To be fair, they said they compared to bsnes, which bsnes is the most accurate and compatible thing out there in terms of software emulators. Shortly before Near passed away... they went over how the Super FX implementation on the MiSTer is not as accurate as it is in bsnes currently.darksakul wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:51 pm And when the only comparisons are to software emulation, yes I will discount the accuracy reports.
What software emulation was used, what version, what settings.
Anyone got their FX Pak Pro flash cart with the rom warmed up and running on a Snes or Super NT.
Better yet the real cart. It's irrelevant how a Software emulator performs compared to FPGA unless the same dev worked on both.
I've also done test rom comparisons using basically all known test roms out there and there are a number of tests, a few of them low-level math associated, that the MiSTer core doesn't pass but both real hardware and bsnes do pass. The only one fixed since I did this was the test that was failing in the beavis and butthead issue awhile ago on github.
I was asking questions because I wasn't sure what they were talking about. Real hardware comparisons are better, yes, but bsnes is as close to real hardware as you are gonna get in terms of compatibility. bsnes is more compatible and more accurate than the MiSTer SNES core, you can objectively measure this with all of the test roms yourself if you don't believe me. It takes awhile, but you may learn something from it. And that's not a jab at the MiSTer core, the MiSTer core is like 99.9% there basically... bsnes took well over a decade of pioneering work that the MiSTer SNES core has benefited from.
Also a romcart will not be sufficient if your goal is to only compare to real hardware, as that is an FPGA implementation of the SuperFX 2, and not the real thing. I have found hardware reimplementation bugs in Mega Everdrive Pro that is not fixed, for instance.
Everybody cool off a bit, no need to get mad at each other right now. We are a buncha nerds, it's okay.