Typhon79 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Hello everyone,I just thought I'd spread the news that the devoloper of Kat5200 has given the emulator a major overhaul in recent days. It's very good, and fixes a number of issues with controls. You can check it out here if you're interested. http://kat5200.jillybunch.com/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Excellent, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Great! I use Kat5200 because MESS doesn't support two fire buttons and I rather keep Altirra for 8-bit computer use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Nice, 8 years late but nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhon79 Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Great! I use Kat5200 because MESS doesn't support two fire buttons and I rather keep Altirra for 8-bit computer use. Yeah I remember having those issues back in the day and I gave up on Atari 5200 emulation for a long time for that reason. MESS was all there was. The latest MAME (with MESS built in) does seem to have both fire buttons working properly, but the analogs don't function properly for games like Super Breakout (doesn't auto-center on release). Altirra is a great emulator also but the interface is very unintuitive. It took me almost half an hour to figure out how to set up controls lol. For ease of use and functionality I am very pleased with Kat5200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Lots of improvement. Better than before. Controls work great after some fiddling around. But still got crash debug error twice. Not perfect yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Lots of improvement. Better than before. Controls work great after some fiddling around. But still got crash debug error twice. Not perfect yet. What ROM(s) did you get the crash debug error on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 frogger, but all roms used to do it before. Jungle hunt, pacman ect, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Can't get the Emu to work, I've downloaded a 5200 complete romset, extracted them to their bins, ensured the correct machine in selected! and I get 'error loading bios image' Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Can't get the Emu to work, I've downloaded a 5200 complete romset, extracted them to their bins, ensured the correct machine in selected! and I get 'error loading bios image' Any ideas? Under Machine->Bios Files you have the right BIOS file setup in the 5200 section? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Thankyou it says kat5200\0.7\5200.bin this is for version 0.7.1 is this correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 It isn't finding it, so it is looking for it in a default location. The emulator does not come with the BIOS file, you need to download it and tell it where it is. You can get it from this site, from the AtariAge home page->5200->Emulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Thank you - works perfectly now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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