steel68 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Hi, this is my first post. Great forum. I had no idea what an Atari Flashback even was, believe it or not. And I love video games and I'm 52 so I definitely remember the Atari days. lol I was immediately interested in this. In the last 24 hours, I've been quietly reading the posts here and have eliminated almost every question I had. I'm going with the AFB 9, but am undecided on whether to go with the wired controllers or the Wireless (gold). It sounds like the older versions of the Atari FB Wireless controllers had connection issues. But then they changed to the 2.4 ghz. So is it an issue that was resolved? If so, I'll go wireless. But I am ok with wired. Besides, I have a few original Atari joystick controllers that I might end up using anyway, if the sticks on these feel too loose. Thank you in advance, great page this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel68 Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 After reading Amazon reviews, I'm worried that there is a reason I had never heard of this thing. I hope I'm wrong but those reviews were disappointing. Most of the complaints were about games not working or controllers not syncing. So IF I do buy it, I guess I'll go with the wired controllers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrZarniwoop Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 The Atari Flashback 9 from 2018 and Flashback X from 2019-2020 are almost the same unit, including both similarly having custom firmware available for box art and themes. Flashback 9 Gold CFW to load roms and boxart from SD Atari Flashback X Custom Firmware for USB roms and boxart But, the 9 has a Gold model with 2.4 GHz wireless controllers, requires special modified paddles, can take an SD card directly, and looks like it was inspired by a cross between a "Woody" and "Darth Vader" 2600 but with buttons instead of switches: While the X uses standard paddles, can take almost any USB media with a USB OTG cable, and looks like a miniature replica of a "Woody" 2600 with working switches: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrZarniwoop Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 BTW, the other one that's worth looking into if you want to actually play 2600 cartridges is the Atari Flashback 2. It only has composite video and 40 games built-in, but it can be modified to add a cartridge port! Flashback 2 Compendium All things Atari Modding Related 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel68 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) MrZarniwoop, thank you. I might consider the X because the paddle controller situation is better. Edited November 15, 2020 by steel68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel68 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) Does anyone have any input on my question, as to if I should stick to wired controllers? Edited November 15, 2020 by steel68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel68 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 Nevermind, I bought the X instead of the 9. Couldn't wait any longer lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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