MiSTer FPGA Forum

this together with the Saturn, would make the system practically complete i'd say I'll say that when I see a DC and a 3DO core as well :P But yeah, a PSX core would really make my year. Well console wise we are still missing Jaguar, 3DO, 32X and CDI N64 won't fit and the DS won't either and Dreamcast won't as well. What I would want is all the Pla...

Are there any bare metal images for pi emulation? When I used retropie it used to do my head in how long it took linux and the front end to load, even on a fast SD card. With MiSTer I can turn it on and it boots in literally a couple of seconds, and I can just switch it off when I'm done without any safe shutdown scripts or other malarky. The pi m...

RascalUK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 9:41 am There's a very decent Intellivision core already, just not official yet.

Good to know but I don't really count much until it is official. I know there is a jaguar core out there also meaning Jaguar and possibly CoJag may be feasible but it has yet to be official.

Please delete your INI and run the "MiSTer_SAM_on.sh" script again. That will download all the newest files. Note that once you run the "on" script SAM will look at the keyboard, mouse, and joystick / controllers on the system for activity. It does try to detect added or removed controllers, but isn't smart enough - yet - to de...

I noticed one thing, the interrupt doesn't seem to work with my Daemonbite 2p Genesis adapter. If I press a key on the keyboard it will stop cycling but not so for my joystick. Is there some extra setting I may have missed or is this a bug? Does it only look for keyboard shortcuts if a keyboard is detected?

Unfortunately that's out of our hands. We use a 3rd party project - mbc by pocomane - to load roms into cores. The MiSTer doesn't have a standard programmatic way to do this. That means SAM is - very quickly! - using the menu to load the next game for you. Maybe we can get a menu shortcut that doesn't display the interface but operates the same wa...

Konami Beat em ups(TMNT, X-Men, Simpsons)
Co-Jag(Area-51, Maximum Force)
Jaguar/CD
Mortal Kombat 1-3
Intelivision

My recommendations for people trying this is to create a favorites folder for each system, put your favorite game roms in it and set the Attract mode to use the favorites folder. You basically have your whitelist and it is easier to play you favorite games. I lowered the time for it to kick in but I might change that again. I have to say it is awes...

The daomonbite has a blob of proprietary firmware too. The whole LLAPI is proprietary is a very weak argument. Just use what works for you, the BlisSTer is a great product even if you never used LLAPI and always kept it in USB mode. There is one thing saying it needs some firmware to get hardware working it is another thing to require a needlessly...

What I would say is you could redesign the MiSTer with a custom board Maybe have a Jamma edge built in and other niceties the question is would the redesign be worth the cost of a non subsidized FPGA. You can design a more mobile MiSTer if you redesigned it maybe have something like the switch or you could make the thing bigger but your use case wo...

A Daemonbite adapter will just work and is so low latency that it is for all practical purposes lag free. LLAPI is proprietary and should not be relied upon since the code is not available who knows how long it will be supported and since it is non standard it needs to be separately maintained. I would say this. Get or make a daemonbite adapter and...

I just use the button on the IO Board.

I would say the demand for this core is low right now people are looking forward to the 32bit arcade / consoles being worked on. SegaCD and TurboCD had more of a compelling reason than this one. This has always been seen as a budget option for the NeoGeo and people always would prefer to have the real NeoGeo cart if they could afford one. Seeing ho...

I haven't tried this core yet, but I am thankful it exists. The 2600 core is not bad, but not perfect. I am hoping this core will eventually support the following things: - 2600 cartridges - SNAC and all controllers on it such as the keypad controller from Star Raiders and the Driving controller - Perfect sound emulation including Pitfall 2 at the...

So man pages are using Groff / Troff typesetting, you can convert to it from Markdown but it is far better to use Asciidoc for those purposes as it isn't as limited and more things map 1:1 without any hacks. So a good Asciidoc manual can be outputted to pdf, html, manpage, epub and more! Github also renders asciidoc so you can use it instead of Mar...

That totally makes sense on the OG wired controllers - it removes any possible paranoia real or imagined we all feel about latency. The only "kinda OG" wired controllers I have are NES Classic and SNES Classic wired controllers (circa 2019) with the Wii style connectors - ordered and should soon receive a couple of RaphNet's adaptors for...

Github uses markdown and can be community driven. You can print as well as save as a pdf with most modern computers. No one needs a summary of every type of computer or console printed, so the argument is irrelevant. Yes a wiki may be fine for one page but if you want to send a person a single file and have everything they can reference offline th...

jlancaster86 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:09 am Nice work, but is a PDF really the way to go? Would it not be better to add this information to the respective cores on the MiSTer wiki?

PDF is good if you want to print it out or share it or keep for offline uses. PDFs could also if rendered correctly can have superior typesetting to a webpage.

Nice content but it looks like it was a word doc, and the Typesetting doesn't look great. I would love to help port this to Asciidoc to get a better output Asciidoc is like Markdown but less limited and scales to be able to make textbooks. Github also does native asciidoc rendering so you would be able to read the whole thing from github directly! ...

Where I am at is this, if I am going to go wired I might as well go with the OG controller. If I want to go wireless then I should have a controller that can play most of the library. I don't want to wrestle with USB configurations and other BS so what I come to is that Daemonbite + the OG wireless controller. The other reason to go that route is t...

FYI my ideal setup is using the OG Genesis port M30 with daemonbite adapters so I can also use the OG controllers. I did it that way because I didn't want to switch modes, I wanted it to be as simple as possible and as low latency as possible. That and 8Bitdo does weird things with USB and I don't trust their USB receivers / firmware. So far my set...

well the old adage is if it isn't broken don't fix it. I unfortunately don't have the firmware and checked the wayback machine and it seems like that firmware isn't even mentioned on any of the snapshots the first mention of the USB 2.4g M30 has only a manual download and the next snapshot with that has the 3.10 firmware. I guess you will have to w...

controls wise are you going for a 4 or 6 button layout. Personally the 6 button layout with shoulders is the most versitile from arcade to console to handheld. the 8Bitdo m30 is the gold standard with start, select and home. Can play GBA just fine and SNES, then switch to Genesis, it is awesome to play 3 button Genesis games without compromise and ...

* TMNT Arcade,
* Simpsons Arcade
* X-Men Arcade
* MegaPlay (genesis based arcade)
* MegaTech (Genesis based arcade)
* Sega C-2
* Co-Jag (Atari Jaguar based Area-51 / Maximum Force)
* Midway Y unit
* Midway Wolf unit
* Namco System 10-12 (Playstation based)
* Sega space harrier
* Sega X Board

Just to let everyone know there already is an open source and freely licensed(BSD) MPEG-2 decoder core.

https://opencores.org/projects/mpeg2fpga

So if anyone is really interested in the DVD player core you already have a good starting point.

Are you using a generic OTG USB hub or the MiSTer USB hub board? I found that the MiSTer hub board and 8-Bitdo devices don't play along once you have multiple devices plugged in at the same time. The major workaround I found to this is to use a generic USB OTG hub or to have a 2 Player Genesis Daemonbite adapter and plug the Genesis DB-9 version of...

Just saying many of the later models of DVD players had HDMI and Component out so getting crystal clear video was never really a problem for even some of the cheaper DVD players. Being a gamer You also had the PS2(component / RGB output) and the XBox and the PS3 which added Blu Ray and the XBox 360 which also plays DVDs pretty good. Seeing as the M...

So what are you using for controls, are you using the SNAC, or Daemonbite adapter or are you using a standard USB controller? I personally love the 2P Daemonbite adapter I made nothing beats the OG controllers for the authentic NES experience. Do you output to the CRT and capture through the HDMI? What is your setup?

Have you used the Genesis Daemonbite with multiple controllers? I have 4x m30 2.4 usb controllers, with the usual issues, and would gladly switch over to the Daemonbite adapter(s) if they work, at least for two controllers. Working with four would be even better. :) I have both a 2player Genesis Daemonbite adapter and a 2 player NES adapter but th...

If you are on a wide screen TV wider fills more of the screen and looks better if you are on a 4:3 flat panel narrower would be better as it would fit the whole image on screen. One way to test is to simply hook up a CRT and Flat panel at the same time and mess with the settings until it looks the closest and best to your eyes. I can tell you for t...