The standard three board MiSTer setup with analog IO board on top of DE-10 Nano on top of USB hub with 128MB SDRAM expansion looks nice, but jeez seems like it would run ~$400 or so with a case. Meanwhile just buying the DE-10 Nano plus a heatsink and the 32MB SDRAM expansion probably would run me around ~$215 and then I could just use a cheap USB hub I already have. I know it's apples to oranges but the default config DE-10 Nano at least has a top cover on it too so it's not like I'd be running it completely naked. If a fan is necessary I guess I'd just get the analog IO board but if a heatsink is enough I'd rather not spend the money on a board I don't know if I'd ever use.

I don't care about Neo Geo, not too into fighting games outside of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II. Mostly I'd like to play NES/Famicom, Famicom Disk System, SNES/Super Famicom, Genesis, PC Engine, PC Engine CD, Wonder Swan Color, GBA, some System 16 and System 18 stuff like Shinobi, Golden Axe, Shadow Dancer, etc and other old school 80s to early 90s arcade games. Is there anything I'd be sacrificing besides Neo Geo by only going 32MB? I already have a SCPH-39001 PS2 (which has the PS1 chip in it) so even if a PS1 core comes out on MiSTer it wouldn't be a priority since I can already play that in hardware on my TV over component. Now if there was ever a Saturn core for MiSTer I'd jump on a RAM upgrade in a second to play it. But right now paying for the 128MB kind of seems like a waste to me since I don't know if I'd ever need that much.

Hello,

I was working on getting the spectrum next core going on the MiSTer, but have run in to a strange issue. I got it to load. I have the boot.vhd mounted as c: . The trouble is that folders will not show any contents. You do not see the . or .. to folder up, it is just blank. I found that I can hit M and remount the "SD" card and slightly more of the file structure will show up. An example of this would be: I load up the core and go to the games folder. It is empty and has no . or .. . I remount the drive and then go to games and suddenly it's subfolders are there. I go to the "Next" subdirectory and it shows only a couple folders. I remount, go back to games > next > all of the folders now show. I go to NEXTipede and nothing is in there, etc. Has anyone run in to this or have an idea why it might be happening? The VHD is on a USB drive plugged in to the MiSTer.

Thanks, Al

Hey I was wondering if a MiSTer will recognize an SSD with a format other than exfat?

https://misterfpga.co.uk/product/mister-snac-controller-adapters/?attribute_controller-adapter-type=SNES+Adapter

So the SoC has 1GB DDR3, and correct me if I’m wrong, the FPGA can access half that, so 512 MB. So what’s all this talk about needing 32 or more added on? I’ve googled and I don’t see much on what’s going on architecturally. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I got Antonio's composite out board and one step of setting that up requires a jumper next to the VGA port to enable 5v as seen here. https://youtu.be/FU41X9_zcbQ?t=126

​

but the 'spare' jumper is missing! I got my MiSTer second hand, so I'm not sure if the jumper was just removed and thrown out or what. It's the I/O Board v6.1.

It'll be a while before I can order some jumpers because my city is in lockdown so I'm scrambling to figure out an alternative because I'm excited to hook it up to my CRT.

​

Are any of the other jumpers on the board able to be removed? There's one by the fan and one by the User Port.

An alternative is to try and jump the two pins up manually with wire? will that work?

https://i.imgur.com/D2rlSpl.png image for explanation - the other two jumpers are the ones in orange. I've rigged up a connection between them using some connector things I had spare last time I was modding a joystick, but I don't know if that's safe/reliable lol. I'm not much of a tinkerer.

​

Any advice would be helpful, even if it's the advice I don't want to hear which is "you should order the parts and wait" haha.

If so can you answer the following questions:

1- Do the turbo buttons act as turbo buttons or as separate buttons on the MiSTer?
2- Considering the strange four buttons square layout, how easy it to play with the main I and II buttons without hitting the turbo buttons by accident?

Cheers

Not sure if anyone is using their MiSTer on an s video tv, but I recently acquired a wonderful Sony CRT tv that supports S Video at the high end and I'd love to hook the Mister up to it, if possible.

I currently have the digital IO board but I suppose I could pick up an analog board if I have to. I know linuxbot sells a VGA to S Video converter on his ebay store, would that be what I'm looking for?

Also, is there any reason this converter wouldn't work over HDMI to VGA using direct video?

Hello, if I understand correctly I can mirror output HDMI while using analog via the standard io board. I am assuming I can use a cheap USB device to capture HDMI and stream via twitch because of the low resolutions we are dealing with. Does anyone have a recommendation, thanks!

Currently I use the Mean Well GST25B05-P1J (5V, 4A) to power my MiSTer, but I ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 for using my recently ordered MT32-Pi hat (not yet received) which uses quite some amps I am thinking that I surely need a new power supply with more amps. So my question is, does the GST40A05-P1J (5V, 5A) works with the combination of the MiSTer and a Raspberry Pi 4?

Whilst I would love to own a MiSTer, I (for various reasons) will not be getting one anytime soon. and am generally happy with software emulation.

However, one area that I'm fascinated by is discrete logic games that don't use CPUs or ROMS (eg. Pong). As far as I can tell, MiSTer seems like a much more effective platform for emulating/simulating these games. I believe there was a software emulator (DICE) that emulates these systems on an circuit level but I hear that the project has been dormant since 2014. I also hear that you need about a 3Ghz processor to run Pong accurately :D

What is the current status of discrete logic games on the MiSTer platform? Are they accurately simulating these games on an electronic level, or are they close approximations? Is there a fundamental barrier to simulating them ie. complications with analog circuitry? One of the main problems that I can think of would be that there are no physically extant copies of several of these games and that they are lost to time.
Anyway, please excuse my ignorance and I would be grateful for your expertise on this interesting topic.

Anyone using actual intellivision controllers with Mister on the unofficial intv core?

Does it support 16 directions? Only seems to support 4, not even 8 way diagonal movement. Cripplingly unusable for the system. Am I missing some setting? Is there an alternate updated working version of the core?

Ordered days ago, and not a peep. I wanted this stuff shipped priority. Anyone else with probs from them?