I had coincidentally taken up 3D printing as a hobby at this time and realized that I could make a much better mod by designing and 3D printing a cartridge guide and card edge slot. This modification was certainly a step in the right direction, it still didn’t look as good as I wanted it to. I was able to lowly notch a hole into the front large enough to fit a cartridge and I did manage to epoxy a left over Atari 2600 cartridge port and card edge connector.

I decided to do another mod and see if I could get the cartridge to slide in to the front, or maybe the side. The cartridge mount was kind of sloppy and blocked the view of the switch panel. While functional, my modification didn’t look that great. While I found this site to be great as a basic modification tutorial, I wasn’t really happy with the outcome. Curt Vendel offered this tutorial up to the community as a starting point. My first modification followed the tutorial I found online ( here). My first mod used a cartridge guide and slot connector from a broken light sixer that I had laying around, I’ve got a more than reasonable number of Atari 2600’s laying around my “lab”.

Eventually a friend asked me if I would be willing to modify their flashback, so I did, then another and another.

I didn’t really have any intention of doing much more related to the Flashback. I started out adding a cartridge port to an Atari Flashback 2 of my own.

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