I was looking for the solution to make work the Atari Games Roms on the SNES Mini with Hakchi2, but I didn’t find anything… There is no information about how to do it on the internet, just fractions of information.
Yes, of course, I tried installing the Atari 5200 Module, but any game works (800xl or 5200), that module is not enough.
On this Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkx_aRxR4U (this video is a bit old, and have an old Hakchi2 and RetroArch version) that guy talks about overwrite that .atari800xl.cfg that is on the /etc/libretro/ directory (accessing by FTP client on Hakchi2). The file is inside the console on that directory, but, the source he talks about is not present on the hakchi2 directory, so, I can’t do that. But I try to open the file, and I saw is just a plain text file, with variables and values. Then I saw, this:
Atari 800 Emulator, Version 3.1.0
ROM_OS_A_NTSC=
ROM_OS_A_PAL=/etc/libretro/system/ATARIOSA.ROM
ROM_OS_B_NTSC=
ROM_OS_AA00R10=
ROM_OS_AA00R11=
ROM_OS_BB00R1=
ROM_OS_BB01R2=/etc/libretro/system/ATARIXL.ROM
ROM_OS_BB02R3=
ROM_OS_BB02R3V4=
ROM_OS_CC01R4=
ROM_OS_BB01R3=
ROM_OS_BB01R4=
ROM_OS_BB01R59=
ROM_OS_BB01R59A=
ROM_5200=/etc/libretro/system/5200.rom
ROM_5200_A=
ROM_BASIC_A=
ROM_BASIC_B=
ROM_BASIC_C=/etc/libretro/system/ATARIBAS.ROM
ROM_XEGAME=
ROM_400/800_CUSTOM=/etc/libretro/system/ATARIOSB.ROM
…
It is very clear, we just need to put the ROMs on the correct directory, I search on the internet and download the ROMs, and I copy them on the directory /etc/libretro/system/ and then it works !!! but not directly, I had first to connect the console to my TV, start an Atari 800xl game and change the Core on the Retroarch menu (Select+Start inside an Atari Game), I just change it to 800XL, and then the Game works !!!…
It is a bit slow when they startup, and you can listen to noise, but then the game starts.
If you have doubts, just write to me in the comments.
Note: I can’t tell you where to find Atari Roms or Atari Game Roms, please use Google 🙂
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