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 Ninja Turtles, MIA and PunkShot is finally ready for prime time after implementing ROM checks
JTMX5K (Pocket), supporting MX5000 as no issues have been reported after a month
Shooters!
As the JTSHOUSE core completion advances, more games become playable. We bring this week support for the shooters in the system:
There are some sound noises related to changes in the dc level of the PCM signal when it goes to silence. We are looking into that.
Bug fixes and other updates
Karate Champ VS games not booting
We have audited the main version for each game for audio volume. Some games are a bit too loud and some a bit too soft. We will balance all of them across the cores in a future update. The goal is that the user does not feel big volume changes when swapping games
sidi 128
We add support for the new sidi 128 FPGA platform. This is a middle price board, not as featured as a MiSTer but a big improvement over the previous sidi model. For developers, it is a nice board to work with basically because core compilation times are about 3x shorter than on the MiSTer. You will find sidi128 files along with sidi and mist in JTBIN and in the other zip files.
I am not involved with the development of sidi128, so please refer hardware and firmware questions to the seller.