Seizefun Data Frog SF2000 Handheld Game Console, 3-inch IPS HD Screen Portable Handheld Nostalgic Arcade Retro Game Machine, 1500mAh Battery, Built-in 6000Games, Support 7 Emulators

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If you're planning to customise your SF2000 in any way, then I strongly recommend the very first thing you do is fix an annoying bug in the device's bootloader - otherwise you're likely to end up with a non-booting device. Seriously - do this before you do anything else! The first official firmware update; fixed some button mappings for Genesis, added support for 15 new languages. Also partially broke SNES compatibility - many SNES games will run very slowly on first launch, but quitting and immediately re-launching the game will have it run at normal speed (normal for the SF2000, anyway) The next sequence of bytes is the name of a .zip file in the bin folder, without any path (SF2000's firmware automatically looks for the .zip in a bin subfolder relative to where the .zfb file is stored - thanks .ericgoldstein for the testing!), e.g. gamename.zip This results in most games being a bit soft looking, and you lose all of that pixel goodness of retro games.

Extract the zip file; inside is a folder called UpdateFirmware, containing a single file called Firmware.upk So is the "Data Frog" any good? Only you can answer that question for yourself. There are certainly more powerful devices out there, more fully featured devices, devices with better hardware, etc. - but almost all of those devices cost a lot more than the SF2000. At the end of the day, you have to look at the features offered at the given price-point, and only then can you decide if you're interested in the device or not. Is there any custom firmware? Added an FAQ. Added a section about the bootloader bug, along with steps for installing bnister's patch. Added a link to ignatzdraconis's Gitlab Repo. Some folks have updated their Discord handles to Discord's new naming convention, and those handles have been updated throughout. If you've done anything at all to the bios folder on the microSD card ( anything at all), then there's a good chance you've run into the bootloader bug - you can find the two fixes to it below. Alternatively (or if neither of the two fixes work for you), follow Data Frog's instructions to wipe your microSD card and flash a clean firmware image, or try using Tadpole's built-in fix feature. Lynx (.lnx); Game Gear (.gg); Turbo Graphx (.pce); Atari 2600 (.bin); Wonderswan (.wsc). Zipped and unzipped arcade files such as Lady Bug and Joust did not play.For a cheap device, it's actually fairly capable - most Game Boy, Game Boy Color, NES and Genesis/Mega Drive games play at full speed, and many arcade, Game Boy Advance and SNES titles do as well. The device has an IPS panel (not OCA laminated), and a user-replaceable 18650 battery, which can be charged via a USB-C port on the device. It also has analog A/V out (note: not HDMI), meaning it can be connected to a CRT TV - the type of display most arcade, Genesis/Mega Drive and SNES games were originally intended to be displayed on. It has a built-in 2.4GHz antenna, and can receive input from a compatible wireless controller (usually sold separately). Added my own version of bnister's button mapping tool at their request, and changed the link in the Key Mapping section accordingly. It's strongly recommended that you fix the bug on your SF2000, as failure to do so can cause some headaches for you down the road with a non-booting device. There's a couple of ways to go about fixing it: If Your SF2000 Is Currently Able To Boot Normally

The SNES first-launch speed bug was fixed, however there is a new critical bug in SNES save-states - they're not created correctly, and attempting to load one created with this firmware version hangs the device. DO NOT USE THIS FIRMWARE VERSION! Added more details about how the boot logo ends up scaled on the screen, as well as a link to a new tool I wrote for altering the logo. Corrected one small formatting error.

For previous updates, see this post. Some of the tools listed in this post have not been verified to work fully with the new updates, but on the other hand performance is improved according to reports. Titles for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color play well. Super Nintendo is hit or miss. And Game Boy Advance is only going to be okay (not great). Added a note to the Game Boy Advance section about the newly discovered gba_bios.bin loading bug, and how to work around it (thanks bnister!)

FF8000 ROMS: The first defined main menu section (the sections that are scrolled vertically on the main menu). Internally they are numbered from 0; so the ROMS section (user ROMs and settings) is 0, FC (NES) is 1, SFC (SNES) is 2, etc.. The FF8000 is the hexadecimal colour (RGB) to display the text of the currently selected/highlighted game in the list; the default colour is orange. Side note: after the ARCADE section, there's two additional ROMS sections; the firmware is hard-coded to have ten sections. The SF2000 appears to share its firmware with other similar devices, and some of those devices feature different menu sections (e.g., "CPS1", "Neo Geo", etc.). I suspect that the best of those systems has ten sections in its main menu, which doesn't match up with the eight sections on the SF2000 (seven supported systems + the user ROMs/settings section). As the firmware requires ten sections to be defined, they just repeated the ROMS section to fill in the remaining places. Like I say, that's just a guess! And that’s why a lot of emulation enthusiasts are excited about the Data Frog… this is something you can give as a pretty cool gift to somebody. You can swap out the buttons and d-pad (and their membranes) for ones from original SNES controllers (not SNES Classic), which gives a more retro "mushy" feel (if your replacement buttons have 3 "pins", you may need to file or clip one of the pins off) And also as we would expect, the SF2000 is made with the cheapest possible materials and components.

There’s been a bit of a buzz around a brand new budget device that has even seasoned emulation enthusiasts a bit excited. And that device is the Data Frog SF2000. You can change the default button mappings for each emulator (newer firmwares have this feature built-in, but the built-in implementation is buggy) These are files that I have not yet determined what they do; if anyone has any information on these, do post about it in the Data Frog channel in the Retro Handhelds Discord server please! Filename

Used to store the list of ROMs added to the Favorites list; only appears after the first game is favourited after installing the 05.15 or later firmware. User ROMs cannot be added to favourites, only built-in games This is a stripped-down, bare-bones version of the Datafrog SF2000 OS without any ROMS included. Changes: Dteyn has created a web-based tool which will patch your BIOS with a workaround to correct the issue - you can find their tool here. Designed with user convenience in mind, the SF2000 features an intuitive and user-friendly interface. Navigating through menus, adjusting settings, and launching games is a breeze, thanks to its responsive controls and intuitive layout.Emulator is PicoDrive 1.91 (Git commit cbc93b6). Works pretty well. This emulator is capable of loading Master System ROMs if placed in the user ROMs folder on the microSD card; Game Gear ROMs do not load. Some PAL-region games may run too fast; NTSC-region games seem to always run at the correct speed. On the original firmware, A was mapped to A, B was mapped to B, and RB was mapped to C for some reason. See " Button Mappings/Key Bindings" section below. Game Boy Disable music from menus, and other cool utilities (from proszty) : https://tzubertowski.github.io/sf2000-utilities/