I’m very happy with my Mister, so much fun. I’d gladly recommend a kit like I bought or one with a case.

I would have bought a complete kit with case, but they were out of stock. I printed this case for the skeleton kit: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4029445 and it worked fine.

If you are getting started with MiSTer, be prepared to devote a lot of time to debugging and piecing things together from a lot of vague, ambiguous, incomplete, and often out-of-date posts scattered across a variety of message boards and YouTube videos. However, once you get over some initial hurdles, it's a very cool system.

My personal opinion... skip SNAX and go with a combination of Bluetooth controllers (e.g., PS5 for PSX, Nintendo Switch Online controllers for N64, SNES, and Genesis) and 2600-dapter and 2600-PDL and native controllers for Coleco and Atari. SNAX for me was too frustrating and limiting, particularly with presently-lacking Atari paddle and ColecoVision controller support in the respective cores.

MiSTer Skeleton Kits (No Case)

its amazing, thought eventually ill need the alum case, cheers!

Everything worked out of the box. Though I upgraded the SD card for a much larger one for game storage. The fan is a little noisy busy I replaced mine with a Noctua and it’s been great!