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Mister FPGA

lovelyhead said:
I see Taki Udon is working on a 4K Superstation One and also a SNES FPGA console that can take SNES cartridges.
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Few people working on 4K MiSTer. I'd rather put the money towards a 4K scaler. At least you can use it with different consoles including MiSTer.
 
What are the benefits of a 4K mister? Native resolution? I heard the 4K boards were cheaper than the 1080 ones at the moment.
 
Lodjik said:
What are the benefits of a 4K mister? Native resolution? I heard the 4K boards were cheaper than the 1080 ones at the moment.
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I'm no expert but I have read that to enable 4K you would need to use a separate scaler chip which would free up around 10% processing power on the FPGA. The problem is that cores would need to be remade to support 4K.
 
lovelyhead said:
I see Taki Udon is working on a 4K Superstation One and also a SNES FPGA console that can take SNES cartridges.
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He's been talking about this for over a year, there was some teaser renders of them knocking around

I'll see if I can find them and edit this post...

Here's PCN video on Taki's NES -
 
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What's the crack with the Mr multi system 2?
Is there a comparison to software solutions? I'd like to see the difference to see if FPGA is worth it
 
Cyber-Mav said:
What's the crack with the Mr multi system 2?
Is there a comparison to software solutions? I'd like to see the difference to see if FPGA is worth it
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There probably are videos out there to compare image quality/differences. How I would explain it is that FPGA emulation is aimed at accuracy and better latency rather than enhancements etc. So if you're happy with software emulation there might not be any need to pick up a MiSTer device.

Output of the MiSTer currently goes upto 1920x1440, but the internal resolution will match the game 240p/480p or i.

Accuracy is said to be really good, but it is not without issues. Most would liken it to playing on the original hardware compared to software emulation.

It is very easy to set up, and there are some options to remove certain stuff like dithering etc. You can get adapters to use original hardware controllers/accessories. It is quite a cool system and very versatile. If you have a beefy PC and emulate then this may or may not be for you. However, I would say it is miles better than a Raspberry Pi (although they are pretty good and of course emulate more).
 
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Cyber-Mav said:
What's the crack with the Mr multi system 2?
Is there a comparison to software solutions? I'd like to see the difference to see if FPGA is worth it
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I've got a MultiSystem 2 and it's just the same as any of the MisterFPGA in terms of performance but it's in a nice form factor without extra boards or additions. It is cycle accurate so will be better in terms of response times and accuracy to software emulation but if I'm honest I don't notice much difference between emulation and FPGA.
 
Kyle009 said:
I've got a MultiSystem 2 and it's just the same as any of the MisterFPGA in terms of performance but it's in a nice form factor without extra boards or additions. It is cycle accurate so will be better in terms of response times and accuracy to software emulation but if I'm honest I don't notice much difference between emulation and FPGA.
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Does it do scanlines etc using shaders?
 
The SuperStation is amazing it's been so easy to use with the companion pc app and update all. I have taught myself how to manually add supported games and now have arcade versions of narc, smash tv, Outrunners and light force working .

I have found info on getting endure racer and space harrier working so they will be my next challenge.

The only system I haven't got working yet is neogeo and neo geo cd - ive not really spent much time on that yet though (it's probably something im doing wrong - i need to read the docs).

Arcade, nes, snes, zx spectrum, amiga, vectrex, gba, psx, atari and megadrive have all been flawless.

I haven't tried Saturn yet - sega rally should be good.

I am still on the 64gb card that came with it. Im going to upgrade to a 128gb card that is in my switch 1. The companion app on pc has a card migration tool which should save me a bunch of time.
 
jennidc said:
The SuperStation is amazing it's been so easy to use with the companion pc app and update all. I have taught myself how to manually add supported games and now have arcade versions of narc, smash tv, Outrunners and light force working .

I have found info on getting endure racer and space harrier working so they will be my next challenge.

The only system I haven't got working yet is neogeo and neo geo cd - ive not really spent much time on that yet though (it's probably something im doing wrong - i need to read the docs).

Arcade, nes, snes, zx spectrum, amiga, vectrex, gba, psx, atari and megadrive have all been flawless.

I haven't tried Saturn yet - sega rally should be good.

I am still on the 64gb card that came with it. Im going to upgrade to a 128gb card that is in my switch 1. The companion app on pc has a card migration tool which should save me a bunch of time.
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Update-all makes life much, much easier honestly.
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Update-all makes life much, much easier honestly.
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100%.

There are some additional files you can add alongside to download different cores not typically part of the update_all scripts - unstable / dualram and also dreaded AI cores :D (I tried the Meathax System 32 last night and it seems quite good). The unstable ini would be useful for some of the cores currently being worked on such as the 3DO.
 
JoeBoi said:
100%.

There are some additional files you can add alongside to download different cores not typically part of the update_all scripts - unstable / dualram and also dreaded AI cores :D (I tried the Meathax System 32 last night and it seems quite good). The unstable ini would be useful for some of the cores currently being worked on such as the 3DO.
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I have no issue with the AI cores if they play with no glitches etc end of the day, they give us more choice which isn’t a bad thing
 
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