Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?

[mitu]

AFAIK the emulated Atari model is a core option, which is not saved in the emulator's configuration file. The core options are saved automatically when exiting the emulator.

[joepauljig]

@mitu ,

That was my understanding too but for some reason every time I reload a game that I had "thought" I'd saved a cartridge confifg for, it doesn't load. The only success I have is when I go through the cart selection process all over again and manually load the game from the emulator menu screen.

Thanks

[dankcushions]

@joepauljig said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

@mitu ,

That was my understanding too but for some reason every time I reload a game that I had "thought" I'd saved a cartridge confifg for, it doesn't load. The only success I have is when I go through the cart selection process all over again and manually load the game from the emulator menu screen.

please show the verbose log as per https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, for a failed one (above log is not verbose) where you think it should have loaded the setting.

[joepauljig]

@dankcushions said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Here's the verbose log:

https://pastebin.com/wUM2aZir

Thanks

[JimmyFromTheBay]

@joepauljig This works: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16556/cartridge-type-code-list-for-atari-5200-games

[joepauljig]

Thanks @jimmyfromthebay,

I did use this list to get the games to load but the changes don't seem to hold.

The next time I try to load a game from emulation station that I've performed this procedure on, it doesn't load and I have to go through all the steps again.

I was hoping that the system would remember the cartridge type and just load directly from emulation station but that doesn't seem to be my experience.

Thanks

[mitu]

@joepauljig said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

Here's the verbose log:

The log doesn't show much - it would have been interesting to see if the core options are saved after you change the model.

Can you also post the atari800 options from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg ? Run, from the command line

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

and post the output.

[joepauljig]

@mitu said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

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

Thanks @mitu,

Here's the output of that config file:

pi@retropie:~ $ grep atari800 /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
atari800_artifacting = "disabled"
atari800_cassboot = "disabled"
atari800_internalbasic = "disabled"
atari800_keyboard = "poll"
atari800_ntscpal = "NTSC"
atari800_opt1 = "disabled"
atari800_opt2 = "disabled"
atari800_resolution = "336x240"
atari800_sioaccel = "disabled"
atari800_system = "5200"
pi@retropie:~ $ 

[mitu]

@joepauljig said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

atari800_system = "5200"

This looks ok. I have the same options - saved as a content-dir options - and the games boot fine.

EDIT: just to make sure, can you update your RetroPie script and included packages (see here) and retry ?

[JimmyFromTheBay]

@joepauljig said in Can 5200 cartridge types be saved for future reference?:

Thanks @jimmyfromthebay,

I did use this list to get the games to load but the changes don't seem to hold.

The next time I try to load a game from emulation station that I've performed this procedure on, it doesn't load and I have to go through all the steps again.

Are you sure you SAVED the patched version rather than just temporarily patching it? Try saving it under a different name and compare the patched version with the original one.

[joepauljig]

Thanks @mitu,

I did run the updates and then rebooted my system. The game I was testing loaded correctly the first time. However, I backed out to emulation station and tried it again and it crashed and went back to the games list like it was before.

I tried it a few more times with the same results so I rebooted the system again to see if that had anything to do with it but it's still not loading.

I appreciate your help. I'm just not sure on this one.

Thanks

[joepauljig]

@jimmyfromthebay,

I tried your suggestion and created the cart with a different name but I'm still getting the same results when I load the renamed game file.

Thanks

[JimmyFromTheBay]

@joepauljig And are the two files different? Exact same filesize down to the number of bytes?

[joepauljig]

@jimmyfromthebay ,

They are different sizes:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/atari5200 $ ls -lhart *Dig*
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16K Jul 13 21:52 'Dig Dug (1983) (Atari).a52'
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 17K Jul 13 21:53 'Dig Dug c (1983) (Atari).a52'