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Any required changes to the .ini file for FDS testing? Gave it a quick try, but I'm guessing I need to set up a ROM path or something. If I run with "mister_sam_on.sh fds" it says "Nintendo Disk System Selected!" but then runs other cores. I tried setting a few different things for "fdspath" assuming that's what we ne...

Oh, sorry, no shuffler issue. There was an issue with the exclusion list before on zips, but it sounds like you fixed it. Without going in and doctoring my folder structure, I don't have an easy way of telling whether it's pulling from an excluded folder or not--just wait around long enough and the shuffler will black screen on a game if it hits a ...

Just at a quick test, and TTY2OLED is giving me some grief after the update. SAM shuffling appears to work great at this point and I don't see anything that stands out (though the exclusion list is hit or miss as to whether it even randomly decides to show). This update basically breaks TTY2OLED support entirely while SAM is running. If SAM is disa...

Super glad to be able to help out. SAM is one of my favorite things about MiSTer right now. I work from home full time, and Twitch/music make for fine backround but get old after long enough exposure. Anything else like Youtube or Netflix is too distracting. I often just leave SAM running all day, and it always shows me something interesting and ne...

Upgraded my scripts, attached for anyone that wants them. Now they put symlinks in the root instead of moving RBFs, and leave the _Console folder entirely intact. This allows MiSTer_SAM to work, among other things. Just edit the script to do the cores you want "favorited" on the homescreen.

After that big mess, I did one more try before deciding I just have to wipe everything. Only thing I could think of is that I was making several ini changes at a time (timers, TTY, USB0 paths for CD cores, adding PSX). This time I took it exactly one step at a time. Full step by step notes below: Wipe SAM Cold reboot Copy freshly download MiSTer_SA...

IGNORE THIS POST. LOTS OF TESTING YIELDED NOTHING. POST WITH MEANINGFUL FINDINGS INCOMING! Alright, boatload more testing here. Highlights in the post, SAM files and more detailed note sin attachments. Wiping SAM (leaving tmp), reinstalling main branch worked as expected. I set arcade only, then updated to test, it shuffled those OK. But when I th...

Whatever that arcade failing to load issue is, it started happening again. After the full SAM reset, I set it to shuffle just arcade cores and ran for like 15 minutes no problem. Set all cores back up in the ini, rebooted, ran for a while, and then as soon as it hit the arcade core again it froze. After it happened the first time, it happens every ...

LamerDeluxe wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:08 pm I found a bug: Starting single core mode from the SAM menu pops up a 'no rbf found' error message.

Did you by chance try starting PSX this way, while it's in the _Unstable folder? I found the same thing, but that's because SAM is looking for it in _consoles. I can successfully start in single core mode from terminal.

Thanks for the analysis. I can not reproduce your problem unfortunately. You are using the latest main build correct? Are you using update-all for your Arcade stuff? Yep. Ran update all just a few minutes ago to get the System16 stuff. That should have main updated as well. Just to be safe, I reverted to the main channel, and it fails in the same ...

Yeah, don't think it was related to that. Shuffled again with 2 minute switchover time. Ran for a while, saw loads of games from various cores, and then eventually it hit MechWarrior on SNES and just stayed on it indefinitely. Will try launching from terminal to see if it gives any better insight. Edit: Ran "MiSTer_SAM_ON.sh monitor" on a...

Yeah, my directory looks something like this. SuperGrafx folder has all SGX ROMs. Screenshot 2022-03-11 120533.png Just saw a case where it shuffled into a GBA game, then never shuffled away even long after the timer was up. I think this might have coincided with my BT controller timeout, so maybe it read that as an input. Will do some more testing...

TTY2OLED looks good. PSX works! Will enable all cores and let it shuffle for a while and see how it goes. Edit: Ran into an odd scenario where it looks like attempted to load the entire SuperGrafX zip file as a ROM. On the TTY, it even said "3 SuperGrafx" as the game name. When I browse through for files, I can navigate the zip normally a...

OK, can confirm that I get working PSX launches from the main menu with this: <mistergamedescription> <rbf>_Console/PSX</rbf> <file delay="0" type="S" index="1" path="1 USA/CHD A-C/Chrono Cross (USA)/Chrono Cross (USA) (Disc 1).chd"/> </mistergamedescription> Looks like the other CD cores were S0 and this is ...

SAM script that works with current TTY: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1887&start=780#p43043. There's another one lower down that does random effects between the core logo and game. Just updated, and get the following on stable main: NeoGeo now works! (And with zips!) MegaCD now works! PSX still sticks in BIOS. Looking at the Gi...

Yes, just enter your preferred settings in mister.ini: ; Default filters for video scaler. Paths must be relative to "Filters" folder without leading slash. vfilter_default=LCD Effects/LCD_Effect_07.txt vfilter_vertical_default=<some_file> vfilter_scanlines_default=<some_file> ;default Shadow Mask shmask_default=VGA.txt Every core will de...

I have two fully populated NeoGeo folders. One with zips, one with loose files in folders. When I want to test with zips, I just rename the loose folder to "games/NeoGeoLoose". When I want to test loose folders, I name the zipped folder "games/NeoGeoZip". And whatever is "active" is just "games/NeoGeo". Neith...

Giving it a quick test, and it's looking neat so far. Not cycling through the menus looks so much nicer, and makes it faster too. Issues: NeoGeo fails for me. Just get a black screen when it selects the core. I have .neo format in a couple of big zip files, so that might be why-even just browsing can be slow. Tried unzipping and it still fails. Bot...

Yep, I've re-enabled in the config menu multiple times today, no change in behavior.

Has anyone successfully used this in offline mode yet? Was playing around with SAM today, and it looks like there are two files in my .MiSTer_SAM folder that are not included in that directory on the github: patrun mbc When running for the first time, it re-populates those files though I'm not sure if they're self generated or being pulled from so...

Doesn't look like any cores are updated to use them. Beta cores and test filters should be available over on Discord. New features like this take time to roll out. We don't even have adaptive scanlines in the updater yet, and those came out weeks ago.

I'm not sure if it changed on the MiSTer side via update_all.sh, or via a MiSTer SAM update, but my SAM is now correctly traversing all of the available cores again :) Happy to hear that! I think the new MGL files could help the MiSTer SAM script to work more reliably, if it was adapted to use them. Yeah, if SAM could randomly select a ROM, create...

Glad I could help, congrats to your 1st picture which is a really nice one. But which CORE does it belong to? The problem is, in short, that it's impossible (for now) to get a picture for a game that isn't an arcade one (i.e. driven by a MRA file) and that hasn't it's own CORE (i.e. Xeno Crisis for Genesis - the CORE (and it's name) is genesis the...

I'm not aware of any commercial ones, though I think I've seen people say they've wired their own SNAC port directly into the GPIO pins. I can't be of any specific help there, and unless you can find someone that's done it do provide details, you'd have to reverse engineer a solution from the IO board PCBA design.

I wouldn't just buy any random 128MB stick, but as long as it's from a reputable vendor you should be OK. For now, there's no compelling reason to get a second stick for PS1, and Saturn is still too far out to really know if it's going to be needed. Just get a single 128MB stick for now, and maybe sometime down the road get another if it turns out ...

The blur I'm talking about is horizontal and not present on CRTs (or at least to much lesser extent). It causes individual pixels to blend, not scanlines. The scanline-vertical one, the one OP was referring to, is indeed nearly the same on both, so that's fine. Blending is controlled by the horizontal filter. If you go into the recommended upscali...

You can have a gander at my mister.ini, but I got a fresh one from the wiki for this experiment so there shouldn't be any old residue present. I think this is your culprit: vscale_mode=0 ; 0 - scale to fit the screen height. ; 1 - use integer scale only. ; 2 - use 0.5 steps of scale. ; 3 - use 0.25 steps of scale. Try setting to 1 insead of 0. If ...

Use video_mode=12 and load the preset for SNES. Switch the different integer settings to see what you find works best. And if this doesn't work (TV displays nothing) just set video_mode-8 for 1080p for the highest standard resolution supported by MiSTer. That's what I have to use on my 4K display, and scanlines look great. It's two quick tests, an...

akeley wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:36 pm Resolution? I thought MiSTer just syncs to the display's native one. On my PC that's .

MiSTer uses whatever resolution you set in your mister.ini file. If you've never touched that, it's probably defaulting to 720p.

Is there a write up and/or example somewhere, explaining how to get a basic shadowmasks/scanlines combo going? This could also be used as a reference point, because otherwise such discussion is a little bit pointless. Just load a preset from the video processing menu if you just want to get your feet wet. The PVM preset is a great starting point, ...