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    lr-atari800, 5200, artifacting, BASIC, and other guidance

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    • rkosterR
      rkoster @jamrom2
      last edited by

      @jamrom2 My script basically looks at the filename of the ROM before you load it, and modifies the atari800.cfg on the fly to match what the filename wants. Then it ends and launches the emulator, which loads the way it would normally -- but of course, its settings were changed out from under it.

      The fact that your .cfg is changing means something else is writing to it. Do you by any chance have "save on exit" enabled in the Retroarch menus, or something?

      Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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      • jamrom2J
        jamrom2 @rkoster
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        @rkoster yes, that could be it. I'll look at that as well.

        I can see the script is working, the emulator is somehow passing over the final graphics selection.

        I'll start there and keep playing with it. It's most likely something very simple somewhere . The games work, it's just the video that's the problem.

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        • jamrom2J
          jamrom2 @rkoster
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          @rkoster so after a serious amount of testing and tweaking this morning. I have the reason why this is not working, but I can't seem to fix it.

          The retroarch-core-options.cfg file is not updating to reflect the request of the script.

          The script works fine. It posts the "echo" command in the runcommond.log as it's supposed to. Runs the correct mode, and updates the "ARTIFACT" settings area in lr-atari800.cfg to the requested mode. So I see whatever mode I select in the game fine.... until I don't want it on.

          But the first line of retroarch-core-options.cfg never changes when you select the default lr-atari800 mode. It always says "enabled" unless I manual change it to "disabled", then of course it stays disabled until I change it manually again.

          I've lowered the permissions of the folder and file to 777, so it's able to work with it. I see the time-signature change as if it's looking at the file, but the information remains the same. No changes.

          I didn't have this issue before lr-atari800 was updated... so something has changed... or I have a permission wrong. Not sure what I missed.

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          • rkosterR
            rkoster @jamrom2
            last edited by

            @jamrom2 Thanks for the additional info! Can you try some things for me?

            First, can you verify that the line in retroarch-core-options.cfg is still atari800_artifacting?

            Second, can you see if it's really just that line, or any line at all? Try an OSa vs OSb game, does atari800_system change as it should? Or for other games, atari800_internalbasic? Or atari800_ntscpal?

            Basically, I'm trying to figure out whether it's artifacting only, or whether the whole script is broken... It sure sounds like the whole file isn't editable by the script for some reason.

            Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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            • jamrom2J
              jamrom2 @rkoster
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              @rkoster Yes, still atari800 is on every line...

              atari800_artifacting = "enabled"
              atari800_cassboot = "disabled"
              atari800_internalbasic = "disabled"
              atari800_keyboard = "poll"
              atari800_ntscpal = "NTSC"
              atari800_opt1 = "disabled"
              atari800_opt2 = "disabled"
              atari800_resolution = "336x240"
              atari800_sioaccel = "enabled"
              atari800_system = "130XE (128K)"

              And yes... I agree. Now that I've been testing games, I noticed many don't work that require BASIC or OSb. Hellcat Ace is one, as well as Crush Crumble and Chomp.

              If you need help, let me know. I'm happy to. I don't want to just dump this one on you. You've done a great job of making this emulator work really well.

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              • rkosterR
                rkoster @jamrom2
                last edited by

                @jamrom2 OK, ruling out more issues...

                First, let's see if the script is editing the right location. Can you verify this path is where your core options file lives?

                /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg

                Second, if atari800.cfg is now named lr-atari800.cfg then all the lines like this:

                sed -i 's/DISABLE\_BASIC=.*/DISABLE\_BASIC=0/g' /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/atari800.cfg
                

                in the script will need changed to have the correct path and name for that file. If the path is the same, that means it'd be

                sed -i 's/DISABLE\_BASIC=.*/DISABLE\_BASIC=0/g' /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/lr-atari800.cfg
                

                If the file location moved with the updated core, then the whole path would need to change as well as the filename. There's like a dozen places in the script where that update would need to be made to point at the correct location for lr-atari800.cfg.

                Apologies for having you do all this testing and checking, but I'm not able to work on my setup just now -- maybe this weekend. But I am hopeful it's just a path error resulting from the update to the emu core.

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                • jamrom2J
                  jamrom2 @rkoster
                  last edited by jamrom2

                  @rkoster I'm happy to help.

                  My retroarch-core-options.cfg lives in /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/ .

                  I don't see it in the location you posted. I will put it there to test. The rest of the locations you mentioned I have already changed hoping that would effect something.

                  Let me see if moving that file does anything.

                  Sorry... correction from above... yes.. I see the file in the location you posted. I have two now. One in that location, and one in /opt/retropie/configs/atari800.

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                  • rkosterR
                    rkoster @jamrom2
                    last edited by

                    @jamrom2 One of those is overriding the other, I bet.

                    You could try:

                    • deleting the one in /opt/retropie/configs/atari800 (Make a backup copy first of course).
                    • editing the script to change all references to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg into /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/retroarch-core-options.cfg

                    I wonder if an update moved the location of retroarach-core-options.cfg... the docs do not seem to indicate so.

                    Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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                    • jamrom2J
                      jamrom2 @rkoster
                      last edited by

                      @rkoster said in lr-atari800, 5200, artifacting, BASIC, and other guidance:

                      /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/retroarch-core-options.cfg

                      Nice work! That did the trick. The location in the script needs to be updated from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg to /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/retroarch-core-options.cfg

                      I tested a few different games that use BASIC, OSb and all different Artificating. They all worked and it's switching in and out of the artifacting as it should.

                      Flight Simulator II #2 Artifacting
                      Hellcat Ace - OSb and BASIC
                      Micro League Baseball CITA Artifiacting
                      Crush, Crumble and Chomp - OSb and BASIC #1 Artifacting
                      MULE - nothing

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                      • rkosterR
                        rkoster @jamrom2
                        last edited by

                        @jamrom2 I guess the location of retroarch-core-options.cfg must have moved (or exploded into separate files per emu?)

                        Hey @mitu, do you happen to know? If I update the script, I want to make sure it's correct.

                        Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @rkoster
                          last edited by mitu

                          @rkoster said in lr-atari800, 5200, artifacting, BASIC, and other guidance:

                          Hey @mitu, do you happen to know? If I update the script, I want to make sure it's correct.

                          I haven't followed the recent discussion, but yes - by default RetroArch will use a separate options file (.opt) per-core, instead of a single file (/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg). However, the RetroPie default configuration doesn't enable this option. This doesn't prevent the situation when the user will reset the RetroArch's configuration to default and this option will be automatically enabled.

                          On a related note, the next RetroArch version (1.9.1) has a new 'save core options per content folder' option which will make it easier to maintain separate core options for each folder, without extra configurations necessary.

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                          • rkosterR
                            rkoster @mitu
                            last edited by

                            @mitu Ah, OK. I suppose I can modify both locations just in case, or check the option and modify the appropriate location... Blah.

                            Getting to be time to modify the actual core to do what this script does, maybe. :D I've been putting it off... A lot of people use this script now!

                            Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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                            • rkosterR
                              rkoster @rkoster
                              last edited by

                              And it occurs to me that having separate core configs per content folder won't solve the Atari 8 bit problems, because this script modifies both the core options and the core's own config file in order to get to all the settings. hmm.

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                              • RapidEdwin08R
                                RapidEdwin08 @rkoster
                                last edited by RapidEdwin08

                                @rkoster THANK YOU for your work on this...

                                Are we still following this thread mainly?
                                It's still linked on the RetroPie Docs page, so I suppose so?

                                I'm working on a simple menu driven script that will assist with getting lr-atari800 working for atari5200 Roms-DIR on a clean RetroPie 4.7.1 out-of-box install.
                                So far I included Segmentation fault fix (Disable Menu Widgets in retroarch.cfg), and the Memo Pad fix (5200 settings for retroarch-core-options.cfg).

                                I also wanted to include an Installer for your Awesome runcommand-onstart.sh script, with the fixes mentioned here,in a .diff file if that's OK.

                                Here's a Sample of .diff to confirm the changes are needed/correct:

                                +# [202202] Updated [atari800.cfg] to [lr-atari800.cfg]
                                +#
                                +# [202202] Updated to include all x3 [retroarch-core-options.cfg] Locations:
                                +# /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
                                +# /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/retroarch-core-options.cfg
                                +# /opt/retropie/configs/atari5200/retroarch-core-options.cfg
                                

                                Still some work to do, but Should I post it here? Start a new thread?

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                                • rkosterR
                                  rkoster @RapidEdwin08
                                  last edited by

                                  @rapidedwin08 As far as a new thread or this one, it's up to @mitu and other mods, I suppose; usually really old threads are preferred to stay dead, but in this case it's certainly true that a lot of folks use this script actively.

                                  I don't remember if I have updated the github with that diff; I probably should! But either way, it's fine with me if you create an installer based on this code.

                                  At some point, I'd like to get some of this functionality into the core itself and simplify everyone's lives!

                                  Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

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                                  • RapidEdwin08R
                                    RapidEdwin08 @rkoster
                                    last edited by RapidEdwin08

                                    @rkoster
                                    As mentioned, here's a Menu driven script to assist with lr-atari800 Tweaks:

                                    https://github.com/RapidEdwin08/lr-atari800-tweaks

                                    Can be ran from retropiemenu (or manually):

                                    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/lr-atari800-tweaks/main/lr-atari800-tweaks.sh -P ~/RetroPie/retropiemenu
                                    

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                                    • rkosterR
                                      rkoster @RapidEdwin08
                                      last edited by

                                      @rapidedwin08 Awesome!

                                      It occurs to me that since you have the diff done already, if you make a fork of https://github.com/raphkoster/lr-atari800-runcommand-onstart, make the changes, and do a pull request, I can just merge them into the master.

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                                      • RapidEdwin08R
                                        RapidEdwin08 @rkoster
                                        last edited by

                                        @rkoster said in lr-atari800, 5200, artifacting, BASIC, and other guidance:

                                        @rapidedwin08 Awesome!

                                        It occurs to me that since you have the diff done already, if you make a fork of https://github.com/raphkoster/lr-atari800-runcommand-onstart, make the changes, and do a pull request, I can just merge them into the master.

                                        Done..
                                        Feel free to double check and let me know if changes/additions/subtractions are needed.

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                                        • rkosterR
                                          rkoster @RapidEdwin08
                                          last edited by

                                          @rapidedwin08 Merged, thanks!

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                                          • C
                                            cdaters
                                            last edited by cdaters

                                            I just stumbled upon this post...is this about getting 5200(and 800) carts to auto-launch? I am getting ready to build out an 800 and 5200 section on my build. I started with the 5200 and I spent the better part of this afternoon trying to work through the RetroPie documentation of loading carts, extracting, saving, etc. and I only got three to autoload so far...

                                            Though in fairness, it was a busy day for me building JavaScript rules for online ordering templates for some of our customers, lol....among other things...

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