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Thank you all for showing so much interest during this first week. It has motivated me a lot. Maybe too much!

We are starting to be a community where we can push to get more of these games faithfully convert to modern hardware so they won't die out. I have received a lot of support this week and although I understand that people do it because they love these games and technology, I was thinking how to give back more. Starting from the 1942 core I will include a pause key for all cores. During pause the screen will switch to a credits image, rendered with the core hardware. I will use that screen to show appreciation to patrons and to people who have contributed in some way to producing that core (providing hardware or helping in some way). I will change the core license so the pause screen has to be respected in core ports to other systems.

I will deploy the 1942 core this week. Initially for MiST and soon after for MiSTer and ZX-UNO. After that, I would like to have the first talk with the director patrons to decide which core to do next. My intention is to stick to CAPCOM pre-CPS1 cores for a while, but there are many to choose from! In the image you can see a Trojan board I have acquired to reverse engineer it.

And I want to stress my commitment with core fidelity. I know you do not want an emulator. You want the real thing and that is what I will always work towards.
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Gracias por el apoyo recibido durante la primera semana. Me he sentido desbordado de emoción.

Estamos empezando a funcionar como una comunidad dónde podemos mover el desarrollo de estos cores para preservar de forma fidedigna estos juegos y que no desaparezcan. Como me he sentido tan arropado esta semana he estado pensando cómo compensar a los mecenas y amigos  que colaboran. He pensado en incorporar una tecla de pausa a todos los cores a partir de 1942. Al pulsar pausa el juego pintará, usando su propio hardware, una pantalla de agradecimientos que incorporará a mecenas y a personas que han colaborado de alguna forma con ese core (enviando equipo, por ejemplo). Voy a cambiar la licencia del core para que esa pantalla no pueda quitarse en conversiones a otros sistemas FPGA.

Esta semana sacaré el 1942, inicialmente para MiST y pronto para MiSTer y ZX-UNO. Después de eso, me gustaría reunirme con los mecenas directores por primera vez y discutir la dirección a tomar. Quiero seguir un tiempo con arcades de CAPCOM de la era pre-CPS1 pero ¡hay mucho de dónde elegir!

Quiero reafirmar mi compromiso con la fidelidad de los cores. Sé que no queréis un emulador, queréis el juego de verdad y eso es lo que os voy a dar.