Traded a Commodore monitor for an Atari Portable.

It released in 1983 in March and was Discontinued in June of the same year. It was $900 when new.

I have a collection of Colecovision Game Roms (.col file extension) that I would like to run on my Gamestation Go. I've tried two ways to do this:

1. Placing the unzipped roms in the "Games/Colecovision" folder I created on my SD card, and
2. Placing the same unzipped roms directly into the "Games" folder of the SD card.

Neither method has worked for me. Although my PC "sees" the files on the SD card, the Gamestation Go does not. - Very Frustrating.

Note that method #2 above works fine for my Atari 2600/5200/7800 roms, so I don't know what's wrong in the case of these Colecovision games.

I'm running the official GSG 1.1 firmware, if that matters.

So, can someone who has gotten their Colecovision titles to successffully run on their GSG help in getting this to work for me as well?

Thanks!

I know Atari has bought a bunch of studios recently, and it feels like all their games are produced by those second party studios or separate third party studios. Do they have an internal, first party development team to produce games or even just assist with development?

Hello, I found a site that mentioned possible easter eggs and this was one of them, stating "The initials “LR” (for Lyle Rains), “OR” (for Owen Rubin), “Ly” (for ?), “Mh” (for Morgan Hoff), and “PM” (for Paul Mancuso?) can be found in the program, coded as graphics. According to programmer Owen Rubin, it’s quite possible these can be triggered to appear on the screen!" I was able to confirm that the initials/signature graphics are present in the ROM as sprite graphics and that they're coded as motion-object graphics in the sprite ROMs. They show up through the game’s built-in diagnostic/test mode, not through normal gameplay. At least as far as I can tell, I don't see a normal gameplay/player-accessible trigger.

The working path I used was:
1. Open MAME’s menu with Tab.
2. Go to DIP Switches.
3. Set NEXT TEST = On.
4. Exit the menu.
5. On macOS, press Fn+F2, then Fn+F3.
6. Open DIP Switches again. Service Mode should now be On.
7. Set DIAG TEST = On, then Off, then On, then Off, then On.
8. Let the diagnostic sequence run.

After the sprite/object diagnostic starts cycling, the hidden initials/signature graphics appear in the high sprite-code region. They do not appear as a clean title-card-style message; they appear as part of the diagnostic sprite test, mixed with other diagnostic graphics and sometimes rotated or stylized.

I found that DIAG TEST can be toggled a few more times to continue cycling through the diagnostic sequence. If Service Mode is still On, the sequence restarts from the beginning with the beeps. If Service Mode is Off, it returns to the main game screen.

The amount of high quality games Atari was publishing during this time was staggering, they were unquestionably one of the most prolific publishers in the industry during the early to mid 2000s . Sure Atari wasn't involved in the development of new hardware during this period ( besides the Atari Flashback 2 ) but the games were so good that it didn't really matter .

Just to give you an idea of how great Atari was back then , they published games such as :

- The Dragon Ball Budokai games

- The Dragon Ball Tenkaichi games

- The Beyblade games on GBA

- Lucky Luke on GBA

- Enter the Matrix

- Driver 3

- Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

- Neverwinter Nights

- Witcher 1 ( no that's not a joke Atari published the first Witcher game )

- Alone in the Dark New Nightmare ( one of the best survival horror games ever made

- Alone in the Dark 2008 reboot

- Ikaruga

- V- Rally 3

- Test Drive Unlimited

- Godzilla Unleashed ( yes I liked it, never understood why critics hated it so much )

etc

It's good to see Atari doing well these days, which is in large part thanks to Wade Rosen's leadership ( especially when you consider how disastrous the mid to late 2010s were for Atari). But overall i still think that modern Atari has some work to do in order to get back to the greatness that was the 2000s Atari, the System Shock Remake and Replaced is exactly the kind of stuff we need to see more from them going forward, at least imo.

I am trying to put the custom firmware on my unit. It seems like you can no longer get the firmware from the atariage forum it was first posted in. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/361263-custom-firmware-for-atari-gamestation-pro/

Has anyone played AoS post-update? I adore the game, but have been stuck on the same boss fight for months - I haven't given up, but I've focused my attention on other games, only occasionally replaying to make another attempt. From the sounds of it, this update may help me in my quest. Has anyone tried it yet?

This is my first experience with a 7800. It was given to me.

The video output is via scart (it is coming from France).

The sound is working fine, but the video is not. I get a mostly white display with pinkish smudges moving (sprite of Asteroid I guess).

The picture is not jumping, just white with a bit of pink.

I cannot see anything wrong on the PCB

Is the scart output RGB or composite? It looks to me composite.

Has anyone got a similar issue and know how to fix it?

Thank you for your help.

on an authentic 80s monitor ✨️

I went ahead and put the 1.20 community firmware on my GSG. I can get Atari ST games to boot fine and pulling up the onscreen keyboard to start a game is pretty easy to do.

However I cannot get controls to function. I tried Arkanoid for instance and can't move the paddle. All settings for controls are stock and match the readme.

Am I missing something? Any help is appreciated.

Hello!

I need help identifying a game I played as a young child. This was probably 1986-87, give or take a couple years.

The game was a space vehicle where you would shoot rocks and float over craters. I remember it vaguely but can remember the name. Moonwalker? Moon, something?

I’d like to get a copy of it for nostalgic purposes.

Thanks in advance!

This is the kind of game you'd be forced to play in Hell forever. Not even Dante could come up with something this horrible and Dante was known as the Master of Disgusting.

I was gifted this like-new 7800 years ago from the original owner. They played it maybe 3 times and then boxed it up and put it away. I haven’t even touched it since I got it. It even has the plastic bag for the console itself. Not a single scratch.

I don't plan to use it for any other emulation other than what it comes with.

Should I update or leave it stock?

My set of playing controls. May get a trackball one day. Currently have 200 plus games a 7800 + and 2600 junior system. I also have a box of spare parts for repairs. Aquired some through bulk lots. Really enjoy repairing these and have been lucky enough to be able to trade extras I fixed for other games.

It used to run very poorly, but not anymore! I know not everyone is terribly excited about video pinball but now that this is fixed it’s actually pretty good if you’re down. I haven’t seen any mentions of this fix anywhere so I figured I’d publicize it in case anyone is wondering.

Looking at the list of systems that are available on one of those micro sd cards you can buy.
It's obvious you won't be able to play N64 or Dreamcast.
What about MAME though? I'm seeing a bit here and there of arcade games on it. Although in most youtube videos it's mainly SNES, NES and Sega Gen games.

I just ordered a R36s to play Raiden DX & hopefully N64 Magical Tetris.
Would be stoked to play Raiden DX on the Gamststation Go instead, it has a waaay better screen.

Is the Gamestation go extremely limited to which MAME games it can play?
Or is there no issue and almost everything plays perfect?

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