MiSTer FPGA Forum

I had similar issues. The MISTer worked OK with the default PSU but as soon as I started adding connections to the USB ports, I started to have issues. It took me a while (and some friendly advice on here) but I replaced it with a 5V 5A PSU and I've been happy as a retrogamer in retrogaming heaven ever since!

Ridge Racer - they're all pretty good but the first one is a perfect slice of arcade racing Driver - perfectly captures those old American 70s movies & TV shows - fantastic car handling, great damage and some very aggressive cops Tenchu - Metal Gear Solid with Ninjas Tekken 3 - Namco got everything right with this one - roster, moves, timing, g...

I see that native support for GCon2 has been added but I'd still like an adapter for the GCon45 I already have... any news?

There's one more reason for SuperCPU now that someone has hacked the original code for Stunt Car Racer to retain the game's timings but increase the framerate - and the results are amazing with the C64 version running faster than the Amiga one. Stunt Car Racer for SuperCPU This project is the fruit of playing around in the evenings for a few weeks,...

Ridge Racer, Tekken 3 and Driver (probably). Both Ridge Racer and Tekken 3 have superior core games at the arcade but both are better gaming experiences on the home format - bonus modes like practice and extended tracks and cars. The Wipeout games were good but Wipeout Omega Collection on PS4 is the definitive Wipeout experience and I don't think I...

The portability of an A600 is part of the appeal. The A500 is a bulky machine - I have two - it's not exactly backpack-friendly.

Still, love what they're doing and I have to say that Minimig captures the feel of an Amiga perfectly, so replacing ailing Amigas with insta-load, super-reliable MISTers seems like a great idea.

I'm about a year in and am now able to play, on their native formats, games I've read about for years! All those articles in Retro Gamer, Edge retrospectives and friends' recommendations from the machines they grew up with - like the Apple II, the MSX and the Archimedes. I just need to sort out it's user interface. I think I may need another two MI...

Great question, diplomatically posed. I'm quite interested in this topic too. It's the feature that's preventing me from converting my CRT MAME cabinet to MISTER. The thought of walking away from those great vertical shooters...<sob> I bought a cab with a 26" monitor so I could run vertical games without losing too much in the process and groo...

I also gave it a try from Flynn's pack and it works well. I ran the demo for at least 5 mins. I used the EMM386 config and a Soundblaster config.

Just dropping a note to say thanks for the Apple 2 core. I never had one back in the day and, though I was aware of their place in gaming's pantheon, I never had the chance to play one. I've just spent a couple of hours playing Prince of Persia and Airheart and I'm really impressed with both the games and the Apple 2 itself. I'm also very grateful ...

Confirm that Viewpoint, which had great music on the original machine no longer sounds like a strangled cat! Kudos to the fixer!!!!

I played this on the MISTer last night. Considering how clunky FPS attempts were on the Amiga back in the day, this is nothing short of incredible to see running on an Amiga. The technical skill required to pull this off is remarkable and if this had come out at the time, perhaps things might have gone differently for the Amiga, but it didn't and t...

If you're running Linux on your PC you can use Rsync, that's how I've started to do mine as it'll only update changes and it just goes straight to my NAS. Set up a cronjob and as long as the MiSTer is on then you won't even need to think about backups. This is a great idea! Since MISTer runs Linux, is this something that could be configured direct...

OK, so it took me a bit longer but I left it running last night for about 3 hours on the demo. There were points where it seemed to have crashed - wouldn't respond to keypresses, even Ctrl-Alt-Del, but it came back after a few mins as if nothing had happened. Obviously I wasn't actively playing it for that long but perhaps it's worth trying the sam...

"The thing is the game still crashes if I leave it on for an hour."

Clearly I don't play it as much as you

I'll give it a try today and report back.

I can't help with the Win98 aspect but can confirm that Duke Nukem runs fine on MISTer from Flynn's pack. The Atomic Edition struggles with framerate and is basically unplayable but loads to the title screen and runs the demo.

I select EMM386 and Soundblaster as my startup options.

Really enjoyed your video. Good info, good production values. Top effort!

The usual caveat regarding write frequency applies though, right? That is, zipped roms are harder on your SD card.

What exactly does the Win key do in this core? I can't find the info on this. It makes taking screenshots with Win+PrtScr practically impossible as the graphics get all messed up while the Win key is held. I've been quite frustrated with this too, trying to capture some of my own screenshots of some of these classic games. Reading the doco from th...

I tried the XEX version of Galaxian for the Atari 800XL but is not working either. Please tell me what setting are you using or where to get the working XEX. Thank you. Do you mean the 1982 Galaxian by Atari? I tried a XEX version of the game and the joystick did work. Which version of the game did you try? BIOS: OS A RAM: 64K Start game with F6 W...

I get normal speed music on both setups below: Checked my settings on the MegaAGS build referenced above: CPU: 68020 D-Cache: Off Chipset: AGA ChipRAM: 2M FastRAM: 384M SlowRAM: None TV Standard: PAL Stereo Mix: 50% Audio Filter: On Model: A1200 Paula: Normal Also booted up a plain-Jane A500 config and loaded it from floppy. CPU: 68000 Chipset: OCS...

I had very similar symptoms recently with a very similar scenario. Mine appeared to be all about amps and a new, much higher ampage PSU solved the problem.

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Did you copy across all the minimig cfg files as well?

minimig.cfg
minimig1.cfg
minimig2.cfg
minimig3.cfg

I can't really think of too many other issues. MISter runs the minimig.cfg which loads the MegaAGS boot rom and mounts the hdf.

Also, in answer to your question - "Should I be looking for a different hdf to use?": No, the MegaAGS image has just about everything you could want from the gaming side. Press Escape and it will drop you into an enhanced Workbench too. All that's missing for the complete experience is a noisy, slow floppy drive and an occasional Guru Med...

Both floppy drives, DF0 and DF1 should have * No Disk * In the Drives section, it should be configured like this: IDE A600/A1200 : ON FAST-IDE (68020): ON PRI. MASTER: FIXED/HDD MEGAAGS.HDF PRI. SLAVE: FIXED/HDD MEGAAGS-SAVES.HDF SEC MASTER and SLAVE should both be disabled. Finally, in SYSTEM, the important setting is: ROM: MEGAAGS-KICKSTART.ROM

That worked well, thanks KnC. Is that documented anywhere I should have checked?

I've tried a couple of rom files but this game corrupts from the title screen. It launches into a demo game faster than it should too and the game runs at an appalling and unplayable framerate. I've tried the same rom on Fusion 3.6.1 and it runs perfectly. Strangely Speedball 2 and all other MS games I tried seem to run well. Can someone else confi...

FYI. The new PSU arrived today, a Meanwell Desktop Adapter 25W 5V 5A 2.1mm DC jack (GST40A05-P1J)
It's early days but everything seems to be working again!

Interesting that everything worked fine with the original adapter for many months...

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the trouble-shooting.

All, I've ordered the 5V 5A Meanwell PSU recommended by RealLarry. I've also contected the seller, MisterAddOns, for some assistance. 0) Inline switch- Possible source of voltage drop, try leaving that out and testing I can't. The splitter won't run without the switch. 1) Picture: A pic of the top of the actual USB board itself if possible. Also pr...

PQR wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:17 pm The problems you describe sound pretty similar to the issue I am currently facing.

Yes, the symptoms do sound very similar but, because I'm using the power splitter, it shouldn't be the same root cause. However, I'll open 'er up and have a look. Thanks for the tip!