Can't get Intellivision working

mitu

@Bread-And-Roses A copy of the /dev/shm/runcommand.log would be useful - taken after attempting to launch the ROM file.

Bread And Roses

Hmmmm...... can you point me there? I see only bios, roms, config, and splashscreen folders. I'm not SUPER techy.

mitu

@Bread-And-Roses You'd need WinSCP to get there, the file is not accessible via file shares. Once you enable SSH, WinSCP will show you all the files in the system - including the log file I mentioned.

quicksilver

@Bread-And-Roses here is info on enabling ssh https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/SSH

Bread And Roses

Okay, I'm trying to get this to work, but when WinSCP asks for my username during the "prompting for credentals" connection phase, I can't seem to figure that out. =/

mitu

@Bread-And-Roses It's pi - are you not able to enter it ?

Bread And Roses

"No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Connection failed." error

quicksilver

@Bread-And-Roses
username: pi
password: raspberry

^this is what you are typing? And to confirm you did enable ssh before attempting to use winscp correct?

Bread And Roses

Ah, got it. Didn't enable ssh,
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-freeintv/freeintv_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/intellivision/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision/Astrosmash (1981) (Mattel).int" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[ERROR] [FREEINTV] Failed loading Executive BIOS from: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/exec.bin
[INFO] [FREEINTV] Succeeded loading Graphics BIOS from: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/grom.bin
[INFO] [FREEINTV] Attempting to load cartridge ROM from: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision/Astrosmash (1981) (Mattel).int
[INFO] [FREEINTV] Intelllicart format not detected. Determining load method via database.
[INFO][FREEINT] Cartridge fingerprint code: 9371
[INFO] [FREEINTV] Cartridge database match: memory map 0

[ERROR] [FREEINTV] HALT! at 0

quicksilver

@Bread-And-Roses mitu will be able to confirm but it looks like your exec.bin bios is no good.

Bread And Roses

Yeah.... I've tried it from a few sources. Is it hard to get hands on a good exec.bin file?

quicksilver

@Bread-And-Roses it's been a while since I set up intellivision but if I remember correctly I did have to search a bit to find bios that we're functional.

A Former User

You need the correct exec.bin. The one I know works is

exec.bin - 8kb in size
CRC = CBCE86F7

Bread And Roses

That's the one I'm using. :/

markwkidd

is it in the right location?

quicksilver

@Bread-And-Roses can you confirm that its exec.bin and not EXEC.bin? Case matters.

Bread And Roses

Lowercase, in the BIOS folder.
[EDIT: actually, it was Exec.bin.... for some damn reason the first letter was capitalized and even as I replaced it with other versions all in lowercase, it kept the first letter capitalized. I deleted and replaced it with an all lowercase exec.bin and it works now! Thanks so much!]