New Bandai and Nichibutsu Consoles!

[Alkadian]

@Flandango

Many thanks for these new consoles:

Bandai's Super Vision 8000
Nichibutsu's My Vision Game System

Very much appreciated!

[Flandango]

They are obscure consoles and not a huge library but figured why not...
Hope you enjoy them

[kathleen]

@Flandango,
Obscure consoles are very important to be preserved, so from my side, a huge thank thank you for them.
And a tons of thanks especially for the fact you revived a Japanese consoles.

[Flandango]

I forgot to give instructions on how to create My Vision rom images.
I used roms from Mame Software Rom set but they come in split files (ex F1, F2, F3...)
They need to be merged/concatenated together, so in the example of Hanafuda
Using Dos/CMD:

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copy /B f1 + /B f2 + /B f3 Hanafuda.bin

Using Linux/Mister:

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cat f1 f2 f3 > Hanafuda.bin

[jca]

copy /B f1+f2+f3 Hanafuda.bin is less typing

[blacklistedcard]

I agree. It preserves the console that were not big, but it's nice to play to see what it was.

[Texemosis]

has anyone got Othello on the Supervision 8000 to work? it appears to be frozen on the game settings screen on my end. It's the only game I couldn't start up.

[Flandango]

Well...it's the only game, that I know of so far, that uses the Left Controller (Player 2) to do the menu select and start/stop game.
If you choose "Man Vs Computer"....it's Player 2 against the computer.
Going to have to add a "Swap Joysticks" option to the menu for just this case.
For the time being...if you have a second controller...plug it in as player 2 and use that.

[Flandango]

Just pushed an update out which should help with Othello.
With controller swapped in menu, pushing down changes the menu option....pushing up toggles sound on/off, fire button or "Z" or "-"
on keyboard starts the game.

[HerrBerzerk]

copy /B f1+f2+f3 Hanafuda.bin is less typing

I can only find 4 nichibutsu roms? Anyone with more?

[HerrBerzerk]

With controller swapped in menu, pushing down changes the menu option....pushing up toggles sound on/off, fire button or "Z" or "-"
on keyboard starts the game.

The Super Vision 8000 does not sync on a normal TV (at least for me). It looks to me like it adds scanlines (scandoubler?), so the resolution would be doubled. Just a guess.

[Flandango]

The Super Vision 8000 does not sync on a normal TV (at least for me). It looks to me like it adds scanlines (scandoubler?), so the resolution would be doubled. Just a guess.

It's an oversight on my end. I utilized the MC6847 written for arcade boards in mind mainly because it was a better fit for working with this core. Therefore it outputs a vga signal instead of a composite and switching it to composite mode...well it doesn't work.
As I get some free time, I'll look into implementing or modifying the MC6847 code used in the COCO2 which output composite just fine to work with this core.

[HerrBerzerk]

As I get some free time, I'll look into implementing or modifying the MC6847 code used in the COCO2 which output composite just fine to work with this core.

Thank you!