Exploring TapTo on the MiSTer

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It's time for another MiSTer video... this time, I'm taking a look at the TapTo project. After spending a few weeks with it, I can see why everyone is excited!
In this video, I'm going to take you through how TapTo works and show you some of the cool things you can do with it.
Links Referenced in this Video:
- TapTo GitHub Page: github.com/wizzomafizzo/tapto
- Wizzo's Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/wizzodev/?e...
- Commodore 1541 NFC Enclosure: www.printables.com/model/7915...
- Famicom Disk System NFC Enclosure: www.printables.com/model/9382...
- PC Engine NFC Enclosure: www.printables.com/model/7375...
- ACR122U NFC Reader (Amazon): www.amazon.com/ACR122U-Reader...
- PN532 NFC Reader (AliExpress): www.aliexpress.us/item/325680...
- TapTo Label Generator: tapto-designer.netlify.app

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11 июл 2024

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@shpongled 2 дня назад

Absolutely fantastic summary of the project and possibilities .... I wasn't really all that interested before but now I can see how this could really enhance the MiSTer experience.. Great video!

@TheMasterSpecter 22 дня назад

I wasnt terribly interested in this project beforehand, but now it seems really cool! Dont know if Ill actually get one, but it is certainly an interesting tool. Gives back some of the physicality of putting in a cartridge or disc, and being limited to only a few instead of a never-ending scroll through a menu. Speaking of that floppy disc drive case, it would be awesome to see one with the big switches like on the 5 1/4 drives; you could slide in the card, then flip the switch with a satisfying "clonk". Maybe the switch could move the NFC reader onto the card, so it has more of a practical purpose (or it could just be for fun)

@Fezzler61 24 дня назад

Very cool. Interesting how gaming drives so many vintage computing innovations.

@Ustaleone 24 дня назад

This was a very nice video and overview of the TapTo project. I'm currently making my own TapTo reader by putting it inside a cartridge :D. Very fun stuff!

@whatskenmaking 23 дня назад

Nice! I'd love to see some more innovative reader designs out there

@TomBortels 19 дней назад

I thought this was a very silly idea at first... but when you got to the paradox of choice, it clicked. Insightful - and now I need one!

@whatskenmaking 16 дней назад

It’s been interesting - ever since I started using TapTo, I’ve only been playing games that I have on card. The barrier to putting in a card is so low

@PixelCherryNinja 24 дня назад

Great video, great project 👏

@steambub 9 дней назад

I wasn't much interested in the TapTo, but your idea of putting tags in cartridges is something I must do for myself.

@BedroomNinja 21 день назад

Great video as always Ken and thank you for featuring my cases :)

@valentine_puppy 21 день назад

I’m a Sega fan and a Sega styled case would be awesome. Master System preferably.

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

Thanks - your cases are awesome!

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

I was thinking about that, too - but I would want to do it as an entire SMS MiSTer case with the NFC slot in place of the sega card slot.

@valentine_puppy 20 дней назад

@@whatskenmaking I’d love to see it. With the slot loading option to load the games from Sega Mycard style nfc cards. I just mean a sticker that looks like the Mycard cover front and back. Thank you for the content and keep up the great work. Peace and love brother.

@DrLilo 24 дня назад

Every time I look into TapTo I'm super tempted until I start running the numbers and become aware of just how quickly making cards for every game would balloon in price and become a storage/accessibility issue.

@Ustaleone 24 дня назад

Well, the way you can do it is just by putting your favorite games on them. Those NFC cards, especially the tags or stickers literally costs only cents from AliExpress. Yes if you're going to put entire libraries on them, you will be bankrupt in no time. But I would say just do it for your top 50 games or something. I personally made a list of my top 120 games and ordered some tags. The tags were like $13 for 150 of them. You could of course do less, use cheap/expensive paper. Your call, have fun!

@whatskenmaking 23 дня назад

I think the key is to narrow it down and make cards for the games that you play often. If you have 1,000 cards, it's going to take you longer to find the game you want to play, than if you just launched it through the menu. But if you just have a couple dozen, grabbing a card from the stack and tapping it fast and easy. Although, I'll admit that creating cards is addictive, and I'm now at the point of having a card storage problem 😆

@DrLilo 22 дня назад

@@alexvolney i dont have much of a physical game cart collection, I use flash carts.

@RetroRockGamer 21 день назад

I know, everyone sold their collections and bought a MiSTer, now we're building ohysical media collections again. :)

@DrLilo 21 день назад

@@RetroRockGamer it's not that, it's just I live in Europe. All my childhood carts and all he carts that can be found in the wild around me are 50hz. Not worth owning...

@geofreypejsa54 23 дня назад

Another great video Ken. Thanks for the excellent content

@bryantaylor2523 20 дней назад

VERY cool idea putting the NFC stickers inside the physical cartridges! It might also be cool to combine that idea with the insert function to have actual cartridge slots without the need for different physical connectors and/or custom electronics for each type. They'd all just be the same nfc reader with different enclosures.

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

I saw on the discord that someone put an NFC reader into a Super Gameboy enclosure. I thought that was a pretty cool idea!

@phillai 22 дня назад

Great video as always Ken! Been on the fence a while with this and your video might have just persuaded me to go and get one! 👍

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

Thanks! The cost is so inexpensive (compared to the many other ways you can spend money on the MiSTer) that it’s worth playing with. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did. It’s at the point now where I use TapTo almost exclusively

@ThePiones 4 дня назад

At last my idea on which I've never worked on materialized on the real world.

@rustkitty 5 дней назад

Now we just need a variant port cover lid that integrates the NFC module, so the whole thing can look even more like an oversized PC engine.

@seethruhead7119 22 дня назад

since it has an api you could configure EmulationStation running on a rapsberry pi to launch games on the mister (instead of launching an emulator) all you would need is an ip controllable hdmi switch to switch from the rpi to the mister when launching a game, and back to the rpi when you exit one. then you'll have a world class ui with box art on an fpga system

@exodous02 22 дня назад

Ah man, this is awesome. I'd get card holders and print up my entire library. I used to hang card holder pages from a binder on my wall to display cards I owned. It would be nostalgic to do this with games I print up! Ohh, or just pint statues and put one of those stickers on it.

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

That’s a great idea - display the cards on the wall. If you’re going to make a lot of them, I’d suggest using a cutter like a cricut. After cutting out the first few sheets of labels, you start feeling it!

@exodous02 17 дней назад

@@whatskenmaking As kids we made business cards for my Dad and had to cut them out with a paper cutter so I'm going to give it a try. I checked Etsy just to see if anyone was making them but nope.

@gluttonousmaximus9048 23 дня назад

I'm actually curious if the TapTo can be repurposed into other appliances and gadgets, not just the MiSTer things. What if it can be used as an easily accessible physical token on home media boxes to play movies, or as a car infotainment add-on to automatically play music albums denoted by the token? If configured right this kinda eliminates having to go through a bunch of menus to play whatever you want.

@gluttonousmaximus9048 23 дня назад

Inspired by Cathode Ray Dude's mentions of his struggle with Spotify

@user-hw2vu4fu5p 23 дня назад

That’s the plan! I am porting TapTo to other platforms as we speak. Windows will be up next, then looking at the various Pi distros like Batocera and Recalbox. Music and video playback will definitely be supported soon, including services like Spotify

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

I just saw that wizzo released a windows demo on the discord and twitter. I don’t think we’re too far away from seeing broader integration

@ChristianWS. 17 дней назад

I've thought about how this can be used in Linux to basically send whatever script you want. Could potentially make a card that entirely deletes your home heh

@user-hw2vu4fu5p 17 дней назад

@@ChristianWS. not by default! I do try to be cautious about arbitrary code execution. But you can enable manually if you want and go nuts making drive wipe cards

@mwk1 17 дней назад

Fajny patent 😎

@TheMikeyb86 23 дня назад

Ah yeah. I was wondering when you were going to do a video on MiSTer NFC.

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

It was on the list - just took a while to get around to it!

@ScottWinterringer 20 дней назад

This might be neat to revive the mariokart gxp or the horse racing one where you could up stats over multiple play sessions. megaman? pokemon?

@GconduitYTubeAccount 23 дня назад

With NFC tags going up to 4k that's perfect to store whole 2600 ROMs. Is there any way to present the NFC reader as a USB storage device?

@thatssomegoodpie 3 дня назад

So are the roms stored on the actual cards or is it just another way to tell the system which game to load from internal memory?

@thepenultimateninja5797 21 день назад

Couldn't you also do this with regular RFID tags? You would just need to associate each game with the serial number of a tag.

@730indoorsman 23 дня назад

I'd love to do something like this for my digital film library on pc. is this possible?

@user-hw2vu4fu5p 23 дня назад

Please keep an eye on the project, this will be possible soon with TapTo!

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

Yeah, I saw in the discord that wizzo has it launching steam games on windows now.

@zetathix 2 дня назад

Why just don't make the coin card a circular card so you won't grab the wrong card while also improving the immersion?

@80skidsgaming 4 дня назад

Will this work with raspberry pi running retropie or is it just for the mister?

@shawnwheatley2957 23 дня назад

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="867">14:27</a> is that a custom MiSTer or kit?

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

That’s Todd’s keyboard case - you download it from Printables here! www.printables.com/model/777370-mister-fpga-keyboard-computer-case

@jackipiegg 21 день назад

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1073">17:53</a> Has anyone "evolved" it to use a raspberry pi as a dumb frontend for boxart/video previews and launch mister using a hdmi switch/kvm?

@whatskenmaking 20 дней назад

I don’t think I’ve seen that specific scenario, but wizzo is working on a serial interface, so that’s possible even without making API calls. I think we’ll see some interesting front end devices that people build as a result

@jackipiegg 20 дней назад

@@whatskenmaking Wow really? That's excellent news, for us using tapto is no problem since we are familiar with the gameplay but for kids video previews is a MUST! Actually for us too since we like to discover new games!