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Has anyone fixed out how to get this to boot for the sd card, well partly boots from it so it boots the Linux system from the nand then boots everything else from the sd card, including its menu, that what I do with PCUAE, even the carousel is run from the usb stick, it make it easier to update it you just add the files or replace them, no need to flash them any more, you just copy the files it to the sd card, you can even have libs on the sd card but not links so they have to be the real files if its using FAT32 it does not support symbolic links, only ext3 or 4 does.

and not all AGSP have the Windbound IC Nor flash on them some have a different IC, properly is a Nor flash 256mb but different make, first nor flash I saw was in 2004 on the Amstrad Emailer E3 Video Phone, it used Linux in the backgrounds and a custom menu made by Amstrad(Amserve).

Thanks.. The NAND is the small IC on the right of the rk3032 Soc CPU, its a Windbound W25Q256JW, the IC is used in PCs as the Bios chip too, its 265mb, its Nor Flash, https://www.winbond.com/hq/product/code-storage-flash-memory/serial-nor-flash/?__locale=en&partNo=W25Q256JW wow have not heard of one of them in a while but most IC on the board are from about 2018 so is old, it a very cheaply made board, and does the SoC CPU rk3032 have a heatsink, it should the computers and consoles its emulating, and it would depend on what arcade machines its emulating if it needs one, it the same specs as the Atari Flashback and Atari 2600 Plus but they have no heatsink because they emulate a console from 1979, the newer the SoC the faster it can run, they all use a Rockchip SoCs, probably because you can use physical button in the emulator so makes it feel more real, you can not do that with a Alwinner SoC, well never seen it done, only with a Rockchip. The RAM IC HYNIX H5TQ2G63FFR is on the left of the rk3032 SoC its 8mb(2Gb): https://html.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/534246/HYNIX/H5TQ2G63FFRPBC/157/1/H5TQ2G63FFRPBC.html RockChip RK3032: ●Overview ■RK3032 is a low power, high performance processor solution for OTT TV BOX, and other digital multimedia applications, and integrates dual-core Cortex-A7, with separate NEON coprocessor and 128KB L2 Cache. ■Many embedded powerful hardware engines provide optimized performance for high-end application. RK3032 supports almost full-format 1080P H.264 decoderand H.265 decoder,high-quality JPEG decoder and special image preprocessor and postprocessor ■Embedded 3D GPU makes RK3032 completely compatible with OpenGL ES1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG1.1 etc. ■RK3032 has high-performance external memory interface(DDR3/DDR3L) capable of sustaining demanding memory bandwidths, also provides a complete set of peripheral interface to support very flexible applications. ●Features ■The features listed below which may or may not be present in actual product, maybe subject to the third party licensing requirements. Please contact Rockchip for actual product feature configurations and licensing requirements. Brand of Product： Rockchip Part#： RK3032 Product Category： high performance processor Application： [ OTT TV BOX ][ digital multimedia applications ] Data Type： Datasheet Safety & Environment Standards： Operating Temperature： Please see the document for details Qualification Grade： Qualification Approval： Package： TFBGA236 Language： English Chinese Chinese and English Japanese Date of Creation： 2018-4-23 Version Number： Rev 1.0 https://www.rock-chips.com/a/en/products/RK30_Series/index.html Hope this helps...

Does the Atari Gamestation Pro boot from the micro sd card, I can not see a nand on its board...?

I was wondering what Rockchip SoC it uses maybe a rk31328. Has anyone taken there's a part yet to see what it PCB looks like inside it, is there a teardown video at all...?

I can not find a category for AGSP on here, maybe it should have one, or I am blind.... there is one for the Atari2600 Plus and THE400 Mini.

Looking at the firmware it uses MiniGUI - https://minigui.fmsoft.cn/ The My Arcade logo when you turn the console on is a video it plays before loading the game launcher. I might be able to use this and customise it for PCUAE so it has it own game launcher, I was looking for one, for THEA500/THE400 Mini's, would not see why it would not work on another Linux consoles(well that what they are, they all work the same) just have to make sure all its libs and dependences are all there when you run it. It looks like AGSP has a Rockchip too, by the way it flashes a update so like the Atari2600 Plus, anyone know what Rockchip it is...? it would be funny if I got this working on the Atari2600 Plus... I do not own a AGSP it was that or the Atari2600 Plus, so I bought A2600P because I had cartridges and I have bought from PLAION before and its £20 cheaper, the AGSP is £119.99 plus £4.99 P&P so £124.98(the same price as THEA500 Mini was 2 years ago) in GAME... https://www.game.co.uk/en/my-arcade-atari-gamestation-pro-2925094P GAME closed alot of there shops because of online shopping(Amazon) so can not get it on Click and Collect so free P&P, and GAME did at one time have computer shops called Gamestation in the UK too but all of them were closed down too, it does not exist any more, online shopping is killing the high street, well Amazon is with there exclusive stuff.

Yes that too, I forget about that...

The Atari800 emulator does not support the Atari 7800, it only suports the Atari 8bit line, you would need Retroarch and its Pro System libretro core for that, only console that supports it is the Atari2600 Plus.

I made a video of PCUAE Atari 8bit Mode on THE400 Mini so you can see how a game runs in the Atari 800 Emulator 4.2.0, I am playing Donkey Kong in it and so you know you have alternative to the built-in emulator. Enjoy...

I made a video of PCUAE Atari 8bit Mode on THE400 Mini so you can see how a game runs in the Atari 800 Emulator 4.2.0, I am playing Donkey Kong in it and so you know you have alternative to the built-in emulator. Enjoy...

This might help you, its abit old but should work with THE400 Mini, its still in PCUAE... https://thec64community.online/thread/640/edit-game-controller-joystick-pcuae

Make sure its on FAT32 and using MBR - Master Boot Record so not GPT - GUID Partition Table, THE400 Mini does not support GPT and it does not support multi partitions on the USB Drive so make sure you use all of its space, it will only see the partition thats FAT32.

This is what it looks like in the Capcom Home Arcade, it has a MMC instead of a nand and 512 ram and is a Alwinner H3. It has Wifi and a place where you can solder on a sd card slot.

This board has been used now use in 4 products: THEC64, THEVIC20, Capcom Home Arcade and THE400 Mini... what's next, ZX Spectrum 48k... it runs OK BTW on THEC64/THE400/THEA500, PCUAE ZEsarUX Mode, it even emulates the ZX Spectrum Next plus the Amstrad CPC and PCW. Oh and I tested it by disconnecting its 4 port Hub and only having my one connected at the back and now no more HDMI Flickering, so its the 4 port USB Hub at the front thats using more power.

Here is a picture of the 2 THEC64 boards side by side: THE400 Mini and THEC64 Main PCB Boards.

Just plugged in a 4 port Hub, its a Atolla make USB Hub(cost £16 on eBay, so not a cheap one, it has a sd card slot too) and now my THE400 Mini has started to do HDMI Flicker Mode on the screen( the HDMI signal flickers in and out then blacks out completely so nothing on the screen and only comes back if I unplug the 4 port USB HUB) and my power adapter is 5v 3A...wow, THEC64 Mini/THEC64 and THEA500 Mini all use the same power adapter, its from the Capcom Home Arcade, its gray and uses the same 4 port hub and they work fine with it, is the 4 port hub built in taking more power then it should, I noticed it has a feature on it where it knows what port your in port 1, port 2 port 3 and port 4 so if you plug a joystick into port 2 the emulator knows its in port 2 so no need for a port swapping button, one way to find out is to unplug the built-in 4 port USB Hub and plug in the 4 port hub in the back using it USB port on THEC64 Main PCB board and see if it works OK with it and boots up without seen Flicker Mode( ) if it works OK then its the built-in USB 4 port Hub taken to much power away from THEC64 Main PCB Board so it can not power the HDMI IC on the PCB board properly when a 4 port HUB is plugged in when it should, the other machines can, THEC64 has 4 ports on it and you can plug in a 4 port USB Hub too. This is so weird...

I found a way now of using my Atari Joystick using the Atari2600 Plus as a DB92USB Adapter and it plugged into THE400 Mini so now just use the CXSTICK for its buttons only.... Might made a video tomorrow to show how.

You can try the Atari 2600 Plus if you have one, Plug its USB-C into port 1 on THE400 Mini, you can put it into update dumper mode(the PC can see its joysticks then so like a Joystick mode, it does work, I tested it), Color Switch on Color, then press and HOLD down Reset and power it on and hold Reset for 3 seconds, then turn on THE400 Mini then you should be able to use whatever is plugged into Joystick Port 1(DB9) on the Atari 2600 Plus on THE400 Mini... so no need for a USB2DB9 Adapter, you already have one, right under your nose...

Its need like a little plastic cup in the middle of the PCB for the middle pole in the center of the stick to sit in so it does not move off center so it always in the center because when it moves is when you get up-left or down-right or if you move right you get right-up, it happens on Donkey Kong at lot when you go up and down ladders, it goes up a ladder by itself and then you hit a barrel, game over ...

I took some picture of a real Atari Black VCS Joystick, I took it apart and you can see it has a pole in the middle of it and a hole though its pcb so why its a accurate joystick, RGL made the CXSTICK to much like THEC64 RED Joystick, they should of just copied the original Atari joystick and it would worked OK or did it like PLAION did with the Atari2600 Plus do not see why they didn't, they work together to make these. Atari Black VCS 2600 Joystick Teardown ========================== The good old days how things where built... a 80s joystick, I think it might of been made for the Darth Vader VCS, not sure when that come out, in the 80s maybe between 1980/82.

The full Manual usually get printed in to a manual or into a user guide book later on by Paul Andrews, Andrews UK, I have both THEC64 Manual Hardback version and THEA500 User Guide books.

If the button in the Paddles worked then you probably be able to use them, the first fire button on the first Atari Paddle does nothing and the second fire button on the second Atari Paddle is the sort button, if they they were fixed so were setup to use the right buttons in the game then the paddles might work, you need the button to work of it to use that Paddle, if you press fire on the CXSTICK then you can play the game with it, this is why you need to be able to set the buttons in the built in games yourself, only another way round it is change the buttons in the `gamecontollerdb.txt` file, I just realised something, the built in games have a file that it makes in the /tmp folder when the games is run, its called `ctrldb.txt` so is the games `gamecontollerdb.txt`file so maybe that can be changed, not sure. Here is the file from Airball, I try and get the one for Super Breakout too. ctrldb.txt

Do they show with any analogue controller, I got them to show by plugin in the Atari2600 into THE400 Mini and having the Atari Paddles plugged in to its Atari joystick port 1 (DB9), you have to put the Atari2600 Plus into update dumper mode, Color on B/W and press and hold Reset switch while turn it on, it then thinks its THEGamepad, you can see it on a PC `Setup a game controller on PC`....

THE400 Mini is a UK product and made in Hong Kong that was part of the UK up until 1997... weird ... but only recently China took control of Hong Kong, like a company taking over another company there is a 3 year cooling of period where the company been taken over can change there mind so it can not be changed for 3 years. China got full control of Hong Kong about 20 years later, (2018 I think, it was just before the pandemic), thats why people in Hong Kong protested about it, they didn't want there lives to change.