MiSTer Game Videos on YouTube

[syltefar]

Hey. The last couple of months, I've been recording old games on my MiSTer and putting them on YouTube. My plan is to post a couple of new MiSTer videos every week. They all go into this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

Please leave a comment on YouTube if you enjoyed watching or want to request something.

[hscorpio]

Cool! What's your capture setup? I've been interested in doing this myself but have no clue where to begin. I just have a laptop and plug my MiSTer in either to my (LCD) TV or computer monitor.

[Alkadian]

Nice! Well done! Such a great selection.

[syltefar]

Cool! What's your capture setup? I've been interested in doing this myself but have no clue where to begin.

I run the MiSTer HDMI output through an Elgato 4K60 S+ (a standalone device that records to an SD card), recording in 1080p 60FPS. I've tried recording stuff in 50FPS, but it caused issues, so I mostly stick to 60FPS for now. The recording is cropped and upscaled x 2 using ffmpeg. The upscaling is to get a resolution than 1080p, which in turn makes YouTube encode it in nice quality.

[syltefar]

Nice! Well done! Such a great selection.

Thank you! I'm always recording games from whatever weird retro rabbithole I'm into right now, so the selection is a bit random.

[hscorpio]

Cool! What's your capture setup? I've been interested in doing this myself but have no clue where to begin.

I run the MiSTer HDMI output through an Elgato 4K60 S+ (a standalone device that records to an SD card), recording in 1080p 60FPS. I've tried recording stuff in 50FPS, but it caused issues, so I mostly stick to 60FPS for now. The recording is cropped and upscaled x 2 using ffmpeg. The upscaling is to get a resolution than 1080p, which in turn makes YouTube encode it in nice quality.

Yikes, cool product but quite a bit out of my budget. Good to know a standalone product like this exists though.

[ultravenom]

I currently own MiST but as soon as i get MiSTer i would like to record games i never played before, like uridium, bloodmoney.....

[siskavard]

Great videos! I've been trying to record MiSTer footage but I'm finding I get a lot of horizontal screen tearing in the recorded footage. I set my ini file to use sync = 0 @ 60hz, thinking that would solve it - it DOES seem to work but there is still some tearing after a while of recording. Do you mind sharing your recording settings? Cheers.

[syltefar]

I now have 62 videos in my MiSTer playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

One of the latests additions was this one with Street Fighter Alpha, Alpha 2, and Darkstalkers on Jotego's new CPS2 core:

https://youtu.be/HgfY6o99r2M

Please leave a comment if you like any video!

[aberu]

Cool! What's your capture setup? I've been interested in doing this myself but have no clue where to begin.

I run the MiSTer HDMI output through an Elgato 4K60 S+ (a standalone device that records to an SD card), recording in 1080p 60FPS. I've tried recording stuff in 50FPS, but it caused issues, so I mostly stick to 60FPS for now. The recording is cropped and upscaled x 2 using ffmpeg. The upscaling is to get a resolution than 1080p, which in turn makes YouTube encode it in nice quality.

Try 720p output on both ends (mister.ini and the capture input) or 720p --> 1440p capture to mitigate the shimmering of dithered parts like at the top and bottom of your Street Fighter Alpha 2 video. I've messed around with it before, and I saw decent results awhile ago, I need to revisit that and find a good setting. I use a USB Magewell HDMI Gen2 capture card and it's also excellent for this.

Channel looks great though! Good job!

[syltefar]

Try 720p output on both ends (mister.ini and the capture input) or 720p --> 1440p capture to mitigate the shimmering of dithered parts like at the top and bottom of your Street Fighter Alpha 2 video. I've messed around with it before, and I saw decent results awhile ago, I need to revisit that and find a good setting. I use a USB Magewell HDMI Gen2 capture card and it's also excellent for this.

Channel looks great though! Good job!

Thank you, but you have to help me - I don't see the shimmering at all. Can you give me a timestamp on the SFA2 video where it's very obvious? Is it present even in 1440p?

[aberu]

Yeah that might be my issue, just realized that I was watching a 1440p video on 1080p. My bad X_X

[syltefar]

Yeah tha tmight be my issue, just realized that I was watching a 1440p video on 1080p. My bad X_X

OK, phew! Thank you anyway, I do want to know if I made some dumb mistake.

[syltefar]

Hey! Just want to mention that the playlist has a bunch of new videos, including:

• PC-Engine: Silent Debuggers, Cyber Core, Metal Stoker, and more,
• Genesis: Golden Axe II and III, Alien Storm, and a bunch of racing games,
• CPS1-2: Saturday Night Slam Masters, Aliens vs. Predator, and
• R-Type for the SMS and Super R-Type (SNES)

Please leave a comment if you like a video.

[Alkadian]

Hey! Just want to mention that the playlist has a bunch of new videos, including:

• PC-Engine: Silent Debuggers, Cyber Core, Metal Stoker, and more,
• Genesis: Golden Axe II and III, Alien Storm, and a bunch of racing games,
• CPS1-2: Saturday Night Slam Masters, Aliens vs. Predator, and
• R-Type for the SMS and Super R-Type (SNES)

Please leave a comment if you like a video.

Great, thanks. Execellent choice for R-Type!! The conversion on the SMS is really good. From time to time I do play to Super R-Type as well especially for the music.

R-type is one of my favourite games of all time. Hopefully we will get the arcade version soon on Mister

[syltefar]

Great, thanks. Execellent choice for R-Type!! The conversion on the SMS is really good. From time to time I do play to Super R-Type as well especially for the music.

R-type is one of my favourite games of all time. Hopefully we will get the arcade version soon on Mister

I'm with you on R-Type, it's also one of my all-time favourites! I would absolutely love an Irem M72 implementation for MiSTer. That way, we could potentially also get Mr. Heli, Image Fight, Ninja Spirit, and XMultiply.

And I agree, I never played that SMS port before, but it is really neat.

[starquake]

I use one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daS5RHVAl2U

Cost me 8 euros and it seems to be working fine with 720p @60fps without tearing and v-sync = 0. I play on a CRT and record from HDMI. Low lag for me and I don't need a HDMI output on the capture card.

I also sometimes share a OBS preview screen with Discord and show games to my friends.

[syltefar]

Hey again! I have added a few new videos to my MiSTer playlist, now there are 83!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

I've add a bunch of Super Famicom Wars videos, one with a few Street Fighter games, and a Sharp X68000 video.

Please leave a comment if you like a video.

[syltefar]

My MiSTer YouTube playlist now has 100 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

I just added a full playthrough of Metroid, a bit of Jackal with the amazing rotary joystick controls, a few Game Gear and Wonderswan games, and some dubious fighting games. Take a look and leave a comment!

[syltefar]

Since my last post I have uploaded a bunch of videos, most recently a test recording of the WIP PSX core. The next 3 days I will upload a PSX recording every day:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

Inspired by Microsoft's latests big purchase, I recorded a bunch of Atari 2600 games developed by Activision: https://youtu.be/q2H11BC-its

Apart from these, I've added some 'base attack' games (Desert Strike, Raid on Bungeling Bay, FireHawk, Fire Power), a few of my favourite golf games, as well as random Genesis, SNES, and arcade games.

Please take a look and leave a comment.

[HAN]

Hi, I was wondering what .ini/core settings you're using for capture?

I get occasional drops from my capture for a few different cores, the PSX beta core seems to drop a lot during boot for me.

For Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmcd7fjdHc

Thanks, keep up the nice work - just subbed to your YT, btw!

[syltefar]

Hi, I was wondering what .ini/core settings you're using for capture?

I get occasional drops from my capture for a few different cores, the PSX beta core seems to drop a lot during boot for me.

For Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmcd7fjdHc

Thanks, keep up the nice work - just subbed to your YT, btw!

I'm sorry, I missed your reply. I can see you captured some more games from the PSX core, did you figure out your capture drop issues? Otherwise, I will be happy to find my ini settings

[HAN]

I think I've got it figured out, thanks!

[syltefar]

I have 130 MiSTer videos up on my channel now:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

Among the newest videos are a bunch of shoot 'em ups for the Amiga, R-Type and related games:

https://youtu.be/rTF_65jZuCg

Some Commdore 64 shoot 'em ups, including R-Type, Uridium, the *incredibly* mean (but cool) IO, and the brand new Empire Strikes Back game by Megastyle Games:

https://youtu.be/pWhwqIALo2Q

Also a test of the 32X core:

https://youtu.be/Irl-_soQjqQ

[syltefar]

I have kept adding MiSTer game recordings to my list, which now contains 200 videos.
This week is PSX week, where I post a PlayStation game recording every day.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... GPxZz1t-SY

I recently added Street Fighter Alpha 2 playthroughs with every character, and a full playthrough of Chuck Rock for the Sega CD, possibly the best version of the classic Amiga game:

https://youtu.be/lGyGXkOuolo

I also played some of the unreleased NES port of SimCity:

https://youtu.be/OEYfalyGP-M

Please leave a comment on YouTube if enjoyed watching a video.