JOTEGO posts
Some improvements
Polishing work on the Run'n Gun core continued this week. The core looks now much better on MiSTer and SiDi128 but the Pocket version still needs a few more days of work.
A while ago, one of our directors requested a core for Caliber 50, a g...
2025-11-21 17:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostRUN & GUN / Surprise Attack
RUN & GUN
Run & Gun is my favourite basketball game. I am thrilled to bring this to the FPGA realm!
History
This 5-on-...
2025-11-07 16:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
JTS18: Clock Work Aquario/Where's Wally
Clock Work Aquario
A new arcade game - yet from the past!? Clockwork Aquario was developed by Westone in 1991 on Sega’s System 18 hardware...
2025-10-24 16:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostTurtles in Time
History
Released by Konami two years after the 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this sequel was praised for improving upon its predecessor in every aspect—graphics, gameplay, and music—while also being welcomed for staying faithful t...
2025-10-10 09:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostService Release
These past two weeks we stopped working on new developments to go back to reported issues in released cores. Although this kind of work may not feel as exciting, it is actually quite rewarding when one issue leads to a better understanding of the ...
2025-09-26 06:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostGolfing Greats/OutRun back on Analogue Pocket
History
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the arcade market saw a surge of “realistic sports simulations,” with SEGA’s Dynamic Golf and Atari/Midway’s Golden Tee Golf enjoying great popularity. In 1991, Konami released Gol...
2025-09-12 14:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise Attack
While we were working desperately to complete Golfing Greats or Run'n Gun cores for this week, another team member finished reviewing Konami's PCB for Surprise Attack. The PCB turned out to be a cost-saving version of
Audio Fixes
Development Update
Work still keeps us busy towards the two next big cores: Run'n Gun and CPS3, with these stepping stones
Add Golfing Greats to JTRIDERS, as it uses the same...
2025-08-15 15:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Development Update
NeoGeo Pocket
Thank you for sharing your views in the previous post comments. We decided to spend more time on the NeoGeo Pocket core as a result. The following games are now playable:
Metal Slug (Monochrome version was broke...
2025-07-18 18:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ajax
This week's release updates the beta key. Please remember to copy the new one to your MiSTer/Pocket FPGA.
History
This ga...
2025-07-04 16:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostLighting Fighters
History
A vertical scrolling shooter game released by Konami in 1990, supporting two-player simultaneous play.
Attack items differ between...
2025-06-27 18:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostDesert Breaker
Desert Breaker: History
This game, released by SEGA two years after Capcom's Commando II (Mercs), shares a similar style—set on the battlefiel...
2025-06-20 15:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostLaser Ghost
In 1990, after Ghostbusters II release in 1989, SEGA released their first light gun arcade shooter: Laser Ghost (if you are thinking of The House of the Dead, that would still take six more years to come alive!). This game takes heavy ins...
2025-06-13 16:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostMetro Cross
History
This side-scrolling action game released by Namco in 1985 is very very simple. It's a race against time as a man runs towards the goal w...
2025-06-06 14:21:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Return of Ishtar/Genpei
GENPEI TOMA DEN
History
The motif of this...
2025-05-31 07:22:11 +0000 UTC View PostPac-Land
The 45th anniversary of Pac-Man was yesterday. In order to join the cellebration we are bringing a new core compatible with the Pac-Land hardware: JTPACLAN.
2025-05-23 14:49:02 +0000 UTC
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Wonder Momo, Hopping Mappy
This JTFriday brings us two new titles to the JTTHUNDR core in beta and the promotion of JTFLSTORY (The Fairy Land Story, etc.) to public core.
Wonder Momo
2025-05-16 13:58:31 +0000 UTC
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Sky Kid Deluxe
Work on the JTTHUNDR core continues, apart from fixing the PCM sound pitch, we add support for Sky Kid Deluxe this week.
2025-05-09 21:46:55 +0000 UTC
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Rolling Thunder
History
It is 1986, there are 26,573 game centres in Japan, the highest number in history. The Family Computer (NES) was launched three years ago and home video game consoles are becoming more popular, but the quality of games is overwhelm...
2025-04-25 18:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostBronx (Cycle Shooting)
History
Cycle Shooting is a gun shooting game released by Taito in 1986. There are six stages in total, alternating between horizontal-scro...
2025-04-04 15:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostSinden Light Guns, Dokaben 2
DOKABEN 2
Sometimes, information for new game arises that makes them playable on existing cores. This week we bring Dokaben 2, running on the JTPANG core.
2025-03-21 17:29:47 +0000 UTC
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STRATO FIGHTER/RAIGA
The final game on the JTGAIDEN core is a famous shooter: RAIGA. I have looked for other Tecmo games of around this time but they do not seem to operate on this hardware. So the core will support Ninja Gaiden, Wild Fang and Raiga.
2025-03-14 17:12:49 +0000 UTC
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Wild Fang/Tecmo Knight
One more game for the JTGAIDEN core, which in the previous beta only covered Shadow Warriors (Ninja Gaiden). Wild Fang 2025-03-07 12:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Light Gun Action: NY Captor
Last minute compilation problems made this JTFRIDAY a Saturday, apologies about that. And here we are!
NYCaptor
This might be the last game for the JTFLSTORY core: NY Captor. ...
2025-03-01 09:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post