Reviewing the ElCheapoSD Atari Lynx Flashcart from Benn Venn!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Join me as we review the new Atari Lynx Flashcart from BennVenn - the ElCheapoSD Lynx!
We'll set up the SD Card, copy across some rums* and see how compatible it is. There's also a stark warning concerning bricking the device!
Links:
Buy an ElCheapoSD - bennvenn.mysho...
See my video on fitting the Lynx II replacement screen - • Is the BennVenn Atari ...
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Just installed a solderless screen upgrade in my Lynx I've had since 91 when I got it new at 8 years old, using your video! Thank you! Now i think I'm going to get one of these carts
Thanks for this review. I just ordered one of these and snagged the ROM collection. It will be great to have just one card with everything and leave me single cards alone.
Yarrr! Rum!
Great review Mark, I reckon I'll be picking one of these up once the screen mods become available again. 👍
Put your name down for the next batch of screens.
@@MarkFixesStuff I did a while back...
Another superb video as always, rummy
Glad you enjoyed it Dev. It's good to be back!
I watched some Mark vids with my gf in the room and at one point she said "this is worse than Big Mouth". Keep up the great work.
That’s as good as an award for me.
I recently ordered one myself. I happen to have found a Lynx Model II at a local charity shop here in Australia. It came in a nifty carrying case, and contained two game cartridges. For $5AU it was a good find, and now I'll be able to play my games easily, saving wear and tear on the cartridge slot.
UPDATE: I got my ElCheapSD today. I ended up putting the Micro SD card and was able to play the games and homebrew I have. It's well worth it!
Always liked the lynx as a young boy!
Karl Reading it is a very capable system. The games are really playable.
RetroHQ have one with a black&white menu that’s readable on an original display, and the Lynx menu part is open source if it wasn’t readable. The BennVenn one doesn’t look like this anymore, and you can’t get the old black & white menu shown here.
Nice piece of kit. Just what you need for itchy piles. :)
Franko Walker don’t let your piles hang around untended !
And I was going to mention the ac adapter lol 😅
Bit crap that for an advert.
Ben does great work. AtariGamer now has his new menu system for this I believe.
I’ll check that out for sure.
@@MarkFixesStuff AtariGamer is on Twitter. Tell him I sent you :)
Mr Lurch's Things will do! Although he might not thank you hahahah
Didn’t know about this, thanks Mark!
P5ychoFox go and get one! NOW!
getting one
thanks for the upload
Top stuff Mark 👍
Dean Swain cheers Deano. How are you keeping?
Mark Fixes Stuff Not bad thanks mate. You ok?
I really need to get my Atari lynx sorted with one of those screens
BennVenn have made a "drop in" version now with a pluggable cable. You only need to solder one wire IF you want the brightness setting.
@@MarkFixesStuff splendid, will take a look, thanks!
Is that Toby Spider-Man McGuire in the 90s advert at the start? 😮🤔
Will the boot menu support directories? I'd like to sort games into Commercial, Prototypes, and Tech Demos.
You’ll never hear me complaining about a big bulge in my slot.
Like clockwork Tom comes...
pmsl 😅
That can be taken in two ways...
@@winstonsmith478 That's what Tom said.
Mark Fixes Stuff if I didn’t you’d be disappointed.
So it won't work in the atrai one
Do you reckon it’s worth buying a game drive if I already own a cheapo for the Lynx?
Probably not!
@@MarkFixesStuff I think your right, just throwing money away. I do like to compete the set though!
Just bought one 👍
P5ychoFox Good!
Nice, I’ve got these
Mark, does the cart have a rounded end (the side that gets inserted into the slot itself)? Just trying to understand if it’s angular then if over time it’ll bend back the pins in the cart slot. Thanks!
Hiya. I’ve just checked and the edge with the contacts is bevelled the same as the original carts. It shouldn’t put any additional pressure on the pins.
@@MarkFixesStuff much appreciated Mark! Thank you
Itchy piles, stiff tool, bulge too big for the slot your on form again matey 😆
I still need to pick up a lynx, awesome bit of kit 👍
Thanks Dave mate 👍 Loads of good games on the Lynx!
So many innuendos hahaha 🤣
PMC Retro Gamer it’s all in your mind mate.
What can i say. My mind is filthy lol
Woow am so amezed that there’re already 3 competitors with their own version of the lynx sd card
Including 2 versions of retrohq and 1 version from bennveen ,i am sooo amezed about that because the lynx was supposedly never be able to run an sd card adaptor, that’s because it simply lacks a hard reset, HOWEVER by isolating the ram of the lynx, a hard reset can be simulated, this allowing multiple roms to be put on 1 sd card , not only that but the 512k limit can be overcome by making new games for it wich swaps 512K of data overtimes when needed, so the once impossible has become possible.
Innovation these days is incredible!
rums or roms.
Arrrrrrrrrrrr
Another excellent product for the Lynx from Ben but shame he’s in the US. $22 for postage. Ouch.
except Benn Venn is located in Australia - which is good for us Aussies who want his products
Yes, BennVenn is in Oz.
1. Is the microSD card included?
2. What sizes does it support?
3. What's a good microSD card formatter utility for Windows?
I just ordered one. I hope it has better card edge contactment than Lynx game cards. I don't want a session of Xenophobe to end with another sudden shut off. Grrrr...
My Mom and I bought 14 games when it was hot to do so. She played her Lynx a lot!! She passed in 2009 and still played all her games and I still have her Lynx. Mine got stolen and thrown out by an evil entitled selfish ignorant family member.
Hi Mr Floyd!
I don't think there will be a problem with contacts. BennVenn has since updated the thickness of the pads to account for "worn Lynx" sockets.
1. Don't think the SD is included.
2. I think anything SD, but not SDHC. To be honest 2gb is massively overkill. All the "rums" take up less than 30mb.
3. Just use the built in windows formatter and select FAT32. FAT16 and ExFAT don't work.
Sorry to hear about your mom. It's nice to have a gaming memory of her.
Thank you for watching the video :)
Ok, I just want it known and it may be a coincidence, but after placing the BenVenn purchase via PayPal, my credit card number was compromised the next day. Thankfully my issuer caught the fraud, so hopefully the BenVenn website isn't harboring hackers or malicious scripts who capture credit card numbers. Just be aware.
@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 BennVenns shop is all done on Shopify, so should be good. I’ve never had a problem or heard of one with them. Glad you got it sorted.
Itchy piles 😅
Daniel Son see a doctor