Anyone get Atari 5200 working under RetroArch?

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#102

Thanks, I’ll check it again… Is there a list of all supported games that you have in there with the correct crc ?

As I have the Good5200 2.01, for each game their is a 7z in that there is sometimes up to 4 (that I have seen) different versions of the game, as my general rule, I will always pick the higher version or the one with the (!) (perfect tested rip) before any other.

So, it’s possible a handful of games is a (Rev 2) and they don’t match your crc.

Just waiting for a up of the newest one where you replaced F4 with start so I can start playing and I will update/test roms as need.

Atari 5200 via 800 core. What am I missing here?
#103

they are the same like in mame/mess , the crc is based of this mame hash.

@wertz

at least for robotron 2084 ect, i can add an option to use butt joy0 acting like butt joy2. if this makes sense

#104

That just confuses me even more, as every file in that list ends with a bin. Anything on here is based off a52 games.

Not sure it does for me. I own the original cart and the adapter needed. It used all controls off Player 1 port and used just the stick off player 2.

Or maybe I just don’t understand your terms, as I am not a programmer.

#105

Latest commit for windows_x64: http://www.mediafire.com/file/e93cdq9qhscceo4/atari800_libretro_x64(2).zip commit 0fc0689 - bind F4 to start in A5200 mode

Thanks for the “click” but this is now outdated. get an official core is already available in Core Updater.

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#106

Is there something we need to configure to make the start button work? It’s still not working for me here.

#107

In quick menu go to control and instead of retrop choose atari joystick

#108

Agreed, just downloaded it, replaced my old one and tested, The start button does exactly what it did before, nothing.

I don’t see any change here. :frowning:

Still grabbed a bunch of other roms and tried them, still don’t play. out of the 20 or so games I have, maybe 4-5 play.

#109

Thanks, it worked now.

#110

there is no way to know why it does not play without showing debug logs to know how these roms are being loaded… there are lots of roms out there, unless we agree to use nointro dat and verify with clrmame(which i did just to make sure my roms are verified playable-which means my roms are headerless which the auto-loading 5200 will likely detect),

#112

urgh… /20 characters

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