MiSTer FPGA Forum

thorr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:01 pm

When you said you had to fiddle with the settings, do you mean the MiSTer.ini settings, or the capture card? Was it Black and White before you fiddled with the settings?

Yes. I had a black and white image for all cores at first, until I updated my MiSTer.ini to a newer version. I was missing some entries, as described in this thread:
viewtopic.php?t=7175

Mostly I had to set composite_sync=1 and vga_mode=svideo.

Newsdee wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:08 am

Yes. I had a black and white image for all cores at first, until I updated my MiSTer.ini to a newer version. I was missing some entries, as described in this thread:
viewtopic.php?t=7175

Mostly I had to set composite_sync=1 and vga_mode=svideo.

Thanks, I meant saturation adjustments, etc. Were those in MiSTer.ini or adjustments in the capture card?

thorr wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:52 am

Thanks, I meant saturation adjustments, etc. Were those in MiSTer.ini or adjustments in the capture card?

Those are all from the capture card settings, it's effectively part of the external display.

Even on real hardware, each CRT is slightly different and you have to calibrate the "knobs" to match the colors on screen. Even so it's not always possible to match two separate CRT displays, as some units have more wear that affect the picture, etc. Joys of the analog world!

On MiSTer, aside from using palettes (if the core supports it) there is a general option to adjust Gamma settings.
You can try that to fine-tune the colors after choosing a palette. But first I'd suggest tweaking the CRT to try to make it closer to MiSTer's output.