Two things. First...coming from someone who never had Coleco...This thing is so graphically superior to Atari its disgusting. Second...I figured it out by playing around with it. If you have a PS3 controller just copy paste this into the CoolCV Mapping file on the pie. If you dont like something on it just tweak but it works. ' CoolCV mappings for Colecovision controllers to keyboard and joystick fullscreen no joystick_1_vert joy0 axis1 joystick_1_horiz joy0 axis0 joystick_2_vert joy1 axis1 joystick_2_horiz joy1 axis0 up_1 key0 joy0_4 right_1 key0 joy0_5 down_1 key0 joy0_6 left_1 key0 joy0_7 left_button_1 key0 joy0_13 right_button_1 joy0_14 button3_1 key0 button4_1 key0 key1_1 key0 joy0_10 key2_1 key0 joy0_11 key3_1 key0 joy0_12 key4_1 key0 joy0_15 key5_1 key0 joy0_1 key6_1 joy0_8 key7_1 joy0_2 key8_1 key56 key9_1 key57 key*_1 key111 key0_1 key48 key#_1 key112 up_2 key119 right_2 key100 down_2 key115 left_2 key97 left_button_2 key9 joy1_0 right_button_2 key113 joy1_1 button3_2 key1073741939 button4_2 key1073741939 key1_2 key114 key2_2 key116 key3_2 key121 key4_2 key102 key5_2 key103 key6_2 key104 key7_2 key118 key8_2 key98 key9_2 key110 key*_2 key106 key0_2 key107 key#_2 key108 key_save key1073741882 key_restore key1073741883 key_exit key0 joy0_9 key_pause key1073741884 key_reset key8 key_rolling_controller key1073741886 key_record_video key1073741887 key_record_audio key1073741890 key_screenshot key1073741891 key_fast_disk key1073741889 key_sync key1073741885 key_codes key1073741888

@flagrant99 did you get a controller setup with coolcv? I installed coolcv (didn't check what version it gave me) and controllers didn't work. I saw the wiki says it creates a "mapping" text file in /home/pi and gave mappings to copy to it. I did this and it still didn't work for me.

Hi, i solved in inverting RIGHT and LEFT Gpio cables ans calibrated under Emulstation. Bye

@hurricanefan @herb_fargus i updated retropie setup and coolcv and the audio is fine. @HurricaneFan can you press start in emulationstation and go into sound settings and verify the volume is at 100% and not 77% ? Some coleco games arent very loud in the first place.

@mediamogul the flashback ones came in two small ziplock baggies. Then i put my homebrew ones in a small ziplock baggie as well.

@alortegac my coleco.rom is in /opt/retropie/configs/rom/coleco/ . I dont have one in bios. Try putting it there and give it 0777 permissions. I think it is an advmess/mame location but thats where i have it. I am doing a search to try to find any other locations i have it in.

@mediamogul It's all good, just got a little excited to add another system, no big deal, just always looking!

@SpudsMcToole just for the record even if it was a bug with coolcv there is nothing we can do about it as it's closed source. You may have luck getting a hold of Oscar the developer (nanochess) on the Atariage thread , possible someone else may have had the same issue and posted a fix. I haven't been over there in a while so idk

@Shizzmoney you don't need to copy it to add extensions. Just create a file /opt/retropie/configs/all/platforms.cfg with a line fds_exts=".nes .fds .zip" (with your extensions and update the emulator in question. If we have a missing extension though it should be reported back to me :-)

@Rion I have yet to find a solution to properly handle colecovision inputs in fbalpha-libretro (colecovision's controller got 14 buttons, libretro's retropad only have 12 if i include start/select/R3/L3). I also heard 2,4,6,8 buttons were actually a second d-pad and 5,7,9,0 a third d-pad, is that true for all games ? If it is, i could probably map those to the analog sticks, and map the 6 remaining to actual buttons (# as start, * as select, the last 4 as A/B/X/Y).

@herb_fargus I did not know that. To bad about the input would love some bezel and shader support.