v0.8

MiSTer Main v0.8 – Physical CD Support

Supported Systems

• PlayStation (PSX)
• Mega CD
• TurboGrafx-16 CD / PC Engine CD
• More systems coming soon

TurboGrafx-16 CD / PC Engine CD

• Physical disc support through /dev/sr0
• Supports Mode 1 data tracks and physical CD audio
• Uses raw 2352-byte sector reads
• Uses two 16-sector low-latency read caches
• Synthesizes subcode Q from the physical disc TOC
• Asynchronous read-ahead worker can use both ARM CPU cores
• Requests the maximum supported drive speed

Mega CD

• Full-speed physical disc support through /dev/sr0
• Supports Mode 1 data tracks and physical CD audio
• Uses raw 2352-byte sector reads
• Uses two 16-sector low-latency read caches
• Supports MMC READ CD commands with packets of up to 32 sectors
• Asynchronous read-ahead worker can use both ARM CPU cores
• Requests the maximum supported drive speed

PlayStation

• Gameplay is nearly fluid
• FMV and audio may still stutter
• Still needs a lot of tweaking

Add the following to MiSTer.ini:

[CD-*]
main=MiSTer_Physical-CD