I just got a MiSTer Pi - and I am trying to run PSX and as soon as I select PSX from the console list the screen goes blank.

If I press B on my controller, it will show button mappings for about 3-4 seconds, then that disappears, and the screen goes blank and there is no response to anything I press on the controller anymore. I have waited probably 15-20 seconds to ensure it wasn't just loading something, then all I can do is reset.

I ran update_all it did not get the bios for PSX, so I manually added 4 that I could find:

SCPH1001.BIN (I tried only this one alone first, then I added the others)
SCPH7000.BIN
SCPH7001.BIN
SCPH7002.BIN

No change to behavior I think (I didn't notice B opened the button mappings until after I added the bios files). Any ideas on what I need to add/change to get PSX working?

Thanks!

Not super aware of all the needs past research showed 256 mb ram is not yet needed . is that still the case ?

Newbie here, I’ve just bought a Mister Pi. I have some questions about latency:

1. So Snac adaptors are plugged in the I/O port, and their purpose is to let you use your old console controllers with zero lag, right?
2. Will plugging any usb controller (like my Razer Raion) in the I/O port also give it zero lag?
3. What’s the advantage of using controller adaptors (Reflex Adapt, Blisster, Daemon) over Snac adaptors asides from menu navigation?
4. I don’t want to buy an old crt. Are modern gaming monitors (with 1ms response times or lower) be the next big thing? Will they be able to achieve similar results with a Mister as they can with a pc when it comes to latency? Or is it more like CRTs vs everything else (everything else being a sucky alternative). Would it make any difference if I plugged in my Mister to gaming monitor with 1ms response time compared to gaming monitor with 8ms response time or even a regular LCD tv?

It's arrived. That was fast from China to UK. Great service. Now to set it up

8Bitdo's not yet released 64 Controller is the perfect companion for the MiSTer. Unfortunately it's not a 2.4 GHz controller which are typically optimal for gaming on the MiSTer (IMO, more straight forward). I'm really hoping that they release a 2.4 GHz model soon.

The reason that 64 controllers are so good for Mister is because the support almost all consoles. Specifically and 64 consoles and Sega Saturn consoles are the hardest to support their unique button layout.

As noted in the title, I do not seem to be able to get the PSX or N64 Cores to display anything, just a black screen after loading a ROM using the QMTECH FPGA kit. I have tried multiple microsd cards, fresh installs, the update all script, and different ROMs. Other cores seem to work fine (GBA, SNES, and Genesis tested). This is all using HDMI. Has anyone else had this issue?

Like how NSO has online multiplayer and retroarch has it as well.

How many milliseconds of lag do you get?

I really want to see how good it is. NSO usually gets like 200ms of lag or so for OoT.

240 fps recording off your phone should be good enough hardware to test input lag because each frame in 240fps is 4.16666ms in real time.

Sorry about not being quite sure about exactly where to post this but..
Is it a custom made thing or can someone buy a generic stick component off the shelf to make their own FPGA-managed joystick with to the alike of N64/PS2/etc controller's joystick feature? (I don't mind whether this would had been analog or digital as the FPGA is mine so I can pipe out whatever bus I would had needed for this)

I have a arcade cab that I got for dirt cheap. I'm considering turning it into a cab that can play the few games that were released in medium res.

It's an oddball crt and I usually see people mention 15 or 31khz. Am I going to experience any difficulty? I couldn't find much info when I was looking into it

Stock available at both qmtech and Taki:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EyYh4lB https://retroremake.co/pages/store

I brought a qmtech board a couple of days ago (literally an hour before taki sent out his restock email!) it shipped today.

Title is selft explanatory.

Since I got my hands on a QMTECH Cyclone V, the lack of updates and stock on the QMETECH I/O board (only avalibe through some sketchy sellers) I was wondering:

Since Taki got a fresh batch of boards, will the Mister PI I/O board works with the QMTECH SoC?

https://preview.redd.it/wvzkzsnolu1e1.jpg?width=823&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dc3c16b36196ee2282695109b689fd0b8a524c4

Hi, my USB nano to i/o bridge broke. Can I buy any USB male to male cable, etc, to replace it, or do I have to buy a bridge from a mister store? There appears to be some kind of PCB board. :(

Finally managed to get one. Can't wait to load it up

Anyone know any way to convert Duckstation saves to use on the MiSTer? The PSX core has one PSX.sav save, which I assume is a virtual memory card?

Is it possible to create per game saves and then copy/convert my Duckstation saves for each game, or would I have to create a virtual memory card featuring my Duckstation saves - and if so, anyone got any idea how to do that?

I know when you build your own mister, you have to choose what board you want, digital or analog. Does the Mister Pi only support HDMI?

I was wondering if anyone had a doc with basic ui/how to info for guests. Trying to make it easy for my partner or guests to play without me setting up every game for them.

Hi all, I just picked up a Mister a few weeks back and have had a fantastic time getting everything set up perfectly. It doesn't play nice with my receiver and since it's outputting to an OLED, thought I'd pick up an upscaler.

I don't see much discussion on the Morph, like anywhere. There have been a couple helpful videos but nothing really going in depth with filtering options or fine tuning settings, HDR, etc, and they are all pretty old it seems.

Anyone here have one paired with their Mister? Are the color correction options on par with Retrotink? Is the only way to rename presets to eject the card, put it in a PC, then rename them from there?

There are no presets that I can find, the preset folder is only for your own configured presets. I've spent hours and hours playing different cores trying to fine tune to get to that perfect picture and it's been really rough to be honest. I feel like I'm close to being satisfied but it's honestly nothing compared to what I could do with my PC in Retroarch. Some of what I've seen with Tink4k looks really impressive so I was thinking the Morph might be on par in this regard, ignoring the missing analog inputs. Then again, maybe I'm using these filters wrong. In the wiki it said some are meant to be used with scan lines and some are not, but then doesn't actually explain any further than that, or even make any distinction at all.

It'd be cool to hear more thoughts from people who have experience with both the tink and the morph.

Edit: Pretty happy with some results now after tweaking HDR a bit. Not regretting going with the Morph4k and looking forward to the continued development. https://imgur.com/a/R3phZ3J

I'm a veteran to the whole emulation scene and after researching MiSTer for a little while I'm still quite confused.

There's a few things making me wonder if it's a good time to get into MiSTer. Here are a few statements I've seen but it's unclear to me how salient they are:

• Artificial price inflation (is likely to stabilize or go down over coming years?)

• Better tech coming (new boards/chips on the forseeable horizon?)

• Less accuracy/more bugs (most common cores still have less accuracy than equivalent software emu?)

• High maintenance (not as straightforward as, say, Retroarch?)

• No killer app (doesn't do anything overwhelmingly better than emu currently?)

The main things that interest me about MiSTer are:

• Just booting up and getting into games with minimal frontend/boot-time/distraction.
• No need to tweak ini's to reduce latency, select optimal resolutions, etc (IE: overall lower maintenance?)
• Ability to consistently output exact hardware spec video to CRT
• Small footprint
• Modular standard allowing for things like easily adding original controller adapters, etc

I guess if there's anything that scares me off a bit right now it's (A) price creep, not knowing the full scope ahead of time. And (B) ending up with overall less playable games than I currently enjoy with ordinary emulation. Thanks for any and all input!