Atari 5200 no sound

[jadams]

@mitu Sure, here ya go.

i Model or other hardware: PI5
Power Supply used: Power supply that came with the canakit I got.
RetroPie Version Used: 4.8.7
Built From: Just installed on top of the OS since there's no pre-built image for it.
USB Devices connected: None
Controller used: PS5 controller(just using this for testing until i get this all setup)
Error messages received: No error. Just getting no sound on the lr-atari800 emulator
Verbose log (if relevant): Nothing really. Just checked the runcommand.log and there's nothing abnormal in there.
Emulator: lr-atari800

I did some more testing last night and I got some atari 800 roms as well. I ran these on another machine to test and they do have sound, but when throwing it on the pi and using lr-atari800 as the emulator they load find and just have no sound.

The strange part about this is I've had this pi running for a few months now and added the a few atari 5200 roms to it and it was working with the two or three I was testing with. I ended up wiping the pi and starting over since I had some other issues with it, which were self inflicted due to me messing with stuff, and now they just boot up fine with no sound.

[mitu]

@jadams said in Atari 5200 no sound:

Verbose log (if relevant): Nothing really. Just checked the runcommand.log and there's nothing abnormal in there.

OK, so if only Atari 5200 roms don't have sound, this means the other systems/ROMs do have sound, right ?
Did you reset the RetroArch configuration for the a5200 system or otherwise changed it (overrides ?) ? Can you post a verbose log (runcommand.log) on pastebin.com ?

[jadams]

All of the other systems work fine and have sound. I'm just running the default setup for the lr-atari800 setup. I haven't made any changes to the config other then adding the BIOS files.

https://pastebin.com/9ghRmFB9 for the runcommand.log output.

[mitu]

Disconnect the PS gamepad and try to launch the game only with the keyboard - do you have audio ?

[jadams]

I tried both with and without the keyboard and gamepad and got the same results; however I was sitting near the thing and it is getting sound. It's just so faint and distorted you have to put your head right up against the speaker to hear it.

[nesfredo]

Apparently the problems appeared from update 4.8.7, previously lr-atari800 worked fine, psx-rearmed also presents problems. I can say that version 4.8.6 is the most stable.

[mitu]

@nesfredo The issue is not related to the RetroPie version, but with the Libretro core version. Latest version of the core (18 May 2024) indeed has a regression with the audio volume.
@jadams I reported this upstream, maybe they'll have a solution, but if they don't respond in a timely manner we'll find a local solution to this issue.

[mitu]

We've patched the regression in RetroPie. Update to the latest version of the script and then re-install/update the lr-atari800 package in order to get the modified package.

[WeeFlats]

I've just updated the script and the core on a 3B and still have the same quiet hissing sound

EDIT: never mind, I have updated from binary instead of source, sorry! Thanks for the fix

[jadams]

@mitu I am good to go as well. Thanks for the fix.