How can you play 2600 games using Stella and a keyboard?

[Crash7]

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!  

 

 

[Crash7]

Got it.  

[Living Room Arcade]

 

@Crash7 HippoBytes has you covered!  

 

This is a walkthrough that will have you playing ALL the Atari 2600 games on your Windows PC within minutes using an Atari 2600 emulator called Stella. You're welcome.

 

Links mentioned in video:

https://stella-emu.github.io/

http://www.atarimania.com/

 

"Look at the stack of Atari 2600 games.  Doesn't that make you feel nostalgic?  Don't you wish you could play all the
Atari 2600 games?  You can and I'm gonna show you how.  It's super easy to do.  All you have to do is install an Atari 2600 emulator on your PC called Stella and then you can go to Atarimania.com and download every single Atari 2600 game ever made [and] put that onto the emulator and now you have access to every Atari game that ever came out."

Edited September 24, 2023 by Living Room Arcade

[Crash7]

I have Stella the problem was I didn't know how to get the game to start until I just started pressing buttons and then it worked LOL

 

But thanks for the link to where to get ROMs I didn't have that

[Living Room Arcade]

@Crash7  Glad to help.  I think you'll want to do this. 

 

In Stella click Options or press TAB key.  Options menu appears.  Choose INPUT.   

 

Choose CONSOLE from the pull down menu.

You'll want to see which keyboard keys are used for game SELECT and game RESET.  Make note of those.

Also, keys to toggle right and left difficulty.

 

Choose JOYSTICK in the pull down menu. 

You'll want to check which keyboard keys are being used for up, down, left, right and fire.

 

Also, you may want to download @Impaler_26's collection, Atari 2600 Hacks and Homebrews ROM Collection V1.2.

2,245 items including great hacks like Voice Enhanced Berzerk and Pac-Man Plus and many more.

 

Also, head over to Champ Games and download all the free demo ROMS.  

 

Hope that gets you off to a good start.  

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Living Room Arcade

[Crash7]

That post above this one might be the best post I've ever read here LOL

 

Talk about a fountain of information!

[Living Room Arcade]

39 minutes ago, Crash7 said:

That post above this one might be the best post I've ever read here LOL

 

Talk about a fountain of information!

@Crash7  Happy to help.  And when you have the chance to help someone here with a question, please, pass it forward.  See what I mean?  

Edited September 24, 2023 by Living Room Arcade