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CraftyMech BITKIT Manual Download Page 7

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1: Game Menu

The BitKit boots to the game select screen by default, displaying the
list of the available games. To

start a game, use the Player 1 Joystick to

browse the game list and find the desired game title. Then press Player 1
Start to launch the game.

The Player 1
Start button
is the action
button for the
Menu system.

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Summary of Contents for BITKIT

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Page 2: ...BITKIT 8Bit FPGA Updated June 2021 C 2017 21 CraftyMech LLC http craftymech com ...

Page 3: ...Menu w screenshots High Score saving online leaderboards Direct Boot option Pause gameplay Independent settings for each game version Hide Show games and customize game names Add credits with button sequence Screen flip Cocktail support Crosshatch and color bar test patterns Easy wireless updating with Windows Mac desktop app Game rom files are not included with the BitKit The BitKit is intended f...

Page 4: ...at the bottom of the left hand navigation menu How do I select a game from the Game Menu Use the Player 1 Joystick to move left right and browse the Game Menu Press Player 1 Start from the game menu to select a game How do I exit back to the menu from a game Press and hold Player 1 Start and Player 2 Start at the same time The reset delay can be changed in the Options Controls menu to be instant 1...

Page 5: ...n be reached by exiting the booted game and holding Player 1 Start If only 1 game is installed on the BitKit exiting the game will always display the Options menu I am direct booting a game how do I access the Options Menu If the Player 1 Start button is held down during power on the boot sequence will exit and display the Options menu My control panel only has a 2 way joystick how do I navigate t...

Page 6: ...6 CONTENTS 1 Game Menu 6 2 Options Menu 8 3 Special Features 19 4 Troubleshooting 22 5 JAMMA Adapters 25 ...

Page 7: ... default displaying the list of the available games To start a game use the Player 1 Joystick to browse the game list and find the desired game title Then press Player 1 Start to launch the game The Player 1 Start button is the action button for the Menu system ...

Page 8: ...ttings Controls Test controls and configure restart pause combinations Video Flip screen Vert Horz position and test patterns for monitor adjustment After making changes to BitKit settings choose the Save action To back out of the Options menu without saving changes choose the Cancel action ...

Page 9: ...feature Cocktail mode flips the screen between players in a 2 player game The Player 2 control inputs are used for the second player This differs from 2 player non cocktail mode where both players use the Player 1 controls Starfield Choice of falling stars static blinking starfield or none ...

Page 10: ... exiting a game Last will display the last game selected while Slot 1 will display the first enabled game from the list of game slots On power on the Game Menu always defaults to the Slot 1 behavior Hide Options This setting toggles the display of the Options link on the Game Menu When enabled the only way to access the Options menu is to hold down Player 1 Start during the boot sequence This sett...

Page 11: ... Left Player 1 Right Right and left arrows indicate available nagivation choices The game name for each slot is independent from the display name used in the Game Menu Empty slots are labeled as such and the cursor will Game slots that are disabled are white while active games are purple Empty slots are always white A single game may be configured for direct boot and will be displayed using blue t...

Page 12: ...Start Settings common to all games are detailed in the following section For details on specific game settings see Chapter 3 Special Features Lives This setting selects the starting number of lives Although it varies per game the range is typically 3 4 or 5 lives The order games appear in the game slot screen will determine the order of the game list menu Refer to Swap Slots on page 13 to learn ho...

Page 13: ...er will boot To abort the direct booting of a game hold down Player 1 Start to display the Options Menu Menu Name The name displayed in the Game Menu can be changed here To move the cursor right or left move the joystick right or left To change the value of a letter move the joystick up or down Pressing Player 1 Start will end the input sequence Reset Scores This action will reset the high scores ...

Page 14: ... perform a swap two slots need to be flagged When two slots have been flagged a new action will appear on the game slot screen Swap Slots Selecting that action will display a confirmation screen and then the flagged slots will be swapped The process will take 2 3 minutes ...

Page 15: ... Player 2 controls in Cocktail mode except for Player 2 Start This is a limitation of the original game code Test P1 Enter test mode by pressing Player 1 Start The 4 cardinal directions will be displayed for each corresponding movement of the Player 1 joystick Up Down Left and Right Pressing Player 1 Button 1 or Player 1 Button 2 will display BUTTON1 or BUTTON2 accordingly ...

Page 16: ...cting OFF will disable the restart feature requiring a power cycle to return to the Menu system Reset Delay This setting defines how long the reset control combination must be held before a system restart is triggered The options are instant 1 second and 2 seconds If you have a cab without 2 actions buttons you may have wired one or both of the start buttons to be buttons A B In this case set the ...

Page 17: ...ion of the BitKit s video output Crosshatch Use the crosshatch pattern to adjust monitor convergence Color Bars For adjusting brightness contrast and RGB drive The Red Green and Blue patterns are useful for checking color purity If either screen has an area of discoloration degaussing the monitor will usually resolve the issue ...

Page 18: ...hese two options can be used to center the display image so it is consistent between hardware platforms First set the BitKit on the Crosshatch test screen and use the controls on your monitor to adjust screen size and position Vert Pos Use this option to move the video image up or down if part of the display is cut off The default setting is 3 with a range of 1 7 Horz Pos Use this setting to move ...

Page 19: ...CPU will skip every other clock cycle when accessing program code Effectively this speeds up the game by 50 This setting can be thought of as Dwayne s Mode from the documentary Man Vs Snake This setting also causes gameplay artifacts such as abreviated sound effects a faster title screen sequence and a faster death sequence for Nibbler VANGUARD Fire Configures the number of fire buttons to use Thi...

Page 20: ...Glob ramps up very rapidly so the default setting is recommended Beastie is more forgiving but the default setting still provides a good challenge Sadistic operators would have placed The Glob on difficulty 8 and then watched the children cry P1 Start P2 Start buttons are mapped to the two action buttons by the Glob Beastie Feastie code the games were often sold as a conversion kit for Pac cabinet...

Page 21: ...ad of the default blue dominated color scheme It is not known which color palette was used for the original release of Turtles All examples in the wild that have been documented by photo or video seem to have the Red color scheme but in MAME Turtles has a blue palette GALAGA Fast Shot Use this setting to enable the fast shot hack which gives the player rapid fire and makes the game considerably ea...

Page 22: ...t For most monitors only a connection to the H pin is required Some monitors require both H V pins to be connected in which case you can install a short jumper between those pins on the video connector of your monitor cable If the monitor only accepts sync the sync polarity of the BitKit video signal can be changed BitKits made after 2018 have a Sync header on the bottom edge of the top side of th...

Page 23: ... these pins to your monitor connect P5 G together with a short length of wire 2 The monitor loses sync when switching between games The BitKit accurately implements the video output of each hardware platform including the hsync and vsync signals Some monitors are more tolerant of sync variations than others and switching between games this may cause the monitor to lose sync Usually this issue can ...

Page 24: ... These games are Nibbler Fantasy Pioneer Balloon Vanguard and Zarzon If you find that the Nibbler hardware games are shifted right left respective to the other games you can use this approach to fix the problem 1 Launch Nibbler and use your monitor s Vertical position control to center the screen Note because the monitor is vertical this will actually adjust the side to side position of the pictur...

Page 25: ...er Fantasy there are no action buttons on a dedicated control panel so Button 1 Button 2 are not used Pioneer Balloon has a single fire button mapped to Button 1 A dedicated Vanguard cabinet has four fire buttons Up Down Left Right Button 1 Button 2 on the JAMMA adapter are mapped to Fire Left Fire Right There is an additional 2 pin header on the adapter for connecting Fire Up Fire Down to the Bit...

Page 26: ...er maps Player 1 and Player 2 controls including 2 action buttons to the cabinet harness Eyes only uses Button 1 so Button 2 is not used with an original Eyes control panel Contact sales craftymech com for ordering information ...

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