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  1. Mission accomplished: I did a dry fit, and I can see light at the end of the tunnel: Nope - that's just the working power LED. So while there may be a light being seen, there is no brain, yet. I still need to do #5 on my list and program the ATmega chip. With the dry fit of the board into the case, I did discover that this board design will need a few things moved around, so these few boards will be treated as "for prototype use only" I should be able to do all the needed functional testing with this board design. Next stop: programming ATmega328 chips
  2. Now you have a goal to complete the collection! Let the hunting begin
  3. Their mod will not orphan anything. It is an add-on and the original controllers remain connected and usable at the same time as adding a db9 port for using their controller. iirc, they've not released it, yet, but I've not checked recently.
  4. Nice work, but I was confused for a bit. The thread here says to use your original controllers on to the Flashback, but my original controllers are inline (from the original 2609 console), so they won't work on these adapters.
  5. Great update! Love the new little baby dino stuff! thanks! I'll play some more, but I don't recall getting any extra lives.
  6. if a game was made for ROM release only with a custom palette provided with it, I'd be OK with that. It won't be so easy to configure it for RetroPie, but it is doable. Each game will need its own runline command defined for it, but doable. For jzintv PC usage it is easier to use a custom palette.
  7. Around these parts, if a game is released as a BIN, then odds are that the CFG will be with it; as the programmer and/or publisher are well aware of the fact that it is needed. If you find a game out in the backwoods of the internet, then the CFG may be missing. And no need to promote those sites.
  8. If the pin out for the 9-pin is correct, then the adapter will not know if the controller was originally hardwired or not. I did this for my Channel F controllers
  9. Thanks. I am not at all familiar with the Game and Watch series. There's quite a few games in that series. BITD these never tickled my fancy, so I never played any.
  10. Notes have been found. If you attempt this and it does not work, then I take no responsibility for your SD card or RetroPie build. You can make an image of your card, or don't attempt it if you are not comfortable doing this. You can also go to the RetroPie Forums for direct support. I am using WinSCP (but you can do this directly from the terminal - if you are familiar with it). this is what I did: browse to /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/ Double-click on the stella.sh so it opens in the Editor, and change the version from 6.7 to 6.7.1 Close and save the updated file. Now go into the Retropie Setup and select Manage Packages Select Manage Optional Packages Go down to the Stella and select that. Now in the Stella screen, select "Install from Source" This process will take a while to complete. When completed, back out of the menus, and then reboot. Now I have Stella v6.7.1 installed in RetroPie PS: I learned this method from the RetroPie Forums directly, and I did it once a long time ago, so it is not a process I made up.
  11. Thanks. I am not sure what effort it takes to get the RetroPie team to update their builds to use 6.7.1 directly. I will need to find my old notes on how to manually edit the scripts in Retropie, and then it will download and build Stella 6.7.1
  12. oh, i just reread the main Stella 6.7 thread, and 6.7.1 is important if you are using DC with the 2600-dapter So if one was using the 2600-dapter with DC on RetroPie with Stella 6.7 then there may be trouble. I did previously do this upgrade, so I have v6.7 on my Pi, but I don't think I've used the driving controller since that time. but I am using the UFBI adapter (Ultimate Flashback Interface) that @dualcam has made for @Byte Knight for his "ultimate" rebuilds of the Flashback units. So this adapter is very similar to the 2600-dapter, but not exactly (different firmware), so this bug may not present itself with the UFBI adapter.
  13. that is correct but for RetroPie, the current (most recent) version is 6.7 available to it. So it depends on the usage of the word "latest" or "current" in the context of RetroPie, and what's available in the real world. Retropie is notorious for being years behind the normally available releases of Stella, so I am happy that someone took the time to get 6.7 added to Retrpie. If you install RetroPie 4.8 (the current public version available), then it comes with Stella v6.0.1 if you have used the public v4.8 released RetroPie, and then do the RetroPie updates, then Stella 6.7 will be available to you to install. if you use one of the "weekly builds" versions of RetroPie, such as v4.8.4 or v4.8.5, then it comes with Stella v6.7 within that build, so no need to do the "retropie upgrade" You can do some manual manipulation of the RetroPie scripts and it'll download and build 6.7.1, but that's a fair bit of work to do. So if you have retropie v4.8 and stella v6.7, then you are "current" for what's available to that system, but it isn't the latest available. How's that word salad? For 6.7.1, is there is a big change, big fix, something that really should be used on Retropie compared to v6.7?
  14. Well don't quote me on this, but I think that's all dependent on your version of Retropie that you have now, and what version of Stella it has. If the Retropie is old enough, then you have a v5 Stella that uses an older setting structure. So if you update then the settings will revert to the default. If you have somewhat of a current version of Retropie, then you have Stella v6.0.1 (or something like that). And that uses a different database structure for the settings. If you have updated your Retropie version very recently, then you can update to the latest version of Stella v6.7 I believe that so long as you have a v6 of Stella, then the settings will stick during an update, but don't quote me on that as I am not sure if that is true for the Stella update process within Retropie. I believe if you go back into the Stella menu, I think there is a way to see the version of Stella.
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