Anyone get Atari 5200 working under RetroArch?

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#113

OK, Sorry for a few of my posts here. I missed a few facts. Anyway, moving on…again, sorry

So, I expanded my collection to 35 5200 roms. I Checked the settings and renamed them all to a52. Most of them didn’t work. so I checked the settings in RetroArch and I saw the setting to AutoDetec the 5200 game, I turned it on and then tested…

So, out of my 35 games, I found that 6 games didn’t work (WOW), so I checked the roms and of course if you have Good5200 v2.01, you’ll find that each rom is 7z with 2-5 roms, so extracted the games that didn’t work, and I tried a different rom one by one… and I got them working !

There is a few issues with the roms just glitch of the games… just some strange issues on a FEW games, I"ll have to look for newer versions of the roms for these 2-3 games. It’s not the emulator, it’s the game itself (assuming)

Now if there was anything I could complain about, when I start a rom, it has a black screen…all of them, then I need to hit the “B” button on my remote and the rom boots…but, a very minor thing.

Thanks again !

#114

I had this behavior with Ballblazer. I replaced the ROM and now it’s fixed.

You probably need to find other ROMs, i don’t know where you got yours from. Maybe try the No-Intro set. Or the “hyperspin ready” one.

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#115

Every one of my roms come from 5200 GoodSets v2.01 (I have said this a few times on this thread), I had a collection of other 5200 roms and deleted them as it seems these are the tested ones here.

I guess it’s not a big deal as long as the rom works with no issues. There are a few that just have odd issues, like Pengo, if you start a game, you get moved right ino a wall and cant do anything…

A few cases like that but, now to get my meta data fixed and it should be good at this point (a Robotron 2084 option for dual sticks would be nice)

#116

If someone interested , this is the last atari800 core for android ( 4 and 5).

http://dl.free.fr/q3puYWuFl

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#117

Thank You :smiley:

Any guide how to get it to run? I’m using 1.4.1. Tried using the Virtual Keyboard but it doesn’t work, pressing the vk ends up with a black screen

#118

I don’t understand , what are you trying ? a5200 roms or a800 disk ect ? First You have to enter RA quickmenu -> core input option> lto change Retropad with Atari Joystick. After you need to set up your bios first by entering in the Atari menu ( button R1) then You can launch content .

#119

On sidenote, i just get an feedback from James Higgs ! and he is ok to allow us to use their code for an libretro implementation of Jum52, if we use the V1.3 source code. That nice and allow to have an alternative to play A5200 .

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#120

Thank You that’s the info I wanted :smiley:

One thing on my tablet, when trying to save the configuration it says: Error Writing configuration file

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Looking forward to the Jum52 core. Used to use it a lot when I was using Windows

#121

Cool. I want to check it out and see how well it works.

If you created a core, could you upload it to try ?

#122

Awesome news! altho your A800 core works wonderful for me, many thanks for working on it! :slight_smile:

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About use of 128 in 1 ROM for Atari
Libretro/docs
#123

I set DEFAULT_CFG_NAME to /mnt/sdcard/ for android. you should be able to save your conf now , or edit after.

http://dl.free.fr/emdutAQzd

#124

Just wondering, Did you ever try this ? I got compatablity to work pretty well for the most part but, I was wondering if there was a better advantage to getting a desgined as a 5200 emulator.

Just wondering, as you did great with the Atari 800 emulator…

#125

For now I just fork and made an rough /basic port of jum52 no time to work too much on it for now.

#126

Ok, Thanks for the update and thanks for your help here !

#127

Hi, thank you for this marvelous core better than mess. but Can you show me which are the key for the keypad 1-9 in order to use the overlay picture and acess to some useful options? thanks regards

#128

ever heard anything back @r-type ?

#129

Any chance of getting a (latest version) compiled Atari800 or Jump52 core for Android? The one posted here fails to load on my AndroidTV box, let alone run… (on MM). I’m clueless about compiling it myself… Thanks

#130

yes and it would be nice if we could have the new Atari800 Core Improvements of the recent news for Android. thanks regards

#131

I can’t start games with gamepad START button, only with a keyboard F4… I have edited .atari800.cfg however, it doesn’t work. I tested it with Choplifter.

What I did was to add following lines to .atari800.cfg, but then no change:

SDL_JOY_0_SELECT=8 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_START=9 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_TRIGGER1=1 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_TRIGGER2=2 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_ASTERISK=0 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_HASH=3 <-- button ID
SDL_JOY_0_SECOND_AXIS=2 <-- axis ID
SDL_JOY_0_INDEX=0 <-- index of P1 joystick
SDL_JOY_1_INDEX=1 <-- index of P2 joystick

I was reading here:

Then here:

And here:

No success so far. Can you help me to fix this?

#132

I’m also having trouble getting atari 5200 games working. I have loaded the atari 800 core and placed the 5200.rom inside the /system folder. I also set atari800_system = “5200” in the core options config. I am still getting the following message in the emulator when I try to run this command: D:\RetroArch\retroarch.exe “D:\ARCADE\Atari\Atari 5200\ROMS\Astro Chase (USA).zip” -L D:\RetroArch\cores\atari800_libretro.dll

“Sorry this program needs a real Atari/OS visit the Web pages to find out more”

Any assistance is much appreciated!