bikeguychicago Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Home-brews I've tried that weren't already on the list... Works great: - Ladybug Arcade - Blinky Goes Up Did not load: - Star Castle Arcade - Stay Frosty 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Works great: 2048 A-VCS-tec Challenge Larry the Lemon Fall Down (but the holes do not lineup correctly) Flappy (some pipes are messed up) Galactopus Game Catcher Halo 2600 (menu loads and the first 3 screens) Pac Invaders (hack) Poker Squares Princess Rescue Qb Rip Off (wip) Seaweed Assualt Does not load: 2005 AA Christmas Cart- Reindeer Rescue Juno First Scramble Man Goes Down Four Play Frantic Orb Rally (Ed Fries) RunOut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Let me guess -- you loaded it on a Mac? You can run dotclean on it. https://www.google.com/amp/lifehacker.com/377011/delete-mac-system-files-with-dotclean/amp?client=safari Thanks for the tip! That cleaned the menu up very nicely. Before: After: Since I like to keep my games sorted by manufacturer, I added a prefix to the file names to take care of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Let me guess -- you loaded it on a Mac? You can run dotclean on it. https://www.google.com/amp/lifehacker.com/377011/delete-mac-system-files-with-dotclean/amp?client=safari Awesome advice! @ Flojomojo, (The folder I posted is 52 pages, many fewer ROMs, and way smaller in size.) Although I got 103 pages, when I ran Dot_clean in the 'Terminal' app in macosx, It reduced down to 52 pages like yours. There were all these 'extra' files showing up, only on the flashdrive, after being copied without them visible on the hard drive. Like ._space.bin, ._space.bin, and space.bin. THe menu list looked ugly and was quadrupled or whatever in size. So I learned a few Unix command line commands.The menu looks way nicer now. As much as I adore Macs I have always hated how they add so much crap to a directory. saw that keystone kapers works have anybody tried my hack of it laserman 2k3 on the portable, haven't brought mine yet maybe after xmas Good to see you Dan and I see that Arenafoot confirmed your game of Laserman is working! Very awesome. Well someone mentioned making hacks for the Flashback portable. In this thread... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/259166-flashback-portable-needed-controller-hacks/ ...I've asked the question could we hack Star Raiders (along with Indiana Jones and Spy Hunter) to use the function buttons to make those work? We got some good advice, and I've tried tinkering with Distella to disassemble Star Raiders and replace the key functions, but I am just starting to learn this. But I have wondered the same thing. Edited December 8, 2016 by doctorclu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moo Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Good that Halo works on it. Edited December 8, 2016 by Moo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Someone else said that Halo is pretty glitchy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Good to see you Dan and I see that Arenafoot confirmed your game of Laserman is working! Very awesome. Yes my Keystone kappers hack works I figured it would as it only a graphical, too bad about laserman'88 no working right. I'm planning to re-tune that anyways good to see you too doc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 That's a bummer Thanks for checking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Good that Halo works on it. Someone else said that Halo is pretty glitchy. Halo 2600 will run the main screen then the game starts. You can only go to the rooms up (pickup the gun) and down from the first room you start in. The game will not allow you to go to the right in any of the rooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerb316 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 FINALLY!!!! A use for that 16MB SD card which came with my 8.0 Megapixel digital camera! The card would have held 3-4 pictures at best. I never used it for obvious reasons. Great marketing by Panasonic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 could someone post the rom for Pac Man 8k that has the intro screen that works on the flashback portable. all the "pac man 8k" roms that claim to work do not have this intro screen and look like the 4k version. The Pac Man 8k I use on stella has the intro screen. This rom does not work on the Atari flashback Portable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Holy cow is this thing small. Just opened mine and set it to charge. 11 hrs huh? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Holy cow is this thing small. Just opened mine and set it to charge. 11 hrs huh? Mine was charged in the package. I've put it on charge for an hour or two at a time and its still going. I've done more on and off testing ROMs on the SD card than gaming on it since I got it yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Update Dec 1 2016! By popular demand! A cleaned up version of the ROMs folder is attached. I pulled out the known unplayables. I also added some homebrews, tested by mighty AtariAger DoctorClu. Unzip the archive, and place the Game folder in the root of your SD card. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. AFBP_20161201.zip I downloaded the file above and loaded it onto my SD card with no problems - using a SanDisk 2GB card, where I still have about 1.8 to 1.9GBs of music on it. I went to show someone at work the game E.T. and it wasn't listed in that file above. After looking at the SD card/file on my desktop at home, I realize that the file is named "E_T.bin". The portable will not recognize files with symbols and/or more than the first letter capitalized. So, I changed it to "Et.bin" and it works fine. We probably need to go thru that file and change the file names accordingly so that more of them will be recognized by the portable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Hey new and old Atari Flashback Portable owners I'm curious about something and I wonder if it is the same for all production model Flashback Portables. So the demo "doctor.bin" attached, worked quite well on the pre-production model and the the screen where Dr. Phil (or the Doctor guy) shows up you could see the text scroll by on the bottom. On my production model the lower part of the screen is not displayed as I show in the picture here. Can you load this demo on your production models and see if this is the same for you? I either have a bad production model, or this is a trait of the production models. If so, some games may work differently between the pre-production and production models. Doctor.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Works: Enhance Pitfall (hack) Enhance Pitfall Trainer (hack) E.T. Fixed hack Bloody Human Freeway (proto) 2003 AtariAge Holiday Cart Backfire Bee Ball Dark Mage Does not work: Elevator Action (proto) - main screen loads - game screen completely messed up Yahtzee - (repeats 2 of the 5 dice) - unplayable Yahtzee (larger pips hack) - repeats 2 of the 5 dice - unplayable Crack'ed - main screen loads but game does not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Hey new and old Atari Flashback Portable owners I'm curious about something and I wonder if it is the same for all production model Flashback Portables. So the demo "doctor.bin" attached, worked quite well on the pre-production model and the the screen where Dr. Phil (or the Doctor guy) shows up you could see the text scroll by on the bottom. On my production model the lower part of the screen is not displayed as I show in the picture here. Can you load this demo on your production models and see if this is the same for you? I either have a bad production model, or this is a trait of the production models. If so, some games may work differently between the pre-production and production models. on mine it shows only the upper half of the text scroll - I.E. it's cutting off the bottom half of the words 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I'm going to guess that a whole lot of you have Harmony Carts, and therefore have a bunch of homebrew ROMs (bins) already on your computer...I really need to get one of those someday. Anyway I was wondering if there is a place where there are a whole bunch of homebrew ROMs? ... So far I've had to search AtariAge...But I was wondering if there is an easier way? Or if they're all in one spot somewhere? Thanks in advance! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) could someone post the rom for Pac Man 8k that has the intro screen that works on the flashback portable. all the "pac man 8k" roms that claim to work do not have this intro screen and look like the 4k version. The Pac Man 8k I use on stella has the intro screen. This rom does not work on the Atari flashback Portable. I thought I heard somewhere the PacMan 8k V2 Rom is the one to use. However I am at work and do not have my portable to try it out. Willie, if you have time, could you try it out and let me know? pacman2600_8k_v2.bin. Edited December 9, 2016 by atarifan88 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I thought I heard somewhere the PacMan 8k V2 Rom is the one to use. However I am at work and do not have my portable to try it out. Willie, if you have time, could you try it out and let me know? pacman2600_8k_v2.bin. ah, use the version 2 rom. I have been trying the version 5 rom with the intro screen. yep, version 2 does work on the portable, will make a note on that on the compatibility doc! Thanks Atarifan88! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 ah, use the version 2 rom. I have been trying the version 5 rom with the intro screen. yep, version 2 does work on the portable, will make a note on that on the compatibility doc! Thanks Atarifan88! Thank you! Now I can replace my PacMan4k ROM. Thanks for keeping up the list. BTW, I have tested the following games which work if you want to add them to the list: Incoming (homebrew) Space raid (homebrew) Starfire (homebrew) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett1954 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Does someone have all the working Homebrew files renamed for the Portable. The first posting has a few. If so, could you post it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah-X Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 v2 of Pac-Man 8k works for me, but some of the colors are off. If only v.5 worked with this. Oh, well. Interestingly enough, Pac-Man 4k doesn't work for me. Pac-man himself is not aligned with the mazes. On another note, while I certainly miss Pitfall II, Princess Rescue works great. Can anyone else recommend any games that really push the limits of the 2600, and work on the Flashback Portable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 could someone post the rom for Pac Man 8k that has the intro screen that works on the flashback portable. all the "pac man 8k" roms that claim to work do not have this intro screen and look like the 4k version. The Pac Man 8k I use on stella has the intro screen. This rom does not work on the Atari flashback Portable. DSCF5344.JPG Willie, I tried DINTAR816's: pacman2600_8k_v4 pacman2600_8k_v5 pacman2600_8k_V6 The intro screen you have above works but has some issues with it. The ghosts/monsters are not displayed correctly. The game works but the alignment of the ghosts/monsters and pac-man himself are completely off, which makes it pretty much unplayable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 v2 of Pac-Man 8k works for me, but some of the colors are off. If only v.5 worked with this. Oh, well. Interestingly enough, Pac-Man 4k doesn't work for me. Pac-man himself is not aligned with the mazes. I found the most recent version of PacMan 8k, does this work for anyone: pacman2600_8k_V2E.bin I have been using this version of PacMan 4k that works on my portable: pacman2600_4k_fix.rar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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