Flashback Hack

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:41 pm

I know the Atari Flashback sucks, but it got me thinking when I found it at wal-mart. (No, not a BB gun vs. Steamroller debate.) Would it be possible to rig it up with a cartrige slot like those NOAC things? It would make Atari 7800 carts a lot easier to play!

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:42 pm

it could only play nes games

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:44 pm

No, I mean an Atari cartrige slot. Why would you buy a 40 dollar piece of junk just to play NES games?

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:46 pm

But it uses a NOAC

Post by **gannon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:46 pm

umm... because it's a NOAC and can't play atari carts.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:47 pm

Cool two posts at once. Maybe this should be in the read this first.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:57 pm

Dudes, he is asking if it is possible to hook up a cartridge slot to the "Atari Flashback" devices.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:58 pm

yeah, we kinda established that. We're saying (or, they're saying) that because the Flashback has NES hardware, it would only play NES games.

know whats up · Post by **know whats up** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:59 pm

no no no no no no!

it does not use an nes on a chip!!! it uses something similar, but it is NOT an nes on a chip!

basically they rewrote all the games to run on whats called an fpga, its a type of programmalble chip that can be made to do almost anything imaginable...

it would be stupid for them to use an nes on a chip because they would have to take the atari games and rewrite them for the nes, which would be a lot of work...

this forum amazes me more and more each day...

S q u e e ! · Post by **S q u e e !** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:03 pm

Any computer geek knows what an fgpa is.

Post by **gannon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:05 pm

and any true electronics modder knows that it's not an atari program in an FPGA. FPGAs are normally only used for design before the internal gate code is sent off for manufacture into standard chips anyways

S q u e e ! · Post by **S q u e e !** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:16 pm

Someone should learn what is really inside of those Flashbacks.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:22 pm

Want me to take pics? I can if you want. It has a few glop tops... A simple 7805 reg/ av out board, and thats about it.

basically they rewrote all the games to run on whats called an fpga, its a type of programmalble chip that can be made to do almost anything imaginable...

it would be stupid for them to use an nes on a chip because they would have to take the atari games and rewrite them for the nes, which would be a lot of work...

Im amazed by you. You just said: why would they rewrite the games for nes, thats too much works. But yeah, they used a harder to work with thing, thats more expensive, and harder work with, and rewrote the games for it....
Honestly...

(Though Ill still post pics if someone reminds me.

)

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:37 pm

Ah, i just read in another forum that the Atari Flashback devices are NOAC's emulating Atari.

I stand corrected.

Edit

No i dont, i never said anything to be corrected about

But now i know why you said it would only run NES games...

knows whats up · Post by **knows whats up** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:13 pm

i was simply trying to correct you guys!

it wasn't meant to be nasty, but it may have "sounded" that way because i was in a baaad mood at the time of the writing...

i was just trying to emphasize that it is ESSENTIALLY running an emulator of the atari system, and therefore cannot run any external games...

i was trying to correct the statement about it running nes games...thats wrong.

these things have NOTHING to do with the nes...nothing at all...

and it probobly WASNT harder for them to rewrite it for a custom designed chip because they are just emulating modified versions of the roms...iirc...