Atari800 colo(u)r washed out
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How I got as far as I have:
I bought a The400 to run some old Atari 800 files. While the supplied games run fine, I can't get the ability to run files from a USB stick to work. "OK", I thought, "it's just using a fairly old Arm-based SoC, and I have some Raspberry Pis.."
Downloaded the image for a Pi 4, put on a microSD card, inserted into a Pi 4 and booted.
At the time, I only had a 25 year old Microsoft Sidewinder controller, with not many buttons etc. I may have pressed the wrong one at the wrong time when setting it up, because I ended up not being able to get to the menu that enables you to change controller settings.
I could connect a wireless Switch controller, but the system was still responding to the Sidewinder. Go out and get a third party wired Switch controller, rewrite the microSD card, start again.
(Q: Is it possible to start with just a Bluetooth controller? It doesn't look like it - you need to connect it via a different menu because button pushes don't register until you do..)
After rather more searching via Google to work out what needs to go where, and copying the .cfg from the docs, get to a position where I can run .ATR files.
Problem: the colours are much more washed out than I remember them being. The GUI's colours are nicely saturated, it's just the games. The blue screens (Atari 800s booted to a blue screen by default) I got before getting this far looked OK. The games with THE400 look OK on the same TV.
System:
Pi Model or other hardware: 4B
Power Supply used: official Raspberry Pi 4 PSU
RetroPie Version Used: 4.8 (.4?)
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website, retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400
USB Devices connected: third party Switch controller, Logitech keyboard dongle
Controller used: third party Switch controller
Guide used: (Mention if you followed a guide): the docs here for the .cfg, helped by assorted others to get the various BIOS files in the right place.
How to replicate the problem: Get games like Pole Position and Pacman running, wonder why the colours are so washed out.
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