Team Status Report for 4/19/25

Progress:

  • Tetris is playable, with bugs
    • Games run at double speed (but seemingly, this unfortunately is not tied to clock frequency or timer registers)
    • Joypad inputs don’t always get processed
  • Dr. Mario
    • Mario won’t toss his pill. We are suspicious of an HRAM or vblank handler interrupt routine error.
Design Changes:
  • Implemented Serial Transfer Control/Data Registers because Dr. Mario ROM polls from them

Risks and Risk Management:

  • FPGA debugging is a very “guess and hope for the best” process, even with signal-tap.

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