Time to get hacking!

[Havok]

I am sooo doing this, there's an article out on how to hack the new Atari Flashback 2.0 to use regular 2600 cartridges:

http://www.atarimuseum.com/fb2hacks/page1.htm

[Stingray]

We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

[ChadTower]

VCSp?

[Stingray]

Portable.

http://www.benheck.com

-S

[missioncontrol]

hurry up and get them on the shelves allready 

[Havok]

We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 

[Stingray]

We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 

I expect I'll get two also. One to hack and one to stick on the shelf with the rest of my Atari stuff. I still have the heavy sixer that I got for xmas back in the good old days. That's what I use to play VCS games.

-S

[Havok]

We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 

I expect I'll get two also. One to hack and one to stick on the shelf with the rest of my Atari stuff. I still have the heavy sixer that I got for xmas back in the good old days. That's what I use to play VCS games.

-S

I threw out my heavy sixer before I went to college. If only I had known!

[ultramagnus]

anyone know if somthing like this would work with those "console in a joypad" things that sega have released?

[Stingray]

anyone know if somthing like this would work with those "console in a joypad" things that sega have released?

Not without some major hacking and reverse engineering. Even then probably not, as the chips on those things are probably under a blob of epoxy to prevent people from doing this. On the FB2, Atari actually took into consideration that folks will want to do this and they very courteously probided a nice little footprint on the board for attaching a cart slot. It should be a very easy job hacking these things.

-S