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    [Android] looking for Atari 2600 Emulator to play Sinistar (Arcade, 1982)

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Tinderbox (UK), May 26, 2015.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

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    I was like 12 year old, and this was one of the games i played, are there any free emulators.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinistar

    EDIT : I have attached the game at the bottom of this post, it`s only 50k and the game was released 33 years ago.

    Thanks

    John.

     

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    Screenshot_2015-05-26-03-19-05.png

    Grab Ataroid. It's not in the Play Store but it is free and easy to find. I can't link it for legal reasons.

    The video you posted is the arcade version. The atari version was a prototype that was never released. You can play the arcade version with a MAME emulator. Retroarch should work.
     
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    Retroarch crashes when i load the ROM.

    John.

     
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    I tried Ataroid it did not work either, i tried the sinistar.zip in windows using mame64.exe and it worked fine as far as i can tell.

    I wanted to get it running on my Android Tablet, but everything has failed.

    John.
     
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    Wine's being ported to Android, so ... arcade@mame@wine@android.

    Hmm, have Andy running on Windows 7 ... arcade@mame@wine@android@windows :vbbiggrin: .
     
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    Did you unzip the file?

    I don't know what to tell you, I haven't had any emulations problems from Atari to PSP and DS and I'm running Lollipop which broke a ton of apps.
     
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    Tried Atari version via Ataroid and Andy (Jelly Bean), this seems to work:

    [​IMG]
     
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    No i just loaded the zip file and they crashed, as i said it works fine in the windows emulator, it`s just the android version that are a pain.

     
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    That version looks like really poor quality, is that the 2600 or 5200 version, Is it possible to get the Arcade version like the video i posted, if not the quality is too low to bother about.

    If you have a good quality version, can you pm me a link/download as it might be against the rules to post a link here.

    thanks

    John.

     
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    Ok, tried the original zip using MAME4droid (0.139u1), this looks better:

    [​IMG]
     
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    That works really well, we have a winner, a 33 year old game lives again, thanks t456

    John.
     
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