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Hardware Homebrew Others Great year for the MiSTer FPGA project so far

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Jayro said:
You should play VirtualBoy on it. I have to suffer with anaglyph glasses.
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wait a minute i got a 3d tv and never new that there was a way to play virtualboy and actuallly get the 3d functionality out of if. thats an amazing thing that might make me play my 3d tv for hours now. thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole lol.
 
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lordelan said:
Didn't follow that one recently. What's the current state of it? Did you play around with it?
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It works, but has issues as it's still early dev. Like, the one game I wanted to play is Wario Land, but it has a bug preventing me from moving Wario. So your mileage may vary game to game.
 
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AndorfRequissa said:
wait a minute i got a 3d tv and never new that there was a way to play virtualboy and actuallly get the 3d functionality out of if. thats an amazing thing that might make me play my 3d tv for hours now. thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole lol.
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Well to be fair you could have done that with any RetroArch setup on your TV already as the Libretro Virtual Boy core allows for different display modes including SBS.
Pretty sure I tested that on my 3D TV many years ago.

You can also use the anaglyph mode with any anaglyph glasses on any handheld.
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While this is not my image, I tested it successfully on my Miyoo Mini.
 
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AndorfRequissa said:
wait a minute i got a 3d tv and never new that there was a way to play virtualboy and actuallly get the 3d functionality out of if. thats an amazing thing that might make me play my 3d tv for hours now. thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole lol.
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There's a "Red Dragon" emulator for 3DS that plays VirtualBoy in 3D as well, worth checking out if you own a 3DS.
 
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Jayro said:
There's a "Red Dragon" emulator for 3DS that plays VirtualBoy in 3D as well, worth checking out if you own a 3DS.
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Yeah and it's super stable now.
I consider this by far the best option to play 3DS games these days. And there are a few gems that you should not miss out.
However I'd also give the library another shot if they run with SBS 3D on the MiSTer. But I'll patiently wait for that to become stable.
 
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lordelan said:
Yeah and it's super stable now.
I consider this by far the best option to play 3DS games these days. And there are a few gems that you should not miss out.
However I'd also give the library another shot if they run with SBS 3D on the MiSTer. But I'll patiently wait for that to become stable.
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I just had one of my 3 MiSTer systems not want to connect to Wi-Fi, and no matter what I tried, it just refused to connect.

I couldn't just re-do the SD card either, as it's a 512GB one FILLED with loads of PS1 and Saturn games, as well as music CDs in CHD format. It would have taken nearly a whole day to copy it back and forth, so out of one desperate last-ditch attempt, I just copied the Linux folder from a good MiSTer SD card to the one not connecting to Wi-Fi, and that seems to have solved it. Somewhere down the pipes, I had a bad Linux file, and it wasn't the wpa_supplicant.conf for once. (I had already tried copying a good wpa_supplicant.conf to the bad card, but it didn't change anything.)
 
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I just went down a rabbit hole about how it worked and it's truly impressive. I had heard of it back in the day without paying too much attention but now I know why it got so much attention. I'm not a fan of the DIY aspect as it seems tedious but I can see the appeal for tinkerers. But I also know why it might be necessary: Mother 3 on GBA. I couldn't beat the first boss using an emulator because of latency.
 
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I have a MiSTer Pi hooked up to my OLED and a DE10 MiSTer hooked up to my CRT in a different room. I find them perfect especially for systems that I have no nostalgia for e.g. PS1, Amiga, arcade cores.
 
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acr514 said:
I just went down a rabbit hole about how it worked and it's truly impressive. I had heard of it back in the day without paying too much attention but now I know why it got so much attention. I'm not a fan of the DIY aspect as it seems tedious but I can see the appeal for tinkerers. But I also know why it might be necessary: Mother 3 on GBA. I couldn't beat the first boss using an emulator because of latency.
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I wrote in an earlier comment that I can't deny that there is a certain DIY aspect to it but setting it up is not too much harder than setting up any Chinese retro emulation handheld.

Especially since you can buy pre-assembled MiSTer full stacks from AliExpress or Retro Remake. Or just get a MiSTer Multisystem 2. Also: It's worth it. :)
 
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CPS3 early access the day after tomorrow, finally:


Personally I'm fine with waiting a little longer until it's fleshed out and all games run until I give it a shot. There's too much other things going on on the MiSTer currently to keep me entertained. :D
But fantastic news nonetheless. One of the last barricades.

Also IGS PGM is getting better and better.
 
Paprium is finally available for everyone with an easy way of installing it on the MiSTer with a custom MegaDrive core.



My recommendation:
Install it via MiSTer Companion (v5.10 or newer, EXTRAS tab), then click on the "open game folder" button and copy over the game files that you found online. Make sure to look for a version that has WAV files rather than MP3 files because that's the only one that works.

I've played it for an hour yesterday and it was really fun.
 
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Interesting thread. From the software emulation side (which is the approach I use in my own hardware project), the comparison with FPGA always feels more like "different goals" than "which one is better."

With FPGA you get real hardware-level timing, without the abstraction layer that any software emulator carries. That's irreplaceable for systems where timing is critical (classic Arcade, some SNES/Genesis edge cases).

But once you want to cover a wide catalog (in my case I'm targeting 135 platforms), FPGA becomes unfeasible from a development standpoint — every FPGA core is basically its own engineering project. That's where software with good cores (RetroArch and standalones) wins on coverage, even if you lose that last % of accuracy.

In the end it's been a matter of priorities for me: system coverage and accessible hardware cost, versus absolute precision on a handful of systems. Do you guys lean more toward precision (MiSTer) or catalog coverage when picking a solution?
 
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Interesting thread. From the software emulation side (which is the approach I use in my own hardware project), the comparison with FPGA always feels more like "different goals" than "which one is better."

With FPGA you get real hardware-level timing, without the abstraction layer that any software emulator carries. That's irreplaceable for systems where timing is critical (classic Arcade, some SNES/Genesis edge cases).

But once you want to cover a wide catalog (in my case I'm targeting 135 platforms), FPGA becomes unfeasible from a development standpoint — every FPGA core is basically its own engineering project. That's where software with good cores (RetroArch and standalones) wins on coverage, even if you lose that last % of accuracy.

In the end it's been a matter of priorities for me: system coverage and accessible hardware cost, versus absolute precision on a handful of systems. Do you guys lean more toward precision (MiSTer) or catalog coverage when picking a solution?
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I know what you mean.

I'm honest to myself: 99% of the time, I would play a system that is covered by (a core on) the MiSTer anyway so I'm fine with it.
I never cared about Rewind. Save states are there for the cores that I need (except Genesis yet), fast forward is there for PKMN on the GB core, RetroAchievements are now there as well. So I basically have all the amazing benefits of an FPGA and I'm getting more and more of the software emulation benefits as well as time goes by.
The only two things REALLY still lacking for me are some arcade cores (Stone Ball comes to mind) and Netplay. I'd love to play SF2 or 3 on FPGA with a buddy over the internet. Maybe we'll see this at some point as well.
 

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