. Videopac Instructions for Use Lots of.pdf files of Videopac manuals. Websites of other Videopac/Odyssey2 collectors. Classic Consoles Center. Bas en Ditta, Videopac pagina. Phosphor Dot Fossils Odyssey2 Archive. Videopac.com. Home of the Philips G7000. Press Any Button (Steph and Anke) - Videopac page. Videopac website of Lilian & Robbert.
Posted on Sunday, October 14 2018
- In Europe, the Odyssey² did very well on the market.In Europe, the console was most widely known as the Philips Videopac G7000, or just the Videopac, although branded variants were released in some areas of Europe under the names Philips Videopac C52, Radiola Jet 25, Schneider 7000, and Siera G7000.Philips, as Magnavox's Dutch parent company, used their own name rather than Magnavox's for.
- Philips C52; Philips C52. Consoles (Hardware) Publisher. General name of game / game collection. Videopac Consoles.
- Philips Videojeu C52: Philips Videopac G7000: Radiola Jet 25: Schneider 7000: Siera G7000: 7200 Series: Philips Videopac G7200: Radiola Jet 27: Schneider 7200: Philips N60. Philips Videopac G7400 Owners Manual (PDF) - 1.74 MB: OTHER MEDIA Peripherals, Promotions, Commercials, Brochures.
- The Videopac C52 is the french version of the Magnavox Odyssey². It was sold by Philips and was only available in France. It was sold by Philips and was only available in France. The same system was sold in the rest of Europe as the Videopac G7000, both systems being in fact identical apart from the frenchised keyboard.
The Philips G7000 Videopac game console from 1978, also know as the Magnavox Odyssey 2, was my first video game console. Let's see if we can bring some of the memories back to life..
My original G7000 console was sold when I was saving up money for buying my first home computer, but I bought another one back in 2008 on Ebay. It came with plenty of cartridges and is in working condition, however it's not yet fully restorated and so it spends most if its time in a box in the attic until I find time to do so.
In the meantime I am using the O2EM emulator to occasionally play some of the old Videopac games.
Please note: As always with emulation of old hardware the most difficult part is to find the appropriate binary images of cartridges and the BIOS. I can't provide them to you and you will need to utilize your favorite search engine to find them on the net. Please do not mail me and ask for them. That said, let's set up O2EM..
Compiling the O2EM emulator
First, install the Allegro library, which is a prerequisite for O2EM.
Get the source code for O2EM either from the project homepage or from the Lutris Github repository. I will use the Github repo here:
Compile it: Airplane games online poki. Call of duty ghosts offline multiplayer crack.
Setting up the emulator
Now let's set up a seperate directory for the emulation. Create a new folder in your home directory and copy the o2em executable that was just compiled to it and create some additonal folders.
The bios directory will hold the system BIOS, the binary images of the cartridges go to the roms directory.
BIOS
O2EM emulates the G7000/Odyssey2 system as well as the G7400/Videopac+ system so there are different BIOS images around. For the original G7000 system you will need a 1K BIOS image named o2rom.bin. Videopac games with a '+' in the name are most likely for use with the G7400 system and require an image named g7400. There are also French versions of both images around, which could make your search a little confusing. So here is an overview:
o2rom.bin(MD5: 562d5ebf9e030a40d6fabfc2f33139fd) - The G7000/Odyssey2 BIOSg7400.bin(MD5: c500ff71236068e0dc0d0603d265ae76) - The G7400/Videopac+ BIOSc52.bin(MD5: f1071cdb0b6b10dde94d3bc8a6146387) - French version of the G7000/Odysee2 BIOSjopac.bin(MD5: 279008e4a0db2dc5f1c048853b033828) - French version of the G7400/Videopac+ BIOS
Philips Videopac G7000
These files go to the bios directory.
ROMS
Of course you need binary images of the game cartridges as well. Once you have obtained them, just place the .bin file of each cartridge into the roms directory.
Starting the emulation
It's time to have fun. Start the emulation with:
where [ROMNAME.bin] is the name of binary image of your cartridge (in the roms directory).
You can exit the emulation by pressing ESC.
Now it is time to read the documentation that comes with O2EM as there are numerous command line options and keyboard functions.
I usually start the emulation with
Meaning, start in fullscreen mode, with european 50Hz timing, set the controller of player 1 (s1) to the cursor keys with the action button on the left control key.
That's it folks, now let's play..
Tags: ancientvideopac
The Magnavox Odyssey2 known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000 (and a bunch of other names a bunch of other places) is a home video game console released in 1978. One of the earliest gaming consoles, it is one of the least known today. Games are quite similar in detail to that of Atari 2600.
| Emulator | Rom Folder | Machine Type | Extension | BIOS | Controller Config |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac / Odyssey 2 G7000 model | .bin | o2rom.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (french) G7000 model | .bin | c52.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (european) G7400 model | .bin | g7400.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (french) G7400 model | .bin | jopac.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
Emulator: lr-o2em
ROMS:
Console Philips Videopac C52
O2EM emulates the G7000/Odyssey2 system as well as the G7400/Videopac+ system so there are different BIOS images around. For the original G7000 system you will need a 1K BIOS image named o2rom.bin. Videopac games with a '+' in the name are most likely for use with the G7400 system and require an image named g7400. There are also French versions of both images around, which could make your search a little confusing. So here is an overview:
o2rom.bin(MD5: 562d5ebf9e030a40d6fabfc2f33139fd) - The G7000/Odyssey2 BIOSg7400.bin(MD5: c500ff71236068e0dc0d0603d265ae76) - The G7400/Videopac+ BIOSc52.bin(MD5: f1071cdb0b6b10dde94d3bc8a6146387) - French version of the G7000/Odysee2 BIOSjopac.bin(MD5: 279008e4a0db2dc5f1c048853b033828) - French version of the G7400/Videopac+ BIOS
Philips Videopac G7000
These files go to the bios directory.
ROMS
Of course you need binary images of the game cartridges as well. Once you have obtained them, just place the .bin file of each cartridge into the roms directory.
Starting the emulation
It's time to have fun. Start the emulation with:
where [ROMNAME.bin] is the name of binary image of your cartridge (in the roms directory).
You can exit the emulation by pressing ESC.
Now it is time to read the documentation that comes with O2EM as there are numerous command line options and keyboard functions.
I usually start the emulation with
Meaning, start in fullscreen mode, with european 50Hz timing, set the controller of player 1 (s1) to the cursor keys with the action button on the left control key.
That's it folks, now let's play..
Tags: ancientvideopac
The Magnavox Odyssey2 known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000 (and a bunch of other names a bunch of other places) is a home video game console released in 1978. One of the earliest gaming consoles, it is one of the least known today. Games are quite similar in detail to that of Atari 2600.
| Emulator | Rom Folder | Machine Type | Extension | BIOS | Controller Config |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac / Odyssey 2 G7000 model | .bin | o2rom.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (french) G7000 model | .bin | c52.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (european) G7400 model | .bin | g7400.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
| lr-o2em | videopac | Videopac+ (french) G7400 model | .bin | jopac.bin | /opt/retropie/configs/videopac/retroarch.cfg |
Emulator: lr-o2em
ROMS:
Console Philips Videopac C52
Accepted File Extensions: .bin
Place your ROMs here:
BIOS
The BIOS file required is o2rom.bin
Philips Videopac+ G7400
Place your BIOS in
Controls
Really it says it uses Retroarch configurations and some gamepads work but for almost all of your games you will need a keyboard. Typically you will press 1 to start a game- for people who grew up in the 70's controls might be more intuitive, but they can be tricky to figure out as they change for each game..
lr-o2em utilises Retroarch configurations
Add custom retroarch controls to the retroarch.cfg file in
For more information on custom RetroArch controls see: RetroArch Configuration
Switching Emulation Station to the Odyssey² logo:
If you are from the United States it is likely that you had the Odyssey² rather than the Videopac. If you want EmulationStation to show the Odyssey² graphics instead of Videopac then you should create a file /opt/retropie/configs/all/platforms.cfg with the following contents (note this requires at least v4.1.6 of the RetroPie-Setup script).
Once this is done, please update the currently installed Videopac emulator from RetroPie-Setup and Emulation Station will now use the Odyssey² logo. Scraping from within Emulation Station should also return Odyssey² artwork.
