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Flashback 8 Gold Deluxe HD $55 shipped ups ground lower 48 New, unused open box Box opened to take pictures only Twist ties never removed from cords as shown. Unused HDMI cable with end caps never removed. Original poster instructions as shown. Wife says I have to pare down collection and make due with my original Atari 2600 heavy sixer Awesome first or second Flashback to own, since this unit has paddles and an HDMI output for all current TV's, no rf channel 3 or yellow video out, you get the best image possible for retro gaming. 120 built in games, including many Activision titles like Kaboom, M Network (Mattel) titles, and rare unreleased games like Tempest For the 2600!? Perfect gift for retro gaming collectors, fans, display piece for gaming rooms, etc $55 shipped lower 48 UPS ground User Rgb on avsforum since 1999
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I acquired this recently, being excited to play some classic-style Atari. However, I've encountered a few major issues: It will randomly revert to the menu when I'm playing a game, sometimes within seconds of starting a game and sometimes in the middle of a session. Also, pressing the start-select buttons simultaneously to go back to the menu doesn't work, I have to shut off the console and restart. Has anyone else had these problems, do you know what could be the issue and do you have a fix?
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I've seen these units around for years, especially in the Bed, Bad and Beyond stores as well as the odd Toys R Us. Never felt inclined to pick those up, mostly due to the limited number of games and the semi-poor reviews on the controllers. So I kept using my 7800s to play the cartridges I wanted. On and off I'd be tempted to grab an Intellivision Flashback (don't play InTV that much), Colecovision (no Donkey Kong), and the 10 versions of the Atari one. Every time I would just put it back on the shelf after thinking it over. Kept also looking for a cheap Flashback 2, but realistically I don't think I would ever add a cartridge slot. I had an eye out for the Flashback 8 Activision edition just because it has pretty sizeable list of games and most of the Activision games. Well, I saw one at the local Walmart and did an impulse purchase of the Flashback 8 Gold. It was not the Activision edition, but it had some titles. What grabbed me was the HDMI connection ... So some thoughts: - I was surprised to see some M-Network games, especially Air Raiders which is one of my favourite games. Overall the list is pretty decent. - I'm very happy with the HDMI connection. It lets me keep my existing connections on my TV intact (i.e. leave my component for the 7800) so I just plug the unit into the AV receiver and am good to go. - The actual resolution (upscaled and no visible spacing between lines) is actually pretty good, and typically how I would I would play on the Stella emulator. - There are wireless joysticks which also allow to pause/rewind the game and give you the main menu functionality. I haven't put in batteries and tried these out. I've been just playing with my standard CX-40 joysticks and it works really well. - In regards to the wired joysticks, having the joystick ports in the front is really convenient. The button layout on the console is a bit odd, with the reset button the 2nd left button, and the select at the very right. There's no Color/BW button as far as I can tell, so not clear how Space Shuttle would work on a console like this. - The main menu is running at 720p and displays HD images of the boxes to select and gives you basic game instructions. It's fairly well done and also allows you to filter to just Atari and Activision games. - Frogger is some sort of arcade or newer console variation. I guess the Parker Bros rights could not be obtained. It looks great, but totally out of place with the Atari 2600 games. The thing that actually bothers me is the lack of in-game music in this version. It's also only single-player. - The Space Invaders is also a non-2600 variety. I didn't play it yet. It looks like the arcade edition. - On the emulation I started seeing some quirks; I especially noticed them in Frostbite where the ice floes would be partially rendered. The odd thing is that this is not just a visual glitch as the collision detection seems to respect the lack of graphic portion, so this totally impacted the game play. In Air Sea Battle, I saw a graphical shift at the right section of the screen for the rows (but not moving objects). - Since I got the non-Activision version, I started looking at ways I can potentially mod it. So opening it up, I see that it's an older generation Raspberry Pi and there's no USB port. On my list to-do for this week is to go to the electronics store and get some parts to do the same that BitMerge did: http://atariage.com/forums/gallery/image/25564-usb-connection/ - Apparently the full library of games is installed, but not enabled as per one of the comments on this post; http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding-Games-to-Atgames-Genesis-Flashback-HD/. That will be the goal to see if I can enable all Activision games, and enable all the other hidden ones (which ever those may be). I'll poke around to see how more roms could be added beyond that. I'll post back my findings once I have a USB connection enabled and see what I can find. -
Modding the Flashback 8 HD - Part Two
AlwaysOnPlanetPatrol posted a blog entry in Rose-Tinted Recollections
Adding a game to the Flashback 8 HD Some prerequisites: in this example I'm adding the Double Dragon Arcade ROM from KevinMos3 ( Available at http://atariage.com/forums/topic/154984-hack-project-thread-galaxian-arcade-double-dragon-xenophobe-etc/ ; also note that there is a very nice label he created you have to have added the USB connector the Flashback Android Debugger Bridge (ADB) a bit of patience First a walkthrough ... There are two key items to remember during this mod: - the "all-games.ini" file contains the list of the games that the Flashback will display in its menu. It also contain instructions and tells the device what ROM file to load. You will find that file under "/system/atgames/all-games.ini" - the actual games (and the menu images) are all stored in "/system/atgames/Atari" Step 1: Plug in your Flashback to your computer Use your USB cable and make sure that the Flashback adapter is plugged in. Turn on the device. Step 2. Launching ADB You need to run the DOS command prompt from Windows. I usually run under "administrator mode", but it doesn't seem to be a requirement. Step 3. Connecting to the Flashback Navigate to the folder where the ADB has been extracted; in my case, I kept it simple and it sits in "C:\adb\platform-tools" Type in "adb devices" It will find your Flashback and get it ready to be used. Step 4. Let's Explore This step is optional, but type in "adb root". This will give you higher privileges in case you run across any files you need. I suggest not to delete or modify anything unless you know what you're doing and/or made a backup. Type in "adb shell", that will basically log us into the Flashback device and see the internal folder structure. Use "ls" or "ls -l" to list all the files/folders The Flashback installation is under "/system/atgames"; you can use "cd /system" or "cd /system/atgames" to move onto those folders You see the "all-games.ini" file. Keep this one in mind, this is the most important file for this mod. You can see the "Atari" folder. Let's navigate by using "cd Atari" and then listing the files: You will see all the files with .a26 or a26.png. The ROM files are your usual ROM files with the .A26 extension; the respective .A26.PNG are the images for each game. Another interesting location is the "app" folder; use "cd /system/app" . You can see the Frogger and Space Invaders Android APK files. It seems that these two are special cases and don't invoke the ROM files in the "/system/atgames/Atari" . Type in "exit" to get out of the Flashback shell. So now you know the basics How to Add a Game For this exercise I have copied the DD.A26 and DD.A26.png files into my ADB folder at C:\adb\platform-tools. You can place them anywhere, but I decided to keep things simple and reduce the amount of typing. So let's continue where left off. The main thing we're going to do is to pull down the important all-games.ini file. In the command prompt type in "adb pull /system/atgames/all-games.ini" . This will copy the file into your ADB folder on your computer. MAKE A COPY OF THIS FILE!!! You may need to restore your set-up in case something goes wrong. If you open the file (in notepad for example) you will see something like: The format is somewhat self-explanatory. You have the name of the game within square brackets, followed by the ROM file location ("File="), "Platform" tells you what grouping on the Main Menu it should add it to (only "Atari" and "Activision" have sub-menus). Then you have the description and the instructions. Here's an example: [Double Dragon] File=atgames/Atari/DD.a26 Platform=ActivisionGenre=Arcade Description=Double Dragon Arcade Mod!! Note= \test for atari 2600 games. While we're here, let's take a look at the image files; let's pull a file for the Wizard game; "adb pull /system/atgames/Atari/Wizard.a26.png". It's a 214x300 PNG file. I created my Double Dragon PNG file based on KevinMos3's label he provided. Let's copy our Double Dragon ROM onto the Flashback. First of all, we need to add an entry in the all-games.ini file for Double Dragon: I have the ROM and image file sitting in ADB folder: We need to run these commands as root as we need to temporarily change permissions on folders so that we can upload files. Run "adb root" Next we will alter the permission of the "/system" folder. I tried just targeting "/system/atgames" but kept getting an error. So I copied a page from the Genesis Flashback mod. Run "adb shell mount -o rw,remount,rw /system" Next we're uploading (and overwriting the existing) all-games.ini; enter"adb push all-games.ini /system/atgames" And next we're uploading the ROM and image into the Atari folder: "adb push DD.a26 /system/atgames/Atari" "adb push DD.a26.png /system/atgames/Atari" Now, turn your Flashback device off and back on again. You should see the Double Dragon ROM in the menu now! You can basically add a bunch more games. The odd thing is that the PNG file is not displaying. Strangely enough it does not seem to get saved into the Atari folder. Not sure what the issue is. I will have to do more investigation. Updates: 1. I have been able to add 56 games so far to the Flashback. 2. The PNG files needs to have 24-bit colour depth. My original file was 32-bit. 3. Pitfall II does not work. 4. Looking at the Flashback APK file, it appears we have some hard-coded values for Frogger (and Space Invaders). Even Frogger II goes to the quasi-arcade version. 5. the All-games.ini is finicky, make sure you had linefeed/carriage return after each item for the game; Platform, Genre, etc. Notepad mangles this. Notepad++ is a good option.-
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From the album: Flashback 8 Modification
Can now play Double Dragon!!!
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