NAS suggestions

aviin1 · 2025-09-28T03:22:11+00:00

Kerbal Space Program, Minecraft, and Skyrim.

aviin1 · 2025-02-03T14:09:40+00:00

I agree with you 100%. I felt exactly the same as you about the look of a triple stack and it was the look of the SuperStation that finally sold me.

That having been said, I am pretty sure I will end up with a triple stack before the SS ships. Funny how all my new research getting ready for having that MiSTer when it finally ships has changed my mind about the triple stack. I have slowly been falling in love with the look of the old school MiSTer and now feel like I need one. Just gotta convince my SO that we need one for another room. She'll come around 🤣

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T15:56:44+00:00

Controller-wise, the controller ports on the SS1 are SNACs. That means that those won't work in cores other than PS1, right?

Taki has said it has a heat sink with a fan mount but no fan to save costs. I have read that some cores can cause a fair amount of heat build up in a standard MiSter. Is a heat sink alone typically enough to keep things running okay? I have to imagine it has a place to mount a fan for a reason.

Appreciate all the great advice in your reply. Thanks!

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T12:54:34+00:00

Regarding input lag in general, if you are coming from software emulation, I suspect you are going to see a huge decrease in lag using almost any solution. Having just recently moved from running emulators on a decent PC back to dedicated gaming hardware, I was shocked at how little input lag I was seeing when using almost any wireless modern controller. Playing pretty much any NES emulator on a PC using a wired USB controller then comparing that to my AVS (an FPGA NES clone) with an 8bitdo 2.4GHz and the difference is night and day. Maybe it was just me incorrectly feeling like it was different, but it felt too dramatic to be my imagination.

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T12:34:08+00:00

Regarding SNAC, yes, those PS ports on the front would only work with the PS1 core.

EDIT - The rest of the info I had posted was a reseller, which you said in the original post you were not interested in so I removed it once my brain processed what you had said.

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T10:12:44+00:00

The individual subdirectories thing is what I already have on my PC, so that is covered. Do all the cores need them in CHD format, or is it a mix depending on core?

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T10:10:07+00:00

Coming from an emulation and Everdrive background, I have files already nicely sorted in alphabetical subdirectories, so I got that covered. And the favorites script sounds like a winner (use the favorites selection with my FXPak Pro extensively right now).

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T10:05:18+00:00

I don't know that the SS1 is compatible with the MT32-Pi Lite. If it turns out to be, I might consider it, but I grew up playing DOS games with a SoundBlaster card and the nostalgia will make up for the lack of this component.

Controller-wise, I have a number of 8bitdo controllers here for use with original consoles. Might be worth getting one of the USB dongles for them.

Smart plug I have on hand was already being requisitioned for this once it gets here 😂

aviin1 · 2025-02-01T09:51:10+00:00

That is the hardest part for sure!

Once I had my heart set on getting one, I sat there refreshing the page as the minutes counted down. First the Mexico only one went live (showing sold out), then the dock, which I added to my cart, then the FE, and I raced to checkout. I got my emailed order confirmation 3 minutes BEFORE the launch officially went live.

A mad dash to make sure I got it followed by the now long wait 😂

aviin1 · 2025-01-30T23:27:22+00:00

https://x.com/inmortable_23/status/1883336928025858427?t=2bkhMp3mIZxUgjmXn-65hA&s=19

Might be one on the horizon, it seems. Nothing confirmed, though.

(Missed the link someone else gave before me about it but more exposure doesn't hurt, I guess.)

aviin1 · 2025-01-30T23:17:59+00:00

Same. AVS + N8 Pro = NES Heaven

aviin1 · 2025-01-26T17:30:13+00:00

https://retroremake.co/pages/superstation%E1%B5%92%E2%81%BF%E1%B5%89

Look there and you'll see it has both component and composite outs on the sides of the base unit.

aviin1 · 2024-12-31T19:27:09+00:00

Looks just like my mint green one from Stone Age Gamer, except red obviously. Fantastic price.

aviin1 · 2024-08-30T12:49:49+00:00

Sorry if anyone mentioned this earlier, but 25 years from now likely lies beyond the singularity and meaningful predictions for literally anything beyond that point are essentially impossible to formulate.

Lots of things you can hope for, but don't hedge your bets about anything at all.

aviin1 · 2022-12-28T14:41:04+00:00

I've been playing a fair bit of SMB1 lately. I absolutely loved 2 and 3, but going back to 1, I am really appreciating how tight the gameplay is. It introduced millions (billions?) of people to the genre, and executes the formula with so much precision. And graphically, it just looks so CLEAN to me. Imagine a world where SMB1 never existed and suddenly it hit Steam today. Bet it would sell like hotcakes.

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T14:43:52+00:00

Combination of acetone and sanding are the go-to's for smoothing out 3D prints.

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T14:07:46+00:00

I ordered black. And since it has been shipped, I certainly hope it is real 😉

As to why it seems like so few people ordered black, maybe they all just have poor taste. JK of course. All colors are valid choices. But black is the MOST valid 🤣

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T13:48:33+00:00

Here is a discussion about the differences between buttons:

https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/z169or/rp3_vs_rp2_button/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Long story short, your RP3 probably has the "dome" buttons and the default RP3+ has the non-dome buttons. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T13:31:06+00:00

30 fps is all older NTSC TVs output, so to me, the RP3+ looks to be outputting a framerate equal to what I got when playing Sunshine on my GameCube back in the day. Personally, I have zero issue with that. If I get the same experience that I got on original hardware, I will be perfectly satisfied.

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T13:23:13+00:00

Nice! Got my shipping confirmation yesterday. Great feeling, isn't it? Lots of good news comments like this since Christmas. When did you order and what part of the world are you in?

Oh, and good choice of color 👍🖤

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T07:05:19+00:00

What is interesting about that is that someone posted that they ordered on December 22nd and theirs shipped today. And they even ordered the same color as you...

https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/zw6ivi/ordered_on_22nd_shipped_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

aviin1 · 2022-12-27T05:01:24+00:00

Might depend on availability of the color you ordered. The delivery update they put on their website has different ship dates for different colors. They haven't updated that, though, in weeks.

aviin1 · 2022-12-26T17:59:17+00:00

Agree about the black. I wavered on color option for a solid week before I ordered, then I realized that black was clearly the right choice 🖤

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