Thank you! Tried my best to keep it understandable.

I fully agree. LTT made quite hash of it in comparison, by being terrible at explaining what FPGA is.

The woodgrain is _amazing_. I mean, sure, they absolutely knew who they were sending it to but even with that aside, it _actually_ looks _really_ good. At least in the video. I'm impressed.

@@Unholy_Louie kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m6qXaMaQksu5omw.html That's the one. :)

@@Unholy_Louie kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m6qXaMaQksu5omw.html this one

luckily we have some very dedicated folks from all across the world who are constantly working on these non-trivial tasks. the beauty of open source means that as technology progresses and we get more capable hardware at better price points, this work can be brought forward to future iterations of the project also. looking forward to open-source portable devices able to leverage FPGA system cores especially, with breakouts to connect to standard displays if desired, of course ^-^

Especially the quirks of the bus system between the chips.

I totally second this. I've done my fair share of hardware/FPGA development over the years, and what is on offer from the MiSTer community is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

Is there a better IDE then Quartus Altera? I had to use it in uni and it felt so janky I preferred editing the files on a notepad app (Kate) and just compiling them there

I'm doing my senior thesis on usage of FPGAs in mobile devices. Doing all my testing on an Arty Z7-20 with a Zynq-7000 chip

I like the multisystem board but the 3D printed case is not for me. Mister is such a cool project it really needs something higher quality than a 3D print case. I really hope someone makes a case for it out of higher quality materials.

i said from the start that people were waiting on a console-style case for the project

@@siskavard I'm waiting for the new aluminum case coming out in 2022 from MiSTerAddons. The shape is more basic than the multisystem, but its metal and you can put a 2.5" hard drive inside.

@@NirnBootMod Tbh given the price of micro SD cards now, I'm not sure what the rationale would be for using a hard drive with MiSTer. You'd be limited to USB 2 speeds anyway, and would likely need to switch to a more powerful AC adapter.

@@siskavard I like that the 3d print file is available. The quality of Clint's printed case wasn't great, but a dedicated printing hobbyist could make that case look real nice.

I think Clint has secretly been to the UK and done some meet and greets. 😬

*laughs In European*

Or just buy a 1k computer and play everything ever shown on this channel infinitely better.

@@trendybistro Yeah, until FPGA has a clear advantage is just a hobbyist thing and won't truly replace emulation when your PC can play literally everything under the sun.

@@trendybistro sometimes having a piece of hardware is just more fun...

@@trendybistro my computer far exceeds that spec, and I still prefer to use original hardware or the mister. It's a lot more of a pain in the ass to run my PC to a 15kHz monitor / TV for starters, and this little box is infinitely more portable to boot. Emulation is great, but this kind of project is the true future of 100% accurate classic gaming preservation

It’s way better

It's not Christmas without an LGR christmasware video

I just thought that yesterday!

Last year was pretty disappointing, he only uploaded two videos iirc. The third one was a non christmas vid.

@@NotApplicable555 Er, what? LGR uploaded nearly 40 videos in the previous year.

The tech has been around for a long time. The only issue has been cost and legality. It's cheaper and more legal to emulate the hardware than to replicate it in newer hardware.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade Emulation is free, and well enough.

@@j0s1v exactly. Emulation has always been free since the mid 90s. If the emulator your using is janky and is 27 years old the experience will be bad. If the emulator your using is refined and coded well, your experience will be amazing. 🙂

Yeah, they're quite magical, can be reprogrammed to almost any logical hardware

I cant wait to get one of these! Does the Multisystem board 'require' the DE10 nano?

imagine when classic synths get implemented in fpga

i didn't know there were FPGA analogue audio implementations and as a composer i'd love to know where you got one

@@GoldenPickaxe UAD and Antelope are the only two companies I know that does this, but there might be others out there, but those are the two main ones I can think of. You said you were a composer, so I don't think their audio interfaces are going to be much use to you unless you also mix and master your own music; they make plugins that run in your DAW that utilize their FPGA chips to emulate analogue hardware for tools that you'd use exclusively for mixing audio and I haven't seen any that emulate analogue instruments like synthesizers. They're also pretty expensive units and much of that money is going into how good the quality of the preamps and converters are, so if you record 0 live audio they'll be especially useless for you given the price. They'll usually bundle a bunch of plugins with a unit but each plugin runs on average at about $100 and there are tons of useful plugins that they don't bundle with your gear. But if that's what you need they're pretty essential tools for a home studio, and are extremely cheap compared to owning the real thing.

I'd like one setup in a mechanical keyboard case, like an Amiga or Commodore 64 or other 8-16 bit home computer. I've been planning on building one once I've moved and have the deskspace for it.

good freaking luck, looks like it's sold out everywhere. or I mean back-ordered, or as they put it, "Please note - This is Pre-order Batch #2. Expected shipping date is Q2 2022. Initially only the MMS & cases will be available. Deluxe kits for batch #2 will be available in '22 to ensure we have a ready supply of DE10's in stock for them." AKA you might get one "in march of 2023 if you give us the money now." *after the obligatory by this point, many delays.

@@tommytomthms5 Well, you can't expect a small company to work as a corporate electronic factory and mass produce boards for few millions of retro gamers. They need money now to pay other company to print PCBs and get all the parts for the device. And they they have to assembly it themselves or pay others to do it for them. You wouldn't want to invest thousands of $ into something that you may not sell and then stuck with a ton of boards to collect dust...

I am so happy I finally remembered to watch this video cause I forgot this company is from the UK so that I do not have to deal with the og MiSTER and it's limited sellers in Europe. I am so hyped to play arcade games on my C1 and 13" PVM

I put in for mine can't wait till next winter when I have one.

The one on the left is USB, the USB 3.0 connector on the right is for SNAKs, not real USB devices

I mean, even if MiSTer didnt get any new cores its incredible for what it already has. And you probably wont get more advanced systems than PSX and Saturn. And it has every other console up to that point.

Can I ask you, is this due to better emulation performance than say, retroarch on the PC? Or is it due to nostalgia? As this does look very interesting 👍

@@mwidenst Better emulation I feel. It feels more accurate which I'm putting down to the low latency. It is better playing on a dedicated device than just a PC or laptop too, but the low latency I think makes a big difference especially now as I'm an old, broken wreck of a man!

Question! What is the latest system you can reliably emulate on this? Can it do PS2, PSP, and GameCube? Any similar devices I’ve ever purchased/tried just choke when trying to run them.

@@Spacemutiny I don't think it's likely to do any of those systems any time soon. A Playstation core is nearing completion and a Saturn core is in progress.

@@DaveVelociraptor ah ok thanks, so this is for 8 and 16 bit systems primarily. I’m def still going to look into getting one. Seems very cool.

This is why the Rare Replay version of it is virtually impossible to complete without constant rewinding.

Thats a good game, also Mike Tysons Punch out fighting Mike Tyson is a good indicator of input latency as well.

I hated that game as a kid... Precisely for what you mentioned, it takes skill and I had none. I just stuck to Mario 1 and 3 and still could never beat either. 😆

For me it's being able to perform a hyper knee in Double Dragon 2. It was the first thing I tried when I got my MiSTer and when I could perform it successfully over and over again I sold my Raspberry Pi.

I just loaded up the Gutsman level from Mega Man 1. It isn't as good of a gauge since you can adapt to the lag if you're good enough. But it let me know how much adapting I needed to do.

the sandwich is really tiny though, and there are several case designs so it's not just hanging out. Still this is a great development.

And the Ambernic retro emulation handhelds, they even have a couple communities making quite nice custom firmware/operating systems for them. I've been having a blast playing my RG351MP, it's awesome having a pocket sized handheld with so much emulation power and a metal case so I really don't need to worry about bringing it to work to make breaks far more interesting

the big problem now is that DE-10 prices are getting much higher

... and in the mancave bind them! =)

@MrDjBigZ Shame to miss out on all the lootboxes from modern games.

same here. MiSTer was an absolute game changer when I first tried it, compared to emulation I've dabbled with in the past. having everything just run at original speeds and latency right out of the box is quite refreshing, compared to needing to do per-game hacks like runahead on traditional software emulation. I've recorded many experiences with it on my channel to try and share some of that magic with folks who feel the same way you expressed.

mister is GREAT! it aims for cycle accurate "simulation"

that's the benefit to an FPGA approach here, it's as close as you can get to simply building the system anew

there are also two-player gameboy and gameboy advance cores, so you can experience those system link games on the same screen, or one person on CRT while the other is on HDMI if you choose. ^-^

@@WalrusFPGA that is admittedly really cool, basically turns the game into a co-op experience, at least as much as possible without modding the game itself

@@UNSCPILOT lots of co-op and vs experiences to be had there. i have some videos from the two-player GBA core for co-op doom 2 and vs in V-Rally 3, also the ending of my Stuntman GBA video has the vs mode on the two-player core.

an important note about the pi zero 2, is that mt32-pi currently has a number of issues when used with that device. best to stick with one of the recommendations from the mt32-pi wiki like the pi 3a, currently.

I love my MiSTer, but basically never use the ao486 core. It doesn't make a ton of sense if you have a modern PC with dosbox and Munt IMO.

@@danielfinley-pesti6661 i just put it there because i don’t need to be told that glow in the dark filament chews up nozzles after a year of printing a lot of glow in the dark stuff and already replacing a nozzle. it really isn’t that deep, and you don’t have to go out of your way to belittle someone who just wanted to avoid having people with good intentions from wasting any of their time giving advice on this to someone who doesn’t need it after typing the original comment and immediately worrying that i’d get more replies/attention than i could handle (it’s happened before) to go out of your way and call a woman who posts a simple comment a bitch and accuse her of trying to be rude when she’s really just not in need of the same advice 400 times in one calendar year makes you seem pretty insecure though

@@ExperimentIV lmfao I for one totally understand why you would include such a statement, it’s saves from every single comment being the same exact thing over and over and over and over.

@@DrakeDaraitis lmao i appreciate the understanding! i wasn’t trying to be an ass

@@ExperimentIV But I think Daniel was, and he succeeded!

yeah and with the chip shortage you can have it in your hands by march! no, not this march... I meant march 2023... [estimated from adding another delay to the date listed on the site of Q2/Q3 2022, I say more realistically Q1 of 2023]

It would be cool to see what the absolute limit of 16 bit gaming would be

ZX Spectrum Next, closer to "single purpose" FPGA consoles that emulates Z80, Z81 and Spectrum has been around since 2017, and the "Next 2" is on Kickstarter now, and various other projects have come out, like the Vampire 4, which emulates a Amiga with a "68080" chip.. They have just concentrated on a "single platform" more or less and hide the fact that it has an FPGA. Because the MiSTER software is Open Source, a bunch of engineers have donated they're cores and time to make them run on the Terasic DE-10 nano (but not the DE-10 standard, lite or mini) This makes it harder to profit and retain control, and it's taken years to get together hardware like this to sell. Nothing particularly new about FPGA console emulators however.

Yay for competition

It'll be interesting to see what this community will do with those, and I hope AMD will do what they can to support it to some degree, much like how they've been supporting the Linux community where they can

It just needs to be finished. It's so common, but I'm still always kind of surprised at how often people use 3D prints straight off the printer. At least some sanding and maybe a finishing layer make them look so much better.

Yeah that case's finish is dog shit.

@@sweaterfish6311 Well yes for a hobby, for production I totally get that that would take way too much time. But what I’m seeing is that the printing itself is not very good. Not super important, just a thing I noticed.

MiSTer's active cooling very rarely kicks in

If only the MiSTer supported that CRT's specific display requirements

@@LGR I thought it would work with a standard 31khz VGA signal. Use forced_scandoubler=1 in the mister.ini.

@SNES Nes There isn't one yet, but there is a Sega Saturn one that's working. It's got a lot of graphical glitches but it's still in development after all. The PSX core is also in public beta. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNVhesp3m76RZ3U.html check this out.

mini usb??

Yes it's a 40mmx10mm.

It can indeed, that’s the goal! Should be ideal for future preservation.

@@LGR Awesome!

It already has been, as MiSTer is descended from the MiST project which itself is descended from Minimig hardware.