1 Size Fits All?????

[82-T/A]

Hey guys,

 

Just had a thought. Does anyone know if anyone has ever attempted to build or produce a limited quantity system that will play all the old Atari system games?

 

Everything from say, the 2600, 5200, 7800, including XEGM, and 8-bit games? Seems like it wouldn't be TOO difficult to build.

 

I'd absolutely love the idea of having 100 million systems all hooked up and sitting on shelves in my family room, except that.. I don't have any shelves, I don't have enough outlets, and my friends would all think I was a huge nerd. Normally I wouldn't care, but I have to share my house with my wife.. who would also think I was a huge nerd. hahaha...

[Susuwatari]

That won't be easy to make:

different CPU

different hardware setup

different compoments

Keyboard for some

different controller plugs (none for Lynx as it's built in)

 

The easiest way to achieve this is to grab a decent PC and download all emulator. Then build an interface to use 2600 (or any Atari computer), 5200, 7800, and Jaguar controller on PC. I'm not even sure of Jag controller can be plugged into PC.

[onkyo_emu]

Ya, it could be done. It's called an intel box. Just get all the authentic joysticks (I have: SMS, Genesis, NES, SNES, N64, PSone, 2600-and 7800 stick is en route.) and make or buy USB adapters for them. Fire up the corresponding emulator and Tada!

 

And for all the purists out there (whom I very much respect), I do think that emulating and the real thing are indistinguishable on about half of the systems. . .and just give the others time.

 

Emulating 2600 was hokey until I got my CX40 and usb adapter. I shaved 6+ seconds off my Grand Prix time because I just remembered how the real thing "felt".

 

Just my 2 cents.

[Avid Fan]

I just know that there's a guy on this board who took apart a 5200 and a 7800 and made a badass system like that, so it played 520, 7800 and 2600 through the 7800

[JB]

I just know that there's a guy on this board who took apart a 5200 and a 7800 and made a badass system like that, so it played 520, 7800 and 2600 through the 7800

Sort of.

5200 games still go into the 5200, and they have independent inputs and power switches. It's more like he glued them together and rigged an automatic AV switch. There's minimal integration between the 2.

 

http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/merged_atari.html.

[sku_u]

The closest I know of was a project rumored for the 5200. The Atari 5200 had a VCS adapter that played 2600 games. There was also supposedly a 7800 adapter slated for the unit.

 

Given that the 5200 carts are larger than the 2600, 7800 and XE carts, it seems most feasible to use the 5200 cart port as a starting point for adapters for the other Atari systems.

[82-T/A]

What about the Atari Jaguar?

 

I know that there have been 2600 port systems... like I think you could play 2600 games on the Coleco Adam with the converter. And, same with the Sega Master System converter piece that plugged into the cartridge port of the Sega Genesis.

 

They should make something like that for the Atari Jaguar. Something that stuck in the top (in place of where the CD sits) and has a cartridge slot for the Jaguar games, 7800/2600, 5200, XEGM, and the 8-bit systems.

[sku_u]

 

They should make something like that for the Atari Jaguar. Something that stuck in the top (in place of where the CD sits) and has a cartridge slot for the Jaguar games, 7800/2600, 5200, XEGM, and the 8-bit systems.

 

By the time the Jaguar came out, VCS carts were in the aftermarket bargain bins and the 5200 and 7800 were distant memories. What would have been the motivation?

[82-T/A]

No, I don't mean in the past. I mean now...

 

someone should make something for the Atari Jaguar now....

 

Like, maybe Songbird Productions, or ICD or, I dunno.

 

I like owning the hardware, but it would be really cool if you could have ALL your atari cartridges work straight through the Jaguar. That way you would only need 1 system.

[jsoper]

5200 games still go into the 5200, and they have independent inputs and power switches.  It's more like he glued them together and rigged an automatic AV switch. There's minimal integration between the 2.

http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/merged_atari.html

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Stop it, you got me crying here

Well the controllers and keypad are completely integrated also. In fact that was most of the work. It was hard to have the turned-on console put voltage on the controller and not have it reach the turned-off one.

[JB]

5200 games still go into the 5200, and they have independent inputs and power switches.  It's more like he glued them together and rigged an automatic AV switch. There's minimal integration between the 2.

http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/merged_atari.html

[Removed the period at end of link]

Stop it, you got me crying here

Well the controllers and keypad are completely integrated also. In fact that was most of the work. It was hard to have the turned-on console put voltage on the controller and not have it reach the turned-off one.

Sorry.

I thought the inputs were still totally seperate.

 

 

And while it's an impressive piece of work, it's not the same as the implied design, as you have 2 distinctly seperate systems in there.

 

Personally, my only complaint is that the 7800 on top ruins the 5200's lines. But then, I probably like the 5200 design a bit TOO much...

[jsoper]

And while it's an impressive piece of work, it's not the same as the implied design, as you have 2 distinctly seperate systems in there.

 

Personally, my only complaint is that the 7800 on top ruins the 5200's lines. But then, I probably like the 5200 design a bit TOO much...

I actually looked into combining them on one motherboard, the clocking circuits were similiar and the 65C02 microprocessor on a 7800 might work with a 5200, but it would be way too much work.

In fact, I don't know if any combo consoles are doable, a colecovision/ti99-4a might be possible.

 

Sorry about ruining the 5200 lines

It is a lot of fun to play though, in fact when you're bouncing between different libraries and playing them all in s-video on a psx dual-shock, you really focus on the games themselves instead of console shortcomings. I never post to the 7800 versus 5200 threads anymore

[mos6507]

The Commodore One may be able to do this ultimately (if it ever really comes out).

 

The C= one being a hardware emulation solution in which the chips themselves can be reprogrammed to be 100% circuit compatible to various custom chips from the old days.

[JB]

And while it's an impressive piece of work, it's not the same as the implied design, as you have 2 distinctly seperate systems in there.

 

Personally, my only complaint is that the 7800 on top ruins the 5200's lines. But then, I probably like the 5200 design a bit TOO much...

I actually looked into combining them on one motherboard, the clocking circuits were similiar and the 65C02 microprocessor on a 7800 might work with a 5200, but it would be way too much work.

Would've been neat, though.

 

In fact, I don't know if any combo consoles are doable, a colecovision/ti99-4a might be possible.

Genesis/Master System!

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Okay, that's cheating. You're already only a cart connector and a ... a... what is that chip anyways? short of a full 2 in 1...

 

Sorry about ruining the 5200 lines    

It's okay.

 

It is a lot of fun to play though, in fact when you're bouncing between different libraries and playing them all in s-video on a psx dual-shock, you really focus on the games themselves instead of console shortcomings.  I never post to the 7800 versus 5200 threads anymore

Heh.

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Does your dual-shock adapter let it do 2 controllers on one pad? Would be awesome for Robotron and Space Dungeon.

[jsoper]

Does your dual-shock adapter let it do 2 controllers on one pad? Would be awesome for Robotron and Space Dungeon.

Yes, in fact I was on a major Space Dungeon binge a couple months ago. The 2600 dual joystick games (Stargate, Raiders of Lost Arc, Spy Hunter, and Riddle of Sphinx) are more fun now too.

[keilbaca]

Just take a PC case, cut the appropriate holes, leave out the computer, mount the atari 5200, 7800, wire each switch to the front say like drilled into the varius 5 1/4" covers in your case, add a few more systems you can fit, inside, have all the a/v combined into one output in the back, and put a surge box inside and make one plug going out the back. so all you see is cartridge holes, switches/joystick ports in the front, and a power and one set if a/v in the back.

[JB]

Does your dual-shock adapter let it do 2 controllers on one pad? Would be awesome for Robotron and Space Dungeon.

Yes, in fact I was on a major Space Dungeon binge a couple months ago. The 2600 dual joystick games (Stargate, Raiders of Lost Arc, Spy Hunter, and Riddle of Sphinx) are more fun now too.

 

Heh. You should see me play Space Dungeon.

No controller holder, standard 5200 sticks. I use them as grotesque oversized thumbsticks. It's sad, really.

 

 

 

Keilbaca: http://w1.346.telia.com/~u34604620/woodcub...e/pictures.html