Beatlemaniac19 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Simply was wondering what you guys recommend in terms of best Colecovision emulator. To be honest, I highly prefer using RetroArch or MESS when it comes to all consoles. I'd rather learn two software programs than 100 seperate emulators. That's just me, so if a standalone emulator is the best or only option, then I'd appreciate your recommendation, but these two emulators are my preference FYI. I've seen that the BlueMSX core in RetroArch has ColecoVision compatibility. I know that BlueMSX is a cycle accurate emulator for the MSX, but can't find any compatibility reports on ColecoVision games. Is this the core you guys recommend for ColecoVision? Also, I saw Bizhawk (I think that's what is called) is similar to RA and has a Colecovision core. What do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I would go with either MESS or ColEm, and probably MESS. You can follow one of our MESS tutorials, follow the links to find the info for the ColecoVision like I did in the videos, and plug the ColecoVision info in instead and be up and running. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I use MAME now as I had issues with ColEm and how it handled full screen and the fact there was no way to call up the number interface which was a hassle on my tablets. I've been hearing good things about BizHawk but have never used it personally. I have never been able to get Coleco to run in RA under the BlueMSX core myself don't know what the deal is with that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Yea, for me, especially now that I've figured out MESS, that's probably what I would use for this too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Thanks guys I'll use MESS then. I asked the people on the RA forums about BlueMSX and it's compatibility with Colecovision and got no response. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I'd go with MAME/MESS too, but you can also use blueMSXv282full (the standalone emulator, not the RA core one) to emulate the ColecoVision if you want to experiment with something else. As well as being able to emulate a variety of MSX, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSXturboR machines, blueMSX can also emulate some non-MSX machines. Coleco machines: ColecoVision console. ColecoVision with Opcode Memory Extension. Bit Corporation Dina. Spectravideo SV1-603 Coleco game adapter. Sega machines: SG-1000 console. SC-3000 computer. SF-7000 computer. Spectravideo machines: SV1-318. SV1-328. SV1-328 80. SV1-328 80 Swedish. SV1-328 MK2. All these can be selected (and reconfigured if you don't like the defaults) using the Machine Editor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Thanks @spycat this is helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 If you want blueMSX to automatically launch games for more than one system then, once you've assigned blueMSX to be the emulator to use with those Platforms, just add the Platforms and their required parameters to the Associated Platforms section of the blueMSX Edit Emulator window in LaunchBox. If some of your games are zipped then enable the "Extract ROM archives before running" tick-box. When you launch a game blueMSX will then automatically select the machine to emulate and launch the game. The image below shows some example settings that allow blueMSX to launch games in Microsoft MSX2, ColecoVision and Sega SG-1000 Platforms through LaunchBox. While all of this is nice to play around with, I'd still go with MAME/MESS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Thanks @spycat. It seems that MESS is the best bet, but I may give this a try as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cauptain Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 (edited) Wrong forum!! - Sorry!! Edited January 27, 2017 by Cauptain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyShane Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 11/12/2016 at 3:28 AM, SentaiBrad said: I would go with either MESS or ColEm, and probably MESS. You can follow one of our MESS tutorials, follow the links to find the info for the ColecoVision like I did in the videos, and plug the ColecoVision info in instead and be up and running. Not sure if its ok to revive an old topic, but didnt want to start a new thread on an old topic. I saw you mentioned you had a mess tutorial. Where can i find that so i can figure out mess also. (because im trying to get colecovision to work as well but no luck with retroarch or bluemsx). thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Here is my guide to the NeoGeo CD with MESS but the same steps apply for Colecovision, just use the following command line parameter: coleco -cart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cauptain Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 56 minutes ago, dannyshane said: Not sure if its ok to revive an old topic, but didnt want to start a new thread on an old topic. I saw you mentioned you had a mess tutorial. Where can i find that so i can figure out mess also. (because im trying to get colecovision to work as well but no luck with retroarch or bluemsx). thanks Get correct bios. Look on Retroarch for bios name and crc/sh2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpetty Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Suggest using MAME instead of MESS... newer code and fewer bugs. Same syntax. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyShane Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 thanks everyone. I finally got it working with MAME. whew that was stressful. lol i was missing a key step. thanks for the help you guys BTW Some consoles look better on mame (im using mame 0.204). Like Atari Jaguar has a jaguar intro that was not shown when launching with retroarch… some games were zoomed in on retroarch and part of the game was off screen - pretty weird). but mame plays them real nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Yeah, Mame does some consoles better than the RA cores, I use it for some stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveC1964 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) Just be careful because some CV emus have terrible sound emulation. ColEm was supposed to be good but the sound is way off, it is too high pitched and just doesn't sound right. Space Panic is a good test game. Look at a video on youtube of it on a real system then compare emulators. I think Blue MSX had the most accurate sound from what i remember (still not perfect but close). I haven't tried the multy emus like MAME or RA. Edited May 18, 2019 by DaveC1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, DaveC1964 said: I haven't tried the multy emus like MAME or RA. RA uses other open source emulators for its cores so yeah while it can be considered a "multi emulator" it's not really one, not like Mednafen or Mame where each emulated system is built by the same devs and uses its own code. RA uses BlueMSX for its core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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