The MiSTeX project (Basically, a project to create a successor to the MiSTer with a more powerful FPGA) hit a lot of progress lately. The first core was posted to it on May 1, and by May 4 there was 47 working cores running on it. There is a new framework too to allow cores to be compiled for multiple FPGA platforms at once.Xilinx's FPGAs are currently a bit focus for the MiSTeX. They should be on par with around the MARS/Replay2, at least, there are models of FPGAs from Xilinx that are that powerful without costing significantly more (Possibly even less) if that's what they are running these cores on.
I don’t fucking care. I can emulate all this shit on a 20 year old office PC for free.
>>10910014Prove it.
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Is there any other boards that have the io potential of the de 10 nano?
>>10910014quit posting here, those no-intro fullsets aren’t going to play themselves
>>10909934>another potential future fpga deviceoh god i wish someone could just come out. i hate how theoretical and probable these all are
at what point will we have emulation that's good enough that people don't feel the need to pursue greater accuracy?
>>10910063Give it a year from now:Replay2 is working with Intel on finalizing an boardMARS is supposed to debut at TooManyGames in June.
>>10910086Autism ensures that this point is never reached
>>10910095Also the cheaper DE-10 clone board is planned to come out at the end of this month
>>10910086If you don’t have crippling autism then we reached that point on emulators running on Windows like 10-15 years ago.
>>10910114Maybe once we have quark-accurate emulation. Currently we have barely started emulating transistor-accurate emulation.
>>10909934Just buy a Pi with composite out
>>10910086At this point, it's mainly speedrunning autism that's pushing this, since they're the only ones who care if one frame is slightly inaccurate.
>>10912075It's definitely NOT speedrunning autism because those fucks are real hardware purists.
>>10910120a lot of games on their leaderboards allow emulation though, i can't think of any that are still segregated
>>10909934>Basically, a project to create a successor to the MiSTer with a more powerful FPGAIt’s about running the MiSTer framework on other FPGAs, it isn’t meant as a successor.
>>10912025The output's not the cleanest but a bunch of people seem to think that's a plus
>>10909934the fpga cant even do the c64 sid chip. might as well stick with regular emulation since fpga is just as shit
>>10913517I refuse to believe the SID is truly un-emulatable, just that the real thing never sounded alike even in like-versions that no one can agree what the 'correct' sound actually is
>>10913517There are literally FPGA-based drop-in replacements for the SID chip, what do you mean the FPGA can't emulate the SID?
Other than future proofing, what are the main pros about moving to a more powerful FPGA? Dreamcast? More powerful arcade and PC cores? It seems that the de-10 is pretty close to encompassing most of what is possible/worth doing with FPGA anyway.
>>10910060Lol what's your point supposed to be? Like people playing on an FPGA aren't using roms.
>>10913792>t. rom hoarder
>>10913823Nah I have a curated collection of roms. I play too many systems to have full sets.I'm just saying, people use roms on FPGA too, if you don't like people have full romsets (for whatever reason, people get their shit in a knot over the weirdest stuff on this site) that has nothing to do with software vs FPGA emulation.
>>10910014what a mongoloidevery single time we have one of these threads it gets derailed by people who:>never used fpga>dont have a mister>cannot afford a de-10> literally do not know what they are talking aboutyou would think this board would be ALL ABOUT 100% accurate hardware emulation/autism but instead they seethe like imbecilesthe de-10 is my favorite computer i ever bought in my entire life
>>10913929The mister is just an emulator flashed to hardware for less lag/OS overhead. Lag you can make up for with a decent display + VRR + 1 frame ahead. It can be just as a fucked up as any emulator, if not more, as we've seen. The one benefit is agnostic peripheral/original controller support via snacs. That and we might see emulation progress backported from it because its getting so much soibux and support.
>everyone who paid out the ass for a complete MiSTer now have an outdated and soon to be unsupported piece of shitthanks for beta testing!
>>10913929There is zero benefit to paying for an autistic FPGA whatever over just emulating on a PC.
>>10914585Soon to be unsupported lmao, just showing you have no idea what this topic is about.
>>10914585If MiSTer becomes unsupported than MiSTeX does too, because it’s the same thing you dummy.
>>10910014Based!>>10909934I won't be paying for overpriced hardware to emulate old games.
>>10914585Indeed. Makes me glad I invested in and built a gaming PC than buy a gay ass FPGA device.
Wow suddenly I love Retroarch thanks to software retards in mister threads!
>>10913762>Other than future proofing, what are the main pros about moving to a more powerful FPGA? Dreamcast?Yes>More powerful arcade and PC cores?Yes, at least arcade, not sure if we can do Pentium or any type of 3D Accelerator without a significantly more powerful core.>It seems that the de-10 is pretty close to encompassing most of what is possible/worth doing with FPGA anyway.We have definitely hit limits. On top of 486 with no FPU or 3D Acceleration being the best it can do and Dreamcast being a total no-go even N64 is not 100% possible (mostly due to memory timing) and there are a few key games that crash on the core that don't appear to be solvable without a better setup.>>10914556>Lag you can make up for with a decent display + VRR + 1 frame aheadRun-Ahead is not a magic bullet and in many games can introduce even more issues. It's also not feasible to do past 4th gen.
I am convinced that the people who are most vocal about their excitement for this FPGA stuff are the ones who play the actual videogames the least. I love the idea of these all-in-one solutions but it's just not happening anytime soon. I'm just bitching to bitch but a couple weeks ago I drunkenly gave this guy five bucks to play the arcade version of Splatterhouse on my Pocket and it had godawful sound issues that have somehow been unreported for half a year.
>>10914836I’ve been playing my mister regularly and pretty much exclusively since I built it six months ago.
