Atari 5200 Roms Pack

[Yoana Terrano]

Currentlyyou need to go into the Atari800 menu (either by pressing F1, or by selecting the ATARI Joystick in the Controls quick menu, and then pressing R), go into Emulator Setup, and tell the emulator to look for roms in your system directory.

Before the last change and your news options every things was working fine (auto detection of 5200 games based on mame crc ) Anyone get Atari 5200 working under RetroArch?if you can build ,you can always try this one -type/jum52

I scrounged together all the 5200 ROMs I could find and organized them. This is my first pass at organizing them, so I'm sure there are errors and duplicates. I'm already certain that there are some duplicates between the three folders of this zip file, but perhaps those could get worked out later.

One of the reasons I call this the sister project to the manual project is that it would be a good idea to make their filenames the same (except for the extensions, of course) so a package of manuals can be uploaded that can be compatible with the package of ROMs. I believe the same thing can be accomplished for screenshot files.

In addition, I believe it would be a good idea to standardize the notation for conversions and demos. I did not go out of my way to standardize them in this first upload, but having a notation scheme that is compact and concise would be for the best so the filenames can all appear on the cart's menu screen without running off of the screen. Perhaps something like (conv) and (demo), or maybe to even further shorten the filenames, CONV and DEMO could be used.

This upload may also contain non-working ROMs. I experienced problems running Jumpman Jr. and one of the Pac-Man hacks myself. If anybody finds any more instances of nonworking ROMs, please let me know, but I don't intend this topic to turn into a non-working ROM discussion. I believe I may start another topic about that. (Jumpman Jr. in particular is really giving me problems.)

One thing I'll say is that the 5200 community is blessed with guys like Steve/classics, Ken Siders/kenfused, Wratchild, and Bob/PacManPlus, who have done so many conversions and released them free. Beats having to fiddle with an Atari 800!! Whereas the Colecovision community releases are almost 100% sales of cart-only.

Also true for the colecovision. If the Pacman collection rom was available, I might actually keep my CV hooked up for more than 2 days every 6 months. Then you see the new Smurf game and I'd really like to play it, but I just can't throw my money around at every classic gaming thing I want to get. (Right now I'm doing that with A8 computers)Plus if the roms never get released and you happen to miss a limited run of carts for a home-brew, your shit out of luck!

Anyone try the Frogger hack for no button press? Wow.... with a stock controller the frog just hauls ass and is hard to stop. I was laughing my ass off. So now I see why they made the original the way they did. If you have something like a masterplay or redemtion this hack is fantastic though.

There is a pac-man speed hack in there that is an ATR, like an 8-bit disk image. I renamed it .bin but it didn't load from the SD cart. Is that file in there by error or what? I'm enjoying the ms. pac-man with the speed hack and was hoping this was the same for pac-man.

The game play seems to be great but I found a bug where after a game is over, you get the game over screen and music, when it goes back to the title screen and you press start to play again about 50% of the time the game will lock up right there.

I might be getting rid of ALL my emulators and sticking with RA! As I go through the emulator and roms, I notice that Atari 5200 does not load or work with the Atari800 core. Has anyone gotten this to work?

I normally use Kat5200 to play my Atari 5200 roms. but I do have retroarch setup as a secondary option (using RA 1.74 and the latest core for Atari800). I just tried mine and it works fine in RetroArch. Make sure you have the latest core downloaded (either through RA's interface or via the buildbot site - _64/latest/ or if you have a x86 processor - ), and the correct BIOS files needed for the Atari 800 core to work properly ( )

Interesting. Tested several games and they all work fine for me with the latest atari800 core and 1.74 nightly RetroArch. Do you have your games files zipped or in the unzipped .a52 file type? Mine are not in a zipped file, I wonder if maybe that's the issue?

Do your roms have the headers included? The Atari800 core under RetroArch requires those type of 5200 roms, at least it seems to here. Like CDBlue said, everything is working here with that core and the latest RetroArch.

Bios files typically just go in the retroarch system folder most times. There are a few exceptions that require their own sub-folder in the systems folder, but this isn't one of them. Many emulators are very picky when it comes to needing certain bios dumps. For example, the atari800 bios core in question here is looking for several bios files with certain MD5SUM checksums ( ). Make sure you check the files you have to make sure they match what's listed on the core info page for libretro to make sure you don't have issues due to having the wrong bios files.

I'm not a big fan of the Atari 5200 core in retroarch, as I always seem to have one issue or another with it. Although those issues can be overcome, I generally just use a stand-alone emulator for Atari 5200 games now as it's just easier. I'm not sure how many of them are out there for the Atari 5200, but here are a couple that I know of that work well:

It took me a while to find out how 5200 cartridges work in Batocera and as I can't see the behaviour documented, I though I post it here. When selecting a cartridge (.BIN file) in Emulation Station and you end up on a blank screen, push the Controller DOWN once. Then you see the cartridge type select screen. 5200 ROMs usually require the 2 ROM 5200 type.

thanks for tip, been struggling with the atari 5200 and 800 roms but managed to find a way to also run the 800 roms on the 5200 emulator. Here's my .atari800.cfg which is placed into the bios folder.

Also the 5200 rom should be named 5200.rom (lower case .rom)

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