Galaga

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Galaga game simulation on the FPGAARCADE Replay board

Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan and published by Midway in North America in 1981. It is the sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979. The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a space ship which is situated on the bottom of the screen. The player may fire upon the enemies, and once all enemies are vanquished, the player moves onto the next stage.

Please read the “README” file for documentation.

IMPORTANT NOTE :
NO ORIGINAL ROM CONTENTS ARE IN THIS DISTRIBUTION. YOU WILL NEED THE ORIGINAL/ALTERNATIVE ROM FILES TO RUN THE GALAGA GAME

Copyright (c) MikeJ & WoS 2015 And also Special note to Adam Courchesne for providing implementations of Namco custom ICs and the implementations of the T80 core.

## Controls

### Joystick

Attach joysticks to port 1 and 2.

### Virtual keyboard

The joystick in port 1 is emulated in parallel using the virtual keyboard:

* Cursor up, down, left, right
* enter -> fire
* space -> bomb
* key 5 -> coin
* key 1 -> start 1

## Video output

R1 and V4 both output 640×480 progressive with 60 Hz on DVI (-A and -D) and HDMI, respectively.

 

# Acknowledgements

* Original FPGA conversion by Wolfgang Scherr

* T80 core by Daniel Wallner, Mike Johnson

https://opencores.org/projects/t80

* Namco custom chip logic by Mike Johnson, Wolfgang Scherr

# Revision history

## FPGA FW `0010`

* Initial release

 

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