This is a port of fpganes to the KV260 FPGA board.
Current status:
- Most of the small games works (<64K), like Super Mario Bros, Adventure Island, Gradius, Battle City.
- Video works well through HDMI.
- Audio is done through a separate PMod module (IceSugar Audio).
- Game loading and controller is handled through a python GUI on PC.
- open design_1.tcl and change the paths according to your local path
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- line 161
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- line 1166
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- line 1172
- Compile the Vivado project (source design_1.tcl)
- generate the XSA file
- open Vitis and create a new platform using the previous XSA file
- create a new application project and import all the sources from "sw" directory
- build
- open XSCT
- run those commands
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- connect
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- targets -set -nocase -filter {name =~ "*PSU*"}
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- mwr 0xff5e0200 0x0100
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- rst -system
- run app
If you see a grey screen after boot, then NES260 is ready for loading .nes ROMs. Connect KV260 to PC with USB cable and run pc/nes26.py
with python to load games (pip install pyserial itertools inputs kaitaistruct importlib
, then python nes26.py
). USB game controller should be connected to the PC (not KV260). My Xbox 360 controllers work fine.
To get audio, connect a Common audio amplifier module to the PMOD port (1-2 pins for the L-R channels, 5 to GROUND).
You can,
- Read my notes on some technical details on how NES260 works, and compile/build the project yourself. The required Xilinx tools are free.
- Get the KV260 board. KV260 is currently available from Xilinx at $199. It is not cheap. But it is a powerful board with basically a Xilinx Ultrascale+ ZU5EV SoC. Similar boards sell for twice the price or more. You can learn a lot with it if you have programming experience.
- Check out the most mature FPGA gaming project Mister. You can find many Youtube videos on FPGA gaming. Mister supports a ton of consoles from Atari all the way to Playstation 1.
- Why make NES260 when there's already Mister? Actually Xilinx KV260 is much more powerful than the board Mister uses (Intel DE10-nano), and at roughly the same price. So it has potential for FPGA retro-gaming. The board was just released in 2021 and I haven't seen an emulator built with it. So here it goes.
- Also check out another FPGA project of mine, neoapple2.
MakarenaLabs , 04-2023