Jakks Pacific Atari Hack

Jakks Pacific, Inc. Is an American company that designs and markets toys and consumer products, with a range of products that feature numerous children's toy licenses. The company is named after its founder, Jack Friedman, who had previously founded LJN and THQ and presided over the company until his death in May 2010.

Archived from groups: rec.games.video.classic () >From what I read, these units don't exactly reproduce the arcade versions, and the controllers aren't all that great. Fixing the controllers shouldn't be that hard.

I would just get out the Dremel & soldering iron and get me a DB9 jack @ Radio Shack, and put in an Atari joystick port (for this, the new Atari Flashback 2 joysticks are fab!) However, regarding the actual games - is it possible to hack these units, maybe with a flash memory upgrade using the original arcade ROM images (that MAME uses), so they play the original arcade games, and maybe even some new ones? (Mr Do anyone? Berzerk?) Namco TV Games Namco II: Ms Pac-Man with 5 TV Games. Archived from groups: rec.games.video.classic () I don't know, I think they are faithful reproductions of the arcade games (except with high scores moved to the side and all.) I was able to make the infamous Galaga no-shooting trick work on the Namco II joystick game. I couldn't believe it when it actually worked! I wouldn't have thought they would have deliberately coded that bug into the game, so it has to be emulating ROMs.

Any Pac/MsPac experts out with these? Do the patterns used for the arcade games work with the Namco joysticks? All the hidden stuff for Xevious is there as well (Flags, citadels, etc), and the ships come out exactly like the arcade game. Anyone hacking the Namco Battle Museum on the PSP? I've managed to isolate the ROMs in the game code. All the graphics ROMs are identical, but the code ROMs seem to be slightly encrypted (something like every 3rd byte matches the MAME ROM perfectly, but all the remaining ones are different. Replacing them causes the game to crash, not sure about that one.) Rik On 18 Sep 2005 13:36:02 -0700, 'Mad Scientist Jr' wrote: >>From what I read, these units don't exactly reproduce the arcade >versions, and the controllers aren't all that great.

> >Fixing the controllers shouldn't be that hard. I would just get out the >Dremel & soldering iron and get me a DB9 jack @ Radio Shack, and put in >an Atari joystick port (for this, the new Atari Flashback 2 joysticks >are fab!) > >However, regarding the actual games - is it possible to hack these >units, maybe with a flash memory upgrade using the original arcade ROM >images (that MAME uses), so they play the original arcade games, and >maybe even some new ones? Download gratis desain undangan pernikahan tahun. (Mr Do anyone? Berzerk?) > >Namco TV Games >http /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001GBROQ/ref=pd_sim_vg_1/0-8004835?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846 >Namco II: Ms Pac-Man with 5 TV Games >http /www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009VDXX/ref=pd_sim_vg_1/0-8004835?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846.

For years innumerable, my favorite hobby has been trolling Craigslist in search of awesome retrogaming gear on the cheap! After weeks of searching with nothing impressing me much, I found an ad for an Atari Flashback 2 at a mere $20, complete in box! (If meeting potentially dangerous strangers in dark, unfamiliar places is not your bag, you can!) What makes this little plug-and-play Atari console so slick is that it retains the same woodgrain styling as the original Atari 2600, as well as the joysticks retaining their original design. However, certain elements were improved upon to be more friendly with modern displays. The original system’s power adapter had an input jack that resembled a pair of old headphones Whereas the Atari Flashback 2 uses an AC Power adapter with a more modern (not to mention, safer) input. ( if you need one.) Another improvement on the hardware side of things was the use of composite video and audio cables, opposed to the super old school phono cable. Video is outputted through the yellow cable, and monaural audio through the single white cable. The reason Atari originally elected to use the old RCA phono output was that television sets at the time utilized that had the correct input jack on it. As technology advanced, this peripheral became obsolete as TVs transitioned away from RF to composite RCA inputs.