MiSTer

You want one because it's a Rolls Royce solution, and makes that little Raspberry Pi in your cab feel very scared.

You should store it in my shed for safekeeping!

Aye, we did. Took it handy step by step, went fine.

I ordered a DE10 there, feck it. Backordered obviously but supply doesn't seem to be improving any time soon, and demand is going up and up so its now or never!

Good plan , wheres the DE10 coming from?

Mine is coming from Mouser anyway, and I plan to pair it up with a Mister Multisystem as soon as Batch 3/sufficient stock is announced.

Most recent email says July 29th, so maybe? I won't be able to use mine immediately anyway as I need to wait on a Multisystem restock from RMCstore, so no major panic. I really just wanted to be in the queue to get one, because once this batch is sold out who knows when/where the next one will be.

29 now, seems someone listened to you :D

Half tempted to pick up a second one. I'd really love to get a MiSTercade in both machines - expensive business though!

Wow! that's some difference, my one came in at €275 in the end.

I'm just using a Xbox One controller wired, Xbox button handy for bringing up the Mister menu

With the FPGA boards shipping soon (I hope), I took the plunge and ordered up a case/RAM/IO/USB hub addon. I think it works out as much as the man board itself - not a cheap business!

I'm waiting for a Mister Multisystem from rmcstore, it consolises the whole thing and comes equipped with usb, ram, scart etc. The ram is removable if needed.

The slomo 960 FPS feature on the galaxy s21 ultra phone lets you compare input lag on the CRT. It's pretty cool that you can count the frames by watching the CRT electron gun scanning the tv glass in slow motion. It got me thinking about comparing the mister input lag to a real PCB as it's a big selling point that I haven't seen confirmed anywhere.

Since I have all the equipment I thought why not test it out myself and measure the actual input lag from the time you press the button on the controller to the number of frames it takes the character sprite to react on screen.

I hooked up an led light to the supergun and taped the led to the CRT glass. Then I record the screen for 5 seconds in slow motion and press a button on the controller.

You can just count to the number of frames it takes for the sprite to react once the led light changes after the button press.

I've tested so far

1 real PCB to supergun

2 mister to jpac to supergun

3 PC with stock mame to jpac to supergun

4 pc with stock groovymame to jpac to supergun

5 pc with groovymame configured with "frame delay=7" to jpac to supergun

6 pi3 running retropi to pi2jamma to supergun

PCB, Mister and "groovymame with frame delay 7" were the same.

stock groovymame and mame the same as each other. Usually 2 frames added depending on the game

pi3 was 5 frames extra. I might look into this more as it's an older set-up from a vertipie image (seems to be running mame2003??) and a bit unfair to the pi. I'll update the retropi set up and try with the "run ahead" feature.

So far I tested CPS1, CPS2, Jackal by Konami and have partially tested NeoGeo but I just can't find my MVS anywhere to test the real PCB.

I have a good few more PCB's to test out. I see pang is in Mister now so will test that one next.

I might also try a few consoles as I bought several of Lastbandit's console to jamma interfaces and could hook them up to the super gun to test the consoles. But what are the best emulators to test against for the PC test? Higan for SNES. Megadrive? NES?

ordered this morning from Terasic website, have fedex tracking for 1/07/2022 already, no hiding from the import charges with them though:(

Just trying to figure out whats the best value JAMMA board available at the moment, anyone know?

I see the mister JAMMA is €199 on AliExpress

Either way you will also get stung on import tax on the Irken labs one or the Mistercade.

I have the Irken labs Jamma Expander, works well, lacking USB ports though, it only has one.

So to update it i just SSH to it and run the script.

Would have preferred the MisSTercade as it wasn't shipping at the time. Seems to have better support but I've had no issues with the Irken labs one.

I still have July 29th on my Mouser order from when I ordered it back in April - fingers crossed that doesn't change. I now have all the other components awaiting this now

What's the story with the SCART socket placement on the Multisystem mainboard? Is that the only option for analogue out?

Nevermind, I see a DSub-15 on the back

Mistercade, then IrkenLabs adapters would be my order of preference. There's also Jammix, which fits in a small ATX case but has a JAMMA edge too, but it's totally out of stock.

If you use Mistercade's config file, you can run update_all from your cabinet and see the output anyway without having to bother with ssh if you're so inclined.

Would do the job, but you'd need analogue IO and to sort sound amplification so a bit more of a mess.

I've got a JPAC I don't need and a few small amps I never used if anyone's interested.

A few things that may or may not be of use to you, and I'm using a Mistercade, so I'll focus on that.

1) It's all integrated together and sources power from the 12V rail on your arcade PSU and give you a JAMMA edge. Plug and play.

2) Mistercade has a Github repo full of curated controller configs that "just work" better than my experiences with a JPAC

The IrkenLabs device looks a bit more straight forward but the biggest advantages are they're more plug and play.

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