Wait till you own one.
Am I the only person that finds mister like a 1000 times easier to use than something like retroarch? If you just stick to update_all and donāt mess with beta stuff it mostly just works.
Perhaps initial setup is a little more difficult, but it seems pretty on par with a raspberry pi or something. Same basic steps of prepping an SD card, copying roms, etc.
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Iāve never loved retroarch, but the fact that it is pointedly not a Raspberry Pi that I can SSH to over wifi is worth about several thousand demerits
I mention retroarch because as a unified framework it is comparable to mister in that sense. Setting up a dozen independent emulators is even worse.
Iāve never had the patience to really get into mame either. Mister seems simpler by comparison there as well.
EDIT: The actual simple solution is analogue or mini consoles of course. But even with analogue there is some tweaking to be done if you want the best experience.
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well, there are usually maintainers to do that for you:
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is there a whiff of delusion wafting in the air that blows through the fpga end-user ideation space? sure, yes, probably, but you know, in the end: God loves a tinkerer. God bless the tinkerers and their quest to āplay playstation gamesā and god bless the bald weirdo arch-tinkerers who made it possible.
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Not having to pick out which of the 600000 retroarch projects/configurations/managers/frontends/whatever is The Right One is real nice
I ssh into my mister because I donāt usually attach a keyboard to it but I only need to do so rarely. I set up a network share with my roms (which Iād do for a retropie or any other dedicated device too) and thatās pretty much the end of it for me.
My TV is not (currently) next to my desktop and I enjoy the misterās particular flavor of tiny computer, so there you go
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i oscillate between āok, these things are just an affiliate link youtuber griftā and āfuuuuck i want one, if only i had the space to retrieve my sony wega from my motherās houseā etc.
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I know my affection for ZSNES is basically an affectation at this point but I am still absolutely mystified that people are enthusiastically re-litigating Saturn compatibility and whatever else. I was there in 2005! idgi
I also just donāt play old games very much anymore though is part of it, like I already exhausted the catalogue and my relationship to it during previous waves of emulator development
having used a crtpi for awhile before i got a mister, yeah, i would never intentionally go back to playing anything on that. i converted my pi into a mt32-pi instead because mister feels so much better
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like, runahead is great, but it isnāt perfect
it causes little visual artifacts
it doesnāt work properly with every core/game (try space manbow on MSX for example)
and mister still feels snappier than retroarch with runahead, and the audio is perfect, never crackles and fucks up like it does on a pi, etc.
if you just play RPGs in ZSNES it should hold pretty much zero value for you, but if you just want to play an SNES game where you have muscle memory around input timing and you donāt want to relearn it or spend money on Just a Super Nintendo (Analogue) or An Actual Super Nintendo + Scaler + RGB cables + Everdrive + whatever else the hell you needā¦ i mean
it clearly has a place, but it also clearly isnāt for everyone. i donāt know why anyone would be particularly confused about what it brings to the table even if you donāt care about input latency and arenāt ābrought outā of things by emulation quirks and inaccuraciesā¦
i think EVO '22 was using MiSTer for Super Turbo
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they did yeah
thatās something i wish weād had 10+ years ago, damn
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idk, probably my most sentimental gaming experience was Mother 3 for the second time through on a 2010 Android phone running in an emulator called āgameboid advanceā in which I acclimated to the timing no problem and had more fun than on original hardware. I think I just appreciate accumulated compromises far more than I do authenticity
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also, on an aesthetic level, I have to concede that I really like denouncing trends as a āmystificationā because I read it in one of mussoliniās speeches once and that word seems to evoke a specifically anti-papist quality, which on the topic of configuring things and its elegance, oh no, look who it is again, another verbose italian:
i mean if you donāt play older games much and you donāt care about doing it on a CRT, then yeah, this probably holds zero interest, but like hasnāt that always been the distinction?
for me, i find retroarch kind of irritating and at times incomprehensible to use and i also despise playing old games on new displays because they look like garbage. i donāt care how āgoodā the shaders and filters get - they arenāt the same thing.
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as I type this Iām currently in a meeting about a wikidata contribution a bunch of universities are making toward emulation documentation, Iām sitting across the room from a raspberry pi hooked up to a CRT, and I also find retroarch frequently irritating. I refuse to exclude myself from this demographic!! I think shaders and postprocessing and anything that perverts anyoneās original intent are fun
i guess iām just not really following what discussion youāre trying to bring about here. all preferences can be dismissed as affectations if we try hard enough.
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I was in a reddit thread the other night where people were like, nagging some FPGA developer about whether their patreon would lose support if they ported various mister cores to analogue pocket and I had a weird out of body experience of remembering a bunch of teens needling one guy on the GBAtemp forums to patch something in SNESadvance in 2004 which actually seemed considerably more justified at the time (I contributed a non-glitched layer map for donkey kong country!) and now Iām taking it out on my friends
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well now that your mistakes are clear to me, it all comes together. like even as someone who really likes retro games a lot i find inhabiting any of the retro-game spaces to be anathema
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Well thereās your problem
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