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

[Hekel]

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

I checked it with es file explorer was s simple writing style problem

 

[fixingmytoys]

Question now that i have WD_

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.

Love what you have done I will say @WD_Gaster

 

[fixingmytoys]

Allright my friends another good news :-D i managed to remap the controlls so it finaly works 100% in retroshield! Frontend is basicly functional :-) i only need to fix some small bugs and we have:

New bootlogo
SEGA CONFORM

New frontend (modifyed kodi)
(with a beautifull look)
(File manager included)
(Apk manager included)
(PERFECT EMULATION)
and many other features!!

FULL USB ACCESS:
This gives us the possibility to add a 2TB HDD which fits perfectly into the console! With this mass storage we can have All MD, GEN, 32X, SMS, GG MCD, SCD, Arcade (even saturn, naomi and other sega related stuff-we will see where the emulation limit is)
Games.

What would be a nice addition is WLAN, if we get this to work i will integrate my Scraper so we dont have to store metadata informations on the console any more. Which leaves more storage for other apks.

I tested some games and can confirm theyre working:

SONIC 1 (by christian whitehead)
SONIC 2 (by christian whitehead)
SONIC 4 EP 1&2

Im sure we find alot more sega games which will be a nice addition to the console.

From now on we need to work on the visuals and integrations. But the hard work is done. Thanks for everyone that helped here! Now we can make a cfw for the public and the sega mega drive flashback hd is better than any retro nintendo device :-) SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDONT!

To be this good it takes ages.. i mean SEGA

Hi @Hekel sound like you are really cooking with gas lol , the modifyed kodi dashboard/fronted ( hehe both, both for both camps lol) what changes did you do to Kodi ?

 

[asper]

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?

Dump seems to be done by atgames application when it boots.

Rom name is the same fir the same cartridge so it is not random. If someone can send me the dump of 2 or 3 other different cartridges i can check how it is created.

 

[Hekel]

Dump seems to be done by atgames application when it boots.

Rom name is the same fir the same cartridge so it is not random. If someone can send me the dump of 2 or 3 other different cartridges i can check how it is created.

Ill try to make some soon. A little question. I like to uninstall some stock APK. BUT i cant get it to work its always aborting cause of missing root access does anyone know a workaround for this problem

 

[MaxiBus]

Ill try to make some soon. A little question. I like to uninstall some stock APK. BUT i cant get it to work its always aborting cause of missing root access does anyone know a workaround for this problem

You should be root by default. Whats the error message?

 

[WD_Gaster]

http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2015/05/How-to-Remove-Replace-KingUser-KingRoot-with-SuperSU.html

just follow this tutorial, the kingoroot removal portion just fizzles out in the script since we dont have it installed but it WILL do a proper root and install SU for you. as always backup your stuff

You should be root by default. Whats the error message?

you are not. ADB gives you root, but the android OS returns to user level access when adb is not running.

 

[Hekel]

basicly that it contains System datas and it cant be removed :-D but thats even the same Thing for kodi! you can normaly install it but removing is impossible xD

 

[asper]

Ill try to make some soon. A little question. I like to uninstall some stock APK. BUT i cant get it to work its always aborting cause of missing root access does anyone know a workaround for this problem

Dirty way: remove them manually from :
/system/apps/
or
/data/apps/

and
/data/data/
and
/data/dalvik-cache/

 

[MaxiBus]

you are not ADB gives you root, but the android OS returns to user level access when adb is not running.

Ah i see, thought we all are working over adb

 

[WD_Gaster]

once you have usb access in a way it becomes easier to just uninstall something at the flick of a mouse and keyboard when you have root

 

[Hekel]

well the main Problem is i tryed it over adb, es file Explorer, @WD_Gaster Dashboard.. nothing helped..it always says the apps contains System data and i Need root acess to remove them.

 

[WD_Gaster]

writing a quick tut now. give me a few mins.

 

[WD_Gaster]

1-copy the mrw folder from the zip file to the sd card partition
2-open android commander.
3-


4-click on "run sh script"

5-when picking location of where the script is, remember how windows sets an mtp drive when you plug in your generations? browse there, the mrw folder will obviously be there and choose the .sh script in the folder. Run it.

6-important. its gonna look like it froze it has not. wait 5 minutes before closing android commander and the script box.

7- reboot the device. in the app drawer you should know the see the "su" app. if you do.. congrats you have root. follow the rest of the tutorial on the page linked above if you have any questions but this should pretty much cover it.

also for anyone else reading this, i dont suggest you trying it. this requires a nand backup and a way to recover just in case.

 

[Hekel]

will try it cause i wanna remove those apps to have make a Special cfw. sadly theres no easyer method to pass that by.. xD shitty apps

 

[WD_Gaster]

will try it cause i wanna remove those apps to have make a Special cfw. sadly theres no easyer method to pass that by.. xD shitty apps

you dont need to do all this for that....
backup your system image, extract the contents, then repack. I am sure Asper knows what i am talking about. lol

 

[Hekel]

@WD_Gaster i tryed to delete it with 7zip but it told me i dont have the rights to do that..

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@WD_Gaster i tryed to delete it with 7zip but it told me i dont have the rights to do that..

and ist not able to extract the full Image it spells some Errors out. i wanna avoid that as ist a raw dump.

 

[JackMonty]

well i downloaded the file from my dropbox

Installboot.bat
Uninstallboot.bat

Those file you have to looking for. Double click on them and youre fine.

Thanks for checking - maybe I'm downloading the wrong file... All I get is the bootanimation.zip and inside is a folder called part0 with lots of jpegs and a desc.txt file... no batch files... do I need to download something else? Thanks

 

[asper]

I just tested KODI interface:

As you can see KODI is able to start applications as a "launcher" and it works fine with .mp3 and pictures (need to enable the picture menu from settings - biggest picture tested 3840x2160, the "galaxy" one above) but it crashes exiting playing videos (even low quality ones); tested .mp4 and .avi; the error is:

init: sys_prop: permission denied uid:10017 name:media.cfg.audio.soundeffect

even SuperSu does not seem to solve the problem (no permission is asked). What exactly is "media.cfg.audio.soundeffect" ? It seems not to be an installed app (not present)...


EDIT: KODI is big (almost 60MB app) so you need resized partitions (ex. my custom ROM) to install it together with, for example, retroarch.

 

[Hekel]

Thanks for checking - maybe I'm downloading the wrong file... All I get is the bootanimation.zip and inside is a folder called part0 with lots of jpegs and a desc.txt file... no batch files... do I need to download something else? Thanks

Yes you have only to extract it one time, you have to leave the bootanimation.zip zipped. just run the install.bat.