Main_MiSTer VS oxidgb-pico

• ⁠This is a custom built MisterFPGA • ⁠There is a pretty huge and awesome community around MisterFPGA. • ⁠FPGAs allow to “simulate” SoCs • ⁠Talented people create so called cores that can be loaded on the FPGA • ⁠These cores are in essence the consoles, arcade boards whatever • ⁠software emulation will never be as accurate as FPGA gaming • ⁠If you are interested I recommend to buy the Nano-DE10 board at Terasic. Even though it is states “out of stock” they will deliver after 2-3 weeks. Happened now with me and at least 5 other people I know! • ⁠Addons can be bought separately. Just google for it. • ⁠Main source of Information is: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki • ⁠on YouTube you will also find a lot of infos

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PSX_MiSTer Multiple Disc Games, can you read about other cores on here as well https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

Ah, this is perfect! I've wanted a way to set favorites on the MiSTer since there's so many arcade games (a great problem to have). Do you have any tips on setting them up? I found the documentation for it, but its pretty sparse.

What exactly are you aiming to build? DP/HDMI output and Ethernet aren't exactly beginner topics in FPGA (though you may be able to cobble something together using pre-existing components).

The Nexsys Video would give you what you need: https://digilent.com/shop/nexys-video-artix-7-fpga-trainer-b... (though out of stock)

The DE10-Nano gives you both HDMI (though not 2.0) and Ethernet: https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=.... There's some availability, apparently buying direct from Terasic is the best option (though often more expensive as shipping is pricey and you pay import duties). It's also what the MiSTer project uses https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki so is what you need if you want to play with console emulation.

FPGA toolchains are indeed a nightmare but both Xilinx and Intel have freely available versions. They tend to be limited in the devices they support but the free versions of Vivado (Xilinx) and Quartus (Intel) both support the FPGAs in the boards I mentioned above.

At that point you can just purchase a pre-configured MiSTer and you'll have a vastly superior gaming experience.

rp2040-pac is likely the mostly useful in itself as it provides bindings for the Pico's SVD definitions (i.e CPU/peripheral registers), though there are a whole bunch of others that are useful - https://github.com/j-selby/oxidgb-pico/blob/master/Cargo.toml has all the crates I used for reference.

Yeah, havent touched the PIOs just yet unfortunately - do want to dig into them further but Ive not gotten the chance so far. I do have some work in progress DMA code at https://github.com/j-selby/oxidgb-pico/blob/master/src/rp2040/dma.rs, but there appears to be some issues with the svd2rust crate (or the Pi's spec), as some read/write registers for DMA are marked read-only - need to investigate further.

You can find the code for this at https://github.com/j-selby/oxidgb-pico – should be dead simple to build (including on Windows), though let me know if you have any issues!