[kaitain]

I got the Atari 800 up and running (I did it purely for Ballblazer, which is an AMAZING game, and the Atari version is by far the best version). However, there are a few quirks I’m trying to address:

I can’t get the system to recognize inputs from the second of my two 9-pin joysticks. I’ve got both up and running correctly with the C64, but on the Atari 800 only one seems to work.

The sound is glitchy when NTSC mode is selected: it works, but with occasional stutters (and it seems to be be ONLY the sound that stutters). In PAL mode I don’t get the stutters but everything runs 15% too slow.

Anyone have any thoughts on what I can try? I’ve tinkered around with lots of emulator settings but with no joy so far.

[kaitain]

[quote=83157]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%
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Umm, by this do you mean adding the above blurb to the end of this line?

<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 “/opt/retropie/emulators/atari800/bin/atari800 %ROM%” “atari800″</command>

(Inside the final quotes?)

[kaitain]

Useful video; thanks. I think I may have had the same issue mentioned by the guy in the vid re: power cycling on the wifi dongle, so I’ll have to give that power command a try.

[kaitain]

Nice one. That did the trick. And still launches lxde if you exit the ES menu and start it from the command line with startx.

[kaitain]

Out of interest, with which roms did you finally get the thing to work? I had a quick attempt to play Sensi and Sidewinder over the weekend and in both cases it was just the dead black screen of doom. (I was also using a PS3 controller plugged in, though.)

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