This is by far the best general purpose MiSter setup tutorial I have ever seen, thanks! Also thank you for providing an alternative board in a kit at a reasonable price. FPGA gaming needs more people like you Taki.
Taki, you rock - hope the launch of these boards doesn't get sucked up by the scalpers and resold for higher amounts. This world is horrible for this sort of thing.
Hopefully that won't be a problem as if the price goes too high it will put it in the price range of the Terrasic board. Taki also said it would be one per customer.
Hopefully supply is steady enough to make scalping pointless. Scalping only exists if demand outstrips supply. Remove that and you have no scalping market. More so buyers have to resist buying from scalpers. If they have no buyers, they have no market.
It's not just misleading, it's downright confusing and is bad marketing. Not only does it make it seem like a Raspberry Pi is somehow involved, but when you google "Mister Pi", you get results for the m32pi, which is a completely unrelated product. All griping aside, I am very grateful to Taki for providing a solid, affordable way to make a Mister.
I found out about this today and at first I had questions. Then I saw this video and noticed the Cyclone V chip and I instantly understood. This is a great contribution to the MiSTer community and hopefully the price point will bring more people into it. The DE10 board has been ratcheting up steadily, and quite frankly if mine were to break today, this would probably be my choice rather than another DE10.
Looking good! I jumped in and bought a MiSTer at the beginning of the year and spent a small fortune. Now that your products have an impending release, I'll be able to buy one without batting an eye. Great tutorial!
This is so exciting! Even though I already have a MiSTer and it works great, I sometimes worry about if something happened to it or it died on me one day. It’s reassuring to see DE-10 Nano alternatives coming out at more affordable prices. Let’s hope there are no major supply issues and that everyone who wants a MiSTer can get one. Great job!
I was lucky enough to get one of the first batches of the MegaPack. Waiting anxiously. Been wanting to build one of these for a while. Now I just need to get reading and watching videos on setup etc. Thanks again for this.
Great to see this finally become a reality. A reasonably priced mister or original priced mister is incredible to see again. Excited for the handheld version that will eventually come out.
Watching someone unplug a device, to power it off, always reminds me that connectors have a limited lifespan. The switch on a power cord (shown near the start) is one solution to this. A switch on the product would also be nice - but with 2 power connectors on the FPGA board, and a third on the top board, placing a switch would be tricky. Easier to look for a power supply with a switch instead.
I pulled over on the side of the interstate to get my order in this morning, super excited for this kit, to be getting a deal, and to be supporting Taki's business endeavor. 🎉🎉
That feels redundant (of course, needing to save after turning on autosave is familiar to some retro gamers), but you'd be surprised at how foolish people can be...
I can't wait to see people build a handheld shell for this thing. I'll probably buy the mega bundle, considering how cheap it is. I've wanted an FPGA solution for some time, but the price has always held me back. Absolutely perfect product for a demographic that has shown to be large enough to buy into it.
Super hyped Taki. Thanks for making a complete beginner video to help us noobs get it spun up, while taking the time to show how it integrates with others existing boards. That's a very classy way to approach selling a product.
i dont get how its a pi when it a cyclone chip? is this like when apple released ipod every one whent I crazy i steam iron i toastie maker? i thought for a pi it had to use a raspberry pi at its core ?
Great advice if our own choice was the only one that mattered but it’s not. Other people will always buy from scalpers. Your advice is worthless since it’s not realistic or in the realm of reality.
Had the page up all day. Waiting for checkout then got sold out message after 4 mins. Hopefully get in on next sale. I really hope they didnt get grabbed by scalpers. I know it was limited to one but you know how crafty they can be. Its awesome that your making this so affordable.(update) Got one of the full kits in the 2nd sale! Thanks!
Thanks dude! I bought the full system from your website today. 😊 And honestly, I'm so happy that it can do the Commodore PET and VIC-20, my childhood computers. (Yes I'm very old...) I'll look into the consoles too. They seem cool to play. 😁
Can you please consider non-american customers ? I was in queue but i don't managed to checkout because my zip code wasn't accepted ! Also americans customers, can you sleep sometimes so we can buy products ?
Should have gone all out with the confusing and lazy naming and called it the iMisterPi. Having said that, seeing a product like this come out is amazing. Congrats!
Hey Taki, I think you should have made it clear that this was a clone of the typical de10 nano MiSTER. As a viewer who has a MiSTER, but has not been following the scene, I didn't know from this video what it was; I had to look it up to see if it was some sort of cut back version lacking features or compatibility. I think it would behoove you to make it clear in the intro that this is not the case, particularly because Pi in the name of many similar devices directly imply that the guts are based off of the Raspberry Pi.
@@chrisw8069good question. My best guess is that he chose it since it's a Pi style form factor... I'm not certain but I'd also assume since it's a SBC it has an ARM SoC
fpgas really need native analogue output (or atleast an addon board that adds native analogue output). Since it finally gives us perfect "emulation", it also gives us the perfect real output for the authentic CRT experience. I am hoping the FPGa growth will lead to CRT gaming growth
Wait... i might have missed something but is this affiliated with like raspberry pi? or is it just called that because of the size and shape? also out of curiosity, what was the inspiration for this product? just to get more people into fpga dev? Or is this meant primarily just to be a smaller option for diy handheld retro emulation?
Great to see this project coming together :p Interesting to see that there's a fan but no need for a heat sink. Guess the heat is manageable with just that? I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out :) I'll probably be waiting for the future more consumer friendly version myself. Looking forward to seeing that and the handheld in the future =)
Another drop this morning and it sold out in less than an hour. Guess if you want one the only way to get it will be paying a scalper 5x for it, and at that point it's no different than getting the old hardware. Really disappointed and I hope they can make larger drops.
This is super amazing, Looking forward to all the up coming release. Just one Complaint, where Can I get a Metal case for this? Or at least CAD shows where all yhe ports are located, so I can design my own 3D print Case for it for the time being? Keep Up the good work!
Extrem horrible selling store. it does not accept my adress and can't get it from the store....this is not nice....batch 1 and 2 ist sold out...extrem bad partner.
Congrats on the launch. Tried to get one in batch 1 and failed miserably...clearly I need to enter my card details in less than 30sec to stand a chance 😂
Faut vraiment revoir votre shop, beaucoup de gens se sont connectés a la 1ere seconde et quand on donne son adresse, elle n'est pas accepter, completement absurde, du coup perte de temps et achat annulé et refusé !!🤔😡 C'est du nimporte quoi...
As a complete noob on this and having watched the whole video, I still dont know the benefits of this board over an emulation device, there should be but I dont know them
Software emulation vs hardware emulation. It’s one step closer to the using the actual hardware and software. Software emulation needs to translate everything to run in modern hardware. Hardware emulation mimics the actual hardware, so nothing needs to be translated. Can a software emulation feel as good as hardware emulation, possibly, but often the hardware emulation feels closer to the real thing.
some benefits - with a snac adaptor you can plug in your real controllers with zero latency - this includes your real n64 controller's gameboy expansion pack, hook up your real pokemon game to pokemon stadium e.g. - or hook up a real gameboy to your device with an actual link cable and trade with it - it does 0 latency analogue out, and hdmi out - the audio and video is perfectly synced because it doesn't run on a buffer, the chips are all simulated in parallel like in a real console - crt effects work, like visual effects that run by abusing the real time of an electron gun moving in a crt to make visual effects, or lightguns - you can overclock the cpu. like run an n64 or psx on "real" hardware just overclocked without changing the simulation speed - it looks, sounds and feels perfect
The "Pi" moniker has been adopted by several hobbyist computer boards, like Orange Pi or Rock Pi. I doubt there's a deliberate attempt to mislead here.
Name hardly matters if the product is good, which it is in this case. Could they have given it a better name? Of course but names dont matter for performance.
I was hitting F5 for both launch windows on the website and never even saw the button change from SOLD OUT. I never even got a chance. This is Analog Pocket all over again.
If you spam f5, your browser won't actually reload the page, it will just show you a cached version. You have to press Ctrl+f5 to bypass the cache. This is what I did, and I bought my mister pi just fine.
"This video is going to assume that you know nothing about MiSTER" That's good because I don't know jack squat about the MiSTER platform besides it's supposed to be better than emulation due to the FPGAs but I am super interested.
Including extra screws is probably one of the most considerate things someone can do when selling something that "needs assembly". Also, a tip when it comes to lining up boards to connect them together; I've found that using two toothpicks (or similar) through holes that are diagonal opposite of eachother makes lining any two boards up more or less foolproof (atleast as long as its the right way around)
