Atari 2600 and Cookie Monster Munch

[Bluey]

Hi all,

Having recently purchased a Raspberry Pi3 I have so far managed to get all emulators and roms working.
...Except Cookie Monster Munch on the Atari 2600. Its quite an odd situation where I can start the game and even select levels and start. But that is as far as it goes.
No movement at all. From what I remember and searched online for, this game used to use a kids controller. I am using either a keyboard or snes usb controller. No matter what, no buttons work. I have also tried Stella and used the tab function to remap buttons. Again no luck!
Can anybody advise how I can configure my snes controller to work with this game at all?
Many thanks.

[mediamogul]

@Bluey said in Atari 2600 and Cookie Monster Munch:

From what I remember and searched online for, this game used to use a kids controller.

You'll need to install enable 'Stella' as your default emulator. Once you launch the game, press the 'Tab' key and navigate to the 'Input Settings' menu. From there, move down though the available mapping options in the 'Emul. Events' tab until you come to the 'Keypad Controller' listings. The keypad has twelve possible buttons to map. Buttons two, eight, four and six are respectively up, down, left and right for this game, so you would map those to the joystick or DPad of your controller. The last step is to map the five button as your primary action button that will pick up the cookies.

Edit: I was in a bit of a hurry and missed the part about you already having tried to map through 'Stella'. However, this is really the only possible way that I know of to play this game and it does happen to work on my setup.

[Bluey]

Many thanks for the reply. I have just removed and re-installed Stella and followed the steps as you suggested. However I do not have a Ketpad Controller option, only Keyboard. So I mapped those options and again no luck at all.
Stumped here. I have also tried an alternate snes usb controller in all 4 usb ports on the Pi. Not really sure what else I can try!

[mediamogul]

@Bluey

It could possibly have something to do with how Stella is reads your controller. Mine appears as a keyboard, so there may be a difference there.

[edmaul69]

@Bluey the keypad is in the controller configuration in the tab menu. If you scroll down past all the joystick config you will see numbers 1-0 plus # and *. You need to assign something to those. If you assign them to a controller look up all the overlays for the sesame street games to find the best way to assign them. Or you could buy a 2600-daptor II and be able to use any atari controllers, trackballs, paddles, driving controllers keypads. Or he also sells an "ultimate pc interface" which is 2 players, plays those plus a crap ton of other controllers with no reprogramming needed but with the upci you lose the use of paddles on that one. Thats why i own both.

[Bluey]

Hi all,

Firstly thanks for the help. I have finally figured it out!

So as stated there is no keypad option at all. Closest was keyboard. Trick was to assign the keyboard buttons to work with the controller.
However not to removed them totally, make it so the keyboard and controller can do the same movement/action.
If anyone needs further info I will post some screenshots.

Again thanks all.

[hedinal]

Hello I might be a late to the party, but could you please send those screen shots. I mapped the keyboard and Joystick (snes gamepad) but I am not able to play the game.

[jbaudrand]

Sorry to push up this topic but I'm in config menu>control within lrstella and I can't find any "touchpad" controller remaping where it is? Moreover I can't acces stella menu by pressing tab is it normal?

[mediamogul]

@jbaudrand said in Atari 2600 and Cookie Monster Munch:

I'm in config menu>control within lrstella

Keypad games are currently only able to be mapped/played in Stella and not lr-stella.

[jbaudrand]

@mediamogul aah thanks, I need to install stella