MiSTer FPGA Forum

Enable jotego beta cores in update_all settings

I assume it is like that because otherwise the update script would be terribly slow having to download hundreds of alternative MRAs individually. The Alternatives repo lets it just download one big zip with all the MRAs in it

Mine have empty nvram entries. It looks like both the downloader and old update script should pull from the Alternatives repo. But clearly someone didn't get the memo; all those Galaga alternatives were added to the Galaga repo AFTER they were added to the Alternatives_MiSTer repo. If someone doesn't want all the mess of every Alternative, but they...

I don't understand why it is saving .nvms for those alts, the <nvram> tag in the MRA is supposed to be blank, so it shouldn't even try!? Can you attach your MRA for the set 1 fast shoot one? It isn't blank though: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Galaga_MiSTer/blob/master/releases/_alternatives/_Galaga/Galaga%20(Midway%20set%201%20with%20fas...

For the megaCD just put the chds in a game specific directory. CUE or CHD files loaded from the same directory won't trigger a BIOS reload/core reset and the save file name for the backup RAM will be retained. This means it will always be named after the first disk in the set, but that's probably fine. This logic doesn't look like it was transfered...

How are you running update all? Looking at the code and that error message, it thinks you are in the directory '/media/fat/scripts' which it detects as different than '/media/fat/Scripts' due to linux-isms with case insensitive file systems. Basically, if you are running it from the command line, cd to /media/fat/Scripts (note the upper case S). If...

It's a bunch of mras with patches for games that enable training modes, extra features etc.

I believe the Saturn and the ST-V have similar architecture, developed by the same Defense contractor firm Lockheed Martin for Sega. But the Saturn and the ST-V have vastly different specs. Virtual On for the ST-V could not run on the Saturn, they had to dumb down some off the effects to get the game to run on the Saturn. Virtual-On isn't an ST-V ...

lamarax wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:02 pm I was about to say that for autofire to work on MiSTer cores, it must also be supported by your controller in the first place ("turbo function").

No, that's not the case. Mister has built in 'software' autofire that should work independent of controller type.

I don't see anything in the IDE code that cares about the VHD footer. All the geometry calculations are done based on file size and some default sector/per track, heads etc values.

vsync_adjust=2 retains the original vertical refresh rate of the arcade core, it may be that your panel can't handle them. Horizon may be especially problematic because I think that's around 56Hz. Trojan should be 60hz, tho. There's another possible issue: vsync_adjust calculates a pixel clock rate based on the input and output parameters. Accordin...

What's the value of video_mode and vsync_adjust in MiSTer.ini?

Also examples of which games don't work.

Probably have to do an ARM vm with qemu.

I think the only wrinkle is if the Mister does a system update that replaces the u-boot loader it'll likely make your VM image unbootable.

jca wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:52 pm What do you call headers and footers for a VHD? It is just a raw disk image.

There's a 512-byte footer that contains some meta data and the geometry of the virtual disk.

Try "dkongjr'.

For Arcade/MRA based games, you can either use the 'core name' or the 'set name'. That core still has the internal name set to 'A.DKONGJ' so I suppose that would work too.

If you want to know a section name that will always 100% work, look on the left side of the OSD menu; the set/core name is displayed there.

So will this new updater include Jotego betas or is this only "official" downloads? Update_all.sh works very well for me. I welcome new change and I understand today is the roll out but I'm just interested in the actual differences besides hitting the Github hard. I assume that's the plan. It has the capability to update from multiple re...

When (if) this core is released will it accept CHD files like most of the other disc based consoles? CHD and BIN/CUE support is implemented entirely within Main_MiSTer, so it's basically independent of the core. There's a bit of 'glue' in Main that's specific to each core (since they all have some quirks) but the majority of the heavy lifting is n...

Just to be clear; flashing the blisSTer only concerns the two LLAPI chips/HDMI style ports. The latest firmware (v3.0.27-4) dates back from July and as such, has nothing to do with the recent linux updates and normal use of the board as a standard usb hub. I don't know how this rumor has started, as I own a blisSTer myself and everything has been ...

If you have a Blister board, update the firmware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK39W--vClc

"[arcade]" should work

I think it may well be the DE10-Nano, as I noticed that when this happens, the scrolling text at the bottom of the OSD (core info) is either scrolling really slowly or no moving at all. It's like the MiSTer is freezing and totally unresponsive? That's a symptom of the Blister issue: the USB kernel worker thread uses a bunch of CPU and it makes the...

If you have a Blisster board update the firmware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK39W--vClc

I'm having a very similar problem, but the device/hub it's having an issue with is a Blisster v1; Devices "work", but act very strangely after upgrade. Keyboard or controllers (NES30 arcade stick via USB) work oddly, with things getting "stuck on" when pressed (including directions) and sometimes refusing to work at all (making...

Upgrade to a newer version of Putty

I never thought to give the firmware update a try because the devices kept dropping on and off. I'll try it and see if it works for me too! Although I ended up ordering an 'official' usb hub because I only used the blister because it had a power switch (which broke anyways.....)

Do you happen to be using a Blister instead of a usb hub? I am using a blisster. Is there something i can do to fix the issue? I had the same issue with my blister. There's something broken in the new update that makes the kernel go absolutely nuts trying to deal with 'blissbox' ports. My log is full of this: [ 1247.607320] hid-generic 0003:16D0:0...

Do you happen to be using a Blister instead of a usb hub?

When Main_Mister processes the romset.xml file, it ends up performing about 250 stat64() calls to try and find individual romset.xml files that likely don't exist for most people. (so looking for something like /media/fat/games/NEOGEO/wjammers/romset.xml for every game in the romset.xml) If I had to suspect something, it's that doing a bunch of sta...

The vermagic is wrong, it doesn't match the kernel.

Here's what it looks like on a working kernel module:
vermagic: 5.13.12-MiSTer SMP mod_unload ARMv7 p2v8

Try loading it with modprobe -f

What does modinfo say for that file?