Well, colour me impressed. I'd dabbled with a MiSTer or two before and never really got along with it enough for me to hang on to one. Recently getting hold of a MiSTercade though has changed my mind.
This is the first MiSTer jamma solution I've had that feels like a PCB. You can do away with all the silly button presses to launch menus etc. And have a rather snazzy remote board making it feel much more like the real deal.
I've done a ton of side by sides now, that's me comparing the original untampered PCBs with their MiSTer core counterparts and the results are pretty good.
CPS1, 2 and System 16 appears 1:1 as far as video amd controls go. I ran aground with sound as put of the box through the JAMMA harness they sound like a shell of their former selves. I've literally overlaid the music live in terms of syncing up my two E2 cabs perfectly on the same games and there is a clear difference anyone would notice. In this instance I implemented a discrete audio amp into the JAMMA chain with wires I'd custom made for the E2 original speakers. On messing with the treble and bass via the amp and using combinations of 2khz and 4khz audio filtering on the MiSTer in conjunction with this gives me a 95% accurate audio reproduction of the original.
It is worth mentioning that the Bubble Bobble MiSTer core drops out of sync with my Japanese Bubble Bobble PCB that's running the same rom set at about the 4minute mark on a loop of the titles, which makes me question the accuracy of that particular core, but CPS1,2 and System 16 seem largely perfect...once audio is meddled with.
Thought this might be of use of anyone is considering the arcade side of MiSTer endeavours.
I'm really interested to see how the future Konami cores hold up since the majority of my PCBs are Konami boards. Fingers crossed.
I'll also add something so simple like the addition of the brilliant 'favourites' script has made the whole user experience infinitely more pleasing. I have no idea why this wasn't implemented from the get go, takes so much of the fart-arsery out of everything and you can launch console cores straight from the top menu as a result.
This is the first MiSTer jamma solution I've had that feels like a PCB. You can do away with all the silly button presses to launch menus etc. And have a rather snazzy remote board making it feel much more like the real deal.
I've done a ton of side by sides now, that's me comparing the original untampered PCBs with their MiSTer core counterparts and the results are pretty good.
CPS1, 2 and System 16 appears 1:1 as far as video amd controls go. I ran aground with sound as put of the box through the JAMMA harness they sound like a shell of their former selves. I've literally overlaid the music live in terms of syncing up my two E2 cabs perfectly on the same games and there is a clear difference anyone would notice. In this instance I implemented a discrete audio amp into the JAMMA chain with wires I'd custom made for the E2 original speakers. On messing with the treble and bass via the amp and using combinations of 2khz and 4khz audio filtering on the MiSTer in conjunction with this gives me a 95% accurate audio reproduction of the original.
It is worth mentioning that the Bubble Bobble MiSTer core drops out of sync with my Japanese Bubble Bobble PCB that's running the same rom set at about the 4minute mark on a loop of the titles, which makes me question the accuracy of that particular core, but CPS1,2 and System 16 seem largely perfect...once audio is meddled with.
Thought this might be of use of anyone is considering the arcade side of MiSTer endeavours.
I'm really interested to see how the future Konami cores hold up since the majority of my PCBs are Konami boards. Fingers crossed.
I'll also add something so simple like the addition of the brilliant 'favourites' script has made the whole user experience infinitely more pleasing. I have no idea why this wasn't implemented from the get go, takes so much of the fart-arsery out of everything and you can launch console cores straight from the top menu as a result.
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