Stella Question with Game EX

[vguzz]

Hey guys it's been a long time since I posted here. It took me months to setup my Game Ex and I love it. it looks great on my 52 inch LCD.. After all my hard work I took a break from it for a while though. Anyways I want to thank everyone here for the help i've received in the past, but now I'm messing with the program again adding some new systems and I'll be back asking for help again.. Anwaysshere's my latest question..

I have recently added Stella to my Game Ex system and it runs fine but i have 2 minor issues.

First the emulator wont recognize my little 8 way control pad, and only recognizes my analog controller both on the same unit so is there any kind of fix for this..

2nd when I close out of a game through Game EX I would like the actual emulator to shut down automatically. As things are now I have to manually click the "quit" button for me to go back into Game EX.

[bkenobi]

For question 2, you can use an Advanced Emulator Config to map your quit button to kill the emulator. You could also use a joystick combo if you prefer.

For question 1...I don't use that emu, but you need to make sure it works in the emu before trying it in GameEx. If it doesn't work on it's own, it won't work when you try it with GameEx.

[vguzz]

question 1 I figured out... Apparently you have to reset the Atari to play some games after they are loaded. and that is done by hitting the F2 key. I was kicking myself on that one.. After I hit F2 everything worked as intended.

As far as closing the emulator down after quitting a game.. I don't know what to type in the Advanced control settings to make that happen.

[IMBerzerk]

question 1 I figured out... Apparently you have to reset the Atari to play some games after they are loaded. and that is done by hitting the F2 key. I was kicking myself on that one.. After I hit F2 everything worked as intended.

As far as closing the emulator down after quitting a game.. I don't know what to type in the Advanced control settings to make that happen.

Hi... have you tried MESS for all Atari options? I find it works 100% better than Stella... and is easy to set up, much like MAME as it uses the same base engine to emulate.

IMB.

[vguzz]

Hi... have you tried MESS for all Atari options? I find it works 100% better than Stella... and is easy to set up, much like MAME as it uses the same base engine to emulate.

IMB.

I'll look into it. Never heard of MESS before. For now though since I have stella running perfect, I would appreciate any help regarding what advanced command information required to close the emulator down after exiting a game. It is probably very simple, I just don't know the language..

[vguzz]

I'll look into it. Never heard of MESS before. For now though since I have stella running perfect, I would appreciate any help regarding what advanced command information required to close the emulator down after exiting a game. It is probably very simple, I just don't know the language..

The physical Keyboard command to close Stella is "Control + q" if that helps. I need to tell Game Ex to do this.

[vguzz]

The physical Keyboard command to close Stella is "Control + q" if that helps. I need to tell Game Ex to do this.

I got it.. There was a menu in stella that dealt with the key mapping of Emulator events.. I made the original "Control+q" into esc which made it both shut down the game and emulator at the same time. poof back to game EX without a problem. Someone mention this fix on this board way back in 2005 under a config sharing thread lol..