Adapter for 5200 compatibilities to the 7800?

[jpfalcon2003]

Will an adapter ever be made to be able to enjoy the 5200 games for the prosystem? Does anyone know if someone is working on this as a project? Can this eventually be done? It would be really nice if it could because the 5200 is kinda bulky? I would probably sell mine if that were to happen. The adapter would of course have to work for the 128 in one multicart that I have for it though.

[Shawn]

I know there is one in the works for 7800 carts to be used on the 5200.

[jpfalcon2003]

I know there is one in the works for 7800 carts to be used on the 5200.

I din't think that could be possible because the 7800 is a more powerful system. How will the 5200 be able to pull it off to be able to play 7800 games. Aren't the 7800 games much larger than the 5200 ones?

[Feralstorm]

IIRC, it worked about the same as the 2600 adapter for 5200 - basically a mostly-whole 7800 that uses the 5200 for controls and video output.

[Shawn]

IIRC, it worked about the same as the 2600 adapter for 5200 - basically a mostly-whole 7800 that uses the 5200 for controls and video output.

 

 

exactly.

[+Allan]

I know there is one in the works for 7800 carts to be used on the 5200.

 

I think you might be confused. There is no such thing being worked on. The only one in existence is the one Curt Vendel has and I really don't think he would reproduce this.

 

Allan

[Shawn]

I know there is one in the works for 7800 carts to be used on the 5200.

 

I think you might be confused. There is no such thing being worked on. The only one in existence is the one Curt Vendel has and I really don't think he would reproduce this.

 

Allan

 

 

No I'm not confused at all actually. It's being made by 8bit. Just ask him.

[+Allan]

I know there is one in the works for 7800 carts to be used on the 5200.

 

I think you might be confused. There is no such thing being worked on. The only one in existence is the one Curt Vendel has and I really don't think he would reproduce this.

 

Allan

 

 

No I'm not confused at all actually. It's being made by 8bit. Just ask him.

 

OK. I believe you. It's just sometimes people get confused around here.

 

I hope he can come through with it. He's done a lot of other great hardware projects. Hopefully he can get it to fit inside a 5200 2600-adapter case.

 

Allan

[Bruce Tomlin]

Will an adapter ever be made to be able to enjoy the 5200 games for the prosystem? Does anyone know if someone is working on this as a project? Can this eventually be done? It would be really nice if it could because the 5200 is kinda bulky? I would probably sell mine if that were to happen. The adapter would of course have to work for the 128 in one multicart that I have for it though.

That's rather unlikely, since the 7800 has no video input in its cartridge slot like the 5200 does. The 2600-in-5200 adapter requires you to use 2600 controllers, but a 5200-in-7800 adapter would require you to hook up a video output as well as needing analog controller ports.

 

So basically, you would be creating an entire 5200-in-a-box which would only use the 7800 for power and maybe audio output. With only that, I can't really see the point. You might as well make an adaptor that plays NES games if that's all you're going to get out of the 7800.

 

Plus, the address map will be all messed up even for 8-bit games. You basically can't take the TIA and MARIA out of the memory map if you want to use the internal CPU. (not that the 2600-in-5200 adapter did that) I don't think either 8-bit or 5200 games will be happy about losing 64 bytes out of both the zero page and stack.

 

They're just too different. The only reason the ColecoVision and 5200 got their 2600 adapters is that 1) the adapters were basically a whole 2600 minus the RF modulator, and 2) both systems had A/V inputs. (well, most of the 4-port 5200 units didn't)