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[Jess Ragan]

I'm having trouble finding an Intellivision emulator that runs smoothly on a netbook. Bliss is okay, but the interface stinks...very limited! Nostalgia only seems to work once, then you have to close and restart it (and the netbook doesn't want to run it at all). MESS is slow and doesn't supply a voice for games like B-17 Bomber. What's left?

[AlvinKarpis]

Jess Ragan, on Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:41 PM, said:

What's left?

Buy a real Intellivision

I hate emulators, they take everything that is pure about hooking up and playing the old games on an old TV with your old console

I refuse to play an emulator and never will

[HuckleCat]

Alvin may be right on this one.

I love emulators. The better they are, the more I like them. Take BSNES for example. If it runs right for you, there's simply no need for a Super Nintendo. Why would I want a 2600 when Stella makes Pitfall 2 look super crisp on my HDTV at 1080?


The Intellivision, however, has sort of been a "bastard" when it comes to emulation. There really isn't a solid, awesome emulator out for it. The best I have seen is either the "Intellivision Lives" collection for the Nintendo DS, or the Intellivision games released for the Xbox Live Arcade Room. The problem with this is no 3rd party games have come out for these avenues. So, no games by Imagic or Activision.

So, yeah, with the Intv, you may actually have to just get a real one.

[atari5200dude82]

I agree. There is nothing like playing on the real thing.

[SnapCraft]

None.

Nothing can fully emulate the controllers. People have tried and tried... but you can't do it.

What I want is a Intellivision Flashback (in the style of the Atari Flashback).

[DZ-Jay]

I use jzINTV emulator, but it is command-line only. It works very well, and it doubles as a nice debugger (for programmers to test homebrew games).

For playing Intellivision games, as others have said, the best thing is to buy an Intellivision Master Component from e-Bay and a Cuttle-Cart 3. The CC3 allows you to put many ROMs in a single cartridge and offers a menu for them in the Intellivision console.

-dZ.

[wood_jl]

Where can you get the cuttle cart 3 for Intellivision? Is this still being sold? Any other flashcarts available?

[DZ-Jay]

wood_jl, on Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:41 PM, said:

Where can you get the cuttle cart 3 for Intellivision? Is this still being sold? Any other flashcarts available?

Chad Schell produces them, and I believe he still makes them.

Edited by DZ-Jay, Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:09 AM.