cimerians Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Just found Stella for the Wii. Anyone try this yet? It seems its a bit slow. It could be the games themselves though as Adventure runs at perfect speed while my Space Invaders runs slow (almost "PAL like") Anyone play around with the Wii version yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I'm assuming this is on the Homebrew channel? Or has someone (finally) made a version that works through the Wii's web browser? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian63 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Just found Stella for the Wii. Anyone try this yet? It seems its a bit slow. It could be the games themselves though as Adventure runs at perfect speed while my Space Invaders runs slow (almost "PAL like") Anyone play around with the Wii version yet? I'll be hunting for it tonight! Thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldric Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 http://wiibrew.org/wiki/StellaWii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 http://wiibrew.org/wiki/StellaWii Yup thats it. Its a little annoying at start up since you have to wait a bit and hit 1+2 etc. I'm sure it will get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 It's just a linux version ported with a linux wrapper.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stephena Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 It's just a linux version ported with a linux wrapper.. And, is this a bad thing ... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 It's just a linux version ported with a linux wrapper.. And, is this a bad thing ... ? I'm not sure. I know that the Mame that was released for the Wii ran in a similar way and hearing about issues concerning load speed, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 It's just a linux version ported with a linux wrapper.. And, is this a bad thing ... ? I'm not sure. I know that the Mame that was released for the Wii ran in a similar way and hearing about issues concerning load speed, etc. Yes I tried Mame and highly recommend leaving that one alone for the moment. Very slow to boot up (minutes actually) and the games dont run much better if at all. Unless its been improved of late I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldric Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Stella Wii is sooooooooooo slow....; Graphics are ok but the speed is very slow. I tried Ms PacMan, Missile Commande and Pitfall II and they are all unplayable ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 Stella Wii is sooooooooooo slow....; Graphics are ok but the speed is very slow. I tried Ms PacMan, Missile Commande and Pitfall II and they are all unplayable ! Damn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticwaterfall Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 If you manually change the "stellarc" file from 640x480 to 320x240 in both places and change the zoom lines to 1, it will work at full speed but sadly not full screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz0red Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I have a libogc-based Stella in development for the Wii. It is currently fully playable and you can play at 2x w/ 100% speed. A pre-release binary is available for download at the following location. http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Raz0red/Wii2600 --Raz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchcock4 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Unplayable?? I suppose it depends on the game. I got the ROMs for Adventure and Centipede. Must have played Adventure for 20-30 minutes or more. Worked great. Centipede for at least 10 minutes and I didn't notice a problem. -Hitchcock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticwaterfall Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Great news razored, I'll definitely give it a try at home this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well it seems there were emulators released for several Atari systems including the Lynx, Atari 5200/800, and Atari ST (Hatari). Have not had a chance to check out any of these yet, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Thanks RazOred I havent checked any other Atari emulators either. I might try playing with the settings that mysticwaterfall mentioned..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 The Atari 800XL Emulator is really good, and very easy to set up. I has worked with everything that I have thrown at it so far I have not tried it in 5200 mode yet though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 The Atari 800XL Emulator is really good, and very easy to set up. I has worked with everything that I have thrown at it so far I have not tried it in 5200 mode yet though I was tempted to download that one as well.....I probably will and try the 5200 mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 I have a libogc-based Stella in development for the Wii. It is currently fully playable and you can play at 2x w/ 100% speed. A pre-release binary is available for download at the following location. http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Raz0red/Wii2600 --Raz. To anyone out there....download this. Its great!! Thanks again RAZ!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz0red Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 To anyone out there....download this. Its great!! Thanks again RAZ!!!!!!! Thanks for the kind words. Also, just a heads up to let you guys know that I am hosting preview builds via the following thread on my forum: http://www.twitchasylum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2322 I am currently working toward v0.2 which currently has some audio improvements, the ability to swap between color/bw via all supported controllers for games like Starmaster, etc. The next thing I am going to work on is improved/expanded controller support (paddles, driving, trackball, etc.). Thanks. --Raz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Well I've had a chance to play with the recent "Raz0red" Atari conversions (thank you Raz0red). As well as the recently released colecovision and Odyssey 2 emulators. I have to say thumbs up on the Raz0red emulators. Atari800 - About as nice as too be expected. Sound is good. Mimo I suggest setting the vertical sync (or whatever it is) to double buffer to get decent scrolling in River raid. Lynx - Nice as well. 2600 - Really nice. In fact at first I thought something was up with the sound and then after a little research I realized that the sound in Z26 for the xbox is actually off. After looking at the source and adjusting a sound parameter that was off it got better. But the lower sounds are definitely better in Stella than Z26. Is there a particular reason for this stephana? I'm just wondering if there is something I can tweak in Z26 to get that lower end sounding more muscular. Hatari - Not much luck with this one. Couldn't get the three disks that I tried on it too work. Two wouldn't autoboot and the third was complaining about the ST being in monochrome mode... Colecovision - pretty nice (not as nice as the Raz0red) but the sound is too high pitched. Odyssey2 - Not bad, no voice but it does the job. I also tried 5200 mode in the WiiAtari and it worked just fine. Hey raz0red if you need some helps/hints on mapping the analog stick to the 5200 just say the word and I can tell you what you need to do. It's actually pretty easy. Doing so will also fix a handful of games that don't work in 5200 mode. Also there are some lines in the pokeysnd.c that if uncommented improve the sound for the older sound engine (which is useful for games with digital sound like berzerk). Although from what I understand it doesn't run the fastest on RISC based machines so it may do any good to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz0red Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hey raz0red if you need some helps/hints on mapping the analog stick to the 5200 just say the word and I can tell you what you need to do. It's actually pretty easy. Doing so will also fix a handful of games that don't work in 5200 mode. Also there are some lines in the pokeysnd.c that if uncommented improve the sound for the older sound engine (which is useful for games with digital sound like berzerk). Although from what I understand it doesn't run the fastest on RISC based machines so it may do any good to use it. Great, thanks for the help, I sent you a PM. I am currently making a pass on the emus to provide additional controls support (including analog) some minor tweaks, etc. so the timing is perfect. Thanks again. --Raz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 do you have any plans to tackle a 7800 emulator (please ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Do you need mod chips for this or does it just work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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