Coin-Op Collection

Today's release differs from anything we've done before. This beta for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms brings us the CP System, or CPS-1, the arcade hardware Capcom introduced in 1988, along with every commercial title released on it from 1988 to 1995. Every chip that runs these titles

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is The Legend of Kage, a 1985 Taito arcade game built on the A54 architecture. It is a side-view action game where the ninja Kage leaps through a forest, along a river, over a castle's walls and into its towers to rescue Princess Kiri.

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is The Lost Castle in Darkmist, a 1986 Seibu Kaihatsu arcade game built on the SEI-8608 hardware. It is a vertically scrolling action game where a warrior in golden armor fights through the demons of the Lost Castle of Darkmist wi

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is Bubble Bobble, a 1986 Taito arcade game built on the A78 architecture. Bubble Bobble is a single-screen platform game where Bub and Bob, two brothers turned into bubble-blowing dragons, work their way down 100 rounds of a cave

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is KiKi KaiKai, a 1986 Taito arcade game built on the A85 architecture. KiKi KaiKai is an overhead action game where Sayo-chan, a miko serving at a Shinto shrine, fights her way through eight scenes of yokai to recover the Seven Lucky

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the final entry on the Twin Cobra platform. Wardner is a side-scrolling action platformer built on Toaplan's GXL based arcade hardware. Sky Shark / Flying Shark / Hishou Zame (1987) Wardner / Wardner no Mori / Pyros (1987) Twin Cobr

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the NMK16 platform. Black Heart is a horizontally scrolling shooter built on NMK's 16-bit custom hardware. Task Force Harrier (1989) US AAF Mustang (1990) Vandyke (1990) Bio-ship Paladin (1990) Black Heart (19

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the NMK16 platform. Thunder Dragon is a vertically scrolling shooter built on NMK's 16-bit custom hardware. Task Force Harrier (1989) US AAF Mustang (1990) Vandyke (1990) Bio-ship Paladin (1990) Black Heart (1

Today's release for the MiSTerFPGA platform is a pair of licensed betas, Mystic Warriors and Metamorphic Force, both from 1993 and both running on similar hardware designed by Konami. There is also an update for G.I. Joe on the Analogue Pocket, bringing its graphics pipeline in line with the MiSTer

Today's update marks the public beta of G.I. Joe on MiSTerFPGA. The core released for the Analogue Pocket on July 4th as a public beta, and the post that went with it laid out what was left to do, the MiSTer version needed a memory architecture of its own, the sprite pipeline was struggling, and the

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Desert Assault, known outside the US as Thunder Zone, is a four-player military run-and-gun, built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crude (1

This morning's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Rohga: Armor Force, known in Japan as Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001, is a two player run-and-gun, built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crud

Tonight's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Wizard Fire, known in Japan as Dark Seal II, is a fantasy hack-and-slash for up to two players, built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Cru

Tonight's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Super Burger Time is Data East's 1990 arcade sequel to the 1982 classic BurgerTime, a single-screen game of stacking hamburgers while dodging walking food, now with a jump button and two-pla

This afternoon's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Diet Go Go is a single-screen action-platformer with a weight-management twist, where players fatten enemies with thrown food and burst them across the stage, built on Data East's 16-

This evening's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Mutant Fighter, known in Japan as Death Brade, is a one-on-one fighting game with a pro-wrestling core and a cast of fantasy monsters, built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Nitro Ball, known in Japan as Gun Ball, is an overhead run-and-gun shooter crossed with pinball, built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crud

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Double Wings is a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware, published by Mitchell in 1993. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crude (1990) Dark

The first wave of Data East's DECO-16 platform is now public. Vapor Trail, Crude Buster, Dark Seal, The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, Caveman Ninja, RoboCop 2, Tumble Pop, and Boogie Wings are available on the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA, with the Boogie Wings Pocket build arriving in the coming day

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket is G.I. Joe, a 1992 Konami arcade game licensed from Hasbro's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. G.I. Joe is a rail shooter with pseudo-3D graphics, drawing on the animated series for its characters and its look, built on Konami's 68000-based arcade hardware

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms covers Captain America and The Avengers, the first entry on the DECO-32 platform. Captain America and The Avengers is a four-player beat 'em up built on Data East's 32-bit ARM-based custom chipset, the same hardware family behind: Capt

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Caveman Ninja, known in Japan as Tatakae Genshijin: Joe & Mac, is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster /

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. RoboCop 2 is a side-scrolling run-and-gun built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware, licensed from Orion Pictures' 1990 sequel to the original RoboCop film. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Dark Seal, known in North America as Gate of Doom, is a quarter-view action-RPG built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crude (1990) Dark Sea

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms covers the third and fourth entries on Data East's DECO-8 platform. The Real Ghostbusters and its Japan-only counterpart Meikyuu Hunter G are multidirectional run-and-guns built on Data East's 8-bit custom chipset, the same hardware fa

Today's release for the MiSTerFPGA platform is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Boogie Wings, known in Japan as The Great Ragtime Show, is an aircraft-based action game built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. An Analogue Pocket build will follow over the next week or so. Kuhga / Vapor Tr

Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom returns to the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms with a major revision. Released by Toaplan in 1990, it is a single-screen platformer in which the snowman twins Nick and Tom fight through fifty stages of monsters to rescue the princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi. The fi

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Crude Buster, known in North America and Europe as Two Crude, is a side-scrolling beat 'em up built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Two Crude (

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, known in Japan as Edward Randy, is a side-scrolling cinematic action game built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster /

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the next entry on the DECO-16 platform. Vapor Trail, known in Japan as Kuhga, is a vertically scrolling shooter built on Data East's 16-bit custom hardware, the platform introduced with Tumble Pop's release. Kuhga / Vapor Trail (198

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the first entry on the DECO6280 platform. Act-Fancer is a horizontal scrolling run-and-gun built on Data East's 8-bit custom hardware, an evolution of the DECO-8 board behind Psycho-Nics Oscar and Cobra Command that moves the main p

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the second entry in the NMK16 platform. US AAF Mustang is a horizontal scrolling shooter built on NMK's 68000-based custom chipsets, the same hardware family behind: Task Force Harrier (1989) US AAF Mustang (1990) Vandyke (1990) Bio

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is the first entry in the NMK16 platform. Super Dimension Fortress Macross is a vertically scrolling shooter built on NMK's 68000-based custom chipsets, the same hardware family behind: Task Force Harrier (1989) US AAF Mustang (1990) V

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms covers the second entry in Data East's DECO-8 platform. Cobra-Command is a horizontally scrolling helicopter shooter built on Data East's 8-bit custom chipset, the same hardware family behind: Last Mission (1986) Shackled / Breywood (1

Tonight's release for the MiSTerFPGA platform covers Williams/Midway's T-Unit arcade hardware, with Mortal Kombat II (1993) arriving at the Patron Beta tier as the platform's debut title. T-Unit serves as the direct evolution of the Y-Unit design covered in the previous post, retaining the Texas Ins

Tonight's release for the MiSTerFPGA platform covers Williams/Midway's Z-Unit and Y-Unit arcade hardware. Many changes come with this release, including the introduction of a new licensing portal for patrons to register their devices and generate keys. Mortal Kombat (1992) releases to the Patron tie

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms covers the first entry in Data East's DECO-8 platform. Psycho-Nics Oscar is a side-scrolling run-and-gun built on Data East's 8-bit custom chipset, the same hardware family behind: Last Mission (1986) Shackled / Breywood (1986) Gondoma

Below is a list of titles ready to be prepped for the next DECO-16 installment. I'd like everyone to vote on the next release so I can set aside time to focus on a specific title. Cast your vote and let me know!

Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms covers Data East's Tumble Pop, the first entry to the DECO-16 platform. Tumble Pop is a single-screen platformer built on Data East's 16-bit custom chipsets, the same hardware family behind: Kuhga / Vapor Trail (1989) Crude Buster / Tw

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last few months while releases were on hold. The time was spent adding additional infrastructure to the K3 framework enabling Midway Z/Y/T-Unit support for the MiSTerFPGA platform, which has been one of the most requested arcade platforms. This was

Happy New Year! Today's release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms marks the final entry to the Twin Cobra platform, Hi Shou Zame (飛翔鮫) / Flying Shark / Sky Shark. This is one of my favorite shooters and an arcade blockbuster that became Toaplan's biggest commercial success, introducin

I’d like to wish everyone a belated Merry Christmas! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Today marks the release of Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTer FPGA platforms, a beloved arcade cult classic developed by Toaplan during its golden era. Now you can take this arcade fa

I'm happy to announce that Kyūkyoku Tiger / Twin Cobra is out of beta and complete! I spent the last six weeks rewriting the core based on Sky Shark schematics and verified it against my TP-007 (Sky Shark) and TP-011 (Twin Cobra) PCBs. I won't do a deep dive into what was done until Hi Shou Zame / S

Before we begin today’s post, I would like to inform readers with photosensitive epilepsy that footage of Zero Wing should be avoided, as the game contains frequent red flashing whenever an enemy is destroyed. I've made significant progress over the past few weeks. Apologies for the delay; I wanted

The first entry to our reworked Toaplan V1 platform has arrived just in time for the end of the spooky season! Demon's World / Horror Story comes to the Analogue Pocket and includes several improvements and requested updates for the MiSTer version. All outstanding issues that were present in the Toa

Late last week, Pramod was able to revive our T.M.N.T. – Turtles in Time PCB. The repair process was extensive, it involved desoldering and validating all of the ROMs and logic chips, socketing and replacing roughly 70% of them with new components, reflowing the entire board. Brandon, one of teams m

It has been two months since our last release, and we are excited to share that our framework for the Analogue Pocket is now complete! The K3-Pocket framework is compatible with K3-MiSTer, and in the coming weeks we will be bringing its improvements over to K3-MiSTer as well. We have also begun work

Our next title for the Cave 68000 platform is Air Gallet, a straightforward vertical shooter developed by the game studio Gazelle Co., Ltd. This was their second and final title, following Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon released in 1995. The core development team behind Air Gallet consisted of Tatsuya U

Today's release marks the next entry in our Cave 68000 platform, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon. A unique game featuring large sprite work, colorful tiles, digitized voice samples from the cast, and cel animation from the original animated series. This game was developed by Gazelle Co., Ltd., a game stu