@retznutz I'm very interested in this! I have likewise wanted to make a cabinet version of intellivision controls. I thought about something like the stream deck (video buttons).

I was thinking of larger controls that fit the hands rather than the thumbs; one hand for the disc (3.5" disc?) and one hand for the buttons. How about the 5" screen, vertical, with the overlay 150% larger (four fingers across)? I had in mind the side buttons could be real buttons.

Staying tuned on this!

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@sleve_mcdichael

I wasn't aware that was an option. On the "Please choose a package from below"; jzintv showed jzintv (Installed - via unknown). I selected Install from Source and it is now up and running. I have a few launch issues but I should be able to work those out. Thanks much for your help.

@ts-x I'm going to that site now. Thank You! Sorry for the delay, personal home things....

@gpmcty hi. I originally posted your exact problem and I highly suggest following that thread which corrected it. Lolonios did an outstanding job of fixing the problem with his "version" of JzIntv.

I hope at some point that becomes the download version, instead of having to apply this patch. JzIntv is not really supported anymore.

It's working for me now as well, thank you.

@mitu Once again, I tip my hat to you.

@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.

going off on tangents here, but: RetroPie -> Run Command Configuration -> set Joy2Key version to udev (instead of sdl) seems to have fixed the issue with the config menus not responding to controllers in the latest RetroPie update, although the pop up option to edit emulator configs no longer seems to show up during game loading
PPPS: Re-enablng the launch menu from the same area will fix that last part.

To clarify on backends.cfg: If it shows jzintv="dispmanx" the emulator call gets these environment variables passed in: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1600 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=1200 /opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv ... (but has no effect on the emulator), if it is absent or configured to SDL2 KMS in _Configurations/Tools _ (results in jzintv="default" in backends.cfg) no env variables are prefixed to the emulator call. So long story short: No need to explicitly set something in backends.cfg.

On readline: You are right, if it is disabled in the build, a simplified implementation will be used. So I will leave libreadline-dev in the dependencies.

Will file the two PRs shortly, will use $__archive_url.

Thanks again.

@Manauense if you want support, you should create a new topic and include the information requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

There are no Intellivision emulators in the main packages which are installed by default. Did you manually install either of the optional packages jzintv or lr-freeintv?

Okay, solved and this is one I recommend making more clear in the documentation. My issue was that I ALWAYS keep a wireless keyboard connected to my Retropie. It's just a tiny dongle taking one port so why not? It's so much easier for certain tasks.

However, I kept wondering why the test rom for Intellivision was reporting that I was on controller 2 and every other comment pointed to controller one. Then I noticed posts where people said that Daphne and Intellivion (jzintv anyway) assign the first controller they see, which in this case was the keyboard -- and that explained why the keyboard worked. Ugh.

@yfzdude Actually thought we had this one.

I sent back and took a CLOSE look at emulators.cfg (where you add the link to the hack file) as I found it odd that mine was already there.

What I realized is that it was there, but for the tzintvecs (which I assume has something to do with running things in the expansion port). So, I added it to the main program as you can see below, but still nothing. Changing the JS1's to JS0's also made no difference after this fix.

jzintv = "/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -q --kbdhackfile=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision/hackfile.cfg %ROM%" Advanced Controller Mapping %ROM%" default = "jzintv" jzintvecs="/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -v1 -s1 --kbdhackfile=/opt/retropie/configs/intellivision/hackfile.cfg -z1920x1080, -f1 -q -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS %ROM%"

@agrajag
Sure, here it is

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAP 0 ; keymap 0 (default keymap) ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- F3 PAUSE JS0_BTN_10 QUIT JS1_BTN_10 QUIT ; ***** Joystick #0 - Left Controller ***** ; ** Side Buttons and Numeric Keypad ** JS0_BTN_01 PD0L_A_T JS0_BTN_04 PD0L_A_L JS0_BTN_05 PD0L_A_R 1 PD0L_KP1 2 PD0L_KP2 3 PD0L_KP3 4 PD0L_KP4 5 PD0L_KP5 6 PD0L_KP6 7 PD0L_KP7 8 PD0L_KP8 9 PD0L_KP9 BACKSPACE PD0L_KPC 0 PD0L_KP0 RETURN PD0L_KPE ; ** Direction Disc ** JS0_N PD0L_J_N JS0_NNE PD0L_J_NNE JS0_NE PD0L_J_NE JS0_ENE PD0L_J_ENE JS0_E PD0L_J_E JS0_ESE PD0L_J_ESE JS0_SE PD0L_J_SE JS0_SSE PD0L_J_SSE JS0_S PD0L_J_S JS0_SSW PD0L_J_SSW JS0_SW PD0L_J_SW JS0_WSW PD0L_J_WSW JS0_W PD0L_J_W JS0_WNW PD0L_J_WNW JS0_NW PD0L_J_NW JS0_NNW PD0L_J_NNW ; ***** Joystick #1 - Right Controller ***** ; ** Side Buttons and Numeric Keypad ** JS1_BTN_01 PD0R_A_T JS1_BTN_04 PD0R_A_L JS1_BTN_05 PD0R_A_R Q PD0R_KP1 W PD0R_KP2 E PD0R_KP3 R PD0R_KP4 T PD0R_KP5 Y PD0R_KP6 U PD0R_KP7 I PD0R_KP8 O PD0R_KP9 TAB PD0R_KPC P PD0R_KP0 SPACE PD0R_KPE ; ** Direction Disc ** JS1_N PD0R_J_N JS1_NNE PD0R_J_NNE JS1_NE PD0R_J_NE JS1_ENE PD0R_J_ENE JS1_E PD0R_J_E JS1_ESE PD0R_J_ESE JS1_SE PD0R_J_SE JS1_SSE PD0R_J_SSE JS1_S PD0R_J_S JS1_SSW PD0R_J_SSW JS1_SW PD0R_J_SW JS1_WSW PD0R_J_WSW JS1_W PD0R_J_W JS1_WNW PD0R_J_WNW JS1_NW PD0R_J_NW JS1_NNW PD0R_J_NNW

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Found the issue - no "cfg" files in with the ROMs. Could have sworn I copied those into that directory before, but those files were missing. Adding those files did the trick and the games work great!

@mitu said in xboxdrv dpad-as-axis: is it possible? (ps3 controller + intellivision):

--displaysize=%XRES%x%YRES%

Yes. So this needs to go, I think, after the -config option for those custom jzintv commands. It wasn't working for me until I did that. If all else fails, this version of the xboxdrv line worked for me:

jzintv-xboxdrv = "sudo /opt/retropie/supplementary/xboxdrv/bin/xboxdrv --config /opt/retropie/configs/xboxdrv/intellivision.xboxdrv >>/dev/shm/runcommand.log & /opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -q --displaysize=%XRES%x%YRES% --kbdhackfile=/opt/retropie/configs/intellivision/hackfile_trondd.cfg %ROM%; sudo killall >/dev/null xboxdrv"

But you will need to update RetroPie from source for the PS3 buttons to show up in event_diag.
Now if I could figure out why the config menus no longer work with controllers (I need my keyboard to use them)...
For updaters: RetroPie -> Run Command Configuration -> set Joy2Key version to udev (instead of sdl) and then re-enabling the launch menu from the same set of options will fix this

@oneswitch no problem... I'm happy to help.

@goldengalaxies jzintv working?