What else can be said about the core aside from it being 4 long months of headaches, confusion, pure WTF, and a first attempt at a full FPGA system that turned out to be more ambitious than expected?

But when everything came together, it turned out better than I would have ever expected it to.

I’ll be honest, I actually haven’t done any timing analysis with Arkanoid, my mindset was to grab datasheets of every logic IC on the PCB and directly model them based on their truth tables and internal workings. The custom MB114S146 chips then came after recreating the discrete logic clones from bootleg PCBs and integrating it all similarly to the original ICs. What I will say timing-wise is that the refresh rate and resolution are an exact match to the PCB.