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The Mister Multisystem appears to be a great improvement over the de10-nano. LGR did a video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx45r-BRHxY

https://rmcretro.store/multisystem-board-only/

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The mister multisystem is not an improvement over the de10-nano. It's just an alternative in a different form factor to the open sdram module and the analog io board. You still need a de10-nano to plug into it.

It's not the first time I see this confusion but I'm a bit surprised by it because they also make it very clear that "A DE10-Nano is required to operate"

Oh my, you are correct. Looking at the board and nomenclature, "multisystem", this should have been obvious to me. Thank you for the clarification.

Thanks for the reminder. This is very high on my want-list. Do you know what the "deluxe edition" mentioned at the store page is?

The Deluxe includes the DE-10-Nano FPGA board. The other editions require you to buy the DE-10-Nano board yourself.

This plugs into the FPGA dev board, doesn't it?

Yes. It still requires the nano.

The Mister ecosystem is based on open hardware / software, besides the FPGA which is a necessary evil (and can be replaced in the future).

The "mister multisystem" (which is a proprietary design) comes across like a slap in the face. Don't support blatant opportunistic profiteering.

No one is taking the ecosystem from you. This board is just one expansion option.

There's a fair few commercial sellers for MiSTer related stuff. Yes some just build existing open hardware designs, but not everything is open hardware.

E.g. the MiSTercade https://misteraddons.com/products/mistercade or the MiSTer mini ITX Ironclad Plus https://www.d3fmod.com/mini-itx-ironclad-plus/

None of these are trying to lock people into their solutions, they're just providing other options.

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