sundogak Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 11 hours ago, dugan26 said: Ok Im back --- Playing around with a bunch of games. Most games just needed one button, like Donkey Kong and DKJR etc ... How about the second button for Astroids? where do i program that? Screen shot would be greatly appreciated The Atari of the time only used a joystick with one button. Asteroids only used one. https://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/Asteroids_manual.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 21 minutes ago, sundogak said: The Atari of the time only used a joystick with one button. Asteroids only used one. https://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/Asteroids_manual.pdf Altirra is for the 5200 and 800 and the 5200 has more buttons, 4 side buttons but I believe those are duplicated so it's 2 buttons plus the numpad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 I was speaking only the 800 games not 5200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 One more question ---- and i think i am done When Donkey Kong starts it says press Option for difficulty How do i access "option" Along with my second button question per Asteroids I think i am complete with this emulator Hope you can respond the Dugan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Yea i am using Atari 800 Holy Moly where did you dig up that manual !!!! wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 anything on the "options" ? Promise to leave this alone after that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, dugan26 said: anything on the "options" ? Promise to leave this alone after that! Help screen has command keys: Option is F4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 thanks Any help on the "difficulty" settings? where is that located I know its cheating but man! this game is hard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Hi Let me clarify - See the options in the game here on the pic - how do i access those options? Options for Difficulty? How do i get into that menu? any idea? thanks again for your support here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 2 hours ago, dugan26 said: Hi Let me clarify - See the options in the game here on the pic - how do i access those options? Options for Difficulty? How do i get into that menu? any idea? thanks again for your support here As noted above, OPTION = F4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Just wanted to thank you for all your responses and help you have been great! but hitting F4 doesn't seem to do anything for options on difficulty - but I am in a good spot here - and again wanted to say thank you for getting me up and running. I am going to stop here, and just play harder haha - Thanks pal - thank you again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 When i hit F4 what should happen? Does a menu show up? When playing DK and hitting F4 - the game just starts. Is there some kind of menu that should be showing up? Or does the game itself do anything? Sorry i know i said i was good here - but just curious I will leave you alone if you dont know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 4 hours ago, dugan26 said: When i hit F4 what should happen? Does a menu show up? When playing DK and hitting F4 - the game just starts. Is there some kind of menu that should be showing up? Or does the game itself do anything? Sorry i know i said i was good here - but just curious I will leave you alone if you dont know For this particular game there is no menu. It simply toggles the difficulty each time you hit F4 to one of the 5 difficulty settings. The icon in middle changes each time you change settings. Manuals are located here https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-donkey-kong_1673.html As to what each of the difficulty settings changes/does as far as game play, have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Thanks! I think i am finally sorted. Yea i got to this, and had no ideas what it meant. Will see if the manuals have any intel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan26 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 I'm Back!!! haha Hey pal thank you very much everything is working great and cant thank you enough! Another question, not sure if you can help me or direct me somewhere. When i play Donkey Kong i never run out of lives. Which is kind of cool and has helped me get to the cement factory! The DK Dream! From my research this is called a "cheat". However no other games in the Atari 8 inventory does that happen to. Is the cheat part of the ROM? Any idea ? I would like to apply that cheat to other games like DK JR and others. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also heard there are cheats where you are invincible and cant be hurt but thats not what i want- that would totally get rid of why play the game. Just looking for unlimited lives Any of this make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 21 hours ago, dugan26 said: I'm Back!!! haha Hey pal thank you very much everything is working great and cant thank you enough! Another question, not sure if you can help me or direct me somewhere. When i play Donkey Kong i never run out of lives. Which is kind of cool and has helped me get to the cement factory! The DK Dream! From my research this is called a "cheat". However no other games in the Atari 8 inventory does that happen to. Is the cheat part of the ROM? Any idea ? I would like to apply that cheat to other games like DK JR and others. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also heard there are cheats where you are invincible and cant be hurt but thats not what i want- that would totally get rid of why play the game. Just looking for unlimited lives Any of this make sense? Altirra has a cheat system. It is listed in main menu under "cheat". You can either enter in the hex codes manually or load them from files others have made. Altirra can use Atari800 emulator cheat files or ones specific to Altirra. You can google around to find them. I don't use them but as example here is cheat file for Donkey Kong Jr. that gives infinite lives DonkeyKongJunior.a8t Select the Cheat menu, select Load and go to file. Then hit the double arrow button to move into Cheats window. If checked then active. Sometimes warm reset needed. You have to have the exact same disk/cart file that was made for the cheat file or likely won't work (or crashes game/causes other odd things). The cheat is altering the code of the game. Remember to uncheck the cheat (or delete) when going to another game or will cause issues. You also won't always get a cheat that is like you want as depends on how the code can be altered. Also not all games have cheats unless you are into hex editing and understand the game code to know where to alter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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