[David]

Edit the .atari800.cfg located in /home/pi

I believe you want to set:

VIDEO_FILTERING=0

[David]

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone involved in making this available. It is unbelievable that I can play Dragon’s Lair as if I was in the 80′!

I used to watch others in the arcade play this game as I could not afford to feed the machine. Now, I do not need to worry about this!

[David]

If anyone is interested. I have AdvMess working well on the Raspberry PI for the Coleco and other consoles. You can download it at:

http://www.intellivision.us/MESS.zip

Watch out for the emulator.cfg file in there as you would not want to overwrite one if you have one.

I prefer AdvMess over CoolCV as the video takes up more of the screen and it bypasses the title screen. Both controllers can be configured. I made a small modification to AdvMess to fix the controllers. I have also tested Odyssey, Bally Astrocade, 5200 (keypad works), and other consoles. Performance is great on a PI2. I have not tested it on a PI1. Below is the entry I have for the es_systems.cfg.

<system>
<name>colecovision</name>
<fullname>Colecovision</fullname>
<path>~/RetroPie/roms/colecovision</path>
<extension>.rom</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ colecovision %ROM%</command>
<platform>colecovision</platform>
<theme>colecovision</theme>
</system>

[David]

I have been able to compile AdvMess and the 5200 emulation is good for Star Raiders and I am able to map all the controller buttons (0-9, *, and #) to my joystick (Intellivision controller). The Ballbalzer video is a bit messed up but the game does work.

The Colecovision video output on Advmess is great as is the Channel F, and Astrocade. I was able to hack Advmess to support 2 controllers for Intellivision emulation but I use jzIntv anyways.

[David]

Did you configure CoolCV to run from Emulation Station? If so, did you get sound from it? If you have not tried it from ES, would you?

I do not know why you would not get sound from the command line. I have not tried Retropie 3.x yet.

[David]

I have installed CoolCV on a Raspberry 2 using Retropie 2.6. The emulator works fine with sound and joysticks. Are you using version 0.6.1 or 0.6.2 of the emulator? I tried both of these. 0.6.2 gives you full screen.

I ran the emulator from a command line and not Emulation Station.

[David]

Try out the CoolCV emulator at:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/240800-coolcv-emulator-for-mac-os-x-linux-windows-and-raspberry/?hl=%20coolcv

There is a 6.2.pre version in the thread that works in full screen.

[David]

That is funny. I wanted to use the 5200 for Ballblazer also! It works fine for me but I found that the emulator one works for one joystick. I have since been using the 7800 Pro System emulator. Performance is good and both joysticks work. The 5200 has music that plays in the background which I miss though.

[David]

Not that this is what happened to you but when I installed Kodi, it made a back up of es_systems.cfg and created an empty one. If I renamed the es_systems.cfg and then installed Kodi, it created a valid es_systems.cfg. If memory serves, installing the Atari 7800 Libretto emulator did the same thing. Perhaps something in my es_systems.cfg did not allow the install to append to it correctly?

[David]

In 2.6, my controller file located in /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs had the following lines which were used:

input_device = “Microchip Technology Inc. Ultimate 2”
input_driver = “udev”
input_up_axis = -1
input_down_axis = +1
input_left_axis = -0
input_right_axis = +0

In 3.0 Beta 2, this file is no longer read..

For the Atari 2600 (lr-stella) emulator, I added the lines below.

#include “/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg”
config_save_on_exit = “false”
input_player1_joypad_index = 0
input_player1_left_axis = “-0”
input_player1_right_axis = “+0”
input_player1_up_axis = “-1”
input_player1_down_axis = “+1”

The file will get rebuilt after running the emulator if I remove the config_save_on_exit. It will add many lines and reformat it. It will keep many, if most/all, of my settings but the config file does get updated.

Since I wanted it to keep my formatting, I added the config_save_on_exit. This behavior of updating the config file is not in 2.6.

[David]

I noticed that the retroarch.cfg for some systems were getting overwritten every time I ran the emulator. I added the following line to the cfg and it stopped getting overwritten.

config_save_on_exit = “false”

[David]

Would you share on what you did to compile the Atari 7800 and Vectrex?

Thanks!

[David]

Do you have the system ROM? You need to put this on your PI and point to it. Reference the posting:

Setting up Atari 400/800

[David]

Your sd card is corrupt, you have an issue with the file system, you logged in with a user that does not have access to the file, I do not know. Sorry, I can not help you here.

[David]

Edit the file on the Raspberry directly by right clicking on it and selecting edit. Do not copy it to your local machine.

[David]

The .atari800.cfg file is located at /home/pi

Just to confirm, the raspbian version of atari800 should get copied to:
/opt/retropie/emulators/atari800-3.0.0/installdir/bin

Make sure the ownership of atari800 is 7777.

I am not familiar with ATR extensions. Are those Atari 800 system files? I am using it to run 5200 games.

[David]

Download the Raspian version from:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=30889

It performs BEAUTIFULLY in full screen! Maybe you can try it after you getting the version with Retropie working.

[David]

F9 exits the Atari800 emulator. I have not found a way to remap the keys. F4 is the “start” button.

[David]

Take a look a the thread:

Setting up Atari 400/800

[David]

The issue is that the Atari800 emulator is looking for roms having the extension of XEX. I have been able to run 5200 games using the Atari800 fine.

Edit the file /etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg

Find Atari 800 and add the BIN extension as shown below.

<extension>.xex .XEX .bin .BIN</extension>

While in here, I added addition switches to the command line:

atari800 -5200 -bpp 8 -fs-width 800 -fs-height 600 -ntsc -fullscreen -cart-type 4 -cart %ROM%

On my Raspberry B+, I found 800×600 to give the best performance. I also start the emulator in 5200 mode.

You should now see the Atari800 emulator in Emulation Station.

Run a game. It will not work but it will create the file .atari800.cfg in /home/pi

Edit this file and tell it where you put the system roms. (example: ROM_5200=/usr/local/share/atari800/atari5200.bin)

[David]

I am getting the following error when compiling ColEm version 3.2 on my Raspberry with Retropie.

Unix.c: In function ‘RefreshScreen’:
Unix.c:194:12: error: expected expression before ‘Screen’
Unix.c:194:12: error: too few arguments to function ‘RPLShow’
In file included from Unix.c:17:0:
../../EMULib/Record.h:58:6: note: declared here
make: *** [Unix.o] Error 1

Could someone please share version 2.9 with me?

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