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rhester72

First it was very promising as latest firmware was on it - but the games that are delivered with that new batch do not work flawlessly on the MiSTer core as it obviously checks it’s a real Spectrum Next and the MiSTer core doesn’t pass that test and the games doesn’t work. What? The creators of the Next have encouraged folks to spin off and port t...

rhester72

I let Daytona USA run through the demo loop twice and didn't hear any audio abnormalities.

It is indeed louder by intention (see "fix output levels"):

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Saturn_ ... fc640b901a

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MiSTer Consoles wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:36 pm
Do you happen to know where those per core settings are stored on the SD card? It would be nice to be able to fix them in a text editor vs. having to go into each core while it's running and make the updates.

They are in /media/fat/config, but are binary and subject to change with core updates.

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Maybe not, as a lot of Next games are sold.

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mrchrister wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:58 pm
So far it was only supporting cue format. I just updated SAM to support chd, but don't have any roms to test. Please let me know if it works. I might also have to recompile wizzo's samindex tool to get it working.

Works! Thank you!

rhester72

What exactly is SAM looking for with respect to Saturn games? Mine says none were detected, despite mine being separated in directories (just like PSX, to properly support multi-disc games) and are all in CHD format.

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Bren McGuire wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:44 pm
What's the difference? Aren't they both MiSTer input methods? Why did they need to differentiate?

Daemonbite has nothing to do with MiSTer, it will work with any system allowing USB input.

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jordi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:34 pm
We can't be throwing away our money for each new hardware upgrade

LOL Tell Apple that.

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@pomegran That would be the fix, yes.

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MiSTer Consoles wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:57 pm
I thought I read somewhere that v3.0 ram might even have a slight improvement in compatibility compared to v2.9. Is that not the case?

That is not the case.

rhester72

@CartoonDonkey Sounds like quite the argument for buying the real thing to me.

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There wouldn't be any ROMs in that folder because it's not valid. Can't say what's going on otherwise.

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I'd be very surprised if it's a core issue - sounds like that would be entirely governed by the game code itself.

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I was working up a list of NTSC-only titles for years, so I may work backward and derive things from there.

That being said...what is the current intention for PAL titles? Will/should they be run at 50Hz? What about scaling?

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@limi Is there any way of doing so without necessarily being familiar with the games? I'm afraid I grew up in NTSC-land and wouldn't necessarily know whether music is correct at PAL timings. (For example, the way I remember the Powermonger opening theme is WAY different than my European brethren!)

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thats a good point. Recently checked Bill's Tomato Game and music was way to fast. Now i know the reason. I think that approach is not true to the original. Why was it done this way? I'm speculating a bit, but I suspect it was to achieve maximum display compatibility with monitors that can't sync to PAL. Whatever the case, I agree with the masses ...

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@Cyberdonks I don't know about the NSO controller, but I can tell you that after very heavy testing, I find the 8BitDo hall effect stick to be vastly inferior to the Retro-Bit one. The former has a completely square range of motion, where the latter is circular (and thus also able to be properly constrained by the gate mechanism, coming much closer...

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When running this collection on my Mister any game labeled NTSC or PAL60 runs music way too fast. What am I doing wrong? Either remembering wrong or never having played the game correctly in the first place, in all likelihood. =) NTSC games were 20% faster than PAL in many cases (depending on the timing mechanism used). If you were playing intende...

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I've been interacting with the individual who cracked the very first commercial copy-protected title, Microsoft Adventure, for some time now. (See https://www.filfre.net/2011/07/microsoft-adventure/ and a great many other writings for details). After all this time, and having VERY thoroughly reverse-engineering the game, this very same individual h...

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rcade wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:10 pm
Which is odd, because OneLoad is all PAL versions.

Not sure that's universally true, but in this case in particular I suspect they may have 'borrowed' Remember's release.

rhester72

The OneLoad64 version also works perfectly in NTSC =)

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FPGA64 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:52 pm
is the current tip

https://github.com/MiSTer-unstable-nigh ... 161247.rbf

Oh duh - thanks =)

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C-R-T wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:16 pm
Damn, son. Core's getting updated daily these days! Get the latest one right here:

https://github.com/MiSTer-unstable-nigh ... ble-builds

Which build ID is more current? I can't tell between the two latest, the lowest resolution appears to be the day/date.

rhester72

My feeling is, that with the start of discord the traffic became lower. I personally don't like discord as a "support" platform. Nothing is sorted, you don't find things, it's a chat. But many ppl seem to see this different. (Or I don't understand discord correctly) :-) Then I don't understand either. I'm well aware of the Discord obsess...

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The connection is likely the issue, as I had this as well. Opening it up and repositioning the prong did it for me, but if you want absolute assurance you can always just solder it.

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I guess the real question is how underserved those communities are.

TI-99/4A, for example, has LONG had a very active home at AtariAge, of all places. I don't know where Analogue customers tend to congregate currently.

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I strongly suspect you have two controllers both reporting as Xbox controllers but with different actual button layouts.

The only solution there is to switch at least one of them to D-input if possible.

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You want PDL adapters to avoid grounding issues.

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[Main] is technically a "core" - whatever resolution you set for it is what it will use.

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@riblad_om Are you using the unpublished core that actually saves NIBs? The 'official' one doesn't AFAIK.

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