@edmaul69 That could well be awesome:) I won't say no yet, but I may well have a go myself (eep) I didn't think I was using a hackfile, but i need to compare my two systems to see if one had been loaded via the Donkey Kong rom I put on there.
Not going to burn any bridges, your offer is genuinely nice:) I'll see what I can tonight. Thank you!

@edmaul69 @gpmcty I tried editing the config file as the website stated, but still can't get it to work. When you say hack file, do you mean the one the listed (the config file edited)?
I can't get vision-dapter to work at all. It is identified, but I get the message 'Not Configured'.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

@quicksilver Got it figured, it’s now working with jzintv! I’d added the .rom .ROM to the intellivision es_config file as per @dudleydes post and it’s just like the old days are back again! Gonna have a blast tomorrow with my lad- two player works a treat as well:)) Got to say thanks for all advice from you folks, I love this place!)

That's a great theme. I'd like to have it. I created my title screen because I never found any on the internet.

I remember the old PlayCable, My first girlfriend had it back in 1981... maybe why she was my first girlfriend... lol.

Also... my Retropie is built into an old Sears Intellivision. I hated to gut the thing, but it was for a great cause. I'm really happy with the results.

It's kinda fun being able to play 27 different game systems on one old modded one.

JR

thanks!!!! i missed this.... :) PS: i had spaces in rom's name.... removing spaces they works. now seeing the story of cfg mapping :)

We don't do any libretro core dev short of minor patches. You may have better luck on the libretro forums.

Also one more thing that the new version added. A guy named decle had made a studio ii emulator for the intellivision. The game roms each have the emulator inside them with the game rom. What was added in jzintv is the -G2 flag that you can put in the emulators.cfg to give the intellivision more gram which allows those games to run in full screen instead of a windowed screen. The games are called studiovision ii.

@Mu0n

There are some annoyances from xboxdrv: it can detect the L2 and R2 triggers as ABS stuff, but jzintv refuses to detect it, since it'd want a button behavior there instead. This severely reduces the amount of maps I can do.

You can convert your controller's analog trigger input to digital by adding:

--trigger-as-button

to your xboxdrv command. It's detailed more thouroughly in the guide here.

Tried all this. Jetsons: Ways With Words still doesn't run with this ecs version of jsintv. Anyone get that to work?
Also, I don't think "select video mode for jsintvecs + rom ()" is the option that brings up "jsintvecs". That just brings up a bunch of screen res choices.

@dudleydes Hey there -- glad I found this. I've tried out your xboxdrv file that includes this snippet,and (EDIT) managed to map it to my Xbox controller after finding the right names for the analog sticks and whatnot. However, in Tron:Deadly Discs, I can no longer fire diagonally since the mimic-xpad setting kills the diagonal movements for the second stick. If I remove mimic-xpad, I get the diagonal disc throwing back, but the controls jam up and break if I try to map the disc throwing buttons to the fully enabled 8 directional R2 stick -- and weirdly, ONLY when I fire diagonally.

Anyone else have this issue?

@videofx From the output you've given, it looks like your PS3 controller is not being picked up. There should be an entry with a line similar to N: Name="Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller".

Try running cat /proc/bus/input/devices without running an Intellivision rom to see if the PS3 controller appears in the output. I presume you have it connected by USB? You may need to press the PS button to bring it out of its stale state.

@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 :-)

Ok, that helped, thanks a bunch.

Still not getting full screen at 1920x1080... it's playing in a native size much smaller... but it's playing well with no stutters.

Here is my es_systems.cfg file for jzintv:
<system>
<name>intellivision</name>
<fullname>Intellivision</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision</path>
<extension>.int .bin .rom .INT .BIN .ROM</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -v1 --kbdhackfile=/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/hackfile.cfg %ROM%</command>
<platform>intellivision</platform>
<theme>intellivision</theme>
</system>

Here is my emulators.cfg for Intellivision (jzintv)
jzintv = "/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -v1 -p -z1920x1080,8 -f1 -q /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -q %ROM%"
default = "jzintv"

@fpanichi

I had the same issue. I went into terminal on my mac and did a more hackfile.cfg and here is what I discovered.

{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
{*\expandedcolortbl;;}
\margl1440\margr1440\vieww10800\viewh8400\viewkind0
\deftab720
\pard\pardeftab720\ri0\partightenfactor0

\f0\fs24 \cf0 ; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAP 0 ; keymap 0 (default keymap)
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

; ***** Joystick #0 - Left Controller *****
; ** Side Buttons and Numeric Keypad **
JS0_BTN_00 PD0L_A_T
JS0_BTN_01 PD0L_A_L
JS0_BTN_02 PD0L_A_R
JS0_BTN_03 PD0L_KP1
JS0_BTN_04 PD0L_KP2
JS0_BTN_05 PD0L_KP3
JS0_BTN_06 PD0L_KP4
JS0_BTN_07 PD0L_KP5
JS0_BTN_08 PD0L_KP6
JS0_BTN_09 PD0L_KP7
JS0_BTN_10 PD0L_KP8
JS0_BTN_11 PD0L_KP9
JS0_BTN_12 PD0L_KPC
JS0_BTN_13 PD0L_KP0
JS0_BTN_14 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_00 PD0R_A_T
JS1_BTN_01 PD0R_A_L
JS1_BTN_02 PD0R_A_R
JS1_BTN_03 PD0R_KP1
JS1_BTN_04 PD0R_KP2
JS1_BTN_05 PD0R_KP3
JS1_BTN_06 PD0R_KP4
JS1_BTN_07 PD0R_KP5
JS1_BTN_08 PD0R_KP6
JS1_BTN_09 PD0R_KP7
JS1_BTN_10 PD0R_KP8
JS1_BTN_11 PD0R_KP9
JS1_BTN_12 PD0R_KPC
JS1_BTN_13 PD0R_KP0
JS1_BTN_14 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
}

Textedit on mac was adding a dash at the end of each line. I went in and edited the file with Notepad and here is what I ended up with.

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAP 0 ; keymap 0 (default keymap)
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

; ***** Joystick #0 - Left Controller *****
; ** Side Buttons and Numeric Keypad **
JS0_BTN_00 PD0L_A_T
JS0_BTN_01 PD0L_A_L
JS0_BTN_02 PD0L_A_R
JS0_BTN_03 PD0L_KP1
JS0_BTN_04 PD0L_KP2
JS0_BTN_05 PD0L_KP3
JS0_BTN_06 PD0L_KP4
JS0_BTN_07 PD0L_KP5
JS0_BTN_08 PD0L_KP6
JS0_BTN_09 PD0L_KP7
JS0_BTN_10 PD0L_KP8
JS0_BTN_11 PD0L_KP9
JS0_BTN_12 PD0L_KPC
JS0_BTN_13 PD0L_KP0
JS0_BTN_14 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_00 PD0R_A_T
JS1_BTN_01 PD0R_A_L
JS1_BTN_02 PD0R_A_R
JS1_BTN_03 PD0R_KP1
JS1_BTN_04 PD0R_KP2
JS1_BTN_05 PD0R_KP3
JS1_BTN_06 PD0R_KP4
JS1_BTN_07 PD0R_KP5
JS1_BTN_08 PD0R_KP6
JS1_BTN_09 PD0R_KP7
JS1_BTN_10 PD0R_KP8
JS1_BTN_11 PD0R_KP9
JS1_BTN_12 PD0R_KPC
JS1_BTN_13 PD0R_KP0
JS1_BTN_14 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

The file is now clear text. I restarted emulation services and it worked great.

@goldenhoof Do you mean a button to exit jzIntv? If so, then the following thread may be useful: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7656/mapping-a-quit-button-to-a-gamepad-on-jzintv

Be sure to check the Docs for jzIntv on using keyboad hack files:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Intellivision/
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Mapping-a-Controller-for-Intellivision/

@edmaul69

Ah, that's good to know. Perhaps this whole thing would be better suited to the wiki than a certain default, given it's versatility.