@metal-ghost

Hey I got it to work. When pairing via Bluetooth I don’t wake up the VCS Classic controller until about 30 seconds or so after the searching for Bluetooth with the pi. That way the VCS controller does not turn off before it finishes.

Once I set it up in emulation station I launch a game and the controls get mapped all wrong for some reason so I go into RetroArch under settings->input->port 1 (or something like that I’m not at my pi right now) I’ll reconfigure the controls and save controller profile.

Now it works except the paddle. Unfortunately it’s using a different scheme (I believe it starts at 0 and wraps all the way to 1 when it resets to zero, I’ve seen people explain it better on Reddit). It works great on stella on my windows. But I haven’t figured it out on Retropie. I’ll keep looking and trying things to get the paddle to work.

@gizmobjb said in Atari VCS with RtroePie installed in Ubuntu getting failed to find mixer elements error:

Besides my custom es_system file not working, when I add it the only system shown is one is sg-1000. I can live with that issue as the custom file is set up to order the systems by maker and old to new.

If the file is incorrect, EmulationStation might not load it. There's a log file in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt that might help diagnose this.

But every time I exit emulationstation I get a blank purple screen and have to logout of ubuntu and back in, not the end if the world though.

That might be the (Gnome) terminal from where EmulationStation is started. Have you tried typing exit or pressing Ctrl+C Ctrl+D at that point ?

Yep, all sorted now, ta.

@bytethis said in Did anyone get the Atari VCS?:

@hornsoverithaca Thanks ! You peaked my curiosity and I had to see what it was. SCAM !! lol. I scrolled down that page and saw this vid : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3kmx7/when-the-worlds-most-famous-hacker-hacked-a-mcdonalds-restaurant-drive-in , made me chuckle ! Cheers !

Isn't that just ridiculous? Mike Kennedy put a video capture card into a clear plastic Atari Jaguar shell and called it a new console.

@lilbud Determines the person. Gaming PCs aren't exactly small elegant beasts that have a cozy spot in the living room. I think the Atari VCS will bring a nice compact elegant solution. Not a hulking beast, but not as underpowered as say a Nvidia Shield. For its price range, I figure it'll outclass most Mini-PCs in its price range. Not to mention it's running a straight operating system and not limited to the confines of Android or even something like a PS4.

It's something that's not aiming to be the best, but to be the best at what it does.