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ColEm
  PCEmulationUC  
  opened by smbhax at 22:02:05 03/20/26  
  last modified by smbhax at 01:50:35 03/21/26  
  smbhax [sys=PC; cat=Emulation; reg=UC]
           
https://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/
 
One of the recommended https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/ColecoVision_emulators and perhaps longer-running ColecoVision emulators, and one of two emulators I could get to load the ROMs from ColecoVision Flashback without needing a BIOS file. The other, CoolCV, was very light on options, whereas this has pretty much the standard level of options, and lots of command-line options with good documentation, so I'll probably stick to this unless I run into a compatibility issue.
 
Hasn't been updated since 2021.
 
  smbhax 01:50:35 03/21/26
           
OH. ColEm's download includes the COLECO.ROM BIOS file; it MD5 checks as an actual 8KB Coleco BIOS file, not some kind of backwards-engineered thing or stand-in or something. Without it, the emulator crashes. Anyway, looks like this isn't gonna fly.
 
(That COLECO.ROM magically also makes the other emulators I tried work: Mesen, BizHawk, Ares, Gearcoleco. 'p')
    
references:
· ColecoVision Flashback (PC)

 
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