IntellivisionDude

I have downloaded 3 sets, Homesoft, Mr. Robots and A8 Fandal. I converted the Homesoft collection for myself but thought i'd share it. I do also track down already converted games as well when i can't find a working copy. Sometimes i find what i'm looking for and sometimes i don't. Took me a while to find a copy of Beach Head that worked. My next goal is to find a copy of Telengard that saves to flash. Not sure if there is a copy out there.

Here is something else for Backbit users. It could help other people as well. I had downloaded the Homesoft collection but barely any game would work. I wasn't sure if it was an incompatibility with my Xegs or my Backbit but i converted them all from .xex to .car and now a majority of the games work. There are still plenty that don't. They could be Pal or some other incompatibility. I converted them to Multi Carts. I filled each one to the max. It would of taken forever to convert 4,500 files individually. This also could be good for those who want a more compact version of the Homesoft collection. It is missing the the Disk Games folder. I did not mess with those. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ydf0dR1sc-rcszzZ5taXzxCMdtHzAlWN/view?usp=sharing

I'm a newer owner of an Atari Xegs and a Backbit Pro Flash Cartridge so i thought i'd start a thread to discuss it. This is only my second time owning an Atari computer. The first time was an Atari 800xl a few years back but only had a couple games for it and ended up selling it. But this time around i'm in love with it. As of earlier today Evie released a new firmware update that added flash support for AtariMax carts "The saving I implemented should support any AtariMax 1MB title". So now you can save with it. I am attaching a copy of Alternate Reality The Dungeon i found that can save with the Backbit. Very exciting. So now i'm trying to find a copy of Temple of Apshai Trilogy that can save with the BB. I found a copy that was posted on Atarimax back in 2007. But it's in .atr and those can't be played on the BB. I also found a thread right here where someone posted a .car version of the same file. It does load and it does save, but when you reload the save or just leave the dungeon and re-enter. the graphics get corrupted. I was this close to finding what i wanted lol. Maybe someone here can help. I included both of those as well Also links to the original threads. https://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=659&hilit=apshai+save Alternate Reality - The Dungeon.zip Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1mb maxflash image allows game save).zip

Just a bump for this great product. (This is not a paid endorsement. I get nothing for this but i'm just a fan of it) The Backbit has been able to play every Intellivision game i have. Even Homebrews. It even plays games with math routines like Fubar that people thought it could not do. Some games need to be converted to play but 99% of them are easy drag and drop conversions. A very very small handful of games need to converted with the Windows command line but that is not many at all and i have a tutorial on how to do that. With recent firmware updates not as many games need to converted with the command line. And once in a while a new Homebrew may need it's CFG file modified to get the game working but Evie has been able to help with that on the Backbit forum. I have 500+ roms (games/demos/hacks) on my Backbit and everything plays. And JLP games that have a save feature also save on the Backbit. One last thing is you can buy separate adapters for other classic consoles and computers. That's a plus if you collect other systems. I currently have 7 adapters myself. You can check out everything here. https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/

I'm guessing this may not be possible but I'd love to be able to put a model 2 keypad in my Sears controllers. If I remember right they are smaller so may not fit. I have this issue that happens every so often that the bubbled numbers on my Sears controller get stuck down once in a while. And when they stick down the controls go haywire and you can't do anything until you get it unstuck. It's happened a few times recently and more than once during World Championship Baseball. One thing about model 2 keypads is the numbers are indented and you can rest your thumb on them and tell where they are. I'd just get a model 2 controller for it except the side buttons are terrible. I'd hate to go back to using those. I also know there is more than 1 style of model 2 keypads. 2 for sure but can't remember if there is a 3rd. 1 where the numbers are indented and 1 where it's completely flat. I wouldn't want the flat ones.

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Random forum guys? Dz-Jay made the game Christmas Carol and helps just about everybody with programming help. Intvdave is the owner of Intelligentvision who was published such great games as 4tris, DK Arcade, Super Chef BT and still publishing games to this day. Calling them random forum guys is an insult.

I hope nobody takes offence to any of my comments. I'm just playing devils advocate. I'm sad that this happened and hope it never happens again.

I am against piracy. But piracy has always existed and always will. People will always find a way. There were even bootleg Intellivision and Atari games from back in the day. People have always pirated computer games. If you download a C64 rom pack there is a high chance a lot of them will be the cracked versions with the intros the crackers put in them. Sites like Gog and Steam make tons of money from classic games even though a majority of the games can be found pirated elsewhere. I'm not a business man but I just don't see it affecting sales. The people who support the publishers and programmers will continue to support them and buy the roms. I will continue to try my best and get people interested in buying the games via YouTube.

It's a shame something like this happened. But I bet it wouldn't even affect 1 sale. Like who are these people? Where and who are they sharing roms with? More than likely some underground site where the only people interested in downloading these roms are the ones who shared them in the first place. Maybe they are all hiding in a cave playing 4 player Fubar as we speak. 😉 Just a positive way to look at things. I bet anyone who was going to honestly buy the roms would still buy the roms. I doubt anybody who is going to buy them even know where to find these illegal roms. I don't even know where and don't want to. Heck I bought close to $100 in roms just recently. And I stream them for my fans on YouTube. Hopefully us Backbit users don't get screwed the most if the only roms available are protected ones that won't play on it. Good thing I got the ones I did while they were for sale. Backbit for the win.

For us Backbit users there is a new Bin2ecs that Evie compiled. Using the new Bin2ecs is necessary to get Infiltrator, Operation Cloudfire and The Pandora Incident working. They wouldn't convert correctly with the older version. They will have to converted with the command line and set the -j flag. https://github.com/evietron/BackBit-Convert/blob/main/Intellivision/dist/bin2ecs.exe

For those who own a Backbit and want a few last second roms, i can confirm that Operation Cloudfire, Infiltrator and The Pandora Incident all work on it. I was having trouble with those 3 but Evie just released a new bin2ecs exe and now they work. You will have to convert them in the command line and set the -j flag though. https://github.com/evietron/BackBit-Convert/blob/main/Intellivision/dist/bin2ecs.exe The following games work on the Backbit. Every game for sale will probably work but these i can at least confirm. Some have to be converted and some don't A Tale of Dragon and Swords A-F Beach Head D2K Defender of the Crown Fantasy H.E.L.I Hover Bovver Infiltrator Intellivania Ms. Pac-Man Norseman Operation Cloudfire Rick Dynamite Star Mercenary The Pandora Incident The Show Must Go On Wizard of Wor X-Rally

It's Madd Elmor, the final boss of the Intellivision game The Lost Caves of Kroz

Stay strong dude. I remember you bought games from me when i sold my collection.

I have been having decent luck with the Backbit. I did have a set of roms i found that were in .xex format (about 4,500 roms) and barely anything was loading. But i used Maxflash Cartridge Studio to convert them all in mass with the method i mentioned above. I made a whole bunch of files that had anywhere between 20 and 70 games per file. But so many games started working. Not everything though but quite a few. I was figuring the ones that didn't load could of been Pal games. Some would load to a title screen but i couldn't get any further. Funny thing is i found a different set of roms that are also in .xex format and most of those load with no issues.

Do a Google search for JZintv (it comes with a utility called Bin2Luigi). Download it from Spatula City. I downloaded the Windows 32 version (if you are on Mac I don't know if the following works the same). I'm not at my computer but the utility should be in the first folder after you unzip it. What you do is drag the .bin onto Bin2Luigi and it will automatically create a Luigi file for you. Works best if you have all your files in 1 folder (the bin + cfg of the game that needs to be converted and Bin2Luigi).

Thanks. It's a great game.

Ah, i see. Oh well. The files i was messing with were .car files with multiple games in them but they wouldn't open with the Backbit and said invalid format. Since the Backbit can run .car something else must be up with them. I was going to try and convert them anyway and see if that did anything but Maxflash won't open them. More than likely the games in them i already have elsewhere. But it is fascinating to see these little collections and see what games they chose. 🙂

On a side note, i was trying to sign up to the Maxflash forums but can't seem to get in. I see some files shared i wanted to try. I signed up but can't seem to get the confirmation email. Thought maybe my email could be at fault so i tried again with a different username and email but still can't get the darned email. Nothing in my spam folder either. They must have that place all locked up. lol

I'm a new owner of a Xegs and i have been messing around with roms. I also own a Backbit Flash Cart for it. I was using the Maxflash Cartridge Studio to convert some roms. Evie helped me out with it. I had some games that were not working right but if i exported them to Car Maxflash 8mbit some of them started working which is great. But i wanted to see if i could do something similar with The!Cart Studio, plus it can import games that Maxflash can't. But i don't know the correct way to export them. There are a lot more options to choose from. And i have no experience in this at all. I could just keep choosing options until something works but thought i'd ask here first. Here are all the options. Not sure if any of them are similar to what i was choosing with Maxflash. https://photos.app.goo.gl/QabdS2EUx7NQpiev7

I can also report that Star Mercenary and Anthropomorphic Force also work on the Backbit. You will have to convert them using the command line and setting the -j flag. If you just use Bin2ecs without the command line Star Mercenary will still load but graphics will be missing and the game won't work right.

Technically the Intellivision was just an afterthought. The Backbit was originally just a Commodore 64 flash cart. Then Evie got the idea to make it for multiple systems. I don't have a Mac so It may not as easy as it is with Windows. It's still not super easy. Some games you need to use Bin2rom. And some Bin2ecs. Some games still need to be converted using the command line but not that many. I recently got A Tale of Dragons and Swords working by setting the -j flag using the command line. And someone else got Defender of the Crown working using the same processes. I did see that someone could not get Operation Cloudfire working. I don't own that one to test. But there is always a chance Evie could get it working as well. One thing you can't dispute is the customer service Evie supply's is top notch. But not sure how often she browses Atari Age. Usually you have to email her or go to the Backbit forums. She may even be able to help with this.

If you play both side by side you'd notice the difference for sure.

My first time seeing Pal gameplay is when i sent someone in Australia some games. You can hear how slow the music in Thunder Castle is