Hello everyone, not sure if this thread is alive, but just as I was going to post success with FB8660B (2022 Legends model) adding Atari support, I bricked my Flashback Legends 2022 with... AtGames own official firmware.
I kindly need your help, hope someone can revive my console, since a lot of you have probably flashed many times your console with test images...
So the console came with stock FB8660B firmware 1.0.2.
Sometime ago, I had managed to get a reply from AtGames who sent me a link to 2 files for the FB8660B as it did not feature in their "Firmware download" pages...
- FB8660B_20211026.img ± 180MB
- arcade_update_FB8660B_20210830.img ± 20MB ← slightly older
So after days of chatting with AI, as technical information was not gathered in one place, I had managed to open the update .img, add Stella core, repackage it and flashed it -- to success. I was able to play .a26 games that DID appear before in the menus but could not launch -- just missed the Stella emulator that AtGames (rather on purpose?) did not include.
So then I decided -idiot- to do things right:
I realised that FB8660B_20211026.img was newer, so I put it in a formatted SD, renamed it to arcade_update.img then booted my 2022 console, asked and confirmed to flash it and since then, I am caught in a boot loop...
The process keeps looping between a slowly-moving progress bar screen and a screen without a progress bar, always showing "Installing system update" with the animated rings and rebooting all the time after some minutes.
After hours, I unplugged the SD and when the console rebooted, it only showed an "Error!" message. Frustrated, I kept long-pressing the secondary button and entered an Android Recovery Screen!
So "Reboot system now" failed as it could not mount /system or /cache or /data so the OS was wiped.
"Apply update from SD card" does see the SD card mounted but not files, i.e. I see the couple of folders inside, but cannot choose the file to be used.
I placed in both SD card root the "arcade_update.img" and inside some folder (on purpose) but even there, it wasn't visible. I think the stupid browser hides all files except some extensions...
The image below is taken by photo, when no SD card was inserted and when "Error!" was shown on-screen and pressing the secondary button over 5-6 seconds.
Any kind soul to help me recover from this mess?
I have a nice IMG updater file ready with Stella to share and wanted to re-test it to be sure it works 100%...
Many thanks guys.
UPDATE: I realise this may not be a post directly related to the thread and I apologise... The idea is to create a workflow to keep up-to-date the FB8660B console, including my repackaged IMG file.
NEW UPDATE: For an unknown reason and despite the IMG file being sent by AtGames themselves, I am not convinced it was the right image to flash. I managed to luckily revive my FB8660B using the IMG file in PeterPavol's post here (that I thanked) which unbricked my "Legends Flashback 2022" console. At least for the partitioning that it uses, it worked.
After many evenings of research, testing and AI consulting, it seems that my NAND contents weren't totally screwed up, otherwise the Android Recovery (above) wouldn't even appear (despite this being a Linux box). I am not sure if the IMG firmware exceeded my NAND capacity when flashing, or had wrong partitions (i.e. beyond the NAND capacity) etc. but this firmware brought it back to normal.
If there is way -perhaps via some binary disguised as a game- to dum on-screen the characteristics of the hardware, please do let us know. Thanks again.
I kindly need your help, hope someone can revive my console, since a lot of you have probably flashed many times your console with test images...
So the console came with stock FB8660B firmware 1.0.2.
Sometime ago, I had managed to get a reply from AtGames who sent me a link to 2 files for the FB8660B as it did not feature in their "Firmware download" pages...
- FB8660B_20211026.img ± 180MB
- arcade_update_FB8660B_20210830.img ± 20MB ← slightly older
So after days of chatting with AI, as technical information was not gathered in one place, I had managed to open the update .img, add Stella core, repackage it and flashed it -- to success. I was able to play .a26 games that DID appear before in the menus but could not launch -- just missed the Stella emulator that AtGames (rather on purpose?) did not include.
So then I decided -idiot- to do things right:
I realised that FB8660B_20211026.img was newer, so I put it in a formatted SD, renamed it to arcade_update.img then booted my 2022 console, asked and confirmed to flash it and since then, I am caught in a boot loop...
The process keeps looping between a slowly-moving progress bar screen and a screen without a progress bar, always showing "Installing system update" with the animated rings and rebooting all the time after some minutes.
After hours, I unplugged the SD and when the console rebooted, it only showed an "Error!" message. Frustrated, I kept long-pressing the secondary button and entered an Android Recovery Screen!
So "Reboot system now" failed as it could not mount /system or /cache or /data so the OS was wiped.
"Apply update from SD card" does see the SD card mounted but not files, i.e. I see the couple of folders inside, but cannot choose the file to be used.
I placed in both SD card root the "arcade_update.img" and inside some folder (on purpose) but even there, it wasn't visible. I think the stupid browser hides all files except some extensions...
The image below is taken by photo, when no SD card was inserted and when "Error!" was shown on-screen and pressing the secondary button over 5-6 seconds.
Any kind soul to help me recover from this mess?
I have a nice IMG updater file ready with Stella to share and wanted to re-test it to be sure it works 100%...
Many thanks guys.
UPDATE: I realise this may not be a post directly related to the thread and I apologise... The idea is to create a workflow to keep up-to-date the FB8660B console, including my repackaged IMG file.
NEW UPDATE: For an unknown reason and despite the IMG file being sent by AtGames themselves, I am not convinced it was the right image to flash. I managed to luckily revive my FB8660B using the IMG file in PeterPavol's post here (that I thanked) which unbricked my "Legends Flashback 2022" console. At least for the partitioning that it uses, it worked.
After many evenings of research, testing and AI consulting, it seems that my NAND contents weren't totally screwed up, otherwise the Android Recovery (above) wouldn't even appear (despite this being a Linux box). I am not sure if the IMG firmware exceeded my NAND capacity when flashing, or had wrong partitions (i.e. beyond the NAND capacity) etc. but this firmware brought it back to normal.
If there is way -perhaps via some binary disguised as a game- to dum on-screen the characteristics of the hardware, please do let us know. Thanks again.
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