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Koston

Bristles wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:32 am
And don't call it a trend, it just makes you look a dick.

Big Dick Energy™

Koston

CRTs won't go anywhere among a small group of older tech enthusiasts. Them becoming trendy is what I'm criticizing. It causes prices to get outrageously inflated and that small group of tech enthusiasts - which I most definitely also represent - gets slowly excluded from their own hobby. This has already happened with arcade PCBs, and both share t...

Koston

I am a CRT snob, just like I am a MiSTer snob. I just like the fact that everything is more "real" instead of layers upon layers of stuff to closely simulate real. Knowing that it is a real CRT alone gives me the goosebumps that no LCD ever could. GroovyMiSTer, etc. is amazing, but I prefer actual FPGA hardware for constructing the conso...

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These advantages don't really exist anymore. MiSTer nowadays can produce a very convincing CRT-like picture on a near-zero latency monitor and the experience of using it is like a console/arcade cab, just power it on and start a game and it works . The shaders on the MiSTer are great, but no match for a real CRT picture. And apart from the filters...

Koston

I'm going to be honest: The fad to have CRTs is bizarre hipster shit. I've had plenty of CRTs for a long time. Aside from simple nostalgia, their main technical advantages over modern displays are zero latency (hopefully also with mode switching) and the picture looks really nice with retro games. These advantages don't really exist anymore. MiSTer...

Koston

This is absolutely fabulous, very cool collection!

I've added support for it to the ROMweasel game downloader tool.

Koston

Another new release 0.9.9, with support for the excellent 0MHz DOS Collection!

Respect to the authors of this collection. The absurdly high quality of Amigavision is making its way to AO486.

Koston

It seems the disappeared sources are back online, so I've re-added them.

New version 0.9.8 pushed, with Nintendo 64 as new supported platform!

Koston

New version 0.9.7, intended to add Nintendo 64 to the list, but instead ended up removing all cart based systems, since all the sources had been taken down.

Koston

I tried these video modes in my ini now and for me, a lot of games just crash on start (with the top 300 from flynnsbit). E.g. Beyond Castle Wolfenstein crashes in the start screen Commander Keen 5 crahes on the start screen Earthworm Jim is crashing.... and others... Is that only for me? I am using a CRT-VGA Monitor on the HDMI-Port with an adapt...

Koston

Well alright, I came up with a roundabout way to determine if a given core runs with low latency on my TV or not. I have another VRR capable monitor and an HDMI splitter, and forcing VRR on happens to work for both, TV just ignores it. Cores with 240p test suite are simplest to test since it has a lag test tool for this specific purpose, but taking...

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At least LG TVs I've checked don't support 1920x1440 mode - but they DO support both 2560x1440 and 1920x1200. Latter looks very nice though. You don't need integer scaling anymore, adaptive scanlines and other video filters are very good at hiding non-integer scaling problems. If you use 1920x1200, you'll need to setup a custom aspect ratio of 24:2...

Koston

I have a TV without VRR support and it has low latency only with 60 or 50Hz signal. Since my TV lacks ability to tell the input signal refresh rate, trying to figure out which cores match this description is proving tricky. I don't quite know what precisely qualifies as "flat 60Hz". Using CVT-RB, practically nothing is ever precisely 60Hz...

Koston

This is a bit of a curveball, so take it with a pinch of salt. My "great display" turned out to be the cheapest LG 65" 4K I could find a few years ago, iirc 650 EUR. I had no intention of using it for gaming, but it turned out to have almost no perceivable latency and syncs to everything I've thrown at it, with the unfortunate excep...

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Does anyone know if Thunderstick Studio has plans for establishing distribution in Europe? you can order the International Version Now. I have and it arrived in the UK/ I dont know if he plans to ship from within Europe though. Import duty coupled with their astronomical shipping rates more than doubles the total cost, and the rotary joystick isn'...

Koston

Does anyone know if Thunderstick Studio has plans for establishing distribution in Europe?

Koston

Ultimatemister now has a Daemonbite adapter for the wiimote plug: https://ultimatemister.com/product/ultimate-daemon-x1-classic/ This should get the desired 1ms input lag. You can also use them through a Wiimote using a bluetooth dongle, input latency chart claims roughly 10ms (?) input lag for this setup. Not ideal, but decent for a wireless setup.

Koston

Notable exception is the missing gamma configuration preset. No idea why it's omitted, but the limitation can be circumvented. In /media/fat/config/, files named setname _gamma.cfg save the per-game gamma setting. Those can apparently be simply copied from one game to another, though I wouldn't be surprised if all cores didn't support it. FWIW, I'm...

Koston

You can set custom resolutions in core specific config.

For instance, 4x integer mode (1536x1024) with CVT-RBv1 timings for use with Irem M62/M72 specifically:

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[misterlaggy]
video_mode=1536,48,32,80,1024,3,10,14,98068

Koston

Zarkov wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:52 pm
This person goes on to say most ppl leave it on mono, but I strongly disagree. I pretty much always use the stereo mode.

I've installed a pot for controlling the mono/stereo mix of channels, and having some amount of stereo separation is definitely nicer than pure mono. But pure mono is also nicer than 100% stereo separation.

Koston

From ultimatemister.com:

I know you’re going to ask, official Multisystem case will available soon and look amazing.

Koston

Defkyle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:25 pm
Never mind, another script was conflicting. I have the BGM script running all the time and as soon as I stopped it, the script ran.
Thank you!

Glad you got it working.

Now, if only someone could explain me why the two can't live together?

Koston

So, for me the script just spits out a ton of text really fast and then does nothing. Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks. Never seen that happen before. Can you run the script by logging in via command-line and capture the output: cd /media/fat/Scripts ./romweasel.sh >/tmp/debug.txt 2>&1 less /tmp/debug.txt This will save the output t...

Koston

https://github.com/Koston-0xDEADBEEF/MiSTer-ROMweasel minor release bump to 0.9.666 To celebrate Saturn core receiving long-awaited CHD file support, here's a new version with practically nothing new - except a cool version number. Also: * MiSTer can now operate normal mode with only a joystick (with enough buttons), so make normal mode default. * ...

Koston

Disclaimer: This is based on hearsay rather than established fact, so take it with a grain of salt. Ive been told these games contain custom IC logic (fpga?) which is doing some heavy lifting for the game engine. This means dumping ROMs would be just the start, all the custom logic would need to be separately reverse engineered and re-implemented. ...

Koston

What needs to be fixed about it? The core meets timing requirements when I compile trbocode's latest version. I don't think doubling the clock is anywhere near the equivalent of what Koston's mods to his own boards are though. The current build is like clocking the board to 24MHz which is a bit excessive given 12MHz is the default. In my tests, 18...

Koston

Original used Mega Drive controllers are very common and cheap on eBay, though it's difficult to gauge for a specific unit's condition. Benefit is SNAC hookup and 100% original feeling. HORI fighting commander pads are one option, they have the original MD 6-button pad layout, very low input lag and strong reputation for accuracy and durability. I ...

Koston

It breaks ALL other games, causing graphics corruption or worse. Also breaks the timing of the core making it unstable.So until that can be addressed the pull request will never make it through the system That's fair, if the overclock option isn't working correctly, it shouldn't be merged. I've used NeoGeo-18MHz-cpu-only_20220902 that didn't seem ...

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Check the pull request. Sorgelig isn't going to accept anything that causes instability. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/NeoGeo_MiSTer/pull/179 Quick recap for TL;DR people: Overclocking a hardware NeoGeo system is only useful for playing Metal Slug games, fixing slowdown without adverse effects. It breaks ALL other games, causing graphics corrupt...

Koston

You're correct, the spec is much more than enough.

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