[ATARI 2600 Hawk] List of games having bugs or crashing as of Bizhawk Dev 2019-11-09

LAST EDIT : NOVEMBER 11 2019

Theses lists excludes prototypes, demo and homebrew games that do not have a physical release for now

Sound related :

• Bowling : The bowling toss sound doesn't sounds like on a real Atari 2600 or Stella
• Space Jockey : The sound when you shoot and a ship destroy doesn't sound like on a real Atari 2600 or Stella
• Commando Raid : Helicopter sound are not the same on a real Atari 2600 or Stella
• Ms Pac-Man : Minor sound issues
• Street Racer : Sounds do not sounds the same that if played on a real Atari 2600 or Stella

Bizhawk crashes with these games :

• Maze Craze : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Lock 'n Chase : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Air Raiders : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Adventure of Tron : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Bump 'n Jump : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Kool-Aid Man : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Frogs and Flies : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Star Strike : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Acid Drop : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Tunnel Runner : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Chase The Chuck Wagon : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Omega Race : Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report." Impossible to test the booster grip controller
• Video Chess : Bizhawk crashes as soon as the CPU is about to play its move
• Haunted House Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report."
• Swordfight Bizhawk crashes with "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report." However, it only happen if you want to replay the game after the first one ends.

Note : The "Unable to resolve Frame" also affected games like Burgertime and 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, but were fixed in a previous issue

Graphical glitches or weird behaviors

• Skeet Shoot : Game is glitched but boot (might be related to my rom)
• Journey Escape : Game's background is glitched (it was not in 2.3.1)
• Pitfall 2 : Broken in 2.3.2

Require Keyboard Controller

• Basic Programming
• Brain Games
• Codebreaker
• A Game of Concentration
• Hunt & Score
• Magicard (seems more like a tool than an actual game by CommaVid)

Require Kid's Controller

• Alpha Beam with Ernie
• Big Bird's Egg Catch
• Cookie Monster Munch
• Oscar's Trash Race

Other controllers requirement

• Omega Race (Booster Grip)
• Star Raiders (Video Touch Pad)
• Track & Field (Track & Field Controller) (can be played with regular joystick)

Other note :
When you load a save states at the moment a sound is playing, the sound continue to play and cause a long beep until another sound is played. So far, it does not affect the movie file or the video dump

This issues will be updated with more games if I find glitches, unsupported stuff or game crashing behaviors

[YoshiRulz]

Anyone looking to debug "Unable to resolve Frame", breakpoint here (maybe the gamedb fix for Burgertime is necessary).

@Glitcholog If you have homebrew please do try it.

[alyosha-tas]

@Glitcholog : I updated the game db for 'unable to resolve frame' error and added boost grip controller, please retest.

Thanks you, ill do the retest during the day and update the first post.

All "Unable to resolve Frame. Please Report." games except Maze Craze for some reason violently crashes Bizhawk without showing an error now.

[alyosha-tas]

What specifically happens ? Do the games crash after you hit reset?

Bizhawk simply freeze at the moment I press the A2600 Reset button, and the "application is not responding" message appear, everything is white (like any application that freeze). My only option is to close it with the taskbar. This behavior is not present on the current bizhawk.

[alyosha-tas]

This happens because some game wait to end a frame until reset is RELEASED. If you start a frame by pressing reset, BizHawk holds reset until that frame ends. So since the game wait to end a frame until the button is released, the frame never ends. This would properly be fixed with subframe inputs, but for now I fixx it just by releasing reset after a certain number of cycles for these game.

EDIT: @Glitcholog
Anyway game DB updated again, please test again hopefully they all work now.

Will do the test tonight, thanks for looking at the issue.

My apologies to not actually took the time to test that day. I am doing some test right now

Lock n Chase , Video Chess, Bump and Jump and Air Raiders plays without problem.

Acid Drop can be reseted (which was not possible before), but will crash the emulator without error (bizhawk is not responding) when you press the fire button to start the game.

Omega Race instantly crash the emulator, like in the older dev version

The others game in the "unable to resolve frames" will be tested soon

EDIT : Tunnel Runner also crash the game like Omega Race

[Spikestuff]

I decided to try a homebrew out on a whim.

This is Mappy for the Atari 2600, created by johnnywc.
To point out the obvious, this does run on Stella.

Reason why it fails is unknown to me, thought it was related to it being 32kb but I had other random 32kb games that ran fine (an example for homebrew: Princess Rescue).
I was thinking cause it's a .bin file and not .a26 but there are submissions on TASVideos that use .bin.

The last thing is probably a mapper error, but honestly don't know.

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The only other homebrew I've used recently was Skee-ball which was made as an April Fools TAS.

edit: grammar is important --yoshi
edit: no u. Also it's sentence structure. :V -- Spikestuff

[alyosha-tas]

which game is it? I dont see the title

[Spikestuff]

which game is it? I dont see the title

This is created by johnnywc who made Mappy for the Atari 2600.

[alyosha-tas]

Looks like mappy uses the melody cart which isn’t implemented in BizHawk . This cart looks pretty high tech , using some ARM variant ? Probably won’t be implemented unless a dedicated person decides they want it.