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[cimerians]

Razored just released a Colecovision emulator for the Wii and it kicks major ass.

Thank you Razored wherever you are.

The sounds and graphics are pretty much perfect, I have not tried my Raphnet adapter with it:
http://www.raphnet-t...tegory=Adapters

It should work but I doubt the keypad will work.

I wonder if Razored knows about that adapter? It works perfectly with his Atari emulator for the Wii. Playing the games with a real Atari joystick is fantastic.

[frogstar_robot]

cimerians, on Wed Feb 3, 2010 11:45 AM, said:

Razored just released a Colecovision emulator for the Wii and it kicks major ass.

Thank you Razored wherever you are.

The sounds and graphics are pretty much perfect, I have not tried my Raphnet adapter with it:
http://www.raphnet-t...tegory=Adapters

It should work but I doubt the keypad will work.

I wonder if Razored knows about that adapter? It works perfectly with his Atari emulator for the Wii. Playing the games with a real Atari joystick is fantastic.

If this works well, I'll be getting in a few rounds of Frenzy tonight!

[cimerians]

Yup I played Lady Bug last night.

Here it is:

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiColEm

[NE146]

Seeing as pretty excellent colecovision emulation has been on the xbox 1 for years, I'm not ultra excited. But yes, I'll be dumping this on my Wii shortly later Thx

[cimerians]

NE146, on Wed Feb 3, 2010 1:47 PM, said:

Seeing as pretty excellent colecovision emulation has been on the xbox 1 for years, I'm not ultra excited. But yes, I'll be dumping this on my Wii shortly later Thx

Yeah I have it on the Xbox as well, its nice to see developments on the Wii though which is what I'm into right now.

I think there are two CV emulators out there and Razored's port is very very good from what I played last night.

[raz0red]

cimerians, on Wed Feb 3, 2010 11:45 AM, said:

I have not tried my Raphnet adapter with it:
http://www.raphnet-t...tegory=Adapters

It should work but I doubt the keypad will work.

I wonder if Razored knows about that adapter? It works perfectly with his Atari emulator for the Wii. Playing the games with a real Atari joystick is fantastic.

I am familiar with that adapter, but if it does work, it definitely won't support the keypad. Yurkie who did a great job testing this emulator has been experimenting with building a Coleco joystick adapter. Unfortunately, even the Classic Controller doesn't have enough digital inputs to make such an adapter trivial.

I have been thinking that the best way to do it would probably be via USB. Using a device like RetroZone's Coleco USB adapter might work. However, the Wii is pretty picky about what USB devices it can support. I did some experiments with StellaAdapter and was unable to get the Wii to recognize it (Although it appeared that the vendor id and device id weren't properly set in the device itself). So, I may pick one of those up and see if I can get the Wii to talk to it.

Another option would be to use something like an I-Pac which could easily support two controllers. The down side is that it would require hacking of the Coleco controller (unlike RetroZone's kit). I-Pac has a high probability of working due to the fact that most USB keyboards are compatible with the Wii.

On a total aside, I am currently working on an updated version of Wii7800. If anyone is interested in helping me test it, please shoot me a PM. The help would be greatly appreciated.

--Raz.

[mimo]

unfortunately my Wii died just before xmas, I would have loved to test the 7800 emu for you:|

[unhuman]

Yeah, this CV emulator is WAY better than the other one. Better UI getting to the game and way better gameplay - at least this one plays my (incomplete) game.

[frank_c]

unhuman, on Thu Feb 4, 2010 10:01 PM, said:

Yeah, this CV emulator is WAY better than the other one. Better UI getting to the game and way better gameplay - at least this one plays my (incomplete) game.

X2. great job!

[GregadetH]

Does anyone have a forwarder channel that works with WiiColEm? I love that emu, but can't stand not having a channel for it. The only two I found don't seem to recognize the it.

[raz0red]

GregadetH, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:02 AM, said:

Does anyone have a forwarder channel that works with WiiColEm? I love that emu, but can't stand not having a channel for it. The only two I found don't seem to recognize the it.

Hmmm... good question, I don't think one has been specifically created for it yet.

However, you may be able to build your own using:

http://code.google.com/p/customizemii/

Not sure how much effort is involved...

--Raz.

Edited by raz0red, Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:22 PM.

[GregadetH]

raz0red, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:21 PM, said:

GregadetH, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:02 AM, said:

Does anyone have a forwarder channel that works with WiiColEm? I love that emu, but can't stand not having a channel for it. The only two I found don't seem to recognize the it.

Hmmm... good question, I don't think one has been specifically created for it yet.

However, you may be able to build your own using:

http://code.google.com/p/customizemii/

Not sure how much effort is involved...

--Raz.

Thanks for the link. I might just try that.

[goldenegg]

One of the biggest improvements in WiiColem vs Colem (the previous Colecovision emu on Wii) is proper SDHC support. For many SDHC cards, Colem wouldn't show the list of ROMs. WiiColem works perfectly on all the cards I've tried it with.