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May 29, 2020

Contra (Gryzor) Beta - MiST(er) and SiDi

(español abajo)

I'm very happy to bring this week the classic Contra from Konami (files attached). As a child I only knew the Amstrad CPC version except for a night out with my parents when I could just see the arcade game for a few minutes. Couldn't play that night. Amstrad version was very good and it left a fond memory on me. I think it was around the year 1996 when I got a copy of this game ROM dumps and wrote the first emulator for it. Some time later I helped port the game to MAME and you can still see my name in the MAME source file for it.

The strongest point of the arcade version over the Amstrad one was not so much playability rather than music. But at the time I didn't have access to Yamaha information or chips so my emulator had no music. This actually motivated me years later to write JT51 (the YM2151 verilog core). And the lack of people using JT51 to write arcade cores pushed me to start writing full cores myself.

So that's the story behind. About the game itself, it has another odd resolution so I hope it works well on CRT screens. The game uses two instances of a Konami custom chip for which there are no schematics available as of today. However, I have reconstructed the workings of this custom by examining the interconnection with other elements, PCB measurements and MAME's notes. The core is built obeying the dual chip architecture of the original. There are other games using that custom chip which I plan to work on so with time the custom chip will become fully implemented. No known issues in the beta.

This is a beta for patrons. Please do not distribute.

(español)

Estoy muy contento de poder traeros esta semana el Gryzor de Konami. De niño solo lo conocí en mi Amstrad CPC y me encantaba. La máquina la vi de pasada una noche que me llevaron mis padres a otro barrio. Pero no llegué a jugarla. Corría el año 1996 cuando me hice con una copia de las ROM y me puse a estudiarlas hasta conseguir el primer emulador de este juego. Con el tiempo, ayudaria también a portarlo a MAME.

Cuando por fin conocí la máquina -a través de mi emulador- vi que no era más divertida que la versión de Amstrad. Aun me perdí entonces su principal encanto: la música. En esa época no tenía información sobre chips de Yamaha ni tenía acceso a los mismos. Asi que tenía esa espinita clavada. Eso me motivo para escribir el JT51 (versión verilog del YM2151) esperando que la gente lo usara para hacer cores de arcade. Pero como nadie se ponía a ello, al final me puse yo a hacerlos. Y aquí estoy.

En cuanto al juego en sí, he respetado la arquitectura original de dos chip gráficos. Aunque el contenido de este chip no se ha detallado aun y por tanto he hecho una reconstrucción en base a cómo está conectado, lo que se sabe por MAME y medidas en la placa. Hay más juegos que lo usan y los iré haciendo para ir completando la implementación de este chip. No hay fallos que yo sepa en la beta.

Esta beta es sólo para mecenas. Por favor no distribuir.

Comments (28)

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FRANCISCO JAVIER FUENTES MORENO · June 3, 2020

Great Konami game

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RetroLarry/RealLarry · May 30, 2020

Just did a quick test on MiST/VGA. Screen is stable, text and background are ok, but Sprites are totally garbled. Using contra.zip from mame-0.221 But hey, it's a beta, so just thanks and welcome to this great new core! EDIT: mame rom is working fine on MiSTer

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JOTEGO · May 30, 2020

Update your MRA tool. I've developed the core on MiST so that's the platform I've tested more.

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Mottzilla · May 30, 2020

Is analog video output working on MiSTer? I gave it a quick try and the video was stable but a mess of lines shifted horizontally some with spaces between them.

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JOTEGO · May 30, 2020

It works. Again as screen resolution is a bit peculiar it may fail in some screens. You can try blindly adjusting the sync settings. Those are the first two options in the OSD.

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JFRoco · May 29, 2020

¡Muchas gracias! Funcionó en mi CRT (Sony PVM) usando CRT H adjust: -6

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Christopher Tuckwell · May 29, 2020

Awesome! Thank you!

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Fernando da Costa Duarte · May 29, 2020

Grande trabajo, cómo siempre.

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ARCADEAGES · May 29, 2020

Gracias Jotego!

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David Filskov · May 29, 2020

Oh - well done :) - thanks!

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Owlnonymous · May 29, 2020

Heck yeah! Contra was one of the first arcade cabinets I used to own. I used to be able to 1CC it in under 10 minutes. I'll aim for a 1CC here in the next week.

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JOTEGO · May 30, 2020

Yes, it's a game you can master. I like that.

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Slick Sic · May 29, 2020

Awesome work. 👏

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Luc JOLY · May 29, 2020

Excellent ! Thank you for this great work 👍

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Hung Ta · May 29, 2020

WOW! This is very good news! Awesome, keep up the good work!

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patamar4 · May 29, 2020

Thanks Jotego 😇👏👏👏👏

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arcademaniac · May 29, 2020

Great, thanks a lot :-) !!

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Martin Hernandez · May 29, 2020

gracias!

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alex tesone · May 29, 2020

So awesomee

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Bryan Adams · May 29, 2020

This is amazing! Thank you for the hard work!

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Mike Holzinger · May 29, 2020

Fantastic work!!!

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Xzarian · May 29, 2020

Thanks JT! NES version is best, but arcade is good too I think.

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sylvain guego · May 29, 2020

THANKS !

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Enrique Lopez · May 29, 2020

This is amazing! Great work!

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Gus Douboulidis · May 29, 2020

Love your back stories. Thank you, love being able to support you.

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ALFREDO CANAS · May 29, 2020

time to raise some testosterone levels playing contra

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rsn8887 · May 29, 2020

Thanks! I only owned the CPC version back in the day as well. I still think the CPC version is better than the arcade in terms of gameplay and graphics. But I love the arcade version, too.

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Memmaker · May 29, 2020

Hell yeah! It’s pew pew time! 🤘🏻❤️