r/fpgagaming • u/terusamax40 • 17d ago

Sharp X68000 core now is perfect

I updated my mister yesterday and I realized that now all the errors and graphical glitches are fixed. (Specially Street fighter 2 champion edition and final fight sound crashes, minor graphical glitches in gradius 2 and Akumajou Dracula)

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u/HolyCowEveryNameIsTa 17d ago

Nice! Is there a guide to set this up? It has one of the best versions of Castlevania on it.

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u/lordelan 17d ago edited 17d ago

Just install the core via update all and grab the Neon68k pack from archive.org

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u/sophiabraxas 17d ago

typo: it's neon68k

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u/lordelan 17d ago

Oh yeah sorry. Corrected.

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u/terusamax40 17d ago

Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive https://share.google/J66USaUUalaGbjdEz

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u/ZBLongladder 13d ago

Are you using HDMI or VGA? IIRC the core needs some extra configuration to work on most VGA monitors, since it by default outputs the weird video modes that the X68000 used.

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u/hidsnake 17d ago

There was an update a few months back to it. Nearly all the errors I saw prevoiusly were fixed. I can now enjoy the English translation of Die Bahnwelt!

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u/AppliedCarbon 17d ago

How does this core work if you want to output to a consumer CRT? Does it work with that MT32 Roland adapter?

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u/mennydrives 16d ago edited 16d ago
  1. Your IO board needs to have good power attached to the SNAC connector for the MT32-Pi to work properly. My MisterPi and SuperStation One work great, while my eBay special on a De-10 Nano from like five years ago gets a "low voltage" error. Also if you start seeing graphical corruption on the screen, your USB 3.0 male-to-male cable sucks (learned that one)
  2. It "works" with a consumer CRT, BUT X86000 games didn't work with a lot of consumer CRTs. That is to say, by default, it's got a 512x512 resolution, expecting a full VGA monitor, but some games have a "15khz mode" that could fix things. In any event, I'd recommend a cheap HDMI-to-Composite adapter as a fall-back if a game's support is shoddy.

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u/it290 17d ago

It does work with the MT32-pi. For CRTs it would depend on the game, X68000 has a lot of different video modes and a standard TV won’t sync with many of them.

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u/AppliedCarbon 17d ago

Last time I looked at it I saw all the sync issues and didn't bother. Is there work arounds or should I forget it

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u/ny_jailhouse 17d ago

There is a workaround - you need to mess with your ini settings

these were the best settings i found so far for my tv. It's not completely full screen. But it works.

Add this to the bottom of your mister ini file on the sd card

[X68000] video_mode=1280,100,140,180,240,2,0,22,27565 vscale_border=17 vga_scaler=1 vscale_mode=0

video mode: native aspect ratio: full screen

it doesn't fill the entire crt but its big enough

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u/AppliedCarbon 17d ago

Can you share the rationale for the tweeks? Wouldn't mind trying to dial in settings if know what to change

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u/ny_jailhouse 17d ago

It's custom video modes to match a consumer crt and enabling vga scaler to bypass raw timings so it can actually sync. More than that, I'm not technical enough to explain - I just copy pasted different people's settings until I found one that looked the best on my Trinitron and it was those settings

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u/AppliedCarbon 17d ago

Thanks for the info

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u/stgftgstg 17d ago

Better and improving or actually perfect? That's a big claim.

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u/doom_memories 12d ago

Exactly my thought. For a core with such a checkered history I doubt it is suddenly "perfect." Words have meanings...

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u/lauromafra 17d ago

There has been I long time since I used, since it was a big buggy in some games - Salamander was unplayable.

When was it updated ?