accousticguitar Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Does this mean we can play all of our homebrew games on it? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Atari-Flashback-9-HDMI-Game-Consoles-110-Games-Wired-Joystick-Controllers-Black-AR3050-818858029636/104242382 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boggis the cat Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Does this mean we can play all of our homebrew games on it?That depends on the emulation used and if the home brew requires certain things. It appears that the FB9 has a better emulation, as it has Pitfall II built in and there is some reference to ‘Stella’ (if I recall correctly) in the documentation. I just checked, and it refers to both Stella and a libretto library. (On the ‘user manual’ second sheet, near the bottom left corner.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 It's using either Stella v3.x or 5.x versions of that emulator which they licensed. So yes it has very much better emulation going on as the author isn't a fool who made it. And because of the SD slot you likely can toss any game at it Stella on PC, etc runs great and get similar effect on the new system using it too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Flashback that has SD support AND better emulation? Now now... let's not get carried away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 It is using Stella 3.9X, SD card slot, and there will be a future update via SD card slot. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 (edited) nm Edited September 29, 2018 by ComputerSpaceFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 It is using Stella 3.9X, SD card slot, and there will be a future update via SD card slot. Any chance the SD card can be used for ROMS like the Atari Flashback Portable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 I wonder if updating to the current stella is possible to play the latest homebrews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I'm sure this has been vaguely covered before, but what is stopping these folks from using Stella 5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I'm sure this has been vaguely covered before, but what is stopping these folks from using Stella 5? Brains and common sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdownita Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Brains and common sense. No, it requires some work that nobody (of these commercial entities) wants to finance just so everyone else can use it (although it would be a good thing). AFAIK "porting" Stella 3.x to work in all this kind of devices is easy, the 5.x instead until someone does it for everyone of them won't see the light of day. [it has to do with SDL2 using HW accel exclusively with the related needs to update kernel components] stephena post may have been buried as he was replying to me here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/281312-odroid-go/?do=findComment&comment=4093213 but he already volunteered a head start for the R77: https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/wiki/Retron-77 in specific this anchor link https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/wiki/Retron-77#improving-the-included-version-of-stella My take is that he will be the one doing most of the work eventually, hopefully paid for by one of those commercial "leeches". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 If these companies wouldn't be so cheap and use some better hardware that's better supported there'd be less problems. Even some of my now-near-vintage PC's even run Stella 6-pre just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdownita Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 If these companies wouldn't be so cheap and use some better hardware that's better supported there'd be less problems. Even some of my now-near-vintage PC's even run Stella 6-pre just fine. Keep in mind that these are ARM SoCs and as stephena already stated you need an SDL2 with support for the right GPU and then it should be "easy". So even if I understand the feeling, we can't compare it to a vintage PC in which pretty much all GPU were "opened" so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Looks like they finally did something right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 If these companies wouldn't be so cheap and use some better hardware that's better supported there'd be less problems. Even some of my now-near-vintage PC's even run Stella 6-pre just fine. The Retron 77 and Flashback potion #9 are two very good reasons to update the 3.9 branch to resolve the screen tearing; it's clearly the console branch of the codebase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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