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stella-emu / stella

A multi-platform Atari 2600 Emulator
https://stella-emu.github.io
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Will you add support for Tournament Table? #1040

Open soundsnow opened 3 weeks ago

soundsnow commented 3 weeks ago

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/atari/tourtabl.cpp

ale-79 commented 3 weeks ago

My feeling, as a simple Stella user, is that while cool, it would be a bit outside the scope of the emulator.

It is true that Tournament Table is heavily based on the same hardware of the VCS 2600 console, but it also has a lot of differences that would require special handling (different memory map, 6k of non bankswitched rom, additional RIOT chip, completely different I/O mappings, etc.). Since TT is not a VCS cartridge, many of the Stella options (think e.g. "game properties") wouldn't make sense for it, and the debugger would need to be modified too (or disabled), as, again, that's not a VCS 2600 console with a cartridge and controllers attached, but a different machine.

Just my 2c. :smiley: