tonyankyfan1 Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Quick question --> After downloading that huge collection of games via atariage for my harmony cart/2600, I have been noticing that some games (A few) come up on the screen in black and white and will not turn to color. While others are straight color. I checked my black and white/color switch and it is set on color. All my other CART games play in color and fine all the time, only these downloaded games have this issue. Does this have anything to do with my HARMONY CART?? As it is, the harmony cart menu is very dim and unreadable, I have to crank up the brightness and color via TV only when using the harmony. I am stumped!!! Tahanks Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Have you checked if your B/W switch works at all? And which games are affected? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyankyfan1 Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 Have you checked if your B/W switch works at all? And which games are affected? yes, B/W switch works fine, air raiders & one of the Atlantis bins came up in black and white as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 No pattern recognizable yet. Which Atlantis bin do you mean? And can you provide more examples which show up in B/W? Also, what's your hardware setup? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 I had nothing but problems with the ROMs posted on AtariAge. One would think otherwise. Try these ROMs out and see if you have the same problem. These are ROMs I downloaded from another site and I haven't had problems with any so far. Air Raiders.bin Atlantis.bin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 You're not using a PAL TV, are you? Air Raiders NTSC has an odd number of scan lines (263) and would display in black and white on some PAL TVs as a consequence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Quick question --> After downloading that huge collection of games via atariage for my harmony cart/2600, I have been noticing that some games (A few) come up on the screen in black and white and will not turn to color. While others are straight color. I checked my black and white/color switch and it is set on color. All my other CART games play in color and fine all the time, only these downloaded games have this issue. Does this have anything to do with my HARMONY CART?? As it is, the harmony cart menu is very dim and unreadable, I have to crank up the brightness and color via TV only when using the harmony. I am stumped!!! Tahanks Anthony Did you use Rom Hunters collection from Atarimania? I use that rom collection on my Harmony with no issues. http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyankyfan1 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 I had nothing but problems with the ROMs posted on AtariAge. One would think otherwise. Try these ROMs out and see if you have the same problem. These are ROMs I downloaded from another site and I haven't had problems with any so far. Yes, I downloaded all the ROMS from ROMHUNTER 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyankyfan1 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 I had nothing but problems with the ROMs posted on AtariAge. One would think otherwise. Try these ROMs out and see if you have the same problem. These are ROMs I downloaded from another site and I haven't had problems with any so far. I will do, Thanks a bunch!~!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyankyfan1 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 You're not using a PAL TV, are you? Air Raiders NTSC has an odd number of scan lines (263) and would display in black and white on some PAL TVs as a consequence. No, not a PAL tv Did you use Rom Hunters collection from Atarimania? I use that rom collection on my Harmony with no issues. http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html YES, i did.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Make sure you aren't playing PAL games. The colors will be wrong and your TV may have trouble syncing (and therefore may look dim and fuzzy.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyankyfan1 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Make sure you aren't playing PAL games. The colors will be wrong and your TV may have trouble syncing (and therefore may look dim and fuzzy.) Hi, All the games i downloaded were from atariage and ROMHUNTER. They all seem to be NTSC games, no PAL games. I had to work over weekend, so i have not had a chance to crank up the 2600 & Harmony, but will be doing s tonight to double check everything. I will get back to you. Thanks for the help and advice, appreciate it!!! Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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