MiSTer FPGA Forum

Chris23235

I recently built a Dual RAM MiSTer. I have been very much loving using it!! My issue, when loading the Saturn Dual RAM core, my MiSTer is locking up. The Single RAM core runs great. From reading some posts, it seemed to point to a bad RAM module. All hardware is new, purchased this month. Both sticks are v3.0 128mb. I disassembled the MiSTer and r...

Chris23235

FPGA64 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:27 pm
This maybe

https://thunderstickstudio.com/products ... r-joystick

Not strictly a spinner and joystick but its well made. I havent used mine with a mister yet only in Mame

Does anybody know if anyone sells these sticks in Europe?

Chris23235

You can also try other cores that make use of dual ram like dual ram version of the PSX core or the Smash T.V. core (no sound). If they work it is more an issue with the Saturn core then with the ram.

Chris23235

In NTSC, the VIC-20 core is no longer functioning correctly. Many games lock up when they shouldn't. Simple illustration: Dig Dug cartridge. Although the code is NTSC, it locks up in NTSC fairly quickly after booting up. It functions well in PAL. Somewhere there's a timing problem. VIC20_20200504.rbf is the latest version that doesn't do this. It ...

Chris23235

Most games don't work on the Atari ST core for me. I have it set at 512 or 1mb Tos: tos102us Chipset, ST or STE But games rarely load. Sometimes a game will load, but the overwhelming majority don't. I wish I could get it to work better than it does. Most games for the ST came from Europe so from my experience it is better to use a PAL TOS Rom. 1....

Chris23235

Hello, after completing some school education a long time ago. Loaded Spellicopter without any problems, however Designasaurus only showed white garbage icons before crashing. After Sticky Bear performs his juggling animation on the title screen, Sticky Bear Math never loads with d64 format. So, any suggestions? I experimented with Speedy Dos and ...

Chris23235

I'm not sure what that is. I've used several different types of controllers on the other MiSTer (all with Reflex Adapt) including the same Brawler64 controllers and they worked without going through a registration process. With some games I do have to define buttons (and BTW I always or usually have to redefine the buttons each time even though I ...

Chris23235

The ST-V hardware was identical to the Saturn, it had the same ammount of RAM. The difference was that the ST-V games were stored on ROM-Cartridges instead of CD-ROM. Any potential ST-V core would have to change the CD-ROM interface to the hardware responsible for reading the data from the cartridge.

Chris23235

Hi! I just came across the Mars Matrix core for mister. Well....I don't know the arcade board, but I would be surprised if the timings of the game were corect like on mister. Everything seems to be way to fast and the game speed even seems to vary... Is this a known issue? I would be surprised if the speed of this game is not correct. The game run...

Chris23235

I set up a new MiSTer today and added N64 to downloader.ini and updated and the controls weren't working correctly. They worked correctly with the same controllers and no config on my previous MiSTer. Could that be an issue with the core? Have you registered the controller in the main menu? Be aware that the core doesn't ask for the analog stick w...

Chris23235

Arcade games should go into the folder games/mame oin your USB drive. Update_all will take care of this as well unless you have a folder games on the root of your USB drive. The mra files are still located in the _Arcade folder of your SD card.

Chris23235

First I want to say thanks to Robert for his dedicated work on this and other MiSTer cores, he has done so much to add value to this platform and I'm very thankful for it! My question is: At this point in the N64 core's development, am I doing myself any favors by waiting for it to hit the main update_all distro? Normally I wait on WIP cores since...

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Shuffle7 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:22 pm
I’d like to know too, can’t see it anywhere ? Any ideas people thanks in advance . maybe it got took down ?

??? The link to the core is in the first post of this thread. Just download the core and copy it onto your SD card.

Chris23235

Eisengrim wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:14 pm
Is there anywhere to get a previous release of Aminimiga for MiSTer? The official download page has removed the links in favor of a 'coming soon' message for the next version.

Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230530135 ... downloads/

Chris23235

MrsBison wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:55 am
Hopefully sound fix Castelvania

These are the fixes:

Update SMPC.sv

-fix system date (Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus: Salamander2)
-fix INTBACK command timing (Digital Pinball - Necronomicon)

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

Chris23235

Without the Saturn and PSX libraries, the entire game librairies of all console cores currently on MiSTer can fit in less than 300GB, from my rough estimate (my setup is missing some PCE CD games I think, so I don't know for sure). With the Saturn I'm not sure, but it's probably well under 1TB, assuming CHDs (dunno if the Saturn core actually supp...

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antibolo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:48 pm
So outside of SNAC, it sounds like the best possible controller for MiSTer is Nintendo's own NSO N64 controller for Switch, right?

You can also use a USB adapter and an original controller.

Chris23235

KremlingKuthroat19 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:55 am
Btw, any word on if the Neo Geo Pocket Color core will be worked on?

He mentioned that in this releasy only the monochrome bios is supported, I would interpret this as an colour will come but getting monochrome to a proper state has priority. Both share the same CPU and this seems by far to be the hardest part.

Chris23235

Works for me an Smash TV, just gave it a short try as no sound is implemented.

Chris23235

You can do things with an FPGA simulation that need an unreasonable ammount of raw processing power in software. Within an FPGA you can let the chips run in parallel like it was on the original software. Nothing you emulate in software will run in parallel as on the original hardware and in some cases this limits the accuracy of the emulation. You...

Chris23235

There are certainly many (MANY!) latency benefits...I was referring purely to accuracy. I'm not sure who first started the trope about FPGA being more accurate "because it's hardware instead of software", but if I ever meet them in a dark alley, they shall pay. LOL As a broad statement this is as false as the claim that FPGA is the same ...

Chris23235

Thank you for the replies! N64 recent version seems to need unstable MiSTer. What you are describing are Jotego’s cores in beta. You need his Patreon key in your games folder to unlock them. Maybe you had a previous key and need to update? Good point! I should check his Patreon for an update, I suppose. I thought after putting in the necessary key...

Chris23235

Edit: I figured out that I have to manually set system->rom to megaags-kickstart and reset. If you unpacked the archive to /media/fat, you shouldn't have to do that - the proper configuration will be automatically written. It was the same for me, I unpacked the archive as the installation notes said, but I had manually set the rom, didn't found ou...

Chris23235

Back in the 90's Moore's Law was truly in effect. So transistor counts were going up exponentially. An interesting piece of trivia: The original Motorola 68000 was named after its transistor count (68,000). Unfortunately the 68030 has a transistor count of 273,000, making it 4 times larger than the 68000. The 68040 has 1,200,000 transistors making...

Chris23235

Hi there, hope this is the right place to come up with my problem. Mabye my last big one :P Neo Geo Games Module all working Neo Geo CD Games as CHD all working But How to handle Neo Geo CD Games as Cue Bin file folders ? Where to place the needed hardware files like Bios + Unibios + negeo cdz ... Maybe someone can please make a screenshot or writ...

Chris23235

Thanks, that's a nice collection. The Spectrum had so many games, no wonder that even Top 100 lists differ so much.

Chris23235

I'm having a problem getting Super Tempo to load. I get a black screen after the blue SEGA logo disappears. I'm running the latest build from update all. I've tried every bios from archive.org with the game with no luck. I have Two 2C v2.9 RAM. All my other games so far load fine. The image( bin/cue format) works on my Saturn fine. Any ideas or su...

Chris23235

Can someone please tell me how I change from CD1 to CD2 with the Saturn? Thanks From discord, (lots of info there) Gotta keep both disc files in the same directory So all .cue and .bins can't be separated by folders? Yes. They must be separated by their own folders. Except for multi disc games I was in discord and the info I got from there (incl. ...

Chris23235

leosmendes wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:05 pm
Someone having a problem with the update on the 4th, everything stopped working...

No problem here.

Chris23235

Today's update made more games playable that were to slow before (e.g. Gauntlet Legends), they seem fullspeed now (even if I can't say for sure). It seems more games work now (e.g. Hydro Thunder).

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