Sony PlayStation

[hot marsh]

it's a wired controller

[desert otter]

I forgot to mention that wireless I think is guaranteed to not work on a PS1

oh I see. it's some like, accessibilty controller or something?

[versed citrus]

Sorry if this has been asked. I've searched google and youtube the past 3 hours and can't find a definitive answer. Does the Wii Remote (via the Mayflash Dolphinbar) work on PSX core MiSTer?

[desert otter]

I don't think so

last I heard it was some sort of hack some dude somewhere supposedly got working? not sure.

@versed citrus you said you searched around, I literally just googled for this and this is the first thing that pops up. have you seen this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBoZDGn0e3U

Not sure how this works and if any amount of the setup is somehow translatable to using it as a lightgun on playstation or not.

[versed citrus]

Yes, I have seen it. He's not using the Mayflash Dolphinbar.

[desert otter]

so your question is specifically in regards to using a MayFlash Dolphin bar?

[versed citrus]

Yes

[desert otter]

I wouldn't know about that bro.
I think that bar is specifically built to be used on PC with Dolphin emulator and has built in bluetooth for the WiiMote and all that jazz.

I would think it probably works anyways

cuz the bar is just an IR blaster

it doesn't sense or track in any way. it just emits pulses of infrared light that the WiiMote sensor uses to understand where it's pointing

[versed citrus]

OK. I think I'll just go buy another USB light bar. Thanks for the second opinion

[desert otter]

Are you currently trying to use the MayFlash?

[versed citrus]

Yes

[desert otter]

I see. Yeah, if it's not working even if that video says it does, then perhaps getting a more generic bar will work.

great thing about Amazon is you can just return it if it doesn't work

@versed citrus question first. does using the mayflash work on the other cores that video shows?

[versed citrus]

Nah, it doesn't. I tried with NES

[desert otter]

ah ok, so it literally doesn't work at all. Then yeah, I would go on a limb and say you maybe need a more generic bar

[versed citrus]

Sorgelig was going to look into adding compatibility some years ago, but closed the thread due to lack of interest.https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=36666&sid=7c58aa746dee2566a836b134ff6fadad&start=75

[desert otter]

there was probably a lack of interest cuz not many people have a Dolphin bar, and not many people who don't would want to bother getting one specifically

and out of those that do have one, very few probably care to use it with a MiSTer

[frail storm]

So, what bar does people use on the MiSTer for Wiimote-as-lightgun?? What bar does really work??
I suppose the original Wii bar, but how to power it without a Wii??

[versed citrus]

You have to use a 3rd party USB light bar apparently, and not the official wii sensor bar

[desert otter]

I mean, you could use an original bar if you did clipped the plug off it and rewired it to a USB for power

but that seems like a waste of a good OEM bar so probably better to just pay the $10 on amazon for a generic USB bar

[frail storm]

Ah, so generic USB bars are different from Dolphin Bar, right?
Also, a Bluetooth adapter is needed if I'm not mistaken...
Do you know of any Wifi+Bluetooth (2 in 1) adapters for the MiSter?

I'm looking at this one: https://www.amazon.es/TP-Link-Nano-Archer-T2UB-inal-C3-A1mbrico-dp-B0BJ7XJ27X/dp/B0BJ7XJ27X/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
..but I don't know if the MiSTer kernel would support those chips

[desert otter]

I think you can just use whatever BT+WiFI adapter you want.
but there is a cheap one on Ali you can get that others use.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256805762544094.html?

listed at $4.26 for me with $1.99 shipping

so after a little tax it's like $7

[frail storm]

Wow, that cheap one seems to be... cheap! And widely used amongst MiSTer users too which is the best guarantee I could hope for! Thanks a lot man!

You don't happen to know about an Aliexpress working USB bar so I can buy both there, do you?

[desert otter]

I would just assume you can get any one of them since they are all probably gonna be the same

[frail storm]

I see.. there I go then, generic bar adventures! 😄

[desert otter]

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806010781460.html?

this one has good reviews and has sold a couple hundred.

[frail storm]

Thanks, that one I will get then 😄

[desert otter]

basically for the price of one of those things on Amazon you get the two. I love buying shit directly from China sometimes

You'll just have to wait 1 to 2 weeks depending on where it's shipping to

takes about 1 week for me living in Southern California

[harsh shale]

Yes

You can literally use any source of 2 lights even two candles, generic usb bars and the Wii sensor bar are just 2 infrared LEDs. Dolphin bar has extra technology to also pair the wiimotes, and works in like three different modes

So with a non dolphin bar you will need a Bluetooth adapter

[wanton crown]

how I wish the psx core would do the same thing as a real ps1 or ps2 when opening and closing the lid, which allows to skip cutscenes in FF9.
It works with the psx core only if you don't pause gameplay with OSD (disable the option) and unmount and remount the game image in realtime. Which then becomes annoying when you need to go fast but still need to save to memory card. Nothing really problematic, but the "open lid / close lid" option in "Miscallenous" should have made this simpler

There's also a trick we discussed long time ago, even with the OSD pausing the same, which consists in unmounting the game, loading CD2, then CD1 again and it safely works as well

[serene nebula]

Man, I’m a diehard PS1 fan and I didn’t know about that open/close lid trick.

[wanton crown]

as far as I know it's only useful in FF9, since you have to speedrun the game (under 12 hours) to aquire the most powerful weapon

I just fully finished the game on the PSX core and it was really nice. Now planning on doing the hardest challenge (stay lvl 1 and get the speedrun weapon), but unfortunately skipping cutscenes is very impractical compared to real hardware so I might stick to my x-station modded PSX

[tawny palm]

The greatest PS1 trick was to use the Lunar Silver Star Story bonus disc to unlock the secret vocal song FMV in Xenogears.

[serene nebula]

Wat

[tawny palm]

It's true! If you play the Lunar bonus disc in a PS1, and open the lid and replace the disc with the Xenogears disc, it will play a secret FMV that features the vocal theme version of the overworld theme in the game that is normally not accessible in the game.

[bitter lintel]

skip ff9 cutscenes? HEATHENS!

and once you've aquired the best weapon, the game is over.

[wanton crown]

really wish this was a feature so I don't have to replug real hardware just for this very specific case

[serene nebula]

I am pretty sure you can achieve it without skipping cutscenes.

Or use cheats.

[wanton crown]

It's possible but still it's a real hardware feature

[serene nebula]

Feature is stretching it. Sounds like a hardware quirk based on interrupting streaming FMV from the disc.

[desert otter]

you know, there is this thing called YouTube.
so the only real reason to do this is for the novelty of actually swapping out discs which would be something you don't get by doing it via emulation in MiSTer, so if you were just trying to do this with a MiSTer you might as well also just watch a YouTube video.

Or use a PC emulator to do it as well perhaps (there might be a way idk)

[serene nebula]

Yeah I was looking into it. It’s very much achievable without manipulating the hardware to bypass cutscenes but it’s of course much easier to skip because you save 35m.

But reading guides, playing it on the PS2 is the best version because of shorter load times - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197338-final-fantasy-ix/faqs/41181

The PSX core allows for cheats, tons of codes for Excalibur 2 - https://gamehacking.org/game/88847

[scenic reef]

doing 100% completion with excalibur ii is doable without skipping cutscenes even

it's a ton harder on the new rereleases of ffix not only because of input lag but shorter input window for stuff like the fencing performance at the beginning of the game

[serene nebula]

Oh the ports to Switch / PC?

[scenic reef]

yeah, ps4 and ps5 have a port as well

but yeah ps2 will give you the "unfair" advantage hehe

[serene nebula]

lol

[frail storm]

So Dolphin bar works on the MiSTer without a Bluetooth adapter? 😮

[harsh shale]

No apparently not

PC, yes

Android, yes

[serene nebula]

get two candles, boom instant Wii bar

[frail storm]

That was my understanding, thanks Dinierto 😄

[harsh shale]

From what people are saying it's not working to pair on MiSTer, I believe

You could sweet talk someone into adding drivers maybe lol

https://tenor.com/view/puppy-dog-eyes-sad-saint-innocent-shrek-gif-5956398

[serene nebula]

Two candles!

🕯️📺🕯️

[harsh shale]

https://tenor.com/view/there-are-four-lights-picard-fuck-your-bullshit-star-trek-kingdom-of-bullshit-gif-14936675848561176051

[desert otter]

bruh, pretty sure you have to be in the most pitch black room for candles to work at more than like 2 feet away

and there's so many factors that get in the way of accuracy lol

[tropic stratus]

I wouldn't call it feature, the FF games are just very well programmed when it comes to CD handling or general timing. That's why you can do all kind of fast CD tricks and they will almost never fail. So when FF9 detects some issue with the CD, it rather skips the FMV then hanging there. A very graceful handling.
Making this a feature of the core...I mean, you can experiment with it in the code which part of the CD load is required to make it detect it if you really want it, but my motivation to spend time on researching that is very low, sorry.

[wanton crown]

no problem

as already stated you can already unmount the current image, load another CD and load the previous CD again to skip the cutscene on the PSX core, so it's technically still doable on mister, just a bit tedious

I was mainly focused on the PS1 but PS2 and PS3 (especially PS3 where it doesn't work) seem to have quirks with this trick, so probably not intended indeed

[merry hound]

Or $9 and not burn the house down: https://www.amazon.com/Nextronics-Sensor-Bar-USB-Wii/dp/B001UAAX60

If you are handy: https://rolandtapken.de/blog/2017-07/mod-wii-sensor-bar-usb-power-supply

[harsh shale]

there are even battery ones

[merry hound]

Used Wii is cheap enough you could always....

[desert otter]

The only reason to buy the USB bar from Amazon is if either you're impatient and want to try and get faster shipping (assuming you have access to such things where you live) or if you just can't order from Ali because of where you live.

[serene nebula]

have you tried candles?

[wanton crown]

nevermind, was attempting the FF9 exalibur 2 perfect run and it just crashed when I attempted skipping the second cutscene, so I guess I'll just go back to real hardware for this specific case 😦

[merry hound]

Instructions unclear, still not working

[serene nebula]

lololol that’s a Wii bar overclock mod

omg Batman tv is so cool

[merry hound]

My fav "themed" set, Winnie The Pooh being second. Shrek is way down the list but I wasn't of the shrek generation.

[honest idol]

Is the PSX core currently available? I'd like to try it out on my mister.

[tawny palm]

Yes, it's in the main distribution. So just using update all will grab it for you.

It's very good by the way.

[honest idol]

awesome! I was supporting theypsilon but he's no longer active

😦

thanks 😄

I want to try out my copy of SoTN

[desert otter]

@honest idol are you playing on a CRT?

[honest idol]

unfortunately no

[desert otter]

nevermind then.

[honest idol]

lost my amiga 1804 in a move 😦

wish i still had one though

🙂

i wanted a Sony WEGA but they are too damn big and heavy 😦

or an FD Trinitron

[desert otter]

turbo mode in the OSD can go up to 50% more CPU speed btw (1.5x CPU) which can give some better performance in some games but make others just sped up. (games that benefit most from it are games like Need For Speed)
There's a 2X variant of the core that has the High Turbo mode push 2x speed rather than 1.5x

[tawny palm]

Road Rash is also fantastic with the turbo mode. The 3DO port that is, which was done by EA around the same time as Need for Speed.

[desert otter]

should totally play SotN at 2x CPU.

[tawny palm]

I actually didn't know about the 2X variant. Is it under test cores?

[honest idol]

i love RR2 on the MD

[desert otter]

check the pins in here

[honest idol]

the music is done by my favorite video game composer

rob hubbard

[tawny palm]

There's a hacked version that can run at 30fps on the original Genesis core!

[honest idol]

(of the 8-bit era)

oh cool!

is the PS2 out of reach of the MiSTer's capabilities?

[tawny palm]

Definitely out of reach.

[honest idol]

OK thx

[tawny palm]

Even Dreamcast doesn't seem likely.

[honest idol]

i'm glad that Jaguar is capable (so far so good)

[tawny palm]

That said, I'm no core developer, so take my word with a grain of salt.

[honest idol]

of course.

i appreciate the advice

🙂

[desert otter]

nah, 6th gen is definitely out of scope of the DE10's capabilities

(and no, handheld gens don't count before anybody tries to say some shit about the GBA)

[serene nebula]

PSX core isn’t good

[tawny palm]

Wait fooooor it!

[desert otter]

ur mom is though

https://tenor.com/view/deez-ha-got-heem-got-em-got-him-gif-4824899

[tawny palm]

Filling in for the awbacon's absence!?

[desert otter]

don't think I've seen him be like that in here before. BasketSnake and InsaneFriend on the other hand....

[tawny palm]

Oh you sweet summer child.

The longer Robby waits to get to the punchline, the more likely I am to screenshot his comment and send it to Robert!

[serene nebula]

SHIT OK

PSX CORE IS FREAKING AMAZING!!!

😰

[desert otter]

so it was a Tony the Tiger knockoff joke.

"PSX Core isn't good.... it's grrrreat!"

[tawny palm]

No worries Robby, we love you! 🫂

[somber steppe]

No we don't love Robby

WE WORSHIP HIM

[desert otter]

[tawny palm]

Are we wittnessing the advent of the Cult of Robby?

[serene nebula]

NOPE

[desert otter]

The Advent of Children

badum tshh

[serene nebula]

I’ll delete my discord name so help me god

[tawny palm]

I think you mean, "so help me Robby"

[serene nebula]

Cult of PSX

[somber steppe]

What about that grape flavoured cool-aid you made me buy?

[desert otter]

I was literally thinking that same joke just before you said it Mario

ew. grape? dafuq is wrong with ya'll

[somber steppe]

I'm not sure if I can elaborate on the reference without getting into trouble.

[desert otter]

Kool-Aid isn't supposed to have a flavor. It's just supposed to be coloring in some water with a ton of sugar

[honest idol]

so sugar water tastes like... grape?

i'm late to the party

[still palm]

Great Blue-Dini disagrees with you

[honest idol]

ooo

[desert otter]

mono

in stereo

https://tenor.com/view/wait-what-meme-wait-a-minute-gif-14484132

there's two Shrek TVs

classic

[merry hound]

Two Mickey's as well but I ran out of cables so had to leave one out.

[honest idol]

@tawny palm Hey mate, is it OK to talk about that hacked core for the MD?

in the appropriate channel

[silent bridge]

Hmmmmmm Hacked for what?

[honest idol]

never mind

thought it was like unlicensed or something for some reason.

[prisma salmon]

Been getting E2 crashes playing the Linda Cube Again fan translation patch, anyone else run in to this?

[mystic violet]

@prisma salmon does the redump version work without issues?

[frail relic]

Hello, is there available somewhere the latest psx core compiled for dual sdram?

[ivory verge]

#test-builds message

[frail relic]

Thank you, searched but i missed it somehow

[prisma salmon]

I haven’t played as much on the unpatched version, but I didn’t encounter any errors with it, so there’s probably something going on with the patch specifically

[mystic violet]

yup 🙂

[glacial orbit]

Does the PSX core have Link Cable support?

[ivory verge]

Nope

[glacial orbit]

Are there any limitations preventing it?

I was watching a couple of videos about multiplayer games through link cables and got curious 😛

[ivory verge]

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=65123#p65123

[glacial orbit]

Yeah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation

[abstract drift]

in a later post somewhere he also said if someone wanted to design all the hardware and do all the testing he'd do the code

but they have to like, start first and actually be serious. nobodies taken him up on it

[tropic stratus]

well, i'm not a hardware guy, so if noone is really interested in doing that work, it's pointless to write the HDL 🙂

[wanton crown]

I'll try to compile the core and implement the real hardware behavior when skipping cutscenes in FF9
I guess I should start looking at cd_top.vhd and the

if (LIDopen = '1') then
   -- Existing code: Marks the internal status to indicate the lid is open
   internalStatus(4) <= '1'; 

stuff

[glacial orbit]

No worries bud! Awesome that you've already answered the question, its one of those things I found online and got curious 😛

[wanton crown]

Looking at what the code seems to do, I've found a reliable way to skip cutscenes in FF9 without it ever crashing on the PSX core.

Assuming the core menu pauses the core, and you're playing a cutscene, all one has to do is :

1. open menu
2. open lid + load the same CD (unmounting the game will not work)
3. close menu
4. game is now frozen, just like on real hardware when opening the lid.
5. Wait 5 seconds. Otherwise it will not work and the cutscene will just resume where you left. Just imagine yourself taking the time to switch the game on real hardware.
6. open menu again
7. close lid + load the same CD again

enjoy

thus the PSX core indeed allows for the Excalibur 2 perfect run in FF9 with the same advantages as real hardware

when I say reliable, I mean it works 100% of the time.
I've also recompiled the core and I'm attempting to make this behavior without having to reselect the game image, but those compile times are killing me

All we need is the open lid function to do just a bit more than just setting a status bit, but also pause the cd drive and resume properly

[merry hound]

How about this unit, plays VCD's on the PSX:

Not the DVD playback everyone seems to want but 1/2 way there

[glacial orbit]

I'm a believer of Groovy_MiSTer now, we have the technology

[serene nebula]

I don’t believe it

[glacial orbit]

If you have those portable VCD/CD players, now we're talking 😄

[serene nebula]

This Ethernet cable is faster than my 4090?? Haw haw yeaaaaah right buddy

[glacial orbit]

Is that a GPU? or the cost?

[merry hound]

Both!

[desert otter]

Consumer ethernet cables can go up to 10gbps for a single cable

[serene nebula]

yeaaaaaaah right, it’s a little cable with wires, you gonna fit that much data in that tiny wire?

[desert otter]

Yes

[serene nebula]

I’ve got a water cooled bridge to sell you!!!

Rgb lighting too!!

[desert otter]

No thanks. Air cooling is king

[serene nebula]

[desert otter]

[merry hound]

Time to upgrade Robby

[serene nebula]

LMAO

[desert otter]

I think I'm good for a long while with my 3080

[serene nebula]

I’m too lazy for groovy mister so I will live vicariously through you wonderful people

[desert otter]

You say that yet you spent a month fucking with a pi

[serene nebula]

it sapped my energy lol

[merry hound]

Just tried it tonight, works great on my pvm but Commodore monitor I get a rolling screen on some games (MK games for instance)

[glacial orbit]

When I get my 7800XT and OLED monitor its over for you clowns

[bright girder]

Im having problems with a ps1 snac (retrocastle). I have nyko super gun ps1/saturn gun that acts as both a justifier and a guncon plugged into snac and running into a crt. As soon as I load the core with snac enabled for port 1 and 2 the gun goes dead and does nothing.

Has anyone had any luck with third party guns? Should I just buy a guncon?

[rose ermine]

I tried a Yobo lightgun that works as justfier, guncon 45 and guncon 2. It didn't work with snac. Guncon 45s did

[bright girder]

interesting, ill probably just snag a guncon. guncon 2 doesnt work with snac tho does it?

[desert otter]

I think it does

otherwise I don't think I would be seeing people in here buying them like they do

GC3 is an issue

@serene nebula your orange GC2's work on MiSTer right?

[serene nebula]

I use GunCon 3

[desert otter]

that's cuz you're a blasphemous heathen who turned traitor for a month.

but do GC2's work?

[serene nebula]

I’m pretty sure they do.

[desert otter]

I mean, it would make sense for official GCs to have support

which is what I thought

you working rn?

[serene nebula]

nah, taking care of the kids and my wife who’s very ill at the moment

I might have Covid too lol

aye yai yai lol

[still palm]

might want to check the switch on the retrocastle io board and see if it's set to I/O and not 3v3 if you're connecting the yellow composite plug to his snac. I think trigger would still work though.

[desert otter]

I hope it doesn't end up being too bad and you make it through

[bright girder]

Im using the analog io with aluminum case actually, but i think it has a similar jumper though. I'll check and see if that has an impact.

[still palm]

yeah it's a jumper on regular analog io board but I think he used a switch instead. I just looked at pic of his io board, but I'm not an expert on his stuff though.

[bright girder]

Sooo it was a jumper. i switched it and then immediately got justifier stuff working! I had to troubleshoot a bit more to get guncon going, but I got it all working now! Thank you so much!

[lilac scaffold]

guncon 2 works, is USB so doesnt need SNAC. Technically works with all cores due to that but has issues with dark scenes making it not ideal
guncon 1 with SNAC is the best for PSX with a CRT

https://github.com/NolanNicholson/GunCon2-MiSTer#guncon-2-performance-on-mister

[desert otter]

@manic canopy eyo, I just now started up your other variant of the core (not the v2) and it's way different. V2 still has darkness in it, but this other one is way more lit up and brightened image and it looks pretty much like it does coming from HDMI into my capture card.

[bright yacht]

I have a 3rd party ps1 lightgun that does not work a all via snac.
Friend of mine have another 3rd party one that works fine via snac.

[dawn wind]

I have a 3rd party GunCon 1/2 compat that works fine via snac and has a laser sight for some reason

[visual depot]

Sounds like a hot night to me.. does she like math @serene nebula?

[desert otter]

The pi was not cherry.

[serene nebula]

A gentlemen does not reveal

[honest idol]

[dawn wind]

Then why are you holding back on us?

[grand sage]

Playing Final Fantasy VII and had a couple of issues, wondering if they are worth reporting on github. First is that I noticed that in stereo audio channels are very low, characters hitting enemies, the sound effect when they die in a bunch of red polygons and the music balance is off, some melodies are very muted. I swtiched to Mono and everythign sounded normal. Second is that on the pictured section of the game you can fall through the train tracks, an FMV should play in the background as you control your characters direction on the way down. However on the core the FMV doesnt play back and just displays a static frame, then after a few seconds it continues goes back to the normal game.

[ivory verge]

no one reported it , many people completed FFVII without the problems you describe.

deafult settings ? no cheats ?

no hacks ?

[short rapids]

Don't enemies die in a bunch of red polygons in FFVII anyway?

[grand sage]

Default settings, latest core, no hacks or enchancements.

[ivory verge]

ok what settings do you have for the mister? resolution etc ?

storage media

[grand sage]

Sure, but they make a sound effect when they do, in stereo it can be barely audible.

[short rapids]

I completed FFVII on the core a while ago and had no problems with the music/sound. I played the game over cifs in chd format

[ivory verge]

yeah same

[grand sage]

SD card, running redump images in CHD format.

It's a shame that once you are through the section you cant fall back down the holes, I dont really want to play for 8 hours again to save before it for someone else to check!

It's weird, like with Missland freezing on the FMV for me yet @ivory verge had no issues running it, I really don't know what is wrong with my setup compared to everyone elses.

[short rapids]

Just had a quick test of a battle in FFVII and the audio seems to be fine. Used default settings, sorry I can't be more help!

[ivory verge]

I suggest you check another sd card

clean install , psx + ffvii

[grand sage]

Thanks for checking!

[grand sage]

I dont have another to hand but will pick one up, annoyingly I moved away from an external SSD as I got pauses before FMV's previously.

[ivory verge]

i use sandisk extreme

[grand sage]

I picked up one of these https://www.mymemory.co.uk/sandisk-256gb-ultra-microsd-card-sdxc-uhs-i-100mb-s.html Had hoped it would be fast enough.

[ivory verge]

can you upload your ini settings here ?

[grand sage]

Sure, give me a sec...

[grand sage]

Here ya go, thanks.

[ivory verge]

you can check core with vsync =0 instead of 2

but I don't think it's a problem

try enabling option "pause when CD slow"

[grand sage]

No joy with vsync 0 and pause when cd slow is a default so already been enabled. Think I will try another iso source and non chd, then a clean install. If that doesn’t work then will try a new card. Thanks for talking the time to look for me, it’s very much appreciated.

[ivory verge]

yeah bin/cue it;s worth a try

[tropic stratus]

I think this is the 3rd report about one non-working FMV in FF7 over the last years now. One of them even had a savestate. The question with something so rare is always if there is a rare bug or if there was some slow CD access or something else, but the result will unfortunatly always be the same: if it's so rare, I cannot do anything 😦

[mortal oracle]

I suspect FF7 is one of the most widely played games on the core, so more reports (than other games) would be expected, but so few reports (3) is encouraging.

[grand sage]

In this instance the FMV bug happened three times in a row but as you say without a save or save state difficult to look into.

[mossy wind]

i've completed ff7 twice on the core- on the retranslated version and the original. i had not ran into those issues. are you playing on crt or through hdmi?

[grand sage]

HDMI which is the culprit of the audio issues, just worked out that two of my tv’s ports have developed a fault with the left audio channel which I hadn’t noticed before, sorry everyone! I might start another run and save before I had saw the fmv freeze some time though, l

[mossy wind]

ouch..

two ports bad

[visual depot]

do you have information on this? I tried patching the BIOS but the MemCard Pro doesn't seem to respond

Granted I have a MemCard Pro2, so I'm unsure if the tech would work the same

[grand sage]

It’s an 8 year old set now, time for an upgrade really.

[desert otter]

if you are looking for a decent and affordable brand for HDTV's I recommend TCL

I've been using a basic ass 4K one with Roku built in (cuz the TV settings and menus are better) since like 2017.

[harsh shale]

I love my TCL

the Roku software is so easy too

[fluid condor]

Hey this works on psx core. Thanks for the tip! The secret fmv is on the second disc.

[tawny palm]

Oh wow, I never would have expected it to work on the MiSTer.

And yeah, I couldn't remember what disc it was on.

[serene nebula]

[tawny palm]

You know what you have to do Robby. Time to start disc swapp'n!

[grand sage]

I never played ape escape back in the day and I never expected it to be this anime

I like it, but the anime has hit me like a brick

[dawn wind]

Peoples experiences with ff7 are still better than mine was on authentic hardware that I’d already done the qtip trick and flipped the system upside down to minimize skipping.

[wanton crown]

I recently completed FF7 and FF9 on the core, and didn't notice anything unusual from real hardware (on which I play with an xstation so no issues related to scratches or cd drive aging)
Which section are you describing for the FMV ? Do you have a youtube video for the part you're describing ? Is that the mega metaria part where you are on a train ?

[serene nebula]

Sounds like a weird outlier bug. 🤷‍♂️

[tawny palm]

I'm a weird outlier bug. 🪲

[serene nebula]

if you think about it, we all are for being here

[grand sage]

On Mt Coral you can fall through the mine cart tracks and an FMV triggers where you can move your character left or right, for me each of those FMV's froze on the first frame. http://finalfantasy.istad.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mt-corel-tracks.png

[wanton crown]

got any save state ?

[grand sage]

Nope, I didn't know at the tine that you can't fall back down the tracks and after the section is finished, you just auto jump over the holes if you go back. I plan to re-start and save before that section at some point soon.

[wanton crown]

Working fine for me @grand sage

I managed to find a save near mount corel and then extracted it to my own mister save

Here is even a save state right at that part, you only need to hold right to move to that point and do nothing when the dialog pops up so you fall.
In case anyone wants to reproduce, but on my end no issues.

[grand sage]

Thanks buddy, will give that a go this evening.

[tropic stratus]

thank you for verifying it 👍

[grand sage]

Just checked the savestate and the FMV's worked perfectly! Thanks again @wanton crown for your help.

[wanton crown]

well then I don't know what was wrong with your setup, but I don't use .CHD or any other non-raw format
also only reputable sd card brands

[somber steppe]

I finished ff6 today, will start ff7 soon using chd format. Will report if I find any issues.

[bright girder]

Im having freezing issues with brace fencer musashi. When going to "your room" to rest and when freeing certain prisoners the screen goes black in both instances and music keeps playing. This is in the most recent core from update all. The ps1 2x core from a few months prior runs the game just fine though.

[tropic stratus]

that's strange, because they base on the code. Maybe you have different OSD settings for them?

[wanton crown]

Can't reproduce. Unless I need to do something different @bright girder ? this is filmed at the very beginning of the game

[ivory verge]

could you send me a savestate ?

[ivory verge]

merci

[wanton crown]

I also went a bit further up ahead in that save state, to the village, and "slept" at the inn, and no freeze whatsoever happened.

[serene nebula]

Brave Fencer Musashi isn’t a good game

[wanton crown]

I don't really care, just wanted to test whether the bug report is meaningful or not

But from the 10ish minutes required to get to the point of reproducing the bug, it seemed to be a really polished game

[serene nebula]

Brave Fencer Musashi is an awesome game!!!

one of my favs, I never beat it though

[serene nebula]

My friend bought me a PocketStation only RPG for the PS1 called Pocket Dungeon

Finally found an unplayable game on the PS1 core

[storm barn]

You will beat it, eventually.

[wanton crown]

You just said it wasn't a good game

[somber steppe]

Pocket station core, when?

[serene nebula]

Dude I want one LOL. But I know Robert isn’t interested but he’ll be happy to add support to the PSX core when it gets made.

I love this thing

[abstract drift]

its surprisingly hard to make a core of iirc, same cpu as a GBA

[tropic stratus]

yes, unfortunatly the size of the device is not related to the effort

[serene nebula]

Holy shit LOL

[dusky ore]

Technically speaking, wouldn't SNAC work for the PocketStation?

Given the memory card and controller are on the same bus

[bright girder]

Huh. Must have been a fluke on my end. I couldnt reproduce my results. So after I experienced the freezes I resumed my playthrough on the 2x core and got about 7 ish hours in. I loaded my save this morning on the normal core and didnt have any freezes, and then to be sure I started a new game and played the first 10 ish minutes and didnt get the freezes there either. So Im not sure what happened, something weird with how my game loaded? The only thing I can think of is that it needed powered down and reset for some reason. Thanks for playing through the intro, appreciate it!

[serene nebula]

YOU ARE RIGHT! 🥳

I don’t know why I forgot that 😭

[dusky ore]

So, playable!

[serene nebula]

you’ve unraveled my dastardly plan to convince people to make a PocketStation core

[dusky ore]

Make the core have a SNAC connection that lets it hook up to a real PS1

That would honestly be nice to have for those without a pocketstation

[manic citrus]

then you could connect two misters to each other

[abstract drift]

couldn't you just do that with a usb-3 A-to-A cable?

no special hardware needed

[harsh shale]

Does this look dumb? lol

Give it to me straight @serene nebula

I mean I can't do much about it cause letters

[serene nebula]

Yeah, it's not great

the F is lost

The idea is good and so is the font treatment below

[harsh shale]

I don't think there's anything to do about it

the letters are just awkward to try and accomplish the same thing

if I make the F bigger it looks really odd lol

it really only works with a P and S I think

[serene nebula]

it's growing on me

maybe if the F was thinner so it matched the center M column and extended out more

[harsh shale]

hmm not a bad idea mon frere

still obscured though

oh well

[somber steppe]

I like it. Now please compile a psx bios for each region that boots with this.

[harsh shale]

Done

[fluid condor]

Checked Fear Effect mdec background on duckstation against psx core. First is duckstation, second psx core screenshot (win+print screen).

Psx core is crushed and more green. Character model color is pretty much the same so I think color difference is only in mdec.

Duckstation is closer to real ps1 on analogue in terms of image structure but would appreciated if someone with hdmi modded ps1 could verify.

[tawny palm]

FPGA needs to be in all caps!

And MiSTer needs to be in...err...some caps?

[silent bridge]

Mr. FPGA feels… okay

[harsh shale]

Nah it looks all wrong if you do it that way

[desert otter]

Make the M capitalized so that the middle of it doesn't go all the way down creating a bigger window for the F behind it

[harsh shale]

That is capitalized lol

[desert otter]

Looks like lower case to me

m vs M

[harsh shale]

I understand

I didn't make the font though lol

It's the same font the original logo uses

[desert otter]

Weird. Oh well

[harsh shale]

Yeah it's all weird when you change the letters unfortunately

[desert otter]

Wonder if you could get away with swapping the letters

So the F is standing up and the M is laying down

It would be backwards, but it would probably look better lol

[harsh shale]

Thought about it lol

But it would bug me

[harsh shale]

Looks even less Playstation ish

[somber steppe]

Perfection

[desert otter]

How does it look if you do m/r instead of m/f

So that is just says Mr

[harsh shale]

I dunno, I can't mess with it again until tonight

[harsh shale]

So after thinking about it, if I swap the letters and rotate the M so the lines orient in the same direction as the original S, it would look much much closer to the original logo

So much so that I might have to do it and just ignore the error lol

[storm barn]

Try making the Start of the "F" follow the middle of the letter "M", on PS the P leg is in the middle.

[harsh shale]

Thought about that but I think it would be too odd compared to the original, I think swapping the letters and rearranging them is the only possible solution and if that doesn't look good I'm abandoning the idea lol

[tawny palm]

The best!

[somber steppe]

Seriously, is someone smart enough to hack that graphic into the bios?

[bitter lintel]

you're not making it more accurate, nerd

it doesn't need a logo.

https://tenor.com/view/funny-monkey-hit-gif-26171913

[desert otter]

exactly, I have fast boot enabled in order to skip the BIOS and logo loading

[somber steppe]

But maybe you'd watch it if it said mister fpga?

[harsh shale]

I'll tweak it tonight and see if I can get it looking better lol

[sand minnow]

A least you can't reverse it to say "tbag" like with Analogue's fpga logo

[slow tusk]

It's not Mister as in "Hey, Mister!" It's MiSTer as in more MiST than MiST.

[mortal oracle]

Eventually we'll have MiSTerer, then MiSTest

[desert otter]

What about MiSTiest, MiSTerest, or even MiSTeriest?

[mortal oracle]

🤯

I don't even have any ST software on my MiSTer, so mine's just a "Mier" at this stage

[silent bridge]

To my non- MiSTer FPGA gaming friends, I often call it: the MiSTer box, misty box, or Mystery Machine. “So the Saturn games are really looking nice on the Mystery Machine these days.”

[mortal oracle]

Do they respond with "jinkies"?

Speaking of which - there seems to be one Scooby Doo game on the PS1. Anyone tried it on the core? Is it any good? 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_and_the_Cyber_Chase_(video_game)

[desert otter]

I have it on my SD card (heh, SD... Like Scooby-Doo) but haven't played it yet. I played Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights on PS2 back in the day and loved it.

[serene nebula]

LOL this was pretty good

[mortal oracle]

I was just curious if one existed, so I thought I'd google it. Might give it a go at some point. There do seem to be loads more on the PS2 though

[tawny palm]

MiSTravaganza!

[desert otter]

MiSTerpalooza

[harsh shale]

I see it's time for the weekly MiSTer name brainstorm thinktank

[harsh shale]

@desert otter thoughts? Is it a lost cause? lol

There's something about the F I'm just not sure about

Maybe make the inside square?

[serene nebula]

F in the chat boys

[harsh shale]

this will drive me mad

[desert otter]

The F feels too small in scale compared to the M @harsh shale

Also see how it looks connecting the F to the middle line on the M

[harsh shale]

it's same scale as the OG

[harsh shale]

Horrible I'm guessing lol

[desert otter]

That's not relevant. Only thing that matters is how it looks to an observer and it looks half as big as the M

[harsh shale]

I mean the farther you get from the original the worse it will look IMO and right now it's super close

I'll mess with the M for a sec

[desert otter]

The P looks just as giant as the S

In contrast, the scaling of the two letters looks equal

This is not the case with the M and F

[tawny palm]

You must rotate the bottom letter!

[harsh shale]

What? it's already rotated

[desert otter]

Again, how the new letters look compared against old letters is irrelevant

[harsh shale]

I'm about ready to delete this lol

[tawny palm]

The S is rotated in the actual PS logo!

[harsh shale]

I had it rotated the other way and you said to rotate it lol

Also rotated this way it lines up with the original S

[tawny palm]

Madness! I never said that!

[harsh shale]

alright I'm done

forget it

[tawny palm]

[harsh shale]

it takes literal hours to do this

one change is not simple lol

I've spent a couple hours each day already

it's a 3D design that I then have to project to a flat surface then edit into an SVG then import into a photoshop file

[desert otter]

Yikes

[tawny palm]

I assumed you were doing it in Illustrator.

[fluid condor]

F3

[harsh shale]

I wish lol

[fluid condor]

MiSterFPGA part could use some kerning

[tawny palm]

Sadly, I no longer have access to it since I had to cancel my subscription since I can no longer do enough design work anymore.

[harsh shale]

I yearn for the day when this is the only problem with this image lol

[tawny palm]

My damn rheumatoid arthritis basically killed my design career.

[harsh shale]

yeah that sucks 😦

[tawny palm]

Did design work for 20 years.

[harsh shale]

I can do a mockup with the built in fonts skewed in Photoshop, but these letters have been manually created so I can change the dimensions

at this point I'm ready to do this only in photoshop lol

[desert otter]

Tbh, you should have been doing it with PS from the start

Rendering in 3D then casting to 2D then PS...

[harsh shale]

I am doing it in 3D because it's literally a 3D design, and doing it in photoshop the way skewing works is really fudgy and almost impossible to do right

as you can see by this mishmashed thing

[fluid condor]

I like your MisterFpga is better. Better matching original PlayStation styling. Make it a bit bolder

[harsh shale]

I think I'm scrapping the project lol

moving on to something that won't drive me nuts

[foggy quiver]

Kerning from hell.

[harsh shale]

kerning is easy to fix it's the rest lol

I've moved on, don't ever let me look at it again!

[fluid condor]

PS logo too goat lol. Undefeatable

[foggy quiver]

Good effort though 🙂

[harsh shale]

haha thanks

[somber steppe]

Now do a MiSTer 64 mock up.

Or a super mister

Mister entertainment system

Mister engine duo

MiSTerboy.

[little frost]

MiSTer Duck

[harsh shale]

I did some of these already

[silent bridge]

Where are these logos going to be used? In lieu of the PS BIOS screen?

[harsh shale]

No just personal use, T shirts, streamers, wherever

[silent bridge]

Alright (still would be cool for a BIOS replacement screen 😎)

[harsh shale]

We shall never speak of it again 😂

[somber steppe]

I'll print it on a shirt so you'll recognize me in the streets.

MiSTer FPGA in the streets, analouge pocket in the sheets.

[silent bridge]

Gwah? What a combo 😂

[rare gyro]

"MisterProject" ?

[harsh shale]

Not a fan sorry

[rare gyro]

Eh, thought it might look more Playstation esque

[harsh shale]

The logo is the issue sadly not the text underneath

Unless you mean to make it MP in which case I think that's veering too far off course

[rare gyro]

Hmm.. I think I have an idea

What if you take the top half of the P, and rotated it to the left 45°

wouldn't that essentially make an F?

That fat curve is essential to the look and feel IMO

At least this might steer you in the right direction

[patent junco]

shouldn't the M be upright in red and the M be horizontal? It's PS, not SP, MiSter FPGA, not FPGA MiSTer...

although yeah then it would look super weird

[serene nebula]

abandon ship, abandon ship!

[harsh shale]

what is wrong with you guys didn't you see the stress yesterday lol

[harsh shale]

https://tenor.com/view/arrested-development-tobia-crying-sobbing-shower-gif-4218890

[rare gyro]

And don't forget there's a little bit of a calligraphy like effect where some lines are thicker and other lines are thinner 😂

[bitter lintel]

i will not hire dinierto for my logo company

[harsh shale]

That's how you spell it, right

[storm barn]

I liked this one, thank you for the effort.

[serene nebula]

If you photoshop the goldeneye dude onto the snake head it would be perfect

[harsh shale]

I might go for a modified version of it and just put it on the website and not tell anyone lol

[bitter lintel]

bake snake?

that makes you Dinerloo

[harsh shale]

The PS1 logo

[stuck smelt]

I noticed that the PSX core seems to sync out of sudden. I noticed this yesterday in Wipeout. What’s the reason for that? I don’t recall that game having resolution switching mid game

[bitter lintel]

it's the fpga. it can't keep up with wipeout's speed. the game's too fast.

just slow down a little bit so the fpga chip can catch up with the game

[stuck smelt]

😁

Anyone experienced this in the core?

It happens out of random

[serene nebula]

Get position 6? Nah, I'm always first place in Wipeout.

I'm kidding! I assume you mean that red box around position 6, right?

[stuck smelt]

No check the resolution info

[rose ermine]

Does the horizontal resolution change?

[silent bridge]

Aren't most PS1 PAL games only 50Hz? How does the core handle that for a 60Hz NTSC HDTV?

[tropic stratus]

enable fixed vblanks and hblanks. The game changes the resolution for shake effects

[tawny palm]

Depends. Stuttering due to 50hz/fps not being an even division of 60hz. Or if you have a VRR capable TV/display it will actually match 50hz exactly and look perfect (assuming you have VRR enabled on your MiSTer settings).

[silent bridge]

No VRR on this older TV. Should upgrade eventually. I’ll just have to deal with the shitty font in the JP release. Thanks tho 👍

[tawny palm]

There might be an option to force 60hz on PAL games as well. It's been awhile since I checked for things like that since I do use a VRR display.

[somber steppe]

How much trouble would it be to compile the psx core with the new framework to enable the auto crop stuff on rt4k? Is this planned for the future?

[stuck smelt]

I suspected that but then I was like "no way is it changing resolution for the collission effect"

[abstract drift]

i think if you're on a crt like that you actually just want to turn off the video resolution info

then it'll still shake properly just like the real thing

[final salmon]

I thought it worked as intended on CRT either way, but setting the vblank hblank would make HDMI look correct, to show screen shake, or letterbox cutscenes and such.
If I'm wrong I should change settings. Always leave those default on but often play on the CRT

[tropic stratus]

fixed blanks have no effect for CRT, at least via analog board out. Not sure for DV

[somber steppe]

When I tried dv fixed blanks did nothing.

[meager parrot]

many modern monitors/tv's dont even need VRR to accept the odd frequencies. my 120hz BenQ monitor from 2010 can handle 50 hz for pal or even 70hz for DOS with no issues- no vrr needed. just need vsync_adjust 1 or 2 set in the ini.

@silent bridge ^ worth a try at least if you havent tried the other vsync options

that said, there can be wildly varying ranges of lag you wouldnt expect at these different frequencies. picking up a MiSTer Laggy from @rotund sphinx in December really opened my eyes to this, and also allowed me to finally test exact latency of my capture window in OBS with different resolutions/scaling 😍

[bitter lintel]

but did this scientific test alter your human perception of frames (PoF)

[meager parrot]

not especially. just data, and a further refined audio synchronization to OBS as a result.

[stuck smelt]

Silly question but can you hook up a usb mouse and use on the psx core or do you need to have a snac for mouse support?

[harsh shale]

should be able to 🤷‍♂️

[meager parrot]

USB mouse will work fine

[stuck smelt]

Great. I can finally play the English patched version of The Neverhood

[serene nebula]

That game is cool.

[stuck smelt]

Yeah it’s crazy that it was only released in Japan

It’s very weird that both Saturn and Psx got ports of PC games that were exclusive in Japan

[viral inlet]

The pc games were exclusive or the ports were exclusive? What games were they?

I played a few PC ports on the Saturn and PSX back when that was fashionable and people hadn't quite worked out controls with a gamepad yet.

[stuck smelt]

Both Dark Seed games were ported to Saturn in Japan only

Same with Phantasmagoria for Saturn

[viral inlet]

Wild.

[stuck smelt]

Yeah it’s wild because these games were heavily marketed on PC in the west

[viral inlet]

I have a Giger tattoo like a proper little edgelord

I never played Dark Seed. The shame of it.

[stuck smelt]

Saturn also got a port of Zeddas: Servant of Sheol in Japan

And The Psychotron

I wonder how well these Japan exclusive PC ports sold

[viral inlet]

I wonder if US versions were ever planned or were they just scrapped after all the kerfuffle around Night Trap, Mortal Kombat and the ESRB

[stuck smelt]

This is probably the most bizarre Japan exclusive game I own

I mean the snowman is a very popular British children’s story

[stuck smelt]

I believe the western head quarters of both Sony and Sega were much more narrow minded when it came to which games to release for western markets

But then again Broken Sword was a best seller on PSX in UK so surely there was a market for it

[sand minnow]

It also got made into a very awesome animated special.

[stuck smelt]

Yeah I love it

Beavis and Butthead was released on PSX exclusively in Japan

That is some crazy ass shit

[meager parrot]

Played through that on MiSTer last year my first time, with the english translation. Surprisingly a very well made adventure game, if you like B&B.
https://youtu.be/4_vUfYWQftc

digital control was easy to use for it also. had a lot of fun with that one

[stuck smelt]

Gotta check it out after I finish the Neverhood

[little frost]

oh man, what a great idea! I remember my buddy had that game on Windows 95. I’d love to play that on the core…I did not know it was even on PS1

[desert otter]

did you know that if you accidentally deleted a save on your PS1, it wasn't fully gone but just "hidden" waiting to be overwritten and you could undo it?

[serene nebula]

@stuck smelt there’s a great Beavis and Butthead port to the PS1 too

Someone translated it and brought in the PC game voices so it’s like the console port we never got.

[harsh shale]

Isn't that how a lot of storage works

[silent bridge]

Yes, it just removes it from the FAT (or whatever file table) so you can't see it and eventually gets overwritten.

[desert otter]

The question is, did you know that you could undo a save delete on your PS1

The information on how to do so was oddly enough, in the Japanese manual for the console but not the English one.

[harsh shale]

I learned today!

[desert otter]

I literally didn't know until now either lol. I went my whole childhood thinking if it got deleted it was for good

[silent bridge]

I learned it accidentally back in the day

much like any good cheat code was

[serene nebula]

I never learned it because I never needed to delete saves

[harsh shale]

I never learned it because I never owned a Playstation

[somber steppe]

I never learned it since I play on MiSTer.

[bitter lintel]

this was a ps1 game?? what tha f

[stuck smelt]

Lol yeah I have it

Utterly bizzare that it was released in Japan only

[bitter lintel]

yes, very

[stuck smelt]

It’s not much of a game to be honest

Just some mini games and clips from the movie

Another random thing. I just played through the old light gun game Horned Owl with my son. Andrew House is credited as doing the voice for the computer lol

[stuck smelt]

Using a mouse is a blessing

[abstract drift]

i always thought the snowman was a british thing, how is that jpn exclusive lol

[stuck smelt]

That’s the bizarre thing

[full nimbus]

snowman is just something channel 4 uses on Endless repeat every christmas

[mortal oracle]

Can’t stand that snowman or the damn song

[full nimbus]

It worse now they have that snowdog thing too. Channel 4 at Christmas just seems an endless round of repeating those

[sand minnow]

Looks like it's a port of a children's PC game, which only makes it even more bizarre that a JP only PS1 version exists.

[merry hound]

Submit it to MJR for a "hidden jems" video and watch the price skyrocket

[sand minnow]

Do they at least show Father Christmas with the other two?

[full nimbus]

I try not to watch it

once was enough

[unborn compass]

Could anyone here tell me if there is a MiSTer or core setting that would prevent the PSX SNAC GunCon sync connector from outputting a signal? Or if the user I/O connection for it is the one you switch with the I/O board jumper?

My board turned out to be missing the pin header for it (bought from a reputable MiSTer hardware seller back in 2020). So I soldered one on myself, but who knows, maybe some other needed component is missing.

The gun works fine if I connect the sync to my active composite adapter, but then I can't output RGB SCART.

My PSX SNAC adapter was made by RetroCastle BTW, but I don't think that should make a difference with this.

[still palm]

you have to have the jumper set to io6 on io board for sync to work, you also need a guncon1 connected to either port of the adapter.

start/c on genesis wouldn't work either if you didn't have the jumper set

[unborn compass]

Thanks @still palm so either adding the pin header and jumper wasn't enough to get io6 working, or my adapter is somehow broken. Because I do have the GunCon 1 connected to the first game port and the sync connector and it works fine if I use the sync of the composite adapter instead.

I don't have a Genesis SNAC adapter or controller to test with unfortunately, only the PSX one.

[still palm]

maybe you could do a continuity test from the composite plug backwards through the jumper and see if your soldering is ok.

[visual depot]

I will say I think it won't use it unless SNAC is actually being used as the controller

[unborn compass]

Yes, that makes sense. I only have that set on the PSX core.

[unborn compass]

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. And the random old jumper I'm using might not be good.

[visual depot]

Are you using a RetroCastle MiSTer design?

[still palm]

having a justifier connected also stops the sync from being sent out, so don't do that. didn't sound like this was the case though.

[unborn compass]

I'm using the RetroCastle PSX SNAC adapter with a regular 6.1 I/O board.

[unborn compass]

I only have a GunCon 1, from back in the day.

[visual depot]

Did you have the USB passthrough port removed? Or are you using an extension cable?

[unborn compass]

Yeah, I had them remove it. They caused a short at first, so I had to fix that.

[visual depot]

Alright. Then last question. is ANY of the board impacting something electrically contuctive on the case?

[unborn compass]

No, I'm using an acrylic case

Thanks for all the help btw guys 👍

[visual depot]

some acryllics can be conductive

Have you tested the resistance?

[unborn compass]

Every other controller is working fine with it, NeGcon, Jogcon etc. And the gun works fine as long as I don't use the sync port of the SNAC adapter.

[visual depot]

hmm... no idea then

[unborn compass]

I haven't, I could do that. I was planning on getting a short extension for it anyway, as I don't want the board to scratch the case.

[still palm]

are you sure you put the jumper on the middle pin and the io6 pin?

[unborn compass]

Viewing the jumper with the three buttons and LEDs of the I/O board aimed toward me, it connects the middle and right pins. As denoted on the PCB.

[velvet oriole]

Hello?

[ivory verge]

👋

[serene nebula]

Hello!

[serene nebula]

Really nice job!

aw it went away

[velvet oriole]

This one is my new idea. hope people like it. [Revised]

[visual depot]

Cool!

[velvet oriole]

so far, I love to make Hucard, it look close to the real Hucard.

[visual depot]

That looks great!

[ruby sleet]

Heh. Every logo on there but the TapTo one. 😄

[velvet oriole]

I just recently learned that this was renamed Tapto, so I didn't take that word into consideration.

[ruby sleet]

They definitely look legit!

[velvet oriole]

most of the cover could be found them from "gamesdb.launchbox-app.com"

[ruby sleet]

I saw this Famicom card on Twitter! Cool effect.

[velvet oriole]

its me.

[ruby sleet]

I'm the Tim on the TapTo team 😄

[velvet oriole]

nice to meet you, Tim.

[slow tusk]

Try to tiptoe when you talk, Tim on the Tapto team.

[ruby sleet]

Keep up the awesome work! Just followed along on Twitter.

[ruby sleet]

I had the perfect gif reply, but stopped myself to honor the gif rules. 😄

[slow tusk]

It's the treacherous tar of the timid list of tempestuous traditions, Tim on the Tapto team.

That one took some thinking. Goodness.

[cosmic tulip]

wait what's this about Tapto not working with PS1?

[manic citrus]

it kinda sounds like they may not have game images in different directories?

no reset on disc change

[opal carbon]

Anyone using the Memcard Pro 2 with the PSX core? Having a hit-and-miss experience so far via the RetroCastle SNAC adapter.

I don’t actually think it’s the core’s fault, seems kind of more like just firmware teething problems on the MCP2 but was just curious if anyone else had tried.

[cosmic tulip]

you know what would be nice? An add on to a snac adapter that just has a single memory card slot and I don't have to punish myself on EBAY looking for a multitap

[opal carbon]

This does exist

Oh, well actually it sort of exists

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234951826437 these boards can be installed on the PS1 SNAC adapter

I believe this is just Blue212’s board that people are printing and selling on eBay: https://github.com/blue212/SNAC-PSX

I have a multi-tap but the only memory card I have is the memcard pro 2 and it seems to not detect that it’s plugged into a PS1 through the multitap and the MisterAddons SNAX adapter which is odd

[cosmic tulip]

Hmm

weird

[opal carbon]

Yeah it’s very strange. I’m new to the PSX core and the MCP2 is very new so I don’t know where the problem is

[visual depot]

I will mention that the early generation MemCard Pro would not function well either, but this was due to the gen 1 MemCard Pro requiring 7.5v because it wasn't using low-powered chips

I don't know what the MemCard Pro2 requires

[cosmic tulip]

I might get the crown arcade one

[visual depot]

RetroCastle's board only supplies 3.3v I think

[cosmic tulip]

https://crownarcade.co.kr/products/psx-snac-for-mister-fpga-interface-for-playstation-peripherals

[opal carbon]

Yeah I didn’t realize this was a thing, but it seems to get power at least

[visual depot]

Memcard Pro 1 Gen2 switched to a lower-powered chip thus resolving incompabibility with the MiSTer

[opal carbon]

Luckily the MCP2 is going to live in my PS2 eventually but I thought I would mess around with the PS1 core. I really like not having to open the menu to save but I should probably just get used to that since the Saturn and N64 cores will work that way

[visual depot]

but again... I don't know what the MCP2 expects

And tbh the sad part is the MiSTer PS1 core doesn't send game ID info afaik so I don't think it will pick up on the proper memory cards if you use an ODE, anyway

[cosmic tulip]

You need a modified bios for that I think

[opal carbon]

Oh? One exists?

[visual depot]

I have had no success with it so far.

There's a patch, but it's unconfirmed if it works for the MiSTer

[cosmic tulip]

Apparently I found the instructions for modifying it

[visual depot]

I've only heard people suggesting it here. No confirmation of success or failure

I've only tried it with MCP2... not the 1

I have a gen1 MCP

T^T

[still palm]

make sure you turn on snac MCs option in the osd after you turn on snac for say port 1. plug into left side of snax and put MC in port 1 of multitap.

[opal carbon]

Yeah, tried all that. Left side of SNAX, Port 1 for multi-tap.

I am using a Mister Multisystem is the only other wrinkle

The MCP2 gets power from the multitap I just have to manually put it in PS1 mode which is annoying

Where as the Retrocastle board just seems to work

The other issue I’m having with the MCP2 is that the file browser in the webUI is not showing any saaves, but I think that’s a firmware thing.

[visual depot]

wait it does work with RetroCastle board or doesn't?

[opal carbon]

The core can see the saves

It does work

Or at least it seems to

[still palm]

i think both have the extra 7.6v

[opal carbon]

SNAX + Multitap == no
Retrocastle == yes

[visual depot]

RetroCastle last time I confirmed with Ivory did not supply the full 7.5 v

which is why gen 1 MCP's did not work

[opal carbon]

Yeah it may be, like, half working

But then again I think it’s using the same ESP32 that I suspect the MCP1 gen2 started using

Although that’s a guess

[visual depot]

#1046940919607345272 message

See here

(the dev of that custom SNAC adapter you linked.... good to know it's finally released)

SNAC doesn't add 7.5v on the HDMI pins, only 5v. He added 7.5v input using external power which fixes compatibility with a lot of stuff

[opal carbon]

That adapter is tempting

@visual depot did you say you have an MCP2?

[visual depot]

yes I do

[opal carbon]

Does the file browser in the webUI work for you?

It does not for me

[visual depot]

have you updated your firmware?

[opal carbon]

Yeah I’m on 0.99.9

Which is latest as of the 15th

I might just try reflashing it

[visual depot]

not sure

I contacted them via email and got a fairly decent response back to issues I had. You could try emailing their support

[opal carbon]

I’ll give that a go, would be worth asking about power requirements. Will def share what I learn.

Honestly I’ll probably pivot from SNAX to Reflex Adapt and just use virtual memory cards but playing with this stuff is part of the hobby.

[visual depot]

kind of the same deal for me

I'd like to use it with my MiSTer

But I use my PS2 for PS1 games and .... I don't have an ODE in my PS1..

So I can't even use my MCP/2 with the Game ID function

[opal carbon]

Yeah once I get my PS2 built I suspect I’ll just do all my PS1 on that system as well

[visual depot]

(PS1 gameid functionality isn't supported with PS2)

[opal carbon]

Ah that’s too bad

[visual depot]

OPL really hasn't developed its PS1 features that much at all... I expect mostly because the emulator used to play it is technically made by Sony.... it's kind of risky to be releasing updates when they'd have to update the emulator itself

[opal carbon]

Well then I’ll just have to wait and see which system ends up handling my PS1 needs.

[visual depot]

I'm just glad I didn't invest in a PSIO

:S

[opal carbon]

Other than a little bit of menu corruption in Driver 1 I’ve had zero issues with the PSX core

[visual depot]

My friend's salty for buying and installing one...

They promised GameID support and then... it never happened

[opal carbon]

Yeah a lot of the fancy ODEs seem to be a disappointment

I regret getting a MODE for my Saturn for this reason

[visual depot]

XStation gets a lot of praise

It's just harder to install than a PSIO :S

[opal carbon]

MiSTer makes it too hard for me to justify getting real PS1 hardware again

[visual depot]

yeah I feel that

[opal carbon]

More money to save for a 3DO + ODE 🙂

I really just need to get over the whole open menu to save thing

[visual depot]

and then someone makes a 3DO core right after you're past the return date

[opal carbon]

Yup

But that’s ok, collectors wanna collect

[visual depot]

you get used to it, even getting a habit of opening it when you pause or even randomly during playing

[opal carbon]

Indeed. It’s just a pain with SNAC because you need a separate controller to operate the menus

All the more reason I should probably just switch back to the Reflex Adapt. It apparently works with the Saturn Multitap which is cool.

Err switch to not switch back. I don’t have one. But at least the dongles will work!

[desert otter]

@opal carbon if all you want is to open and close the menu to do a save state and don't need to control the menu, you should be able to just press the OSD button on the top of your MiSTer assuming you have an I/O board that has that on it

[opal carbon]

That’s a great idea!

I guess I still need a controller to load the ISO in the core but I love that

[serene nebula]

I think it flashes yellow as a reminder you have a save that hasn’t been saved

[desert otter]

If you want to be able to sit further away like on a couch, I think there's a way to control the MiSTer OSD from a browser interface or app on your phone

[serene nebula]

https://github.com/wizzomafizzo/mrext/blob/main/docs/remote.md

[opal carbon]

Oh really? I need to check that out. I’m shocked that the MiSTer would know that the core has an uncommitted save.

[desert otter]

Nice. That remote let's you do screenshots too

Which is neat

[opal carbon]

My understanding is that the reason you need to commit saves is because the MiSTer doesn’t really know when to write memory to disk and so it would be constantly writing to SD.

(I wish there was an option to just have it constantly write when using an SSD)

[desert otter]

I think the main reason is that in order for it to write the memory it needs to pause the core which it isn't going to do while you're playing a game, and for continuous writing like you're talking about, even over USB to an SSD would just be a lot of overhead I think

[opal carbon]

Ah, core pausing makes even more sense!

Certainly if there was a feasible way to do it the devs would have done it already.

[serene nebula]

I think it’s the user LED that flashes to indicate a save is ready

[desert otter]

Robert does things the best way they can be done

Unlike Robby

Who uses a Pi 5

[somber steppe]

Robby does WHAT?

[opal carbon]

lol

If it flashes then I have no excuses really

Other than I guess my MiSTer is not in my line of sight when I game usually lol

[desert otter]

Speaking of Raspberry Pi, I'm thinking of getting a Pi with 2.5G networking as a router so I can get things hooked up with that and upgrade my Internet speed to 2gig

There's one specifically that has a name and I forgot what it was called

[opal carbon]

Not an actual Pi but some other ARM based SBC?

[desert otter]

And it's a model that has one 2.5 WAN, with one 2.5 LAN and an additional 1G LAN

And I'm pretty sure it's a pi

[opal carbon]

There are probably new models, I’m out of date. I love RPis but got soured on them during the pandemic due to how expensive they got.

That’s probably not the case anymore though I imagine!

Would you just run pfsense on it?

[desert otter]

Had to look it up again. It's called a nanopi R5

[opal carbon]

Oooo that’s cool

I can only get gigabit out here so all my old UniFi gear is doing a good enough job but I’ll keep that thing in my mind. Pretty well priced if it can really route at full speed!

[serene nebula]

I am a pi man and scraping games is what I can

[abstract drift]

but can you play?

[oblique frost]

I don't think Robby has ever played a game

He just runs update all on the mister, and scrapes on the pi

[desert otter]

I found it when I was trying to figure out what options were available for getting 2.5G LAN and for how much because all I could find was things like Wi-Fi routers with 2.5G WAN and only gig LAN unless you paid like $400 to get a single 2.5G LAN port.

All I wanted was something that could have at least one 2.5G WAN and LAN so I could hook directly into a 2.5G PCIe card on my PC in order to take full advantage of such speeds lol.

[winged sage]

In Wipeout 3, does anyone else get an audio pop when the Intro FMV transitions to the main menu? Wondering if there's something I can change on my end. I have it as CHD on an external SSD.

[slow tusk]

For what it's worth, the gen 1 MemCard Pro 1s had no issues using SNAX and a PS1 multitap. Moot point since gen 1 cards aren't sold anymore, but that's how I played through the entirety of FF7 back when SNAC controller options couldn't utilize digital memory cards on the core. Not a single hiccup with it.

[visual depot]

I think the issue is the RetroCastle board specifically didn't supply as much voltage as some of the other SNAC/SNAX boards

[abstract drift]

there's a low power mode on the mcp1 v2 cards

it disables the wifi and stuff so it works more easily on mister

[visual depot]

I thought it was just inherently using less power because it moved away from using an FPGA

[abstract drift]

it does that too

[slow tusk]

I wasn't aware of the low power mode on newer models. Interesting!

[still palm]

why does his listing for psx-snac mention 7.5v then?

check out the thing in the upper left

[visual depot]

I wonder if it was fixed. No idea

I thought I recall talking with him and he didn't realize it needed that voltage

this was a year or so ago though

It was less earlier iirc because he didn't know accessories would need that much

[still palm]

that was a pic from his first adapter. not sure if he did the same thing on new revisions

[visual depot]

That or the 7.5v is applied for the controllers, but not the memory card slots

no idea

[abstract drift]

i think the low power mode is meant to get backported to even the gen1s at some point but they seem quite busy with MCP2 right now

[opal carbon]

Retro castle adapter def works. The SNAX -> Multitap is weird for me on the MCP2 it does not detect the that its in a PS1 so I have to manually put it in PS1 mode

The retro castle adapter picks it up fine.

The MCP2 is doing other weird stuff like not letting me browse saves through the webui but I need to email them about that

My issue with the retro castle adapter is I’m using a Mister Multisystem so it’s just kind of a fragile setup. Wish there were cases for the Retrocastle adapter

[crystal ferry]

Doe anyone know why the PS1 startup screens flicker somewhat? I only care because i was recording the startup on OBS to record a video to use as a lively desktop background. Its not a big deal, but it does flicker in a way.

[little frost]

@crystal ferry what vsync setting are you using? I get flickering and sync drop like that on the bios screen too if I use 2 and not 0 or 1

[grand sage]

oh shit does 1 fix this? I need to try 1 again

[little frost]

yeah 1 fixes it for me

[crystal ferry]

I can try it I mostly play on CRT thanks

[little frost]

is it flickering on the CRT?

[crystal ferry]

nope

[ivory verge]

Do you have Black Transitions option enabled?

[crystal ferry]

maybe im not sure. i probably didnt change anything from default with regards to visual settings becuase CRT handles resolution switching fine

[ivory verge]

It is on by default , turn it off and see if it helps

[little frost]

@crystal ferry ohh i take it you’re using an analogue IO board and capturing the hdmi output? Ok…I’m actually not sure how that works then since I don’t have one. Does hdmi output have its own separate settings?

[crystal ferry]

its just the settings in the mister menu afaik

[desert otter]

@crystal ferry think you could run that mkv file through remux then drop it into chat?

[crystal ferry]

I'm not familiar with that

[desert otter]

Top left of OBS > File > Remux Recordings

Takes the contents of the MKV and transfers them over into an MP4.
You could also record directly to fragmented MP4 instead for creating shareable clips.

[crystal ferry]

I can try that later

[winter coral]

Sorry if this has been covered before but I'm struggling a little bit here. When I launch a game it gets stuck on the PSX screen with the region showing in the top left corner and I have to hard reset my MiSTer. This happens everytime until I run Update_all and it starts working again. I'll come back to it a couple of weeks later and I have the exact same issue again where no games launch and I'm forced to do another Update_all to get it to work. Any ideas?

[desert otter]

try manually replacing the PSX core with the latest build from #unstable-nightlies message

Then try replacing your MiSTer file with the latest build in #unstable-nightlies which should only be a couple posts above the saturn builds when you go to the latest messages in that channel.

[winter coral]

Thanks, I tried using the latest MiSTer core but not the PSX core 🤦🏻‍♂️ I'll give that a go thanks!

[somber steppe]

Consider my mind boggled.

[somber steppe]

Finally managed to test that, ff7, chd image worked fine, no issues.

[slow tusk]

I went through FF7 with CHD files and was able to finish the game just fine - but I didn't really do much of the side stuff.

[scenic reef]

i did all the side stuff and all that like a year ago, no issues

[somber steppe]

Y'all should play all final fantasy in chronological order on your MiSTers. Really put the series in a new light for me.

[slow tusk]

It's really cool to be able to go through a series and see how it's made changes and advances through the generations

[somber steppe]

MiSTer in a nutshell. 😅

[little frost]

are there any games in CHD that have been confirmed as problematic across the board? I.e. all CHD rips seem to have issues?

[abstract drift]

i don't think ones ever been confirmed, not on psx anyway

there was a couple of issues years ago i think but they were fixed pretty quick

[manic citrus]

hmm, zstd decompresses in about half the time lzma does, but I think it is just slightly too slow to maintain seamless 8x cdrom

[scenic reef]

The only issues I've had were with my retronas not keeping the disk drive spinning and an ff9 battle transition taking long when it needed to access the disk that time.

[manic citrus]

hah. if you custom build the chd with a hunk size of one sector and modify main to not try and cache ahead it easily keeps up

even lzma keeps up then

wonder what the biggest hunksize that still works is

[serene nebula]

you know what they say about lzma compression

[manic citrus]

I do not

[serene nebula]

lzma baaaawwlssss

[manic citrus]

GOT'EM

[serene nebula]

Zakk = 516
Robby = 1
😭

[scenic reef]

zakk over here talking about the biggest hunks being all coastal elite

[waxen elk]

Would converting my chds back to bin cue potentially resolve my disk read pauses?

[desert otter]

probably not. if the core is pausing randomly it's because read speed is too slow, which is more an issue with whatever SD card you have

[manic citrus]

depends, are you trying to run 8x cdrom speed?

[waxen elk]

Nah, just have a USB hard drive plugged in.

I think USB 2.0 is just too slow for some games

I'm getting a new router with Ethernet ports again, might try connecting to the NAS

[mortal oracle]

I think USB 2.0 is just too slow for some games
I've never had a problem, but then again, I use an SSD, so I don't need to worry about seek times or the drive spinning down.

(Massively overkill for usb2.0, but I had it lying around)

[waxen elk]

I'm not particularly enamored with this hdd to begin with to be honest

[serene nebula]

Not sure if this helps or if you’re even interested in SD cards but I’ve got an A2 rated that does 130MB/s that’s been absolutely stellar for me in terms of speed.

[waxen elk]

It's really the size that's an issue. I'm quite the hoarder, I've got sd cards for days

[mortal oracle]

Enjoy waiting while you copy everything back over if ever you need to reformat 😘

(Seriously I was going to do the same thing. It’s appealing having everything “all in one”, but that concerns me)

[waxen elk]

I overall want an all in one that I can take around with me

I believe Ethernet port has pretty good transfer speeds versus the other options

It's on that chart somewhere

I'm really thinking my hdd is just crap though

Or maybe has an inefficient file system

[serene nebula]

I get ya, but unless you’re doing full sets a 512GB has been more than enough for me thanks to CHD compression.

[serene nebula]

Yeah that part suuuuuucks 😭

[mortal oracle]

Have you measured the bandwidth? I really think it’ll be the random seeks that are the problem rather than the bandwidth of the drive

(i.e. latency, not bandwidth)

[mortal oracle]

I concur. I recently converted my cd games to CHD and can comfortably fit all the games I’d ever want to play for all the cd consoles, with room to spare.

Going 1g1r with Retool can also help shave off a fair amount too

[serene nebula]

omg what’s that

[waxen elk]

Sometimes my USB ports also get really flaky some I'm kind of at a loss, how can I test hdd speeds

[mortal oracle]

https://unexpectedpanda.github.io/retool/

[mortal oracle]

I think Crystal Disk Mark is often used on PC. I’ve never used it though

[serene nebula]

Thanks! Sorry guess I should’ve googled it, haha.

[mortal oracle]

It’s okay. I forgive you. This time….

[waxen elk]

I wonder if going from exfat/NTFS to one of the Linux formats would be better, I've noticed massive speed differences on my laptop

[mortal oracle]

Using NTFS would be (imo) pretty insane as a default, given that MiSTer runs Linux

I would have thought that exfat would be sufficient though

I guess there's no harm in trying. You just lose the ability to (easily) modify files in Windows. Not sure if that's an issue for you though

[opal carbon]

The Negcon is supposed to work with Gran Turismo 2 yeah? Works good over SNAX for me with R4 inputs are delayed in GT2

And analog inputs seem to pulse

That’s full throttle

[opal carbon]

Also works properly in GT1

[waxen elk]

I'm no longer a Windows user so not an issue. The bigger issue is that hard drive is the biggest I own

[desert otter]

I will say that if you are someone who is using Windows, and you want to use an HDD/SSD larger than 1TB, it's best to partition the drive into two or more partitions each being at most 1TB in size using NTFS that way you won't have issues with accessing the storage using Windows but also will keep you from having issues with using it on the MiSTer cuz Linux only works with up to 1TB of NTFS storage which tbh, is kind of dumb but whatevs lol.

If you are someone who uses Linux as an OS then obviously just go with ext4 or something.

[grand sage]

ext4 works very well compared with exfat; I had a few painful reminders of that transferring a bunch of files from my mister’s ext4 SSD to an exfat microsd card

there’s no need for NTFS if you aren’t going to mount the partition on windows

[mortal oracle]

Haven't Microsoft been trying (and failing) to kill off/replace NTFS for years?

Oh no, ignore me. It seems they gave up a long time ago. 😄

[serene nebula]

fat32, nothing better

[mortal oracle]

You'll never need files bigger than 4GB anyway

I remember the days of carrying around an emulator and a pokemon rom on a floppy disk to a friend's house so we could play. Back when 1.44MB was a useful amount of space...

[grand sage]

the file allocation table jumped the shark when it added directories

directories were a mistake

[waxen elk]

Yeah, I formatted this drive when Windows was still my primary OS, so Lord knows what it is need to check it

[little frost]

honestly, I tested games off an HDD on the PSX core and I noticed some stuttering in a couple games. Switched to an SSD and haven’t had any issues.

[dusky ore]

I have a 2TB Samsung T7 strapped to the bottom of my MiSTer

Very useful for carrying a lot of game sets with me to conventions etc.

ExFAT IIRC since I populated it primarily from my Mac

[little frost]

yep, I went with exFAT as well. I have a 4TB Samsung EVO…very high chance I’ll only fill half of it even with basically full sets of everything, but I wanted to be sure I had plenty of space for futureproofing

I’m about to complete my PSX set here soon…thinking it’ll bring everything I have on there to a bit under 2TB

[dusky ore]

I would've future-proofed with 4TB but A) the T7 Shield wasn't in stock and B) I already had a 3D print modeled for the regular T7, which doesn't come in 4TB rofl

[little frost]

ahh

I just got the MASE case

[dusky ore]

I have the one aluminum case

I debated printing one of Todd's cases but in the end it was easier to get some longer screws and just bolt something onto the bottom of this, then use the shorted USB cable I could find

On the upside the cable is still accessible so I can go C-C and transfer stuff incredibly fast

[waxen elk]

I'm personally thinking about getting an ATX case to just have everything internal so I don't have wires hanging out and occasionally creating issues by touching the USB pins wrong

[hallow gorge]

Hey !! I am not finding Dreamcast cores.

[wild sinew]

Where did you last see them?

[tacit fox]

Give it a try at #fpga-platforms 🤭

[scenic reef]

There isn't one.

[cosmic tulip]

Why is he even asking in a playstation thread?

[harsh shale]

hello, there isn't a Dreamcast channel

sheesh

[cosmic tulip]

lol
I mean at least ask in a sega thread like Saturn or Megadrive

[somber steppe]

Hello, where can I find the ps2 cores please?

[harsh shale]

buy 2 MiSTers and run a PS1 core on each in parallel

[tawny palm]

So it's like a Wii! Two Gamecubes taped together!

[harsh shale]

Yes you've got it

[tawny palm]

The memories! 🥹

[harsh shale]

I think Wii is more like 1.5 Gamecubes lol

[tawny palm]

Yeah, but that was the running gag back in the day.

[harsh shale]

since that was the first gen that Nintendo went for cheaper lower powered hardware to compete

[somber steppe]

When there are ps2 and gc cores I'll sell all my consoles except for mister and spend the rest of my life in a cave, playing all the amazing games.

[tawny palm]

I already spend my life in a cave.

[harsh shale]

With a box of scraps?

[somber steppe]

And with your pee in jars?

[tawny palm]

A little of both.

[hallow gorge]

Why? I got more attention here! Heh

[tawny palm]

He's not wrong.

[somber steppe]

How do I change discs? Just load the next disc when prompted or open lid, load disc, close lid?

[tawny palm]

I've always opened the lid, load disc, and close lid. Like I'm simulating the process with real hardware. Always worked for me, but no idea if that's actually needed.

[somber steppe]

I'm about to finish the 1st disc of ff7 and I don't want to reset the console by accident. 🙂

[somber steppe]

I did a bit of testing and it only resets if you load a disc that's not in the same folder. So if you have all your ff7 discs in the same folder, as you should, you can just open the osd and load the next disc.

[abstract drift]

they let you save at the disc-end anyway iirc

[desert otter]

yes they do so that you can properly load right at the start of another disc if that's where you want to stop playing

[somber steppe]

I remember that not being the case in mgs. As a kid I had one of these discs that let you boot the psx and swap it for a backup. So I couldn't continue with the second disc as that one was somewhere else. 😅

[junior plank]

Just a small message to Robert to thank him for this core : i ve finished a couple of times the castlevania games on gba and ds, i love the metroidvania genre in general but i only play once sotn and never finish the reverse castle. This time i'm focus and having a blast (i've juste started the reverse castle 🙂 ). I have a low latency wireless controller, a big oled screen, ... Last time it was on pcsx and on a 15" laptop with a shitty controller 🤓. So thank you so much for all the work Robert ❤️

[desert otter]

upgrade your experience by downgrading your TV

CRT Master Race

[somber steppe]

Nuh bro, just get a rt4k and use those crt filters.

[desert otter]

nah bro. my CRT is a high end 32" and only cost me $50

[somber steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/ken-jeong-community-too-small-to-read-read-reading-gif-5494204

[waxen elk]

Same but 100

[somber steppe]

100" crt for 50 bucks? Alright, I know when to admit defeat.

[little frost]

yeah my brother in law has a big 32” inch consumer Toshiba with component and it makes me just want to get rid of the HD in my basement and get one of those 😅

at least..I think it’s a Toshiba

[desert otter]

both my 32" SD set and my 34" HD set are Toshiba lol

True-Shibas actually. None of that rebadged Orion nonsense

[manic valley]

Same

Toshiba sound off!

[desert otter]

I use the HD set for 6th+7th gen gaming at 480p/1080i and DVDs.
My SD set is exclusively used with MiSTer

[stuck smelt]

Just finished Panzer Bandit

a pretty cool ripoff of Guardian Heroes

nice visuals :S