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RE: Spinner Configurations for Tempest

Ali Jani — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000

@gatesl for iOS, you have to be on latest firmware that allows you to change USB emulation modes. Go to settings and down to USB Emulation and select iOS and save to and it will reboot. Then make your you are on latest iOS on your phone and there is a setting called AssistiveTouch that you need to toggle on. Also in some iPhones you need to also go the iphone settings under General then Game controller and you will be able to see the device if you did things correctly on the spinner changing it to USB emulation and you selected the correct gamepad and mouse modes.

RE: Trouble with Quad USB on VICE Emulator for Mac

Ali Jani — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:47:07 +0000

@alteredegg Excellent. thank you!

RE: Duo Ultimate not recognized by Stella

Ali Jani — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:45:35 +0000

@jjh when mapping with stella, best to make sure you have sensitivity at maximum on the Duo and ideally in Dpad mode. The latest firmware update automatically adjusts for stella deadzone if you set the Duo to dpad while mapping.

RE: Two ideas/request for Spinner Ultimate

Ali Jani — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:41:30 +0000

Hi. Steam games should work fine but may require some config tweaking depending on the game. For example see this for Tempest 4000: https://youtu.be/fuhLChkLazg

Keyboard emulation will be possible soon in a future firmware update. I do have a prototype working.

A few others also asked for option to make the direction toggle sticky. Will be adding this also, so thanks for the feedback and idea.

Let me know what games you want to make work with steam and I can try to create more videos!

RE: Spinner Configurations for Tempest

gatesl — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:05:12 +0000

Do you have reasonable settings for IOS? I am trying with an iPAD and having a difficult time.

Two ideas/request for Spinner Ultimate

niceguybill — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:46:04 +0000

Loving the Spinner. I've been trying to set it up with some games in Steam that aren't playing nice with it. Is it possible to have a setting to emulate a keyboard? Also, I have a game that changes the paddle location from horizontal to vertical on various boards. I mapped a button to change to vertical, but I guess you have to hold the button down for the duration of the board which makes it tough to use other buttons. It would be nice if I could map a button to flip between the two when pressed.

RE: Paddles with Stella Emulator on Linux

Ali Jani — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:58:00 +0000

Hi. Are you using using stella standalone and which version? or are you use stella or Stelal2014 core in Retroarch or another front end? let me know the details of your setup and I can try it on my end and share the steps.

if you are using ubuntu desktop, use chrome browser and it should work fine with icodehub. I can also send you manual update instructions once i know the details of your setup.

Paddles with Stella Emulator on Linux

Marcel Schoen — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:41:06 +0000

I'm trying to use paddles with Stella on Linux, but they don't work well. Even at "Full Range" I can't move the paddle all the way to the left or right in "Breakout" (while it works with the mouse), it's jittery and imprecise. Any hints about specific settings maybe in Stella?

Also, proper Linux support would be appreciated in general - neither the online registration of the device, nor the firmware update work with Linux (at least nor for me).

RE: Trouble with Quad USB on VICE Emulator for Mac

AlteredEgg — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:46:12 +0000

Turns out I was able to make the iCode Retro Gaming Adapter work with the SDL version of VICE. GTK is what has problems. Likely just something on their end!

RE: Trouble with Quad USB on VICE Emulator for Mac

AlteredEgg — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:11:03 +0000

Has anything changed in the firmware since 2024 which might resolve this issue? I tried it again with VICE 3.10 and it still has problems.