MiSTer FPGA Forum

I forget where Robert posted the comment; likely in the Patreon discussion. In his latest Patreon post he details that development is ending and that tightening up the core timings is a fool's errand with the DDR3 latency issues. Robert is talking about games that randomly freeze because the the RAM latency is not low enough to provide the content...

Could be feasible to perform speedruns on regular core for those games that don't have issues, or these things may differ:

• Game speed (not FPS but physical movement) at different/higher speed

• Glitches and bugs reproducing more/less/different than in original console

Any information about this, somebody tried, any video?

I would like to know more about how the Turbo Core of the N64 works:

• Only increases the framerate

• Only increases the game speed (how fast you move in terms of distance per time)

• Both

So for example if I do a speedrun with the core in turbo mode, will take less time than the original console?