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    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    What you're describing is what I mean. It's not a big deal until you're on level 10 of Kaboom! and "In the Zone". Lmmfao. 

     

    You wanna know what really blows my mind, is that the 9 and X have been hacked for over a year and there are hardly any videos of it.
    You can find tons for console reviews, or for creating a 'game' folder and adding roms, like that is somehow hard or secret. but just a couple only recently of the CFW and ATARI Pack.

    What also blows my mind is that I'm not stranger to the modding scene. You constantly get reminded that you shouldn't share rom packs. Not once has anyone said anything about the Atari games. Not even once.
     

    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    With real 2600s getting more and more expensive and harder to find, and harder to hook up to a TV in your current living room, this is a cheap and modern alternative.

    personally I loved Astroblast, Warlords and especially Kaboom! with paddles on the original Atari, so for me, its hard to beat the original system. I can live without the newer version of stella and the newer homebrew titles, but the flashback really is lacking in the paddle games support department. So for "gamers", original hardware will always be king.

    Having said all that, I really did try to help make the AFBX experience just a little something like the NES Classic and PSX Classic for the "modders".  I feel this little box is as cool as those.
    And maybe for the Atari "collectors" as well. Like the AFB2, Hopefully the 9 and X are flashbacks that the die hard collectors may not pass on anymore.

    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    I have finished testing all 1100+ games. All the roms and box art are now linked correctly.


    That being said, I noticed that you get a black screen on game launch and you have to power off the system to exit if you've browsed a large number of games.
    For the few times I heard that there were "quite a few errors", there weren't that many. A couple were file name mismatch errors and a couple missing large box art images.

    There weren't even all that many broken games. There were a few, as I suspected, but I wonder if people were instead encountering the black screen loading error.

     

    I removed multi cart games, clone games (but there are a few left), utility cartridges and tech demos.

    The "Atari Games" section and "Paddle Games" section have also been finally sorted out. There were also a handful of new homebrew titles added.

    980 games remain. ~25 Sec. (Approx.) boot up time. And its super stable. No more games that fail to launch.

     

    I tried to streamline and finish everything as much as possible for this pack.

    I tweaked the "Sans Boom" theme. That's what comes set up with this download. All the box art looks fantastic now. You won't be able to go back and un-see the stock error.
    All that is left is sorting the all-games.ini file entries and adding all the game descriptions and info text. (And hopefully remove the rest of the clone games.)
    That's gonna take another year, I bet. :(

     

    NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE ATARI FLASHBACK X AND X DELUXE ONLY!

    A.T.A.R.I. v2.1

    ATARIv2.1.rar

     

     

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    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    well, over one year (and 2 consoles) later, the art pack is finished. I'm about 3/4 of the way through testing and fixing/removing broken file paths/roms.
    I don't have the new VCS, but if you need any help with images for it just ask.

    As far as new official firmware, there is none on AtGames firmware portal website. There was a late model, 2019, reset button accessible from the outside on the bottom of the unit quietly released (at menards). It comes out of the box with firmware version "V.0.1.7". I have no idea what is different as far as firmware changes. But, I can tell you the Box Art is jacked on the AFBX and they SHOULD fix it with a firmware update. (the thumbnail sizes changed from AFB to LFB on the "sdcard.png" and "sdcard_blue.png" in the emulator folder. That was my clue what to try to fix it.)

    So, the swapping of the emulator on the AFB is a bust? Also just wondering... how much free space in on the NAND. Happy New year, bud. Thanks for everything.

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    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    So, yeah, I noticed this long ago but didn't make a huge deal out of it because I like Atari and AtGames. 
    Maybe it's because I spend so much time looking at the box art on the AFB9 and X that I even noticed it at all.

    On the AFB9 the box art thumbnails display correctly, but on the X they don't. Everything is screwed up looking because AtGames is using the 

    same thumbnail sizes from the AFB9 on the AFBX, but the X actually is looking for the box art sizes that the Legends FB 2018/19 uses.

    As a test I tried an M-Network game cover with the Legends FB box art image sizes because that's the only other size I would even think to try out of the blue to test.
    I got lucky that it was correct, I don't know what the system really is doing to the images or looking for, but the results are 100% correctly displayed box art images.

    I feel like this is something the 9 had over the X, and I also wonder if the late model (rest button on the bottom) AFBX fixed this issue.

    I think that this pack is worth sharing and calling a version 2, and it makes all the old art obsolete/incorrect. Even the stock games box art.

    Basically anything that came before this is better suited to run on the AFB9 than on the AFBX.

    Here is the new pack. I shaved about 5 seconds off of the boot time too. (~25 sec. now)
    Fixed quite a few other errors and such, I won't bore you any more though. Happy New Year.

     

    (NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE ATARI FLASHBACK X and X DELUXE. THE BOX ART IMAGES & THEMES WILL NOT DISPLAY CORRECTLY ON THE 9 and 9 GOLD.)


    A.T.A.R.I. v2.0.21

    ATARIv2.rar

     

    From here, its testing and removing broken roms or replacing them with working versions, and finding errors in file names that prevent games from launching.

    Then its on to finally sorting the all-games.ini file entries and entering the game info text.
    A shit ton of boring ass work, I'm not promising anything.

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    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted · Edited by Draxxon

    On 3/14/2020 at 11:47 AM, Draxxon said:

    Has anyone else noticed that the box art looks jacked up on the Atari FBX? It's really noticeable on diagonal lines on the large box art, M Network games really look bad. I don't remember it looking like this on the AFB9, but I gifted my FB9 to my buddy when I got the FBX going so I don't have it to check anymore. After working so long on the boxart for the FB9, I can't believe I wouldn't have noticed this.

    I'm continuing to add Homebrew games to the pack. A lot of them don't have box art so I am creating them as I go. I'm at about ~930 games. I'll post the update when I reach ~1000.

    So I finally got un-lazy and figured this out. Out of the box the box artwork is the wrong size. So when i ripped the stock images and made new ones the same size, everything is wrong. you can really tell on the M-Network games like tron with diagonal lines on the box art. It was NOT like this on the Flashback 9/9Gold. Well I tried resizing the box art to the size that the Legends Flashback 2018/19 uses, and low and behold, the images display correctly.

    Large Box Art images SHOULD be: 183 x 255 pixels
    Small Box Art images SHOULD be: 122 x 170 pixels

    I'm working on a 2.0 Pack now with correct box art size. I'm going to try and test, find and remove the non working games. I'll see if i can get the Boot Up time down as well.


    To show what I mean, the first image is stock, fresh out of the box. The second image is an M-Network game with the new (legends flashback) box art sizes.


     

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    Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart

    in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles

    Posted

    I am completely fine with everything everyone is doing. I too built my pack out of work that was already done here before I came. I am no different.

    It was weeks and weeks and weeks of work. I focused mainly on box art only. I fully understand that 1100 games is overkill. The whole idea was for you guys to edit your own lists, as you saw fit.

    I only supplied a giant base, that still needed a lot of work. I'm glad you guys enjoy it. Keep up the good work, fellas. Happy New Year.

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