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@MisterPezz82 MisterPezz82 released this 10 Jul 06:17
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V.05
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EverDrive-Pro-style Paprium on the MiSTer Mega Drive core. V.05 unlocks the hidden Arcade Mode with working coin input and a stage select, fixes the first-level door, and makes one-shot music cues play once.

Credits first

  • Door fix — krikzz. The first-level door graphics fix is krikzz's own (mega-ppm author), shared directly ahead of any mega-ppm release. Thank you!
  • Arcade Mode — adroxe. The unlock is adroxe's paprium_arcade.ips reverse-engineering work, applied here on the fly by the core. Thank you!
  • Stage select addresses courtesy of krikzz's notes.

What's new

🕹️ Paprium Arcade Mode (main OSD page)
Set "Paprium Arcade Mode" → Unlocked and reset: the title becomes ARCADE PAPRIUM with Insert Coin / credits, and friendly fire is on. The core applies adroxe's IPS live as a ROM-read substitution — your ROM file is never modified; flip the toggle back and the game is stock again.

🪙 Coin input that actually works
adroxe's patch reads the 6-button Mode button, which doesn't function on this port (or EverDrive). The core re-targets the credit check at an FPGA "coin chute": press your MiSTer-mapped Mode button (port 1) = insert one coin — works with any controller in 3-button mode.

🗺️ Paprium Arcade Stage (main OSD page)
Boot arcade mode into any of the 25 stages, Block 888 through The Solarium plus Arena. Off = normal.

🚪 First-level door fixed
The door in Block 888 now renders correctly (krikzz's fix, baked into the MCU firmware).

🎵 One-shot music plays once
Stage Clear, Continue, Game Over and High Score no longer loop forever — this needs a cue update (see below).

Required: update your paprium.cue

The MiSTer MD+ player loops every track unless the cue says otherwise. Either replace your paprium.cue with the paprium.cue attached to this release, or add REM NOLOOP after the INDEX 01 line of tracks 12, 29, 36 and 53:

  TRACK 53 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
    REM NOLOOP

Controls reminder

Play Paprium with OSD "6 Buttons Mode" = No: X/Y/Z work as combos (Y = Down+B, X = B+C, Z = A+B) and Mode inserts coins. In 6-button mode X/Y/Z do nothing (the game's 6-button read doesn't work on this port — true native X/Y/Z is planned next via the same technique as the coin input).

Install

  1. Copy MegaDrive_Paprium_20260710.rbf to /media/fat/_Console/.
  2. Update paprium.cue as above.
  3. Load the core, load Paprium.md. First boot: OSD → Save Backup RAM → reset.

ROM and audio assets are not included — bring your own Paprium dump and WAV set.

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