John Stamos Mullet Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 So I got a micro usb OTG cable and a micro to usb-c adapter, and was able to access the Retroarch menu with a keyboard, and enabled bilateral filtering which gives the smoothing effect, but it appears changes to the config aren’t saved when trying to save through the menu or on close/power off. Looks like saved states and config file saving is disabled. Anybody else figure out a way to save the settings or is it explicitly disabled? Anybody else experimenting with this? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 23 minutes ago, John Stamos Mullet said: Looks like saved states and config file saving is disabled. Is saving even possible? Is there NVRAM to save to? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5398175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Stamos Mullet Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 9 minutes ago, chad5200 said: Is saving even possible? Is there NVRAM to save to? That would make sense since it can’t be saved to. The storage where retroarch is stored might be write protected. I’m not versed enough to know. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5398181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Yes, I have a build where the save states are accessed via a press of the both GAME RESET and GAME SELECT levers. It pauses the game and brings up a menu. Work kind of paused on it with all the 1.1 update stuff. 9 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5398240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 7 hours ago, Ben from Plaion said: Yes, I have a build where the save states are accessed via a press of the both GAME RESET and GAME SELECT levers. It pauses the game and brings up a menu. Work kind of paused on it with all the 1.1 update stuff. Would be awesome if you could include it in a future update. Obviously most atari 2600/7800 games don't really require it. I personally think it would be a worthwhile feature to add thou. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5398401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Stamos Mullet Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 (edited) Did a bit more playing with this today, and while enabling bilinear filtering works, changing the other video output settings (resolution, etc) seems to have no effect. I was looking to see if there was a way to mitigate the stuttering in HERO, but nothing seemed to help. but I did notice when I disabled threaded video, it slowed to about 50% speed. Edited January 28 by John Stamos Mullet Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5398630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Loading roms on the 2600+ via usb?? Kind of defeats the purpose of owning an atari 2600+. It's for physical carts. I understand why people would want to 'hack' it. Me personally No. If I want to play roms off usb/card I would have bought the retron 77 or gamestation pro. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5401560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stechmann Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 loading roms via usb is the one feature i have been waiting for. does it work?? if so i am ordering a 2600+ tomorrow Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5401605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodney Hester Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 17 hours ago, shane857 said: Loading roms on the 2600+ via usb?? Kind of defeats the purpose of owning an atari 2600+. It's for physical carts. I understand why people would want to 'hack' it. Me personally No. If I want to play roms off usb/card I would have bought the retron 77 or gamestation pro. Newer models of the R77 have crappy DRAM that won't work properly with the latest Stella releases, and GSPro won't accept native controllers, so there's actually considerable desire for this very thing. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_1970 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, Rodney Hester said: Newer models of the R77 have crappy DRAM that won't work properly with the latest Stella releases, and GSPro won't accept native controllers, so there's actually considerable desire for this very thing. It’s certainly more likely I’d play ROMs of games that are too rare/expensive for me to purchase if there was an easy way to do so with the 2600+. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 hours ago, Sean_1970 said: It’s certainly more likely I’d play ROMs of games that are too rare/expensive for me to purchase if there was an easy way to do so with the 2600+. Not worth paying £80-90 for the atari 2600+ just to play roms thou. You can get Stella emulator and atari roms for free and just play them on the PC. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_1970 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 hours ago, shane857 said: Not worth paying £80-90 for the atari 2600+ just to play roms thou. You can get Stella emulator and atari roms for free and just play them on the PC. I already have those, but I don’t tend to boot my computer just to play games any more; I prefer dedicated appliances for that sort of thing. I agree though if all I wanted was a console to play ROMs from USB/SD I wouldn’t have bought a 2600+. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Stamos Mullet Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, shane857 said: Not worth paying £80-90 for the atari 2600+ just to play roms thou. You can get Stella emulator and atari roms for free and just play them on the PC. I don’t disagree. I wasn’t doing this to run roms. I was poking around to see if any of the retroarch settings helped with some stuttering games and to see if smoothing could be enabled. I prefer to run from carts, but I would like better accuracy if possible. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 5 hours ago, shane857 said: Not worth paying £80-90 for the atari 2600+ just to play roms thou. You can get Stella emulator and atari roms for free and just play them on the PC. What you have to realise is people like John and others that tinker (hack) the 2600+ are not primarilly interested in a 2000 games in 1 flash cart, they are in my opinion more intersted in understanding the technology as a point of interest with a intention of correcting flaws and exploring new options, which from my point of view gives me in an official capacity to improve the functinality of the 2600+. There is a distinct difference here. 8 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Stamos Mullet Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ben from Plaion said: What you have to realise is people like John and others that tinker (hack) the 2600+ are not primarilly interested in a 2000 games in 1 flash cart, they are in my opinion more intersted in understanding the technology as a point of interest with a intention of correcting flaws and exploring new options, which from my point of view gives me in an official capacity to improve the functinality of the 2600+. There is a distinct difference here. This. All of this. I already have a million ways to play 2600 games, on PC, on RPI with Retropie, in my UAV modded s-video through a retro rink 7800, and my stock RF Coleco Gemini, etc. I’m more interested in helping to make this product the best that it can be as far as compatibility and authentic looking/sounding/playing. Partly because it’s the first “genuine” feeling product the official Atari brand has put out since the Jaguar, but also because Ben and RevEng and raz0red, and this team are dedicated to making it as awesome as possible. That kind of passion for it is more important than “cheapest” or “easiest”. Plus I love playing physical carts just like I love playing vinyl records on an analog receiver and playing guitar on stage. And yeah, I like to tinker just for my own understanding. Edited February 3 by John Stamos Mullet 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5402518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stechmann Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 (edited) i am interested in giving my kids a nice convenient way to play atari games on the tv without spending a fortune on rare cartridges, so uploading roms to the 2600+ would be a real killer app for me. is it possible? Edited February 4 by Stechmann Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5403784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 3 minutes ago, Stechmann said: i am interested in giving my kids a nice convenient way to play atari games on the tv without spending a fortune on rare cartridges, so uploading roms to the 2600+ would be a real killer app for me. is it possible? If you just want ROMs and to play them on your TV I'd suggest a Flashback Gold, get an OTG cable, add Brads software and download the ROM collection. Done. https://youtu.be/13Z_d0fnk1A?si=wdbG9AtDGRLaMVFu Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360229-experimenting-with-the-2600-retroarch-menu/#findComment-5403789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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