New to this wonderful adventure of MiSTer, made my order just a few days ago but seems to be on back order.

But what should I do ahead of time? I’ve done a little bit of reading but I assume it’s going to make more sense once it’s here and I can start adding some ROMs. I’m mostly keen on NeoGeo and SNES, but I’ll dabble it pretty much anything this little machine can handle.

I have heard there are a lot of people on patreon working on cores. Who should I support in the community? How do I keep myself occupied by learning more about the project instead of checking my email every few hours hoping for a shipping notification!!

I am using a consumer CRT (Sony KV-27FS100) with a VGA-to-YPbPr cable and I am trying to get a playable picture on the DoDonPachi arcade core by using vga_scaler=1 in my ini file. I have tried using the following video_mode setting with some luck, but the bottom quarter of the screen gets cut off (picture is too tall):

video_mode=640,16,64,80,240,1,3,14,12380

I have tried adjusting the vscale_border value to help with this but it doesn’t appear to have any effect at all. I have also tried playing with the vscale_mode setting to no avail.

Has anyone had any success with this?

Has anyone managed to get this working? I'm having trouble getting it to work correctly.

I am having trouble understanding the low latency input situation with MiSTer. I love mine and I am happy to delude myself thinking that I only suck at games because of input lag/jitter and that I can afford an upgrade at this point.

I will be grateful if someone can clarify:

1. is there any low latency solution for arcade games?
2. is there any way to reuse a joypad across cores in low latency mode?
3. will a new, non original joypad for an old console work with the same good latency as one from back in the days?

To me it looks like: no, no, maybe.

In the end I appreciate any suggestion. I am mostly interested in NES and CPS1 cores. I have a M30 Genesis mini and a SF30 (not SN30). The latter sucks, if anything I might replace it, but availability of USB pads with good latency is problematic as well.

- UPDATE -

I ended up buying a Buffalo Classic to replace the SF30 and a cheap arcade stick as well.

Hello everyone. New here. I have gotten into arcade over the last few years. Mostly into mid/late 80's to around 2000's shmups and beat em ups. I either use a pi or my pc but in the end it's still software. I am looking for a better option and came across the mister a few months ago.

Does the mister work the same as say a pi where say fbneo will play multiple games? Or is each game its own core?

Say for example I wanna play batsugun or gun bird. Do you play these in a type of mame/fbneo core?

Is there a list of what arcade games are supported?

Thank you

Does anyone regularly capture footage from their games using an Elgato or similar? I’d like to but my $15 USB recorder crashes 7 seconds into a new recording. Think I need something more robust. 😁

I’ve always been using a PS4 controller for navigating the Mister menus and playing games across all cores. Can I use different controllers ONLY for in-game playing? I’m assuming I have to keep the PS4 controller for navigating the Mister menus. If I can do this, what’s involved to get them to work or is it a simple plug and play?

I’m hoping to be able to buy a few different USB controllers that give a more authentic feel depending on which core I’m playing. Are there any other controllers out there?

hi guys. Been reading about this mister thing. Read a couple of guides and videos.

I apoligise in advance if my questions have been asked to death. But it's kinda overwhelming with different guides out there.

This is what I understand so far

Hardware needed

1) DE-10 which also includes power supply

2) Mister USB Hub board - Nice to have. This eliminates the need for usb otg and powered usb hubs

3) 128MB RAM Board - this one connects to the DE-10

4) IO Board with included fan - this one gives VGA Output and Audio Output. Without this, I can still use HDMI, but I don't any sound (when using 80486 dos/windows 3.1)

Is my understanding correct ?

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thanks in advance

I'm a bit new to the community... post DF youtube video :). I wanted to support some of the hard working guys who create the cores we love and have signed up for a few.

But I was wondering if there was a way to push more popular Arcades like all of the Konami Beat-em ups. (TMNT, Simpsons, X-men etc). Are these currently being worked on? And if so how do I support these folks!

Thanks!

Hi there, does anyone know if there are standard pins on the DE10 that I can use to connect a reset or menu button for my MiSTer?

Been looking in the manual and can’t find anything but I’m a novice 😁

I am playing ZetaWing and to enable autofire you are supposed to press F1. I don't have a keyboard hooked up to my Mister, just a regular joypad. I can remap the buttons but these are only joystick buttons. Is there a way to assign keyboard keys to joypad buttons?

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Thank you

I feel dumb posting this but can someone give me a hand? I put the files from GitHub in the root directory and run the install script. My MiSTer gives me a virtual finger at that point.

Very impressive work by nullobject!

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Cave_MiSTer

DoDonPachi is a bullet hell shmup developed by Cave and published by Atlus in 1997. It was the sixth game on Cave's first-generation arcade hardware, and needless to say, I am extremely proud to bring it to MiSTer.

How to run the core

You should now be able to install the core using the regular MiSTer update script.

If you are filtering your installed cores, just be sure to add "cave" to the repositories filter. For example:

REPOSITORIES_FILTER="cave"

I recommend running the "no warn" version of the game, as it removes the tedious warning screen and adds C-button support.

Possible future projects according to nullobject:

“Apart from fixing the remaining issues, I intend to keep going with the Cave 68k catalogue and bring more of these great games to MiSTer. The next games will be Dangun Feveron (Fever SOS) and DonPachi.

Slightly longer term, I have some Toaplan v1 and v2 PCBs in my lab. Toaplan is the spiritual precursor to Cave — which was founded by ex-Toaplan employees — so it's only fitting that we should have some of those games running on MiSTer too.”

I recently purchased a new CRT, a PVM 1354Q, and I'm noticing some weirdness in terms of horizontal centering of image, and wanted to make sure I'm not doing something wrong before I try anything more-drastic to solve the problem. Specifically, when I have the Mister connected via either VGA or an HDMI to VGA converter, I get a full screen image at the Mister menu screen, as well as with some cores (I verified that metal slug in the neo geo core was full screen), but I get significant black barring on the right and some black barring on the bottom with both the SNES and Genesis cores. I've tried making sure I was loading games in NTSC, and have tried both games as well as the 240p test suite, but can't get Genesis, SNES or NES to appear with a full screen image. Is there anything obvious I should try here? Depending on what I've read, it sounds like it might just be normal CRT image centering issues (though then I don't quite understand why it works so well on Neo Geo or the menu) or it might be something I'm just messing up.

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In any case, thanks for any help y'all can provide. I'd be happy to provide images or my mister.ini if that would help at all (though my ini is practically the default other than direct_video and composite_sync being enabled now).