MiSTer

Actually, it might do. I see the MiSTercade is actually listed as having a 'User I/O port', so it might just be as simple as plugging this cheaper one straight into that and completely avoiding the need for anything else:

Edit - excellent, it does! Found a diagram, it's the USB port just over the DE10 power socket.

Cheers for the insight @o1s1n -boom, order in. Seems there it's now a pre-order thing so the wait begins. Gonna use Shipito to see if I can shave some of the customs off :) Now to get that cab home...

Yup, I have one setup currently for a VGA->SCART cable for use on a little Sony trini so this will go into a cab.

Wayhay! MiSTercade arrived yesterday (I think using Shipito.com saved me some customs costs) and tested it in the cab I have in work...and it just worked! No faff, just the initial setup on a laptop with the SDCard out and bam - gaming away with the cores listed.

The cab screen is a little dim with the brightness control up. Chassis capkit maybe? First challange, get the cab home and then tinker :)

Yes, that control panel is prob a little too offset :D

The cab has been sitting for awhile, I think it might have been dim before - thank you for the link. Will go through it whenever I get his cab home before doing anything drastic (capkit, playing with the flyback bright pot and the like)

Stick with the Namco gcon45, can't be beat imo!

There are a few third party ones but from the ones I've tried over the years they haven't been great.

You can use a controller in port 2 to act as a pedal if you don't like using the action button on the gun itself.

Excellent! You going to use it with your Aero yeah? Be interested in seeing how it works out. If it's anything like mine it'll just be plug in and go.

Just make sure to change the controller option in the Core to 'SNAC' - there's an option for a lightgun controller but that's not actually it (confused me the first time!)

Boom! From a standing position calibration is spot on. Sitting down, we will see.

Can’t wait to get stuck in, but the missus is away and there’s too much dangerous things in the shed for a toddler.

That looks great.

Reminded me that I had a gun back in the day with powered slide recoil like the arcade models. Made by joytech, not nearly as cool as that one but great to have the movement even if all the cables made it a bit of a mess.

Irem M92 en route (alpha availbale via manual install at the mo)

MiSTercade & stick it into an arcade machine with a CRT - all the analogue output you need 😀

Yeah I'd definitely say they're coming to the end of what they can push through the DE10 with regards to newer games - CPS3 is being worked on at the moment which should be an interesting one to follow.

Still quite a lot of 2D items to go though, I'd love to see an IGS PGM core released, would be a lovely compliment to the Neo Geo core.

I know a Jag CD was donated to a core dev recently too, and while not exactly exciting in a traditional sense, it'll still be amazing to preserve the games through this method (along with the fantastic BigPEMU developements also.) CPS3 is in the works as you mention, as are some Konami board/chip developments (Turtles, Aliens, etc). Console wise I'm sure we'll see the 3DO make an appearance at some stage too, and then I think at that point, short of the arcade cores, that'll cover all of the big hitters that the DE10 can actually handle in reality.

You do still get some cut off, I was putting that down to the MiSTer emulating the arcade board 1:1 rather than video signals (you'd get a similar thing happening with actual arcade boards and would need to make pot adjustments on a game by game basis)

As I don't have a remote board for this particular cabinet, I leave the vertical/hori pot adjustments aligned with CPS2/Neo Geo as they tend to be the most centered. If a game has anything cut off beyond that I just live with it. In general if you tend to lose anything, it's just a bit of a scoreboard.

I really cannot wait for more of those classic Konami titles to come out alright. Side scrollers like Turtles, Xmen and The Simpsons are such cornerstones of an arcade game library.

Hah, yeah I had a different one years ago with a movable slide (I think it was a logic3?) but it was so loud you'd hear it in the next room, couldn't really use it without driving everyone mental!