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A few years back, I started to write a 6502 NES emulator in modern C++17 using MSVC. It was quite a project to work on. The NES Dev wiki site is very valuable and useful and when I first started to take on this project and doing some research into it is what brought me to find other related topics such as Ben Eater's Y.T. channel for his 8-Bit bread board CPU in which I implemented his design in a program called Logisim. Since then, I had also come across a game on Steam called Turing Complete. Many years ago, I started to get into programming due to my interest in 3D Graphics / Game Engine design as well as Physics Simulations and Animations. As much as I enjoyed learning various topics throughout that process such as learning the various graphics APIs such as DirectX, OpenGL and Vulkan, I have come to appreciate and enjoy Hardware Design (ISA implementation just as much as doing 3D Graphics programming). This in part is reflective of some of my Steam Libraries titles that range from Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Satisfactory, Mindustry, Oxygen Not Include, The Planet Crafter, and more. If it's Engineering related: "The Factory Must Grow!" and if they have Trains, it's even an added bonus, if it's building Rockets, that's just as engaging. I love and appreciate channels that provide content such as this. Job well done on clearly explaining the design of the Richo chips. You covered most of the basic in less than 20 minutes where many paid for courses couldn't even do it in a single semester. Kudos!!!

Will this work with raspberry pi running retropie or is it just for the mister?

Could this do the reverse? Like putting a romhack into a physical cart?

At last my idea on which I've never worked on materialized on the real world.

Now we just need a variant port cover lid that integrates the NFC module, so the whole thing can look even more like an oversized PC engine.

The ZModem firmware is good, great in fact, but the 'theoldnet' firmware is even better, still free and downloadable, and the latest version also comes with a better way to upload to the ESP8266, but you need one with at least 4Mb, it won't fit on smaller boards.

I had the NEC version back in 1986 (the very first computer I owned) unfortunately there was no internet back then.

This video is great! I always come back to it when I make a fresh Mister install. Do you think you could make a video on how to access the Mister from MacOS?

Fantastic video!

I wasn't much interested in the TapTo, but your idea of putting tags in cartridges is something I must do for myself.

Chip masks are only protected for 10 years and the Famicom came out before the mask law was even passed. It would be foolish not to use the masks or to pay a license for something in the public domain. Do you send CZcams money for the free music in your videos?

In the late 90s, my ISP had a trs100 termcap entry. So I would use the acoustic coupler on my parents cordless phone and use lynx and pine from the back yard. Also did this from the school payphone, but they made me stop because they thought it looked like I was hacking the payphones.

A few months late to the party here, but I am absolutely loving my FPGBC. FPGA really excites me, and for $80, this was a fun project to put together, and it just seems to work.

you must finish this series famicom materials!

Fajny patent 😎

What an outstanding video. Your work and skills are very appreciated!

this hits all the nerd synapses but i struggle to understand why someone would need to carry around a portable c64. if this is your kind of thing, then you do you i guess. :)

in all cases where a human is holding the controller, USB polling rate vs SNAC matters approximately 0%. Believe it or not, console hardware like the NES, SNES, and any controller which has more buttons than it has wires on the connector uses polling to get the button data, same as USB.

I thought this was a very silly idea at first... but when you got to the paradox of choice, it clicked. Insightful - and now I need one!

I’ve been using the BlisSTer for almost 2 years now, and honestly, I don’t have a single gripe about it. The “worst” experience I had was getting Atari Paddles and a ColecoVision controller to work, but once you realize that specific controller presses are needed for them to be detected, it’s smooth sailing from there. Yes, it would be nice if the code code be merged into the official branch, but I’m OK with it for now. One other “gotcha” is that Uktimate MiSTer is the only vendor who makes a case designed for it. FWIW, I have no gripes about his case, and he was great to deal with, but I have to admit that I get a little jealous of those snazzy aluminum cases. About the pricing - yeah, it starts getting pricey, especially when you start to factor in cables. In my case, I already had previous experience with the Bliss-Box; I also own their 4-player model, which I bought with the complete cable set at purchase. The only adapter I had to buy after the fact was the DB15 cables for Neo-Geo.

VERY cool idea putting the NFC stickers inside the physical cartridges! It might also be cool to combine that idea with the insert function to have actual cartridge slots without the need for different physical connectors and/or custom electronics for each type. They'd all just be the same nfc reader with different enclosures.

So this was incredibly informative. I'm a developer, and have been curious about FPGA development. Now I know enough to go about toying around.

If you want to connect to a real MIDI port , just use a cheap lvl converter and 2 220 ohm resistors. No need to fool around with optocoupling but if you do make sure it's a 3.3v part .

This might be neat to revive the mariokart gxp or the horse racing one where you could up stats over multiple play sessions. megaman? pokemon?

17:53 Has anyone "evolved" it to use a raspberry pi as a dumb frontend for boxart/video previews and launch mister using a hdmi switch/kvm?

Couldn't you also do this with regular RFID tags? You would just need to associate each game with the serial number of a tag.

Great video as always Ken and thank you for featuring my cases :)

Ah man, this is awesome. I'd get card holders and print up my entire library. I used to hang card holder pages from a binder on my wall to display cards I owned. It would be nostalgic to do this with games I print up! Ohh, or just pint statues and put one of those stickers on it.

I wasnt terribly interested in this project beforehand, but now it seems really cool! Dont know if Ill actually get one, but it is certainly an interesting tool. Gives back some of the physicality of putting in a cartridge or disc, and being limited to only a few instead of a never-ending scroll through a menu. Speaking of that floppy disc drive case, it would be awesome to see one with the big switches like on the 5 1/4 drives; you could slide in the card, then flip the switch with a satisfying "clonk". Maybe the switch could move the NFC reader onto the card, so it has more of a practical purpose (or it could just be for fun)

since it has an api you could configure EmulationStation running on a rapsberry pi to launch games on the mister (instead of launching an emulator) all you would need is an ip controllable hdmi switch to switch from the rpi to the mister when launching a game, and back to the rpi when you exit one. then you'll have a world class ui with box art on an fpga system

Great video as always Ken! Been on the fence a while with this and your video might have just persuaded me to go and get one! 👍

I'd love to do something like this for my digital film library on pc. is this possible?

I'm actually curious if the TapTo can be repurposed into other appliances and gadgets, not just the MiSTer things. What if it can be used as an easily accessible physical token on home media boxes to play movies, or as a car infotainment add-on to automatically play music albums denoted by the token? If configured right this kinda eliminates having to go through a bunch of menus to play whatever you want.

I'm not sure how I found your channel (obviously YT recommended it to me, but I don't remember when). Your videos are so great, both in terms of subject matter as well as production values, that I just assumed you had been around YT for years and were probably around 200k subscribers. Anyways, CG on your first year on YT! I love your content and I'm sure your channel will continue to grow at a great pace!

14:27 is that a custom MiSTer or kit?

Another great video Ken. Thanks for the excellent content

Ah yeah. I was wondering when you were going to do a video on MiSTer NFC.

With NFC tags going up to 4k that's perfect to store whole 2600 ROMs. Is there any way to present the NFC reader as a USB storage device?

Great video, great project 👏

Very cool. Interesting how gaming drives so many vintage computing innovations.

This was a very nice video and overview of the TapTo project. I'm currently making my own TapTo reader by putting it inside a cartridge :D. Very fun stuff!

Every time I look into TapTo I'm super tempted until I start running the numbers and become aware of just how quickly making cards for every game would balloon in price and become a storage/accessibility issue.

This is so goated omg. What a great video

I love this thing, MIDI has some really georgous sounds and GST's, to get the best version of the MT32-Pi, it's really worth installing a decent DAC & DSP, a DAC with multiple clocked oscilators and a DSP for clock rate select, sample-rate, and EQ + lowpass/highpass filters etc, I also want to add PGM chiptune audio to my MiSTer, as I love that sound too, a Philips SAA1099 will do nicely as well as ASLIB OPL3 sound, so I have the big three, Chuptune (PGM), ADLIB (FM) and MIDI (XG & GM), would be dope to have Tandy and Disney Sound Source too (COVOX) and even GUS, these are totally uniqe sounds that sound incredible in the games that use them,and are worth experiencing, I hope eventually we get an upgrade to the MT32-Pi, to make it an all pupose, universal hardcore synthisizer, for MT32, SC-55, SC-88, ADLIB, PGM, CVX4, GUS, SB-Pro, as well as a good DSP & dual DAC built in, and even a nice vintage HIFI quality Pre-AMP, and a VCO to pass everything through to modulate it all for shaping (depth, attack. clock, BPM, autotune, finetune, et cetera). Basically an official MiSTer add-on board dedicated to all of the above, that is also included in the framework, and with compatability to use the audio chipsets with console and arcade cores too, rather than exclusively for computer syetem cores, for this reasonI will always opt to play the computer ports of games, so I can use real audio hardware or the significantly higher grade audio that the MT32-Pi produces versus the standard audio from the FPGA+DAC, the FPGA puts outbit-perfect sound data for sure, but from there it just gets fed to the DAC, and it's sounds rather flat and lifeless, not to mention all charecter is lost from original hardware, being able to use the MT32-Pi as a DSP filter & EQ stage, plus a Pre-AMP, would completly transform the generic sounding standard MiSTer audio output for console & arcade cores.

Nice. I am impressed this stuff is possible. Not doing it well but doing it at all!

Great to see there is an active community around these! I had one when I was .. 14? maybe? I remember typing in some BASIC and saving/loading from cassette. Simple usable machine. IIRC journalists of the day liked the full travel keyboard and could file their copy down a phone line. But wow, sluggish by today's standards! We must've been more patient back in the day. :-)

great video ken, i am obsessed with input lag, i dont know why. speaking of which, what are your thoughts on the retrotink4k? would using it with a mister further reduce input lag?

If i only have usb controllers (8bitdo, logitech, etc) does the blisster and low latency have any benefit, or is it only for original hardware controlers?

Imo, the non accuracy problem is a non issue. If you are aware and have interest in emulation, you will be able to fix these accuracy problems with either hacked roms or specific configs on emulators. The question of emulation vs fpga is honestly about preference. Retro collecting is hell and emulators are amazing in my opinion, but if the accuracy bother the user that much, its good that we have options

Cool device. But VGA connector / cable are too heavy for handheld.