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I've got one of these I bought a couple of years ago, I was messing with the aspect ratio in menu and now it just says "No support" and I can't do anything with it lol Anyone know if I can factory reset somehow? It won't let me into the menu. I've tried hooking up a PC and trying every resolution and it still just says "No support&qu...

Ordered one of these from Etsy. Shipping was a killer to Australia, but what do you do?

At least they shipped here

I've always wanted a lag tester.

I have 6 HDMI to VGA adapters and the only one with 5v in pin 9 is a Tendak, but that one doesn't work with 480i at all on MiSTer. I was going to see if I can mod one of the other adapters to get the 5v, but not sure how. I have an automatic SCART switch that needs voltage on SCART pin 8, the Tendak is the only one I have that works with it, but I ...

My setup is a bit convoluted because I have a bunch of input and output devices, but it's: MiSTer DV -> UGREEN HDMI to VGA adapter -> Extron MVX VGA Switcher -> Extron RGB 203Rxi -> Extron MVX again -> RGB VGA to YPbPr Component transcoder -> consumer CRT TV I'm using that same ugreen adapter and it works the best out of the 4 HDMI to VGA adapters...

Just got one of these, the menu on mine is different to what I've seen posted above, it has icons. I really like it, it does 50Hz and looks great, sadly there's some distracting backlight bleed at the top which is really visible on black backgrounds. I guess you can't have everything :) I don't suppose anything can be done about it? I've been using...

I have issues with some 480i content, such as FMV in Tekken 3 and Gran Turismo 2, which doesn't sync at all This can be resolved by enabling 480i HDMi sync, but this makes other 480i content that works with the option disabled look worse. Also resolution switching like in Chrono Cross loses sync for a split second with the option disabled, but is a...

akeley wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 11:27 am

chromium wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 11:01 am So I received the other Ugreen adapter today and it works perfectly on every core. plus the sound is perfect!

It works, but with the VGA-SCART adapter you mentioned earlier?

Yes. It's the only one I have. Well, apart from that old cable with all sorts of issues

So I received the other Ugreen adapter today and it works perfectly on every core. plus the sound is perfect!

Now I'm wondering if I should swap my analog io board order to the digital one

Oh, for sure. This probably does something like my UMSA, which alleviates the problem - to some extent at least, since you say other cores still don't work. Could you try without this adapter, just plain MiSTer - HDMI DAC - cable - TV? If you have a MiSTer VGA - SCART cable, of course? Some of them would say what chip they are based on in the prod...

I've tried all the computer cores, these don't sync on my adapter (called Logilink and based on AG6200, or so they say at least). Atari ST Amstrad PCW Tatung Einstein Galaksija Lynx 48 TRS Coco Those are all fine for me. I'm using https://etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?crn=220&rn=582&action=show_detail I guess that is a factor is well It's inde...

So yes, the DV in general is fixed...but now "my" broken cores (which were not working previously for me but then did after that 20220517 update), are broken again. Guess it's my turn to open a ticket...perhaps it could be sorted so both these things work. Interesting. Which cores do you have issues with. I still have issues with Atari 5...

Here's the github issue I raised https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/issues/605 Code has been fixed https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/commit/ac956d201809668bb603fe72e47e51264badb85a I tried the latest nightly build and it works! https://github.com/MiSTer-unstable-nightlies/Main_MiSTer/releases/download/unstable-builds/MiSTer_unsta...

In some edge cases like mine, a few cores/video modes in cores (eg ST, Amstrad PCW) didn't work on DV. I figured out eventually it was down to the adapter, because it was the same behaviour with totally different cables and TV sets. Seems like the HDMI stuff in the update fixed these niggles, maybe made it more tolerant or something, while breakin...

It's interesting, because it also seems to fix some cores which wouldn't sync on DV before (eg Atari ST). I will check it more in depth later on my consumer TVs. I was able to sync Atari ST before. Pretty much all 15Khz cores were perfect before the update. I didn't actually try any cores with the new update because I can't even see the menu :) I ...

Partitioning and formatting all in DOS is the way to go. I've been testing out games for a couple of hours and haven't managed to corrupt the partition yet

Thanks for all the responses.

It's been two years but I think I did it the way I did it in that other thread. Create the VHD in Windows 10 (Just using Disk Management). Move it over to the mister and mount it as the IDE 0-1 drive, mount the IDE 0-0 with the boot vhd from windows 98. Fdisk that partition, format the partition from dos (takes forever, you can move it over to win...

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akeley wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 11:24 am The main mister_220517, which I dragged manually to my SD (not by doing update_all) works ok via Direct Video.

Hmmm. I checked that one and it had the same hash as the one downloaded by update_all.

It must be sending out a signal that my CRT doesn't like as it just won't sync.

goodmaki wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 6:56 am I'm not having this issue with the Analog I/O VGA. Is Direct Video the HDMI analog?

Yep

I just ran update_all and now I the image won't sync on my CRT, it was fine before.

I reverted back to https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... r_20220511 and it works again.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... r_20220511

I reverted back to the version there and now it works again.

So the latest version has broken direct video? At least for me it has

I just ran update_all while connected to my 1084S via Direct Video, once the update completed it rebooted and now the image won't sync

So I booted from a Windows 98 floppy. Partitioned with FDISK, and formatted with FORMAT C: /S All seemed good, but then when I went to copy the eXoDOS collection I ran out of space because it used a cluster size of 32KB. 105GB used 120GB of space with a 32KB cluster size. I need 16KB for it to fit, but I can't see any way to override the size from ...

It's been two years but I think I did it the way I did it in that other thread. Create the VHD in Windows 10 (Just using Disk Management). Move it over to the mister and mount it as the IDE 0-1 drive, mount the IDE 0-0 with the boot vhd from windows 98. Fdisk that partition, format the partition from dos (takes forever, you can move it over to win...

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 3:39 pm I for sure corrupted a few VHDs when I was building the 7200 pack. Here is where I ended up on the size of mine:137438953984 raw

Would you mind telling me the steps you used to create, partition and format the VHD when creating the 7200 game image? Because yeah, my total VHD file size is only 121GB and it still gets corrupted

That seems okay. You only need the 10MB STUB if you are going to do the ASSIGN drive trick that I do in the Top 300 to get the D: drive to be a CD drive while having the C and E for boot and data. if you don't plan to do that and don't care what drive letter is the CD drive then you dont need that. ExoDOS expects the D: drive to be D:. You could a...

It can't be over 134GB raw or it will corrupt. Back it off to like 119GB formatted and see if it does the same thing. I thought it might be something like that. I originally had a 128GB partition and when that got corrupted I dropped it down. Total size of the VHD is 121GB. There's a 10MB STUB partition and then a 121GB partition. So that's no goo...

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=4522 I did have a look at that thread earlier. I was basing my image on the top 300 because I wanted to use TDL. I actually created a full exodos image based on the shareware one and MyMenu choked on 7200 games. It was trying to load them all into the menu and ran out of memory after around 6000 :) I'm wonder...

Could you be using the wrong DOS kernel? Maybe? Do you still get corruption when you boot from the Win98 DOS image in the Top300, and use that to play the games you've loaded on your custom games image? edit: and just in case, have you tried wiping and re-downloading all the ROM files? They've changed numerous times over the last couple months. se...

One thought that comes to mind: is the image on an SD card? They're famously unreliable, especially cheap ones. Check the host Linux dmesg to see if the kernel is complaining about I/O errors of any kind. It's on a USB HDD. I just created another VHD and loaded 120 GB of games onto it and the very first boot I'm getting "Sector not found"...