I just got my 2600 up and running, but it has these diagonal lines constantly going down the screen. Do I need to recap? Or is just something I’m going to have to deal with?

A fun side project: the original 2600 game runs untouched in an emulator, and every frame is redrawn NES or SNES style from its 128 bytes of RAM.

It's similar to the NES HD texture packs, but the 2600 has no tiles to swap, so the whole scene is rebuilt from the game's memory. Working out what each byte means was a bit of reverse engineering: guess, predict what the game will do, check.

Vibe coded with Claude over a weekend; an old idea finally brought to life.

Free and open source for Windows and macOS, but bring your own ROM: https://github.com/majonesmax/haunted-house-remastered

This is a long shot but here goes.

Bought a 2600 awhile back and it has these random white spots that are pretty stubborn. Tried rubbing alcohol, didn't work.

I ported Battlezone to the 2600.

The demo ROM is up on my site and I would like your feedback.

It runs on original hardware. No modern cart extensions.

You can try it here: https://retrocartwiz.com/games/battlezone

I am most interested in how the controls feel and whether the difficulty is right.

Thanks.

So I like the ancient Egyptian aesthetic in retro games and have noticed several for Atari like Desert Falcon, Riddle of the Sphynx and Tutankham. Anyone Know any more?

How do you all like these little games?

I recently picked up 2 2600 consoles, one heavy sixer, one light. I open the heavy sixer up and the power regulator does not look like any of the ones i've seen on youtube (picture attached). My first thought was, "fck someone swapped the board", but after doing some light research it seems like this was one of the early heavy sixer models.

My question is, if I'm planning on doing one of the "touch up" kits that includes capacitors and a new regulator, has anyone had experience replacing the 7805 in one of these assemblies? Do I still need thermal paste? (guessing yes)

Estoy haciendo un juego para atari 2600. Y cuando lo pruebo en la consola,los colores son otros a los que yo programe. Porque ocurre esto si lo tengo todo configurado en PAL??

A buddy of mine was moving and gave me his 2600 stash. This was among the stuff. I plugged it in last night and played Asteroids for over an hour. Along with Megamania, Galaxian, Midnight Magic and Pole Position. It really changed the gameplay for the better, especially on Midnight Magic. Using the L/R buttons for the flippers was a great experience. 1 AA battery is all it needs.

Funny enough, if you moved the Up/Down buttons to above and below the L/R buttons, you would literally have an early D-Pad. Bigger than an NES controller but still fits in your hand comfortably. Solid device, I can't wait to explore more games.

So I suggested that he make me a dust cover for the cartridge slot for my 2600+!

Tested it recently, but couldn’t get a picture to come through, at all really. We thought it’s PAL but maybe it’s NTSC? Would like to nail down what converter I’d need to get to make it work…

Has anyone here bought from Atari Age? I bought a trio of homebrew Atari 2600 cartridges from them like 3 weeks ago and have gotten no shipping notice, I emailed their customer service twice and got no response, and I tweeted at their account and also got no response.

I finally have Slot Racers for my Atari 2600! 😃 I'm excited to add this classic game to my collection and enjoy some old-school Atari racing action! Who else remembers playing this game?

Late to the party here. A lot of people have talked about the new 2600+ and 7800+ being emulation based systems. What does this exactly mean?

Is it that the systems:

1. Have an entire library of 2600/7800 games in them and the cartridges basically select the game?

or

1. The system loads everything from the cartridge into memory and then plays the game.

Edit: I have a 2600 JR. I was looking for new joysticks and paddles and one of the console bundles was appealing, price wise.

I Really like this version for some reason!

I have heard that the 7800 and pac man systems have better hardware than the wood grain 2600 plus. You think they will replace the hardware so it’s the same as the 7700 and pac man ?