Just tried this out with The Oregon Trail, didn't work. Figured it wouldn't since it didn't even come with the 0 resistor like yours. I guess certain games, like Oregon Trail needs X amount of memory so as to be dedicated to the entire chip.
Can confirm, has pico and speaker versions of 3 games. I made a speaker mod for it and qbert, but qbert seems to just have the speaker version. Dig dug 1010 pico dig dug 1000 spk dig dug 0110 pico frogger 0100 spk frogger 0011 pico galaga 0001 spk galaga *From memory but something like this, all off goto controller screen debug. A tiny speaker will fit just under the dpad, I drilled a few holes, sounds great. Qbert has 0100 for pico and 0000 for speaker mode, which has him talking like the arcade. Fun devices. . I have not tested all 16 combos.
Regarding the button trick issue. I believe it's actually doing something else. Hold down both buttons and power it on, it gives you some string of numbers and boots into a demo mode that plays the game by itself. Weird.
I bought a few and noticed that the board changed does anyone know if the new ones can be moded? I have pac man tetris and the oregon trail and they all look the same
Instead of the button trick, try using rhe directional pad. I done it to my micro arcade, space invaders machine and got Galaxian, Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man too.😮
@@bobman3854 Oregon trail doesn't seem to have any other games on the chip. There weren't even any zero resistors on the board, just the empty pads, and they didn't do anything. My guess is some games certain games are too big or use up too much memory so they're dedicated to the entire chip
I have one of the new ones, and it *looks* like the traces are still on the backside of the board. It's just that they terminate about 1.5mm below the actual solder pads, but there are still through-holes where I believe I may be able to wire in some 28ga leads. I'm going to give it a shot sometime this week, I'll post my results.
Could you possibly make a tutorial on how we could do what you did on the Pac-Man so we could access its games as well because I also have a pac-man micro arcade sitting in my desktop that I dont really use.
have you tried coppying the micro controller chip bios onto a larger capcity one and using that one instead with more games and a switch ? :-) you could store hundreds of those games then :)
There is only one game on the Oregon trail game. But I also found that the Oregon trail game kills me off in the same spot in the game no matter what, this leads me to believe that not the entirety of the Oregon trail game is present in this gaming device. But then I did some research and found that the entire game should be able to fit in the device. Wich means the game is probably soft locking me or there is some anti piracy measure that has been tripped. I don't know? Has anyone been able to beat this game?
Ugh, I hate that the button trick didn't work. I'm guessing that the MCU is doing a check before it starts, and won't let it start without a "clear" button check.
there are some 2 and 4-pin USB-C surface mount connectors that might fit, or they may require a bit of fudging to get them to fit. but i don't think the risk of damaging the micro arcade is worth the reward of just changing the USB port type. but if you want to give it a try, those 2 and 4-pin versions of the USB-C connectors can be found on aliexpress, such as this listing: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805127991766.html
Just got mine and it looks like it's all three games with a menu front-end to pick the game instead of using resistors to hardware it to a single game. I can't find any hidden games nor can I get it to even go into some kind of alternate sound mode or debug mode. Interesting that they took this approach after 'hiding' games within others. I'm guessing any Micro Arcade that lets you select multiple games won't be hackable like the game in this video.
