JOTEGO

World Cup: Analog Controls and Audio Volume

Work on Tehkan World Cup electrical schematic diagrams is finished. It has brought up a number of new discoveries on this hardware:

• correct video timing (including frame rate)

  2024-11-29 12:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post

1985 World Cup

History

The most popular soccer game in the 80's arcades was released by Tehkan, the former name of Tecmo in 1985.

2024-11-08 16:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post

GFX Patches

Work on Konami-compatible hardware continues. Impacting several cores. See the post images for examples of fixed scenes.

• Fixed 2024-10-25 16:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post

JTXMEN Beta

We bring a new beta core, JTXMEN, compatible with KONAMI's X-MEN hardware. KONAMI's X-MEN is based on the 1989 US-aired PRYDE OF THE X-MEN cartoon, and the colourful costumes confo...

2024-10-11 19:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Service Release

Service release this week, with special attention to NGPC as more games work now:

• Revisited shouse: fl...

  2024-10-04 14:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post

The Other Avengers

There have been developments related to CAPCOM's Avengers (1987). A copy of the Trojan schematics appeared in the internet a while ago. It included a sheet for an MCU (microcontroller unit) that wa...

2024-09-21 16:12:21 +0000 UTC View Post

The other avengers

There have been developments related to CAPCOM's Avengers (1987). A copy of the Trojan schematics appeared on the internet a while ago. It included a sheet for an MCU (microco...

2024-09-20 13:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Rumbling Super Stars

Do you remember the thrill of stepping into the arcade as a kid, hearing the roar of the crowd and the iconic entrance music of your favorite WWF wrestlers? WWF Superstars, release...

2024-09-06 19:52:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Circus Charlie & NGP Color

Very busy three weeks working on many, many items. Some of them involved changes to many cores. 515 files have been edited in the source code since the last JTFRIDAY, so 2024-08-30 17:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Development Update/Trick Trap beta (Pocket)

No big announcements for this summer week but plenty of items to report.

Legacy Cores for Analogue Pocket

Analogue Pocket cores JTSLYSPY and JTFLANE are promoted...

2024-08-09 15:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Sunset Riders & Pocket Analogizer

Sunset Riders

Four gunmen looking for action under the hot sun. If you have not met Sunset Riders before, get ready to fall in love with its smooth animations, humour and saloon girls. We w...

2024-07-27 09:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Moonwalker, Fast Lane, public cores...

Moonwalker

The arcade game with arguably the most popular music ever visits us this week. JTS18 beta adds support for Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. This game has proven hard to support. Fir...

2024-07-12 16:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Support for Rompers, Bakutotsu Kijutei and bug fixes

New Games

JTSHOUSE core (beta) gets support for the action puzzle game Rompers and the action shooting game Bakutotsu Kijutei this week. These were th...

2024-06-28 16:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Support for Clutch Hitter, Hi Scores and more...

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Many topics for this JT Friday:

• JTS18 core (beta) adds support for the baseball game Clutch Hitter

• JTSLYSPY beta ...

  2024-06-14 10:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Support for Alien Storm/Bionic Commando

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We have added the MegaDrive VDP chip to the JTS18 core. This chip is responsible of all the graphics and part of the audio in a MegaDrive console. On SEGA Syst...

2024-05-31 10:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post

System 18, More JTSHOUSE Games

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Lots of items to cover this week:

Beta Key Change

After using the same beta key since January, we are refreshing it. The new one is attached. As ...

2024-05-24 10:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post

CRT Usage

What type of screen do you use to play FPGA cores?

The information from these polls guides development effort.

2024-05-11 16:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Netlists and Other News

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Several SEGA System 18 games are booting up in the upcoming JTS18 core but I found an unexpected hiccup in the connection of the MegaDrive VDP. This arcade sys...

2024-05-10 06:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Tanks and Sports

Very quick update this week for five new games supported on the JTSHOUSE core.

Tank games

• Blazer, an isometric tank shooter that looks really good and ...

  2024-04-26 09:56:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Shooters!

Public Releases

We are giving priority to finishing off the cores in beta phase. This week we promote two to public releases:

• JTTMNT, supporting Teenage Mutant ...

  2024-04-19 08:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Support for Pac-Mania. JTCOMMND for Pocket

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Work continues toward closing the JTSHOUSE and JTTMNT betas. More GFX features have been implemented for JTSHOUSE, fixing problems in Splatter House and Galaga...

2024-04-05 18:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post

JTSHOUSE: Support for Galaga 88

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The sound conversion for JTSIMSON, JTTMNT, and JTALIENS, cores compatible with 16-bit Konami titles, is ready. With this update, the problem of FX being too fa...

2024-03-29 16:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post