Hey everyone. It’s been brought to my attention that some “information” from the video is now broken. My best advice for everyone is to search for “everdrivepack directory listing - Internet Archive”. You should find what you need there. Email me if you have any problems MikesArcadeRepair@gmail.com
Best how to made, is right here folks. I have watched and listened to many, and this guy does it right. I had trouble setting up my neo geo core, and this guy solved my problem.
I set up my Mister a couple weeks ago and I have been playing through the NeoGeo library. I never had one as a kid but I had tried it and I gotta say, it is amazing to play these games now that are soooo expensive to track down and play on a real NeoGeo console. I love how easy it was to set up the Mister and for all those people who say it's too hard and can't be bothered, it's really not. The options are endless as you said and I wish I had found your video before I did my setup because it would have made life easier but oh well. I made it through.
The MiSTer is so awesome. I've been playing around with the GBA core a bit, and it has quickly become my preferred way to play GBA games! I'll be sure to come back to this video once I'm ready to delve in the world of Neo Geo!
Excellent video, thanks for taking the time to make this! I'm brand new to Mister and this was a big help. This is definitely the future of vintage gaming!
you the man Mike. Big ups from Australia. I just tried to get an MVSX, $800 Australian to my door. MiSTer seems to be my preferred now (even though I do have my supergun and 161 cart, I just love this FPGA.
Thanks so much Mike. As you say some of the information is now redundant but your video was still a huge help with what seems like a journey into the unknown for a newbie like me. Cheers!
Thanks a lot for this video Mike... I'm new in the Mister world, buyed only for simulate Amiga but the world around is unbelivable and though I'm not a retro gamer addicted, have the possibility to use those console is amazing....
I intended only on using mister to play Neo Geo but ended up trying so many different classic consoles and PCs I never got to experience before. It really is amazing!
So far, so good Mike. Thank you for asking. Hope all is well with you and your love ones bro. Thank you for stopping by and sharing this with us on the Neo-Geo thread bro. 8^) Anthony..
Ace video! Wish I would have seen this sooner, but it's added to my Tutorials playlist now. Happy holidays and a great new year to ya, fellow MiSTer fan =)
Reallly helped. Thanks for the video. I got it to work with the darksoft rom set, 000-lo.lo, sfix.sfix, and the uni bios file only. Plays just like the NeoGeo cabinet I have so cool.
Hi Mike, your tutorial is very good. The way you explain is effective, it's rare. Thank you for your work ! Will you make a FPGA Mister video on CPS1 ? Good continuation !
Most likely I will not make any more videos regarding mister. I only did this one because I love the Neo Geo and wanted to help out the community. There are so many people already doing great videos about the mister project. Also I don’t have the proper equipment to capture my computer screen and it would be such a low quality video lost in the shuffle of a million other high quality mister videos. But thank you for the kind words though!
Thanks for this how to video. I'm looking forward to installing Neo Geo once I get my De10-Nano. I'm not sure if you're aware that the part where you show the Neo Geo bios, there's multiple of the same bios. If you look at the dates of the bios, there's newer versions of the bios.😉👍
Nice pickup I didn’t notice. I wouldn’t say the newer upload date makes it any more efficient though. It may just be a duplicate uploaded by a different person at a different date or more likely It’s probably just different variations of the bios on different platforms like a mv1c bios vs a mvf1z bios. Doesn’t make one better or worse. Remember obviously the original bios’ couldn’t be updated. Only the unibios is the one you want to make sure you have the most recent update. Good luck with setting up your Mister!
Yes you need to run the llapi cores to take full advantage of the low latency. (Not that the regular cores are bad at all, frankly I can’t feel a difference). I just didn’t want to over complicate the video that’s why I didn’t mention it. Thanks for checking it out
When I load the games in AES I get a white screen and nothing else and when I load them in MVS I get a cross hatch test screen Does anyone know what's wrong or gets the same issue
Wow! This really is informative Mike. Great to have for all as reference tutorial to do so bro. Nice work and thank you for sharing this with us. If you like Mike, feel free to share this on the Neo-Geo thread on Atariage.com. This will benefit the members/guest for sure. Keep up the great work Mike. Hope you and the family are safe bro. 8^) Anthony..
I believe the SCART cable will only work with consoles or arcade cores that originally outputted SCART. Sorry I use component out of my mister so I’m not certain
download link of the roms look down... I can't download it anymore. the forum is so closed that you need to be approved by administrator to post there... I can't find any alternative download for that.
I'm very interested in all this FPGA thing, from Mister to consoles on a chip like the ones from Analogue, but all it's like very expensive, I have always been a fan of old hardware emulation, but saying that FPGA it's preservation of hardware...I think it's too much to say. Edit: ok, after seeing 15 minutes of your video I'm almost on board...not much more difficult than a raspberry pi build, I'm definitely very interested. Re-edit: Finish the video and look for prices...again very expensive, for the price I just can get a real mvs consolized and a mvs flashcart, I will stick with emulation, not sure about all this "simulation" thing.
It’s not for everyone, but you’ll definitely spend way more going with original hardware. You also have to worry about the original hardware eventually failing. It is 30 year old electronics at this point. A consolized mvs will range from 300-1000 depending what you get and a flash cartridge is anywhere between 450-650 depending. Also remember with a mister you also have access to a ton of console cores. You are not just limited to Neo Geo.
@@mike7599 since I wrote my comment I'm more in to FPGA, mvs consolized always had been a no go for me on reality due to quality control on low price Chinese variants and high price in others, but both old hardware prone to fail some day, I'm very experienced with emulation and it's really difficult to see differences between this and some cycle accurate emulators out there, but again the diy thing it's very attractive, probably I will jump on board, and you will be on part responsible for that sir! Greetings and sorry for my English.
Also forgot to mention you need the I/O board. That’s the top board that has that vga jack on it. That board is sold separately. You can grab one at www.misteraddons.com
@14:xxx ;) I could never find the neo-epo.sp1 for the life of me. But it didn't matter because I went unibios all the way. By Default Unibios sets as Europe/Arcade and you just simply have to change it by holding ABC at the Neo Geo BIOS splash screen on boot up to change it. You also get cheats with UNIBIOS. Check out Razoola's page for instructions on how to use UNIBIOS. I never understood the instructions on the MiSTer github on using/converting your own rom dumps. As a person who is used to using Neo Geo emulators and fighting with so many different rom dumps and naming conventions, I wonder why Darksoft's Neo Geo dumps was chosen for MiSTer to work. Not complaining but I'm glad they are sticking to a "standard" and I love Darksoft's work. Even the Terraonion NeoSD has to convert zip files to their own format (.neo).
Thanks for checking out the video! The unibios is awesome and you are right on, you only need the .sp1 file if you want to switch to the original bios in mister. Note the .neo terraonion format is also supported with the Neo geo core, not just the darksoft romset.
Another informative and great video Mike thanks! I’ve got a question for you, I have recently picked up a NeoSD PRO. I followed your instructions in the video and still had half of my rom set come up with errors...any suggestions? Bad Roms maybe?
Hey Rian the darksoft rom set from this video is not the correct one for use with the NeoSD. Email me at mikesarcaderepair@gmail.com I’ll see if I can help you out.
Can you recommend a wireless mini keyboard? the one I'm using is terrible, it works at a distance for a shot while, then forces me to get too close to the MISTer
Here is a link to the one I use. It has worked well for me. www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Rii-Wireless-Keyboard-Raspberry/dp/B00Z81U3YY/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=wireless+mini+keyboard&qid=1591356444&sprefix=wireless+mini+&sr=8-9
Hi, I ordered a kit of BlisSTer cables and they were out of stock of the Neo Geo pigtail type, but they sent me 2 like the one in your video. 1 of them is a version 1 and the other is version 2. Now, I ordered 2 custom made neo geo sticks and neither of them work through those adapters. I know it’s not the sticks because different buttons work depending on the adapter. Plus the guy that made them, tested them on an aes. Any thoughts? Is your setup still working?... thinking maybe it’s an update issue. I’d appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. Just to let you know other llapi adapters (pigtail type) are working fine for other systems
Hey Kevin. I ran into problems with mapping the Neo geo adapters also. I had the version 1 and emailed them that it didn’t work so they sent me a version 2. Long story short I found the issues cleared themselves up by updating the blisster firmware. Which is kind of a pain in the neck. they do not make it clear how to do this on their website. You have to download a program from their website and then plug the blisster board into your computer via usb. Hope this helps man. Also make sure your mister is up to date by running the updater script.
Just a quick follow-up question... I’ve done the BlisSTer update within the mister scripts...is that the same as using the firmware updater through windows? The reason I ask is that I had to hold the p1 button down during that update.
Where did you get the blisster box and the attachment? I’m thinking of waiting for the ll cool joy. Also have you tested the lag between a usb plugged device vs the db15?
Links in the description of the video for the blisster stuff. The low latency port (LLAPI) acts as a regular usb hub unless you download the specific LLAPI system cores. Unfortunately these cores are not officially supported by MiSTer so you will not get them automatically with the updater script. It’s kind of a pain in the neck to have to maintain two different sets of cores, but if your worries about lag it will eliminate it completely! There is almost no noticeable lag as it is with the regular USB port, however the LLAPI really does eliminate it completely.
Comes in super handy, it’s just a mini wireless usb keyboard. Here’s a link to it on amazon: www.amazon.com/Backlit-Keyboard-Touchpad-Wireless-Multimedia/dp/B07QNPX8C2/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1VEXAEFB9OUYN&dchild=1&keywords=mini+usb+keyboard&qid=1603193070&s=electronics&sprefix=Mini+usb+keyboard%2Caps%2C151&sr=1-8
You mean re-setup the controller after shutting down the mister? Not if you save the setting. There is a save settings option in the menu, should have mentioned that! Thanks for bringing it up.
@@mike7599 O.k Mike thank you for getting back to me. One last question please? How do you access the ini menu and make changes? I can get into it but I can't change anything.
@@snotslurper it should just be a text file on your computer when you plug in the sd card. Just make whatever changes you need and make sure to hit save when you are done
That MVS AES fact is kinda wrong. Basically all Neo Geo Carts have the AES and MVS version in them. That is why you can select it in the Unibios. Why are you saying that MVS Games are corrupted on a AES system?
The fact is correct. Mvs has sprites for its games built into its hardware that the aes does not. If you ever play the mvs version of a game on a aes console you will see corrupt start up graphics.
@@mike7599 here, i asked the experts on reddit: The MVS has some additional font tiles baked in. They are used for the service menu. That's pretty much the only difference. wiki.neogeodev.org/index.php?title=SFIX_ROM
Correct but some graphics are also corrupted. For example if you boot up a mvs game in USA mode on a AES the whole “winners don’t use drugs” screen is corrupt because those sprites are stored on the MVS hardware and the aes has no way to access them.
@@mike7599 that has to do with the additional fonts baked in for all those messages that only apear for arcade players. has nothing to do with additional game data. there is no game data baked into the MVS.
Looking great, but it's hard to see the advantages over regular emulation, I've got a build with a raspberry pi 3b inside an after market Neo Geo AES cartridge connected to the Neo Geo X arcade stick, I'm very happy with it, but definitely interested in doing the same but with the DE-10 Nano inside the cart, will see in the future, it's just hard to justify for me, Neo Geo emulation it's already great, and I can't find differences between real hardware I have and some accurate emulators out there like Bsnes or Higan, Blastem, Mesen...
Yup you are right on. Neo geo emulation is great. There is no right or wrong way to game as long as your having fun. That AES cart idea sounds awesome. I put a raspberry pie in my Neo geo X years ago it worked pretty well!
@@mike7599 yeah looks very cool I thought on do it with the Neo Geo X dock but by the time I'll go for it was already very expensive so I'll go the cartridge route inspired by things like the NES pi cart, I have even bought some cool neo geo stickers for it, looks very nice, next probably I will try another build with the de10 nano
MVS vs AES is wrong See here Info from the experts on reddit: The MVS has some additional font tiles baked in. They are used for the service menu. That's pretty much the only difference. wiki.neogeodev.org/index.php?title=SFIX_ROM
Boot up a mvs USA game and watch the corrupt intro. This is because the mvs has extra sprites and fonts built into it that the AES doesn’t. Has nothing to do with the service menus because the AES doesn’t even have a service menu.
@@mike7599 you say in the video that the MVS system has game data baked in that the AES does not have. this is not correct. the MVS as SFIX ROM additional for Arcade Cab Flash Screens like the one "dont use drugs". But this fact does not mean it has "Game Data" in it. It is arcade specific data for those flash screens.
Why do you install the mister software so complicated? Just download the image and write it to an SD card. Put it in the mister and update all. Jeeeeezuuuuz
Haha I guess the best way to think of it is mister is more of an operating system and the de10 is the computer. Sort of like why would they call it windows when your running on a dell computer!
