Why You Need To Update Your Atari 2600+ Firmware! 

Ich habe zig Spiele gereinigt oder mehrfach reingelegt und auf einmal geht alles🎉

My computer has had issues with USB since I updated the chipset drivers. Who ever thought the default Microsoft ones would be better?

That's fair.

@GregsGameRoom I got to thinking.... You must have the same brand swabs as I ended up with. The cotton just frays out and so many times just pieces of them get on the game connectors. May be that some of that may unnoticed get into the 2600+ slot. I also broke a 7800 game tab accidentally in the 2600+ I was fit to be tied $150 game. It still works but grrrrrr

I may have to hook up my Vader to verify for sure. (The 7800 is easier since it's always ready to go!)

Stella 6.7 should be able to play everything. Wonder if it's the built-in dumper software that's the problem?

@@GregsGameRoom Yeah that could be the issue. I updated my 10-in-1 to a 16-in-1 (i.e. reflashed rom in the cart) and swapped out the silly dip switch for a hexadecimal rotary switch. I noticed when swapping games (much quicker and easier now) it tries to read the cart too quickly. It really needs a small 1-2 second delay before trying to read it. All games are known and dumped so it might be a good idea that when the cart is inserted and dumped it shows the name of the game on screen as a verification that it dumped it correctly. So if a game cart is bad or it didn't dump it correctly it should show 'unknown game' instead of the 'Loading Game Failed' error. If the dump is good it should show the name of the game to prove it dumped it correctly. They have 256GB NAND internal storage on the board and Stella is about 10MB. With the O/S and a game cart crc32 database maybe it's 50MB (max) so it's not like they don't have any storage space to do stuff. Might also be nice if it remembered the last 20 carts too and some kind of optional menu that can be accessed to select and play them. One thing is for sure they had better fix it quickly or it's going to be another failed Atari product.

You'd see ZEBRAs in the ZOO... :D

Yes

A lot of the games only use 1-button so a 2600 controller is sufficient.

Glad you didn't have any issues updating!

I'm getting the same error message. I was able to update the dumper, but not the firmware itself.

Wonder if it's the revision of the 7800? I've had some people say Robot Tank works.

@@GregsGameRoom definitely could be. I remember Kurt and others working on the XM had lots of issues due to the revisions of the 7800.

Sounds like my issue with Spike's Peak

You’re missing out! The 2600+ is so much fun!

@@OriginalGrasshopper I’ll get around to it eventually

Maybe different revisions of the 7800 work with Robot Tank?

Correct.

😢

Pitfall 2 is now working in latest update

Some have an easier go of it. I think it depends on the USB controller to be honest.

LOL, yeah, the video was mostly geared towards watching me make totally unfunny comments. ;-)

I own a 2600+ and haven’t experienced any issues whatsoever with any paddle games, even PAL ones. It’s a fantastic little system!

@@OriginalGrasshopper The new Paddles are fantastic I might be sensitive to it. The 2600+ is resolving movement about half the resolution that it would on a real Atari.

Doesn't work that way on the Cuttle Cart 2.

LOL, yeah, it's not for everyone.

Since doing the beta 1.1 update my Atari 2600+ is working great. I have 55 Atari 2600 carts (including multi-carts) and 13 Atari 7800 carts. And they are all working without any issues.

That's a real shame I was hoping unocart would work 😢

Das ist nur deine Meinung

Real hardware is the best always.

Good or bad?

@GregsGameRoom good for new generation bit I want them experience real deal. Get 7800 and modded it or have it modded and have fun

I love my Atari 2600+. Its been worth every penny. I restarted collecting cartridges. 🙂 The new Atari VCS is fantastic. I have two of them.