Stella Standalone Emulator goes to Rom Launcher and not to game

[EmulationNation]

Hello All,

I started my journey today into Launchbox and Bigbox and the first emulator i wanted to setup was the Atari 2600 (the first console i ever brought)

As a test I placed the Stella download in D:\Stella and the roms in D:\Roms

I tested this stand alone at the command prompt with D:\Stella\Stella.exe "D:\Roms\asteroids.bin" and it launches to the game.

I then setup LaunchBox with Stella (See below)

However when you click on the game it goes straight into the Stella Rom Launcher (as shown below, the path to the rom location is correct e.g. D:\Roms)

Obviously this will work in Retroarch, but i would like to add scanlines to the output which I don't believe is supported under the Retroarch core

Anyone any ideas why the standalone emulator isn't working

Regards

[EmulationNation]

Its ok i have fixed it

Created a batch file call Stella.bat and added the following:

echo %1 > log.txt
D:\Stella\Stella %1

When i looked at the log file the only parameter being passed was "-f"

Noticed this was set under "Associated Platforms" removed the value and all now works

Hope this may be helpful to anyone else having the same issue

[paulwgraber]

Hi sent you a PM. I am having the same issue. can you explain more how you did this?

Thx

[SlickStretch]

On 8/19/2023 at 10:49 PM, paulwgraber said:

Hi sent you a PM. I am having the same issue. can you explain more how you did this?

Thx

So after struggling with this for days until finding this thread...
1. Go to Tools > Manage > Emulators

2. Select Stella and click the 'Edit' button.

3. On the left, select 'Associated Platforms' and then remove '-f' from the 'Default command-line parameters' field for each platform on the right.

NOTE: '-f' is used by many emulators to launch into full-screen. You can set this up within Stella if you want this.

[launchretrogirl2562]

On a sidenote,...Retroarch also has support for Atari2600 by using the Atari 2600 (Stella) core

And it supports following extensions

• .a26
• .bin
• .zip

See settings for retroarch

Added benefit is that u can use many bezels out of the box, like the one made by Duimon (with use of HSM mega bezel shader)

HyperspaceMadness’ Mega Bezel Reflection Shader :

https://forums.libretro.com/t/mega-bezel-reflection-shader-feedback-and-updates/25512

Duimon bezels:

https://forums.libretro.com/t/duimon-hsm-mega-bezel-graphics-and-presets-feedback-and-updates/28146

And if you have it setup then it will look like this