Danno

I have two questions: 1. - Will the Stelladaptor support the second fire button of Atari 7800 Pro Line Controllers? If not, could this be implemented later, possibly by myself? 2. - I think this was asked before and wasn't answered - Will the Stelladaptor be available for a while, or do I need to order one now as they will be in limited supply? Thanks, and yes this is a GREAT idea. Even playing my old 2600 games witha PSX controller using a USB adaptor just doesn't have the "feel" of the old games. I need that big clunky Joystick to make it complete.

A couple more notes to add - SDL doesn't work on my PIII with a Voodoo 3000 PCI card in my "slow" box. I get scrambles and loud groaning noises. GDI works but with pops and burps and farts and flickers and slowdowns. the AMD Athlon 2400+ with a Gig of ram and a GeForce 2 32mb card runs great. The only PAL game that works is Impossible Mission, which isn't a bad thing. But it's considerably slower than the NTSC version. Should I bump it up 10 hz to match the NTSC rate perhaps? Definite popping noises are present when booting roms. Also whenever a slowdown occurs. Game controllers do work, but 2 button support in 7800 games does not work. Overall 2600 sound is just a bit off. Pitfall II sound is deafeningly atrocious.

Mitch, the 5200 bug in MESS has been posted on the MESS site, numerous times. The Thing is NONE of the 5200 emu's out there do it right. Some get it to work using a key on the keyboard, but not directly to a joystick. Anywho, I was just comparing Pole Position 2 on EMU7800 to MESS .78, and to me it seems that the video runs smoother on EMU7800. But the sound is definitely buggy on all games. lots of pops and cracks, even on my beefy machine. So who does 2600 and 5200 implemntation in MESS?

This one's pretty unigue in that it can use BOTH the 2600 and 7800 games. So far - As near as I can tell, 7800 NTSC Compatibility is 100% the same as Mess .78, with regaurds to playability. The only 7800 PAL game that seems to load is Impossible Mission - Nice. Sound is a bit different and it requires a pretty fast PC to run full bore. It's seamless on my AMD Athlon XP 2400+ but my P3 866 gets some latency issues. 2600 Compatibility seems pretty high too, at least with most of the common/uncommon stuff. A few of the rare roms don't even register though. It must have a .NET database of known games that it validtes from. I haven't looked at the source yet. Here's an idea. Add the 5200 to it as well. Or at least Mitch if you could solve the 5200 "second fire button" issue on the 5200 (H.E.R.O. and Moon Patrol are impossible) for the next MESS release, then I'd be happy.