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

[Hekel]

Here is a Dashboard comparsion:

US

DE

EU

 

[Ckunak]

So playing around with the Genesis-082917.apk ( the emulator program) i was able to access settings and play a game on my pc using bluestack.

Controls are Q Brings up the Menu
Z = A
X = B
C = C

the start button is on screen and in the top right.

to me it looks like a rewrite or copy of Gensoid.

Edit
also decompiling Genesis-082917.apk and com.atgames.menu.sega_usa i see strings and images for Atari

 

[Hekel]

So playing around with the Genesis-082917.apk ( the emulator program) i was able to access settings and play a game on my pc using bluestack.

Controls are Q Brings up the Menu
Z = A
X = B
C = C

the start button is on screen and in the top right.

to me it looks like a rewrite or copy of Gensoid.

Edit
also decompiling Genesis-082917.apk and com.atgames.menu.sega_usa i see strings and images for Atari

Thats pretty cool, but more interesting would be if we can change the emulator to md.emu or probably can replace the launch strings, so we would be able to use any emulator we want. This would open the possibility to add 32x, MEGA cd, SEGA cd.

 

[JackMonty]

That's very cool Hekel that you can flash multiple region dashboards! I wonder if the US one besides having more menu options has better emulation too? Have you had a chance to test how games run on different versions?

Will you also be releasing the tool or process you are using to swap dashboards?

Thanks!

 

[Ckunak]

That's very cool Hekel that you can flash multiple region dashboards! I wonder if the US one besides having more menu options has better emulation too? Have you had a chance to test how games run on different versions?

Will you also be releasing the tool or process you are using to swap dashboards?

Thanks!

the dashboard will most likely not change emulation. the Genesis-082917.apk is the emulator.

can anyone check to see what date is at the end of there Genesis-XXXXXX.apk mine is 082917

 

[Hekel]

That's very cool Hekel that you can flash multiple region dashboards! I wonder if the US one besides having more menu options has better emulation too? Have you had a chance to test how games run on different versions?

Will you also be releasing the tool or process you are using to swap dashboards?

Thanks!

Hey, i checked the emulation and it looks like its the same apk as on the other regions. But something that works better is definitly the menu navigation itself. I added the complete mega drive library to the Flashback MD, and the console tended to crash alot. It looks like it has the same problem as the Nintendo Classic Mini series.. there is a cache folder if its overloaded it crashes. But I found a workaround to add all games and it seems to be pretty stable now..

I can upload my tool thats not a problem just give me some time to optimize it.

 

[JackMonty]

Hey, i checked the emulation and it looks like its the same apk as on the other regions. But something that works better is definitly the menu navigation itself. I added the complete mega drive library to the Flashback MD, and the console tended to crash alot. It looks like it has the same problem as the Nintendo Classic Mini series.. there is a cache folder if its overloaded it crashes. But I found a workaround to add all games and it seems to be pretty stable now..

I can upload my tool thats not a problem just give me some time to optimize it.

That's great - I look forward to seeing it!

I could only ever increase the Sega Games folder by one extra page (so 17 additional titles, after that it would crash) - I have the EU dashboard - I ended up removing the bonus games, moving all the master system and game gears to the Bonus section and then adding another 21 mega drive games to replace the ones I moved - I take it you got all the mega drive library on using the US dashboard along with your fix?

 

[WD_Gaster]

actually if this was overcome, color me surprised. good work

 

[Hekel]

That's great - I look forward to seeing it!

I could only ever increase the Sega Games folder by one extra page (so 17 additional titles, after that it would crash) - I have the EU dashboard - I ended up removing the bonus games, moving all the master system and game gears to the Bonus section and then adding another 21 mega drive games to replace the ones I moved - I take it you got all the mega drive library on using the US dashboard along with your fix?

Hey, right now im using the europe dashboard that was given out by jasper. It worked with a limitation there.

What i did was using the favorite page as a folder for games. This was nice cause it was possible to have an extra section for games. And anyway when there is a fullset on the console it doesnt make sense to not use it in that way. The section Sega Games is used for all other PAL games. I keeped sonic games and mortal kombat games as it was and just putted the missing sonic and mk games in it. Bonus games is used for mega drive import games.. i personally killed all sms and gg games from the system for now.

But i have good news! I was able to decompile the whole us dashboard and found the specific file that contains the folder and logo data. Now i can edit and convert this one as i wish. Re-compiled worked aswell!! Soon gonna have great news.

 

[JackMonty]

Hey, right now im using the europe dashboard that was given out by jasper. It worked with a limitation there.

What i did was using the favorite page as a folder for games. This was nice cause it was possible to have an extra section for games. And anyway when there is a fullset on the console it doesnt make sense to not use it in that way. The section Sega Games is used for all other PAL games. I keeped sonic games and mortal kombat games as it was and just putted the missing sonic and mk games in it. Bonus games is used for mega drive import games.. i personally killed all sms and gg games from the system for now.

But i have good news! I was able to decompile the whole us dashboard and found the specific file that contains the folder and logo data. Now i can edit and convert this one as i wish. Re-compiled worked aswell!! Soon gonna have great news.

Good Work! I never even thought about using the favourite section! What genre do you use to move the games under favourites? Is it just as simple as entering "favourites" in the genre section in the games.ini file?

 

[Hekel]

Good Work! I never even thought about using the favourite section! What genre do you use to move the games under favourites? Is it just as simple as entering "favourites" in the genre section in the games.ini file?

No, sadly its more complicated.. the section favorites is not a typical command. Basicly i made a special ini file which lists only my favorites. First i launched them and marked as favorites. After that i dumped my favorite list from the md flashback. Once this is done i copied the ini entrees to my normal ini file and set the genre to: Fav (basicly theyre now gone in the wild). With this method theyre not gonna listed twice. And if i accidently unmark a game from the favorites i can simply reload the dumped file.

 

[JackMonty]

No, sadly its more complicated.. the section favorites is not a typical command. Basicly i made a special ini file which lists only my favorites. First i launched them and marked as favorites. After that i dumped my favorite list from the md flashback. Once this is done i copied the ini entrees to my normal ini file and set the genre to: Fav (basicly theyre now gone in the wild). With this method theyre not gonna listed twice. And if i accidently unmark a game from the favorites i can simply reload the dumped file.

Ahh I see - I'll start adding some games to my favourites and then connect the console up again and pull off the favourite list file to see how it looks! Such good work!

 

[fixingmytoys]

Here is a Dashboard comparsion:

US
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DE
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EU
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The DE is the same as the Austrian version which I have

Which I got for Christmas. Which might help with the time line

 

[Hekel]

Ahh I see - I'll start adding some games to my favourites and then connect the console up again and pull off the favourite list file to see how it looks! Such good work!

Step by Step :-) i launched a Little Project that i will release sooner or later. I Call it the Mega Drive / Genesis Flashback HD Workbench. It will include alot of selfrunning bat files which makes life for everyone easy. Specially as i am not a fan of the first symlink Version that was released.. this is too Buggy to work with.

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The DE is the same as the Austrian version which I have

Which I got for Christmas. Which might help with the time line

Thats Interessting.. As i sad soon i can tell more about the Dashboards. After the Compile ist just a matter of time till ist fully editable. Just Need time to went trough all command lines..

 

[JackMonty]

Step by Step :-) i launched a Little Project that i will release sooner or later. I Call it the Mega Drive / Genesis Flashback HD Workbench. It will include alot of selfrunning bat files which makes life for everyone easy. Specially as i am not a fan of the first symlink Version that was released.. this is too Buggy to work with.

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Thats Interessting.. As i sad soon i can tell more about the Dashboards. After the Compile ist just a matter of time till ist fully editable. Just Need time to went trough all command lines..

That sounds great - I'll make sure to check back regularly

 

[Hekel]

That sounds great - I'll make sure to check back regularly

Try my best!

 

[Ckunak]

Changing the menu choices

 

[JackMonty]

Changing the menu choices

Wow - how did you do that?

 

[Hekel]

Changing the menu choices

Hey Nice Work! Im Trying to do the same. Can you tell me how did you managed it? I Decompiled the classes.dex from the Dashboard apk. I Think the key is in there just found out how to Switch Banks for other Regions inside the MainActivity file.

 

[Ckunak]

Jack and Hekel

i am using the US Launcher
just edit the main_noalpha.xml

in \com.atgames.menu.sega_eu\res\layout