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Intellivision and Mamewah - Nostalgia?
GamingGreg:
You might look at the following (apparently some ex-Mattel programmers bought the rights to Intellivision [years after it died]):
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/download.shtml
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/retrotopia/direct2tv.shtml
There are a few free downloadable intellivision games there with some sort of emulator. Not sure if that could be broken out or not. They also sell CD collections of the games, and there's even one of those controllers you can hook to your TV (similar to others ones out there for Atari and Nameco games).
GamingGreg:
Okay, I'm replying to my own post. (Yes, I must talk to myself a lot) ;)
It appears the ROMs and emulator are bundled into one EXE from that download page, so that won't work.
However they do sell most of the Intellivision games in a bundle (see here). This doesn't include titles made by other companies for the Intellivision console, and it doesn't include titles that are based on movies or other arcade games (due to legal reasons).
Good Luck!
Zapper:
Intellivision Lives is the golden oldie of Intellivision emus :) It's still worth the purchase for the historical stuff though. There was a patch released to use the emu by itself but campatiblity wasn't too good plus it's a bit slow. The new 25-in-1 gamepad is very tempting.
markjen1:
I am now able to run my intellivision games perfectly thanks to arcadecab's advice...works like a charm! :D And yes, I unzipped all my roms.
But, man have I lost my touch in Lock 'n Chase. 20 years ago, I was pretty good at that game. ::) I'll just have to practice some more.
Problem is going to be how to set up a CP to work with all of the button options. Each controller has 12 keypad buttons plus the side buttons and joysticks... ??? It would take at least 32 dedicated buttons for a two player layout just for the two controllers. Plus the layout would demand its own CP. Anybody done one of these?
I am also working on putting together a collection of artwork (screenshots, overlays and boxes) for as many of the games as possible.
I do have the new 25-in-1 gamepad. It is OK at best. I don't see me using it too much. I don't think the the games have the same "feel" as the originals. :( Plus, no Lock 'n Chase.
Zapper:
Ah, I have Nostalgia/MAMEWah running now on a different machine. My old version of Win98 must be the problem. I read a bit about the 25-in-1 gamepad, I guess those games are recreations, it might be worth it to try new versions of Astrosmash and Nightstalker. A few places sell Intellivision controller PC adapters, they're expensive and you would still need a real controller to use with it.