Arcadia 2001 / Leisure Vision Core?

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Arcadia 2001 / Leisure Vision Core?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_2001

https://console5.com/wiki/Arcadia_2001 (Schematics)

My wife had this console as a kid (the Leisure Vision version here in Canada). What would be the odds on getting this console made into a core?
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Looks like my friend Grabulosaure has been working on it.

https://github.com/Grabulosaure/C2650_MiSTer

UPDATE: After playing around with it, it looks like it's almost there. Joystick mappings seem a little wonky. But good progress overall!
Can't wait to see the final core.

And found the roms... https://archive.org/details/Emerson_Arc ... 2012_04_23

P.S. Showed my wife, and she remembers playing Baseball and Space Attack. Good memories there.
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@kamshaft
For Signetics 2650 stuff (Arcadia, Acetronic MPU & clones), this site is the most complete : http://amigan.yatho.com/

If you are looking for archaic game consoles, Fairchild "Channel F" is still missing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F
Games are ugly but it's historically significant because it was the first console with cartridges and a microprocessor (albeit a bit unusual one).
It shouldn't be too difficult to code it anyway.
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Funny, I've still some of these consoles somewhere in my attic.
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Grabulosaure wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:24 pm @kamshaft
For Signetics 2650 stuff (Arcadia, Acetronic MPU & clones), this site is the most complete : http://amigan.yatho.com/

If you are looking for archaic game consoles, Fairchild "Channel F" is still missing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F
Games are ugly but it's historically significant because it was the first console with cartridges and a microprocessor (albeit a bit unusual one).
It shouldn't be too difficult to code it anyway.
Cool! Thanks for the update!
My question is how much is needed to be done?
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Sadly, Arcadia mode doesn't work over CRT. "Internton" does, but in Arcadia mode you can't even see the menu.
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On my PAL Trinitron CRT The display in Interton mode is slightly cutoff. It would need some vertical position allignment.
In Arcadia mode I can see a display but it's flickering and is kind of in purple.
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This one now live in Main as it's own core, thanks to Grabulosaure!
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Got a problem with Arcadia core on CRT, and I tried two different monitors. The image is super distorted and I can't see anything, I'm wondering if there are specific settings to write in .ini
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I've noticed some errors with a few games. Mobile Suit Gundam bugs out with graphical glitches and 3D Attack (dumped a year or two back) won't even load. I recognize no one is currently working on the core but I wanted to flag those are two games I noticed issues on that don't exist on the actual hardware or software emulation.
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