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  1. I would love to know as well. I have a set of best electronics paddles, and would love to compare vs these sets for Stella windows or Mac use. (Best electronics will only sell someone one set of paddles as far as I know, the only other option for paddles is used on ebay.)
  2. I am a bit confused. After I install BATOCERA, I then install mint Linux, but it only lets me split the drive between the two os, correct? Then how do I make a third partition for windows? Can I skip Linux and just use windows itself to make the windows partition (resizing Batocera in the process) and to install rEFInd, or does rEFInd only install via Linux? I will probably just have to play around with this stuff a bit, but it looks complicated for sure. EDIT: I just watched a video that showed the install can go to a partition manager, hopefully I can make multiple partitions from there. Thanks for the help, I am still a couple weeks away from having all the parts I need to attempt this, but this info should be very useful.
  3. This is a bit of a late reply. But how would these instructions be altered to put windows 10/11 and Batocera onto the ssd m.2 drive?
  4. Thank you so much for updating the R77 version before the hiatus. Thank you again for all your (and everyone else’s) great work on this project.
  5. If you don't mind wired, you can use a wingman xb to convert an xbox one/series controller to work with the 360. Wireless will work with only the xbox one controller with bluetooth (no share button) with downgraded firmware.
  6. I tried and couldn't find the files. Maybe they are hidden on MacOS? Anyway, I tried a new card, and everything worked including the USB keyboard. I then reformatted the SD card, and tried again, still didn't work. This time I has some weird extra directory in the file system. The best I could tell, maybe the SD card was going bad and that caused the issue? Very weird, but everything is working for me now. (Except I dropped my fairly new $40 Best electronics paddles and broke the plastic case...) Thanks again for fixing the deadzone/keyboard controller issues I had with the previous version.
  7. I downloaded a fresh copy of the new Retron 77 firmware. I was able to verify both the deadzone bug and keyboard controller issues were fixed. I think I have come across another bug however. It appears that USB keyboard support isn't working anymore on the retron 77. I attempted to set up a USB keypad (as a remote control), as I typically use that to select/reset/difficulty etc. rather than the controls on the retron itself. I discovered I couldn't map any of the controls, it was like the usb keypad was broken. I then switched to another full keyboard (wireless with usb dongle) and tried using the Function keys (which are predefined) to select/reset, but still no response at all. To troubleshoot, I still had the previous stella 6.5.2 on the other SD card, so I used the previous version to test the keyboard/OTG hardware, and no problems at all using that version. Could someone hook up a USB keyboard, and attempt to both: 1. Use the keyboard keys with the emulator (F1 to select, F4 to toggle color/b&w, keypad to navigate in Stella menus.) 2. Attempt to map other items to a keyboard key, for example map the fry key to /. As far as I can tell, the buttons on USB devices that are NOT keyboards appear to work normally, it is just keyboards that are effected for some reason.
  8. When I notice a bug, I notice a good one…. Thanks for all the effort so far.
  9. I like the retron 77 for what it is. Flash a micro sd card, load a few rooms, and go play with the latest Stella image, all in one box. If you want joystick only games, you can just use the included console joystick ports. For paddle/keyboard controllers, get a 2600-adapter and otg cables/hub. I believe they modified some control settings on the retron 77 software to allow access with just the buttons on the console and joystick controllers, so there is no need for any keyboard and mouse to control the Stella menus. The big downside is sourcing the otg cable/hub (if desired), and the slowdown in the modern home brew that use some kind of arm chip (if using the 2600-adapter), I don’t remember all the specifics as to what circumstances cause the slowdown. I haven’t really run across that, but it is a sign that the emulator is being held back a bit by the retron hardware. I do think my ideal setup would be some kind of self-booting Stella image on a raspberry pi, paired with some usb to Atari 2600 controller adapters, and a usb wireless numberpad / button box to act as the console select/reset/difficulty switches. There is currently a Raspberry pi version of Stella, but you have to load the os, have a mouse and keyboard hooked up, then click to run the app like on a pc. You also need a keyboard to change the console switches and navigate inside the options for Stella. The current raspberry pi version is like running Stella from a computer, not couch friendly. The retron is much easier to use as a “console”.
  10. Darn. I was really hoping this was an easy fix. Hopefully someone can figure out what is going on with the “sticky” paddle/deadzone issue. If/when the new version is released, I will try it for myself anyway.
  11. Discussion is from my post down. Basically, it’s a Linux os problem (rather than Mac or pc) which makes an axis (such as the paddles use) have an area where you turn them but nothing happens. I guess the community firmware also has (or hopefully soon had but now fixed) same problem. I only got it to occur on some games, and not on Mac Stella with the same hardware, which made it a bit hard to figure out. (Breakout had the issue, but not super breakout for example). I believe Stella’s web page has a script for any Linux users to stop the issue, but there was no way to user install it on the retron.
  12. From my May post, I believe it was fixed in the prerelease version, I never figured out how to get the unreleased builds onto a card to test for sure.
  13. Thanks for the update. I am really looking forward to the paddle deadzone and keyboard controller issues being fixed for the retron I encountered. Hopefully this will be out soon.
  14. Hopefully Best Buy or GameStop will reduce prices as well, as Microcenter isn't in my area of the country. Good for those who were waiting for a good price drop for the console.
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