Coleco Vision Issue

[Spongey]

Trying to set up Coleco Vision games to run through Gameex Arcade Edition. Will run fine when using the UI in mame without running through Gameex. But running through Gameex it shows the introduction screen saying Coleco Vision present Carnival and it just keeps resetting and showing that screen. Will not go to the next screen allowing you to pick a skill level to play the game. I have Atari 2600 set up the same way as Coleco Vision and it works fine. Not sure what I am missing.

log.txt GameEx.ini

[Draco1962]

In the log.txt file that you also have MESS setup for Colecovision for emulator 2. 

They should use the same ROM files. Are you able to launch the same game (Zaxxon) via MESS and provide the log.txt file?

[Spongey]

Not sure exactly what you are asking. I picked MESS from the list of available emulators in the Gameex emulator set up. I figured that was the same as MAME. I have set up Atari 2600 and Nintendo SNES emulators the same way.  They both work perfectly. Didn't have to change any settings except in the command line I changed MESS.exe to Mame.exe.  I have compared the setting from Atari 2600 and SNES to the coleco settings and they are exactly the same. When I run a coleco game from mame directly using the built in UI (not Gameex) they run fine. When running through Gameex they run, but stop at the intro screen saying Coleco presents "Game XYZ". Then try's to show the blue screen where you pick a number 1 - 8 to set skill level. But it only flashes that for a brief time and goes back to the into screen saying Coleco presents "Game XYZ" The log file does not show a problem. I thinks I played the game and exited normally. 

log.txt

[Draco1962]

Basically just asking if you run the game through GameEx via MESS instead of MAME do you get the same results.

[Spongey]

I tried to get MESS setup through Gameex and could not get it to work. I could not get it to work stand alone either. The setup info online says there is a UI similar to MAME to set things up but I could not figure out how to get into it. 

[Spongey]

I figured out how to make it work, sort of. When I select a coleco vision game through Gameex and it shows the intro screen saying Coleco present Carnival. I can hit the tab key and go into select new system. It brings up the coleco menu and lets me pick carnival and it will work.  But I know there is something stupid I don't have right.

 

[Draco1962]

IIRC this is one that is not as nice to emulate as others. Not sure if it would work any better through Retroarch with one of the cores for the console.

[Spongey]

I'm not much of a command line guy which is part of the problem. Maybe I will try setting up a different emulator for Coleco Vision through Gameex. I was just trying to use it through MAME because it was already set up and working well with all the other software list systems.