Trying to get Atari 5200 Games working on an RPI4 for Christmas

jgold

I've had zero success. I'm attempting to use retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400.img on a 4GB RPI4. I'm having trouble getting a game pad configured. I've tried the original Atari 5200 controller with a USB adapter but the buttons don't match up very well at all.

Does anyone have a recommendation or a wireless controller that works well with Atari 5200 games?

mitu

@jgold said in Trying to get Atari 5200 Games working on an RPI4 for Christmas:

Does anyone have a recommendation or a wireless controller that works well with Atari 5200 games?

I think any controller that has an analog joystick will work. XBox/PS3 or Ps4 controllers, any clone of any of them should be fine.

For the initial configuration, you can also use a keyboard and configure it instead of a gamepad to navigate EmulationStation and start games.

RapidEdwin08

@jgold You can try manually adding SDL Joy mappings like here:
opt/retropie/configs/atari800/lr-atari800.cfg
opt/retropie/configs/atari5200/retroarch.cfg

mitu

@RapidEdwin08 said in Trying to get Atari 5200 Games working on an RPI4 for Christmas:

@jgold You can try manually adding SDL Joy mappings like here:

This will not help if you can't navigate the front-end UI to start the game.

jgold

I can't get the keyboard to work. I hold down a key to start the keyboard configuration. I go through all the settings and try to pick something reasonable. When I'm all done the focus is on the OK button at the bottom but I have no way to press it. I defined Start as the enter key and Select as the right shift but neither of them will press the button.

This is where I'm pretty much stuck. I think it won't work because whatever key it's looking at to accept the button press isn't defined yet. I can't press the OK until after it's defined so I can't finish defining it.

Why do I need to set up a keyboard? Shouldn't that already default to something reasonable?

This can't be normal. There must be something else messed up or I'm doing something wrong.

mitu

@jgold said in Trying to get Atari 5200 Games working on an RPI4 for Christmas:

I can't get the keyboard to work. I hold down a key to start the keyboard configuration. I go through all the settings and try to pick something reasonable. When I'm all done the focus is on the OK button at the bottom but I have no way to press it. I defined Start as the enter key and Select as the right shift but neither of them will press the button.

You need to press the key you chose as A to confirm. A is the action/ok button.

Why do I need to set up a keyboard? Shouldn't that already default to something reasonable?

It could, but some controllers can identify as keyboard devices and they won't work if the pre-defined mapping wouldn't match their layout.

jgold

@mitu @RapidEdwin08 I had tried to use the A key I had selected above but it didn't work. I finally got it set up but I don't know what if anything I did differently.

I think I got both the keyboard and controller working and moved on to getting the Atari 5200 games to work. That's also a lot move involved than I would have thought but I'm working my way through the documentation.

Thanks for the help! I really appreciate it.