{"id":1174,"date":"2018-03-05T23:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:46:37","slug":"updated-megadrive-genesis-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Updated Megadrive \/ Genesis core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2018-03-05<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just made available an updated version of the Sega Megadrive \/ Genesis core for the Turbo Chameleon 64.\u00a0 The only change is to the joystick handling &#8211; I&#8217;ve untangled the joystick directions and remapped the buttons slightly.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still not a lot of point in using a traditional 1-button C64 joystick with this, but I&#8217;ve also fixed a bug in my previous attempt which prevented the CDTV infra-red controller from working.\u00a0 This does now work, and the buttons are mapped as follows:<\/p>\n<pre>Play \/ Pause\u00a0 =&gt;\u00a0 Megadrive Start\r\nVolume Up =&gt; Megadrive A\r\nA =&gt; Megadrive B\r\nB =&gt; Megadrive C<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mapped Volume UP to button A simply because it physically feels in the right place.\u00a0\u00a0 The CDTV pad isn&#8217;t super-responsive, so trying to use for serious gameplay is an exercise in frustration, but it does work, and the controllers are readily available from AmigaKit.<\/p>\n<p>The new core can be found here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/snapshots\/fpgagen_chameleon_20180305.zip\">fpgagen_chameleon_20180305.zip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018-03-05 I&#8217;ve just made available an updated version of the Sega Megadrive \/ Genesis core for the Turbo Chameleon 64.\u00a0 The only change is to the joystick handling &#8211; I&#8217;ve untangled the joystick directions and remapped the buttons slightly. There&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpga","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}