Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.

Folly

Nice theme !

DTEAM

@folly
Hi Folly,
Could you copy your working lines into emulator.cfg for Lr-Mess and FBneo please.

It's fine !! Working well with Lr-Mess, MAME standalone, lr-FBneo and openMSX !!

DTEAM

@folly said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

FBNeo : 34/36 work

can only load from FBNeo rom-sets (with this setup)
using coleco num-pad key's can be an issue sometimes <---------------------

@barbudreadmon
Is there a way to set buttons in retroarch like this:

lr-Fbneo is one of my favorite emulator, but for Coleco it's not playable with the actual controller setup.

Am I wrong?

barbudreadmon

@dteam said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

Is there a way to set buttons in retroarch like this

You mean as default mapping ? Well, i've no strong attachment to current coleco default mapping, but is there any reason for this one to be better ?

DTEAM

@barbudreadmon said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

You mean as default mapping ?

No, that's fine I reset my retroarch file. Now It's seems ok. Sorry for that.

barbudreadmon

@folly said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

8afd7db2 root-beer-tapper-1984.rom
546f2c54 mr-do-s-castle-1984.rom
ef50e1c5 one-on-one-basketball-1984.rom

Those 3 are already supported, just different versions of the romsets (tapper, mrdo and 1on1). I added another bunch of coleco games today, i'll try to finish your list this week-end.

barbudreadmon

@folly i just finished that list

Folly

@barbudreadmon said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

@folly i just finished that list

Thank you for the lot of work you have done 😊
Very cool to see that we now have great support almost all games.
Perhaps I will some tests with other romsets too, but I think we are very good now.
When I have some time, I will convert my roms to FBNeo romsets to test them.

Folly

In this thread many coleco roms have been added to FBNeo.
I have made a small script that will convert all the these roms to fbneo rom-sets.

Perhaps it's not perfect, but it will work on most files.
Make sure you :

(always be sure you have backups)
update fbneo from source so the roms will work and the new dat-file can be used in this script
add coleco.rom,colecoa.rom,czz50.rom,svi603.rom to the rom directory
cd to your rom directory
check if crc32 is installed on your computer otherwise install it first (check with "crc32 *")

#make the directory fbneo_zips inside the rom directory
mkdir fbneo_zips
#list only the roms you want to convert and use every file to automate things
ls -w1 *.rom|grep -v coleco.rom|grep -v colecoa.rom|grep -v cczz50.rom|grep -v svi.rom|while read line
do 
#get the crc of the rom
crc=$(crc32 "$line")
#read the fbneo name from the dat using the crc if there is a match, with no match the string becomes empty
fbneo_name=$(cat '/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fbneo/dats/FinalBurn Neo (ClrMame Pro XML, ColecoVision only).dat'|grep -B 4 $crc|grep "game name"| cut -d '"' -f 2)
#check if it isn't empty and output all the data and create the zip file
if [[ -n "$fbneo_name" ]];then
echo $crc $line $fbneo_name
zip fbneo_zips/$fbneo_name.zip "$line" coleco.rom colecoa.rom czz50.rom svi603.rom
fi
#until every file is done
done

Just copy and paste this in the terminal or make your own script file.
Good luck !

Edit :
Year 2025
Above script doesn't work any more, you can find the fixed one over here :
Post 13 : B how to build coleco romset for fbneo ?

mitu

@folly said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

#This file can be removed, it seems to be a temporary file created by zip
rm "fbneo_zips/.zip"

This is most likely a broken filename or stray newline that generates this, zip doesn't create any temporary .zip files.

Folly

@mitu

Thanks for the information ;-)

I made a small mistake.
I used a condition instead of an if function.
So the zip line used the empty strings and the not wanted strings also, therefor creating the not wanted .zip file.
I have updated the script, the problem should be solved now.

DTEAM

@folly
Hi folly , I didn't found an equivalent for fbneo (for those games)

Do you know if they exist?

Folly

@dteam

They exist.
They are in the retropie-archive of cva...... .

barbudreadmon

@dteam

Stone of Wisdom exists (romset is named stonew)
We got the Destructor romset from 1984 (romset is named destruct)
I don't see the 4 others, so i guess we don't emulate them ?

I'll add the 4 missing games and the 2010 variant of Destructor later today.

DTEAM

@barbudreadmon said in Colecovision Start-Up Error: Turn Game Off Before Inserting Cartridge or Expansion Module.:

@dteam

Stone of Wisdom exists (romset is named stonew)
We got the Destructor romset from 1984 (romset is named destruct)
I don't see the 4 others, so i guess we don't emulate them ?

I'll add the 4 missing games and the 2010 variant of Destructor later today.

Thanks !

stoogesfan87

@Folly Except for one problem. I can't find BIOS_XP.ROM or mecha-8-2013.rom. What can I do?

Folly

@stoogesfan87

Check this post / thread :
The great Super Game Module mystery / post 13

Mecha-8 is a homebrew game and can be found on cvaddict.

rimoco

I know it's been a while, but I was able to fix the issue with bluemsx by changing the option "Cart Mapper Type (Restart)" to "Auto" and saving an override for the directory only.
I prefer bluemsx over the others emulators due to it been the one supporting Retroachievements.

Hope that helps!

Folly

@rimoco

For lr-bluemsx the option "Cart Mapper Type (Restart)" to "Auto" is on by default at least on my image.
I tried mecha-8 but it doesn't work like you said.

Which game did you use, was it mecha-8 ?
What did you save exactly ?

Can you give some more information ?

rimoco

@Folly

I tried several games from the original Colecovision romset, such as: Antartic Adventure, Boulder Dash, Burger Time, Keystone Keepers and so on, all working fine.