MikeM_ Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Haven’t tested all my games yet, but just ran into an issue with one I picked up on EBay today. Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle It’s working in my 7800 with no issue, but my 2600+ goes back and forth with either the can’t load message or just garbage on the screen after loading. Official list and a couple posts on here say it should work. Have already done a couple rounds of contact cleaning. Might just need some more. Running 1.0 FW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 20 minutes ago, MikeM_ said: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle It’s working in my 7800 with no issue, but my 2600+ goes back and forth with either the can’t load message or just garbage on the screen after loading. Official list and a couple posts on here say it should work. Have already done a couple rounds of contact cleaning. Might just need some more. Mine is also not working (1.0 and 1.1 beta). Getting the garbage screen like you. Works great on a classic 2600. Hoping it’s related to the known issue with some Coleco carts that they are working on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysticSword Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 @MikeM_ @chad5200 Same for me with the Smurf Rescue, it just goes to a garbage screen if it manages to load. I've cleaned the contacts several times, but I now think it's an incompatibility issue with my cartridge (even though it shows as a 'Pass' on the 2600+ compatibility PDF). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamma Ray Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 On 1/2/2024 at 9:00 PM, Aragorn7 said: I've been tempted to download the Beta firmware, but I may just wait until it comes out of Beta rather than introduce some new quirks. It also failed on 1.0, so there's that. Outside of PAL people, the firmware update has been largely free of bad surprises. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_1970 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 No PAL failures for 1.0 for me thus far, but I have a copy of Moonsweeper en route and I cannot tell from the label (Silver, English text only) if it’s PAL or not. So could be my first 😬😒 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 On 1/4/2024 at 5:37 AM, chad5200 said: Mine is also not working (1.0 and 1.1 beta). Getting the garbage screen like you. Works great on a classic 2600. Hoping it’s related to the known issue with some Coleco carts that they are working on. I have a copy of this game going to the developer to have a look at 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSpixel Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 PAL games work fine on my 2600 + : Centipede Defender Double Dragon Joust Millipede Realsports Tennis Vanguard 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2LTIME6100 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On 12/28/2023 at 8:41 PM, nopaybob said: I have a Zaxxon, compatibility list says pass, works on my original hardware. Contacts are clean and like new, get a black screen on 2600+ no matter what I do. My PAL Zaxxon works without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2LTIME6100 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On my PAL Asteroids, the asteroids and the spaceship flicker very strongly. This is not the case on the original hardware. Has anyone else noticed this too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhig1 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I have a space invaders picture label that won't work on my 2600+ yet my text label version of Space Invaders works fine on 2600+ The picture label space invaders works on my modded 7800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_1970 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 2 hours ago, bradhig1 said: I have a space invaders picture label that won't work on my 2600+ yet my text label version of Space Invaders works fine on 2600+ The picture label space invaders works on my modded 7800. I have a picture label Space Invaders I picked up in Chicago for 99 cents. Works great. Might be yours needs a clean? The 2600+ seems to be less tolerant of cruft than the old systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tradyblix Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 1/5/2024 at 1:58 PM, Ben from Plaion said: I have a copy of this game going to the developer to have a look at If you want my copy of Double Dragon 7800 to figure out why it doesn't work, let me know and I'll mail it. It loads to a black screen on 1.1 atm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM_ Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Finally made it through the rest of my 2600 games. Overall, the majority of my games work as expected. I didn’t test the known incompatible games since I’m still running 1.0. Thankfully it’s a short list in my collection. Many of my Activision carts took some trial and error to get going but did eventually work. I have the weird sound issue with Pitfall! that I’ve heard about. This trend carried over to my Coleco carts as well where my only truly problematic carts were. I can’t get Smurf: Rescue or Zaxxon working on my 2600+ at all for whatever reason. The rest I eventually got working. Atari branded, Parker Bros, and M Network carts (except for Burgertime which I’m unsure from reading around if it’s a definite incompatibility or not) seemed to be the most reliable for me. Not sure if they just had cleaner contacts or if it’s something else, but it definitely seemed to follow trends based on brand. Happy with my results. Looking forward to the improvements in 1.1 once it comes out of beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_type2600 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) I didn't see this yet brought up anywhere else in the forum, and it's exciting news if it turns true, so I hope it's ok to replicate below facebook posting here: Edited January 11 by r_type2600 added second part of facebook posting 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I believe I have a bad Masters the Universe cart. I get the title screen with animation and music, but I am totally unable to start the game. I did find an old post here on AA that stated that you must have the correct difficulty switch settings to start the game, but no luck. Has anyone successfully played this yet? Am I right that it's faulty? Or am I doing something wrong? 🤷🏻🤦🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxit Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 57 minutes ago, JetmanUK said: I believe I have a bad Masters the Universe cart. I get the title screen with animation and music, but I am totally unable to start the game. I did find an old post here on AA that stated that you must have the correct difficulty switch settings to start the game, but no luck. Has anyone successfully played this yet? Am I right that it's faulty? Or am I doing something wrong? 🤷🏻🤦🏻 From the manual: LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY IS ONLY CONTROLLED BY THE LEFT DIFFICULTY SWITCH, The A position starts the game at level 1 (for beginners). The B position starts the game at level 3. (Level 2 can be reached only by completing level 1 .) The right difficulty switch freezes the action. In position A, the game plays normally. In position B, the action freezes. Start the game in position A. This switch can be used to show a friend a particular screen or for a rest period The TV TYPE switch determines whether the ION CANNON will be single or rapid fire. For single fire, select B&W. For rapid fire, select COLOR. To start the game, turn the power on. The title screen shows PRINCE ADAM magically transforming into HE-MAN. The game begins with HE-MAN in his WIND RAIDER. To start the game sooner, press the fire button. To restart the game at the end of a game, press RESET. The game starts as soon as you move the WIND RAIDER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 7 hours ago, fluxit said: From the manual: LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY IS ONLY CONTROLLED BY THE LEFT DIFFICULTY SWITCH, The A position starts the game at level 1 (for beginners). The B position starts the game at level 3. (Level 2 can be reached only by completing level 1 .) The right difficulty switch freezes the action. In position A, the game plays normally. In position B, the action freezes. Start the game in position A. This switch can be used to show a friend a particular screen or for a rest period The TV TYPE switch determines whether the ION CANNON will be single or rapid fire. For single fire, select B&W. For rapid fire, select COLOR. To start the game, turn the power on. The title screen shows PRINCE ADAM magically transforming into HE-MAN. The game begins with HE-MAN in his WIND RAIDER. To start the game sooner, press the fire button. To restart the game at the end of a game, press RESET. The game starts as soon as you move the WIND RAIDER. Thanks for posting this but I already read this and tried it. I have set both difficulty switches to A, inserted the cart and powered on. When I press fire the I get a flicker of the screen but it won't start. I get this on the 2600 Plus and my old woody. Now, the cart is NTSC and my woody PAL. Could it be that the cart is good but just not compatible with the Plus yet, and not working as it won't work on a PAL woody? I think it's more likely that it's bad. I can't find any combo of difficulty switches that allows it to work. 🤷🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) 4 hours ago, JetmanUK said: Thanks for posting this but I already read this and tried it. I have set both difficulty switches to A, inserted the cart and powered on. When I press fire the I get a flicker of the screen but it won't start. I get this on the 2600 Plus and my old woody. Now, the cart is NTSC and my woody PAL. Could it be that the cart is good but just not compatible with the Plus yet, and not working as it won't work on a PAL woody? I think it's more likely that it's bad. I can't find any combo of difficulty switches that allows it to work. 🤷🏻 I'm wondering, is the intro on one part of the cart and then it should 'bank switch’ (or switch banks I guess 🤣) to the next part for the game... And that part of the cart has died? Forgive me, I am techie, but not in the ways of the Atari cartridge hardware. Edited January 19 by JetmanUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/4/2024 at 5:13 AM, MikeM_ said: Haven’t tested all my games yet, but just ran into an issue with one I picked up on EBay today. Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle It’s working in my 7800 with no issue, but my 2600+ goes back and forth with either the can’t load message or just garbage on the screen after loading. Official list and a couple posts on here say it should work. Have already done a couple rounds of contact cleaning. Might just need some more. Running 1.0 FW. Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle was a weird one. Is yours a white cart? Someone here on AA sent me their cart and its fixed now in a dumper update that will be released shortly. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizerableraingod Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/8/2024 at 7:42 PM, tradyblix said: If you want my copy of Double Dragon 7800 to figure out why it doesn't work, let me know and I'll mail it. It loads to a black screen on 1.1 atm My copy of 7800 Double Dragon is also loading into a blank screen on 1.1 beta. Also, in general, 7800 games aren't sitting properly in my unit. In order to get any 7800 games to load, I need to wedge some paper between the cart slot and the cart. Very inconvenient and annoying. 2600 games, on the other hand, have loaded just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Recently bought defender II(PAL). On the official compatibility thread it says untested. I bought it sealed(so ripped that off) and tried it about 5 times and it would not work. I gave it a clean with some isopropyl and tried it again and again, and again and it still would not boot. Thought it was just incompatible at the mo, so then i tried inserting the cart at slightly different angles and eventually it worked! I have had these issues before with red box atari releases on my actual atari. Maybe a lot of the time original games/homebrew won't work on the atari 2600+ because of the fit of the actual cartridge? Maybe you have to wear the cartridge slot a bit to accommodate all the different carts 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 1/19/2024 at 8:18 AM, Ben from Plaion said: Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle was a weird one. Is yours a white cart? Someone here on AA sent me their cart and its fixed now in a dumper update that will be released shortly. @Ben from Plaion Did the dumper update you posted yesterday (AtariDumper1.1.0.9.exe) include this Smurfs fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM_ Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 1/19/2024 at 9:18 AM, Ben from Plaion said: Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle was a weird one. Is yours a white cart? Someone here on AA sent me their cart and its fixed now in a dumper update that will be released shortly. Yes. Mine is a white cart. thank you for all the effort you and your team are putting in to make this the best console possible. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 52 minutes ago, chad5200 said: @Ben from Plaion Did the dumper update you posted yesterday (AtariDumper1.1.0.9.exe) include this Smurfs fix? Yes it's supposed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tradyblix Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 1/8/2024 at 6:42 PM, tradyblix said: If you want my copy of Double Dragon 7800 to figure out why it doesn't work, let me know and I'll mail it. It loads to a black screen on 1.1 atm This got fixed in dumper version 1.1.0.9 for anyone reading this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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