I am being a bit flamboyant with my language but to be clear from my understanding some of the people that made different arcade cores are huffy about the mister so delisting their cores from update_all and github. It’s really weird.
Biggest/weirdest bummer to me was the one person who worked their ass off to get TMNT Arcade working, only to delist it and defer to Jotego’s (then still paywalled) core.
Me, with more video games than I could ever possibly play and finish in two lifetimes at my fingertips, tapping my watch impatiently Where’s that NGPC core…I was told there would be a NGPC core…
(That’s not a dig at anyone but me, the guy with more video games than I could ever play and finish in two lifetimes at my fingertips, still hoping for that NGPC core…)
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Don’t all the cores have to abide by the GPL license? Isn’t it all open source? Can they remove the old versions of their cores from update_all?
I have a mister but don’t interact with the community at all, but from what I know about it these “Beta” cores are kind of sketchy from a licensing perspective. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought that all mister cores use some GPL’d IP and therefore have to be distributed under the terms of the GPL.
update_all as a whole is kind of dumb to be honest: a hardware engineer’s solution to a software problem. Ideally, somenoe would make a linux distro for mister and we would no longer have to rely on these hokey bash scripts.
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Big Week.
OpenBOR was ported to Mister.
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hey I’m sure you already heard about this, but handheld emulator enthusiast guy Taki Udon went “hey what if we just stripped all the unneeded shit off a DE-10”
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This is Taki Udon though, so buyer beware.
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Do they have some kind of bad reputation?
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he has biases towards products he is involved in, so the stuff he covers is usually a ‘wait until people actually have it in their hands’ type thing.
at least here there is a bit more clarity on it being a company he’s working for. this week’s ROM had an interview with him on it Interview: First details on the $99 MiSTer FPGA clone board aiming to stop "people getting screwed" on overpriced hardware
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Yeah basically he has a habit of presenting things like he isn’t actually involved in production/sales, and over-hyping their capabilities.
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One of the first popular modern Chinese handhelds was made popular by his review saying you could play N64 on it. You could, if you absolutely did not give a shit.
Two models of that handheld (Retroid) later he made a review where he just talked about how garbage it was, then about a month later said “I made the Retroid it was me.”
And having been staring at the Mister forums for this long, the whole thing can be pretty finnicky so completely changing the hardware with welded in RAM I’d absolutely wait on this Too Good To Be True.
I’d also suspect if it breaks easily, (please ignore myself up thread.)
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since i guess Saroo is FPGA i will just post about the trials and tribulations here
so, after everything seemed to be going well, my SD card became corrupted out of nowhere last night. i’m not really sure what the cause was, but my assumption is that the card is not a real SanDisk and was probably a cheap knockoff (it wouldn’t read well all the time when i inserted it into my laptop, whereas the legit SanDisk i have loads up every time without a problem). i couldn’t even format the card - it’s just 100% garbage now.
it remains to be seen if this will happen again, but i suspect/hope that this was the issue. the only two unknowns in the equation were that i recently updated to the most recent firmware (which was working fine after i installed it), and that i was trying out the Saturn 3D controller (which i hadn’t used before) and also the wireless Retro-Bit Saturn controller i just bought, which doesn’t work at all because it’s also a piece of garbage.
i feel like the last two are unlikely, but hey, you never know.
anyway, i installed Saroo onto a new card and now it’s working again. the sad thing is that i lost all the games that were preloaded onto the last card, which included a whole lot of crappy FMV porn games, most of which i hadn’t had the opportunity to play, yet. i did manage to play two of them - one was a Mahjong game (of course) that utilized 3D polygonal girls that looked comically bad, while the other was a game where i was a photographer and had to take pictures of the girls as they posed in their outfits. the last second one was obviously lecherous, but it seemed like they put a lot of effort into it.
uh, anyway, back to the Saroo
the newest version lets you add PCM background music and animated gif backgrounds, so i went with a scene and tunes from Snatcher. it also lets you sort the games alphabetically or in categories, as the previous version just displayed the games in whatever order they were added. i’m glad the improvements seem to be continuous and ongoing, and i’m looking forward to seeing how this project shapes up.
this update also makes Sakura Wars run, so it seems the overall compatibility has been improved, as well.
in a way, i’m glad the card died, since it made me learn how to install from scratch. it’s easy: it’s literally just copying the files into a folder called “SAROO” and then making a folder for the ISOs. you would still need the cartridge, though.
since i had one card die on me, i don’t feel like i can recommend this without the caveat of “i’m not sure how stable it is, yet” and the fact that apparently it doesn’t run perfectly on PAL consoles (at least according to a video i saw from a couple weeks back), but since everything is still in early stages and it seems like it won’t die off soon in terms of updates, i feel like this is worth the time if you have a Saturn and don’t want to deal with the iffiness of burning CDs or replacing your CD drive with an ODE.
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enjoying reading your impressions, the saroo seems like a solid device
for what it’s worth, i do think this is generally the best solution*. compatibility for the ones i’ve tried (MODE for Saturn, GDEmu for Dreamcast, GCLoader for Gamecube) has been near-flawless, speed is incredible, just fabulous stuff
i even have a bunch of saturn/dc/gcn discs and like… idk. i guess it depends on who you are. i like cartridges, but discs give me no joy, so their removal from the equation scans as a net positive in my calculus
*discounting money, here. ODEs are definitely more expensive than some of the other options
i like my ODEs so much that if i needed the usage of discs again i’d rather just buy a separate console than swap the old drive back in
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yeah, i think for me, it’s not an option, because i do like discs and i don’t want to own two Saturns. so, having a cartridge that lets me play my imports and also functions as the extra ram cart and a save cartridge, all in one, makes the most sense for me.
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just found this error report page on github and it seems like this is maybe a bigger issue than just the SD card. oh no!
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i do appreciate being able to keep one’s disc drive if at all possible.
if they can get Saroo to or at least extremely close to 100% compatibility (and it sounds like they are on the way, hopefully), it might be effectively the best option. the compatibility hiccups bug me more than losing my disc drive
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Taki’s Mister Clone will cook up a steak in 11 minutes, give you a blowjob, and work with you on your emotional issues.
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I got a SAROO, too! When I initially plugged it in, I found that every game I tested would play fine for about five to ten minutes until some sort of horrible sound distortion broke in. After that, I wiped inserted my own business and changed the firmware. So far, so good.
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AmigaVision just got an update with more stuff. I should really spend an evening with it soon it is as good as any of those Atari 50 Digital Eccipse collections.
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have you ever tried my MacPack?