MiSTer FPGA?

[nickfil]

You, along with all the other coverage of the Mister have convinced me that this is the future of retro gaming. I am probably going to order one soon and then offload the consoles I own, it'll replace. I'll keep ones from 6th gen on. Probably buy an N64 one day. I read N64 won't be possible on the Mister.

It really feels like the future of retro is MiSTer. Eventually all the hardware will age and degrade. Hopefully not anytime soon, and some sooner than others. Putting a core out there with the mister is a good way for *everyone* to play it no matter what the year or condition of hardware. There will probably always be a way to play a SNES cart, but the sharp x6800 is fragile and locked in japan. All these old computers are really preserved and ready to play. Its fantastic. Plus there is cores like the Odyssey² that have just become coinvent to play. I had an Odyssey² for like 7 years and only powered it up 2 or 3 times. I've played more Odyssey² stuff on my mister because I don't have to deal with RF, or finicky controllers.

Yeah the n64 would need a more powerful FPGA. Not to say its impossible, but it isn't cost effective right now. People are speculating in 10 or 15 years that the fpga tech will come along and there will be a cheap commercial solution that will include the n64. For now- your best bet is real hardware.

I was just posting about my retro setup on reddit. Its down the mister, ps2, Saturn and Dreamcast. The mister ate everything else.

Btw- I just played through Klonoa door to phatomile on the unstable build of PSX. That core is incredibly impressive. Going to be a game changer when it releases just due to the fact it has features you can't get on the ps1.

[sevin0seven]

.. I read N64 won't be possible on the Mister.

Yeah the n64 would need a more powerful FPGA. Not to say its impossible, but it isn't cost effective right now. People are speculating in 10 or 15 years that the fpga tech will come along and there will be a cheap commercial solution that will include the n64. For now- your best bet is real hardware.

here's the info on the N64 core: http://www.ultrafp64.com/



..and this seems to be the FPGA board their using: https://digilent.com/shop/nexys-video-a ... lications/

[nickfil]

oh wow- I didn't realize people were building on more powerful fpgas.

[Anapan]

I hear they're turning Mister into a handheld now.

[marurun]

I hear they're turning Mister into a handheld now.

They'll have to shorten the name to Mr.

[Melek-Ric]

I ordered a DE-10 Nano. It is on backorder, so who knows when I will actually get it. In the meantime, I will try to order a couple of the other parts, like the RAM module, USB board, etc.

EDIT (2023/1/8): I ordered that board in July and it still hasn't been filled. On indefinite back order it seems. I was reading online the best place to get a DE-10 Nano nowadays was from the source. So I ordered it from them Monday and it was delivered Wednesday.

So today I ordered a kit from Mister-addons to complete the Mister. So hopefully next weekend I'll finally have it together and be able to use it.

[bmoc]

I haven't tried it out myself but I have watched a few youtube videos about it over the past few months. It is pretty neat but at this point it is more work than I am willing to put into it. I definitely see it gaining in popularity as its FPGA cores improve and kits become more readily available. Maybe when the NeoGeo core is released and stable, I'll give it another look.

It took 7 years but I finally got a MiSTer! My SuperStation One arrived on Wednesday and I was able to spend some time with it today. I got it updated and loaded the SD card with cartridge based ROMs. I also ripped Resident Evil to a bin/cue, transferred it over, and was able to resume by current playthrough via PS1 memory card. Since transferring large amounts of data to the SD is painfully slow, I'm going to load additional CD based games as needed until I get the dock and can use an internal NVMe SSD. Tomorrow I'll see about ordering some SNAC adapters so I can use original controllers when the dock arrives.

Initial impressions are that this is a great little device if you don't mind some tinkering. For example, even though I ran the update_all script with BIOS downloads selected, it still didn't update the PSX BIOS files. I had to obtain those from other sources. Sadly, Memcard Pro's don't work but that is a known issue. I'm told 8bitmods is getting a SS1 to see if they can fix the issue.

Happy to answer questions about it if anyone is on the fence.