You can only buy pacman and space invaders plug-n-play units so many times before it gets silly. - Samuel JohnsonYeah, it's kind of like those steamlink boxes. - YouTube "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." From what I gather the NES version is vastly inferior. Console Alternatives - The Atari Flashback Blast! I know when we were hacking Mortal Kombat 9 Ed Boon made a snide comment about how people shouldn't mod the game as it effects gameplay balance so we just created a bunch of tools to hack the game even further. So, you've decided to take your Atari Flashback 2 console to the next level? The number of legal retro consoles is too damn high.This forum needs more threads about Arcade 1Up cabinets.I don't see that as a bad thing.
Well then, here are the basic details to help assist you in hacking/modding your console into a full fledged Atari 2600 system that can use your original cartridges.
- Samuel JohnsonActually the NES ports are really good for what they are and they are formatted for a horizontal monitor, but yeah, it's come to my attention that some of the early runs of the Walmart exclusive version has the old Nintendo ports on it....for .. reasons?I have the Activision 2600 one.
At $44.95, nearly twice the MSRP of other such classic consoles, the Flashback boasts several … I'm half glad that these things aren't available where I live. This forum needs more threads about Arcade 1Up cabinets.That one and the pong were the only two that peaked my interest. And yeah I agree with you about anything to keep the hobby alive. You might as well pick one up when they come on sale.... they are only 5-10 bucks and will run games stand alone. Anything to keep the hobby alive and when the normal people get sick of their novelties it goes back to the second hand market where we can pick them up for peanuts. Yeah I remember that, but that typically has the opposite effect. "With a sleek design reminiscent of the classic Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 consoles, the Atari Flashback will feature twenty built-in games culled from both of those classic systems. Target doesn't even seem to discount them. I suppose I could plug it into my pc and see what happens. A word of warning, there appears to be two versions of the Pacman handheld in circulation, one with arcade ROMs, and another with NES ROMs! I've been hoping to find one of those Atari Flashback handhelds cheap at a second hand store. Not sure... mines still in the box, but you can install retro arch I believe.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." A first look unboxing video of the all new Atari Flashback Blast! That's probably why I like those new mini Arcade 1UP cabinets despite their many flaws. The previously unreleased Atari 2600 title Saboteur will join classics like Asteroids and Centipede.