Flashback Pro 5 Player

[Quincey Homer]

Ibought the Atari Flashback X. When I try to play games like "Pong" oder "Steet Racer" with 2 players against each other, the second controller doesnt work. When I choose 2 Players in a team against the CGI, it works. This cant be normal, is my Atari Flashback X defective?

The first two games in Video Olympics/Pong Sport are single player games, so you need to move to at least game 3 if you want to get some reaction out of the second paddle controller. And if you have two pairs of paddle controllers plugged in for a 3 or 4 person game, you need to move to a 3 or 4 person game mode in order to get a reaction from the second set of paddles in controller port 2 (Game 5 is one such mode that offers 4 person multiplayer).

And while Street Racer has no AI, game 1 is actually a single player mode with you racing the clock. Move to game 2 for a 2 player mode where the set of paddles you've plugged into the left controller port will both be active. It also has 3 and 4 person game modes if you have two pairs of controllers, with Game 4 the first one that offers full 4 person multiplayer.

Check the AtariAge rarity database for scanned manuals if you'd like further details on the game modes, what the difficulty switches do, etc. The various game options in many 2600 games are frequently not obvious when going in blind or if you've been away for a few years, so looking up the manual is often a helpful thing to do.

And even when you're familiar with a game, the options chart in many of Atari's manuals is helpful to pinpoint the mode you want in some of the earlier releases that can have dozens of game variations like Asteroids and Missile Command.

When I choose "Pong", I wanna play 1-On-1 with 2 Players, so I choose Game 3. But only the left controller works, the right doesnt. I cant believe that theres a paddle absolutely necessary, or is it??? By the way, I send the Atari Flashback X back and bought the Flashback 9 Gold - but its the same bug on the gold! I wonder, if nobody noticed that? Doesnt two people tried to blay pong or street racer against each other with two controller?

The Flashback 9 doesn't work with Atari 2600 paddle controllers without modifying the controllers. Have you confirmed that your set of 2600 paddle controllers works with original hardware? Sounds like there may be a short in the cable that splits off to to the right paddle.

I ask since as I recall on my Flashback 9, AtGames allows the standard joystick to control the built-in paddle games. But I suspect it's a workaround that may only work for single player paddle games. My system isn't connected at the moment since the Retron '77 has taken its place, but I'm thinking that perhaps joystick #2 can't be used by a 2nd player in paddle games since the right controller port where the joystick is plugged into is supposed to be where the 2nd pair of paddles are inserted for a 3rd and 4th player.

What needs modified on the 2600 paddles to work on flashback? I played a paddle game just fine and both players worked for me. And the flashback 9, 9 gold and x use stella 3.xx which allows use of both paddles and joysticks.

It has nothing to do with Stella. Paddle compatibility has been widely discussed here with the HD iterations of the Atari Flashback 9. AtGames changed something with their internal hardware with the plan to produce higher resolution paddle controllers (Breaking compatibility with original Atari 2600 paddle accessories in the process), but never came through with the actual controller that was promised.

If paddles work for you on the Atari Flashback 9/9 Gold and haven't been modified to do so, you're either mistaken on the particular version of the system you own, or you actually own the composite video iteration of the Flashback 9.

Also Adobe informed that FlashPlayer is unsupported, also Adobe has inserted an "autokill" in Flash Player packages to auto disable; all distributed updated most common browsers are currently not supporting FlashPlayer anymore.

- use flash player old version that does not have "autokill", so flashplayer_32.0.0.371 is fine but if your PC already has flashplayer you can wipe it using deinstall software and then find on the web the "flashplayer_32.0.0.371" version and install it.

I am really sad of what happened to Stora, it is a nice and little product that can suit the needs of whom needs something better than an external disk but does not need a complete NAS yet. Follow the advices (which are rather simple) and you can go back using stora with Flash but mind web security please and do it outside of internet.

It's possible that the player is generic, and the file/stream it is playing is being passed in as a param. Grep the webpage source code for "embed"/"swf" or text that's near the flash object on the page. Then look at the contents of "param name"/"param value"

Firebug for Firefox, and the Google Chrome Developer Tools (built-in to Chrome) can show every HTTP request performed by the browser. They sometimes reveal URLs such as these.

In Firefox, install Firebug (no restart), start the addon by clicking the bug icon (use customize to make it visible - but it should be by default), start the stream, and in the Firebug window click Net tab and then All, maybe refresh the video page. The url should appear when putting the mouse over the line that says something like "GET video", right click on the URL and Copy location.

Fiddler2 is a great tool for this. Think of it like Wireshark but for HTTP specifically. It will reveal exactly what your browser is doing. It works by setting itself up as a local HTTP proxy. Point your browser to it and it will reveal all of the connections that are made and what data is transmitted.

As seen from the many answers there must be many ways to do this, but maybe one of the easiest way to go is to take advantage of a Firefox addon like DownloadHelper addon, which has also the advantage of being available on all OSes.

I discovered this when using the other solution, presented below, Internet Download Manager, in order to capture a such video stream: it displays the link but when trying to select it by clicking on it, IDM selects the URL without the last part start=0 (as seen in the image below). But many URLs can be opened in VLC with that last part too.

In Windows, Internet Download Manager is able to sniff such streams and capture them. Again, I find it easier to use in combination with a Firefox addon, FlashGot, but IDM can also be used alone with any browser. When ready to get the video, IDM displays the URL:

If you 're not necessarily needing it as a stream in real time, you can use DonwloadHelper for Firefox. It lets you store the file behind the stream of offline viewing or viewing with any program you like.

Microsoft removed flash with a service pack/update. Therefore, if you have installed any Windows service packs since mid 2021, it will not let you run or install Flash. I don't think you can install Portable Firefox and install Flash either. Maybe you could get something to work with an old unpatched Windows system assuming you also have a copy of Flash. I have no idea about Mac or Linux.

These were the important dates:

I don't think there are many options. The company HARMAN did start being the official distributor for enterprise customers for Flash. There are also some "open source flash players". I have no idea if they are going to work and this is not a recommendation.

OBM 2020.10 removed much dependency on Flash, which was finalised with 2020.10 IP1. Current OBM versions don't need Flash anymore. Upgrading OBM would be the next step.

Some apps and IDEs recommend installing the debug version of the Adobe Flash player. I know this allows seeing trace statements even when not running Flash via Test Movie, but what else is different? Anything?

That's just off the top of my head, it's not an exhaustive list. Basically the debug player has a sprinkling of features to make it more suited for development, and anyone developing their own content should probably be using it.

I'm not sure the debug player is slower. It allows you of course, as you mentioned to see trace statements in flashlog.txt, it also allows you to see redraw regions by right clicking and selecting 'show redraw regions'. There are some apps like the De Monster Debugger ( ) and flash tracer ( -US/firefox/addon/3469) that allow you inspect variables a bit more easily with the debug player.

Analyzer works in conjunction with flash player and unfortunately, there is no possible way out here. We have analyzer similar reporting and managing tool called GMS which also uses flash till version GMS 9.2 and this is fixed from version 9.3. With analyzer the latest version is 8.5 and it doesn't work without flash.

The replacement for Analyzer is Analytics 2.5 on prem with Syslog, soon to be updated to 3.1 I believe, not sure why SonicWall have not told you this, N.B. afaik this is only for Virtual appliances ( Hyperv & ESXi ) not Windows.

Even though I have the latest Adobe Flash player 11.2 for Linux in Firefox - ref: Flash player security doubts - a particular online flash game still requests that I update to the latest flash player.

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