MiSTer

Colonel Panic

https://twitter.com/irkenlabs/status/1475628171231961088?s=21

bugs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118380895#Comment_118380895

If purchasing this, buy a right angled OTG usb cable. The one provided works fine but you have to bend it to an unpleasant degree and it still puts a bit too much strain on the port.

eddhorse

I think i would prefer the Mistercade, just gotta hold off for stock to come in.

I see some people ordered DE10 Nano from the Terasic Taiwan website.

https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=165&No=1046

The Last Bandit

I see Mouser has a few thousand units due in a few weeks, €190 + vat each 😯 Was €114 when I bought mine from them a while back.

o1s1n

Yeah I'm really regretting not buying one ages ago, it's getting toward the kind of cash I'd expect a bit more than just a bare bones board for.

Ultimate Mister had some complete kits listed the other day for 360 euro, they went pretty quickly though.

https://ultimatemister.com/product/ultimate-mister-pro/

I was really tempted to buy one but the price got a bit mad after shipping & VAT.

eddhorse

Ordered the Jamma Expander from Irken Labs

eddhorse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118605487#Comment_118605487

That got delivered really quickly through FedEx, no customs either.Unless they try and hit the company like they did the last time.

Shipped Wednesday, received Monday.

o1s1n

I was in touch with the guys who make those ultimate MiSTer kits and they said they'll be available again next week.

Hopefully will finally be able to pick one up.

How's that Irken Labs jamma unit working so far?

Colonel Panic

Sounds like the next batch of MisterCades will come with some tweaks and another board that will do consumer safe RGBS.

I’m really happy with my MiSTerCade after a couple of months.

https://misteraddons.com/blogs/news/feb-2022-update

eddhorse

Yeah see he has some preorders, I couldn't wait , no patience.

o1s1n

Thanks for the heads up, just nabbed a preorder there too :)

Colonel Panic

Nice! Shame they aren't offering the XL and mounting kit as a preorder. I've been using a 3D printed base in the mean time.

That's one thing that's nicer about the IrkenLabs device. It's more stable because the DE-10 Nano goes on top!

Shapey Fiend

I've been fooling around with the PSX emulation it's pretty good even in incomplete iteration. Ordered myself a Guncon 2 off ebay as well because I believe that's going to have compatability across all the cores so I'm looking forward to trying that out. I don't think I've ever owned a lightgun. Maybe I rented one with Time Crisis back in the day?

deadl0ck

I find Lu's retro source on YouTube to be a good way to keep up to date with some of the MiSTer news: https://www.youtube.com/c/LusRetroSource

KeRbDoG

PSX on MiSTer now has CDDA working well, had a play around with it

https://twitter.com/AzumFpg/status/1494939050800779265

Also the Saturn core is making great progress;

https://twitter.com/DiniertoDesigns/status/1495106280893173760

KeRbDoG

Read a note on some forum, the PSX progress really now makes some of the arcade boards based on the console closer to reality also.

eddhorse

Also the Jaguar is coming along nicely on the MiSTer , needs double SD RAM though

Inviere

Functional analogue output for the PS1 core would really top it off, hopefully when the technicalities of the core itself are sorted it happens.

o1s1n

To anyone with a MiSTercade or another MiSTer to jamma setup - how do you wire up your harness so you have both Neo Geo button 4 and the three kick buttons sorted? Is there a MiSTer solution to this?

Just occurred to me while wiring up the kick harness last night, you obviously can't wire one of the kick buttons in if it's already wired to Neo Geo button 4 via the jamma harness.

Not sure if maybe you can wire them both in simultaneously? Not something I've tried before.

bugs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118671860#Comment_118671860

I think most of the mister adapter boards use the cps-2 kick harness. All that does is give the mister access to 6 buttons (Kick and Jamma), I don't think it particularly cares where the mapping is coming from. Then you just configure as you need. Perhaps I've missed something with the specifics of a Neo Geo button 4 config.

o1s1n

Oh that's a good point! The MiSTer shouldn't care where the buttons are coming from and you can probably just map one of the kick harness buttons to Neo Geo button 4 - makes sense.

Colonel Panic

Can confirm it's taken care of with MisterCade I'm using a CPS2 kick harness.

There's a whole Git repository full of ini files and control mappings for console and arcade cores so things have pretty sensible defaults out of the box.

https://github.com/misteraddons/MiSTercade

KeRbDoG

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118661908#Comment_118661908

I've yet to figure out what 'double SD RAM' means, any insight?

The Last Bandit

Its a second RAM module installed, you need to remove the Analogue IO board first though as it share the same GPIO pins.

KeRbDoG

ah, reading the post now https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=44331#p44331

Looks like someone is working on a way to keep a type of analogue IO board even with dual RAM modules

https://twitter.com/MisterAddons/status/1486588103661735936

Colonel Panic

It's probably using direct video and perhaps some sort of bridge PCB to connect the HDMI out to the IO board?

That would mean no simultaneous HDMI and analogue out for all the streamers out there!

Shapey Fiend

Yeah you lose the dual output with that solution.

Colonel Panic

Not exactly a big deal, I personally skipped on the direct video solution because it would require a chain of dongles and getting the right adapter, but now I'm using an adapter as my small PVM is S-Video only! Dongle life. It's like owning a Mac.

80s Synth Pop

Finally caved in and ordered one from terasic.com.tw. Have to see what all the fuss is about.

Can i hook it up to a cab with a jpac?

Honest to God people going nuts over this like it's the best thing ever. I'm still a cynic wondering has nobody ever heard of hooking up a pc with groovymame/demul/m2/supermodel/teknoparrot. I'll do an crt input lag test between real pcb, mister, pi2jamma and groovymame on a cab and report back. Has anyone done this yet?

At the very least I expect it will replace the vertipi setup in the vertical cab.

bugs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118688250#Comment_118688250

It can be hooked up via VGA using the JPAC. I had done this before getting one of the adapter boards.

Also have a mame setup and if i'm honest, I can't tell the difference. There may be lag, but marginal.