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CASES ARE FINALLY HERE! Between the pandemic still affecting Chinese production, and life, it took longer than expected but they are finally in hand. A few housekeeping items before proceeding: 1) I'm waiting on shipping boxes so if these don't ship immediately, please be patient. 2) I'm also awaiting an order of IO boards, but have the other required parts on hand. These are scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks. If you order a complete kit now, I'll ship it as soon as possible. Believe me when I say I don't like to sit on orders. 3) The...

A while back I tried (unsuccessfully) to become a distributor for everyone’s favorite power supply company, Triad. Discouraged by the rejection, I scooped up my humble ego and decided to try the next best thing: find a power supply that rivals Triad’s performance for use with MiSTer. What specs matter when it comes to power supplies? The most obvious is the voltage. Most modern electronics operate at 3.3V or lower (1.8V is also common). 5V input feeds voltage regulators that are often chained together to improve efficiency. The DE10-nano schematic states that over voltage protection kicks in at 5.45V so a supply...

SNAC has been a mainstay of  MiSTer for several years. It’s a way to directly interface original accessories with their corresponding core. This allows for unique peripherals to be used on MiSTer such as light guns. Recently, developers added support for 3D Famicom glasses to the NES core (CRT only). The games usually require you to press "Select" on the controller to enable 3D mode. The NES unstable core has 3 SNAC settings: Controllers, 3D Glasses, and Zapper. In addition to Famicom 3D glasses, a new 2 player SNAC mode was added. At the same time, 2 player SNES SNAC...

Well, I just recovered from the latest round of MiSTercade and aluminum kit sales. You might be wondering where I've been and why Express is taking so long. I hope to answer those questions in this post. But first, 2 commonly asked questions: When more MiSTercades? ~2 months When more aluminum cases / kits? ~3 months PSX SNAC? I made some last minute changes and should have the final samples in hand next week. I try to add every possible feature to each board that I can. You’ll see what I mean :) On to the Express... I've created a...