MiSTer

Had a bit of time to play about with the above and.... good news and bad news.

Good news - both Justifiers actually work with the setup! I was quite taken aback. If you set it up as if it's a real Megadrive, so SNAC enabled in port 2 and then just chain Justifier 2 to the first gun, it all works as it should, two player lightgun goodness. Very impressive.

Now the bad, the guns aren't working with my setup. They're far more light hungry than my Gcons it seems.

The guns both detect on the calibration screen (a black image white a white crosshair so probably easy to see) - but once you get into a game, the blue gun only detects in the very middle of the screen. Pink gun is a little bit better, you can almost play a full game with it, just doesn't like the edges.

I'd say cranking up the brightness/contrast would solve it instantly but unfortunately this cabinet doesn't have a remote board 😥

Very interested in that Sonic 1 lightgun port as the only games I really have to test them out are very muddy digitized games. I wonder would they maybe detect a bit better with cleaner visuals.

If I plug the monitor into the 15HD port on the mistercade the picture is fine, albeit a little dark.

frustrating as I can no longer use my jamma switcher if I do this

**turns out I’ve a switch inside the coin door that is for video impedance and this resolves the issue but screens not quite as bright as I’m used to, although I’m sure I can sort this out with adjustments to the brightness and contrast pot maybe.

anyway happy my other boards are fine with this switched across too.

I don’t think that’s on the latest revision, or I’m blind

Seems the limits of the DE10 finally threw up a roadblock for the N64. Robert is going to wrap up development on it, with a handful of games just asking too much of the way the ram works on the DE10 (not the addon ram, but the board ram itself). Conkers and Jet Force Gemini being the two big ones.

Incredible what he's done with it all told, but a 100% compatibility will likely have to wait for the next iteration of hardware.

Yeah MARS certainly talked the talk, still waiting on it to walk a little though...

https://www.timeextension.com/features/all-is-not-well-in-the-world-of-fpga-retro-gaming

YouTubers trying to get views by taking poop about devs, leading devs to stop work on MiSTer projects - who honestly cares if a dev decides to only work on a core on MARS and not MiSTer? Or who really cares if MARS is vaporware?

Sega System 18 is coming....

Any youtube channels covering weekly emulation news? I catch lu's retro source for fpga news every Monday.

Happy JOTEGO Friday! Sega System 18 beta release out today, Shadow Dancer is playable. Something to give a go over the weekend.

Can't wait for Moonwalker.

Alien Storm is, a game I'm sure loads of people are familiar with from Mega Games 3 cart! I know I sure played the hell out of it, some great creepy enemy designs. Would remind you a bit of The Thing.

Quite a variation of genres on the system. Can't say I've heard of most of them. Be interested in checking out those shmups

https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=702

is MiSTer any relation to the MiSTery Nano? Would be awesome to have amiga games on something the size of a firestick

https://github.com/harbaum/MiSTeryNano/

Me too, don't even think I've ever fired it up in mame. Will be nice to go in cold when it eventually turns up on miSTer.

Shadow Dancer is a bastard by the way. The enemy patterns are fairly easy to remember but one hit and you're dead/back to the start!

I see Jotego released Alien Storm on Friday. Just gave it a go and it's a blast. Forgot how fun the first person shooting gallery segments were.

Some interesting copy protection going on in this one. The pink enemies are drawn with a different chip ( MegaDrive VDP) so on bootleg versions those enemies would actually be invisible to the player.

Check this out, it's absolute 'for the fun of it' technology but I kinda fancy picking one of these up.

TapTo NFC card reader coupled with MiSTer, you can launch games by tapping a card to your control panel.

https://x.com/iequalshane/status/1795658974445940788

The guy has the card reader under the control panel and it seems to happily read the cards through it.