MiSTer FPGA Forum

Make that 12 people (I read it)

If anyone is interested in doing in-depth testing of CD32 games, send me a direct message!

Success! Thanks for the pointers, rsn8887!

I meant MiSTer developer laziness, maybe that's where we got confused

My point was that I don't think the MiSTer has enough bandwidth to supply 2560×1440. And yes, I'm sure they could have backported that from the CX to the C9, but TV manufacturers rarely care about older models once there's a new one for sale.

Wanted to start help testing this, but after getting the nightly main build + the nightly Amiga build, installing IDEFix97 and trying to mount a variety of CD formats, I can't get anything to show up.

If anyone knows how it's supposed to work (I know it's still a work in progress , I'm all ears.

I have the B9 (which has a slower CPU, but I think it has the same scaler), and it does not support 1440p. I think they started supporting 1440p with the next generation, the CX?

Let me know if you need help testing an RBF and/or Main build.

Will it support CHD, like the other CD cores?

Fuzzball wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 2:41 pm

Thanks. That dac (2nd link) seems to be usb powered. Would the Mister be able to power it via usb? That would be ideal. I have a Meanwell 4A (I think) power supply if that is relevant.

Yes, 4A should be plenty as long as you don't have a lot of other power-hungry devices connected via USB (e.g. spinning hard drives).

A500 Mini is FAT32, so the individual file limit is 4GB. It would use the same slimmed-down configuration as the Pocket does.

Also, never forget:

It doesn’t play the CDDA audio though, does it? That’s the point of this improvement — pretty much all CD32 games work on the A1200 in some form (usually they have AGA versions), but they are missing the CD audio.

Not that I’m aware of. There could theoretically be one that was based on the 12.9 inch iPad display, but I don’t think anyone has made a driver board for that one.

There are probably other sizes of mini-monitors available, but the great thing about this display is its color quality and its extremely fast response rate.

Indeed, I’m not saying it will be easy, just that there’s a base to start from, and that we don’t necessarily need a full CD32 core to make most games work.

It’s still going to be a non-trivial amount of work to make it happen, of course.

There’s no scroll corruption on CRTs. It’s only on displays involving the HDMI scaler.

Ah, OK. I haven’t explored the menus much, just assumed it didn’t have that capability since it wasn’t advertised as such by Apple back in the day.

I don’t think it's an HDR display.

But it does work perfectly on the Commodore 1942 and 1084 CRT monitors, FWIW. Of course, it would be great with more flexibility here, agreed. :)

Yes. Whether someone would be interested in making a core for it is a different question altogether, though. But since it’s one of the few Nintendo cores left, I’m sure it’ll happen eventually.

Possibly the scaler in your TV doing something to the MiSTer output, would be my guess. Does it have a Game mode or a PC mode? What model number of LG TV is it?

MG Stripe does not produce that effect on our TVs. But yes, let’s discuss in that thread.

Make sure the TV is not using the wrong overscan/zoom setting, it should be what LG calls “Just Scan”. It’s possible that zoom + scaling of the shadow masks would produce weird artifacts. (This is a total speculation on our part, but worth checking)