Super Mario on Altera FPGA in Verilog

[aissatoo]

you are the mann

Great job !!!

[anakmudajaman]

Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always Super Mario Bros game on TerasIC DE2-70 board with Altera Cyclone II FPGA. Coded in Verilog, no emulation. Input with onboard controls or Wii Nunchuk

[Ondelendo]

Nice Video Super Mario Bros game on TerasIC DE2-70 board with Altera Cyclone II FPGA. Coded in Verilog, no emulation. Input with onboard controls or Wii Nunchuk That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You

[imegatrone]

I Really Like The Video Super Mario Bros game on TerasIC DE2-70 board with Altera Cyclone II FPGA. Coded in Verilog, no emulation. Input with onboard controls or Wii Nunchuk From Your

[bundawartini]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Super Mario Bros game on TerasIC DE2-70 board with Altera Cyclone II FPGA. Coded in Verilog, no emulation

[alignedcom]

So this is all synthesized HDL? I'm assuming it was ported from original software code, was it manually done or by script? Where did you get the original code from?

[n0123maker]

@alignedcom No emulation, so no original software code involved. We developed everything from scratch. Ripped the bitmaps from some internet site. However, I don't remember which one.

[alignedcom]

@n0123maker pretty amazing. How long did this take?

[saxenvivo]

what Cyclon II is it? whow many LE's?

[n0123maker]

@saxenvivo Altera Cyclone II 2C70, 68416 LEs.

[iArsenalArsenal]

The designer is ARSENAL fan

[mike88658]

Y?

[8krlx8]

@mike88658 Y not?

[luisftube]

tutorial please---=)

[cerocerocerdo]

absolutely wonderful

[n0123maker]

@spectralnischay I'm sorry, it's 0xbadc0ded x-)

[jhonyfloyd]

i wonder if i make the same in a xilinx fpga in vhdl?....what diferencess there are between vhdl and verilog...I really thank you if you'll send me the code please :)

[n0123maker]

@jhonyfloyd Sure, you can do something similar with Xilinx FPGA in VHDL.

[nagarjunadustakar]

It's Awesome. Really amazing. can you please give a tutorial on how to these? :) It will be really helpful to us. :)

[n0123maker]

@nagarjunadustakar Unfortunately I'm pretty busy with other stuff at the moment. Maybe when I have some more time...

[nagarjunadustakar]

@n0123maker k will waiting for it :D

[phanchieta]

this is awesome! What did you use to make this work?

[n0123maker]

@phanchieta Hi! Not sure what you're asking for. :)

[phanchieta]

@n0123maker I mean, you programmed this FPGA to run like a microprocessor right? and then what? what software did you run on this processor to game work?

[n0123maker]

@phanchieta No microprocessor involved. Although it would be simpler to make use of one. We modelled the whole game as finite state machines which interact with each other.

[eddiehou513]

@n0123maker

hey man, really nice work.

I was just wondering what program you used for the animation/imaging on the screen? Is it also verilog? If so, can you tell me a bit about it?

[n0123maker]

@eddiehou513 It's all Verilog. For displaying on the screen you need to write a VGA controller. Basically this will loop through all pixels on the screen at a certain framerate. For every pixel it will provide the right RGB values. The RGB values of all the elements in the game are stored in on-chip memory. Hope this answers your question.

[scorpion8588]

This is awesome. Can you list resources you used, books, project ideas.

[n0123maker]

@scorpion8588 Thanks for your feedback! There are quite a few good books for learning Verilog. I suggest you checkout amazon and see which books get good reviews. "FPGA Prototyping By Verilog Examples" is a good introductory book with nice examples. For learning how to work with the tools/board you can visit Altera's website. They provide tutorials for learning the basics.

[nightknightful]

can u please point me to a website containing more details about the project??

[n0123maker]

@nightknightful Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunately we don't have a website with more details about the project. All information about the character, world and representations is stored on the on-chip memory of the FPGA. We have various modules which describe the position and speed of the character, detect collisions, etc. All of this can be modelled by a finite state machine (with datapath). The code is written in Verilog, we didn't make use of the Nios II softcore.

[nightknightful]

great workk!!

thumbs upp!!