The device has an USB interface near the power port which can be used with the Rockchip tools. It's possible to dump the firmware, format the NAND and update the device. There is another set of pins in the board, but everyone that tried to use it says it's not the UART port either, so no debugging interface.@rrifonas How did you get in to the firmware to change it..? or did you get into the .img file. you said you can't debug the emulator cause of no shh,you mean no Uart right no shh,Putty shell..??.If a Uart is on the board the traces of it will go to its CPU.
Do you have TheC64 Mini...I have 2 of them. One is the
Pre-order model I got on 29 march 2018 and the other one I have has a working uart and I have put all the American games on that are missing from the UK model.it comes with 64 games but you can put 150 games on it.
They must of used a developing board to make the firmware before making the hardware,the C64 Mini use the A20-OLinuXino-LIME2
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/open-source-hardware
They made the firmware first for theC64 Mini then made the hardware.
So dose the emulator have it own partition but it only 10 mb,one way of stopping hacking.. never heard of it before.TheC64 Mini has one partition and the games can be changed using its uart.
Unless they made a custom board for it first but you make the firmware first to see what works and what don't.
Whats the CPU,MMU and memory and that of the MD Console 2018...?
The Atgames Flashback 2018 uses a Rockchip RK3066 CPU (dual-core 1.5GHz), with 256MB RAM and a 256MB NAND. I've detailed the partitions in another post, but the OS partition has around 14MB and the emulator partition has 8MB in the Genesis Flashback and 10MB in the Legends Flashback so there is no room for improvements. The partitioning on these devices is very clever, allowing AtGames to only change the emulators and roms, keeping the OS partition intact. This is particularly good for updates, as it is almost impossible to brick the device - if the update fails, just run it again.
I don't that the C64 mini or any other mini 'home computer'. Only the mainstream devices (NES mini, SNES mini, PS Classic, Neo Geo Mini) and the Atgames devices as I'm a huge Sega fan.