pkblack Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Can we buy the flashback games on cartridges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 No, but you can make your own cartridges from the Flashback 2 game BINs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Where can they be found?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Where can they be found?! 987669[/snapback] Inside the FB2, until you extract them according to these instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Charles Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 That'd be pretty cool! I'd love to see a cart version of all the Flashback One games(in their corrupted, edited, and nes form) in a cart we can use on the Atari 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwh Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge. I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 You can always make you own with some soldering skills and a donor cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 That'd be pretty cool! I'd love to see a cart version of all the Flashback One games(in their corrupted, edited, and nes form) in a cart we can use on the Atari 2600. 987695[/snapback] Well, in order to get them to run on the 2600 they'd have to be 2600 games, so they could not be in their "corrupted, edited, and nes form". The original Flashback doesn't have any NEW games on it, just ports of existing 2600 and 7800 games. You'd basically have to write the games again from scrach, and nobody is going to do that to try to mimic the behavior of these games on the original Flashback. The Flashback 2, though, is a more interesting proposition since it is based on real 2600 hardware, and it includes several new games. It's a much more trivial manner to run these on a 2600 system. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Most of the new FB2 games use the superchip, right? Putting these games on a cart will not be easy until a new circuit board* is available. * I believe people are working on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Would it not be possible to transplant an EPROM onto a cart with a superchip or is it not a separate part from the mask rom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge.I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone. 987821[/snapback] Save Mary might already be on a few carts. One of Cousin Vinnie's reviews is on Save Mary, and it has pictures of labels that were considered for the game. His review states that although it is a 2600 game, it was originally intended for the 7800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsoper Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Can we buy the flashback games on cartridges? 987503[/snapback] Scroll up the forum to that pinned post "Don't post Flashback related topics here", it might have some info on how to do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge.I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone. 987821[/snapback] Save Mary might already be on a few carts. One of Cousin Vinnie's reviews is on Save Mary, and it has pictures of labels that were considered for the game. His review states that although it is a 2600 game, it was originally intended for the 7800. 987961[/snapback] Not exactly correct, it's a 2600 game that was hacked to use the 7800s cart RAM instead of including a 2600 Sara RAM chip on the cart. It was never originally intended for the 7800. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge.I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone. 987821[/snapback] Save Mary might already be on a few carts. One of Cousin Vinnie's reviews is on Save Mary, and it has pictures of labels that were considered for the game. His review states that although it is a 2600 game, it was originally intended for the 7800. 987961[/snapback] Not exactly correct, it's a 2600 game that was hacked to use the 7800s cart RAM instead of including a 2600 Sara RAM chip on the cart. It was never originally intended for the 7800. Mitch 988188[/snapback] I have heard to same was done with shooting Arcade and actually put into a small release. I don't know how many 7800 Shooting Arcade carts where made not have I seen even one of them but the Nafj guy on ebay (the 7800 Nazi) has one but he wont even show me a pic of it or the box, as it has a box also. I would love to know how this process works\get my hands on the hacked BIN as I would like to pt Shooting Arcade on a 7800 cart and I'm sure alot of others would too. Although I do already own 2600 Shooting Arcade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkblack Posted December 24, 2005 Author Share Posted December 24, 2005 Im asking about having flashback games on cartridges for teh 2600 so this should be the right forum. Other people have seem to have gotten the games off the system so can we buy cartridges of them here or is someboyd selling them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 (edited) It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge.I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone. 987821[/snapback] Save Mary might already be on a few carts. One of Cousin Vinnie's reviews is on Save Mary, and it has pictures of labels that were considered for the game. His review states that although it is a 2600 game, it was originally intended for the 7800. 987961[/snapback] Not exactly correct, it's a 2600 game that was hacked to use the 7800s cart RAM instead of including a 2600 Sara RAM chip on the cart. It was never originally intended for the 7800. Mitch 988188[/snapback] Actually, the deal is that there is some serendipity in the 7800 memory map that allows you to write Superchip games by using a 7800 in 2600 mode where it has some additional features that corresponds to how the Superchip works. So I think there is a way to run superchip games unmodified but without the SARA chip on a 7800 with a 7800 cart board. From what I've been told, the EPROMs in Lance's carts are the same physical ones Atari Corp. manufactured to be put into the initial batch of production 2600 carts, which is why he doesn't have to obtain permission from Infotari since he's merely reselling the chips in a playable package. It's not a typical grey-market repro pirate affair. If someone made a Superchip board he could use then he could sell them as true 2600 games. Edited December 27, 2005 by mos6507 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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