Norannyo
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thanks guys. absolutely love these Atari games..
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ok , so i've probably got to open the machine up and look at the select button? what should I look for specifically? does anyone know? Also I just got some more pickups from the flea market.. although I remmeber playing Atari 2600, and 7800 when I was a kid, i'm still quite new to the setups.. So I picked up some paddles.. I don't actually understand how they work, even after reading Dauber's post. So For instance, Let's say I put in Centipede. As Dauber mentioned, I press the buttons on the paddes, one paddle button goes left, one goes right on the other paddle. Confusing to be honest. Is this right? Or is it just a game mode that it's defaulted to because my select button may not be working? I was expecting me to be able to play a one player game with just ONE of the paddles.. is this possible? by selecting a different game type? if the button worked? Also side note: I just bought and played Food Fight for the first time, it's awesome!
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ahh yes.. you are correct. Although I knew this ahead of time, I made an assumption it was just "recommended" to play with the paddles. So I guess I'll be on the hunt for a couple of those. One thing I noticed was when I pressed the reset button, Infiltrate worked fine.. Combat works, but I am unable to choose anything other than Tank levels. How do you select the planes, or different options. I tried select, and reset, but they don't really respond. Perhaps something wrong with the select button?
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Hey guys, I'm really starting to like these forums,, like minded gamers. anyway.. I got a few thrift store pickups today, I got 4 2600 games to play on my 7800. Actually since I'm new to collecting for the 7800, I only have 2600 games, as they are somewhat easier to come by. All my 2600 games work, except the ones I got today. I got Super Breakout, Combat, Street Racer, Infiltrate. I put each one in, every time they showed up on the screen.. I could see the game, but I could not control it. Put some of the ones I knew worked before back in, like DigDug, and it fired up fine and works with the awful 7800 controller. So I put the genesis controller in, and same thing.. no controls.. for example, Super Breakout comes up looks alright with some noise, but it doesn't control, nothing I do will control it. I then thought perhaps it was dirty? So i used the NES repair kit I bought, cleans the connectors really nicely.. always fixes dirty nes, genesis and snes games every single time. I cleaned all 4 Atari 2600 games, put them in, and still nothing. Street Racer for instance, shows the cars moving up and down, but it's like it's on a demo mode. Infiltrate does the same thing, it shows the colors and platforms, some tiny movement in the color changing, but nothing comes up. Combat just shows the 2 tanks on either side of the map, and a constant changing background color, as if it was also demonstrating or something. But no controls. So my question is what is going on? could it still be dirty even though I really cleaned it good? this has to be pretty common for getting old Atari games from thrift stores. All my other games, like centipede, Pacman, Mouse Trap, they all work fine with both controllers. But not these new ones. any ideas guys and potentially gals?
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yes good point, i'm braid dead today.. I thrift shop quite a bit.. one store has a plethora of cords, wires and adapters. Side note (any time you get a chance to use the word plethora, you use it).
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Yes, good advice. Are there specific types I should look for? or ask for? I mean I have a few of those yellow/white/red cables. But I certainly want to have the best. Where can I find these?
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Great.. I'll just get it from the AtariAge store then. By the way guys, I just hooked up the Atari based on GorfCadet's post. Through the VCR using composite cables to go out, not sure why I didn't really think of that. The quality got better for sure, but it's still got some noise on the screen.. and this is likely because of the old 3DO auto switcher that is still in the hookup scenario. As I used that to go into the vcr then composite out to tv. So, I have confidence that the adapter will solve the problem thank you guys. Also one other thing, when I get this adapter, plugging just one RCA end for examplle yellow, from the Atari, into the female-coax adapter should be ok? or do i need a specific cable?
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I'll take pictures later.. I know you guys follow me, but it might make it more fun to have pictures of the exact setup.
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hi, thanks for the replies. The TV is a tube tv, big and it's nice for it's age good color and perfect for retro gaming. the cable I'm using from the 7800 to the TV looks sort of like this: http://www.knightdiscounts.com/VideoGames/16bitrfports.jpg Except it has a box on it where the coax side is. but same thing really. Believe it or not, I don't have a cell phone or camera lol.. otherwise i'd just quickly take a picture and upload it. I can probably use one later perhaps. I'm just hoping that if I get this: http://tinyurl.com/cqu4axs the picture quality will improve. The cable I'm using is kind of old and I assume that is what is causing the issue. I love doing projects, I just want to make sure I have a quality adapter and cord so that I can get the best picture on something that is what? 30 years old. I guess I could hook it up with JUST a yellow rca video cable to video in on the tv and see if I get an improved picture? i know I won't get any sound that way though.
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Hi guys, My question is about video quality on my Atari 7800. I bought my 7800 from the flea market for $35, came with original power adapter and 1 controller. Turns on works fine, but there is a little noise on the screen, and it's not unplayable, but it's fuzzy enough that I feel it can be improved. I'm wondering about that adapter I've seen, locally there is no place, as in Canada we no longer have Radio shacks, they are called The Source now, and my local one doesn't carry this adapter at all. So I'll go on ebay I guess. But is this adapter going to improve that quality.. Also I should mention how I have it setup right now. I got the 7800 home and started to hook it all up, and realized quickly that I didn't have the tv box thing it originally came with way back. So I searched around my cord collection (we all probably have one.) I found my old Panasonic 3DO cord, that is rca on one side, and coax on the other, and the image came up and I was able to play around and have some great memories. But could this older style 3DO adapter be causing the noise? and should this new adapter help with that? man I'm bad at summing up questions, look how long this beast is.
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I paid $35 Dollars for an Atari 7800 with 1 controller, power adapter, and original rf cord with no games. Got this at the local flea market. He wanted like 4 bucks per game, and at that point I had already spent most of the money I came with.
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nice, ,I'm going to start saving now lol
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comfort food for the gamer soul, nice i like that
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is it wrong that I love Retro gaming this much? the last 5 years I've been wrapped up in childhood nostalgia, it's a little freaky.. you guys the same?
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Well I have good news, I just went down to a few thrift shops and managed to get Mouse Trap, Infiltrate, Pitfall, and Dig Dug.. and it all works now.. I'm more than confused to be honest. Do you think it was my resolding that did it? or was it always working because of the Baseball game thinking 2nd controller port is actually 1. it's odd, but I'm happy. Although Can I ask about that Modded ColecoVision? was it like a composite video mod? I've been in the search for a ColecoVision for a while, and In the next little while if Yurkie is reliable as you mention, if the price is right I will probably just get one from you Yurkie.. Loving this forum guys.
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quick update : i talked to my uncle, he said I should stop by with it, but to see if I can get a schematic or diagram so he can get a better understanding of how it works, as he would have a much better idea of what he's looking at then myself. Does anyone have any other ideas about what to try next? or what it could be?
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interesting and kind of crazy all at the same time. What are the odds that baseball was the game I picked up for a buck at the flea market. I still think there is a problem as I have Super Challenge football as well and it seems to be doing the same thing. Good to know about baseball though. Unless the football game is like the baseball game as well? hehe wow I hope so. That would potentially mean the port actually does work. I wanted to make sure everything wokrs before i drop 10-15 bucks on a handful of classics.
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hmm, sadly I had to google what a multimeter was. I do not have one. I will see about getting one asap. Anything specific I need to look for in one? Come to think of it I have a retired Uncle who used to do repairs to Tv's and vcrs and such in the 80s and 90s when it was still normal to repair things, perhaps he has one still.
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oh 2 other things I will mention.. the game is question was Baseball, I assume it was simply Baseball for the 2600.. shows up fine. Also, I was wondering if perhaps the pins on the controller port that the controller itself attaches to could be dirty? or grimy? perhaps that could be an issue? I don't know, i'm just trying to think outside the box.
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Hi everyone. I tried asking this question in the other thread, however my issue has some different symptoms. I bought a Atari 7800 from the flea market, got an original power supply with it.. happy as a clam. I have a 7800 controller as well, the odd one. Issue: I plug in the controller to controller port 1, and nothing happens, I plug into controller port 2 and I have full control over player 2, but still nothing on port 1. I plugged in a sega genesis controller as I read it works with the 7800. It does the same thing, does not work on port 1, does on port 2. So I decided to try and open it up and look at the soldering points. I noticed the controller port itself moved ever so slightly when i pressed on it. Not much, but that was enough for me to think I should take a go at re soldering the pins. So i did, I suck at it, but i feel that the redo's were done with proper contact,, they are a little goopy, but they look like they should work. so I plugged everything back up, and still the same issue persists.. I'm happy that this place exists, and I am hoping that if many of you are good enough to successfully mod your 7800 to have composite video/S-video as i've been reading, that perhaps you can work with me on this to see if I can resolve it, thanks. side note, maybe I can take some pictures of my poor soldering job... but you guys know what the board already looks like I suppose.
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Hi guys, I don't mean to hijack in anyway here. But I grew up playing all these old retro consoles. Couldn't resist when I saw a Atari 7800 yesterday at the Flea Market. $30. So I think i have the same issue as Chuckster. It starts up, I put in Baseball.. I have the original 7800 controller. When plugged into the first port it literally just does nothing. I've tried taking it out and putting in again in case it wasn't seated properly.. I tried plugging in an original Sega Genesis controller, and that also does not work.either. However controller port 2 does work. Interesting bit, when I plug into the 2nd controller port, it functions as if there are 2 players. Rather than defaulting to 1 Player with no controller plugged into the first port. So I by no means have the means to do any mods or anything, however I do have a soldering gun, I fixed my port 1 on the Sega genesis by Soldering which I was pretty proud of lol. Do you guys think I should also try re soldering in controller port on the Atari? I've never opened up an Atari 7800, is there anything i need to know first? or is it self explanatory. ok thanks in advance.
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