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it is rare that I am so excited about something that has a name so misleading

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Mr piie true false it is not a pie

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product not a raspberry or such fruit uh it is in fact a clone of the Mr fpga

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Project you may already know but the Mr fpga Project aims to make emulation as

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simple accurate and comprehensive as possible and at the core of this project

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has been the d10 Nano a development fpj

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board that is inside of every Mis system

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the problem with that is that since it's Ryzen popularity it's more than

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doubled in price which made buying a Mr

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system uh with all the accessories which we'll get into later quite expensive

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until today tacky udon a retr modding

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console Enthusiast YouTuber has commissioned the creation of the de10

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Nano clone board the Mr pie which in

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theory is supposed to be a drop and replac for the de10 Nano with a couple

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changes that actually might make it the better option even though it's less than

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half the price I am so excited I've been excited about this thing ever since I've

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heard about it I genuinely didn't know if it was ever going to hit the market I

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thought that this might just be one of those not a wet dream a I guess I have to take apart one

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of these misters these ones are just shells um this is my personal Mister

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that I have for a different reason here I'm just going to pull it apart and

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they're the same here's the Mr piie and this is the de10 Nano uh different color

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PCB Green's usually the cheapest uh the io is mostly the same

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although the big upgrade in my opinion is going from a barrel Jack for power to

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type c and that is Type C with PD so it

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can accept 5 to 12 volt power and it'll lower the voltage if you're giving it

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more than 5 volts very convenient uh especially if you start to accessoriz

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your Mis with a bunch of boards you could have just one USB power block and

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kind of split out your power that way huge fan of type-c I know that was a

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question uh early on but I'm glad we are doing away with the barrel Jack you'll

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notice a few other changes with the iio we still have Ethernet but next to that we have type c instead of mini which is

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a very nice upgrade I haven't had a mini device since a PS3 although I guess that

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is kind of retro and then we have a type A instead of micro b that one is also

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very nice micro B sucks micro and mini Beast suck got to say type-c for the win

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this side mostly the same on this side we have our type-c instead of barrel

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HDMI which is great I believe it's up to like about 1500p without any of the scan

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line effects which is very nice and then instead of our debug we have what I can

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assume is some kind of serialized pins

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if you know what that is you let me know in terms of their primary fpga processor

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we have the Altera Cyclone 5 on both uh I've heard rumors that these might be

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poles from recycled chips but uh I haven't seen that confirmed so who knows

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I also haven't seen any big reliability issues except for one thing which we'll

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get into on the top we have the same dip switches toggles uh and then serial

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connectors or the expansion ports so that you can install upgrades for RAM

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which is necessary for some of the consoles very nice the only thing I'll

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point out is that the SD card slot is the same spot on the bottom mine has its

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SD card in it ours we will have to configure once we've installed all the

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rest of our accessories let's take a look first off I glossed over it a

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little bit before this packaging is adorable this Master System themed inner

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boxes and even the PS1 inspired retro

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remake logo I'm a fan of committing to the retroness let's start with the io

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board which at first glance looks pretty similar to the Mr add-ons similar

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purpose board that I have uh slightly

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different connections again green PCB instead of the black PCB I like the look

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of the black PCB a little bit more but if your case isn't transparent that isn't going to matter we have our

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buttons I don't want to spend the whole time comparing it there's a million options this is the Mr Pro add-on board

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and the reason you would add something like this on is you know power buttons

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instead of having it hard switch off your Mister on and off with an external

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switch you can do it with this board that'll connect and control this uh

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using these buttons but also you can have analog output and so a big

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advantage of Mister is that you can get really clean digital signal to a Modern

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Display and so you get games rendered at their native resolution but then they're

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upscaled very cleanly or not even you can even send like the native resolution

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through HDMI to a digital connection and then do whatever you want with it

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digital is great for uh signal splitting capture all kinds of stuff but there's a

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lot of cases if you're a retro Enthusiast you want an analog connection

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and that's where this VGA port comes in if you want to connect to a CRT or an

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older display it's a lot easier to have

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that conversion happen inside of the Mr Box and to have a separate box although

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those separate boxes can also be excellent this gives you high quality

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analog video as well as 24-bit audio which is great if you want the absolute

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most out of these retro systems it also includes a cooling fan uh which is nice

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you can passively cool the Mis and I'm guessing as well the Mis pie but you

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need an aluminum case that has the heat sink going all the way down to spread

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that heat uh and even then I'm a big fan of fans and this one's an RGB one it

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looks like that's really nice one of the advantages of the Mr pie and that

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ecosystem is that it's the cheapest of everything available and I know it's

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going to be compatible so you get that piece of mind my Mis doesn't need this

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but this one occupies one of the expansion slots to connect to the io

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board not a huge deal I kind of like the look of that actually it's like a tasty

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ass sandwich next up we have the USB expansion which adds seven USB ports

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with two power ones these are really really nice if you want to keep your Mis

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size down I used to have one that was kind of split into two boxes where my

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USB hub was separate and then it's just more cables going in this is very very

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very clean uh these pins just go into

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this which is really nice oh it looks so

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tasty I just want to take a bite I need to install standoffs as it is right now

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this sandwich Bea toplin also metal touching pins on the backside is usually

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not ideal oh there they are there's my standoffs and my screws let's see what

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else is in this box we got our Wi-Fi dongle which is really nice the Mis can

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actually update over the Internet so you don't have to do an SD card update each

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time you can also set it up as an FTP server to drag games over very easily

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and this will also act as a Bluetooth dongle so that you can connect your Bluetooth controllers although in terms

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of latency wired or a 2.4 GHz dongle

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will probably give you a better result but that's nice flexibility we also have

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our RAM upgrade I have never used a Mis

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without the RAM expansion they are basically essential for PS1

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N64 and Saturn you know all that modern fifth gen stuff that's just going to

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slide on there once I remember what the orientation is fist side faces outward

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that is so helpful take a look at that I

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have heard that there are QC issues with the RAM in the sense that they are

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supposed to go up to 150 MHz and some were having troubles cracking 125 130

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the good news is the response from Taki seems to be absolutely excellent they've

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tried to replicate the issue and the issue seems to be less a RAM specific issue and more of a combo board RAM

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compatibility issue they've been an absolute Champion for making sure people are getting what they pay for even

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though what they paying is just a fraction of what competitors are offering the last two things in our box

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are an acrylic base as well as a this is

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a really nice type c cable dang this does not have all the pins this is going

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to be good for power which is fantastic that's all I need for this the acrylic

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base is nice it allows you to run this mis without any extra add-ons uh I would

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recommend in the long term getting a shell either the acrylic one that they

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sell for $15 uh as part of this kit or

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there's tons of options that exist Mr f is a pretty mature ecosystem at this

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point retro Castle is great I like the Mr add-on stuffs there's also the Mr

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multistem stuff and the nice thing is that the primary product the Mr pie will

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work with all of them and that's what's freaking awesome about this just cutting

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the cost helping the consumer making Mister a much more attractive option for

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so many people man let's get this thing installed and play some games but not

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extra standoffs which is actually a very nice touch I've had the issue before

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where I lose a screw or something and you kind of have things floating a

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little more than you'd like you don't need the acrylic it looks like it has

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its own little feet I don't love having no case but for testing it out and

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taking a look at it it's pretty cool to see all of these different pieces of

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tech just sandwiched together it's pretty nifty one thing I didn't mention

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because I thought the accessory came with this package is this blue USB port

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this is because this isn't actually a USB port in the sense that it carries

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the same data it's actually a snack port snac and this is great for latency free

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conversion of a an old controller to

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something the mister can understand there's adapters that exist that go

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directly from Super Nintendo port to snack or PS1 to snack the turbo pack

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does come with the Super Nintendo to snack adapter as well as a shell that

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would definitely be the pack that I would select for myself but that is sold out and I expect that this is going to

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be sold out for a long time just because of the value proposition but how does it

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play let's find out with the Mr assembled all we had to do was follow

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the guide on GitHub get the software updated games that we've legally backed

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up onto this system and we are away playing one of my all-time favorites

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unlicensed Nintendo game because this is the unboxing of the Mr pie not the pie

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we're not going to go too in depth into the features of the Mr ecosystem which

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is what this is still using that software that open source project but I

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can tell you it's a legless experience

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it's visually Flawless there's tons of options I mean let's look at it a little

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bit so we can change you know our aspect RTI show we can put uh different scaling

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modes depending on the TV I'm on I actually like these uh HQ modes there's

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an hq3 mode you can get uh it's not installed by default that I actually

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quite like on a real CRT it kind of makes it look extra HD for some reason

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but it's a very much a personal preference thing and on the system level

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you can set direct output which means that the games will output at their

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native resolution meaning that you can have upscaling happen 100% outside we've

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done a video on the Retro tank 4K which the is a perfect pairing for you go

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native resolution of your Mis HDMI to your retrotink at Native resolution and

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that does all the work and it gives you the best result overall but that becomes

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a very expensive combo the nice thing is that this is going to be cheaper than

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doing the original Mis and it's going to be cheaper by large amount than the Mars

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fpga project when that comes out there's not much to say the Mis experience is a

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Flawless one it takes a little bit of setup to get going but the Mr Pi Project

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actually simplifies it over figuring it all out yourself all the information is

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in one place compatibility is in issue uh all that is worried about for you and

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so minimizing what I think is you know arguably the weakness of the Mis

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ecosystem makes this an even more compelling product let's play some

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Tetris attack that's going to be good for you know detecting input latency

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although this monitor is a very old crappy LCD monitor and has its own uh

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large amount of input latency put

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in it's so funny there's just like sweet spots of retro things like you don't

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want early LCD you want late CRT and

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that's about it wait this is a Tetris I just love the

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Mis project it makes it so convenient so easy I definitely miss original Hardware

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a little bit I've very recently parted with a lot of my original Hardware but I

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think for a lot of people it's the convenience and the Simplicity of it

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will Trump getting old analog video formats to work with a Modern Display or

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hoarding CRTs and this is really the best way to play retro games the thing I

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haven't really done is play more modern systems uh like this and 64 or the

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Saturn on a mister and so I'm very curious to try that it's been my like

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genesis and Super Nintendo machine for a long time I got to say Game Boy Advance

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games do not scale well on 1080p displays they need to be on Tiny screens

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speaking of that's kind of the next dream product we're waiting for on tacky

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they already have a switch light OLED upgrade kit where you can convert a

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switch light to an OLED screen and it looks a lot better and now they have

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this Mr fpj clone I want them to combine

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and make a handheld Mister to compete with the analog pocket the analog

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pocket's okay but I feel like it's a little underpowered for doing some of

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the more heavy duty fpga stuff and so I

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would really like to see a portable Mis something that was really slick and easy to use uh and I think a lot of people

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would like that too chacky please please

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like the Super Nintendo there's not too much to say about this Game Boy advanced experience it's great it's Flawless

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let's play something a little more challenging we now have N64 working what

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we had to do was configure our update all settings making sure we're getting

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our boot ROMs downloaded you there's screen cap of that right here that's how

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you do that very cool we're playing some N64 baby what I like about it too is

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everything just kind of

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works I'm joking about that but like my controller just works it the rumble was

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compatible like there's a lot of things that used to be a lot of problem solving

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and figuring out and the fact that I was able to just change one setting in a

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menu and then this seems to be a pretty Flawless experience although there is

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definitely the whatever the N64 softening filter is is Hardcore this is

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impressive this works pretty good I have no complaints about this although

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there's all the analog options uh including the new N64 one that was just

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announced the analog 3D where everything just work out of the box there's

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something special with the Mis where you pay once and you get everything up to

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fifth gen and once it's working it's very easy and consistent it definitely

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is a little more tinkery than a lot of other Solutions including an analog

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pocket even jailbreaking that's an easier time than this but the value you

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get with this thing $160 us that's literally less than the

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price of just the de10 Nano and you get the whole solution minus a USB power

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brick uh this is absolutely fantastic then you can buy other cases get

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something more custom and and fun for your setup but this is just an

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absolutely fantastic value a great option that is just a win-win win for

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consumers all across the board I am so excited that uh we got to showcase this

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and if this is something that interests you I highly recommend that you check it

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out I've had a great experience with Mr stuff and if I didn't already have my

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de10 Nano I would be getting one of these These are freaking sweet it's hard

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to find something to complain about it's this but cheaper and uh that's great

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that's just awesome just like you if you like retro short circuits why

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not check out the one where I unbox the analog retro Duo which is the turbo

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Graphics very very cool I ended up getting one and then I sold it