MiSTer

PlayStation core has got accurate analogue video timings in the latest unstable.

So I've tried:

• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
• Alundra
• Die Hard Trilogy
• Soukyugurentai
• Soul Blade
• Castlevania SOTN
• MGS VR Missions

Soul Blade crashed once, but everything else works from the brief moments I've tried. I'd never played the PS version of Soukygurentai before. It feels WEIRD!!!

Where did you pick up the DE-10 Nano itself?

Now I see the price maybe steam isn't a bad one to go for :D

It's great to see PSX graphics on a CRT again. I was fooling around playing Wipeout at lunchtime.

Some of the System 16 cores are cool as well. I don't know if I like Bay Route that much but Bullit has some really cool music. Alien Syndrome is one I'd never gotten around to playing either and its really fun.

I've been keeping an eye on the Ultimate MiSTer website for a while to buy a pre built kit.

Rather annoyingly, they haven't listed any on their setups in the sub 400 euro range for ages, but keep building Blisster kits.

500 euro and then when you get to the checkout, VAT and postage bring it closer to 700 euro.

Really wanted a plug and play solution to go with my Mistercade once it arrives, but I can't quite justify prices pushing the guts of a grand. Think I'll have to just bite the bullet, buy a De-10 and build one from scratch!

I bought from Ricardo back when these weren't crazy money. He offers a great service but building one from scratch is really easy, really really easy :)

Just got a notification to say my MiSTercade is in the post - and I still don't actually have a MiSTer setup! - woops!

Nope! :(

Every time I went to order one the fulfilment date wasn't for ages, I think it's June if you order one now - been trying to find a more immediate solution that doesn't cost a kidney.

...do you want to liquidate that asset? :D

I rest my coffee cup on it. Just haven't got round to putting one in cab fully and one in the case and setup at tv :)

Cost a pretty penny from Terasic Taiwan and customs :(

My Mistercade arrived to the door today, UPS man with his hand out for 65 euro, cash.

No notification in advance so I'd no cash in the house.

Infuriating, so close!!

He did indeed! Won't hand it over until I cough up the money.

No problem paying (as annoying as it is) - just so archaic to have to hand cash over at the door. If anpost can have an online import duty payment system then surely UPS can too.

But yeah as you noted, still no DE10 Nano so it would just be irritating me from it's box on a shelf anyway as I can't exactly do anything with it yet!

Sure! Gratuitous pornographic boudoir style photos to follow shortly.

Finally managed to get this delivered by UPS, Mistercade v1.1.

Absolutely gorgeous looking board. Still don't actually have a MiSTer setup so can't test it out as of yet, bit hopefully I'll manage to remedy that in the not too distant future.

Looks great - I might get something like that myself.

Did one of the buttons beside the fan get a whack?

It won't do anything.

Finally ordered myself a DE-10 Nano board. Delivery not until the end of July though, booo.

I've actually been waiting for an Ultimate MiSTer to come back in stock and was just about to pull the trigger on one after contacting the site owner - had a look at how you actually set the MiSTercade up - glad I didnt! DE-10 board mounts directly to it, so the Ultimate MiSTer would have been an absolute waste as I'd have had to take it apart anyway.

I was thinking (for whatever reason) that you connected the DE10 to the MiSTercade via one of the DE10's video out ports, not the pins on the board itself.

Yep, I am hoping they're a little easier source!

Got a VGA->SCART cable to see how the MiSTer looked like on a standard CRT. Unsure what I was expecting but its exactly like a the systems looked like with an RGB cable :D and if they didn't exist, it looks better than composite! Some cores have a composite filter for the output for the 'better than RF but worse than RGB' feeling :D

Interesting one is that the Arcade cores output like they would via their RGB output and the rotation options only work for the HDMI output. Makes sense, the VGA output is raw from the core. Good to know if you wanted to use a MiSTer on a horizontal arcade cab to play vertical arcade cores.

Re: RAM - yup, best to get the 128mb. I thought they are priced a little too steep until I priced up the RAM chips themselves. Doesn't make a lot of sense to make one as a one off at all.

Yeah, the video output is (usually) timing accurate RGB that bypasses the scaler that sends things to HDMI via optional rotation and filters.

Then you got the main bit!

Yeah i noticed the rotation issues alright, Some games seem to have a flip option.

Also when i changed my monitor to vertical i had to 180 it in the Mister.ini file

Easiest way is to have it on network and FTP to it, edit Mister.ini file.

osd_rotate=0      ; Display OSD menu rotated, 0 - no rotation, 1 - rotate right (+90°), 2 - rotate left (-90°)