Added option to switch palette between FCEUX (very common) and Unsaturated-V6 (very close to NTSC).

cores/nes/mist/NES_mist.v

@@ -158,13 +158,12 @@ parameter CONF_STR = {
 			"O2,Scanlines,OFF,ON;",
 			"O3,Invert mirroring,OFF,ON;",
 			"O4,Hide overscan,OFF,ON;",
-			"T5,Start;",
-			"T6,Select;",
-			"T7,Reset;",
+			"O5,Palette,FCEUX,Unsaturated-V6;",
+			"T6,Reset;",
 			"V,v0.8;"
 };
 
-parameter CONF_STR_LEN = 8+25+20+27+24+9+10+9+7;
+parameter CONF_STR_LEN = 8+25+20+27+24+32+9+7;
 wire [7:0] status;
 
 wire arm_reset = status[0];
@@ -172,13 +171,17 @@ wire smoothing_osd = status[1];
 wire scanlines_osd = status[2];
 wire mirroring_osd = status[3];
 wire overscan_osd = status[4];
-wire start_osd = status[5];
-wire select_osd = status[6];
-wire reset_osd = status[7];
+wire palette2_osd = status[5];
+wire reset_osd = status[6];
+
+// no longer used
+wire start_osd = 0;
+wire select_osd = 0;
 
 wire scandoubler_disable;
 wire ps2_kbd_clk, ps2_kbd_data;
 
+
 user_io #(.STRLEN(CONF_STR_LEN)) user_io(
    .conf_str(CONF_STR),
    // the spi interface
@@ -431,7 +434,8 @@ video video (
 	.smoothing(!smoothing_osd),
 	.scanlines(scanlines_osd),
 	.overscan(overscan_osd),
-
+	.palette(palette2_osd),
+	
 	.VGA_HS(VGA_HS),
 	.VGA_VS(VGA_VS),
 	.VGA_R(VGA_R),

cores/nes/src/nes_palette_fceux.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+39ce
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+0815
+0014
+002f
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+0000
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+7ee7
+7e4b
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+59df
+31df
+1e7f
+1efe
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+4feb
+6fa0
+3def
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+7fff
+7f95
+7f58
+7f3a
+7f1f
+6f1f
+5aff
+577f
+539f
+53fc
+5fd5
+67f6
+7bf3
+6318
+0000
+0000

cores/nes/src/nes_palette_unsaturatedv6.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+35ad
+4060
+4823
+4027
+302b
+140b
+004a
+0068
+00c6
+0121
+0120
+0d00
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cores/nes/src/video.v

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ module video(
 	input smoothing,
 	input scanlines,
 	input overscan,
+	input palette,
 	
 	input sck,
 	input ss,
@@ -49,10 +50,20 @@ osd #(10'd0, 10'd0, 3'd4) osd (
 );
 
 // NES Palette -> RGB555 conversion
-reg [15:0] pallut[0:63];
-initial $readmemh("nes_palette.txt", pallut);
-wire [14:0] pixel = pallut[color][14:0];
+reg [15:0] pal_lut[0:63];
+initial $readmemh("nes_palette_original.txt", pal_lut); // MiST legacy 
 
+// NTSC UnsaturatedV6 palette
+//see: http://www.firebrandx.com/nespalette.html
+reg [15:0] pal_unsat_lut[0:63];
+initial $readmemh("nes_palette_unsaturatedv6.txt", pal_unsat_lut);
+
+// FCEUX palette
+reg [15:0] pal_fcelut[0:63];
+initial $readmemh("nes_palette_fceux.txt", pal_fcelut);
+
+wire [14:0] pixel = palette ?  pal_unsat_lut[color][14:0] : pal_fcelut[color][14:0];
+ 
 // Horizontal and vertical counters
 reg [9:0] h, v;
 wire hpicture  = (h < 512);             // 512 lines of picture
@@ -86,9 +97,9 @@ wire darker = !mode && v[0] && scanlines;
 // display overlay to hide overscan area
 // based on Mario3, DoubleDragon2, Shadow of the Ninja
 wire ol = overscan && ( (h > 512-16) || 
-								(h < 18) || 
-								(v < 8) || 
-								( v > (mode? 240-10 : 480-20) ) 
+								(h < 20) || 
+								(v < (mode ? 6 : 12)) || 
+								(v > (mode ? 240-10 : 480-20)) 
 							  );
 
 wire  [4:0]   vga_r = ol ? {4'b0, pixel_v[4:4]}   : (darker ? {1'b0, pixel_v[4:1]} : pixel_v[4:0]);