Rick Reynolds

I love it when they score basket-point-units! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

*looks up* What? Huh? Did our hockey team score many touchdowns? May they thrash their opponents! Soundly!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That's the first time someone has suggested that I talk LESS than someone else...

Looks great! Very excited to get mine!

sure! I'm taking any help I can get!

Nice. Looks like I'll be digging into the configuration options for these various emulators.

So what's the community experience with running other systems' emulators in the ultimate flashback? I fired up a 2600 emulator (held down the fire button on the CX40 joystick to program the interface), and while the emulator ran fine, I didn't have controls to use for skill level A/B, reset switch, select, etc. (duh!). So what do people do for systems like the 2600 that need inputs that aren't on the controller?

Finished my flashback build. My goal was the have the outside of it look very much unchanged. So my build incorporated these bits: 1. Power comes in through the original power port, utilizing the power on switch of the flashback. I power the PI via the GPIO pins. 2. The DB9 ports are the originals that came with the flashback. I took a dremel to the original board to isolate the connectors from the rest of the board so there wouldn't be any goofy side-effects with resistance or capacitance. 3. I put the flashback video ports onto the outside edge of the unit so I could just cut holes for them. I didn't want to mess around with extenders for those. 4. Other than the ports on the back for video (and usb power - more on that below) the only other change I made was to put 2 usb ports on the front for other controllers, keyboard, etc. 5. My one minor "failure" in assembly was that the usb power port was sticking out too far off the pi board, giving me grief with getting it tight enough for the video ports, so I ended up just cutting a hole for it. I can power the unit via the original power port or the usb port on the back - although I wanted to just use the original on the side. A couple of pics. The unit looks just like the original on all other sides.

Got through most of the harder bits on my Ultimate Flashback project. Just need to cut holes in the case for the connections and mount hardware internally.

I'm not saying I have a hotel room booked, but I'm also not NOT saying that... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks for the kind words! I definitely enjoy Mystic Castle more than Thunder Castle as well. I pulled Thunder Castle out of my "top 10 games" list on my CC3 and put Mystic Castle in its place!

This. Loving the hacked roms that have been showing up of late!

Man, I love being part of this mature, professional group of podcasters. Good times. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I'm dropping this here because I tend to forget whether I ordered or not when I'm looking through threads... Paypal payment sent!

OH YEAH?? YOU'RE DUM AND YOUR A POOPY HEAD!

Me too, except I just decided to play Intellivision tennis instead... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks again for keeping us up to date on the progress! I really appreciate it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I got to play Congo at ArcadeFX last year. That one is a really good pin! Played a little of Addams Family as well. Haven't tried Johnny M.

Enjoying the latest RGR - where else can I hear Scott claiming Superman as an IP is stupid and then go on to defend the film Johnny Mnemonic! Definitely making me want to get back to playing pinball more... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hahaha! Thanks! We specifically didn't play up the "extra" episode on forums or Facebook just to see if anyone would say anything.

Wow, that worked great! Thanks so much.

Ok, so let it "soak" a bit more when pressing the 0 button. Both switches in UP position? Does the right switch matter in the up case? Oh well, I'll give it a try...

Tonight I flashed the firmware on my ultimate interface up to the latest, and then I tried to configure within emulation station. It just sits at the welcome screen telling me "2 gamepads detected" "Hold a button on your device to configure it. Press F4 to quit at any time." I press buttons on my Intellivision Flashback controller (connected to the A port of the interface) but nothing happens. I held down the 0 button while inserting the USB cable for 5 seconds, so I'm assuming it should be programmed and ready to go. But emulation station doesn't seem to see keypresses.

I've overwritten the one that came with RetroPie with the one from the ultimate interface package on intellivision.us.

Interesting. I saw one of the power supplies that came with a pi at work that was rated at 2.5A. I didn't guess it had that much head-room. As for the flashback supply, that's a good question. I just made a guess that it was probably pretty low-powered.