[PROJECT SHOWCASE] KINIRO ULTRA - kasaski's CV1000 Multi Project & More

[Mageta the Lion]

And most importantly: unlocks. A few CV1k games required some sort of criteria to be me

Wouldn't that be much more easily and efficiently be solved in Software?

 

[kasaski]

Wouldn't that be much more easily and efficiently be solved in Software?

Yes it definitely could be solved through modding the roms, but Id rather not have to go that route as its something I'm not super skilled with. But even then we would still lose high scores and dip settings.

This is definitely an optional add-on anyway as i know many people wouldnt care about this

 

[rocolowithoutbrakes]

Latest rivison PCB assembled and tested. So far looking good! everything is coming together . Once I work out a nice way to showcase the project I'll film it in action soon.

However, I'm still not done yet! After going back and fourth on the idea for quite some time I've decided that without a multi RTC/EEPROM solution this project is incomplete due to following being reset when changing games:
- DIP settings (freeplay, demo sound, Screen pos/brightness, etc)
- High scores
- And most importantly: unlocks. A few CV1k games required some sort of criteria to be met (usually just a string of button inputs) to unlock an extra difficulty, stage or character. If you're someone who enjoys deathsmiles this could be quite annoying.

While none of this is really a huge deal, it seems unpolished to not have a solution for this. So, I've created and ordered yet another daughter board which will house 16 RTC/EEPROM chips. Unfortunately this chip is no longer produced so sourcing may unreliable and/or expensive. If anyone knows of a suitable modern replacement please let me know, i haven't had much luck searching around myself. Id much rather use something that can be sourced from mouser/digikey.

God bless you!

 

[kasaski]

KINIRO ULTRA and all future projects of mine will now only be documented on my new site at kasaski.dev. Its still very primitive but i just quickly threw it together to have something to link to. You can also follow me on my new twitter acc linked on the site.

After this I am no longer interested in posting any future projects on arcade projects.

Thank you for all the support I've had so far