Sega Megadrive (Genesis) Flashback Mini HD with an USB on internal mother board

[Hekel]

just out of curiosity... did you remap your frontend or android itself to make it work?

also a reminder to people... i dont advise anyone distribute copyrighted apk's with their work(not even atgames, those are copyrighted by them). I personally am steering clear of doing so for ethical/personal reasons. At the end of the day its people's choice what they wish to do but keep in mind its probably best overall for people to do so.

Remaped the apk.

 

[WD_Gaster]

also if you achieved perfect emulation, what emulator are you using for your back end?

 

[Hekel]

also if you achieved perfect emulation, what emulator are you using for your back end?

I can use any i want per game but if we talk about mega drive i highly recommend picodrive and md.emu. With picodrive we can add SEGA PICO Games now aswell :-)

 

[WD_Gaster]

I can use any i want per game but if we talk about mega drive i highly recommend picodrive and md.emu. With picodrive we can add SEGA PICO Games now aswell :-)

well....i havent tested pico drive, but md.emu does NOT play well with the wireless controllers(you start getting increased input lag). its probably a driver compatibility issue. Also how would you exit out the emulator itself back into your frontend? as far as i know md.emu will treat external controllers for in game actions but defaults to "back" and "home" buttons for main menu input, which the wireless controllers dont exactly have.
also a note to people:
md.emu is a paid app. the only freely freely available version would be an older beta at his page/dev blog.

sorry if i am asking all these questions, but i am just curious if you found a way around these issues?

 

[Ulmez]

Hey everyone

First of all I wanna thank everyone who's working hard to make something better out of this machine. You're all great. I'd like to leave a suggestion and a question though:

Suggestion is, I personally believe it'd be best not to make the whole thing too "Frankenstein"-ish, handling all sorts of apps, addons and the like...I think having just a pleasant menu to load the games would be way more attractive. That is, what it's offering now but working PROPERLY, focusing on simplicity and ease of use.

About my question, will the device still be able to play original carts? I think it's a huge value the machine has and, while adding ROMs is cool and all, keeping the cartridge slot working is really important.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Hekel]

Hey everyone

First of all I wanna thank everyone who's working hard to make something better out of this machine. You're all great. I'd like to leave a suggestion and a question though:

Suggestion is, I personally believe it'd be best not to make the whole thing too "Frankenstein"-ish, handling all sorts of apps, addons and the like...I think having just a pleasant menu to load the games would be way more attractive. That is, what it's offering now but working PROPERLY, focusing on simplicity and ease of use.

About my question, will the device still be able to play original carts? I think it's a huge value the machine has and, while adding ROMs is cool and all, keeping the cartridge slot working is really important.

Thanks a lot!

Hey there, well this will be a little complicated to answer.. it depends on what kind of solution youre looking at.

I try to explain, the mega drive hd basicly makes a local copy of the game you wanna play and starts it then with the atgames emulator. This is whats happening behind the doors :-).

Basicly we can say you play a rom, its just a proper dump by youre cartridge. If you use the original dashboard than yes you will still be able to play youre carts- but there only with the atgames emulator. Which is totaly crap xD..

If you use an different dashboard theres the option to start an emulator, you could point the dump save folder and start the rom from there with youre specific emulator.

Thats the main problem.. if you want a more stable console you will have to change the original dashboard. But at the same way you particly loose the cartridge idea for some point. And it kills the idea of not adding to many app stuff as you will need it to change the dashes.

Maybe we can make a workaround.. were still at the start but i think thats the actual answer i can give.

 

[Ulmez]

Hey there, well this will be a little complicated to answer.. it depends on what kind of solution youre looking at.

I try to explain, the mega drive hd basicly makes a local copy of the game you wanna play and starts it then with the atgames emulator. This is whats happening behind the doors :-).

Basicly we can say you play a rom, its just a proper dump by youre cartridge. If you use the original dashboard than yes you will still be able to play youre carts- but there only with the atgames emulator. Which is totaly crap xD..

If you use an different dashboard theres the option to start an emulator, you could point the dump save folder and start the rom from there with youre specific emulator.

Thats the main problem.. if you want a more stable console you will have to change the original dashboard. But at the same way you particly loose the cartridge idea for some point. And it kills the idea of not adding to many app stuff as you will need it to change the dashes.

Maybe we can make a workaround.. were still at the start but i think thats the actual answer i can give.

In that case having a tool capable of dumping the cart would be great. I mean inserting the cart and having it dumped and stored along with the other roms to play on any newly added emulator. I know it's easier said than done but there's that in case there's any hope

 

[Hekel]

In that case having a tool capable of dumping the cart would be great. I mean inserting the cart and having it dumped and stored along with the other roms to play on any newly added emulator. I know it's easier said than done but there's that in case there's any hope

That is not the problem, its should be easy to point the rom. But the Dump wil be named randomly.. so it would later be hard to recognized which game it was.. and somehow its pointless to add it to the collection as you can easy put a fullset in. But a temporary dump to play would make sense.

 

[WD_Gaster]

Hey everyone

First of all I wanna thank everyone who's working hard to make something better out of this machine. You're all great. I'd like to leave a suggestion and a question though:

Suggestion is, I personally believe it'd be best not to make the whole thing too "Frankenstein"-ish, handling all sorts of apps, addons and the like...I think having just a pleasant menu to load the games would be way more attractive. That is, what it's offering now but working PROPERLY, focusing on simplicity and ease of use.

About my question, will the device still be able to play original carts? I think it's a huge value the machine has and, while adding ROMs is cool and all, keeping the cartridge slot working is really important.

Thanks a lot!

ok to immediately clarify. my app does not do cart dumping. its just a dashboard to launch your own roms.
however you can launch the original atgames launcher from it to play your carts.
the cart dumping functionality, im pretty sure would be proprietary code and i have NO interest in looking into the matter.

 

[Ulmez]

That is not the problem, its should be easy to point the rom. But the Dump wil be named randomly.. so it would later be hard to recognized which game it was.. and somehow its pointless to add it to the collection as you can easy put a fullset in. But a temporary dump to play would make sense.

Maybe you can check the ROM header to obtain the game tittle? htt*://md.squee.co/Howto:Initialise_a_Mega_Drive

 

[WD_Gaster]

ok to immediately clarify. my app does not do cart dumping. its just a dashboard to launch your own roms.
however you can launch the original atgames launcher from it to play your carts.
the cart dumping functionality, im pretty sure would be proprietary code and i have NO interest in looking into the matter.

 

[DarthDub]

ok to immediately clarify. my app does not do cart dumping. its just a dashboard to launch your own roms.
however you can launch the original atgames launcher from it to play your carts.
the cart dumping functionality, im pretty sure would be proprietary code and i have NO interest in looking into the matter.

I'd look, but the Atgames Genesis Flashback HD is my brother's.

 

[Hekel]

ok to immediately clarify. my app does not do cart dumping. its just a dashboard to launch your own roms.
however you can launch the original atgames launcher from it to play your carts.
the cart dumping functionality, im pretty sure would be proprietary code and i have NO interest in looking into the matter.

I think you could fix that easy, you just have to make a new section. Lets say: Cartridge

In this section you need to put s path in, simply use the save place where the rom is dumped. And then its easy to load as you have to assocciate with the correct mega drive emulator.

Just an idea and i guess it could work

 

[WD_Gaster]

thats cool. my interest is just to write android based homebrew for the device. its kind of a fun thing to do. if people get some use out of it ill be glad but im just making apps for it because its fun and a learning experience.

 

[Hekel]

thats cool. my interest is just to write android based homebrew for the device. its kind of a fun thing to do. if people get some use out of it ill be glad but im just making apps for it because its fun and a learning experience.

Its just an idea how you could handle it in no time xD well lets say in theory.. mostly it doesnt works that easy in the end.. but asper sad somewhere that the dumping process is made when its booting.. this would make this possible

 

[WD_Gaster]

I think you could fix that easy, you just have to make a new section. Lets say: Cartridge

In this section you need to put s path in, simply use the save place where the rom is dumped. And then its easy to load as you have to assocciate with the correct mega drive emulator.

Just an idea and i guess it could work

Its just an idea how you could handle it in no time xD well lets say in theory.. mostly it doesnt works that easy in the end.. but asper sad somewhere that the dumping process is made when its booting.. this would make this possible

i dont think happens during boot though, asper can correct me and it be very interesting if it happens during boot. However i think the dump happens after the atgames app launches and it happens from within it.
@asper does this really happen at boot?

 

[Hekel]

Hmm im trying to get acess over the usb stick and somehow it doesnt works.. anyone an idea if there is a failur?

mnt/usb_storage/usb_disk0/udisk0/32x

Is there maybe something wrong?

 

[WD_Gaster]

Hmm im trying to get acess over the usb stick and somehow it doesnt works.. anyone an idea if there is a failur?

mnt/usb_storage/usb_disk0/udisk0/32x

Is there maybe something wrong?

is this from within your app? were you able to access it before? and last but not least are you using a hub?

 

[Hekel]

is this from within your app? were you able to access it before? and last but not least are you using a hub?

Its a normal 16gb usb stick, the path is given me by kodi. No hub is there its connected direct

 

[WD_Gaster]

Its a normal 16gb usb stick, the path is given me by kodi. No hub is there its connected direct

try to write a file to your destination with a file manager, if it succeeds, perhaps a rights permission by kodi?