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Atari800 Core Freezes When Loading Some Cartridge Roms on SteamDeck #138

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I have Retroarch running under ESDE on my Steamdeck. I currently have Atari800 core 7.0.0 running.

When I try to load either Star Raiders, Pac-Man, or Centipede, Retroarch freezes. If I try to load it directly from ESDE, I get a black screen. If I load Atari800 core first, then try to manually load the cart from the Retroarch menu, it freezes on a black screen.

The logs show everything working until the logs just end at freezing.

I've attached the Centipede and Pac-Man logs. I normall have the games stored in ZIP files, but I've also tried loading loose ROM files as well.

Disk images work fine, as far as I can tell. Some other ROM carts appear to load (Ant Eater), but I just tried the Parker Bros. Frogger and that freeze on a black screen as well.

retroarch__2026_07_13__03_06_32.log
retroarch__2026_07_13__03_13_11.log

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