@gmarler said in Black Screen When Starting ColecoVision Game Under lr-bluesmx:

Not sure how things got into this state, as the core_options_path simply disappeared from the /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/retroarch.cfg file when I updated to the latest RetroPie through retropie-setup as of 2025-04-07.

In a default RetroPie installation, that config file shouldn't contain much and core_options_path is only set by RetroPie in the global /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg. Any core option overrides (per-folder/game) will be saved elsewhere.

@mitu ah okay, so there's an improvised numberpad on there. A bit of a slanty one but that will do.

@Striderx99 FBNeo is the emulator you want for SGM games, but it needs an FBNeo-specific ROMset. Pretty easy to find by Googling.

@JimmyFromTheBay said in The great Super Game Module mystery:

I thought coders appreciated brevity

Thanks for your concern, my bad for thinking you simply didn't want to bother.
There is no need for such concern, we actually love seeing new users including greetings in their first post.

Jumpland has been added to our coleco game roster.

@mitu
Understood & (re)educated. Thank you for your time.

@mitu said in Lr-Gearcoleco:

@dteam said in Lr-Gearcoleco:

I think lr-gearcoleco might be an emulator option in Retropie Setup.

Is there any advantage over the existing Colecovision emulators that would make it worth while adding it ?

Saves states seems to be more stable than Blue MSX. Better controller setup than BlueMSX (major point here).
It runs No Intro romset,what Fbneo doesn't.

They say :
Accurate Z80 core, including undocumented opcodes and behavior like R and MEMPTR registers.
Accurate TMS9918 emulation.
Sound emulation using a fine tuned Sms_Snd_Emu library.

At the end, I prefer Fbneo (but only fbneo romset can be used) and Lr-Gearcoleco is better than BlueMSX in my opinion.

Maybe a longer testing period is needed, but it could be in the experimental section for now.

@jimmyfromthebay

Try zaxxonsgm.zip = Zaxxon Super Game
zaxxon-super-game.jpg

It's an excellent game for the time !! It's a conversion of the Coleco ADAM disk game for ColecoVision

@rasp_renegade hello. As with ColecoVision and Intellivision...all emulators....Google is your friend for any BIOS/ROM files. And also keep in mind, there are variations to some that you have to keep trying versions until you get the right one.

My script, from version 0265.01, will add the sgm module when installing coleco or colecop from the script.
Seems the sgm module doesn't affect normal games when the sgm module is inserted.
That way all supported non-sgm and sgm games can be played with the same runcommand.

@rkoster
Good point, I agree with you, we will stay with consoles. That was the first idea behind that survey/challenge.

@dreamcastkid The problem was solved by using the default retroarch config file

The BlueMSX doesn't have any control mapping for keyboard, only for joypads. It expects a keyboard for keyboard input. The FMSX core has some extra options when mapping the controls and setting the Device Type to Emulated Keyboard, but it still doesn't cover the full keyboard (only a few F keys, Esc, Space, the direction arrows and Space).

Run a Coleco game with verbose logging enable, then check /dev/shm/runcommand.log to see where RetroArch looks for each game's .cfg.

@Neo-Rio said in Colecovision defaulting to fbneo-cv:

Any info on what this emulator expects?

https://docs.libretro.com/library/fbneo/

@jaddesa did you install the emulator?

Please start a new topic and read the pinned guidance as agreed when registering.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Oh, I forgot to mention...

To play ColecoVision with blueMSX core you'll also have to get the BIOS, as pointed out in the docs: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Colecovision/#lr-bluemsx-bios

I've updated the OP with this info.

Very nice ! The scanlines are subtle enough - let's see how this works on a bigscreen TV.