Prosystem with Atari 7800

[loppydog]

I am trying to get the Prosystem 7800 emulator working with my PC, and I am having some trouble. When I run it "windowed" it works great. But when I try to run it full screen, The colors are all messed up, and I can barely read the menus. I am running windows 7, but I have the same problems with my Vista machine. I am sure it must have something to do with directX. Is anyone else having this issue with Prosystem?

changing the "bpp" setting in the INI seems to affect it, but then it becomes unstable. Plus the INI is ignored when run from command line.

[bremus1978]

is there a HL script for prosystem?

[loppydog]

I am not sure, but it can be run via command line. So it should be a peice of cake. I contacted the author and let him know of my problems, he said he may release a new version soon.

Update: After reading your post, I went back to my CAB to mess around with this emulator, and waddya know, now it works fine! Very strange, but I will go ahead and integrate this system into Hyperlaunch. I will get it done this weekend and post it for you to use.

[loppydog]

Unfortunately, this emulator started messing up the video again for me . But I went ahead and setup HL for it anyway:

;**********************************ATARI 7800***********************************
else if (systemName = "Atari 7800" && executable = "ProSystem.exe")
{	
   hideDesktop()
   Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess
   RunWait, "%emuPath%%executable%" -Fullscreen 1 -MenuEnabled 0 "%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%", Hide UseErrorLevel
}

let me know if this works out for you.

[Necrosaro420]

Unfortunately, this emulator started messing up the video again for me . But I went ahead and setup HL for it anyway:

;**********************************ATARI 7800***********************************
else if (systemName = "Atari 7800" && executable = "ProSystem.exe")
{	
   hideDesktop()
   Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess
   RunWait, "%emuPath%%executable%" -Fullscreen 1 -MenuEnabled 0 "%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%", Hide UseErrorLevel
}

let me know if this works out for you.

I get:

Atari 7800 is an invalid system name or prosystem.exe isnt supported yet

[loppydog]

sounds like you need to setup prosystem in hyperHQ

[Necrosaro420]

Already tried that. Sadly HS is just getting to complicated to deal with to get things working =( I downloaded the trial of maximus arcade, and had all the emus I couldnt get working with HS in a matter of seconds. Think im just gonna drop HS all together =(

[5thWolf]

Already tried that. Sadly HS is just getting to complicated to deal with to get things working =( I downloaded the trial of maximus arcade, and had all the emus I couldnt get working with HS in a matter of seconds. Think im just gonna drop HS all together =(

I use prosystem, without HL, and it works perfectly. I use the same settings from 0.8 in the latest HS and runs the same. Wish I could help you though.

[loppydog]

I hate to see you give up on Hyperspin, it really shouldn't be too difficult to get all your emulators setup. Did you recompile HL after making the changes? I'll be more than happy to help you the best I can. try to post the contents of your settings.ini of Atari 7800. Also post your Atari 7800 section of your Hyperlaunch. I will compare them to mine and we should be able to sort this out.

Also, if someone else could give this a try to see if it works for them, I would really appreciate it.

[bremus1978]

Works good thanks for the HL script.

[brolly]

Do you guys think Prosystem is the best emu for Atari 7800? I was using MESS. There's also Emu7800 which supports lightgun games using the mouse, I think Prosystem can't do that. Basically I'm searching for the emu with most compatible number of games.

Can't run Tower Toppler in any of these for example.

[loppydog]

I have been doing some research about this myself, and I cannot come to a conclusion. I need to give EMU7800 a shot, I plan to in the next couple of days. I dont like MESS because it is not compatible with sending keys via AHK and because of the lame nag screen when loading a rom. I dont like Prosystem because...well....it doesnt work on my system . Is EMU7800 command line compatible? Does anyone know if it is as accurate as the other options?

[brolly]

I'm not sure what you mean with MESS I have it working perfectly with HS. I don't see much differences in compatibility between MESS and ProSystem, at least with the games I tested.

I haven't played around much with Emu7800, it does have command line options so making it work with HS should be easy, I only tested it since I wanted to have the lightgun games playable, but I'm not having much luck with it. It loads the game fine, but I can't seem to find the way to activate mouse as lightgun. This should be automatic I think, but maybe I'm doing something wrong because it's not working.

[loppydog]

Do you have MESS loading roms without the "move joystick left and right" nag screen? If so did you have to recompile it?

As far as MESS with autohotkey, mess does not recognize hotkeys. this may not be a problem for most people, but I use hotkeys extensively.

[brolly]

uh? I never saw that screen in mess tbh. I saw it in Mame only.

I didn't recompile MESS as well. I have several systems running with MESS and I did update Atari 7800 to use the latest version (kept the config files I had).

[Layer0730]

Do you have MESS loading roms without the "move joystick left and right" nag screen? If so did you have to recompile it?

As far as MESS with autohotkey, mess does not recognize hotkeys. this may not be a problem for most people, but I use hotkeys extensively.

MESS can be set to skip the info screens using skip_gameinfo (You can set it using MESSUI to make it easier).

[brolly]

Right, but I never noticed a move left/right on the game info screens.

[loppydog]

yeah I get the "one or more roms are incorrect" nag, and I have "skip_gameinfo" set to "1"....still get the nag screen.

[brolly]

Well, here's my Atari 7800 script just in case you want to try it.

else if (systemName = "Atari 7800" && executable = "mess.exe")

{

hideDesktop()

Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess

RunWait, %executable% a7800 -cart "%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%" -skip_gameinfo -nowindow -nonewui, %emuPath%, Hide UseErrorLevel

}

[loppydog]

i see you have it in the command line...That might just work, I'll try it and let you know.

[loppydog]

nevermind after I looked at my HL script, it matches yours exactly. Wonder why I still get the nag.

[brolly]

maybe you're using an older version of MESS.

[loppydog]

just in case anyone is wondering, I found the problem with my MESS telling me "one or more roms are incorrect". It was a bad 7800 bios file, I went ahead and found a different one and now no more nag screen!

[brolly]

Cool, glad your sorted it out.

[Ninja2bseen]

Hi

I'm trying to set up emu7800 but when I run it in hyperspin it never comes up. Hyperlaunch appears in the processes though and I force quit it. I'm using the correct module and I have a78 in the extension in hq. works great outside of hyperspin. Got any tips for the setup?