Main_MiSTer VS de10-nano

And for a fancier alternative, consider miSTer.

You need to update your mister ini. The ypbpr=1 setting is no longer supported and you need to use vga=ypbpr instead. This was changed when s video got added. You can get the latest ini here https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/blob/master/MiSTer.ini

I went ahead and read the thread on it and... yeah, Sorg is firm. He cites a couple reasons which I understand though fundamentally disagree with. Oh well.

Consider getting an actual A500 or a miSTer at that point.

MisterFPGA project on GitHub

Just get a pc and get a new microsd card and follow this https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/Setup-Guide and see if it works.

Hello all, I recently started Youtube channel, I want to focus on gaming & especially retro games/systems. Each week I plan to upload video of this type, I have interest in both hardware emulation eg Mister fpga & software emulation such as; OpenEmu etc. For example FPGA emulation acts the same as original hardware so it is higher quality & software emulation relies solely on mimicking original hardware. Which do you prefer/why? https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/Arcade-Cores-List The link above; will be were I go through each core & decide which to make Youtube content of.

All signals are by default internal in qsys if you don't explicitly export them. So, if you want something out of the FPGA e.g. GPIO/LED you must export them. The column named export in qsys makes the signals appear in input/output ports of the module instance so that you can put them in top module i/o and assign pin locations using assignment editor. Partially explained here: https://github.com/zangman/de10-nano/blob/eef52965cba1386c441b738010e149589b8a0ed5/docs/Simple-Hardware-Adder_-Wiring-the-components.md

The Absolute Beginner's guide to DE10NANO (https://github.com/zangman/de10-nano/wiki for those who don't know) does have all the information you need for the fpga side.

what kind of help do you need? Given the wording, I guess you are talking about intel FPGAs. In that case, this is a nice guide even if you don't have that specific board: https://github.com/zangman/de10-nano/wiki

Anyways, feel free to just download and use the debian and archlinux images, perhaps you may still find them useful :).

Btw - just noticed you're using the de10-nano. In case you want to learn more about the SoC side of things, I have an absolute beginner's guide here - https://github.com/zangman/de10-nano/wiki. It walks you through the steps to building your own linux OS and writing your first HPS to FPGA project.

About a year ago, I published my wiki on the "Absolute beginner's guide to DE10-Nano". Here is the reddit post I made back then detailing all the topics covered (Build your own Debian OS, setting up dev environment etc).