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by elvis
Thu Nov 23, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Impossible Smooth Scrolling at 50Hz?
Replies: 6
Views: 2065

Re: Impossible Smooth Scrolling at 50Hz?

What happens if you try a custom resolution that's lower res to stay under the 210MHz pixel clock, but 100Hz refresh?

by elvis
Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:20 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

Is there a guide on how to setup a a private network for RetroNAS? It says to make sure it’s behind a router but also separate from rest of the network. Does that mean I need two routers? Sorry for the delay in reply, I don't check these forums as often as I should. I don't have a guide for that yet, I'm afraid. I've got an action item on my list ...
by elvis
Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:52 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

1. If installing Debian as a 64-bit full desktop base OS, how do we add more external drives/PLEX MEDIA SERVER to work with RetroNAS? RetroNAS is mostly an installer for different services. We aim to be as non-breaking as possible with a vanilla Debian system, so any regular guides for installing more storage or tools like Plex should work fine an...
by elvis
Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:52 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: MiSTer FPGA with an SSD
Replies: 32
Views: 37801

Re: MiSTer FPGA with an SSD

neogeo81 wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:34 pm Is it faster (the USB are 2.0 i think)? Or is it only the size price ratio that is better?
Storage speed questions are answered via this testing:

https://misteraddons.com/blogs/news/mis ... d-shootout
by elvis
Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:45 am
Forum: Development for MiSTer
Topic: Scripts for 'new' or curated 'best of' game lists?
Replies: 12
Views: 5539

Re: Scripts for 'new' or curated 'best of' game lists?

"Hardware Target Games Database" (previously known as Smokemonster Everdrive SMDBs) does a lot of this for you already: https://github.com/frederic-mahe/Hardware-Target-Game-Database Scans games, matches them by various checksums, names them accurately, copies them into sensible folders and provides a tonne of "best of" and &quo...
by elvis
Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:18 am
Forum: Development for MiSTer
Topic: MiSTerNet
Replies: 15
Views: 13021

Re: MiSTerNet

A realistic approach would be to have an encoder, or offload to an encoder, and handle this video streaming style. I very much agree with this approach. It has broad application, and modern tools and libraries (whether they be non-free like Parsec, which from memory you're involved with? Or free like moonlight/sunshine) offer me a lot of hope for ...
by elvis
Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:10 pm
Forum: Development for MiSTer
Topic: MiSTerNet
Replies: 15
Views: 13021

Re: MiSTerNet

I always dream about a sort of generic xband on mister. Imagine playing all those arcade beat em up games with others players... Reading about the XBAND , it makes me really curious if we could recreate the schematics of those modems and use them in our MiSTers to play online... XBAND applied unique patches on a per-game basis to overcome the prob...
by elvis
Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:06 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

btrfs is okay if you use it for one filesystem per partition or disk. If you expand past that in any way, you are likely to run into horrific bugs and huge data loss. Grossly untrue. I'm running petabytes of BtrFS storage on multi-disk setups for the better part of the last 8 years in very large commercial sites. All is well. Statements like these...
by elvis
Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:18 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Variable Refresh Rate support added thanks to zakk4223
Replies: 33
Views: 9036

Re: Variable Refresh Rate support added thanks to zakk4223

This is brilliant. Thank you zakk4223 for a very necessary feature that's going to help a lot of people enjoy a great deal of titles that were never really designed for consumer televisions, but are now playable smoothly and tear-free thanks to this feature.
by elvis
Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:17 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

ZFS and BtrFS are both excellent options for storage. For RetroNAS on lower power devices I recommend BtrFS as a backing store (ZFS or BtrFS are both excellent on higher powered devices, and each has a list of pros and cons that are down to individual preference, which I'm happy to list here if people want me to). I've got a small amount of BtrFS d...
by elvis
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:13 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

1/Is there a plan to make symlinks inside "/data/retronas/mister/saves", "/data/retronas/mister/savestates" and "/data/retronas/mister/BIOS" targeting respectively "/data/retronas/saves/", "/data/retronas/savestates" and "/data/retronas/bios" ? I believe Sairuk has completed this work now...
by elvis
Mon May 23, 2022 10:13 am
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker
Replies: 22
Views: 13064

Re: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker

So if I want to determine whether a particular (S)VGA CRT is capable of running 288p 100Hz what do I need to look out for? Are horizontal scan rate and vertical scan rate all I need to know, so any monitor capable of 100Hz vertical and 31.778KHz horizontal would work with 288p100? Specific to SVGA CRTs, the hsync rate is generally all that matters...
by elvis
Sat May 21, 2022 2:39 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Best Version of Original R-Type Playable On MiSTer?
Replies: 19
Views: 3674

Re: Best Version of Original R-Type Playable On MiSTer?

Zipstick wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 10:33 am There is also the sa-1 patched snes version. This patches a lot of the originals slowdown.
As well as Vitor Vilela's excellent SA-1 hacks/patches, the SNES core on MiSTer has an overclock/turbo feature that kills The slowdown on very early SNES titles quite nicely.

With either option, SNES Super R-Type is a pleasure to play again.
by elvis
Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:59 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

Hey all - I've noticed that the symlinks for the SNES rom location appear broken in my version of Retronas. I've also updated the software but for some reason \\retrosmb\mister\games\SNES doesn't point to \\retrosmb\retronas\roms\nintendo\snes on my setup. Any suggestions? Not real handy with symlinks, but I could probably muddle my way through it...
by elvis
Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:03 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

Is there a way to use the actual internal hard drive of the Linux PC I'm using? I can only figure out how to play games from an external USB HDD. Yes. You can use Cockpit to mount any existing hard disk. Then set the top level directory in the RetroNAS global configuration, run the permissions fix, and off you go. Also sorry, random other question...
by elvis
Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:55 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

how does retronas deal with the sleep state of hdd when it idle for awhile does anyone know? Sairuk added hard disk power management under the "Advanced Tools" menu a couple of weeks back. Check that out and see if it does what you need. I'm new to networking and NAS tech, will CD games running on a MiSTer Project DE10-Nano work alright?...
by elvis
Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:06 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

Hi. The install guides I've found are all for installing RetroNAS to a RasperryPi, I'd like to install it to an old PC. It has to use Linux, right? Which lightweight Linux does it work with? My PC is pretty old and underpowered. I'm going to try AntiX Linux first, Debian 11 Bullseye looks a bit too beefy for my old computer. I'm hoping that after ...
by elvis
Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:04 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS
Replies: 34
Views: 11115

Re: Setting Up a Home NAS for MiSTer Think About Using RetroNAS

Hi there, I'm the RetroNAS author. Happy to answer any questions about it here. Before the "isn't it just another NAS?" questions start - RetroNAS does lots of different things, however if all you want is a place to store MiSTer ROMs, you probably don't need most of what it has to offer. MiSTer takes away a lot of the troublesome aspects ...
by elvis
Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:24 am
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker
Replies: 22
Views: 13064

Re: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker

Biggest and most glaring issue with 240p@120Hz or 288p@100Hz is effect of double images. 50fps game on 50Hz CRT is perfectly sharp no matter if objects/backgrounds are stationary or moving and on 100Hz CRT when things start to move you see double images. For 25fps games there would be four images. On flicker-free LCD or non-strobed OLED (like typi...
by elvis
Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:30 am
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker
Replies: 22
Views: 13064

Re: Dealing with 50hz CRT Flicker

Joining in with a lot of the PAL gamers. I grew up in Australia, and 50Hz was the standard. I spent my entire childhood playing games on 50Hz CRTs, from the 8 bit era and up. Fast forward to today, and 50Hz really hurts. I would almost say I'd rather go to OLED if I was forced to play 50Hz games again (as a retro console gamer, I've moved over to N...
by elvis
Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:19 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: MiSTer Storage Requirements
Replies: 19
Views: 12016

Re: MiSTer Storage Requirements

PorkChopExpress from MiSTeraddons has published a great breakdown on MiSTer storage. Confirming my previous findings that wired Ethernet is by far the fastest option for storage. https://misteraddons.com/blogs/news/mister-data-io-speed-shootout I've got a project in the works to assist people with configuring network storage for MiSTer. When that's...
by elvis
Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:48 am
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Dismember SG-1000 from the Coleco
Replies: 16
Views: 10311

Re: Dismember SG-1000 from the Coleco

I dump/preserve Sega SC-3000 tape homebrew software:

https://stickfreaks.com/sega-sc-3000/faq

I would absolutely love to see the SG-1000 (or SMS, although there are some palette differences) core extended to do SC-3000 features like tape loading and keyboard input.
by elvis
Sun Sep 26, 2021 3:40 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Share the most terrible retro gaming memory you have
Replies: 29
Views: 7211

Re: Share the most terrible retro gaming memory you have

Selling a tonne of Master System and Megadrive games, plus a Power Base Converter, all for peanuts as a kid at a yard sale my parents' friends had. Then using that pittance plus a bunch of savings to buy "Mickey and Donald: World of Illusion" which had great reviews in magazines, for a whopping $80 (games are expensive in my region, and t...
by elvis
Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:15 pm
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: The Result of My Search for a Great MiSTer Display
Replies: 186
Views: 95910

Re: The Result of My Search for a Great MiSTer Display

xmpp wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:02 pm Are there any pros/cons to having 1440 vertical resolution instead of 1200?
1440 is an integer scale of 720, 480 and 240, whereas 1200 is not (only 240 for it). If you use all those input resolutions, that's quite convenient.
by elvis
Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:57 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: Feature request: SSH key on the FAT partition (and bug report)
Replies: 4
Views: 1967

Re: Feature request: SSH key on the FAT partition (and bug report)

I have a small configuration script sitting on the FAT partition with all my customisations, including SSH keys and permission fixes. Any time an update clobbers the Linux volume, I SSH in one time with the default password, run the script, and I'm good to go again. A minor inconvenience, but it's easy enough to set up and only requires running onc...
by elvis
Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:44 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: MiSTer Storage Requirements
Replies: 19
Views: 12016

Re: MiSTer Storage Requirements

Elvis, did you benchmark the speeds? Using iperf3 for raw TCP performance in both directions: MiSTer to NAS: /root# iperf3 -i1 -c 192.168.3.254 Connecting to host 192.168.3.254, port 5201 [ 5] local 192.168.3.47 port 57584 connected to 192.168.3.254 port 5201 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd [ 5] 0.00-1.01 sec 75.0 MBytes 623 Mbits/sec 0 ...
by elvis
Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:21 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: MiSTer Storage Requirements
Replies: 19
Views: 12016

Re: MiSTer Storage Requirements

The LAN interface is 100Mbit right? The DE10nano's Ethernet port is gigabit, full duplex. The USB port is USB2, and the issue that USB2 is half duplex. For storage, that's a larger impact than its 480Mbit/s bandwidth. I already had a NAS configured for use centrally in my house across multiple gaming systems, modded consoles, arcade machines, TVs,...
by elvis
Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:50 am
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Holy Grail Display for MiSTer?
Replies: 31
Views: 11258

Re: Holy Grail Display for MiSTer?

Add to that the thicc-scanline fetishizm and things can really get blown out of proportion. So, the bottom line is that a "street level" consumer CRT set - assuming you find/buy one from the higher range, in a decent nick - should be sufficent for anybody I don't really agree with anything you've said above, but don't have the patience t...
by elvis
Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:11 pm
Forum: Display Devices
Topic: Holy Grail Display for MiSTer?
Replies: 31
Views: 11258

Re: Holy Grail Display for MiSTer?

Sharpness is overrated Sharpness is subjective. I enjoy quite a lot of games on my blurry consumer CRTs, especially from the 8 bit era. Certain highly detailed 16bit titles (and newer - 2D stuff on the PS1/Saturn) I much prefer on sharper CRTs like PVMs and SVGA monitors. I certainly don't have a single display that is my favourite out of my colle...