MiSTer FPGA Forum

I've removed the amazon link upon review, I wouldn't quite trust that one.

Correct. Sorg has confirmed this many times, and the same goes for disc-based games. Any CD drive or cartridge reader would only be usable for ripping the game to internal storage, and then what's the point? Just do it on a PC and put the games onto SD/USB. Having the MiSTer rip games won't be functionally better in any way. The only real argument...

I've had this happen at work on two Dell motherboards in a row, on their Displayport connection. What it ended up being is likely that the VGA port on that monitor was spiking voltage for whatever reason, and the display port to vga cable was cheap shitty chinese crap instead of the official dell ones which are pricey but have a little voltage prot...

Agreed, this seems just like for dumping, which if you are using a MiSTer and you have no personal PC (which can dump the roms), how did you flash the MicroSD in the first place?

As far as i understand the De-10 nano does not have enough external pins to be able to support cartridge slots. There probably (but probably not easy) is a way to do it trough usb and the ARM cpu but then it would likely be like for example the retroN 5 in that the rom is ripped from the cartridge and then used like any other roms from/on disk. Al...

Before you can select any script, like the one where you could setup bootcore, it warns you that it could stop your system from functioning, to be fair.

I found an issue with autosave where it will write a blank save during rom loading. This only happens if there is already a game with saves running and it writes to save ram just before the new rom starts loading. I have sent a pull request for the SNES core but it probably also affects other cores like Genesis and Turbografx16. Unfortunately this...

Basically, you can always add stuff later. Personally I would order the DE10-Nano from Digikey and pickup an SDRAM and USB Hub kit if I were you. The I/O boards are nice-to-haves and you will decide if you need one later. A fully enclosed case is not super necessary at first, just be careful handling it since you already know about EMI having tinke...

Here is an all in one solution in general, the hub and a splitter. https://misteraddons.com/products/usb-hub-v2-1 If you are in the UK, you can order from here: https://misterfpga.co.uk/product/usb-hub-for-mister-fpga/ It should be noted that if you plug too many power hungry devices into the usb hub, it may max out the amps on the stock DE10-Nano ...

PlayStation is already being worked on. It will probably fit and be able to run, but no guarantees yet. Check out laxer3a and support his development to help likely make it happen. https://www.patreon.com/laxer3a N64 will probably be impossible on the MiSTer because cpu speed is 3x the speed of the PSX, the RDRAM would probably be a problem to simu...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AAHT8AQ/ For anyone reading here and maybe wondering about surge protectors and static discharge, I work in IT in manufacturing with a lot of IoT devices. Get a good surge protector (one of the kinds our maintenance department regularly orders for offices is linked above). Additionally only touch the board by the sides ...

That's just video mode support. That has nothing to do with integer scaling really. I think someone should make a better video on this. But here's one sort of going over it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJFnwKufb0 You don't understand the problem I'm describing to you. Your screen has 1536 "square" dots vertically. You are trying to ...

The typical resolutions divided... 1536 / 240 = 6.4 (Genesis/SNES resolution) 1536 / 224 = 6.85 (Genesis/SNES resolution) 1536 / 160 = 9.6 (GBA Resolution) 1536 / 144 = 10.666~ (GB/GBC Resolution) This is expected behavior then. If the division into the resolution you are doing full-screen into doesn't yield a whole number vertically, then you don'...

Assign a button to the menu key when defining inputs. Mod the cabinet with another button and label it "menu"

In addition to this, if you are using the digital IO board or you want to use optical audio out (no EMI in the audio that way from the board), you can get a mini-Tos to regular tos optical cable, and hook it up to a DAC. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZPYS818/ This is one I use just for reference. That way I can get audio out without the EMI ...

Run the memtest utility and see what it gives you.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/MemTest_MiSTer

But these issues are so rare I haven't been worrying about them. I've been more occupied to fix the fact that the dynamic contrast setting on my tv being turned off doesn't seem to change its reducing the brightness of colors when things being displayed around the edges of the output are black. Walking into a house in Final Fantasy VI that doesn't...

Ah okay, thanks for checking that!

It must have been either something I did or an actual glitch in the game itself. I closed the issue on github since it's highly likely this was not an actual issue with the core at all.

I had a similar issue on the Genesis and referred to your commit in my issue on the Genesis core and again for another person's issue that is similar, hopefully that draws attention to this being potentially a larger issue.

I wonder if this is what's causing some issues I've seen. 1. After long hours of playing, the refresh rate or something seems to get de-sync'd. How I see this is the screen seems to occasionally redraw the pixels noticeably from the top to bottom (like crt are drawn), but it's visible and a bit jarring. 2. Randomly on some soft reboots or switching...

You need to identify the problem prior to troubleshooting, as this will rule out what you need to look for. 1. Connect a keyboard to your MiSTer and press F9 key to open the linux prompt up. 2. type "ip address show". What does that give you? If it has an address like 169.254.xxx.xxx then it does not have a valid IP configuration, this is...

Fan placement, efficiency, etc... These are all pretty deep subjects if you want to get technical. I don't think the DE10-Nano's processor gets hot enough to even worry about this that much. You will see better cooling results depending on the thermal tape and the kind of heatsink you use. I chose a heatsink with broader gaps and thicker fins becau...