There’s supposed to be some way of getting a signal out of the HDMI that will work via VGA, direct video or whatever, as long as you have an HDMI to VGA adapter. Never tried it myself but it’s been an option as people pivoted towards the digital boards for a second stick of RAM (which I’m pretty sure has no real beneficial use yet).
2 Likes
edit: wait oh actually, you are correct
i am confusing vga scaler with direct video
2 Likes
the thing I specifically want to do is simultaneous HDMI/VGA output, which is either a splitter and adapter or the analog IO board
1 Like
Ah yeah, the analog IO makes that easier for sure. Assuming everything on Taki’s board is standard to the regular DE10, you can probably get an IO board off AliExpress or somewhere.
1 Like
i caved and tried to order on the second half but had the same address issue. even having read your post i didn’t get it resolved in time, oh well.
1 Like
Thirteen of these in stock for now, if ya hurry.
2 Likes
okay gate perverts
how big of an SD card should I get that I can also hurriedly source in person so I have something to do tonight
2 Likes
I’d go 32GB unless you are trying to put entire collections of psx isos or something on it.
i’d go bigger than that unless this is just a temporary SD card, personally
it’s just like any other emulation thing. the most popular MiSTer-ready set (HTGDB) is 15.6 GB for GBA, 11.3 GB for N64, 7.9 GB for SNES, 3.1 GB for Mega Drive, 2.6 GB for Neo Geo, 2.2 GB for GB/C
if you’re going this route you’d already be over 32 GB and i’ve not counted a single computer/arcade/optical media game in the above
3 Likes
scales of economies and also laziness mean I’m probably going with 128/256 minimum
1 Like
I haven’t posted in quite some time, but just wanted to show off the Mister Pi I picked up. I ran into the zip code issue that others were having after part 1 of batch 1, so I emailed Taki via support. I filled him in on the errors I was getting and asked if he’d be willing to manually place an order for me and he’s such a hero that he did. It arrived last week, but I needed an SD card (went with 128 GB so I can just load stuff up and not worry about it) and just got that yesterday so I finally got this thing set up.
My cabinets are already set to take input via VGA (I replaced the chassis with tri-sync Wei Ya chassis when I got them), and the Jamma adapter uses PSX padhacks with adapters to go into the consoles (or USB in this case).
I previously had a PC connected to this that ran MAME, but it broke down several years ago and I was never super satisfied with the total latency of that, but with the fast polling option turned on (my PSX → USB adapters seem to handle it just fine) it all feels really great.
I’m really happy with this so far, and it has just about every game I was interested in playing on my old setup, though I was a little disappointed there’s no core for Dagon Blaze. And it’s really cool that I can also just take this device to the living room and plug it in to play some console games on the OLED.
11 Likes
I always see people mention the zipcode issue, but it actually wasn’t taking my credit card info instead. Missed out on both the bundles and the individual stock.
Are you running the board just like that or is it recommended to get an enclosure?
1 Like
I had an enclosure printed (before Taki announced he’d be offering cases for cost of shipping) but I need stand-offs and screws for it because the Mister Pi came with exactly one extra of each, so it’s missing 3 stand-offs and 3 screws I’d need to use the case. I think generally it’s fine to not use a case, but I’m not very comfortable not having a case. I tend to build up a lot of static electricity and get zapped for whatever reason, so I kinda worry that I could potentially damage something from handling it and getting unlucky. (Edit: I also had the credit card issue in addition to the zip code issue. It told me my card was declined but it wasn’t actually and it worked fine when I went through the order flow when it wasn’t getting completely swamped)
2 Likes
I have a 512 and have filled it with everything I want and have room to spare in a good way.
If you grab one of the DOS Images that’s like 110 Gigs by itself but that’s the biggest sink.
I put most of my rom sets on the micro SD and the Playstation/Saturn/N64 stuff on a 512 GB USB.
Mostly because the former stuff is pretty static, and pulling the USB out is a heck of a lot easier than getting tweezers to take the micro SD out of my encased Mister.
before i attached a 2TB USB drive to the MiSTer, i just loaded most things over the network. CIFS is surprisingly easy to setup and use and LAN is faster than any other kind of storage on MiSTer. then you don’t really have to worry about storage on-device
I scp roms over as needed. I only use a 32GB card because I only upload stuff as I intend to play it (aside from running update_all).
Y’all have me contemplating buying a huge card and loading it up with everything.
Look, you never know when you’re gonna wanna watch a highly compressed version of Shrek 2 for the GBA. Better to have it on hand than be sorry you didn’t.
4 Likes
Your way is probably better on the other hand I have All Video Games.
Look don’t look up thread when my memory card corrupted.
2 Likes
a second trip report: spent most of yesterday having it out with archive.org download speeds
sometimes it gives speed
sometimes the guy in the server doing traffic goes “fuck you!” and suddenly the entirety of the SNES library will now take 2 days to finish
I couldn’t get N64 or Wonderswan working and I’m too lazy to troubleshoot if it’s bad roms or I have to smack the core
important things are working though
I just want to say whomever decided that the default option for scalnline filters is for the vertical filter to mirror the horizontal filter is a pervert
5 Likes