Now that I've replaced almost all of the old arcade images, the alternatives folder is getting pretty full.

The alternatives folder should be organized into 3 folders:

• home-v2 (old home images)
• arcade-v4 (old arcade images)
• others

The following arcade cores are (possibly or definitely) in development. Make some images for them.

Open Gateware - Release Candidate

• burgertime - Burger Time
• burningrubber - Burnin' Rubber
• popeye - Popeye / Sky Skipper
• rallyx - RallyX / New RallyX
• bombjack - Bomb Jack
• ataritetris - Atari Tetris
• galivan - Cosmo Police Galivan
• segasys1 - Sega System 1 / 2
• pacman - Namco Pacman Board
• druaga - Namco Super Pacman Board - https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=519

Open Gateware - Alpha/Beta

• crazykong - Crazy Kong
• galaxian - Galaxian
• Donkey Kong 3
• gaplus - Gaplus / Galaga 3
• tropicalangel - Tropical Angel (Irem M57)
• moonpatrol - Moon Patrol (Irem M52)
• traverseusa - Traverse USA / Shot Rider (Irem M52)

Open Gateware - In Progress / Not Working

• mariobros - Mario Bros
• crazyballoon - Crazy Balloon
• ninjakun - Ninja-kun
• donkeykongjr - Donkey Kong Jr.
• Spy Hunter ??
• zaxxon - Zaxxon
• mcr1 - Midway MCR1 Board
• mcr2 - Midway MCR2 Board
• mcr3 - Midway MCR3 Board
• mcr3scroll - Midway MCR3 Board - Scroll
• mcr3mono - Midway MCR3 Board - Mono
• robotron - Williams 6809 Board (Robotron / Sinistar) - https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=598
• iremm62 - Irem M62 Board - https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=737

Anton Gale Possible Future Cores

• TARG

Jotego Possible Future Cores

• The Fairyland Story
• jtmirai - Namco System 2
• jtmappy - Namco System 86 (this should be covered by duraga / super pacman core)
• jtsunset - Konami TMNT Board (Turtles 1 & 2, Sunset Riders)
• jtkombat - Midway Y Unit - https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=610
• jtbird - Psikyo SH2 Board
• jtcps3 - Capcom CPS3 Board

nullobject Cores

• cave - Cave 68000 Arcade Board - https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Cave_MiSTer

Other Arcade Cores

• Irem M72
• Irem M92
• Konami X-Men
• starwars - Star Wars Arcade

Released

• Taito System SJ - https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=634
• jtsimsons - The Simpsons
• jttmnt - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

It's a lot of work to redo everything, but those Computer platform image look really really nice. So clean and stylish. Maybe we should remake all of the console and handheld image in the same way?

Image for Home Consoles to Complete

• snes - Super Nintendo
• nes - Nintendo
• ng - Neo Geo
• gen - Sega Genesis
• sms - Master System
• sg1000 - Sega SG-1000
• pce - Turbo Grafx 16
• pcecd - Tubo Grafx CD
• coleco - Colecovision
• 7800 - Atari 7800
• 5200 - Atari 5200
• 2600 - Atari 2600
• intv - Intellivision
• odyssey2 - Oddysey 2
• channel_f - Channel F
• arcadia - Arcadia 2000
• creativision - Creativision
• studio2 - RCA Studio II

Image for Handhelds to Complete

• gb - GameBoy
• gbc - GameBoy Color
• gba - GameBoy Advance
• supergb - Super GameBoy
• poke_mini - Pokemon Mini
• jtngp - Neo Geo Pocket
• wonderswan - Wonder Swan Color
• gg - Sega GameGear
• arduboy - Arduboy
• game_king - Game King
• supervision - Supervision
• megaduck - Mega Duck
• gamate - Gamate
• avision - Adventure Vision

Unreleased Home Core Images to Complete

• ngpc - Neo Geo Pocket Color
• vb - Virtual Boy
• sdvmu - Sega Dreamcast VMU
• gnw - Game & Watch
• lynx - Atari Lynx
• vectrex - Vectrex

Atrac17 has begun releases Co-Op cores on the Pocket starting with Truxton II. Make images for all the cores.
He's got 43 separate games listed here: https://github.com/atrac17/Coin-Op_Collection/tree/main/_Arcade
6 of them are pram0d cores, so there'll be 37 from there, plus a few others he's doing.

Nichibutsu

• amatelas - Sei Senshi Amatelass
• armedf - Armed Formation F
• bigfghtr - Tatakae! Big Fighter
• cclimbr2 - Crazy Climber 2
• horekid - Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen
• kozure - Kozure Ookami
• legionj - Chouji Meikyuu Legion
• terracresta - Terra Cresta
• terrafj - Terra Force

Toaplan

• demonwld - Demon's World
• fshark - Flying Shark / Sky Shark
• hellfire - Hell Fire (toaplan v1)
• outzone - Out Zone (toaplan v1)
• pipibibs - Pipi & Bibs
• rallybike - Rally Bike
• samesame - Same! Same! Same!
• snowbros - Snow Bros 1
• truxton - Truxton (toaplan v1)
• twincobr - Twin Cobra
• vimana - Vimana
• wardner - Wardner
• zerowing - Zero Wing (toaplan v1)

SNK

• gangwars - Gang Wars (alpha68k)　ギャングウォーズ
• ikari3 - Ikari Warriors 3 (snk68)
• nextspace - The Next Space
• paddlema - Paddle Mania
• prehisle - Prehistoric Isle
• pow - Prisoners of War (snk68)
• sbaseball - Super Champion Baseball (alpha68k)
• searchar - Search and Rescue (snk68)
• streetsm - Street Smart (snk68)
• skyadvnt - Sky Adventure (alpha68k)
• skysoldr - Sky Soldiers (alpha68k)　スカイソルジャー
• timesold - Time Soldier (alpha68k)

Jaleco Mega System 1

• kazan - Ninja Kazan (mega system 1) / Iga Ninjyutsuden
• p47 - P-47 The Freedom Fighter (mega system 1)
• phantasm - Phantasm (Avenging Spirit) (mega system 1)
• rodland - Rod Land (mega system 1)
• stdragon - Saint Dragon (mega system 1)
• soldam - Soldam (mega system 1)
• astyanax - The Astyanax / The Lord of King (mega system 1)

Released

• truxton2 - Truxton II / Tatsujin Oh

Some home consoles have different names and different shapes depending on if they were released in North America, Europe, or Japan. With the new version of the platform images, it's not so difficult to make as long as I can find the image.

So, let's try to make regional images.

European Versions

• snes - Super Nintendo (shape)
• genesis - Mega Drive (name & shape)
• pce - TurboGrafx (name, shape is similar to US)

Japanese Versions

• nes - Famicom (name & shape)
• snes - Super Famicom (name & shape)
• sms - Sega Mark III (name & shape)
• genesis - Mega Drive (name & shape)
• pce - PC Engine (name & shape)
• pcecd - PC Engine CD (name only & shape)

**Note: Turbo Duo was released in Japan, but not released in Europe. Also, the PC Engine CD was the same in Europe as Japan.

The above comment is wrong. The PC Engine was released in Europe as the TurboGrafx and it was similar to the US counterpart. As far as I can tell, the CD add-on was never released in Europe.
https://consolemods.org/wiki/TG16:TurboGrafx-16_Model_Differences

I closed case #2

Let's comb through other Mister cores that haven't come to the Pocket to see what might be ported in the future.

High Priority - Ace9921 Active Development

• Arkanoid
• Finalizer - Konami
• Gyruss - Konami
• Iron Horse - Konami
• Jackal - Konami
• Scooter Shooter - Konami
• Time Pilot
• Time Pilot 84

Low Priority

• Ikari Warriors SNK
• TNK III SNK
• Ultra Tank 1978 Kee Games
• Xain'd Sleena Technos
• Pleiads Tehkan
• Lady Bug
• Gauntlet
• Centipede
• Solomon's Key

Other Singles

• Bosconian (Namco)
• Pengo (Sega)
• Food Fight (Atari)
• Psychic 5 (Jaleco)
• Crazy Climber (Nichibutsu)
• Chameleon (Jaleco)
• Express Raider (Data East)
• Son Son (Capcom)

Released

• Asteroids Deluxe
• Jailbreak - Konami
• Athena SNK

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Jotego Single Cores - Released

• Haunted Castle
• Contra
• Combat School
• The Final Round
• Shao-Lin's Road
• Mikie
• Konami Ping Pong
• Road Fighter
• Roc'n Rope
• Konami Super Basketball
• The Simpsons
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Track & Field
• Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Jotego Single Cores - Unreleased

• Fast Lane
• Labyrinth Runner
• Flak Attack

Boogerman Single Cores - Released

• Green Beret
• Pooyan

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

• Atari Star Wars
• Atari Tetris
• Super Breakout
• Space Race
• Lunar Lander
• Dominos
• Asteroids
• Pong

5 new cores have just been released by the mysterious Obsidian. We need images

• Mario Bros
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Donkey Kong 3
• Asteroids Deluxe
• Druaga (multi core)

The Williams 6809 family of games it comprised of 3 separate Hardware, and has the following games:

Rev.1 Defender Hardware

Colony7
Defender
Jin
Mayday

Rev.1 Robotron Hardware

Alien Arena
Bubbles
Joust
LottoFun
Playball
Robotron 2084
Sinistar
SpeedBall
Splat
Stargate

Rev.2 Hardware

Inferno
Joust 2 - Survival of the Fittest
Mystic Marathon
Turkey Shoot

Right now there's a single image for Robotron, but it has Defender on it, which isn't available in the Mister core.

There should be 3 standard image for each of these hardware implementations, and a single combination core for everything. I would suggest that the combination core image look similar to the MCR combo image.

• Rev 1 Defender
• Rev 1 Robotron
• Rev 2
• Combination Core

In addition to arcade games, I want to create releases for consoles, handhelds, and computers, too. I don't want to create individual releases for each of those categories, so they'll be grouped together and considered "Home" cores.

Refactor the code to have arcade and home cores on equal levels, and zipped up for each release.

Continue to keep alternate and unreleased folders to other overrides, but don't include them in releases and don't front-face them as much as the arcade and home overrides.

There are some handheld cores that we know are coming in the future, plus there's lots of other stuff that will hopefully come, too. Make some overrides to prepare!

Handhelds

• lynx - Atari Lynx
• ngpc - NeoGeo Pocket Color
• vmu - Sega Dreamcast VMU
• vb - Virtual Boy
• Tiger R-Zone
• Game.com
• Nokia N-Gage

Consoles

• segapico - Sega Pico
• vectrex - GCE Vectrex

Computers

• c64 - Commodore 64
• msx - Microsoft MSX
• x68000 - Sharp X68000
• pc8801 - NEX PC-88
• rx78 - Bandai RX-78
• a2 - Apple II

Soon to be released

• jtngp - NeoGeo Pocket

Released

• gnw - Nintendo Game & Watch
• wonderswan - WonderSwan Color

I don't like the white fade I was doing with Arcade Multi originally.

The Irem Arcade Multi core images should be remade in a newer style that allows the art to take up the whole frame, rather than just the right side.

Also, there's a fourth Irem Multi core. Irem M5x combines Moon Patrol, Traverse USA, and Tropical Angel.

• Irem M5x
• Irem M62
• Irem M72
• Irem M92

Also, remake the following Single core games

• Vigilante

Currently the View All page shows all of the cores sorted by FPGA developer. Let's make another page that shows all the cores sorted by original developer of the Arcade game.

Coin-Op Collective plans on releasing all of their games in individual cores, and I've made images for everyone of them. See Issue #9

But, as more and more Arcade games get released, the Arcade category gets larger and larger, and it's more complicated to find what you want. Creating combination cores that collect many of these games is a good way of cutting down on the amount of overall cores. Although, you could argue that it makes finding some things more difficult.

Anyways, the Coin-Op games were originally released on the Mister as combination cores based on their hardware structure. This includes the following:

• SNK Alpha 68000
• SNK 68000
• Jaleco Mega System 1
• Toaplan Version 1 Hardware
• Nichibutsu Armed F Hardware ( http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php?game_sourcefile=armedf.cpp&arcade_only=0&current_version=0 )
• Nichibutsu Terra Cresta Hardware ( http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php?game_sourcefile=terracre.cpp&arcade_only=0&current_version=0 )

Maybe the Nichibutsu stuff should be collected into a single combo-core? I dunno.

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Released

• Robocop
• Bad Dudes v. Dragon Ninja
• Karnov
• Performan

Unreleased

• Sly Spy
• Midnight Resistance
• Lock 'n Chase + Burger Time + Burnin' Rubber / Bump 'n Jump

Move all (or most) of the documents into the docs folder

Create a process, probably a piggy-back process for Process Platforms, that will create an MD file that collects all of the arcade cores (both released and unreleased) and sorts them by developer.

When I first started making Arcade images, I just grabbed an image of the US arcade marquee and moved on.

For more recent images, I've used original key artwork and moved things around in the frame to create a better composition. Lately, I've also tended to use the Japanese titles rather than the American ones.

I think it'd be worth it to go back through some released images and update them to my current style to make everything more consistent, especially for games from the same developer. Also, I'd prefer them to face the original developer rather than the US distributor, aka Romstar, etc.

Companies

• Capcom #16
• Konami #19
• Sega #20
• Namco #21
• Jaleco
• Toaplan
• Raizing #17
• Nichibutsu
• SNK
• Taito #22
• Irem #15
• Williams / Midway #29
• Nintendo
• Data East #23
• Atari #18
• Technos Japan #24
• Cave

Other Singles

• Bomb Jack (dev Tehkan)
• Crazy Kong
• Qbert

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

• Battle Garegga
• Kingdom Grand Prix
• Sorcer Striker
• Bakraid
• Batrider

These are all pretty close to the current style. They just need company logos

There was a bug in agg23's Image Processor that offset all images by one pixel to the left. Because of this, all bin file images have a 1-pixel strip of white on the right. He recently fixed this bug, so update the processor, and render all images.

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Taito

• Bubble Bobble
• Rastan
• Crazy Balloon
• Exerion (actually is Jaleco)
• Slap Fight
• Ninja-Kun (dev UPL, but all documents show Taito)
• Space Invaders

Unreleased

• Arkanoid

There are several other arcade cores that have already been released. I think they have some good images, but I should probably make my own so that my image set is complete with all currently released cores. Then, if someone is switching image packs, my packs can completely overwrite their categories and they don't need to fill in gaps.

ericlewis cores

• asteroids
• dominos
• donkeykong
• qbert
• lunarlander
• radarscope
• spacerace
• superbreakout

opengateware cores

• bankpanic
• congo
• digdug
• galaga
• greenberet
• pooyan
• xevious

When the Pocket has too many platform JSON files, the menu takes too long to load. Only include platform JSON overrides for images in the repo.

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Jotego Single Cores - Released

• 1942
• Black Tiger
• Exed Exes
• Ghosts 'n Goblins
• Gunsmoke
• Pang / Super Pang
• Hyper Dyne Side Arms
• Section Z
• Street Fighter
• Tiger Road
• Trojan

Jotego Single Cores - Unreleased

• 1943
• Bionic Commando
• Commando
• Speed Rumbler

Jotego Multi Cores - Released

• CPS1
• CPS1.5
• CPS2

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Jotego Single Cores - Released

• Out Run
• Super Hang-On

Boogerman Single Cores - Released

• Bank Panic
• Congo Bongo

Boogerman Single Cores - Unreleased

• Zaxxon

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

Jotego Multi Cores - Released

• Namco System 1

Boogerman Single Cores - Released

• Dig Dug
• Galaga
• Xevious

Boogerman Single Cores - Unreleased

• Galaxian
• Gaplus
• Pac-Man / Ms. Pac-Man
• Rally-X

Boogerman Multi Cores - Unreleased

• Super Pac-Man

We want to update old images in a more consistent overall style, as mentioned in #14

The available games are as follows:

• Renegade Kunio-Kun
• Double Dragon
• Double Dragon II
• Karate Champ