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I'll 3'rd A.R.T.I and raise you an E.X.O. 😉 Both games are by Muddyfunster. 

Alien Brigade Asteroids Food Fight Ms. Pac-Man Robotron (Twin-Stick goodness) *Note: My wife and I love to play Centipede Trak-Ball edition. You can play co-op or dual player competition, which allows you to shoot your opponent. That's nasty!
I won't list a top-five for homebrews, because its become impossible to do so. Our talented developers have made soo many good games, its hard to chose five and the five continue to change, year over year. I do feel that I have to mention Baby Pac-Man as this homebrew title is a home console exclusive. Maybe Atari can work something out with PacManPlus and get this cart re-issued for the 2600+ (which plays, via emulation 7800 games). This would make it available again to the masses. 

I'll 3'rd A.R.T.I and raise you an E.X.O. 😉 Both games are by Muddyfunster. 

I'll 3'rd A.R.T.I and raise you an E.X.O. 😉 Both games are by Muddyfunster. 

Alien Brigade Asteroids Food Fight Ms. Pac-Man Robotron (Twin-Stick goodness) *Note: My wife and I love to play Centipede Trak-Ball edition. You can play co-op or dual player competition, which allows you to shoot your opponent. That's nasty!
I won't list a top-five for homebrews, because its become impossible to do so. Our talented developers have made soo many good games, its hard to chose five and the five continue to change, year over year. I do feel that I have to mention Baby Pac-Man as this homebrew title is a home console exclusive. Maybe Atari can work something out with PacManPlus and get this cart re-issued for the 2600+ (which plays, via emulation 7800 games). This would make it available again to the masses. 

A very cool interview with Ben Jones of Plaion on the development of the 2600+. The interview starts at 43:08. Interesting insights here.
 

FWIW, I purchased my copy of Klax from Good Deal Games and it works on the 2600+.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

WOOOOO! 
Spent almost 9 hours on the website today! It doesn't look like it, but here's what I updated-
 
Dungeon Stalker Video Review!
Novawolf Video Review!
I rank the Video 61 laminated Comic Strip/ Instructions
The Save Mary Art Gallery Updated!
The Definitive Cart Collector Guide Updated
Changed the name of our Podcast to "The Atari Network Podcast" 
Cleaned up the Articles Page
Planet Smashers- God Mode Code
Dragon Cache- Play as the Dragon of Thorns/ Level Warp
Dragon's Havoc- Stage Select Code
Venture- Start with 11 lives
Joust Easter Egg
Ninja Golf- Hidden Joystick Test
Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest- 1-2 Warp Location
Adventures of Olli Troll- Level Select/ Ending Select Code
 
www.atari7800forever.com

My only issue with videos like this right now, is that it is all but assured that Atari will replace this process out with something more user friendly. So while I can appreciate someone creating a video like this for those of us wanting to test the latest BETA release, it isn't good to have this on YouTube because a year or so from now, this process being shown won't be relevant and you wouldn't want someone to come across it thinking this is how you update the console and then end up making a mess of their system using incompatible FW etc. 
So I do think stuff like this shouldn't be posted in this particular medium until the actual FW release and process has been made more public and finalized.
 

I believe it will but not everyone has a copy of the game to test since EXO just go released in the AA store and I guess no one that attended PRGE has been following this stuff or interested? Pretty sure John would have tried to test it as I'm sure he bought a copy of the game. The only downside with EXO is that the Savekey/AVOX doesn't work and from what I'm told those never will. The 2600+ only polls the ports in read only mode. It can't write back to them. So as a result... you can't save anything. EXO is a much more challenging game when you have to play it in one sitting LOL!
This also means that the Keypad controller apparently can never be made to work either. So no Star Raiders with this current hardware they have released. I was able to get Petscii Robots to start up, but I wouldn't exactly call it playable. No music only TIA audio worked, and all of the graphics were messed up. But the actual game was able to be played provided you knew exactly what the garbage on the screen was representing LOL. As I've played Petscii Robots quite a bit I was just about able to get through the first map even with it all screwed up looking. But the fact that EXO is working means that large size games can be made to work and the improvements made to the pro system emulator in these new builds is crazy impressive!
 

I won’t be able to apply/test until Tuesday. @CrossBow nice to hear that EXO is working with your beta. Hopefully it works with the community build too.

Well, all I can say right now from what I'm seeing first hand, is that at this rate... Atari is going to put me outta business on console upgrade services LOL!!!
Oh well, it couldn't last forever right?
 

Great to hear and see the boys along with CrossBow. I can say enough about his work concerning consoles. He has serviced and/or modded several of my consoles (e.g., Atari Heavy, Sears Heavy, Atari 7800, both of my Lynx II’s and my ColecoVision).

Created a temporary spot in my Atari Room for the 2600+. I’m going to really start playing it tomorrow and Monday with both of my sons. I’m expecting to permanently swap places with my S-Video modded 2600 Jr, once the “update(s) have been provided. The Jr. is currently connected to our living room TV.

I can confirm that the Edladdin Super Twin joystick works with the 2600+.

Created a temporary spot in my Atari Room for the 2600+. I’m going to really start playing it tomorrow and Monday with both of my sons. I’m expecting to permanently swap places with my S-Video modded 2600 Jr, once the “update(s) have been provided. The Jr. is currently connected to our living room TV.

I can confirm that the Edladdin Super Twin joystick works with the 2600+.

Here's my update.
I don't have lots of time to test today, however I have tested 2600 Asteroids and it works as expected with the CX40+ and with the Starplex controller. I tested 7800 Asteroids and it works with my OG CX-24 and OG CX-78, however it does not work correctly with the Starplex controller.☹️ The Fire button on the Starplex triggers warp/hyperspace and the hyperspace button does nothing when pressed. As I stated, 2600 Asteroids works as expected with the Starplex, so I'm guessing that the 7800 Asteroids/Starplex controller behavior issue, may have to due with the 7800 emulation. Can anyone else test 7800 Asteroids with a Starplex, just to re-confirm my finding?
I also tested the folling:
- 10 in 1 Cart. Played Missile Command, Video Pinball and Yars'
- 4 in 1 Paddle games. Played Breakout. I like the paddles. I'm looking forward to testing them on one of my 2600s or 7800's.
- Berzerk Enhanced.
    Pro - Robots ability to shoot diagnally.
    Con - Speech. I know, it pains me to call the Speech a con, but the volume is pretty low and hard to make out. The rest of the SFX are fine and quite audible.
- Space Invaders with CX-40+ and Starplex and the game plays as expected.
By the way, each of these carts worked on the first try, each time I loaded them. So far I'm treating the 2600+ like a 2600 (e.g., turning off the unit, and replacing carts). I probably won't hot swap, unless I use my 7800 Dragon Fly multicart. 
That all for now. So far I'm liking the unit and looking forward to the firmware update.🙂

Great to hear and see the boys along with CrossBow. I can say enough about his work concerning consoles. He has serviced and/or modded several of my consoles (e.g., Atari Heavy, Sears Heavy, Atari 7800, both of my Lynx II’s and my ColecoVision).

My console and extras just arrived. I won’t have time to open/test it until next week. 

I won’t be able to attend the live event, but look forward to listening over the weekend.

I won’t be able to attend the live event, but look forward to listening over the weekend.

Funkmaster V and Silverback bring in the new year with a huge ass food fight- culinary cookout Christmas edition podcast o funk. What did we get? What did YOU get? Was it the clap? Jon knows how to get rid of that. And allegedly, Crossbow from Ivory Tower will join us to class up the joint a bit. CHAT WITH US! It's fun!!! #atari #atarivcs #foodfight