@robinhoodie Great! It’s funny, yesterday I actually tried out my old NES zapper with the MiSTer via SNAC (in no small part inspired by you) and I was also blown away by how well it worked. In fact, I was way better at Duck Hunt than I ever was before lol. I also recently found my SNES Super Scope, so I might have to give that a go as well. One of the first games I played with the MiSTer was actually Battle Clash, which definitely held up, but did not feel great using the mouse as a virtual light gun.
@kory I was banging my head against the wall trying to get a Wii mote to operate as a light gun and just went the SNAC route and yeah its super accurate. I really hope that at some point things open up enough that there is a little flexibility with which light guns can be used with which core. Would be really happy to see some arcade light shooters on there one day.
Good to hear on that 68000 core!
In probably less exciting news cores for the Fairchild Channel F, the first cartridge based console, and the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the “Parts: The Clonus Horror” of game consoles, have been released! Enjoy getting their bespoke attached controllers to work on modern stuff! (Well I guess the Arcadia basically uses Intellivision controllers so there is some ease there).
Fairchild Channel F
Emerson Arcadia 2001
If they ever get a Jaguar core up and running I have no idea how I'm going to be able to approximate the controller. But yeah, it has made the Intellevision core a nightmare to try and dip into.
Quick heads up for anyone interested, I’ve gotten Wonderwitch games running on the MiSTer core using Trap15’s romwitch script. You need a “retail” wonderwitch game rom, like Judgement Silversword or Dicing Knight, but the couple of games that I’ve tested are working correctly. Here’s a link to the script:
https://bitbucket.org/trap15/romwitch/src/master/
The MiSTer core doesn’t support the hardware instructions the Wonderwitch uses to write to it’s internal flash memory and so it’ll fail to run the regular old Wonderwitch correctly, but this is a workable alternative if you’re interested in playing some Wonderwitch games.
Quick PSA for anyone interested in picking up a MiSTer in time for the holidays. Terasic is bumping up the prices for DE-10 Nano boards in response to the ongoing chip shortage. It‘s going up from about 170 to 208. You can backorder on digikey or mouser and get them for $170 still right now, so if you’re at all interested in getting one and want to save some scratch, it‘s probably going to be a good long while before this whole chip shortage things sorts itself out. It’s a big investment but also: it‘s awesome. It’s the best dang retro gaming value around.
@donrumata Wow that’s a lot… I got it last year for $152 including tax and shipping and have been adding parts through out the year. It is awesome and value is totally there but whole thing put together got very very pricey.
FPGAzumSpass’ PSX core now loads CD image.
Binary is not released but source is on github so my friend compiled one for me. It’s great! It’s very early with low compatibility, no sound, no memory card, glitchy graphic, crashes but games that work are running great, full speed as far as I could tell. Games he’s using to develop like Crash, Sypro, Croc are running great like you see in his videos. Control using DS4 via Mayflash adapter feeling nice and swift. I’m barely scratching my iso pile but earlier games have higher compatibility. Dr. Slump with English patch is running so this core is already A+. He hasn’t posted many 2d only games but couple of Capcom 2d fighters I tested play fine with some minor graphic glitches. I’m super impressed already! It feels like going back to the early days of PSX emulation. Pretty exciting to try bunch of bins and see what runs.
I also learned from the video description that you can load games via network drive. So I followed this video and linked up my iso drive on pc.
So good! I can just surf the whole dang centralized pile. Going over those PSX games is nice and breezy. Nice way to deal with new downloads like translations and hacks.
Also! Mister now has shadow mask filters to simulate crt shapes beyond scanlines. Take a look at TrashUncle’s Shadow Mask Pack.
There are realistic ones like this JVC
And bunch of fantasy ones like this
If those are not enough, you can make your own!
@KennyL Is there a gallery somewhere showing what the effect of applying these looks like? I’d be interested to see the same scene but with the different masks applied, to better understand what the final output looks like
@rejj
Go to shadow mask editor here
MiSTer - Shadow Mask Editor
Load a game image under Background Type and under Load Mask, load these shadow masks
https://github.com/trashuncle/TrashUncle-Shadow_Masks/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
You might need to set Preview Type to Accurate for image to show up.
This rules
The shadow masks and video processing filters are awesome if you are using a CRT PC monitor. You can make it look like a variety of PVMs, BVMs or consumer CRTs. Here is a before and after on a 1995 IBM monitor at 1024x768 with integer scaling.
Without the video processing its too razer sharp. You do get a little of the CRT’s grill but only if your nose is against the screen:
With the processing you get the lovely blending and scanlines:
I’m using:
Horz Filter - Upscaling - Recommended/GS_Sharpness_035 (applies blur - lower is blurrier)
Vert Filter - Scanlines - Standard/Scanlines_50 (lower number is darker and more prominent)
Scan Filter - none (not sure what it does…)
Gamma correction - Poly_Gamma/Poly 2.5
Shadow Mask - 1x - Trashuncle/CRT/A Grille [Monochrome] (Generic Consumer TV [RGB] and PVM [Monochrome] are good too)
Under video I use the fullscreen stretch since I’m doing single integer scaling, then I stretch the image some more using the monitors manual adjustments.
For 1080p displays I use the Vertical Crop 5x scaling and set the Aspect Ratio back to Original. Basically makes it look like a Retrotink 5x. There are even some Retrotink 5x style shadow masks
More PSX and Saturn progress!
(the audio already works with a single SDRAM btw)
This is really exciting as someone who owns a Guncon 2 and has no intention of getting another light gun.
Can’t wait to play Metal Combat: Falcon’s Revenge this way
The only key feature I thought was missing from the MiSTer is already being worked on and already has some initial builds.
Composite and S-Video support is coming to MiSTer!
That big hunking mister 2022 video is here
ESP Ra.De. core was released this morning, it’s awesome!
@穴 God I can’t wait - I only have CRTs with S-Video and composite and didn’t want to import that one adapter from that one dude. Mister Addons guy is also working on a new IO board with some S-Video and composite features (guessing they are native ports on the board???)
@copySave yeah, i also heard about that, I wonder what’s going to be the difference between the two options.
If the mister add-ons board works universally with every core that would be fantastic because I mainly want composite for tate arcade stuff and i don’t think they are going to add composite for every arcad core. I also only have one crt with RGB and i like to have a second one for tate so having composite for that second crt would be great