@mitu

Installing Stella was the trick.
Thank you for your help.
I know she's going to enjoy playing River Raid with the correct kind of controller.

@rasp_renegade According to (upstream) stellas own docs there is a "left" and "right" player.

I'm guessing this is a "No", then?

Standalone Stella doesn't use the RetroArch configuration. Instead, open the Options menu of the emulation (once it starts) and use the Input Settings menu to map your joystick and the IPAC keys as you'd like.

EDIT: you can open the Options menu by using the Tab key on your keyboard.

@sleve_mcdichael said in PAL Atari ROM is Black and White in stella2014-libretro:

Edit: weird, because Wikipedia does say it was only released in Europe and lists release dates (both just say "1990") for EU and UK releases.

Yep.. that's why I didn't look for a USA version of the ROM.. I didn't think one existed..

Regardless.. thank you.

@windg thanks! What timing is that? This is hot off the presses.

For what's it's worth, when following the instructions from @mitu it appears that you need to reboot (or maybe just restart emulationstation) for the updated script to take effect.

I rebooted and tried the "source" build again. Now I am currently in the middle of that source build, but at the very beginning it appears to be installing 6.7 but I won't know for sure until it completes (as some point while I am sleeping tonight).

If that fails, then it looks like I can now update retropie to get it with ease.

@IanDaemon I never played it myself but I stumbled on it one time and looks interesting

Keyboard Defaults for Standalone Stella
F1 > Select Game
F2 > Reset/Start
F3 > Color TV
F4 > B&W TV
F5 > Left Diff A
F6 > Left Diff B
F7 >Right Diff A
F8 > Right Diff B
F9 > Save State
F10 > Change State
F11 > Load State
F12 > Save PNG
Escape > Quit Emulator
Backspace > Fry Cart
Pause > Pause Emulator

The whole problem was the custom config. I had time to reinstall everything and it was the custom config. So yeah there you go.

Yep, all sorted now, ta.

@mitu
Awesome!
Perhaps it's an incompatibility issue related with Ubuntu x64 19.04, will try experiment a bit more, but I'm glad at least it works on the RPi, hopefully someday this code will be added into retropie script since the upstream version has a higher games compatibility than old stella 2014

I know this is an old topic but, for anyone else trying to get this to work.

I have had moderate success with jzintv.

If you have downloaded from http://intellivisionrevolution.com/ultimatepong
Add “.rom” to the end of the file.

Can’t currently get the controller to work but keyboard works fine!

@BuZz
Is it possible to add this core to retropie?
https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/tree/master/src/libretro

It's the upstream stella, but I am not sure how to compile it as libretro core... so I do not know I it's compatible with arm architecture.

it is my understanding that lr_stalla doesn't support paddles, so I don't know how well it handles paddle games with more than 2 players.

try to install the stand-alone stella

You can also get the 2600-dapter D9 and use real Atari paddles

I'm sorry, this was a total newbie question. I'm figured out about TAB in stella since. I also gave up on the steam controller and bout an 8bitdo one. Seems the support isn't quite there for the steam controller yet.

please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. the logs, especially.

Working. You guys rock.