MiSTer_SAM VS mister-boot-roms

It plays random games from your library while your Mister is idle. Here is more info on the project: https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM

Been discovering cool things the community has come up with like the S-video cores (https://github.com/MikeS11/MiSTerFPGA_YC_Encoder), custom boot screens for some cores (https://github.com/uberyoji/mister-boot-roms), or the SAM script (https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM). Was wondering if anyone wanted to shout out any other cool downloadables or side projects that aren't available through the main Update or Update All scripts.

The MiSTer may be better gameplay wise because of the input latency the interface is far more simpler and barebones but works. You can boot straight to a core but it may show a loading screen for a second or two you can power down and shutdown power without any problems. MiSTer is more like an appliance, the Pi is a mini computer and far more prone to corruption on power shutoff. That being said MiSTer does have the SAM attract mode script and MiSTer can be controlled by your smartphones.. I would say with the NeoGeo support, CPS 1-2 and CAVE not to mention PS1 MiSTer is already awesome. TMNT and Mortal Kombat are both being worked on not to mention Saturn support as well. To my knowledge no one has ever regretted getting a MiSTer. All it has done has become more useful and more valuable. I made a daemonbite arcade stick with a real coin mech and it is awesome and practically lagless on the MiSTer. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

I think it's possible for someone to write a 3rd-party frontend, but the mainline MiSTer devs don't seem interested in it themselves. There's a 3rd-party attract mode implementation, but I don't know of one for core/ROM selection yet: https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM

Please report any issues via GitHub here: https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM

Issues · mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM (github.com)

For the NES core you can set a ROM to autoboot (also in that video, but I know of it from the MiSTer Boot ROMs project) - if you copy NES Tetris to boot1.rom and place that in the games/NES folder it will autoboot that ROM when the core loads. (boot2.rom for FDS games.)

Been discovering cool things the community has come up with like the S-video cores (https://github.com/MikeS11/MiSTerFPGA_YC_Encoder), custom boot screens for some cores (https://github.com/uberyoji/mister-boot-roms), or the SAM script (https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM). Was wondering if anyone wanted to shout out any other cool downloadables or side projects that aren't available through the main Update or Update All scripts.