Chris-in-NJ Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 The 5200 I "inherited" had three Parker Bros. and one Activision cartridge with it, and I've noticed that on Q*bert and Popeye I've had to jiggle the actual chip inside the cartridge to make them work. I have yet to get either Frogger or River Raid to work at all, I just get either a green screen or a black one with a white bar on the side. Is this common with 3rd-party games? I'm sort of new to the 5200 and liking it more and more the more I play it -- played Qix for the first time ever this evening and really liked it, it's so different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Atari brand Cart Casings have Dust Covers, 3rd party Casings do not. Clean the contacts, they should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Activision carts can be very temperamental (?sp) because the contacts are slightly thinner than Atari first party carts. Many of them just need a good cleaning, but some like Pitfall II and Mountain King will not work on certain systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougy76 Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Activision carts can be very temperamental (?sp) because the contacts are slightly thinner than Atari first party carts. Many of them just need a good cleaning, but some like Pitfall II and Mountain King will not work on certain systems. I agree. Activision carts on the 5200 are a real pain. I have some games that were brand new and still had problems loading. Usually jiggling them around enough gets the job done though. And I think Pitfall2 works on both 2-port and 4-port, and it's Pitfall that is 4-port only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianscott27 Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 thanks for the topic, i had presumed my kaboom! was beyond repair, it seemed jiggly. thinking it was the jiggle i never bothered with the contacts, but now its working perfectly after an alc. wipe. another reason to bust out the 5200 paddle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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