Stella 6.6.0

This release corresponds to Stella 6.6.0. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the Stella related changes.

The R77 build comes with the following additional changes:

• Removal of the joystick deazone
• Keep multiple dumps on SD in dumper mode
• Add an option for disabling overclocking (at the expense of performance)
• Switch compiler to gcc 10.

Refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.5.3

This release corresponds to Stella 6.5.3. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes and to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.5.2

This release corresponds to Stella 6.5.2. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes and to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Mr. Paddles

This release corresponds to Stella 6.5.1. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes.

This release has several notable changes for the R77

• Paddles work again. Previous releases contained a bug that rendered of the fire button on jittering paddles unreliable.
• Paddles and joystick can be interchanged at runtime. In all previous versions of the firmware properly switching between paddles and joystick required a power cycle.
• All settings are now saved in a sqlite database, including per-game setting. This makes those settings save to use on the R77. Previously, only global properties were saved in the database, and per-game settings could be lost during power cycles.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.4.0 / Atarivox support / Dump to SD

This release corresponds to Stella 6.40. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes.

Notably, this release fixes a number of bugs in 6.3.0 that affected the R77 port in particular.

In addition to the changes in Stella 6.4.0, this release introduces support for the Atarivox connected to an USB-to-serial dongle and supports storing the dumped ROM images to SD. Please refer to the instructions in the README on how to dump ROM images.

In order to use the Atarivox, the Vox must be connected to an USB-to-serial dongle with an USB Y cable at boot. Refer to the Stella user's guide for further instructions. The dongle should show up as either ttyUSB0 or ttyACM0. Support of a specific dongle depends on the (ancient) Linux kernel used by the console, but most dongles should be supported.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.3.0 --- removed

Release removed due to regressions.

Stella 6.2.1

This release corresponds to Stella 6.2.1. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes.

Notably, this release fixes a bug that could cause the keyboard mappings for the device buttons to malfunction.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.1.2

This release corresponds to Stella 6.1.2. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes.

In addition, the firmware now checks for the games directory on the SD card at boot and creates it if it is missing.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.1.1

This release corresponds to Stella 6.1.1. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.

Stella 6.1

This release corresponds to Stella 6.1.0. Please refer to the Stella changelog for a list of the changes. In particular, this resolves frame skipping issues on the R77 with the previous 6.1.0-RC1 build which manifested in some games.

Please refer to the installation instructions for installing the firmware.