mckafka99

I have a NIB, sealed Ballblazer I would gladly contribute (for the POKEY) to finally get this on cart. This looks and sounds fantastic!

I believe when running ES and launching games you are running as the PI user. If you drop out of ES to the command prompt you will be dropped as the PI user I believe. Changing the ownership and permissions as I described has always resolved those permissions errors I have received in the past when trying to launch other games/emulators. I am also running the latest version of coolcv. I would double check the folders and make sure owner/permission match those of other emulators you are able to launch. Also might have to check the owner/permissions on the coolcv_pi file itself.

Check the permissions/ownership on the various folders related to your coolcv setup. If you go to /opt/retropie/emulators and do a ls -l the list of folders (including coolcv) will be listed with permissions.The coolcv user/group owner needs to be set to root like all the others and the permissions need to be set like the other emulator folders. The same applies to the folder where you put your Colecovision roms. If they are in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Colecovision, goto /home/pi/RetroPie/roms and do the ls -l command to see the owner/permissions on the Colecovision roms folder (or whatever name you gave the folder). The user/group owner should be pi. Permissions should be set like the others as well. To change these I would suggest changing to 'SuperUser first' (sudo su) but be aware that as the su user you can do just about anything to your system so be careful that you dont delete anything you dont intend to. As the SU user, goto each of those directories and check the owner/permissions. To change ownership, you use the 'chown' command. For example to change ownership on a directory called 'test' to a user called 'user', you would run the following two commands: chown user test chown :user test To change the permissions on a directory called 'test' to match most of those you should see for the other folder you can run the following: chmod 775 test Hope this helps.

I've learned that none of those extra linux steps for libSDL2 on my RPi2 with RetroPi 3.1 are required. Last thing to work out is whether or not controller remapping is possible in RetroPie with this. I'd like to use joy3 rather than joy0 or add some mappings to joy0 (joy0 for me is a SuperNintendo looking joypad and joy3 is an A2600 joystick connected via a Stelladaptor). Thanks again for this awesome emulator! One more system I can now take out of the living room (making wife happy) and move to a game room upstairs.

Just wanted to add the .zip and .ZIP can be added to the extension list as those work as well.

I'm interested in a completed version of one of these whenever the are ready (hope they havent all been claimed).

For setup/install in RetroPI, does one just need to copy over the inclued rpi version and then setup the config files apprprotately or do you still have to go through all of the additional Linux Instructions for libSDL2? If so, does that have any effects on the rest of the RetroPi install?

Fauxscot fixed two of my units and I donated a 3rd to him for whatever experiements he saw fit to put it through. It's been a while since he has been around though. The main thread for most things RCA SII (at least recently) is here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/209519-rca-studio-ii-gold-mine-an-interview-with-the-studio-2-production-manager/?fromsearch=1

One more set of slightly better times. 1' 16" 00 1' 28" 40 2' 10" 10 2' 02" 40 1' 24" 20 1' 38" 05

Race 1 - 1' 24" 70 Race 2 - 1' 29" 75 Race 3 - 2' 18" 35 Race 4 - 2' 02" 65 Race 5 - 1' 26" 40 Race 6 - 1' 52" 95

Admittedly not in the best of formats, but check your PMs. War is 01010100 Crazy Climber is 00110100

Would it be possible to have one of the A7800 button fire in the same direction as the joystick is moved while the other button is used for the opposite direction? Perhaps have this option as well as the option to swap which button did which direction?

hmmm.. that's one way to do it it appears. Perhaps a hot air gun would do the trick also if one isn't feeling confident with an Soldering Iron and desoldering wick?

Is removing the POKEY from Ballblazer typically a challenge?

If you have a working system, I highly recommend getting on the list for e5frog's MultiCart - it is awesome to have and may be the only way (unless you are rich) you'd get a chance to play some of the later releases. The inclusion of the PacMan port alone makes it a worthy purchase. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149932-fs-fairchild-system-channel-f-multi-cart-pre-order-now/page-17

I am very interested in one if available.

You can put the hackfile anywhere you would like, you just have to have the correct path listed in the proper emulators.cfg file. As an example, I put my hackfile in /opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin (this is the path to the actual jzintv emulator (at least in the latest RetroPie). If you look in /opt/retropie/configs/intellivision you should see an emulators.cfg file which is what actually launches the emulator. In that file, you need to add the kbdhackfile flag to the command in that file and point it to location of your hackfile. I've attached a photo of what my emulators.cfg file (for the Intellivision) looks like which probably demonstrates better what I have described. One of the things to get used to with the new version of RetroPie is that, the direct launch commands for the individual emulators are no longer in the es_systems.cfg file; the es_systems.cfg file (see 2nd photo) now typically calls /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh for each emulator and it is within that script that individual emulators will be called by looking for emulators.cfg files. I've looked at the runcommand.sh file to try to understand a little bit but promptly realized that it was probably best to stay out of it. I should add that this is how things work on my RPi2 Model B.

@ $22 for a Special Edition, I'm in for one. If the SE isnt available, I'm still in for one of the regular ones.

Awesome, thanks!

Ditto this. I need to renew my AA subscription as well but the invoice link I received no longer works.

Great scores rolling in! I knew it was just matter of time before the 'million' plus scores started showing up. Someday I may get there but I don't think it will be this round.

I'd gladly donate towards a compiled RetroPi version of this emulator!

Pm sent for 5200 trackball

844,826 - I think this is my best since the game launch (starting from level 0); even got to try out the 3rd bonus level style which I may have only seen once or twice before. I dont recall ever making it to rainbow level before though. I couldnt figure out how to kill the spinny heads on this level; hitting them straight in the middle didnt seem to kill them (split occasionally, but never kill) - thus I lost my last 3 lives here.

If there is a Jag Pro Controller in there that you're willing to part with for a reasonable price, I'd love to grab it.