Kat5200 installer (experimental)

aeon_flux

@future-child i'm getting same screen as you attached. no text for game/number of players selection + sprite of plot is broken. it looks emulation is not working good for mule on kat5200. found single file (.com) version but it behaves same way as original disk image which is using 2 stage loading (.atr)

i tried atari800 as well with same ROM and game image - when i setup it for 800/OSA machine it shows option for 4 players on main screen but only two controllers are detected. i tried also multijoy4 but it is not detecting any controllers (not even single one).

future.child

@aeon_flux browsing in the source code of atari800 i came upon two comments indicating there should be support for four joysticks in atari800:

2015-06-02  Petr Stehlik <pstehlik@sophics.cz>
* sdl/input.c: preliminary support for four real joysticks

2018-05-01  Petr Stehlik <pstehlik@sophics.cz>
* implemented joyhat support for all four real joysticks (command line,
  configuration file and also the F1 TUI configuration). Original patch
  from Michal "Baktra" Kalous, with my fixes and clean up.

There is also (sdl) code initializing/reading the four joysticks but i am unable to find any code to configure settings for the extra two.

I am not able to test this myself as i have no additional controllers, you may want to try compiling the latest version of atari800 and start it with parameters -joy0hat -joy1hat -joy2hat -joy3hat added to the runcommand (or add SDL_JOY_2_USE_HAT=TRUE and SDL_JOY_3_USE_HAT=TRUE to the config file) and see what happens.

aeon_flux

@future-child i have tried both (parameter and configs). unfortunately it still detects only 2 controllers with atari800 binary. i tried also with latest source from github but no success too :(

future.child

@aeon_flux i have opened a ticket here maybe they can confirm it working or not.

wolfgangrumpf

I installed Kat5200 using the link above (wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/futurechild/Kat5200-Retropie/master/install) - ROMS are in the atari5200 folder, BIOS files in BIOS - when I try to launch a 5200 game, I get the config screen, and every time I fill it out it works (e.g. I can run the game if I go to "return to game"), but it does NOT save the configuration - when I start up again, I get back to the setup screen, and it says it couldn't load the profile/settings.

My kat5200.db3 is empty, zero size, and the log file tells me the tables don't exist - so I think I need a "clean" install copy of the db3 file? Where can I find it? I tried reinstalling and nothing changed....HELP!

future.child

@wolfgangrumpf normally the install script downloads the database to /home/pi/.kat5200/kat5200.db3
It is done by this line in the script:
wget -N -O kat5200.db3 https://github.com/futurechild/Kat5200-Retropie/raw/master/default_config.db3
Possibly the download was incomplete causing the zero sized file.

Also if you have not yet rebooted your pi, the default database should still be in the /tmp/src directory where kat5200 was built.

A Former User

Utilized this script today and it worked like a charm. Be sure that the system rom is named 5200.ROM, not 5200.rom. :)

hfgx1

@future-child After I install Kat5200 it somehow messes up my Carbon RetroPie theme es_systems.cfg file and any new systems I add afterwards do not appear on emulation station.

I am doing a fresh reinstall of RetroPie on a new large SD card, and have a bunch of system I want to emulate. When I run your commands to install KAT5200, then when I try to install new systems {anything such as intellivision, or amiga, or anything after else optional or experimental from the retropie setup script] those system themes don't appear in emulation station after I reboot. I have to manually edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and add each system manually. This only happens AFTER I install KAT5200.
As I mentioned I have a bunch of systems I want to emulate, and I tested each install one by one, format SD, fresh install of RetroPie, install system one. Repeat, format, reinstall retropie, and install a different system. Anyhow I finally found the culprit is after I install KAT5200 new system won't appear in es_systems.cfg, I have to manually edit and add them.
(Note: I've been using KAT5200 for nearly 6-8 months on two different smaller SD cards, but I never installed anything after KAT5200 on those two cards).

This is the KAT5200 installation command I use:

wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/futurechild/Kat5200-Retropie/master/install
chmod +x install
./install

I don't know why it messes up the Carbon theme es_systems.cfg file, but it does for me.

future.child

@hfgx1 My first guess would be the xml formatting is off causing the data after the kat5200 entry in es_systems.cfg to be ignored (probably also why the carbon theme is off).

Doed this also happen when installing using zerojay's extra's ?

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra.git
cd RetroPie-Extra/
./install-extras.sh

hfgx1

@future-child said in Kat5200 installer (experimental):

Doed this also happen when installing using zerojay's extra's ?

This worked. When installing using Zero Jay's Extras there is no problem. I can add new systems later and they show up automatically in EmulationStation. Thank You.