Unbelievable...

[Chris]

I've had my cabinet now for several months, using a keyboard hack for the interface... and I am just now finding a blocked key that I missed!

My 8-year old daughter would complain that she sometimes had trouble moving when she played King of Fighters or Sailor Moon with a friend, but I thought she was just losing and complaining about it...

Recently, however, I re-discovered Robotron, and that brought out the problem in a hurry... down'left or down-right on Player 2's joystick blocked down on Player 1's joystick!  A quick trip to GHOSTKEY and a little probing, and I found a different key to swap in... had to re-compile Stella to account for the change, too....

I'm just amazed I could have a control fault for so long without noticing it!

--Chris

[Jakobud]

Hmmm...you recompiled Stella to make it work with your CP setup?  I never really thought of that.  I was always bummed out because there aren't any good 2600 emu's with reconfigurable keys.  So is hacking at the source code difficult to figure out where to redefine what key does what?

Also Stella is DOS or *nix only right?  So what OS are you running?  Could I run a windows frontend for the DOS version?

jakobud

[Chris]

I'm running DOS, but there is a Windows port of Stella...

Changing the keys is simple... I should probably hack it to use an INI file.  That would be easier for the Windows version...

I can tell you exactly where the changes are when I get home...

Note: Stella will NOT compile with GCC 3.0 or higher!  You must be using 2.9.x....

--Chris

[Chris]

The Windows version of Stella is StellaX, available at http://www.emuunlim.com/stellax/ .  There doesn't seem to be any source code available there, though...

Oh, the other change I made to Stella was to reverse the paddle direction, so it works with my spinner mouse hack... I can play Kaboom and Warlords again!

--Chris