Atari 7800 emulators

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Atari 7800
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North American 7800
Developer Atari
Type Home video game console
Generation Third generation
Release date 1986
Discontinued 1992
Introductory price US$140 (equivalent to $389.13 in 2024)
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 sersion libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
PC / x86
BupSystem Windows 0.9.6.4 High Proprietary
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD git artifacts[N 1]
0.272
High GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause
A7800 Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 5.2 High GPLv2 (Copyleft)
ProSystem Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.3 (Windows)
Rikki & Vikki (source)
git (libretro)
? GPLv2 (Copyleft) [N 2]
EMU7800 Windows 5.5.0.0 Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft)
BizHawk Windows 2.10-rc2 ? MIT
GPLv2
Mobile / ARM
EMU7800 Android 1.8 Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft)
Consoles
PSP7800 PSP 1.4 Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft)
Wii7800 Wii git Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft)
A7800DS Nintendo DS 4.7 Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft)
ProSystem GameCube Wii U Nintendo 3DS
Switch PSP
PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4
Vita Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
1.3 ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ~ [N 2]
  1. CI-Windows CI-Linux CI-Macos
  2. 2.0 2.1 Libretro core only.

Hardware features and peripherals

Name BupSystem MAME ProSystem
XE Light Gun
Rikki & Vikki Tachi's fork and libretro PR support
Frying ? ? ?

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 officially available for purchase and you can only play the Windows version of it (which includes the ROM anyways), so it's impossible for all MAME-based 7800 emulators to ever support this game.

tachimarten or Tachi added Rikki & Vikki support for ProSystem and libretro. It's a pity that Greg Stanton no longer updates ProSystem. You can only download its code from Tachi's Rikki branch and compile it yourself because Tachi does not provide an installation package.

BupSystem is the only emulator officially reported to support this game, despite Retroachievements users saying otherwise (there are still some unfixed issues such as the audio not playing).

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