• atari5200 doesn't work

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    rkosterR

    @hermit NTSC filters is not the same thing as setting the machine itself to be NTSC. NTSC filters is a bunch of settings that let you do finetuned video effects, sort of like the shaders in Retroarch. They work in the standalone atari800 emu, but not in lr-atari800.

    I have NTSC working just fine here in lr-atari800 -- in fact, if you see this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance you will see comparison shots of PAL vs NTSC.

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    Ok, it was me not saving the config for the Rom in the Options menu...

    Now it works perfectly.

    Thanks again.

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    mituM

    @stoogesfan87 Please open a separate topic instead of necro-bumping old topics.

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    I just stumbled upon this post...is this about getting 5200(and 800) carts to auto-launch? I am getting ready to build out an 800 and 5200 section on my build. I started with the 5200 and I spent the better part of this afternoon trying to work through the RetroPie documentation of loading carts, extracting, saving, etc. and I only got three to autoload so far...

    Though in fairness, it was a busy day for me building JavaScript rules for online ordering templates for some of our customers, lol....among other things...

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    Now I have it where if I delete .atari800.cfg and then start an Atari 5200 game it works fine. But then Atari 800 games get an error that the computer crashed. If I delete the .atari800.cfg and then launch an atari 800 game it works but I can no longer launch atari 5200 games as I get the blue screen and note pad error. I tried adding the items to my /opt/retropie/configs/atari5200 retroarch.cfg and such but hat has not positive impact. The only differences between the two .atari800.cfg are:
    MACHINE_TYPE=ATARI 400/800 OR or Atari 5200
    RAM_SIZE=48 or 16
    When the 5200 works it has these:
    ENABLE-NEW-POKEY=1 versus 0 when the Atari 800 works
    STEREO_POKEY=0 versus 1 when the Atari 800 works

    Note if I delete the .atari800.cfg in ~/ either type work the first time so it builds the proper file. I would like to be able to do this without having to delete the .atari800.cfg everytime I want to switch between 800 and 5200. Any ideas?

  • Anyone have bounty bob on 5200 working?

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    @hfgx1 I have these two, both work correct, but i usually use the .52 file.

    File:Bounty Bob Strikes Back (Merged) (Big Five Software) (U).a52
    CRC32: 57E7945E
    MD5: 81790DAFF7F7646A6C371C056622BE9C
    SHA-1: 490B93950537C04ED28A9551A95475A22E1CC891

    File:Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985)(Big Five Software)(PAL).atr
    CRC32: 0342DDA2
    MD5: A9731212C290BDC6C96303030E9E6CE4
    SHA-1: 7D647BD94F963914E288C5EA5A2FD820B190D8DD

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    Summary for anyone trying to follow this thread:

    Looks like retropie 4.3 defaulted to atart800 emulator. This needs a keyboard so I eventually found a hacked version of such to remap L&R shoulder to start/select to make it usable with just controller

    retropie 4.4 seems to default new installs to lr-atari800 which has similar keyboard required, and doesn't seem to be able to change much via its config files. Actually it looks like to ignores just about anything given to it and there is no useful way to alter its behavior with command-line arguments. It will accept some retro arch config changes if done through the GUI console.

    future.child lead me on to kat5200 emulator which an install script is available, This will download, compile, and install the kat5200 emulator into retropie.

    The kat5200 emulator needs to be set up via keyboard, but once done so seems to work quite well. You will need to configure the location for your BIOS files, and then also define your input source (joystick) and re-map buttons where needed. The input screen can do most key mapping, and the user config screen has the exit emulator sequence. Two step button sequences can be set, so the usual select-start emulator exit can be emulated. Tip: seem like the config works better when you define multi press sequences in reverse, so when setting up the user input exit function, define 'start' as the first key then 'select' as the second. For my setup, I mapped #1 key to joypad-1 left soulder, #2 key to joypad-2 left shoulder, this works for some games to select 1 or 2 player. I also mapped # and * keys to X & Y on each controller as I think those are needed in some games.

    I haven't tried anything beyond Atari 5200 games with this setup, but for that it seems to work well for a good selection of 5200 games.

    I hope this helps someone!

  • Cartridge-type code list for Atari 5200 games

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    @TPR Super late reply, but this is one game that is known to fail if you have SIO acceleration turned on. Try turning it off and see if that works.

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    @stonemp What did you have to install to get the Atari800 emulation working? I don't care about 5200 but they seemed to get mentioned together. I downloaded RetroPie 4.3 a few weeks ago and followed directions but no-go. Granted, the directions & video I saw were for the 3.7 version of RetroPie.
    I have all of the Atari ROMS and a bunch of game images (because I emulate atari800 on my Windows PC).
    Is there more to the installation then copying ROMs and program image files?
    I've visited a ton of links...there's a sea of information out there I'm drowning in.
    What part am I missing?

  • Error Message When Shutting Down Retropie

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    Good afternoon, no one knows about this error and its solution. Thank you.

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    FYI I have same problem but in RetroArch that recently gained atari800 support, different platform - NVIDIA Shield TV (Android). I have decided to file a bug report at: https://github.com/atari800/atari800/issues/13