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The High Definition Retrogaming Thread (Including CRT/BVM/PVM Chatter)
- Thread starter ShakeWell
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Oh *shit*, that'd be fantastic. Let me know, thanks!
Hey @John and/or @Sarge and/or anyone else who might know - I was able to desolder the PPU from my backup NES! Before I start messing with the RGB mod, can you help me source a cable(s) that I would use to connect s-video to my TV? I'm not sure what cable to purchase, since I'm not doing the SNES multiout mod. According to this page, it's an 8 pin din cable, but I don't really know what that means.
Basically, I want to buy the cable, get everything together, then attempt doing the rest of the mod before I put any more work into it. Appreciate any help. Thank you!
EDIT: Oh wait, derp, is it this? Should have checked the shop of the guy who makes it first lol. Does that output audio too?
Basically, I want to buy the cable, get everything together, then attempt doing the rest of the mod before I put any more work into it. Appreciate any help. Thank you!
EDIT: Oh wait, derp, is it this? Should have checked the shop of the guy who makes it first lol. Does that output audio too?
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It was pretty fast, iirc. A month or so?
John let me know on Twitter that it is the cable I want, and that the audio would come through the regular audio A/V out port on the side, which is fine by me (I don't care about stereo audio or anything like that, mono is fine. I'm not even modding my NES to allow it to do Disk System audio).
I'd heard it was pretty simple, but yeah, I don't want to have to open the system up every time I want to tweak the audio. Also I've read just adding the resistor gives wildly varying sound quality so I didn't want to mess with it. Castlemania Games teased a mod pcb a few months ago to deal with the above issues, but no word yet on when/if it'll come out. They're probably being affected by supply chain issues like everyone else is right now, anyway.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
I'll run some wires to the outside of the case and mount it there instead when I finally get around to it. But yeah, a plug-and-play solution (I think I saw one that was similar to the ENIO board for frontloaders, maybe that's the one you're talking about?) would be really ideal.
Trying to figure out if I should jump on an Analogue Pocket pre-order tomorrow. I wasn't that interested until I started reading about the Analogue OS update they're going to release in January. Specifically the parts about how it supports save states, it's made to have other FPGA cores ported, and there's even a second FPGA included for that purpose:
And in this Polygon interview from a couple of months ago, Analogue spoke a little more about it:
Marketing hype aside, I'm wondering: does this mean that the Pocket is being set up to become a portable MiSTer, with built-in save state support? I know very little about FPGAs, so if anyone can confirm/deny if this is what I think it is, that'd be very helpful!
I already own a Super NT, but Analogue has said that they don't plan to bring Analogue OS to that hardware. If the Pocket will do everything the MiSTer currently does, plus save states and portability, that might be the ultimate retrogaming solution for me.
And in this Polygon interview from a couple of months ago, Analogue spoke a little more about it:
Marketing hype aside, I'm wondering: does this mean that the Pocket is being set up to become a portable MiSTer, with built-in save state support? I know very little about FPGAs, so if anyone can confirm/deny if this is what I think it is, that'd be very helpful!
I already own a Super NT, but Analogue has said that they don't plan to bring Analogue OS to that hardware. If the Pocket will do everything the MiSTer currently does, plus save states and portability, that might be the ultimate retrogaming solution for me.
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I highly doubt that the secondary FPGA on the Pocket will be as powerful as the one that powers the MiSTer. The DE-10 is a fairly capable FPGA board that's only really affordable because Intel subsidizes them for educational purposes. So I wouldn't be surprised if the community can get NES/SNES/Genesis cores to work on the Pocket, but I'd be surprised to see stuff like Neo Geo, PlayStation and Saturn. That said, I don't actually know how many logic gates the secondary FPGA has, and the DE-10 recently got a price hike that makes it less of a bargain than it was before. But it's always dicey to buy something like this based off features that it might have, someday. The Super Nt never got the extra 8-bit cores that the Nt Mini did, for example.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
I do agree that it likely won't pull off the bigger cores, but just 16-bit and beneath would be really, really cool. But then again, I've got a Steam Deck on preorder, and I wonder if that will be sufficient for my needs. Probably so. Still, though, the temptation to jump on this particular wagon is strong.
Awww. (I get that it probably doesn't have the hardware setup to make it easy in there, but dang, it'd be cool to get more cores in that box too.)
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I mean, the “good” news is that even if you order it tomorrow you won’t get it for a really long time, so you could cancel your preorder if it doesn’t shake out the way you hoped.
The actual good news is that they’re doing open orders, so even if it takes years, I’ll be able to get one.
The actual good news is that they’re doing open orders, so even if it takes years, I’ll be able to get one.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
So the core of the system is apparently the Cyclone V, which is the same family FPGA in the DE10-Nano, and will be the "public core" option. It also has a Cyclone 10, and someone speculates that probably does scaler work and the like.
It's stated the Cyclone V has 49,000 logic elements, so it's probably the Cyclone® V 5CEA4 FPGA. The DE10-Nano uses one of the variants with an ARM processor embedded and 110,000 logic elements. So hopefully smaller MiSTer cores will port over pretty easily.
It's stated the Cyclone V has 49,000 logic elements, so it's probably the Cyclone® V 5CEA4 FPGA. The DE10-Nano uses one of the variants with an ARM processor embedded and 110,000 logic elements. So hopefully smaller MiSTer cores will port over pretty easily.
Yeah, that's true. If the OS updates in January and I don't receive my theoretical preorder until a few months later (at best), it seems pretty likely that someone will figure out what cores this thing's capable of supporting before I get my hands on one. Might be worth putting an order in and canceling it if it doesn't end up being what I'd hoped. Still not sure!
Me too, though I’m keeping the option to cancel in mind. I’d really like the NGPC adapter, which isn’t available yet, and I’d rather not pay their astronomical international shipping fee again to get it. I’m hoping it’ll become available before my order ships and I’ll be able to add it on. Also hoping I’m in the Q1 2022 group, but I guess I have to wait to find out.
Yeah, I went for it too, though at this point I'm mostly expecting to cancel at some point. The deciding factor will be how quickly people end up getting other cores to work/which cores end up working. I didn't put in the order until around half an hour after they'd opened up, so I fully expect to get put in the 2023 group anyway. Should be plenty of time to see how this thing shakes out before then!
Yeah, the shipping on my Super Nt was $50 USD, and with the duties on top of that it really boosted the price of the console. It's what has kept me from getting the DAC for it, too.
