[richard373]

After rebuilding my pi in the end I Was getting to that same screen, I was unable to get this to work with the Atari 400/800 cartridges, however thanks fully to the help of David I was able to get the 5200 cartridges working, and they do seem to have most of the classic games I was after such as pacman, space invaders, digdug, etc.

The process was quite in depth, I’m not even sure I fully remember it though I was taking notes! If it’s something you’re interested in i’ll try and post back when I have a bit more time to go through it with the instructions David provided.

It’s not perfect, as you will need a keyboard to press the F4 key to initiate the game, and some of them in the 5200 collection I have such as Frogger and Pitfall don’t work, but most of the others seem fine and for me it’s doing what I need.

Richard

[richard373]

I’ve got some Atari 2600 files which are mostly .bin and they work fine in that emulator, however I am still struggling with the Atari 400/800.

I’ve got it to the point where the games will display by adding the ATR file extension. I’ve sourced a few games online which are .rom or .bin but it still won’t load. The screen just turns black and nothing happens, sometimes it quits back to the list of games, other times it just stays black.

I’ve tried downloading and importing the raspbian version in the link above, but copying the files over fails on most of them saying permission denied, even though I can edit files on every other folder.

Can’t find any way forward on this one, has been bugging me for weeks now! For me I am happy with the NES and SNES etc but i’m building one of these for my fathers birthday as he is nuts about old school atari games, so i’ll keep working on it and try to learn a bit more about how to add new emulators into the retropie system.

Any and all ideas are appreciated, thanks to all you guys who have helped so far!

[richard373]

Ok, so..

Doing what you suggested but adding .atr/.ATR as well as the others did mean the atari option now shows up on my main screen, and lists all my roms. It didn’t unfortunately create the atari800.cfg anywhere on the Pi, I’ve ran a full search of all of it and it’s just not there. Not sure if this is again something to do with the extensions or another issue.

I’ve had a look at what you posted for the Rasbian version, it does look quite tidy but i’m trying to integrate this in to Emulation Station as it’s for someone very untechnical and i’m not sure if I can do that. I’ll have a read around though and see if/how that can be done.

Feels like i’m very close now to getting the built in version working on my retropie but I must still be missing something :(

Thanks for your help. I’ll post back if I am able to find any other way to get this going.

[richard373]

Hi David,

I’ve just checked but the ROM files I have for the atari 800 are .atr files. I’ve just tried what proxycell suggested and it didn’t work so I will try your suggestion anyway but add the .atr extension to see if it will be picked up.

Will post back shortly!

Richard

[richard373]

David,

Thank you for that response! Sounds like exactly what I need.

I got caught up with work this past week and had to put this on the back burner, but I will be on it again tomorrow night when I am home and will try what you have suggested.

Thanks again for the responses, I’d have never found all that myself.

Cheers,

Richard

[richard373]

Thanks for replying,

Ahh that could be a problem, the guide I read for setting up the Retropie did list Atari 400/800 as one of the systems included, but as it was from another website it could of course have been mistaken.

There is an atari 400 or 800 folder in the roms directory which is where I put the roms, but I have just checked and you are right I don’t see a corresponding folder in the emulators directory.

I will try tonight moving the roms to the other atari folders and see if this makes any difference.

Thanks again!

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