Congrats on making HAD @rv6502!
Hey @rv6502 your on hackaday again this time for your bad apple demo! https://hackaday.com/2019/01/08/bad-apple-via-the-arduino-mega/
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How do you flash a new game? I canāt seem to get into flashlight mode with this installed and it doesnāt have the usb library.
Stephane, youāre amazingā¦ after starfox, the bad apple video coded in the MEGAā¦ Impressionnant 
Bien jouƩ. Well done. I hope youll continue to works on these consoles and Arduino, i like tht you do (as many think too).
Hum, i wish you do same on the META as i would see this Star Fox on a color Aduino Console tooā¦ With that you done with 2 colors, its could be amazing if you could do same with the colors and the hardwareā¦
You have to push the reset button just before flashing.
Itās not bricked but itās the same trick to reflash.
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Like this:
You can use the arduino IDE or avrdude (bundled with flashing apps) or another tool by pressing reset just before flashing
For avrdude:
avrdude -F -v -patmega32u4 -cavr109 -P/dev/ttyACM0 -b57600 -D -Uflash:w:/tmp/Puzzle_Minesweeper_Minesweeper.EN-GB.hex:i
the parameter -P will change according to where your Arduboy shows up (a COMx port on windows, /dev/cu.usbmodemXXXXX on OSX)
Replace /tmp/Puzzle_Minesweeper_Minesweeper.EN-GB.hex with whatever .hex file (donāt forget to keep the :i at the end
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There is a video guide here as well, be careful of the reset button it is delicate!
I was pretty close to not even having the reset button at all! Wow!
Interesting. The META doesnāt offer schematics and threaten people with patent lawsuits ā¦ ( https://gamebuino.com/community/topic/schematics-layout )
I get the not releasing schematics part (fair enough) but the threats are too much to my taste. At first I thought āFine, Iāll just figure it outā but reading further into the thread: naaaah.
Not sure I want to put that much effort and the net result would be them getting more hardware sales and not much for me, really.
Compare to the Arduboy where even if I could build my own clone since @bateske gave the schematics (and I literally have all the hardware already at home as my bills-paying job is to build & program custom devices & robots) I still bought an actual Arduboy for the nifty sturdy casing.
Itās a niche market and people in it are willing to pay for the quality. (next time please get a display with video-sync signal tho )
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Ouch, that has honestly put me off the gameduino. I was considering purchasing one but that attitudeā¦ nah pass
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I know, right? And you canāt patent-lawsuit over reverse-engineering schematics anyway.
They can patent the physical form-and-function (as one) of the casing as it may be an novel idea, trademark the brand, copyright the bootloader & OS/menu. All of these can protect against exact clones/copies.
But they canāt use patent law against someone who just releases schematics.
And they canāt sue over a compatible device unless the firmware is pirated (At least in the US/Canada as far as I know. Plenty of legal precedents.) Their device is just a bunch of off-the-shelf parts put together (in a nice case), too simple for patent law to be used over this.
Iād still be open to paid work if they want a ākiller appā to push sales. Business is business. But they set the tone to business so thatās what itās gonna be. The device looks fun tho.
Iām getting completely Off-Topic but it was too preposterous to not comment on it 
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Thanks for your answer, i understand and itās true that the spirit of the Arduboy and of this forum is amazing. Iāll not launch a debat on the META as itās totally out of the subject and it was not the spirit i was asking. I had just imagine how fine Starduino could be with colors and i would say that the both things i have seen from your works was amazing video of bad Apple and Starduino and i hope youāll continue works like these creations
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Iāll keep doing stuff for sure 
I try to do some random experiment release once a year or so.
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An amazing port of a great game!
I never thought that such a hit as Starfox could be made on Arduboy - and especially that I will see full 3D graphics on it. Currently my favorite game! At the moment, my score is 116339!
Thank you again and I am impatiently waiting for what you will surprise us in the future 
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I canāt seem to load other games onto it, and I can not use up + on or down + on to fix it.
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When that doesnāt work thereās always the reset button method.
Next time, please try to look at the other post in the same thread. Most of the times someone had the same problem and people gave the solutions.
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Iāve trimmed out some unused code from the game, freeing some flash so Iāll be able to add the up/down trick on a new build soon-ish.
Okay, thank you! Sorry I didnāt see that post :/. It was pretty far down I must have missed it, thank you though!
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So this happened today:
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I didnāt know but after a few clicks I found out that is the lead programmer of the original Starfox! Thatās quite an accomplishment nice work!
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