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If you wanna see interpolation in action, boot up Tapper and look at the sprites on HDMI Edit: I’m a dumbass and confused with interlaced images. Carry on
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Thanks for the answers, all. It still confuses me, but I'll do some more research  And I will check the Tapper thing out to better understand interlaced images. For now, I'm more and more impressed with this thing. Still stuck on the HDMI and the basic (non-sd ram) cores, but since I'm getting the bliss box cables, and can use my original controllers, I am somewhat regretting getting the everdrive pro for the genesis, and the fx pak pro for the snes. I don't see what advantage they offer, at this point. I kinda wish I skipped over some of that and came right to this. Sure, I'll still have to keep my N64 and PS2 hooked up, but there's definitely going to be some room in my cabinet soon.
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there is someone in the retrovideo game thread looking to buy both of those flashcarts
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Yeah hit up this thread if you’re looking to get rid of them https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960656&perpage=40&noseen=1
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The save state capability has me thinking I'll probably hold onto them for a bit. Thanks for the info, though. One thing that is impressing me about the Mister is just how freaking good the UI is. Coming from the Retropie interface (specifically, dealing with Retroarch with a controller in-hand) this is just so much better. I'm sure Retroarch's relative complexity and granularity is useful to someone, but definitely not me. What a great, clean interface.
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Chinook posted:The save state capability has me thinking I'll probably hold onto them for a bit. Thanks for the info, though. Not that RetroArch is a well designed interface, but keep in mind RA is made to install on a huge variety of setups and purposes. Those kind of interfaces are always rough just because of the volume of crap you have to support.
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Crackbone posted:Not that RetroArch is a well designed interface, but keep in mind RA is made to install on a huge variety of setups and purposes. Those kind of interfaces are always rough just because of the volume of crap you have to support. Fair point. (Nice avatar btw) Here is a really cool set of videos by Smokemonster detailing the history of many of the Mister cores, general tips, etc: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLxmNa35KdjEtsZb4wfnc4H2po84i0cf This is likely linked elsewhere in this thread (probably in the original post!) but I stumbled onto them today, and they are great.
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Had an interesting adventure this weekend testing out the 300 DOS game pack on archive.org in the AO486 core, which necessitated getting more space. Fun fact, if you ever need to upgrade to a bigger SD card, just run Mr. Fusion on the new card, let it run its installation in the DE10, and then literally just copy/paste the entire contents of the old SD card onto the new one and it should boot up with virtually all of your settings, controller mappings, etc. as if you never changed cards at all.
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Nate RFB posted:Had an interesting adventure this weekend testing out the 300 DOS game pack on archive.org in the AO486 core, which necessitated getting more space. Fun fact, if you ever need to upgrade to a bigger SD card, just run Mr. Fusion on the new card, let it run its installation in the DE10, and then literally just copy/paste the entire contents of the old SD card onto the new one and it should boot up with virtually all of your settings, controller mappings, etc. as if you never changed cards at all. I guess the answer is "it depends what you put on it", but would a 128GB SD card be mostly sufficient?
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If you stay away from CD based systems yeah that could work
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I feel like 128GB was probably considered overkill earlier in the project and that's why a lot of build guides seemed to settle on that for the cheaper price point, and it's only been relatively recently that that's changed between the computer cores and even more CD-capable cores on the horizon. The 300 DOS Box set is like 80GB for further context lol. Alternately if you really wanted to be a boss you could set up a CIFS server and have infinite storage, which I am far too much of a coward for.
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You can also use a USB hard drive or SSD for additional storage. My experience with that is it can be a little picky about power requirements, so either one with a power supply or a USB-powered one that doesn’t need much juice. It’ll still boot and keep the cores on the SD card, but you can copy ROMs to a Games folder on the drive and it’ll prioritize those.
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I'm really hoping wifi is fast enough to share ISOs from my NAS. If not I'll probably grab a hard drive but I wonder if the 2.5" style will get enough power from just the usb bus. I use the usb hub board with the forked power cable and the default DE10 power supply.
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Yeah for CD or PC computer cores a NAS seems like a good call. CDROM drives had seek latencies in the order of a hundred ms and transfer rates measured in multiples of 150KB/s so you should be good there. Even contemporary mid 90s HDDs topped out at like 10MB/s with average access seek times around 15ms. Seems doable over stable wifi Keen to see the results if you go down this route. I've already invested in a large USB stick or I'd  it myself
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Got the IO board and SDRAM and was able to get things up and running pretty well!  Any idea how to fix this?  I could go into my TV service mode and really squeeze things in, but then everything else would be squished. I had it pretty well set up (the grid, linearity, etc) in 240p test suite. This just seems to be the Neo Geo core so far.
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Mine does that for a lot of cores as well. It would be great if there were H and V size adjustments for each core.
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Pegnose Pete posted:Mine does that for a lot of cores as well. [NEOGEO] ; custom mode: hact,hfp,hs,hbp,vact,vfp,vs,vbp,Fpix_in_KHz video_mode=1280,110,40,220,720,5,5,20,74250 I've never quite dug into the video_mode settings/syntax (other than plain =8 works on my TV) so I don't really have a great handle on which parameters do what other than the obvious ones so it would presumably require some fiddling. You can load up as many custom core settings as you want though, mine currently are for any that require non-integer scaling or explicitly do not work with low latency vsync_adjust.
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Any suggestions on cases for one with all the goodies and that encloses the buttons? I saw the aluminum case from misteraddons but not sure when that will be back in stock.
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I'd wait for Mister Addons to get it back in stock. It's good, uses passive cooling, and looks so nice. I can't use one because he won't make one for the Blisster board but if I had the regular USB hub I'd definitely wait. His twitter might give an ETA Here he discusses different options for his next order: https://twitter.com/MisterAddons/status/1365349905766617090?s=20
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Is there a similar case by anyone else that uses the blisster board?
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Chinook posted:I'd wait for Mister Addons to get it back in stock. It's good, uses passive cooling, and looks so nice. I can't use one because he won't make one for the Blisster board but if I had the regular USB hub I'd definitely wait. His twitter might give an ETA I have the mister case. It's nice, but hardly perfect. If you pop out your sd card, it is not easy to get back in. In fact, it is very easy to have the card end up in the case. The port is not flush with the case and has a gap that is big enough for the card. And it's not an issue with installing things incorrectly. The thing wouldn't go together if it wasn't done properly. This is a problem with the case itself. In other words, I'd steer away from the current version and see if he makes something better.
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Waltzing Along posted:I have the mister case. It's nice, but hardly perfect. If you pop out your sd card, it is not easy to get back in. In fact, it is very easy to have the card end up in the case. The port is not flush with the case and has a gap that is big enough for the card. And it's not an issue with installing things incorrectly. The thing wouldn't go together if it wasn't done properly. This is a problem with the case itself. These complaints are legit though, for me it's been a non issue since once I had it in it just stays in there. I just enable the network access if I need to touch the SD card which is rare since I treat it as a core OS and put all the media on an external usb drive. Definitely though when I first got it I was using a standard SD card as a tool to seat and unseat the microSD.
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Yeah never needing to actually touch the sd card is one of the good features of the mister
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Yep, that's why I got the wireless for it. I was getting annoyed at having to open it to get my card. Happened 2 times and I ordered a wifi and another time while waiting for it to arrive. My fault because I wasn't taking the time to take it apart and look really closely, but then again, you shouldn't have to do that.
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tbf to the case, it's a problem fixable with either a little bit of tape or being super cautious when you put the card in. I get it, it's happened to me more than once and it sucks. Especially as there isn't much in the way of competition for cases though I have trouble considering it a deal breaker
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Tweezers go a long way to make it less of a hassle. Thankfully other than the other day when I had I move around 100 GB of stuff off and back on to a SD card I have otherwise not needed to take it out of the case in about 6 months.
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The Voice of Labor posted:tbf to the case, it's a problem fixable with either a little bit of tape or being super cautious when you put the card in. I get it, it's happened to me more than once and it sucks. Especially as there isn't much in the way of competition for cases though I have trouble considering it a deal breaker It costs $70 and has a pretty big flaw. I think at that price point expectations should be pretty high.
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univbee posted:Is there a similar case by anyone else that uses the blisster board? It’s not aluminum but I did order this, should be here eventually: https://ultimatemister.com/product/ultimate-blisster-case-rev-2/ Cost 16 euros for shipping to the States though.
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Dang it. I got one of those cheap tiny DACs and I'm not getting any audio out of the MiSTer now. Not sure what's wrong. I'm using a little adapter head for the mini toslink end but now it's stuck on the optical cable so I can't take it off to trouble shoot it with other stuff. E: ok so narrowed it down to either the cable or the adapter but still can't pry them apart. The io board works fine with analog audio. Is there any simple setting I'm missing to switch the output from analog to optical? Pegnose Pete fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Recently got intrigued with mt32-pi and its use on the MiSTer. Immediately went to Micro Center to pick up a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ board, got a case, proper length USB cable and pi-hat on order. Figure it's worth having one for the ao486 core as well as if/when the X68000 core matures. Also works on the Atari ST and Minimig cores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3baTI0Xlm8 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Because of this thread I have increasingly been thinking about getting MiSTer, but man, by looking at the sites where you can order one it looks like quite a hefty investment. Hnngh. But then again, life is short I guess? We'll see. I have to take some time to convince myself that it would be a good idea.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Recently got intrigued with mt32-pi and its use on the MiSTer. Immediately went to Micro Center to pick up a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ board, got a case, proper length USB cable and pi-hat on order. Where do you order your hat from? I ordered one from misterfpga.co.uk (on back order), wondering if any one else makes nice ones either for less or so deliver sooner.
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Tac Dibar posted:Because of this thread I have increasingly been thinking about getting MiSTer, but man, by looking at the sites where you can order one it looks like quite a hefty investment. Hnngh. But then again, life is short I guess? We'll see. I have to take some time to convince myself that it would be a good idea.
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Chinook posted:It’s not aluminum but I did order this, should be here eventually: That looks like the same PCB Blisster case I have, but with different colors. I got mine from misteraddons, but I think he phased those out in favor of the aluminum ones that won't work for it.
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Tac Dibar posted:Because of this thread I have increasingly been thinking about getting MiSTer, but man, by looking at the sites where you can order one it looks like quite a hefty investment. Hnngh. But then again, life is short I guess? We'll see. I have to take some time to convince myself that it would be a good idea. The RAM boards are not required for most of the computer cores, for the most part only the cartridge systems need them and even then not all. Genesis and Gameboy Advance work almost 100% without addon RAM. If that happens to be your jam you can dip your foot in for just the cost of the board itself. If not, still $200ish for the board and a RAM module is not bad. You might already have an OTG cable if you're an Android person and I'd imagine most people interested in MiSTer will probably already have a spare USB hub plus a keyboard and/or gamepad they could use. At that point you can run all of the cores and the only significant functionality you're missing would be light guns. Everything beyond that point is optional. Sure, you can easily get a "fully loaded" MiSTer setup over $500 but you've intentionally chosen that path to get anywhere close to that high. Considering the price points of the competition, I think it's a great investment. Also those core components can be resold pretty easily if you decide you don't feel it's worth it.
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Bonobos posted:Where do you order your hat from? I ordered one from misterfpga.co.uk (on back order), wondering if any one else makes nice ones either for less or so deliver sooner. I ordered from misterfpga.co.uk. I’m waiting out a back order for a blue screen version. Legacy Pixels sells them domestically (for me, anyway) from Ohio but they are also out of stock and don’t look as nice aesthetically.
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wolrah posted:The RAM boards are not required for most of the computer cores, for the most part only the cartridge systems need them and even then not all. Genesis and Gameboy Advance work almost 100% without addon RAM. I'm pretty sure you can use the PCE and CD core without the RAM upgrade too. A good way to look at this is that a DE-10 plus OTG cable is cheaper than a working Duo from ebay. All of the other cores are just a bonus at that point.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:I ordered from misterfpga.co.uk. I’m waiting out a back order for a blue screen version. Legacy Pixels sells them domestically (for me, anyway) from Ohio but they are also out of stock and don’t look as nice aesthetically. Agreed they do look better, I ordered a white led version myself. Hoping the back order doesn’t take TOO long. It’s expensive for what it is but yeah the nature of the beast and all that.
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