Atari Flashback (Mini 7800)
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia:
The Atari Flashback was released in 2004. The console resembled an Atari 7800 in appearance, and came with a pair of controllers which resembled those of the Atari 7800 but were slightly smaller.
The system had twenty games built-in, all originally developed by Warner Communication’s Atari Inc. and Atari Corp. for the 2600 and 7800 game systems. The games which originally required analog paddle controllers were made to work with the included joysticks. It was designed by Atari veteran Curt Vendel, whose company Legacy Engineering Group designs other home video game and video arcade products.
Atari Inc. gave Legacy Engineering ten weeks to design the product, produce its games, and ready it for the 2004 Winter holiday season. The Atari Flashback was based on “NES-on-a-chip” hardware, not resembling either of the Atari systems which the Flashback was supposed to represent. As a result, the games it contained were ports and differed in varying degrees from the original games, and therefore the Flashback was unpopular with some purists.
source: wikipedia
Hi – I’m after an electronic manual to the Atari Flashback (20 game version – not Flashback 2) and wondering if anyone has access to one. many thanks
There are at least 2 versions of the Atari Flashback 1 motherboard as the version that I have has no R7 pads as in the pictures above. Also some of the traces from the pic above are slightly changed. U5 the “rom” looking chip is silk screened with 090-09001091B
On my version D1 & D2 are not on the board and there is a jumper across the cathode (banded end) of D1 to the anode (un-banded end) of D2.
The top case is date stamped November 2004, whilst the bottom case is date stamped October 2004
Reading left to right, joystick ports facing you:
JP1 has 2.464VDC on each pad
JP2 has 0.007VDC on each pad
JP3 has 4.965VDC 0.007VDC and 0.007VDC
RS1 has 4.961VDC 4.967VDC
RS2 has 4.965VDC 4.963VDC
P has 0.000VDC but 60Hz
N has 0.009VDC