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sonik

Good reminder!
Probably all boards out there will just work out of the box. Right?

On another subject, I'm curious if anyone got VRR working won windows with laserbear board/firmware. I've tested 3 firmware versions and can't enable vrr on windows with any of them.
My gpu supports the feature and I can use it on the LG CX tv.

sonik

The original firmware that came with the screen had this exactly https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=42381#p42381 . My board is the hdmi and vga model and is exactly like this https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=42458#p42458 . Seller gave me this new firmware. (attached) Please use with caution and always make a backup of your original firmwa...

sonik

I finally got a hardware flasher. My board was dead from a bad flashing via displayport with hdmi adapter. It won't power on anymore and I could not reflash it from windows. Now I've flashed it with a dedicated hardware and it's working! And with a nice surprise, 640x480 over vga is working now! I can use it to play dreamcast :) Seller from aliexpr...

sonik

Thanks for this, it seems to work pretty good in Arkanoid. Was hoping it would work in rotary games like Jackal and Ikari Warriors, but couldn't get the core to recognize the spinner correctly (tried all the different modes but it would only recognize one of the directions), anyone know if there's a way to get them to work? Those games does not ha...

sonik

Should work with up to 4 controllers on games with multitap support.

If you want generic 2p support, then no. Game must support multitap.

sonik

It should also work as paddle on cores (mister can emulate a paddle from a spinner input).
Can you also try it on NES Arkanoid? Remember to set input as paddle (or VAUS in NES)
I can't try as I don't have a egret mini spinner.

sonik

seems like it only happens on same cores like cps2 and psx. anyone know why some cores dont work at video_mode 13 and vsync_mode 2? This is a known problem. It happens for me on most of the jotego arcade cores. There's reports out there of it working and some with the same problems. They say that those boards from china are crap. But then I've see...

sonik

Also check out Sorg's paddle/spinner code. It's interesting as it will work on mister as paddle and spinner.

sonik

There's manual scans here (in japanese)
https://imgur.com/gallery/uD6vN

"We see a shift switch that makes the left analog work like flight controls or like a normal joystick."
No idea what this means.

sonik

Cool!

I was considering making an adapter with ps1 and saturn analog input, and genesis analog output.
But would be better to have support for it on the core and use any other analog joystick.

BTW the info in your github page is very handy.
Thanks for documenting and sharing it. I've used it to make pce controller reading on arduino.

sonik

The XE-1 AP is an analog controller for the genesis/megadrive. It have 3 analog axis (X, Y, Slider) plus 10 buttons. Only a few games supports it but they play way better in analog mode. Currently only the emulator Genesis Plus GX supports it. Supported games according to segaretro and sega-16 Megadrive: After Burner II Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco ...

sonik

Nice! Thanks for testing.
vsync_adjust=2 is known for making the core crash on some games with a lot of screen resolution changes. But it might have been fixed in the latest version

sonik

asper wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 5:03 am Done. I will test cps games with the above settings change as sono as I can. Should i just edit those value, start the game and see if I have screen issues?

Yeap!
This would be the best settings for this screen. Native screen resolution and low latency mode.
Keep in mind that the low latency mode currently have a negative effect the PSX core.

sonik

Thanks for testing 50hz mode. Please can edit your first post above (the one with the pictures) and add this info over there too?

Those settings are on mister.ini file

CPS games are in 60hz mode. O don't think it's possible to change.

sonik

For PAL 50hz I don't think you need to change any ini setting.

But you can check out native resolution low latency mode also as an added test.
Test some cores (at ntsc 60hz) and see if the screen blanks out/looses sync. O mine most of the jotego cores blanks out. Like CPS1 and CPS2.
vsync_adjust=2
video_mode=13

sonik

asper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:05 am Can you explain me how to check 50hz support?

Set a core to PAL (EUROPE) and run a PAL game.
Can be done in most console cores.
Check mister's OSD for the current resolution and refresh rate.

IE: Load Genesis core.
On it's menu, set:
AUTO REGION: DISABLED
REGION: EU

Load an EUROPE game.

sonik

Any plans to support usb spinner/paddle via MiSTer's hps_io paddle_x / spinner_x ?

sonik

Try a different HDMI cable, you may need to resort to either using the tool via the RaspberryPi Python method which seems to be more tolerant of the I2S interface than Windows is, or use one of the actual programmer boards. I found writing directly from Windows to be very patchy. Tested with the RaspberryPi and also with an Arduino. With both I co...

sonik

thisisamigaspeaking wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:44 pm Link to topic?

I've just created it

viewtopic.php?t=5076

sonik

I "bricked" my board by flashing a wrong firmware. Before flashing it was detected on windows and the RTDTool could connect via GFXI2C interface driver . After flashing with the wrong firmware the board won't even power up. Windows won't detect a device and so RTDTool can't connect to it. I'm doomed! But I think it's still possible to fix...

sonik

Discussion for the ipad retina display board controller. If you have one please test it for some conditions and report. This will help other users to decide what version to buy and where to get. What's the version of the installed Realtek processor? If possible post a picture of it. Link to the seller is good too. If board is from LaserBear , It's ...

sonik

Thanks. Good to know the hardware flasher can "unbrick" it.
But let's move firmware talk to another topic.

sonik

Doozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:16 pm If you are looking for the FW to pilot an iPad3/iPad4 screen with either an RTD2556T or RTD2550 you can try the following dumps below.

ipad_rtd2556T.bin

ipad_rtd2550.bin

Kids, don't do this at home...
I've flashed my board and now I have a brick

sonik

What are your thoughts? Is it possible to get Atari 2600 controller support on this device? At least on it's current form I only want to support controllers that can be detected. That's why the adapter supports Genesis and Saturn on the same port but not Master System and Atari 2600. It's not possible to know if/when an Atari pad is connected. Als...

sonik

Lakeside wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:51 pm I'm having issues with just about every core + menus when trying to use this resolution with sync=0. I'm using a Laserbear setup and a certified 4K HDMI cable.

Am I foolish to try ordering a different DE10? I've already tried a couple cable swaps.

You can ask Laserbear for some help.
I've only seen problems with the cheap boards from china.

sonik

Just flashing a new firmware will not break the arduino in any way :) If the flashing goes bad you will just have to reflash it. Worst case scenario you will need to "press the reset" before flashing and it requires wiring the reset pin to ground pin. The 3d pad in digital mode works differently than the common digital pad. It uses anothe...

sonik

There's an new, updated branch . Lower Input Latency of all supported controllers. Guncon is working even better now with the improved latency. Snes NTT pad confirmed to work by @MisterAddons. The additional buttons are not yet mapped to output. I will do this in a later version. Ps1 Analog Controller in Flighstick mode confirmed to work by @roundy...

sonik

Hi! I'm the author of the SaturnLib. Also of the RetroZord adapter (which uses the SaturnLib). If your adapter have all the saturn pins wired to the arduino then it's possible to use the RetroZord firmware on it. By doing a quick look at the daemonbite page, looks like it uses some shared pins for player 1 and player 2. If you want to use the Retro...

sonik

Use lower resolution.
I have this problem too and I could not find a fix to it. For me it happens in all jotego cores.
I want to try a new firmware but the risk of loosing the only ipad screen I have is too much for me.

sonik

GeoNeo wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 11:35 am Anyone having issues with CPS2 cores losing sync at 2048x1536?

Some boards will not work at native (2048x1536) resolution and sync = 0.
Try with a lower res or sync = 2.

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