I can break 150k on it, can you?
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It's not a question if it is playable, but rather the quality of that playability. If the audio is off or its on par with an early MAME build as @Haze mentioned then it lands in 60-1 territory for me. There are definitely complaints about it on the MiSTer forum. Obviously its a superior platform to the 60-1, but without quality cores the net result is the same for me. FPGA is a great concept and probably the future of retro gaming, but right now its missing some key games outside of the DK quality issues. I will let it mature for a year or two and revisit later.
Yeah, Mister, like any other emulation, is only as good at whoever writes that emulation.
If you're basing it on modern knowledge, chip decaps etc. it can be great (and doing such wasn't feasible when a lot of MAME drivers were originally written, and much of the information available now wasn't back then either)
If you're doing it based on already old knowledge, it's not so great, and in some cases ends up worse than older versions of MAME even.
Mister does not have a good solution for 'netlist' / analog sound simulations, so you're stuck with older samples, not proper emulation. Same reason the C64 SID stuff is reportedly still off, it's analog.
All this stuff is amazing to me.
The fact that there is no one "does it all perfectly" method is a testament to how complicated it all really is.
I only understand enough to know that I couldn't do it.
MAME more than adequately makes playing old arcade games I love a reality for me.
Especially it seems for games requiring odd controllers (and authentic sound too it appears.)
Maybe it will always be thus, and that is fine with me.
I'm excited to try the MiSTer with some 8Bitdo controllers for old console stuff though.
Seems that having both systems side by side in the same sit-at cabinet will be the most you could pack into a happy system really.
At least for an old raster CRT that is.
The vector thing is another story entirely.