If I'm not mistaken, the problem with featuring an option to turn clockwise instead of anti-clockwise or vice versa the vertical monitor games is that it'd add another whole frame of latency, but it doesn't sound like something which could not be solved with the time - I'm not sure if the devs are too interested in this matter, though. Or I may be totally wrong at this point.Johnpv wrote:I recently got a MiSTer setup. I was excited by the idea of lag free arcade cores. I have alot of consoles, and some of the Analogue stuff, which I like using OG hardware and games with, so I wasn't looking to replace that. So I haven't really messed with the console side of things outside of some testing. For me I'll be honest I've been disappointed in the MiSTer's ........I call it usability. Some of the things I like about the Analogue stuff is the exact control over the resolution, and that I have the option to adjust the timing of the consoles by a small percentage so that the output refresh matches the HDMI standard. I wish I had some of those options here. Plus I feel I've had a hard time finding a filter that actually just puts a small blur on the horizontal axis, but leaves the vertical untouched. So far all the ones I've tried that claim to do this soften both axis too much for me. Then because my tv and some other HDMI equipment don't like oddball refresh rates (similar reason why I stick with my framemeister instead of getting an OSSC) I have to run the mister with the vsync mode that adds 2 frames of lag. So not lagless any more. My other big issue is how much of a wild west the vertical arcade cores are. Some rotate CW, some rotate CCW, and there is no way to control that. I've got an expensive wall mount for my tv that rotates CCW which was how almost everything that supports tate rotates, so all the ones that go the other way are kind of useless to me.
I understand wanting to be 100% accurate in recreating things, and I understand the 80s were a wild west period with no standards for some of this stuff, but I wish there were usability options. Right now for my experience, and this is mostly in regards to the arcade stuff, I don't really mess with the console cores, its been kind of meh. Between the 2 frames of lag, and the wild west of vertical games, I don't really know if I gain anything over my PI4 setup for arcade games. It is exciting stuff, and I see so much potential there, I just wish there was some one who could convince people to add in some usability improvements.
As for the rest, well, you're comparing the Mister with "clone" solutions designed for the HD era, not with the original systems. I'm not saying that the Mister is not one of those, but if you're after accuracy and a lag-free solution, I believe you should contemplate the usage of a CRT.