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You took a risk I would have never done hahah! You like danger XD

Great idea! I'm all in for a packk like that! Especially since we have the ARM OC script that can make Dosbox run much much faster. I usually daily drive my ARM at 1.2ghz and the DDR3 OC at 1050mhz. It's great for anything Arm related, game loading, update all, ScumVM it's awesome.

It works great on a per core basis and it's transformative on Groovy, N64 and PSX core so you would think the feature should be part of the Mister framework, but since it doesn't stop the devs from integrating the feature anyway like Groovy did, it's not a terrible problem.

I'm very happy wth the core already and I think what have been done is quite spectacular! So it's a well deserved break for sure! I hope he'll release a turbo core along side, because it made a big difference in many games even back in december. Thank you Robert!

4 cells created timing issues that can mostly be worked around on most cores, but I know the Saturn pretty much didn't work until recently with a 4 cells memory chip module. Antonio stopped usin 4 cells memory a couple of year ago at least, so depending on when you got your Mister from him, you might have gotten a regular memory chip.

thorr wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:56 pm

This(!) is the reason I have Antonio Villena's product. I was not aware of the PWM version and it is very cool for those who need it.

Me too! I love Antonio's Mister, the only oversight was the 4 cells memory, but nothing 50$ couldn't fix. I'm definitely gonna try this.

KennyL wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:01 am

Make sure to try PWM version of groovy_mister if you're using analogue io board VGA. Makes big difference on games and videos with a lot of gradients.

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Death Stranding with groovypwm

Regular groovy

Holysh*t!

amazing project!

I now have both a window 98 PC and windows xp retro PC, any possible way to send my entire windows screen to the groovy core to play my PC games on my CRTs?

I have 2 crts in my "work" room but no PC CRT sadly, so it would a cool thing to output everything at 480p on an actual CRT. I'm sure Max Payne 1 or Half Life would look amazing.

See I don't agree, it's not about usability, it's about options, I have a CRT, I have an Oled screen for my PC, but I could find a use for this for retro evening on a bigger screen in the living room. None of these are essentiel in the first place you know, it's about fun and possibilities.

Bristles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm

But it's not for ANY screen, it's for CRT owners.
Plus, the Mister is limited by its own HDMI output, as it can barely do 1440p without Pixel Repetition, so it's never going to do 4k.

Signal could be sent to the retrotink at lower resolution. It would be a convenience I think. Maybe it already works even, I haven't tried yet.

I didn't get the chance to try it just yet, but I would actually love to see it compatible directly with a media player app on windows or windows directly, so I can watch downscaled video/movie/tv shows on my CRTs.

Ok thanks for bringing up the reason, it still works since I've been testing it on multiple cores without issues. I guess it will remain a cool feature on the side. Image quality difference is so massively better that I think it's worth trying for anyone with a 4K TV.

Why rejecting a cool feature like this if it doesn't break anything? Thanks for your hardwork on this nonetheless, I'll definitely be using those, I love my CRT, but when I have people over my 4K tv is much more convenient, so thank you since this make the games look much much better!