Experiences with MiSTer FPGA

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zaptor

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#279540 21-Oct-2020 19:03

Greetings,

Looking into purchasing this for some old skool nostalgia:

https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html

Doe anyone have one of with these?

If so what additional components/extras did you get, and did you source from any particular (recommended?) reseller?

TIA.

richms

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#2590000 21-Oct-2020 19:10

I have one, the raw DE10 nano will do sega megadrive and a handful of things with nothing added to it.

I got a 32 meg ram off ebay, which came from an asian seller,

I got a case and IO board off aliexpress which works okish, but seems to have some issues with the video output. I havent had any luck with HDMI to VGA adapters onto my scart cable, which do work on the mister IO board output fine, I think its because of sync signals being combined on the IO board but seperate on the adapter, but not bothered to pursue it furthur.

Lockdown was supposed to see me getting it built into my arcade cabinet shell but that never happened.

Richard rich.ms

zaptor

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#2590059 21-Oct-2020 21:48

richms:

I have one, the raw DE10 nano will do sega megadrive and a handful of things with nothing added to it.

I got a 32 meg ram off ebay, which came from an asian seller,

I got a case and IO board off aliexpress which works okish, but seems to have some issues with the video output. I havent had any luck with HDMI to VGA adapters onto my scart cable, which do work on the mister IO board output fine, I think its because of sync signals being combined on the IO board but seperate on the adapter, but not bothered to pursue it furthur.

Lockdown was supposed to see me getting it built into my arcade cabinet shell but that never happened.

Nice.

I've got an old CRT, so looking at driving it with a component video adapter.

Yeah, looks like it would be an excellent device to build an arcade cabinet around. I just like the efficiency (i.e. lower power usage) of it all.