Atari 7800 emulators
North American 7800 | |
Developer | Atari |
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Type | Home video game console |
Generation | Third generation |
Release date | 1986 |
Discontinued | 1992 |
Introductory price | $140 |
Predecessor | 5200 SuperSystem |
Successor | Panther, Jaguar |
Emulated | ✓ |
The Atari 7800 was a console produced by Atari and released in 1986. The CPU was a custom designed variant of the MOS Technology 6502 that ran at 1.19-1.79 MHz. It had 4KB of RAM and a display of 320x200. It attempted to directly compete with the Nintendo Entertainment System, but ultimately failed to do so. It's best known nowadays as the first ever home console to come with integrated backwards compatibility, specifically for the 2600.
Emulators
Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | libretro | Accuracy | FLOSS | Active | Recommended |
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PC / x86 | |||||||
BupSystem | 0.9.6.4 | ✗ | High | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
MAME | git artifacts[N 1] 0.266 |
✓ | High | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
A7800 | 5.2 | ✗ | High | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ProSystem | 1.3 (Windows) Rikki & Vikki (source) git (libretro) |
✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ [N 2] | ✓ | |
EMU7800 | 5.4.0.1 | ✗ | Mid | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
BizHawk | 2.9.1 | ✗ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
Mobile / ARM | |||||||
EMU7800 | 1.8 | ✗ | Mid | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
Consoles | |||||||
PSP7800 | 1.4 | ✗ | Mid | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
Wii7800 | git | ✗ | Mid | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
A7800DS | 4.7 | ✗ | Mid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ProSystem | |
1.3 | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ~ [N 2] | ✓ |
Hardware features and peripherals
Name | BupSystem | MAME | ProSystem |
---|---|---|---|
XE Light Gun | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Rikki & Vikki | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ libretro support |
Rikki & Vikki
PenguiNet's Rikki & Vikki is a special 7800 game, you have to add extra code to the emulator to make it work. The developers of MAME never considered buying its game cartridges. Now the new game cartridges are no longer available and you can only play the Windows version of it, so it is impossible for all MAME-based 7800 emulators to support this game.
Consoles: Atari 2600 • Atari 5200 • Atari 7800 • Atari XEGS • Atari Jaguar • Atari VCS Handhelds: Atari Lynx Computers: Atari 8-bit • Atari ST |