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Hey thorr, what's your mister.ini for the cable that goes to the component input on your TV?

None of the 3 TVs have had caps replaced. They display pictures just fine for most things; if I plug an actual Genesis into them, they work fine. With the MiSTer, it's repeateable that the NES core works fine always, but the other cores only "sync" after loading a game. And the Menu core works fine always, too. I suppose it could be caps,...

Rise from your grave, thread. I've been trying to get Component output from my MiSTer through an IO Board v6.1 to a consumer CRT that has component video inputs. I'm using YPBPR=1 and video_mode=6. The Menu displays fine enough and the NES core works perfectly, but the Genesis, SNES, and GBA cores (at least) show a rolling image. If you load a game...

What kind of issues are you seeing?
What composite cable did you buy?

In theory I'd use:
direct_video=1
composite_sync=1

I'm not sure if those can both play together well, as direct_video is really meant for the HDMI to VGA adapters that people recommend. But it's worth trying.

I've got some more evidence. A friend of mine pointed out that if you load a game, they'll sync. Putting that to the test, it seems like games only sync when the screen is bright enough. For instance, if you start the Genesis core and start Zombies Ate My Neighbors, but you hit start and skip the Konami screen, the game never syncs. But if you let ...

That looks fantastic! I'll have to try that with some monitors I have. Thanks!

I guess I don't understand what's going on. If I can get proper video out of the Menu with video_mode=6, why can't I get proper video out of the Genesis core by setting [Genesis] video_mode=6 as well? Are they outputting video differently? I've also tried some specific video_modes in the [Genesis] section, but I continue to get rolling video. I'm n...

I know this is a bit of an older post, but were you able to get it working? I've been looking at modelines a lot lately, and I've been using this post as a guide. Specifically: -Modelines The popular Xorg "Modeline" format can be converted to MiSTer video_mode strings : Modeline "Name" Pixel_Clock HDISP HSYNCSTART HSYNCEND HTOTA...

Alright, I have 3 CRTs. The first two, where most cores don't work, are: RCA 27F554T from 2008 Philips 27PT543S37A from 2004 On the RCA TV, the Menu core displays for a second when I turn on the MiSTer, then it reports "No signal or incompatible signal." Something like that. The Philips will handle the Menu core just fine and NES games, b...

What's your CRT, what's the position of the VGA Jumper on the I/O board, and have you changed any of the settings in the mister.ini? I've tried the VGA jumper on both 3.3V and 5V; no difference. I set the Sync on Green to On, and I have the YpBpr=1 set in my mister.ini. It works for the Menu, and it works for NES, but SNES, Genesis, and GBA show a...

I just tried to set up my MiSTer with a component CRT and I'm also getting rolling images with GBA, Genesis, and SNES. Possibly others, but I haven't tried them yet. I'm using an IO Board v6.1 with this VGA to component cable . It works great for NES and looks like SMS is working too. Has anyone found a good solution? I'd really love to see the nat...

I recently got an IO board thanks to aberu from here on the forums, but I can't find any documentation about configuring the USER button on the IO board. The only info I can find is that it's user configurable. For me, I'd love for it to swap between mister.ini alt files. I'm imagining that I'll have one for HDMI output, one for VGA output, and one...

@ jjronimo Huge thanks for this guide! I've been wandering around down the rabbit hole trying to figure out how to connect up all this stuff for the last few days... and I was already about halfway there, but this just lays it all out clearly. MT-32 emulation on my Windows PC with a great Amp/DAC, feeding some nice Sennheiser headphones, while the...

This is awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Would you be willing to ship to the US? If so, how much? (Colorado, 80501) I'd be interested in that IO board. I'm considering selling mine and I'm over in 80504 buddy. I've realized I want to solder my own pair for fun, both a digital and an analog and got the PCB's in the other day :). How does 20 bucks sound? Mine was from misterfpga.co.uk and ...

No worries. I figured it was worth asking.

I think the big problem with the SNES core is that it's close to full with all the other various mappers and hardware extensions. I would be interested in a core that forked off the SNES core with the sole purpose of implementing super game boy stuff with proper accuracy, though. I think it's fine if it's separate from this which I think of as mor...

I have two little questions :-) 1) Is there a way of having both a MT-32 (or Pi-Midi) and a Sound Canvas (or Fluidsynth) with a single ao486 configuration (with different MIDI ports so that you can set those once and for all in games) ? 2) would be pretty happy with Munt running on the MiSTer -- it seems it needs to be just a little be optimized. ...

Would you be willing to ship to the US? If so, how much? (Colorado, 80501) I'd be interested in that IO board.

This is a great question! I've been meaning to figure it out, too. :) If those pins are correct, then all you need to do is connect one of the button's connectors to the appropriate pin and another one to Ground. Pushing the button 'momentarily' connects it to ground, which closes the circuit and tells the DE-10 "Do whatever you're supposed to...

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:45 pm Thank you for this! I had MIDI on my list for this weekend.

Happily! I've always dreamed of having an MT-32, and it took a little longer than I'd hoped to figure this all out, so I'm glad it helped.

Is this something with public code/binaries? It would be nice to have a more portable way to do UDP MIDI. I've got a couple single board computers that I'd like to test and see if they're up to the task. :D I just use the exact same MidiLink program that is included with MiSTer on the PI. https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=375 https:/...

I wrote this up in the ao486 section, but it should be applicable to any core that can use Midilink should work with this. I couldn't find all the answers in one place, so hopefully this will help in the future: This guide will allow you to set up Munt, the Roland MT-32/CM-32L emulator, on a Windows PC and have a MiSTer core send its data over the ...

I don't have "MT-32 Pi" and I have not used the project. I find it interesting, but use my own RPi based MIDI solution that uses UDP vs physical MIDI adapters. Also, all of my best DACs are USB which it unfortunately does not support. Is this something with public code/binaries? It would be nice to have a more portable way to do UDP MIDI...

That's a heck of a project. Nice work! Now you need to get it in the portable portion of the Neo Geo X.

I would like to have this setup running with my crossover cable connecting my MiSTer directly to my PC, but when I tried it, I couldn’t get my MiSTer to recognize the connection. By convention, if a network device is connected and doesn't have contact with a DHCP server (which is what hands out IP addresses), the devices assign themselves an IP ad...

One last thing to note, I did notice while using the MT-32 ROM with MUNT, there were a few hanging or skipped notes on occasion. It wasn't nearly as bad as when I tried using the MiSTer's built-in MUNT, but it was still noticeable enough. Is this something you have experienced, and if so, do you know if there's a way to minimize hanging and/or ski...

Great work! Your update and mount scripts are finicky and didn't want to play nice with my system. I compressed all the data on my main Linux machine and transferred it onto my SD card. I managed to get everything working by reading your scripts and doing all the heavy lifting myself over an ssh terminal. I've easily freed up 20gb of space on my 1...

Thanks for getting that script together jayp76! I'll try it out a little later. I do love me some Cave Story, so this could be a fun way to revisit it.

I got it working!! I just had to find the setting that lets you "listen" to the microphone input. Thanks to everyone who helped me out. Fantastic! Congratulations! I'm really glad you got it working. :D I see earlier you were talking about ROMs -- you can also use the CM-32L ROMs with Munt. They have more sounds than an MT-32, but only i...