSTer fixes and updates are:

Gameboy:
– Option for extra sprites (paulb-nl).
– Fixes for HDMA, Video (paulb-nl ).
– Updated framework.

NES:
– Fix MMC3, N163, 70 mappers (paulb-nl).
– FDS: add save states (paulb-nl).
– Implement KIL unofficial opcode (Simplistic).
– Allow oversize mmc3 (greyrogue).
– Updated framework.

ADCTest:
– Updated framework.
ADCTest is a utility core for the tape input that tests the ADC board and input levels.

GBA:
– CPU, Video And Audio fixes (paulb-nl).
– Updated framework.

Minimig:
– Autoconfig fixes.
– Fixes for Nexus 7, Domination, Sanity: Roots 2.0 demos (tdelage26).
– TG68K: Bugfix on skipFetch signal with bra.l and bsr.l instructions.
– Add 230400 baud option for PPP (thera34).
– Implemented ToD clock bug, fixes music for Pit-Fighter and Torvak the Warrior (tdelage26).
– Updated framework.

mc6809is.v Core:
Fixed bug related to interrupts just after exiting from RESET condition:
This should affect cores that relay on the Motorola 6809 CPU.

Casio PV-1000, Super Vision 8000, My Vision, TommyTutor
– Updated Framework

Casio PV-2000
-Updated Framework
-Support for .ROM files.