RetroPie forum home
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Home
    • Docs
    • Register
    • Login
    Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

    Atari 800 controller problem

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Help and Support
    atari 800
    4 Posts 2 Posters 692 Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • P
      PCKid
      last edited by

      Finally with help from here got it all working. All games work fine as Atari Joystick Controller except Caverns of Mars. It worked fine then I did something in the Select+X menu and now it only fires. D Pad direction won't work. Left Shoulder button level select works and Start starts it OK. Somehow I've stuffed up direction control. Is there a specific config for each game? So maybe I could delete it and redo it? I've got a Shanwan PS3 Bluetooth Controller. All other emulators work fine with it. Literally just this one game. One of my all time favourites and the first game I bought with my Atari 800 so real nostalgia kick there.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • rkosterR
        rkoster
        last edited by

        This sounds like you have saved a custom config for just this game.

        If I recall correctly, it is located in

        /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/Atari800
        

        You can navigate to there on the command line and delete the Caverns of Mars.cfg that is probably there.

        Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

        P 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • P
          PCKid @rkoster
          last edited by

          @rkoster turns out I needed to select PAL instead of NTSC then the controller worked.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • rkosterR
            rkoster
            last edited by

            Huh, changing that shouldn't have mattered, especially given that the game was originally NTSC!

            You might want to look at the script I wrote here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance/17 if you want to get hardcore on Atari800 emulation.

            Also might want my fixed build of the emulator, if you ever want to play anything that requires typing. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22460/fixed-ctrl-and-shift-on-lr-atari800

            Github/helper scripts * Creativision/Arcadia/Astrocade guide * Amiga guide * Atari 8bit guide

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • First post
              Last post

            Contributions to the project are always appreciated, so if you would like to support us with a donation you can do so here.

            Hosting provided by Mythic-Beasts. See the Hosting Information page for more information.