Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
-
redsteakraw
- Posts: 244
- Joined: Sun May 24, 2020 11:19 pm
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 40 times
Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores who's patreon should I back to develop these? Is anyone working towards these iconic and beloved arcade titles and if so who should I and others support to help make this happen. Am I alone here for my love of these titles, that always seemed to attract me to them in any arcade I have been to?
Fear is the mind killer!
-
Newsdee
- Top Contributor
- Posts: 830
- Joined: Mon May 25, 2020 1:07 am
- Has thanked: 98 times
- Been thanked: 209 times
Re: Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
Don't think anybody is doing those at the moment. Just wait, it will happen sooner or later.
Re: Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
Furrtek has been working on schematics (correct term?) for various Konami (and related) chips. That is probably the closest until someone(s) start putting together actual cores.
My kids love Turtles beat 'em ups, and I would love to play the arcade versions.
My kids love Turtles beat 'em ups, and I would love to play the arcade versions.
Re: Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
Seems that way. System 16 has a lot of info about Konami boards.
Re: Simpsons or X-Men Arcade cores whos Patreon should I back to develop these?
My memory of this is fuzzy, but I recall that late '80s/early '90s Konami hardware is regarded as noteworthy because they had a library of custom chips that were very flexible and could be combined in various ways to suit the needs of different games. Wire two tilemap generator chips one way and they address a larger pattern ROM. Wire the exact same chips a different way, and they provide two tilemap layers with a smaller pattern ROM. And so on with sprite generators, priority encoders, palette chips, etc.. So any individual chip doesn't have terrible complexity, but you can't run many games until you have a large percentage of the chip library and a framework that allows combining them in arbitrary ways (HDL/FPGA being a perfect fit for the latter point).
The above description notably doesn't apply to the Bubble System/GX400/000529x chipset, which to the best of my knowledge is meant to operate as a set and was not used on many distinct boards.