Also, see this video for the Mister multisystem:
He mentions that even with the fan turned off and under load it doesn’t get too hot. He’s only measuring the external temperature though. It also looks like they added a plastic heat sink to the de-10 nano, which you also have.
I found a little wifi dongle kicking around my desk and it just happened to be supported so after fixing some dumb permissions issues I now have my mister reading roms out of zips sitting on a file share and it’s pretty damn slick
Now waiting for my component switchbox to arrive Wednesday and we’ll see how this thing looks hooked up my CRT with terrible geometry
I found the fan really obnoxious, but I picked up one of these for less than $15 and it’s silent. Make sure you get the 5V. You’ll have to clip and resolder the wires if you want it nice and short like the original.
My MiSTer is out of service (it got stepped on accidentally and probably board flexed and broke a trace on the DE-10 nano) but it’s nice that that’s the only thing I’ll probably need to replace since the thing is nice and modular. Just gotta make sure my finances are ok after all this surgery bullshit before I drop another 175 or w/e on retrogaming lol
When it was still working, I left the damn thing on ALL the time. Draws very little power, only thing is that fan noise in the PCB case IS obnoxious sometimes so if that ever bothered me I’d cut it off. During one period it was probably on for almost a month uninterrupted lol
I ran across a site selling modified noctua fans with the right pin header that also just so happened to be selling a version modified for the dreamcast which is perfect because I’m about to crack mine open to install an optical drive emulator anyway
So with a modded wii, a ps2 with a swap disc and free mcboot, a gdemu’d dreamcast, a hacked psp, a ds with a flashcart, and a mister I think I can play any console game made prior to 2006
Except xbox lol
i picked up one of Analogue’s DACs a few weeks ago to use with my Super NT and i couldn’t be more pleased with it. really good little box, although perhaps a bit limited since it’s designed for use with only Analogue products (afai can tell).
as with a lot of this stuff, i couldn’t get it to work properly at first, and for whatever reason, the component cables wouldn’t work, but s-video did. then, after i bought an extra s-video cable to use with it, the component display option started just…working.
i think all consoles designed on CRTs benefit from being played on CRTs, but i feel like this is somehow the most true for the SNES. something about SNES games really bother me and look almost amateurish when the display isn’t blending everything properly, and so it’s been really nice to play through a lot of games i’d originally only ever emulated on a proper television.
mostly it’s been: Final Fantasy V, Gun Hazard, Gunman’s Proof, and Shiren 2. there’s more on the to-do list, but that combo has been satisfying for the past few weeks.
That was easier to set up than I expected, though I ended up fiddling with the TV settings because something seemed… off. I eventually convinced myself it was pretty good but then on a whim I turned on 50% scanlines and it looks GREAT
now if I could only get the NEOGEO core to actually load anything…
You’re using the Update-All script, right? That should take care of any BIOS issues.
If the ROMs are the issue, try the htgdb set. I used a version of it and haven’t had any issues.
I had a few issues with NEOGEO when setting this up over network a couple weeks ago:
000-lo.lo, romsets.xml, sfix.sfix, and uni-bios.romoh come on
hey I don’t set the rules, all the other MiSTer cores support zipped files
Oh that’s probably it, I am indeed using an HTGDB zip
It wasn’t that, it’s that (I think) BIOS files need to be in a certain location relative to the ROMs and the share I had set up for ROMs wasn’t writable so the updater script couldn’t put it there and the one that was already on my SD card was in the wrong spot. The file remained zipped.
It looks great but there’s a weird problem where the very right edge of the screen is cut off, but only on my CRT and not the LCD I have hooked up over HDMI at the same time. Is it just that the core is spitting out a resolution that my TV doesn’t quite like?
Oh and I got one of the retrobit wireless saturn pads and I really like it as a controller for the mister, its got the right buttons for pretty much anything a mister will run and it feels way better for the purpose than the xbone controller I was using
Ran the SNES factory service cart for some reason and accidentally discovered that I had R and L audio swapped lol
Analogue is starting to sell out of the Super Nt again, so if anyone wants one - order soon.
They’ve only got black ones in stock.
They have some sort of announcement planned for the 16th of this month, probably news about the Duo.
The Analogue Pocket’s FPGA for cores is a 49K logic elements Cyclone V
(same as Super Nt and Mega SG, less than the MiSTer’s 110K)
It has a separate core for the OS; video scaling, save states, etc.
The Cyclone V will be open to developers and the smaller Cyclone 10 will be locked down.
Should be roughly equivalent to their home consoles. Expect it to be able to handle SNES (except for games that use Super FX or SA1 chips) and Genesis, and anything less powerful than those, but with the added benefit of save states.
That’s a lot of power for a handheld.
obligatory “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” post about how the last time I had to worry about an emulator not supporting SA1 games like it was somehow impressive in spite of that was like 2002
Feels weird to see Analogue taking potshots at the Mister project. I mean, yeah, their hardware is really nice! But their “the Mister is really hard to configure and confusing” statement to Polygon…not really? Hell, I’ve had a much harder time setting up RetroPie than I ever did with the Mister.
Anyway! Analogue systems are fine. The Pocket seems neat. But I feel better about having my cheapo Anbernic for this sort of thing.
I held an anbernic this weekend and hated the ergonomics and the interface, I must again recommend retroarch on your phone plus a gamevice (or the new razer branded gamevice)
They’ve got custom firmware that kinda streamlines the UI, but there’s no real fixing the ergonomics.
Anyway this is 75% me being satisfied with the RG351V, and the rest is just me injecting myself with a good dose of cognitive dissonance so I don’t hammer in an order next time a Pocket preorder comes up.
It will be kinda cool to see how custom cores shake out on the Pocket. Gotta wonder if they’ll let Kevtris go wild like he has with some of the other systems, and just dump jailbroken cores with abandon.
