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Arcade MegaWing

  • FPGA Platformer Game Written Entirely In VHDL

    FPGA enthusiast and nostalgic gamer Ben created a 1980s-style side-scrolling platformer game (think Super Mario Bros.) entirely in VHDL. Hence there is no microprocessor present. Ben’s game was originally written to run on an Altera dev board, and some other hardware. The hardware consists of: •A single FPGA •Power and clock circuitry •A controller, which…

  • Video: David Crane On Designing Pitfall For Atari 2600

    We found a great vid of Pitfall designer David Crane giving a talk about designing and writing the Activision-published game for the Atari 2600 all the way back in the early 1980s. This video is from the 2011 GDC (Game Developers Conference). In it, David gives a great deconstruction of the development process for writing…

  • Arcade Game Trifecta On Papilio Pro, Arcade MegaWing

    Forum user and regular contributor Alex recently dropped us a line on the forums.  He was saying something about getting new arcade games running on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing.  Turns out he’s got three arcade games going (Ladybug, Dorodon, and Cosmic Avenger) and is using a PS/2 keyboard for controls. Alex says, [The games]…

  • NES Game Console Recreated On FPGA

    Today we’ve got a great gamer project to share with you in which a dude recreated the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on a Digilent Nexus 3 FPGA dev board. The reason?  In his words, I was a bit bored during Christmas, so I decided to construct a whole Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in an FPGA. Boredom?  That…

  • “Crazy Ivan” gives permission to include Mr. Do’s Nightmare with the Papilio Arcade!

    Hey everyone, great news! The author of Mr. Do’s Nightmare, Crazy Ivan, gave us permission to include his game with the Papilio Arcade. This means that we can provide you with a bit file that already includes the ROMs! This was very generous of him and we are very thankful for his kind contribution. We…

  • Sega Master System on the Papilio Plus

    Papilio user Ben Leperchey has successfully managed to run a Sega Master System on a Papilio Plus prototype and he has started an interesting topic in the forum to share with us his work. If you want to try this project on your Papilio Plus prototype you must have these wings: [checklist] Joystick wing VGA wing…