Woah! Did EVERYONE already know how to boot Atari 800 carts directly from EmuStation?
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I believe I know what this is, but I haven't had to deal with it in a while. Atari800 has a bug to where setting certain configuration options will corrupt your
atari800.cfg. After you set a particular option and exit the software with "Save configuration on exit" selected, the damage is done and it will prevent you from launching from the cart selection menu. Throughout my experimentation, the only solution I came up with was to delete myatari800.cfgfile and reinstall the software, allowing the RetroPie-Setup to create a fresh copy. Since then, I've only ever made changes toatari800.cfgwith an outside text editor and I made sure to keep "save on exit" off. -
@mediamogul If that's the case it seems very weird that it still works absolutely fine for Atari 800 games. But I'll have a go.
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It seems related to launching from the cartridge-type selection menu, which the 800 side of things doesn't have to deal with often.
Edit: The Atari800 emulator in general has my vote as being the most finicky to deal with in all of RetroPie.
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@mediamogul Well, I've been launching stuff from the 800 cartridge menu literally all day...
Bizarrely, to try to avoid uninstalling I just tried deleting the atari800.cfg file from the 5200 config folder and replacing it with the one from the atari800 folder, while changing the autosave setting to 0. Now the keyboard works properly the FIRST time I try to launch a ROM, but freezes the SECOND and all subsequent times - the exact reverse of what happened before. Game still doesn't work, though.
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@mediamogul said in Woah! Did EVERYONE already know how to boot Atari 800 carts directly from EmuStation?:
The Atari800 emulator in general has my vote as being the most finicky to deal with in all of RetroPie.
Blimey, more so than Intellivision and Colecovision? :D
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@spudsmctoole said in Woah! Did EVERYONE already know how to boot Atari 800 carts directly from EmuStation?:
Blimey, more so than Intellivision and Colecovision?
Those can be a pain, but they seem to be relatively free of bugs.
Game still doesn't work, though.
Try reinstalling. It's likely you need a fresh copy.
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@mediamogul That's a bold call. In my experience I'd say the INTV is worst of all. Near-incomprehensible control config and SO many games don't work. It's about 1 in 50 for most emus, more like 1 in 3 for the INTV.
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@spudsmctoole said in Woah! Did EVERYONE already know how to boot Atari 800 carts directly from EmuStation?:
In my experience I'd say the INTV is worst of all. Near-incomprehensible control config and SO many games don't work.
The controls are difficult just by nature of the system it's emulating. Playing an actual Intellivision felt a bit like operating a graphing calculator at times. As for the ROMs not working, you need to set a memory map config file for the one's that appear not to. It's all covered in the docs.
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@mediamogul Ooh, excellent, ta.
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@spudsmctoole also try out the new intellivision emulator that was just recently added: lr-freeintv
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@mediamogul i need to look through some old pm’s on atariage. I havent done it yet but a programmer that has worked with some pi stuff told me how to add a header to all the 5200 roms and the emulator boots them the same as the atari 800 roms. Never once have to choose the bios.
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@spudsmctoole as a beta tester for many intv games and very knowledgeable with intv on the pi i can tell you every single intellivision game works on the pi with jzintv. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I can help you with the controls too.
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@mediamogul Reinstall did the trick, ta :)
Still can't figure what the heck to do with XEX files, mind you.
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