Upgrading a 90s Arcade Machine with MiSTercade - FPGA Gaming Excellence!

ArcadePunks just released a massively huge image for the Mistercade.

GUWANGE!!

As an owner of many PCBs and also a lover of MISTER I find myself constantly debating selling some of my PCBs for exactly the reasons you mentioned. However, I start to wonder if I will miss seeing and knowing I’m playing on the real thing. Kinda like that feeling of popping in a real cd or cartridge into a system vs a multi cart. Man…the debate. And the fear or regret…thoughts?

Hi. Does it get commands from USB or Snac? Thanks

Also wouldn't a Mister core for an arcade system with multiple games available such as the Neo Geo or IGS Polygame Master mean all of those games are available on Mister?

Mister only does HDMI and VGA? Sorely lacking SCART and composite video! Im hope there's ways to rectify that. Would be wrong it not being able to run on an old school CRT TV!

Have you tired the RGB-PI? OS4 has come a long way and with run-ahead mode the latency is gone.

not to mention Achievements and high score saves! Invest in a PC or a Pi 4

Everyone posting in the sub replies of "Just get a pi lol who needs to spend this much" needs to watch Clint's other FPGA gaming video to get an idea of why you might, as a very enthused hobbyist, spring for the extra coin. Both are good, just one is more niche for people who value the accuracy and lack of delay.

lol this is the first time i've heard portrait mode called 'TATE' xdddd

You might wanna look into sanwa or seimitsu buttons and levers

This seems like a pain in the ass for people without the time/knowledge to make it work. I'm in that boat. If there were a solution that was more turnkey I'd buy it.

Stupid prices.

Sup 2027

Man I’m so jealous, watching you play Donpachi and Guwange on a cabinet like that. I really want one of these some day. I have to drive to the galloping ghost to play cave games on a cab, at home I just use a game pad. Goals right there

Imagine hooking this up to the Radius Pivot CRT

One thing to keep in mind when choosing between something like RasPi & MiSTer is that RasPi has many additional options and more games compatible with different systems. BUT it's just basic emulation.. may as well just throw an old laptop or desktop with qual frontends like coinops or Type R. When you choose MiSTer your playing all those amazing arcade, console, computer and handhelds titles with FPGA tech.. meaning each arcade board and title hardware is backwards engineered so when you experience these games they will be NEARLY identical to experiencing the real thing.. the actual console or arcade cabinet when you first experienced them at your local arcade or fav console xmas morning as a kid. It's pure nostalgia.. magic. So far away from what basic emulation offers.. going back to emulation will be ruined forever. Promise.

This is sick dude

id make a custom touhou machine if i knew how

You are the soothing side of life LGR😌☕

Honestly I’m surprised it’s under $1K

I LOVE OUTZONE

love that ps5 controller flex lol

Shame you only got two buttons otherwise you could play alot more different games

Can the MiSTer run Primal Rage?

Seeing you use a Apple product makes me sad.

I'd LOVE to see some Neo Geo on the MiSTercade, specifically because there are apparently overclocked Neo Geo cores that can run Metal Slug games with less slowdown.

You should remember that this board, although entry level, is professional grade.
The fact that this board has both an ARM processor and an FPGA onboard with free programming tools (again, entry level), made it suitable for this kind of a project.
But when this project started, Terasic had a huge increase of orders for this board (and DE10 in generally), and take the chip shortage into consideration and you can see why this had gotten so expensive.
I remember this board was around $100-105 with education \ university discount early last year, now it's $180 with discount and $215 without, my DE10-Standard board now costs $50 more than when I ordered it.
Being worth the cost boils down to the support of the developers, because it can be updated both in terms of hardware and software, and even if it doesn't get support anymore - you can always use it for something else or just sell it, because it's a development kit.

"The future potential is bright as ball!"

Well that's a new one to the lexicon

Very nice

I do not think its worth 500 full.Just like any thing now days,they have to jack price up well beyond what they are worth.

I actually quite prefer the plain text menu. Simple life! Hope you're playing Dimahoo on it. Great game that.

Someone should make a jamma 2 to 1 relay box so you can have your original board and your mister or pi or whatever connected at the same time, and flipping a switch changes which is connected to the cabinet. Rather than having to pull the whole thing out, Clint's is easy but most are a bit of an operation.

Well Clint, you've guaranteed at lest 30 or so fans will come back in 2027 just to leave a comment on the state of chip scarcity XD

good god, if owned this thing id just have an expense paper weight with how confusing all this tech talk is going over my head @_@

LGR Foods anytime soon? Really miss LGR Foods, just an FYI, and I know I can’t be the only one!

I know that you only make LGR Foods episodes as a fun hobby, so make sure to keep it that way, especially if that’s what makes you happy.

I know you have been moving, so maybe after you get settled you may feel like making an LGR Foods episode in your new kitchen! Do It! (Well only if you truly really feel like it!)

Anyone else agree?

2027 says "hi"

COMPONET SIDE

It's great that gamers have these FPGA options but let us never forget that MAME and others paved the way for modern arcade emulation solutions. Their teams deserve a lot of credit.

I appreciate the video but it is unlikely a project many people will do. I don’t know one person who has an arcade shell in their house

Clint, just a quick suggestion. You don't really have to flip the tube. You can just flip the yoke wires. You can split the four pin cable and reverse them to get different results. You can rotate the image in just about any way you want doing this trick ;).

you probably add a browser and check twitter on that device

Great video! Maybe try giving the "JAMMA Expander" from Irken Labs a look.. it's a competing product with a focus on being more of a straightforward PCB replacement. I owned both of these products at one point and ended up replacing my Mistercade with the JAMMA Expander because I found it to be a better product for someone who is looking for more of a "plug and play" solution. I do appreciate the flexibility of the Mistercade but it just wasn't for me.

i wonder how far the Mister project can be pushed. (i'm secretly hoping that bubble memories by Taito and dragon saber by Namco will be playable on mister in the future)

Why do people probounce it TarTay its pronouced Tate as in Ro-Tate.

An idea for the MiST crew would be to have a live arcade board menu, where you can have several boards hooked into a "stacker" style system, running live and then from the menu a user can pick the game they want to play or fire up the board they want from the preset menu programmed into the MiST.

So user will see a menu with say 10 PCBs plugged in and get to select game they want. Then system shuts down the other boards that aren't selected or puts them into a "rest" mode to reduce power consumption.

Thumbs up if you're watching this in 2027! 👍