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  1. Posted

    Steve,

    Yes, the normal carts and the one multicart come up BLACK. My Atari 5200 is a 2 port machine and the power light does come on. Would a bad multicart cause problems with my machine? I was having problems when I tried to play Bezerk. It would start play then after I got the first level cleared the screen went crazy and all the graphics went into a vertical 3 inch wide line and the game locked up. After I powered OFF the machine and turned it back on that is when I tried to play Galaxian. The game was working great until I paused it. Does the RAM go bad as you are playing games??? I dont understand. I do appreciate your help with this. I have already started bidding on another 5200 on EBAY. Oh well.

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    I just recieved my 5200 a couple days ago and I had a chance to hook it up and play with it! WOW...the first 20 minutes were great until I used the PAUSE button with the TRACK BALL while playing Galaxian. I paused the game for about 5 minutes to answer the phone and when I came back to restart the screen was black. I powered OFF the machine and turned it back on this time I got a green screen. I proceeded to turn off the machine and retry each cartridge that I had. None of the games worked. I would mostly have a black screen. The Galaxian game was beeing played from a Multicart that I had purchased months ago from one of guys here in the forum (kool guy). Anyways, I have power to the board but no signal to the TV. I have no idea what happened. Maybe someone has a suggestion. :?

     

    2 port game

    Using a Atari Age interface to use a wico joystick and my track ball

    and a multi cart

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    Thanks RALPH3!

    I appreciate everyones patience with me. I have met some really great people here at ATARIAGE so far. So helpful. I have pretty much ordered and waiting for delivery of all my componets to see if I can get this to work. I will keep everyone posted as I stumble forward back into time as I restore my 5200.

     

    ;)

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    What is the difference between the New Redemption 5200-2600 and the Electra Concepts MasterPlay interfaces? Which one would you guys chose to get Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man to work right using a Wico Command controller joystick? Thanks for dealing with this NEWBIES questions!

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    Just been reading all the stuff you guys have about the 5200 and looks like I came to the right place. So much knowledge here.

     

    I believe that what I am going to be building has already been done. I would like to build an arcade style (stand up) machine using the 5200 as the core (a poor man's MAME). I will be using a 19/20 inch television for the monitor. I have been trying to figure out the best way to hook the console up to the new cable ready/ s- video style TV's. There is the video MOD plug in from 8bit, which looks very interesting. Are there any other alternatives? I would love to have stereo sound from the 5200 to the TV audio inputs.

     

    My biggest concern will be the controls. I will be using a 5200 trakball, but I want to wire a Happ arcade 4 way joystick and seperate fire button. How will I be able to do this? How will I be able to have both controllers run out of player one port from the console? Do I have to get that Electra Concepts Master Interface? I have so many other questions but maybe I should email someone individually and discuss it that way. Who would be the best person to talk with about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

     

    Thanks

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