MiSTer

Noooo don't do a Ciderdude and buy one back immediately 😁

I spent about an hour and a half playing Road Rash 2 on it last night. It REALLY works well on a cabinet, id go so far as to say it plays even better than on a console with a controller and should have been given an arcade release.

You've to do a lot of very snappy moves if you want to knock people off bikes and make corners immediately after or dodge cars.

It actually responds quite well to the stick, moves that you probably wouldn't be able to do quite as fast with a D pad.

Some soundtrack too, lovely hearing it blasting out of the cabinet speakers!

It's essentially complete isn't it? With some enhancements thrown in to elevate it beyond original hardware even. Wonder what interests him to work on next?

Once you put it in a cab you won't really play the computer cores imo.

I was eyeballing the dual ram from Ultimate Mister in Portugal.

If any of you have Discord you should join the MiSTer server, it's relentless seeing the new changes daily.

Which cores need dual RAM at this stage?

My MiSTercade top plate arrived in the post today. I've been putting off getting one as after postage and import tax it was coming in at 50 euro for a $20 part. Had to get one though for completion sake!

Not sure if folks remember, I think it was Kerbdog that pointed it out, but one of the buttons on my MiSTercade board was actually broken - two of the four tiny pins that hold it to the PCB were gone. It still worked, but was really fragile. This top plate will help solve that as it holds buttons in place through those circular holes in the middle of the board. (In this case, it's the OSD button)

All assembled now, pricey for a simple board but really makes the MiSTercade look like a finished product. I think if you buy a MiSTercade this comes with it now.

It's not just a top plate actually, you'll see there's an extra port added on the top right, I think this is for an option remote control board that can be attached.

I would like to be optimistic and think that maybe they're about to announce a FPGA successor to the DE10?

Before the PSX and the (already pretty impressive Saturn) cores came out I thought we might need something with more oomph but they work relatively fine on a single ram stick. My understanding was that more power isn't that useful with later consoles as the processors just get too complicated to replicate with FPGA. So that means N64 and maybe Win98 era processors? The DE-10 price is also subsidised by Intel for education.

If you like shooters, you gotta try Nexzr for PCE CD.

Looks like great progress on CPS3 by Jotego. That will be coming soon, looks just like fighters.

I wonder if the Taito F3 will be supported this year/ever. Layer Section is a grail of mine.

Finally got my MiSTercade set up with a wifi dongle. I bought one around Christmas that didn't work and then my second one was lost in the post ... so this is my third!

It's amazing though, I'm currently FTPing PSX games over my wifi network to my arcade machine and they're all just working with zero effort. What an age we live in!

Looks like the above PSX SNAC adapter doesn't actually work with the MiSTercade as you need an Analogue IO board, which you cannot attach with a Mistercade.

However, there is a solution! MiSTercade has a remote board add on which can connect up original controllers to the system. It's mainly for controlling volume etc, but it also has ports on the front to add original controllers. The V2 model (one on the right) even has a composite input so you can connect up a Gcon45.

Bit more expensive than the other solution, but does look a bit smarter.

I'm an absolute convert now tbh. If it wasn't so expensive to put one together I'd have one in my second cabinet. Almost using it daily at the moment.

Once you have it all set up, the ease to update games/compatibility between cores and images and even FTPing stuff over is just so easy, it all just works flawlessly.

Was literally sitting on my couch thinking 'what PSX game would I like to try out?'

Had a game downloaded to my PC in under five minutes, turn the cabinet on, - open filezilla on my PC, connect to the MiSTer over wireless, send the game across and boom, there it is running on the machine, ready to go without issues or further tinkering required.

If I can get the Guncon45 going with Time Crisis that's going to be absolutely brilliant. Also have DDR running on it too, was thinking about picking up a dance mat for the craic :D

I wouldn't bother with the remote board unless you want to use lightguns and the likes.

Pressing player one button 1 and button 6 at the same time brings up the menu, where you can get into everything from selecting cores/games/volume control and a million other things. So really no need to go near the reset button at all.