This ShortCircuit is as much for me as it is for you because I have one of
these in my shopping cart right now and by the end of this video I'm going to
decide if I'm going to press checkout and freaking buy this thing. This is the
Super Station one which is basically an amalgamation of a PS1 and a mister pie
put together into a one of a kind just
really nice little package that should provide everything that I'm looking for
out of a retro console. If you don't know mister pie is the knockoff version
of the mister FPGA selling at a significantly lower price with all the
functionality and what they've done is they put that inside of a semi recreated
PS1 shell so that you have the full
functionality of a mister pie but it's
preconfigured for PS1 and it has extra
features and it looks so freaking good. But before we get to that let's see what
else is in the box. In the box we have a
just over 6 ft USB-C-to-C cable for
power. We also have a little included 3-ft HDMI cable. This looks much less
nice compared to the braided type-C cable. These are weird measurements.
Anyways, it doesn't include a power adapter but I think at this point in
most people's homes there's a lot of type-C adapters kicking around if not
one already at your TV that you can use
without adding more things to plug in. Before we even move on I want to
appreciate that they put the effort into this box to style it like a PS1. It's
not close enough that I think Sony's going to be coming after them but even
the font, the colors, the photo all looks really good. I like that the logo
has the sort of PS1 colors. Are you ready to FPGA? Oh buddy am I ever. I'm
so ready. We also get over 70 homebrew games preloaded on this thing. No
official really released titles which makes sense that's just a copyright
nightmare but that's actually going above and beyond in my opinion to
include something out of the box so that if you don't have games already
downloaded, you can get going on this thing. And I bet some of these homebrew
games are really cool technical showcase. Let's get to the freaking device. The
device itself is PS1 shaped and I'd say
that as P S O N E not PlayStation
original. PS1 is the later revision that's smaller. So it's about that size,
about that shape, but it is this really nice matted blue transparent plastic
like this. This looks [music] extraordinary.
The build quality is really nice. Like this looks like a
high-end device. Wow. We have the logo on top with the
one O N E like the PS1 so that kind of makes sense. We have our power button.
It is not great. We have our menu button which
would be the eject. It even has the eject icon, but this just brings you
back to your menu. That's really nice. Um I've had misters where you don't have
access to the button so getting back to the menus is is kind of annoying. So
having both those things right on the top is a beautiful. On the front, we
have two snack ports. If you don't know what snack is, it's something you eat in
between meals or it's a protocol used to
adapt retro controllers to modern systems. So basically what this does is
adapts the PlayStation controller to the
mister. So that means that you can plug in your original PS1 controllers. You
also have memory card slots. Uh you have a USB so that you can plug
in a USB controller or dongle. Uh and then we have our micro SD slot which I
believe has both our games and our OS on
it if it's anything like the analog systems. On the bottom, we have four
little rubber feet. Uh although we don't need to take them off to open it up
which is really nice. We also have this port because you can buy an optional
dock that has more USBs on it but also a
disk drive so you could actually put in your original PS1 games. I'm a big
believer in emulation as a way of getting you into playing games and in
fact sometimes can be superior in terms of visual fidelity or game experience to
playing on original hardware, but there's something really magical about
going to a shelf, grabbing a cartridge
or a CD case, opening it up, putting the
disc in. That's not the end all be all, but seeing as I have some PS1 games
kicking around, I think it'll be really cool to be able to
get modern conveniences while also putting in my actual discs. Uh and if I
like this thing, I will be buying both. There's so many extra things compared to
just a regular mister already built in. On the back we have
two USBs, we have HDMI, we have a DIN 10 port as well as VGA, as well as a
headphone jack, and [music] Ethernet. None of that is particularly out of the
ordinary. We also have our power. What is nice compared to the default mister
packages is that we actually have extra [music] analog video outs
on both sides. So, we have component on this side. David from the future here.
As pointed out by one of our great fact checkers, Nene exists. The unit that we
have here has different outputs than is advertised currently on the Retro Remake
website. Although our unit does match Takky Udon's own video, uh the
differences seem to be no dip switches on the component output. As well, on
this side there is no S-video and [music] this uh CON port is replaced by
a tosslink port, uh which is actually quite useful. I think the biggest change
being no S-video ports, but otherwise video away. On this side we have our
composite video, we have our CON port,
which looks like another RCA jack, but I'm curious if it's not what that is.
Takky Udon, let us know. And then we have our S-video port. That is pretty
much every like consumer analog video format that
you can get by default [music] out of this thing. That's wonderful.
Normally you have to add an add-on board or get an accessory. So, the flexibility
that's offered by this machine right out of the box freaking rocks, man. But,
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It's so easy. You find a USB block that can do 5-volt 2 amps. You
find something that can take HDMI or on any of the analog inputs if you want
that. Just works right out of the box. Plug it in, press go.
Easy peasy. That's one of the big scary things about Mister platforms is you
have to configure yourself. Once you get going, super easy. There's
updates you can do via the console, via network. But, I know for myself before I
made my first Mister, I was a little bit overwhelmed. So, the fact that this
comes out of the box, works preconfigured, has all these cores
already freaking installed, huh.
This is amazing. And the fact that it comes in such a great little package,
huh. I'm actually so hyped about this thing. Let's play a PlayStation game and
see how the actual playing experience works. Spoilers,
it's going to be great. It's a Mister. They're freaking fantastic at this. I
still get overwhelmed by this menu sometimes. Give me over pad, snack
memory card, virtual. We can put on a multi-tap if we want. Video and audio is
always an important one. So, aspect ratio, you can stretch if you're a
psycho. Uh you can scale. We're going to stick with the normal default one. We have all
these visual options including fixed H blank and fixed V blank. Uh we have
horizontal crop, black transitions, deinterlacing. So, we have bob and
weave. I prefer weave. Rotate, which is nice if you're doing some kind of weird
system that has a TV on its side. It's nice to have that option right here. We
have dithering. That's super important. Render 24-bit.
Uh we don't need that right now. We can force 480p. We're going to try that.
Widescreen hack is kind of fun. So, it's not just stretching. Uh it's actually
supposed to make the games render in widescreen. Uh I haven't
[music] really tried that on MiSTer. So, I don't know how well that works. Uh and then texture filter. We can
actually add an additional texture filter. The PlayStation one was very
primitive. And so, anisotropic filtering was not a thing. So, you can actually do
that with the MiSTer, which is really, really cool. We also have our miscellaneous options. So, our fast
boot. Um we can basically tell the console that the the disc lid is open or
closed depending on the kind of games you're playing. You might need to do a
disc swap mid-game. So, it's nice to be able to do that. And then you can turn
on that the MiSTer menu will pause the game, which is really nice. We have
other options that we don't really, really need. But, they can be good quality of life things. I've had mixed
experiences with messing around with this kind of stuff, but it is great.
MiSTer MiSTer just rocks. It's so much better. Like you can
spend the money, get the PlayStation Classic. No. Then you're locked with
this crappy console. Even if you jailbreak it and modify it, it's still
half No. 10% as good as a freaking MiSTer. MiSTer freaking rocks. I don't
need to sit here and exalt the wonders
of MiSTer. I have other videos for that. Go check them out. But, trust me. If
you're a retro gamer, this is the freaking peak. Let's just play some kind
of game. I don't care which game. I just love PlayStation.
There's always the period when you first get a ROM where you're like, is it going
to work? Looks like it's going to work. One thing I find always very frustrating with
emulating older games is how A and B are often reversed depending on if you're
playing a Japanese primary game or an older system and then inside the mister
menu sometimes it's flipped around itself.
Cool. Is that how you spell David? Yeah, it's uh, it's Ukrainian. Ah, it doesn't feel
right without the music. Want me to hum for you? Yeah. Okay,
there's >> [laughter] >> Beautiful. One thing that I've noticed
is that it seems like there's fewer visual options than I'm used to uh, on
my mister. I don't know if that's by default or if that was manually disabled
or maybe it's just the PSX core. Um, but there's no shadow masks that I can
use. That being said, pixel perfect looks pretty dang amazing if that's your
kind of thing. I like a little bit of scaling in my retro game, but your
mileage may vary. In terms of input latency, it's
uh, pretty damn perfectly. I couldn't really tell you that there was any additional input latency. Feels very
precise. Feels very good. Looks really sharp. The sound sounded good when we
were sounding it before, but uh, we turned it off for fear of copyright and
also editing troubles. The nice thing too is you can get the Requiem version
of this game on Sony consoles, [music] hopefully soon PC and everything else,
but it is the modernized text in this
beginning, which is absurd. The whole joy of this is how
terrible this dialogue is. Tribute, you steal men's souls and make them your
slaves. Way better than whatever the they tried to fix it. They tried to make
it less cringe. We were having a little bit trouble getting our snack ports to
work with a PS1 controller and it turns out that the solution is to enable both
snack ports in your mister menu. Now
it's working, no problem, no configuration needed. You will still need another controller or a keyboard to
navigate the actual mister menus. This freaking rocks, let's play one more
game. This feels
pretty much exactly as I remember it. Playing with an actual PS1 controller is
the way to play these kinds of games. I love this thing. This feels great. I I
know we've kind of glossed over some of the mister features, but there's just so much you can do. It truly is sort of the
ultimate retro emulation platform. And
there's so many people using it that there's all kinds of options, all kinds
of additional features you can add. And so what I'm evaluating today is just the
PS1-ness of this. The fact that you have the snack adapters built in is
fantastic. Yes, you you can get individual snack adapters for like $10,
but if you want like a comprehensive solution, they can start to add up. I've
seen some that cost upwards of $100. And here it just freaking works. Having
memory card support out of the box, having everything preconfigured to just
work, this is one of the easiest ways to
get into mister gaming. And the nice thing is that all the work that they
did, they're not charging a huge premium for this. When you consider that like an
analog console is $300 plus, the fact
that this is $220, this is a fantastic value. Just the
board used to cost over that, back before they started making the mister
pie boards. So the fact that you get the shell, the extra functionality,
everything tweaked to work with PS1 out of the box, this is an extraordinary
value. And like I said at the beginning of this video, I'm going to go to my
computer and hit buy because I want one of these. This is awesome. This is
great, it's simple, it's it works. There's so much tweaking you can do if
that's what you're you're into, but out of the box you have a good PS1
experience on top of the other cores that you get to use, even though you're
using a little PS1 shaped thing. I am very happy, just like I'm happy to have
you keep watching more short circuits. Why don't you check the time that we did
the mister pie unboxing? That was a couple years ago.
That's another great product that if you're more into tinkering, that might
be more up your alley.