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flynn_nrg wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:30 am
and have been playing with various core during the holiday break.

Don´t forget to eat and check what day and month it is so you don´t happen to get fired from your job and find out about it a month later

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Have not played or read up about pixel rep on the mister yet.
But i´m pretty sure what native resolution your screen have is important.

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JudgeDrokk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:20 pm
I shudder when see a Commodore64 screen stretched to 16:9.

Doesn't anyone with at least half an eye do that

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You can read some about it here. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-flash-storage-lose-data-when-it-isn%E2%80%99t-powered-on-for-a-long-time But basically the flash cells lose charge over time, when it has power it lose the charge slower, and the flash controller in many cases does keep checking and refresh the cell if it gets too low. The older flash ...

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Daily could be a bit to much i would say.
But it will offcourse depends on how much you play with yourse, sorry play with your mister

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Probably not!
It will probably depends more on what usb devices you have installed, some will work fine others not!

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As far as I understand, MiSTer has the same blue menu with settings on Linux as RetroPie Yes it's pretty much the standard way for the linux terminal to setup/install things. they also said above that the DE10-nano has an ARM processor and this means that you can install the EmulationStation shell on it. Have an ARM cpu yes! Emu station could prob...

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A ribbon cable is pretty cheap so trying and see if it works good enough will not cost much.

And you can easily test the memory with mister memtest https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/MemTest_MiSTer

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FoxbatStargazer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:55 am I'm using a USB drive if it matters, NTFS formatted.

NTFS is not recommended to use since it can cause all sorts of problem and you can find MANY here on this forum.
Use EXFAT (works in windows and with big files), FAT32 (works in windows but can not handle bigger then 4gb files), EXT2/3/4 (do not work in windows without drivers) instead.

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Fedex/Ups/DHL works ok since they take care of customs themself, only downside they charge a bit more for it.
But regular post (postnord) is what i was talking about.

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Unless you live in sweden then you have the four days all over the world wait plus 5-14 days wait for customs to clear it and send you a bill.
Then you have too pay it before the package have been in the customs for 14 days or it will be sent back.
And sadly yes it´s rather common for them to take more then 14 days to get you a bill

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Even tough i´m way, way to stupid to understand most of it it was a good interesting video

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I do agree that for preservation this is something that probably need to be there.
And on the plus side kids of today and tomorrow will experience a part of the horror all us more then half dead people had to endure

, only missing the 20min + loading times and it´s complete.

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Not only the scaler, the ARM cpu that controls USB/SD card/network is a big part too.
That save much of the FPGA to what the FPGA does best.

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Zez Retro testing MiSTer on projector in a big theatre and does some lag testing, and some controller range testing.

It was a good/fun watch!

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I was going to say that you need the digital io board for optical out but seems not, i could almost have sworn on it. But you can easily check if your io board have optical or not just look for the red LED behind the 3,5mm port if it´s there it should work. See pic from misterfpga.co.uk and you see the LED to the right in the pic. MiSTer-FPGA-v6-IO...

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Is optical/toslink and s/pdif all the same? Yes and no! Hope that cleared it up for you :twisted: optical/toslink is most likely the same if we talking audio, there have if i remember correctly been 2-3 other optical interfaces for audio that is NOT toslink and/or s/pdif, but none of them survived for long. Then there have been optical for video/an...

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And one more thing if you use the io boards toslink you will need to flip a switch on the DE-10 to make it work.
See https://misterfpga.co.uk/mister-fpga-ho ... -io-board/ for more info!

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First what IO board do you have? You do need the Digital IO board and from what i now they only have a 3,5mm mini toslink. So if your DAC only have a 3,5mm mini toslink then you will need an 3,5mm to 3,5mm toslink cable. Or you could use an adapter like this https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fiber-Toslink-Adaptor-Optical/dp/B074Z416CG/ But if you alre...

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No it´s the "User Port" not the snac port, but sure snac do use the user port. And since the user port is NOT wired the same as a USB port there is a chance that whatever was plugged into the user port is now broken (if it was not broken before that is). SO PLEASE DO NOT PLUG ANY USB DEVICES INTO THE USER PORT!!! The three reasons it is a...

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You can easily test the mister usb hub on a pc.
just unplug the jumper board that sits between the de-10 and the usb hub and use a regular usb cable to the usb hub.
And just plug it into a pc like any other hub to see if it works at all.

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Not sure but hope video clues can do the trick too

I´m pretty sure a VGA-RGB component cable and some mister ini settings adjusted is all that is needed.
But only use mister on hdmi screens myself so not absolutely sure tough.

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FPGA64 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:10 pm USB Hub is pretty essential. You can use a cheeap OTG hub, but the official board makes it so much easier

And makes it much safer for the rather fragile usb port on the DE-10.
The jumper board really makes it much,much harder to break the only usb port on the DE-10 nano that can be used for all the "USB stuff".

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Yes try unplug/plug in a couple of times, because if there are some crap/etc it can take more then one time to get rid of all.
I would probably also check both the RAM and DE-10 boards closely for any crap that potentially could cause a short/or some electricity creeping between pins/solder joints.
Probably worth trying both since it won´t take long!

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Most if not all consoles can behave strange if you unplug/plug in a controller, mostly it´s depending on what game is running, and most likely where the game is at can cause problems.
So that mister has problems unplug/plug in controllers is only expected, ESPECIALLY for SNAC which is the same as a controller plugged in to the console.

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And don´t forget that a mister successor needs to be something that can be bought for years to come after it is released. So there are two ways to go here. 1, someone builds it and needs guarantees that every part is going to be made for years. 2, Opensource it with very/very common parts that probably will be made for years to come that probably w...

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An idea is Cyclone V 5CGXC9 FPGA (301000 LE) but it doesn't have an ARM Cortex A9 (I don't know how important this is for the project). Also how much RAM is optimal for this project and what are the peripherals you want to have on the board. The ARM side of the mister is only doing small parts like the mister OS/GUI/sd card/network/usb/loading rom...

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Here are one really good site about joysticks that have many controller layouts/tons of info and is generally a good read trough everything before building a joystick. http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html Used a couple of the printable layouts and playing with my hand over the paper before making the final decision and worked well, and one ...

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here is what the original message from creator. Hello! Here's a zip containing all the presets I've made for a bunch of different cores. Thanks to the amazing wealth of video options, I was able to put together presets for several different eras of consoles, handheld specific presets, a catch-all computer preset, and presets for both horizontal an...

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Far from an expert at this!
But from what i have read about ZFS on Pi´s (and yes even 4´s) and/or other lower end cpu/memory can cause corrupted ZFS pools quite easily.

And it has much too do with to little memory but some because slow cpu, and i assume ECC memory could probably have helped in some cases.

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