Support for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

[PW5190]

Atari recently released a new compilation title in partnership with Digital Eclipse in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Not only does the compilation include Arcade and Atari 2600 games, it also includes 5200, 7800, 800, Lynx and Jaguar games!

Will ROM extraction for this title be a possibility? Who knows? Only time will tell. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919470/Atari_50_The_Anniversary_Celebration/

Also worth noting: Atari Vault (and its 50 Game Add-on Pack) is no longer available for purchase on Steam.

[Tcm0]

The files of the PC version are compressed into an "assets.pie"-file. Same name as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection, but the tools don't work for the ATARI celebration. There is no compression used in the switch version of the game. ROMs are in the romfs in the "assets\roms" folder. An interesting note on that: warbirds for the atari lynx is included in v0 of the switch app, but the game was removed in an update. It was also promoted to be in the collection. It got removed due to licensing issues according to the steam forums, but they didn't remove it fast enough from the physical switch version.

[farmerbb]

Haven't tried it yet but it looks like the Cowabunga tool (for extracting the TMNT collection) recently got updated to support Atari 50: https://github.com/Masquerade64/Cowabunga/releases/tag/Release2.0

[farmerbb]

Ok, can confirm that the 0.2.0 release of the Cowabunga tool can extract the GOG version of Atari 50 with this command:

cowabunga64.exe --key atari assets.pie output.zip

[Tcm0]

I can confirm that it works with the Steam version of Atari 50

[Auster-1]

Also works with the GOG version: https://www.gog.com/en/game/atari_50_the_anniversary_celebration

And allegedly with The Making of Karateka, but can't confirm.

[DrAzathoth]

I can confirm that Cowabunga works with Making of Karateka, but there's one major caveat; out of all the Apple II content included, only Karateka II has a ROM. All of the others use Mednafen(?) savestates on an empty dummy ROM. The only way I can imagine this getting fixed is if someone restores the ROMs (or makes loose recreations of them) using the savestates provided.

[DrAzathoth]

Guess Atari 50 should be called Atari 62 now, huh? Edit: Forgot there were much more than 50 games in the collection. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Atari 50 had a holiday update that added some miscellaneous 2600 games and protos, some 2600 aftermarket sequels seen in stuff like the AtGames Flashbacks, and Warbirds for the Lynx. Tested Cowabunga and it still works with the update.

Side note: I found an unused manual and boxart for The Stacks so it must have been cut late in Atari 50’s development.