Ms. Pac-Man not working on jzintv (Intellivision)
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My system: RetroPie 3.4 running on RPi2
Problem: Ms. Pac-man digital version freely available from the developer HERE is not working.
What happens: When I try to run the game (both ROM version and BIN/CFG version) I get a black screen. I have been playing lots of other games on this emulator, including games split into BIN and CFG files.
My question: First, has anyone else experienced this?
Second, I contacted the developer, Carl, and he suggested that I needed to get the latest development version of jzintv. Can I update just jzintv without doing a new RetroPie install?
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
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That Ms. Pac-Man game looks like a lot of fun. I love the selectable character angle with each having different attributes. You can in fact update jzintv separately by going to the 'RetroPie' menu in Emulation Station and select 'RetroPie Setup'. Here you'll want to update your setup script first and then navigate to 'Manage Packages'. From here, things have changed enough since I installed that you might have to poke around a bit for jzintv. It's either going to be in 'Manage Main Packages' or 'Manage Optional Packages'. Once you find it, you'll want to select the option to install from "source" rather than "Binary". This should build the latest version possible.
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@PowerPakBlog retropie does not come with the fixed jzintv. Go to intellivision.us and on the left side click on ultimate console. Then download his file for retropie 3.2. Then copy the entire /opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv folder into the same location on your pi. Whatever you do dont use his boot/cmdline file.
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@mediamogul I was able to run the update as you described, but unfortunately it didn't change anything as far as getting Ms. Pac-Man to play, still does the same thing. Sticks on the black screen until I hit F1 to return to the menu.
It does look like an awesome game, please let me know if you get it to work!
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@PowerPakBlog please read the post i posted. that site belongs to the guy who patched the jzintv for the retropie to play ms pacman without him patching it none of us would be playing it.
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@edmaul69 I tried this as I understood your directions, but I couldn't get it to work. Downloaded the file and replaced the jzintv folder only on the Pi. Result was that Intellivision still showed up in the menu, and all the games were still there, but NO games would run, even the ones that worked before.
Not sure if that version is looking for some of the files/folders in different places from the stock RetroPie 3.4 structure.
I restored it to the original condition and everything is working as it did before. Everything except Ms. Pac runs.
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@PowerPakBlog said in Ms. Pac-Man not working on jzintv (Intellivision):
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change the permissions on the jzintv file only, no others in the folder to 0655
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@edmaul69 It works!! But the permission setting is 0755!
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This was the solution, thanks @edmaul69!
@edmaul69 said in Ms. Pac-Man not working on jzintv (Intellivision):
Go to intellivision.us and on the left side click on ultimate console. Then download his file for retropie 3.2. Then copy the entire /opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv folder into the same location on your pi.Last step was to set the permissions on the jzintv file to 0755.
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Nice! Are either of you aware of any other enhancements this version brings to the table besides playing this particular homebrew game? I assume this is mostly to run larger roms than were originally available?
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@mediamogul actually it just fixes a bug in jzintv. It just happens to be the first game to use something in the real hardware and jzintv had a bug in it. Joe fixed it in his pc version then dave the guy who released the game who is also a intellivision programmer fixed the pi version. And carl mueller was the guy who made the game, also made the very first intellivision emulator. He also made a dev kit for the original gameboy and made an intellivision emulator on the gameboy as well. I live on atariage.com's intellivision section of their forums.
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Very interesting. I'll have to install that myself as that Ms. Pac-Man looks like a blast.
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@mediamogul it is phenomenal. Just like his dk arcade and d2k arcade (donkey kong clones) he gave out ms pacman rom and you can purchase the two donkey kong clones for $10 each. Carls original donkey kong arcade rom (before dk arcade) is free at intellivision.us
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@PowerPakBlog Can you give me ms. pacman rom?
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@Zazie Please read the forum rules - ROM sharing/distribution is not allowed.
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Apologies for resurrecting this old topic, but I tried to follow those instructions to get Ms Pac-Man to run and the Pi refused to let me copy the files over.
Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission deniedPermission settings on the whole JZINTV folder are already 0755. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
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