Atari XE

Hello everyone.

I just updated to 5.3 and noticed we have built-in Atari XE support now. However, all I am getting is a black screen. This is what I did:

- Update to 5.3
- Add the roms as zips to the Xegs folder
- Add the Xegs.zip to the bios folder (checked and bios check recognises it as fine so I take the checksum works out)

I noticed there are 2 possible emulators that are selectable in the advanced settings for the Atari SE roms. The default gives black screen, the other one "Mame64:Xegs" errors out.

Anyone has this working?

Thank you.

tartifless wrote:Hello,
Can you share the content of the xegs.zip file ?

Ensure it is named "xegs.zip" without capital letter and that it contains the file c101687.rom

Also ensure you are using the right romset for mame version.

Can you share the game rom name and content ?

I checked and it does have that file

tartifless wrote:Ok, and show us the game file ?

Please ensure that it has exact name required by mame, as shown in the mame software list:
\RetroBat\bios\mame\hash\xegs.xml



For example for this game, the rom file must be "airball.zip" and the content must be the file "airball (atari)(1988)(rx8109).rom"

- I looked, my file is "airball.zip" and the content was "airball.rom"
- I tried renaming airball.rom to "airball (atari)(1988)(rx8109).rom" but still black screen.
- I then thought, maybe the size is wrong, and I need a different version of this rom.
- Searched on google for the exact phrase "airball (atari)(1988)(rx8109).rom"
- Only one result and it is a site listing content from the Xegs.xml file, not anything to do with a rom itself.

Searched on different versions of Airball (as an example to get to work) and none work. No idea why this needs to be so complicated... these roms are for a 4 decade old system and are like 50kb in size. I can only conclude that there must be some mysterious source out there that provides roms that cannot be found with googling but for some reason are 100% needed to get the version of mame that comes with Retrobat working.

That are I am just not smart enough to figure this stuff out... if I run into troubles, it is almost always with mame systems, so I must be "out of the loop" on it.

No idea what else I can do at this point.

tartifless wrote:So your problem is something else, i just tried with the same rom as you "airball.zip" that has the same content and everything in full auto in RetroBat and the game starts without issue.

So must be something wrong with either your settings, drivers or something else.

Can you give details of your specifications ?

That makes me even more sad... how can I see which version of Mame the game tries to use? (Your screenshot mentions 0.251). I have not messed with mame but who knows, maybe it updated by itself or something. All I see in the advanced settings when launching the rom is "Libretro: Mame".

You know what, screw it, I'll do a fresh Retrobat install, once again... I always just updated since 5.0, maybe a fresh install will help...

Ok, clean Retrobat 5.3 installation, changed absolutely nothing, added the bios and rom, try to run, does not work. Not getting black screen this time, it just almost immideately throws me back in ES.

If there is anyone here that knows how to get this working and wants to take control of my pc to have a look what on earth is happening, just name your price. If a fresh installation cannot do it, then I guess there is nothing else I can still do.