Sorgelig wrote:I think it should be fixed in today's release
I'm using the 20190824 core and experiencing video glitches sometimes when changing cores or changing roms in the Genesis Core. Sometimes, I get a black screen for a second when loading a rom on both the SNES or Genesis core and then everything goes on normally.
In one instance, I changed from the SNES core to the TG16 core and the video signal got all garbled. Tried cold rebooting but the rom was still loaded on the background, even playing sound. Powered off the DE10, problem solved.
It's kind of random, I will try to reproduce it later.
PhantombrainM wrote:Do you have newest menu.rbf too? There was a bug fixed which was preventing booting / switching cores / go back to menu.
Yep, menu_20190824 and MiSTer_20190820. I can go back to menu. What's happening is that sometimes video loses signal after changing cores and loading a new rom. I don't know what triggers this behavior since it doesn't happen all the time. Rebooting before loading a new core prevents this, tho.
I haven't been updating the MiSTer in a few months, probably since the cheats were added, and today I used the updater script to do update. Everything works fine except Genesis games. Snes and NES games all work fine. I then made sure that the updater script updated the menu file and the genesis file, by manually grabbing those from GitHub , and it did. Still Genesis games not working. What else should I try?
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I went through several games, and some of them only show a red screen, some show a black screen, and 1 so far shows lots of glitches. And very few of them actually work.
If a power cycle is just turning it off and un plugging it from the power, and then plugging it back in, and turning it back on, I did that. Didn't work.
MattE888 wrote:Thanks for the help. It was a ROM problem. I guess the MiSTer or the Genesis core is more picky than it used to be. I'm sure that's a good thing!
There was a region setting thing added where the core will set the region based on the header. If you have any more trouble you should try manually setting the region for that game in the OSD and resetting the game (not the mister board). It should be fine then.
I dont know why the hell doesnt work savestats in Wonder Boy in monster Land (Genesis).
I every other game it works.I have treid other Wonderboy roms.
So when I save the game (ingame) ,but when i play again I dont know how to recover the game (doesnt seems to to show any "recover game", or "load game", in the start screen.
I miss something with this game? It's seems odd that is the only game that doesnt work.
(I have notice that the led of mister doenst blink (only in this game)when you save.
I wonder if it is possible to use the ARM side of the DE-10 Nano to get pseudo 32x support. If not, maybe like how ScummVM runs, a linux based port of a 32x emulator (Fusion?) will appear.
seastalker wrote:I wonder if it is possible to use the ARM side of the DE-10 Nano to get pseudo 32x support. If not, maybe like how ScummVM runs, a linux based port of a 32x emulator (Fusion?) will appear.
That kind of defeats the purpose of having the FPGA at that point. If the 32x logic can't fit in the DE10's FPGA space alongside the Genesis, maybe there's a way to attach an additional, smaller FPGA to the DE10 that would handle the 32X. The idea is amusing, but the implementation and costs are unreasonable.
I COMPLETELY agree it defeats the purpose of FPGA. "Why not just use a PC or Pi3/4 for 32x emulation" is what echos in my mind as well as many others. Still, with the recent Smokemonster interview, I remember mention of emulators being possible on MiSTer, and thought about reasonable use cases. Scumm VM is very convenient, and Doom [for me] is more a 'nice to have', but 32x is the ONE other exception teetering the fence that might be welcomed in ARM. Unless people say "don't bother - a 32x core is inevitable, but it will just take time." Maybe it will evolve from Arcade cores one day (if the 32x uses some of the same chips), but obviously it is not for us players to mandate developers' projects. We can only dream and wish out loud if we aren't making cores ourselves.
Saturn is unlikely in FPGA (or ARM based emulation), and Dreamcast and beyond is maybe a 'Mister 2 or 3' hardware future. I know 32x for many falls into Virtua Racing realms- even if you don't often play it, the all-but-one game support triggers the OCD in some of us. 32x is its own console, yet relies on the umbilical cord of Genesis/Mega Drive hardware. Now having near(?) perfect Genesis in FPGA, the 32x is just kind of standing there like the step child hoping to get in the frame of the family photo. Hopefully it will get some love one day.
In the mean time, I'm working some TLC on my official Sega 32x hardware's video issues, so 32x, you are still loved.
seastalker wrote:I COMPLETELY agree it defeats the purpose of FPGA. "Why not just use a PC or Pi3/4 for 32x emulation" is what echos in my mind as well as many others. Still, with the recent Smokemonster interview, I remember mention of emulators being possible on MiSTer, and thought about reasonable use cases. Scumm VM is very convenient, and Doom [for me] is more a 'nice to have', but 32x is the ONE other exception teetering the fence that might be welcomed in ARM. Unless people say "don't bother - a 32x core is inevitable, but it will just take time." Maybe it will evolve from Arcade cores one day (if the 32x uses some of the same chips), but obviously it is not for us players to mandate developers' projects. We can only dream and wish out loud if we aren't making cores ourselves.
Saturn is unlikely in FPGA (or ARM based emulation), and Dreamcast and beyond is maybe a 'Mister 2 or 3' hardware future. I know 32x for many falls into Virtua Racing realms- even if you don't often play it, the all-but-one game support triggers the OCD in some of us. 32x is its own console, yet relies on the umbilical cord of Genesis/Mega Drive hardware. Now having near(?) perfect Genesis in FPGA, the 32x is just kind of standing there like the step child hoping to get in the frame of the family photo. Hopefully it will get some love one day.
In the mean time, I'm working some TLC on my official Sega 32x hardware's video issues, so 32x, you are still loved.
I'm a 32x enthusiast also and I'd love to see it on MiSTer. It would definitely take up less space and less outlets than my model 2 rig (with CD...) But I've seen it discussed a few times before, that cramming the SH-2's into the available space would be a tight fit. Not to mention the VDP and QSound chips and all of the Genesis hardware, so I'm not holding my breath.
May I ask a noob question? When I start up this core I always forget to change the region from JP to that of my SORII rom (USA). Is there a way to set a default region and keep it at that? My roms all have (USA) in their title you see.
Perhaps foolishly all my roms have a .MD extension which defaults to EU I think. I suspect the easiest solution is to get them all as .GEN files and then select auto region based on extension.
:edit: Or just rename the USA MD ones to GEN!! Got it.
