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Intellivision

The disc, the side buttons and the twelve-key keypad.

RazorINTV plays Intellivision cartridges with the whole hand controller: the sixteen-direction disc, the side action buttons and the keypad. It needs the console's Executive and Graphics ROMs, which you provide. Support is experimental, so some cartridges will not run yet.

1979

Platform Mattel

In Ultimate Emulator Experimental
Core
RazorINTV
Firmware
Required
Game files
  • .rom
  • .int
Players
Up to 2 on one PC
Online
Local only
Rendering
Original resolution

01 / Current support

Where Intellivision stands today.

Status describes the core, not every game. Compatibility is always title-dependent.

Experimental
Included with limited coverage.
Core
RazorINTV, a first-party core included with Ultimate Emulator. It is chosen automatically for Intellivision games.
Unrated
No comparable per-core performance rating is claimed.
Release note
EXEC and GROM required. Intellicart ROM or mapped content; no ECS/Intellivoice claim.

02 / Your collection

The files it plays.

These are the Intellivision game files RazorINTV opens. Ultimate Emulator does not supply games; add them from your own collection.

Game files

  • .rom
  • .int

Set up

03 / Firmware & BIOS

A BIOS you provide.

Intellivision games cannot start until its BIOS is added. You add it once, and Systems shows Ready.

Required
Two files, both required: the Intellivision Executive ROM (EXEC) and the Intellivision Graphics ROM (GROM). Ultimate Emulator ships neither. It checks each file's size and shape, but has no catalogue of known versions for them, so it cannot tell you which revision you have.

  1. Open Manage BIOS

    In Systems, select Intellivision and choose Manage BIOS. Its firmware page lists each file the system uses and whether it is required.

  2. Choose the file you own

    Check What file do I need?, then use Choose BIOS File, or Choose Firmware Folder if you keep your firmware together.

Set up

04 / Input

How it plays in your hands.

Connect a controller and it is mapped automatically. Change the layout for every game, for this system only, or for a single game in Settings → Controllers.

Intellivision in Ultimate Emulator

  • Two hand controllers, each with the disc, four side action buttons and the 12-key keypad: 0 to 9, Clear and Enter.
  • On a gamepad, the D-pad gives the four main directions and the left stick reaches all sixteen disc directions. Enter is on Start and Clear on Select; the number keys sit on the shoulders, triggers, stick clicks and right stick.
  • The keyboard has no keypad or side-button keys yet, so play with a controller.
Controller Setup

05 / Picture

The original picture, on a modern screen.

Intellivision keeps its own picture: drawn at its original resolution and scaled to your window in the shape the console made.

Resolution
Drawn at its original resolution and scaled to fit your window, keeping the system's own pixel shape.
Graphics settings
Not offered for Intellivision yet. Integer Scale, cropping, pixel filtering and effects in Settings → Graphics apply to the other included systems.
Graphics

06 / Your progress

In-game saves and save states.

The game's own

In-game saves

  • Intellivision cartridges have no save memory, so there are no in-game saves to keep.
Ultimate Emulator

Save states

  • Not available with this core.

Rewind is not integrated with this core.

Learn more

07 / Play together

Together on one PC.

A system profile does not make a single-player game multiplayer. The game decides how many can play.

On one PC
Up to 2 players, one controller each, in games made for more than one player. No account needed.
Across PCs
Not available. This system is local only.

08 / Honest compatibility

What to know before you play.

Current limits of the included core, as of this release.

Known limitations

  • The base console only. A game whose information says it needs the ECS, the Intellivoice, the Keyboard Component or another expansion is declined; a game that is only enhanced by one still starts.
  • A game that needs an expansion but does not say so cannot be detected, and will not run correctly.
  • Bank-switched Intellicart images, Cuttle Cart 3 images and LTO Flash files are not supported, and nor are games that require the Intellivision II.
Region
NTSC timing, as on the original console.
Troubleshooting

09 / Gaming History

Why it mattered.

How Intellivision works in Ultimate Emulator is this page. Why it mattered is in the Gaming History collection.