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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: davidsz on December 09, 2003, 09:41:57 pm
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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
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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...
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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.
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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 (http://smschecker.mwos.cjb.net/mekaconfigurator.htm) you can set the emu to cabinet mode and it exits with escape.
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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 (http://smschecker.mwos.cjb.net/mekaconfigurator.htm) 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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???
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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.
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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
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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)?
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I have MAMEWAH and MESS running in Win98, here's my Colecovision files. You'll need to edit all the paths. MESSWAH (http://home1.gte.net/res07nzn/MESSWAH.zip)
EMU7.CFG - MAMEWAH FILES folder
MESS.ini - MESS ini folder
MESSui.ini - MESS folder
coleco.bat - MESS folder
coleco (shortcut) - MESS folder
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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.