Nintellivision (NINTV-DS) emulation for DSi

[ZillaRUSH]

I know there was a few posts already from Rick and a few others in other subject...I'd figure I'd start a new post for all to ref.

 

I dont have tons of skills when it comes to jailbreaking products...basically none.  I saw the recent post from Dave Bernazanni on FB.  He developed an emulator for the DSi.  I luckily had an old one handy and charged it up to begin the process.  It was easy!!!   This is so awesome!!

 

Here is his post from FB:

If you've got a love for Intellivision and have a DS/DSi available, be sure to check out Nintellivision (NINTV-DS) which emulates the system (including Intellivoice, ECS and newer JLP cart homebrews). It doesn't support bankswitching - so World Series of Baseball is out... but otherwise should be compatible with just about everything. This took me a solid 200 hours of development - but you can use it freely.

Tons of options - manuals, high scores, generic overlays included and custom overlays possible (my AD&D Treasure of Tarmin overlay shown - for my own personal use... this is my favorite Intellivision game and I play it almost daily!). Many games support the 'dual action controller' so you can move and shoot at the same time. Cheat and Hack support included and you can save your game in one of 3 slots per game.

Many of us bought (and still own) the "Inty Lives" DS compilation but that has a number of problems (screen bottoms cut off in some games... some sounds and some voices missing, screen glitches where the running-man and other objects get caught in walls, etc). This is my love-letter to the Intellivision which fixes all that.

 

https://github.com/wavemotion-dave

 

I'm sure there are options, but I read you had to add the Twilight menu on your DSI...I watched and followed step by step this incredible youtube post...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8g3pQWGG3A&t=604s

 

I just started adding ROM's...certain not all work.  Next up is to add in overlays (for those that are available).

 

My pics attached.  Im sure others can add to this post.  Thanks to Dave for this incredible work!!  Takes a little time, but for a noob...it was not bad at all!!

Added to that he has emulators for CV and Atari systems...adding those later tonite!

 

[+wavemotion]

Hey - that looks familiar!

 

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate the appreciation.  

 

If you have any games that don't run correctly (outside of the few Bankswitched games - I haven't implemented that handling yet), please let me know via a private message. I'm usually able to figure that out quickly and provide an updated release or at least a .cfg file to get you going. If it's an available ROM file, I can usually debug fast... if not, I've successfully worked with various people who have private ROMs (and I never ask for them) to get them running and make the next iteration of the emulator even better. My goal is as close to perfect as can be had on this retro-handheld. 

[ZillaRUSH]

It is amazing, thanks so much!!!   No issues so far.  The password protected ROM's for the LTO Flash only...I had a feeling they would not work. I tried. Wish I could play a few of those...WOWor especially.  Oh well.   Added the Atari Emu's last nite.  CV tonite...wow...makes that DSi unreal!   I could not believe I was playing my fav game...Super Pro Baseball handheld.   D2K is a fav as well...handheld = perfection.

[ts-x]

@ZillaRUSH be sure to check out the custom overlays as well.  Dave and others have put together a number of really nice full screen versions.  I’ve also put together a number of partial screen overlays aimed at those who prefer to keep their left thumb on the Dpad while using their right for the keypad. Some examples are here and there’s a link in that same post to the source files. Pre-made overlays of either type are very easy to install and get up and running.

[ZillaRUSH]

Awesome!!, thanks so much @ts-x.  I'll try to tackle the install for the overlays tonite.  Downloaded them all! 

[+Steve Jones]

After reading this thread and the other one, I bought a used DSI XL and set about doing this.

The YouTube video above was very helpful and yesterday I got it up and running.

 

It runs almost every Intellivision game including some I am beta testing, as long as the files are roms and not bin+cfg.

 

I have also grabbed some of the other emulators and have it running games

for Atari 5200, 7800, Colecovision, MSX, NES, SNES, and Genesis.

 

The Twilight launcher runs a few other systems too but I haven't got into those yet.

 

As an Intellivision emulator it works way better than the PocketGo, it plays games the the PG wouldn't, for example Intellivania.

 

I'm very happy with this setup, it really seems to be the way to go for handheld Intellivision emulation.

 

Thanks to Dave B for developing this, and anyone else who was involved.

 

Hey Dave, if you feel like doing a TI99 emulator like you mentioned online I would be all over that

Edited September 29, 2022 by Steve Jones

[+wavemotion]

Glad to hear you got it going, Steve! The DSi XL with TWL++ is the dream - that's going to give you the maximum ability for homebrew emulators and opens up the 2X CPU and 4X Memory of the DSi (vs the original DS/DS-Phat/DS-Lite).  The six emulators I helped develop will all run really well on your setup - it's an 8-bit paradise!  Be sure to check out S8DS for SMS goodness (it also supports Coleco and MSX but not nearly as well as my ColecoDS) and Nitrografx which is not perfect but STUNNING in how fast it will render the Turbo Grafx 16 games...   You'll find the SNES and Genesis emulators are just not able to run fast enough even on the faster DSi... just too much CPU and graphic processing to make that happen.  There's one guy I know that could do it... FluBBa - he's an ARM assembly wizard and has mastered all the tricks on the DS handhelds... His emulators are really technical marvels.

If I work on another emulator for the DS/DSi it will be a TI-99/4a emulator. That's the last of the classic systems that I have an affinity for. But each emulator is 100+ hours of my time to tune up and I'm not mentally ready for another round of torture