Introducing MiSTer FPGA Multi Console | SmokeMonster 

Streamed live last week. A huge thank-you to Rysha & My Life in Gaming. Several cores have been updated since filming, more cores have been announced, and ElectronAsh fixed Genesis audio quirks. Good times! MiSTer links in the description.

Watching this three years later I can say without a doubt that Kevtris should be worried. Many people I know, including myself have sold there analogue products and moved on to the Mister. Some put them away in boxes, but really how long will it be before they get sold. The Mister and it’s evolution has won the FPGA enthusiasts hearts and minds at this point. No longer do I need to buy an upscaler or mod each console/computer and maintain them, along with an everdrive for each one. The Mister has really become the place I do my retro gaming.

once cps2 and 3 are accurately emulated I'm sold.

interesting as a retrospect looking at the prediction that it wouldn't be competing with kevtris for decades, but now it's beyond our wildest dreams

Thank you sir for your time ! This is one of the best things i've seen in the latest months !

For the price, features and systems supported it's a pretty awesome

Great video showcasing the MISTer Project. I've been a lurker in the MISTer FPGA scene and have been watching it closely. Just yesterday I decided to finally bite the bullet and order the parts needed to make my own MISTer FPGA Console. For me a fair amount of the games that I'd like to play are just WAY out of my price range and this will give me a chance to experience them for the first time in a way that is leagues better than Software Emulation can ever hope to be. I look forward to getting it set up and to start messing around with it. Keep the MISTer videos coming and I look forward to how this project develops in the future.

I can't wait to see how this evolves.

Due to this project, I no longer have to worry about spending so much to get a Analogue NT Mini.

This hardware paired with the Bliss Box will rock the retro world.

if each and every arcade core is developed as a complete system, sure it'll take forever. but, just like software programming, you can make reusable elements, and put them together to make many other systems. like, how many arcade machines use a 68k cpu, or a v20, or a z80. way more than than you would think. you take a CPU template, add a RAM template, throw in a input controller template, you've got most of a system right there. the trick will most likely be in their GPUs and APUs.

Pretty awesome. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I’m that crazy person dying for a 3DO core... FPGA is likely the future of “clone consoles” and it’s exciting to think about the possibilities. Especially for those harder to emulate or less-common consoles. :)

Thanks this video. Very helpful and I now understand a great deal more about FGPA and why it's important. Like you, I collect arcade PCBs and build my own cabs, so going beyond mame and having near perfect "emulated hardware" is very cool...

As far as I know, if you are going to output video/audio through HDMI and don't need X68000 support (which is at the moment not very far in development) then the IO board is not necessary and you will save about 60€. It's good to install a heatsink to the FPGA and possibly a small fan that can run at 5V (the IO board comes with a fan). Some other cores support the extra SD card slot on the IO board but they don't require it, you can set up virtual drives (VHD) instead.

So awesome, a dream come true. :D

I would love to get an FPGA CPS2/3 emulator. Would be great to play those games on a BVM without having to switch the boards out in the cab.

One day FPGAs will be the go-to way to play old games.

Now this, is a multi-console that has my attention. Not some over priced, lame, sorry excuse Poly console hyped up on emulation...

Didn't take 10 years, before I was thinking about selling my Analogue systems. :)

I always think I that I know whats going in retro gaming community and then you come up with something amazing that I have no idea about. Awesome video. thanks. (i need this MiSTer thing now)

Just getting into your channel with the new videos. Looks like MiSTer has made a huge leap in core development since just last year.

All this FPGA stuff doesn't seem quite baked enough for me to dive in yet, but OMG I'm just imagining what kinds of products we'll have in just a few years. The day someone sells an AIO FPGA system that loads ROMs and emulates nearly everything and can output analog as well as digital, all at a reasonable price, I'm on it! Right now, it just seems like every product/project has some drawbacks, whether it's cart-only, missing analog output, or missing cores.

R.I.P SmokeMonster.

If there’s ever Sega Saturn core I’m sold

wow looking back on this video and what mister is becoming its now competing with analogue products with neogeo on the way. you really should do an update on were mister stands now

Dude, you should always have something to drink nearby when doing these live streams. It was super obvious that you were super thirsty. But anyway, yeah, FPGA is the way to go for spot-on retro gaming!

Making some time to go through your entire playlist to learn all about this, am very interested in getting this. Do you have any recommendations where to go for the parts now? as most likely different than almost 2 years ago. I would be happy to pay a little extra for a complete kit with everything included and already built if there is someone doing it for the right reasons and supporting the people who have made this possible.

Imagine if you could have like a fightcade running on this super turbo vampire saviour hyper fight etc now that would be cool

damn i used to have one of those VGA to 5 BNC bad boys on my old 20" CRT, did away with it like 15 years orso, should still have the cable :D

Someone needs to use side channel attacks on the cyclone V in the Super NT to get the verilog files...

I am tempted as hell to get the boards. I do have some questions: If I were to use an analog out cable like component, outputting at 240p, to an OSSC, will the OSSC see the signal properly? I ask is because I had no luck when trying to use the OSSC with my Raspberry Pi hooked to the RetroTINK Ultimate through component. How does it deal with resolution switching through analog and digital (ex. Sonic 2's two player mode)?

Weird question, but does Ms. Pac-Man's core have the option to use the speed kit?

Im not savvy on this I build my own Arcade units and Raspberry Pi stuff but this Id LOVE to have if its all the classic games on it..

got the boards on the way from germany. where do we get the software?

Which is better. RGB SCART OR Component ypbpr? When outputting a consoles video quality

In this video you say that any VGA to component cable will work on MiSTer, I thought you had to build a custom vga to component cable?

Best place to buy the de10 nano in UK?

Random question. I don't have the "ultimate" case for my MiSTer, so all the boards (hub, de10-nano, io board) are just encased between two plexi panels. I'm moving soon and will be traveling via place. Will TSA have an issue with this device in my luggage or carry on, being non-descript electronics with circuit-boards and whatnot? I don't want them to freak out thinking it's an IED or something and end up making me throw $300+ in the trash.

Do loading another core reprogram the FPGA and as such wear it out? Should one mostly try to use it for just one system but as a solution which can do "any" system rather than solutions for just one system or do it all live on the FPGA all at once and you just select which parts of it you want to use by selecting core and it doesn't wear out except for upgrading the whole thing or something?

I got DE10, thanks to your video. Right now I dnt have SDRAM board. I was able to run Genesis, TG16 but apparently NES is not working. Does any one know that is it that NES core doesnt work without SDRAM module ?

very interesting...what is the limit of this card? ps1? or N64?...can it emulate pc games?...that would be great...

When is part 2 being posted and will it also be unlisted?

What susprises me is how the name is capitalised MiSTer, but there doesn't appear to be an actual Atari ST core.

Can anyone please answer a question for me? Will the RGB Scart Lead for a MIST fpga work on the MISTER?? lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=116 Is this the same as other RGB scart leads available for the MISTER and why does this state that the core would have to be 15/50?? Despite what it says is it any different to the other RGB Scarts available for MISTER?

yo son, either youre super tiny or that mic is gargantuan lol (p.s. thanks for making this vid) :D

god i hope we get pc 98 support.

how does it compare to the nt consoles,

I need to research fpga more because a lot of these comments are people getting really excited. I'm not understanding the happiness. A raspberry pi 3b+ running retropie will play a ton of retro consoles handhelds, dos , mame and ps1. only systems having issues is psp, n64 and dreamcast...

could you make sure this would be generally compatible with max-10 (50k logic) DK-DEV-10M50-A, de10-standard (110k), and iWave Xilinx iW-G35D-19EG-4E004G-E008G-LCB (1.1M)

How's the 128MB SDram going? When can we buy one? :) ..

Is it possible to buy a MiSTer ready-built now?

Anyone know where I can get one of these ready made to plug and play in the UK?

another question for you if you have time: what will happen to Analog, as if Mister is so good and based on the same tech, it could erase Analog, as one machine does it all, I'm sure at Analog are looking very closely on what is the situation with Mister, I mean with 200 Euro you can buy a Mister with all bells and whistles...so what is the point of buying different Analog consoles?...NT, NT SNES, and the new upcoming one...it would be interesting to know your thoughts abot that...cheers!

Audio is almost always an issue with emulation

I thought FPGA wasn't emulation but simulation.

Good video! But why are you talking into the side of the microphone? Makes the video look like you are joking you should speak into the front of it so it doesn’t look so awkward

i remeber to play mame32 using windows xp back to this day's way to buy that expensive system to play the same games ? for the peoples the dont know mame32 is arcaded emulator i have a lot playable arcadeds games yes i have few game is not running but still all the games run for this emulator rum vary smooth at least for the computer buck this day's

That mic is just consuming your head. Lol.

Remember though the 'Hardware emulation' is only as good as the person programming it and their knowledge of the real hardware being emulated, so FPGA isnt the holy grail a lot are trying to make it out to be

I just asking to not say emulation anymore. Use the correct word it’s a simulation thank you

Should have called it mistird lol.

This does not explain what the mister system is, and does not understand what FPGAs are. It's not emulation, it is literally hardware. It's also not just limited to copying processors. If you can't afford a VGA to HDMI adapter, or an 8-way KVM for instance, it can do that as well. You take your raytracer than takes an hour to run on a supercomputer cluster, compile the software into hardware without needing the intermediate step of a processor, and it will run in one clock step. Disadvantages, you have to learn about electronics and another coding language, and because FPGAs are massively parallel systems that do a lot of work quickly, they put out a LOT of heat, much more than a processor does. The heat isn't usually a problem, because of the speed: As most "programs" run in a single cycle (usually a hundred-millionth of a second), there isn't a chance to get hot. When you're using them for stream processing (eg converting VGA, trading stocks, or analysing data coming out of a synchrotron), they'll run hotter, ditto when you've replicated a different computer system on them. They're not just good for the trivial application of running a single core, either. They can run the whole system, down to the ports. They're also not subject to the usual limitations of parallel computing, because they're not internally interdependent. Another use is in prototyping new hardware: Instead of breadboarding or using software circuit simulation, you can test, change, and build new hardware on an FPGA development board.

FPGA is not emulation, it's SIMULATION.