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  1. Any Intellivision game that saves to flash like on the LTO can also save the same way on the Backbit. Here is a video showing off the better music with the ECS and loading a save. The title screen music is much more robust with the ECS plugged in. Ignore that graphic on the right. I use that for my youtube streams and forgot to turn it off. 😁
  2. Yes it does. I did have to convert it with Bin2ecs though.
  3. That game does work on the Backbit but i don't own it. But someone else got it to work. You have to set use Bin2ecs and set the -j flag. But i only know how to do that on Windows. https://forum.backbit.io/index.php?topic=917.msg6818#msg6818 There was a Backbit update where some games you no longer have to set the -j flag but you still have to use Bin2ecs like you would Bin2rom. But i don't know if this game is one of those.
  4. The Backbit does support JLP. Which game is it anyway?
  5. Evie is not around at the moment but i asked on the Backbit forum and got a response from someone. I can answer the general question of how to convert BIN/CFG files to ROM files using [b]bin2rom[/b] on a Mac, but I am still awaiting my BackBit Pro, so I cannot test to ensure the results will work (yet). Please note that this will require a familiarity and comfort downloading and running apps not signed in the AppStore (i.e. jzintv's utilities like bin2rom) and working with the Terminal application (i.e. the Mac command line interface). Anyone following the instructions below is completely responsible for the results (good or bad) of any commands executed when attempting to follow these instructions. It's pretty simple stuff, but you must proceed at your own risk. -=Download jzintv=- 1. Download the latest version of jzintv (which is currently jzintv-20200712-osx-sdl2). 2. Unzip the archive. 3. Navigate to the folder titled [b]bin[/b] in the [b]jzintv[/b] folder you just created. 4. Copy the BIN/CFG files you want to convert to the [b]bin[/b] folder. [b]TIP[/b]: Try it with one game to start and make sure both the BIN and CFG files are named the same (example: [b]ADND.bin[/b] & [b]ADND.cfg[/b]). -=Prepare the utility to be executed=- 5. Locate the Unix executable file named [b]bin2rom[/b]. 6. Right click (or hold down the control key and click) on this file. 7. Select [b]Open[/b] from the menu that appears. 8. When the Mac dialog box opens with the message, "macOS cannot verify the developer of “bin2rom”. Are you sure you want to open it?", click the button titled [b]Open[/b]. [b]NOTE[/b]: You will only have to do this once for each Executable file you want to run. -=Run bin2rom=- 9. Open the Terminal app. It's located in your [b]Applications[/b] folder inside another folder named [b]Utilities[/b]. [b]NOTE[/b]: The last step should have opened Terminal, but this will help you for later sessions. 10. Use the [b]cd[/b] command to point the terminal app to your jzintv's [b]bin[/b] folder. Mine was downloaded to my Downloads folder and I was already in my user folder, so the command to achieve this was: [code]cd Downloads/jzintv-20200712-osx-sdl2/bin[/code] 11. Enter the following command to change ADND.bin & ADND.cfg into ADND.rom: [code]./bin2rom ADND.bin[/code] [b]NOTE[/b]: the "./" at the beginning of this command is critical to success. It tells the Terminal application that you want it to look in the current folder for [b]bin2rom[/b]. Let me know if this worked or didn't work for you. I'll be happy to follow up with clarifications and/or guidance as needed.
  6. I wish i could help but i don't have a Mac but maybe someone else might know. But i'd also ask over in the Backbit forums. Maybe Evie will know.
  7. Might be a good idea to ask this same question over on the Backbit forums. Evie is very active there and since she created the backbit she will know what it takes to get a game to work. https://forum.backbit.io/index.php
  8. An issue i see is, some of those homebrews are paid roms i'm not so sure how the publishers would feel about having cfg's of their games just posted freely on the internet. I know it's just a document file and you can't actually play the game without the rom itself. But it's still a grey area. And after the last incident it's probably best not to do so.
  9. No problem. I'm still playing through the game. 😁
  10. I deleted my video and made a new one showing off the commands i didn't show last time.
  11. Evie also said this about the new ECS keyboard update but haven't tested it yet.
  12. It works good on the C64. I like finding games that can actually save and load. Sometimes i have to search all over. I started a collection of ones found to save. It's a small collection so far. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OMH73_VKNVycilnwJL_4Gn3N7mY1W3pz/view?usp=drive_link
  13. Evie just added support for the ECS Keyboard so now you can use it to rename files and use it to search for roms in folders. Also use the arrow keys to cycle through roms and folders, RTN to select and ESC to go back. Not sure what else it can do. But that's what i found so far. Download Firmware 3.7.6 Some functions need to be used in combination with the Intellivision controller.
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