Colecovision Emulator

[davidsz]

I am looking to add Colecovision to my growing list of emulators I am loading up into my Mame cab.  I am looking for recomendations from anyone who is using one.

The two  I have seen available and thier issues:

1) Virtual Colecovision for Windows 2.11a - This works really good has great sound but I cannot remap any keys to match my Mame cab.  Also has an issue since I need a combinations of chars to max the screen size.  

2) Colem - I simply cannot get this one to run, it crashes and burns everytime I try it.

Any help is appreciated.

I am using Mamewah as a frontend.


Thanks,

David

[RacerX]

I am looking to add Colecovision to my growing list of emulators I am loading up into my Mame cab.  I am looking for recomendations from anyone who is using one.

The two  I have seen available and thier issues:

1) Virtual Colecovision for Windows 2.11a - This works really good has great sound but I cannot remap any keys to match my Mame cab.  Also has an issue since I need a combinations of chars to max the screen size.  

2) Colem - I simply cannot get this one to run, it crashes and burns everytime I try it.

Any help is appreciated.

I am using Mamewah as a frontend.


Thanks,

David

I use MESS (Multi-Emulator Super System).  It works great, and it emulates many different systems.  I'm currently using version 0.37 BETA 12 (Mar  3 2001).  Hmmm... It's time to download a newer version...

[arcadecab]

I just tried MekaW for colecovision and it seems to work fine.  It has the option--as listed on Stuzza's website, in the .ini file to bypass the gui and load to full screen.  I also use it for SMS and Gamegear.  The only downfall is that it doesn't exit using escape--it goes back to the gui.  But perhaps Stuzza will fine a way around that at somepoint and then MekaW would work well with Colecovision with those options mentioned.

[Zapper]

The best Colecovision emu I've found for a cabinet is MESS 0.61.1, any newer version uses a new navigational gui which is cabinet unfriendly. MEKAW is not bad, if you download a program called MEKA Configurator you can set the emu to cabinet mode and it exits with escape.

[)p(]

The best Colecovision emu I've found for a cabinet is MESS 0.61.1, any newer version uses a new navigational gui which is cabinet unfriendly. MEKAW is not bad, if you download a program called MEKA Configurator you can set the emu to cabinet mode and it exits with escape.

you can diavble that gui in mess in mess.ini
### MESS specific options ###
newui                   0

As for the most accurate and with support for the driving wheel etc. is I think still adamem.

peter

[davidsz]

I tried Mess .77b and it seems to work pretty good so far.  I am using the DOS command line version.

My only issue is I cannot figure out how to remap the keyboard to be MAME keys?

Anyone know?

Thanks,

David

[Zapper]

you can diavble that gui in mess in mess.ini
### MESS specific options ###
newui                   0

As for the most accurate and with support for the driving wheel etc. is I think still adamem.

peter

Thanks for the tip )p(, now I'm up todate with MESS.

[davidsz]

I figured out how to configure the keyboard - hit TAB for the menu.

I did run into a new problem with my front end - MameWah.

Mess is expecting the following:

Mess.exe coleco -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -cart c:\colecovsion\rom\donkeyk.rom

So in Mamewah I set it up as follows

Execueable: Mess.exe
Options: -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -cart
Rom dir: c:\colecovsion\rom

I get:

MESS.EXE c:\colecovsion\rom\donkeyk.rom coleco -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -cart

How can I make the options come before the rom path?

Also how can I stop it from using all caps?

Thanks,

David

[SuperRabbit0]

I figured out how to configure the keyboard - hit TAB for the menu.

Sorry, I am ressurecting this old thread because it seems to have most of the answers I pieced together from the MESS help pages.

For the life of me, I cannot get a Colecovision emulator running on my cabinet.  I want to use MESS because I can rotate it but no matter what I do in the games I cannot get the input menus to come up like in MAME.

I press 'TAB' and toggle Scroll Lock on and off and try tab with each setting.  No menu comes up like in the help screens and for these users.  I deleted default.cfg and all my games .cfg files and nothing.

What am I missing???

[killbill]

Hi,

Could someone please post their MESS Mamewah cfg file?
For the life of me I can't can't seem to get Mess to run from Mamewah.

Thanks.

[Chris]

My understanding is that MAMEWAH cannot put the options before the ROM name, only afterward.  Perhaps the answer is a batch file?  Make the "emulator" COLECO.BAT and have it contain:

Mess.exe coleco -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -cart %1
exit

This is just off the top of my head, I haven't tested it or anything...

--Chris

[SuperRabbit0]

My understanding is that MAMEWAH cannot put the options before the ROM name, only afterward.  Perhaps the answer is a batch file?  Make the "emulator" COLECO.BAT and have it contain:

Mess.exe coleco -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo -cart %1
exit

This is just off the top of my head, I haven't tested it or anything...

--Chris

This is exacly how I have MESS running on Mamewah and it launches the games  perfectly BUT..................

for the life of me I cannot get the tab menu to come up (within Colecovision).  Have you been able to make that work (to configure your input keys)?

[Zapper]

I have MAMEWAH and MESS running in Win98, here's my Colecovision files. You'll need to edit all the paths. MESSWAH

EMU7.CFG - MAMEWAH FILES folder
MESS.ini - MESS ini folder
MESSui.ini - MESS folder
coleco.bat - MESS folder
coleco (shortcut) - MESS folder

[Howard_Casto]

I normally don't self-promote but....

If you guys want to try something new and don't want to fool with odd-ball bat files and other hacks, dk recently got the additon of a totally custom command line string.  I only mention it because this feature was added specifically to give better support for mess.  That copuled with my "Mess-ed" datfile and mame info generator, makes for the most painless setup of a "mess emulator" possible.