I still have my Mega Sg sealed, which I got before i got the Mister. maybe I should sell it and get a Retrotink5x
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iāve said before, but i think Analogue products work in specific use cases and iād recommend a Mister in most others.
- the NT Noir was appealing because i always wanted to own and operate a Famicom Disk System, and none of the importing options were really less expensive (and the risk of stuff being busted was greater [also, the Famicom controllers have such short cablesā¦])
- the Super NT was appealing because i accidentally broke my SNES when i was a teenager, trying to mod it so it could play PAL games (i really, really, really wanted to play the copy of Terranigma i purchased in the 90s)
for both of these, i have a ton of carts that were sitting around in my momās basement that i wanted to finally take back.
the Duo is one of those things where buying original hardware is more or less the same price as the Analogue version, and since i already have some physical software for it, and had always wanted one, it again made sense (albeit not as strong a case as the above).
i think the Mister is basically as good as, if not better in some cases, most Analogue products, barring the fact that you canāt use your physical media
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Oh Iām with ya there. I wanted a Super Nintendo so bad as a kid, and the Super NT got me in a bad way, snapping up a bunch of Super Famicom games (luckily pre-pandemic, so they werenāt just cheap, but they arrived from Japan in like a week for a buck or two, shipped).
I mean, I played them, too! Thereās something to be said to the commitment you gotta make when you gotta slam a cart into a thing, even if you can rip the ROM from the cart itself onto the Super NT.
But now Iāve got a Mister andā¦all these dang Super Famicom carts. Will I keep them? Yeah, probably, they make some nice clacking soundsā¦
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Gonna double post and say that I havenāt messed with the N64 core in a few weeks, and itās wild how much of it works. Still a lot that doesnāt, but I played up to the Deku Tree in Ocarina of Time (and lost my damn save, not sure what I did wrong), and played some Castlevania 64 for the first time, which is a goofy ass game.
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This video is more or less a service announcement that ChoRenSha exists and you could be playing it right now. ChoRenSha is so good.
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this is probably more for the controller thread, but iām considering picking up one of these to use with my Mister:
the verdict seems currently out, though, on how well it functions, if there is any input lag, etc. Jotego posted some video of him using it with one of the arcade cores, and mentioned delay, and someone recommended a solution, to which he, of course, never replied on, so who knows if it works
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I wonder if thereād be a way to cram a GP2040 Pico Pi in there and still have it work. That seems to the gold standard for input delay these days.
hmmm possibly!
rereading the Jotego tweet, it does seem like heāll be actively working on integrating it into the cores that use a rotary joystick, so perhaps itāll be worth picking up, after all
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neo geo pocket works pretty well for some games (KoF R-1 whips ass), but the closed beta is a huge PITA to actually use currently
you have to launch it from the arcade menu from an .mra rather than launching it from the consoles directory
you have to reset the console after loading a game
there is no save support yet, which also means that after each aforementioned required reset, youāll have to mash thru the language/time setup screens
the screen seems weirdly cut off for some reason? something funky going on with the screen, idk
still, i had a lot of fun playing KoF and some pretty great tennis game. the graphics and sound on both games are sort of 8-bit āprimitiveā, but the mechanical feel is superb (and the animations in KoF are surprisingly fluid)
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Oh oh
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far as i know, no one has ever publicly explained why .mra was chosen as the file extension.
maybe something like āmame rom argumentā
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was just checking uk stock of the de10-nano and everywhere is like ā500 in stock!ā, oh noā¦
edit: oh it doesnāt do vrr, nevermind
MiSTer does have very rudimentary VRR support, but itās mainly just putting a flag on the video to get your display to handle the weird signals it puts out better
Ninja Turtles Arcade is finally public. Gonna load it up in a second.
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Okay it isnāt? This is so confusing.
Gotta pay Jotego $3 indefinitely or I guess maybe for one month to get the beta.zip to unlock it I guess.
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In a power of will I will not pay three dollars for something that will be free later (though he hasnāt pulled anything out of Beta since september.)
And also how much turtles, simpsons, splatterhouse am I gonna play really.
i pay Jotego $3 a month because the guy has kind of changed my life, idk. feels worth $3. and like, there are people i currently pay who produce no content or no content i even interact with, so i may as well pay for something i use a lot
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For the record, I definitely paid him $3 a month for like a year and a halfā¦I just foolishly would load the .mra files manually instead of toggling the option and installing beta.zipā¦should have downloaded it while I had the chanceā¦
(I mean I could sign up again, Iād just feel like a jerk doing it for a month)