Well, nothing for me replaces the feeling of using an OEM PCB/Cart/controller or a real piece of hardware. Like, using Mister isn’t as fun as having a real arcade PCB or… better yet… a real arcade machine to play on. I’ll still collect original stuff when it’s feasible and I want the most authentic experience. But I won’t never trade in my MVS carts for playing those NEO GEO games on Mister for example.
And I certainly won’t be getting rid of my collection. The hardware presentation (i.e. the curves of the consoles, the feeling of inserting a cart, the sounds of a disc drive, the cover art of the games) are all part of the experience.
oh for sure, nothing beats the original experience. a lot of it is prohibitively expensive though, and having everything would take up an inordinate amount of space as well
like when the Saturn core eventually is finalized, I’ll still be using my Saturn until it croaks. if it does though, having the Mister as a failsafe is just awesome. plus you can use your original accessories with the SNAC
Sorry everyone, probably should have included a bit more information (but I was pretty excited for this thing to arrive!)
So yeah, I picked up a preconfigured bundle from misteraddons with analog IO so I could output to my PVM20L2.
I grabbed it mostly for arcade stuff, and man, this does not disappoint. No real perceptible lag, and the video output on RGB looks pristine on my monitor.
I don’t think I’ll be getting rid of my consoles any time soon, but I picked up some of the controller adapters so I could use OEM stuff with my consoles just in case I ever feel like downsizing!
Not really but truthfully I didn’t really play long enough to notice. I tend to adjust brightness on a case by case basis on my PVM depending on what I’m playing anyway. I’ve seen some of the comparisons where it does look a bit dim but with brightness and contrast knobs on the front of the monitor that’s an easy fix for me.
That said my mister is hooked up via the BKM 129x expansion card so when I get the time I’ll boot up my consoles and switch inputs to see the difference between real hardware and the mister output.
I’m still trying to figure out the difference in brightness on my TV, it’s also hard to set in stone as the contrast/brightness slider doesn’t have a numbered label and it doesn’t increment by each press, but instead by 3. I already lost my ideal settings just trying to switch between it and the Wii once lol
Finally opened Double Dragon IV. It has roughly matching box art to the original games, better matching the Japanese, but goes fine with the western ones too.
But the manual is Limited Run Games’ horrible ‘western’ art which is presumably designed to match the original US Arcade cabinet? Even though it’s a sequel to the Famicom games?
The game itself is as scabby as the rep. Fun enough I guess but so bizarre that a project like this can be less tightly designed than 30 year old 8-bit games. It’s more sluggish and has worse collision!
Scored an early copy of Metroid Prime Remastered at Walmart today (sounds like a lot of Walmart stores are breaking the street date), they only had six copies on the shelf when I was there:
The stock parts are definitely going for a Sanwa feel but the stick especially felt a little cheap.
I’m not into fighting games but as someone who wanted a basic stick for arcade games and beat ‘em ups on the MiSTer I really can’t recommend it enough. As soon as I put it together I loaded up Metal Slug 2 to test and before I knew it I’d been playing for an hour.
Anyway, whenever I’m ordering stuff from Japan I try to add a few cheap controllers into the order that I know I’ll be able to sell to claw back my shipping costs.
