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bankshot

@bankshot - you are my instant new best friend. LOVE that Atari game!!! Also, I heard about Groovy_MiSTer but need to more for a proper setup. Glad to find a new friend also carrying a S.T.U.N. Runner Fan Club membership card lol. :D Yeah Groovy_MiSTer is for the CRT gamers, unfortunately I'm still stuck in LED land at the moment. But I've got a c...

bankshot

I agree with rhester and Lamer. I have both a D9 and a PDL. They are both 9-pin D-sub <-> USB1 adapters. The D9 works great for Atari 2600 joystick and Sega Genesis gamepads. There is a significant jitter issue with Atari 2600 paddles on the D9. The PDL variant of the adapter eliminates this issue. If you want to enjoy using Atari 2600 paddles with...

bankshot

it would be nice to play some Golden Axe 2 or S.T.U.N. Runner while waiting for cores. :) S.T.U.N. Runner! What a great game. Spent many quarters/tokens on back in the day. Uses the OG Star Wars arcade yoke. Hopefully available on MiSTer someday, for now MAME will have to do. A forum on here for MAME games not available at present on MiSTer would ...

bankshot

HerrBerzerk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:16 pm
How are these controllers connected? Snac?

http://2600-daptor.com/2600-daptor%20PDL.htm

bankshot

Well that is a bummer, thanks for the clear explanation FPGA.

bankshot

A new potential light gun option from GRS/Thunderstick, albeit expensive at $250:

https://thunderstickstudio.com/products ... target-pro

bankshot

By the way, has anyone bought the new Atari CX30+ paddles? I'm interested in them since the plastic on my original paddles is brittle after those 40 years. Hopefully they are improved or at least the same as the originals. I bought a pair - they work great. The pots in them have a much more resistive feel to them than my OG 40 year old paddles wit...

bankshot

Being an old timer that built his own 486 PC clone back in the day from a box of parts and used 10Mbps 10Base2 Ethernet on coax cable, I am absolutely flabbergasted that a copper Ethernet connection to a separate physical device can result in less latency than a video card directly plugged into a system board bus like PCI. What an amazing project, ...

bankshot

Hmm I think you are correct. I'm looking at my SD card and I have both files for both adapters even though I only copied and renamed the one starting with "ATARI7800" when I got this working the other day. I must have generated my own .map file for the PDL at some point manually. I would say copy over both and make a cloned version of bot...

bankshot

It should be called ATARI7800_input_04d8_f6eb_v3.map. What is the other file called?

bankshot

Yes of course! You need the .map file provided by mister240p on page 14 of this thread. Unzip and place the .map file in the Inputs directory of your MiSTer SD card. This will be for your D9 adapter. Now make a copy of the .map file and rename it with the PID of the PDL adapter. For me, the D9 PID was 04d8:f6eb and the PDL PID was 04d8:f947, not su...

bankshot

Just a quick update - I got everything working, both the D9 and the PDL. My 40 year old Atari paddles (and the pots inside) are working like they are brand spanking new. Thank you again kitrinx for all the hard/amazing work!

I feel cheated that I never got to play Circus Atari when I was a kid.

bankshot

Thanks birdybro! Just to clarify in case I did not do a good job of explaining, I now have two MiSTers in fanless cases (nicknamed "Prod" and "Dev" for those who can appreciate the IT humor) and they both exhibit the same warmer issue now. I have always ran them in stock kernel configuration. The weather is very nice where I am ...

bankshot

I have built and used MiSTer for past few years and thoroughly enjoyed. So much, that I converted my original fan-based version MiSTer to a fanless case from a reputable vendor, and built another as a backup. They always ran cool to the touch, except for certain tough cores like the Cave arcade shmups, which would get quite warm. They are more mode...

bankshot

Sounds like I didn't do a very good job of explaining the situation. My D9 used to work fine. Now, the paddle sweep works but the fire button no longer works. I created the map file for the PDL by copying the D9 map file and then renaming it with the PID of the PDL. Same problem with PDL, the paddle sweep works but not the fire button. On both D9 a...

bankshot

Just tried the new map file suggested by thorr and there is no positive change for me. It's really a shame, both paddles are working great in the MiSTer gamepad input tester app. Based on this evidence, I can only logically conclude that there is some kind of unexplained issue with the 7800 core. Happy to help with any 7800 core troubleshooting eff...

bankshot

Thanks thorr! PDL USB adapter created by D9 creator to eliminate the MiSTer 2600 paddle jitter issue. Even though I could not get the games working, I could tell that the PDL eliminated the jitter problem I was having trying to use the D9 with my 40 year old Atari paddles! So the 40 year old pots in the Atari paddles were not the problem. Thank you...

bankshot

What was changed in the 7800 core recently? In the recent past, I was able to use thorr's instructions to get my 2600 paddles working with the D9 adapter. After updating today, the instructions no longer work. The paddles move, but the fire button does not start the game. I purchased a PDL adapter to eliminate the D9 jitter issue. I copied my D9 ma...

bankshot

I'm not getting this core thru update_all, even with the CoinOpCollection option enabled. What could i be doing wrong? (SDcard and usb drive have enough space, and update_all is on the latest version) I often see this myself on day 1, with ATRAC cores and some other 'experimental' or 'unofficial' cores, but a little patience saves the trouble and ...

bankshot

Anyone else having trouble with Elevator Action with the up/down directions being sluggish/not very responsive? I get stuck either crouching or not being able to crouch in time. Great game but controls are currently frustrating.

bankshot

Thanks thorr! It's a bit of a crazy kludge to take button presses from the spinner and tack on to the joystick USB board, but hey if it works, it works :D Appreciate you helping GRS find a solution. Fortunately I waited long enough to buy mine so that the breakout button board was included in the box. I would love to see the code if you don't mind ...

bankshot

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck getting a push/pull spinner working right in MiSTer for the games that originally used them (Discs Of Tron, Forgotten Worlds, Eco Fighters)? I haven't seen any discussion on these since end of 2021. The GRS version comes with its own USB interface and it can configured in 2 modes: 1.) The push and pull func...

bankshot

Sorry guys, I suspect there is a thread out there for this already and I did not see it. I did see the awesome migration utility created by natrox. I just wanted the simplest one-line command way to clone the current SD card on my MiSTer to a new blank card on the OS X platform. Quite happy to do so via CLI.

bankshot

The wife and I dumped a bunch of virtual quarters into Hook a few nights ago and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Thank you so much wickerwaka, great job!!!

bankshot

Thanks for the tip bumtree! Will give it a try.

bankshot

Awesome!!! Really looking forward to this prod release. Got to be the best 4P beat-em-up of all time with The Simpsons a respectable runner-up.

Fantastic job Furrtek, you are amazing!

bankshot

A beautiful looking core but HerrBerzerk is quite correct - the game is unplayable (for me) without the correct dual analog stick control system in place.

Does anyone know the best way to reach alanswx for correspondence??

bankshot

Sadly, this core has needed bug fixing ever since it was added to official distro. It still starts in service mode for me, and even after getting it successfully running it would lock up hardcore after the first or second boss. Pity, hopefully gets sorted out one of these days as it is a true beat-em-up classic.

bankshot

It would be really awesome if there was indeed a software solution, and you could simply choose during kernel boot which config option gets loaded, e.g.:

1.) Press 1 for standard plug-and-play controller subsystem (Default - 3 second timeout)
2.) Press 2 for non-standard custom mapping controller subsystem

bankshot

My only real disappointment about the MiSTer platform is the controller config situation. To add on to your point, I have a dual stick/trackball USB controller from Micro Center. The trackball has a separate USB interface/plug from the joystick/button section, so playing a game like Centipede arcade core is impossible because there is no way to com...

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