MiSTer FPGA - Ninja Golf / Atari 7800
0MiSTer's Atari 7800 core just dropped, and I've been going through the library and looking for decent games. One standout is Ninja Golf, a very unique and charming game. Guessing they had to call this one "Hero Golf" in Europe so the children could stay safe.
All jokes aside, the game plays like a simple game of golf- hit the button when the cursor lines up to where you want to go. This is where any similarities to golf end though. As you work your way to the location of the ball, you will have to battle your way through hordes of ninjas, vicious nut-tossing gophers, and even sharks when you go through the water traps! You might just want to take extra shots to go around some of these hazards, especially the water traps since they are BRUTAL.
Played to the 8th hole here, before getting pummeled by sharks and ninjas. The game gets brutally difficult near the end there. Makes sense, since there would be hardly any replay value otherwise.
Our new Atari 7800 core came out of the gate with extreme accuracy thanks to Kitrinx/Rysha, who also maintains the NES core and has brought it to the near-perfect state it's in today. Rysha is a dedicated and skilled dev, and has been a constant advocate for proper preservation. I've never met a person so excited about making old hardware obsolete, and we are lucky to have someone with this talent and drive working with the project so closely.
Note: I'm using 5x integer scaling in this video to fill the screen better, but didn't use the offset function to center it. You can get the image much closer to centered by utilizing that. The game isn't perfectly centered by default so it will never be exact.
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Atari 7800 core 04-17-2021 build - Ninja Golf
Filter: Gaussian_Sharp_04 // Gamma: 2.3 // Color Temp: Warm
Played using a Hori Fighting Commander PS4 controller with 1ms USB polling.
Settings: 5x Integer Scaled to 1080p // HDMI to Datapath e1s capture card
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00:00 - Boot/7800 Logo/Settings
00:49 - Title/Demo
02:07 - Gameplay
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