Anyone get Atari 5200 working under RetroArch?

[DavidinCT]

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.

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.

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)

[r-type]

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

http://dl.free.fr/q3puYWuFl

[te_lanus]

Thank You

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

[r-type]

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 .

[r-type]

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 .

[te_lanus]

Thank You that’s the info I wanted

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

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

[DavidinCT]

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 .

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

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

[shanti]

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

[r-type]

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

[DavidinCT]

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

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…

[r-type]

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

[DavidinCT]

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

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

[Srk15372]

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

[te_lanus]

ever heard anything back @r-type ?

[tinybilbo]

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

[Srk15372]

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

[MMT]

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:

Anyone get Atari 5200 working under RetroArch?

2nd button does work now. Thanks. Now if we can get the START button on the joystick to start a game instead of F4. It would be great. And it's about finding the EXACT names needed to play, as QIX is the only that plays for me. I would bet it's my roms but, changing a rom means dealing with the meta data is well and it's kind of a pain.

Then here:

jfroco/atari800-rpi

And here:

jfroco/atari800-rpi/blob/master/sample.cfg

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

[eurekabeacon]

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!

[MMT]

You have to copy the bios files 5200.ROM ATARIBAS.ROM ATARIOSA.ROM… take a look to atari800.cfg samples online.

[msheehan79]

For those who have successfully gotten Atari 5200 games to run with the libretro-atari800 core - have you found the colors to be off? I’ve been using the standalone atari800 emulator on a Raspberry Pi3/Retropie setup and it works fine. I installed the libretro port this week and noticed the colors are way brighter to the point of looking completely washed out. Something weird with my setup or is this others experience on this core as well?