Heroes 5 2020 in 1 game board

[Akira84]

Hi,
Has anyone tried the heroes of the storm 5 2020 in 1 arcade game board?
It has a h2+ processor and 512 mb ram. So it is a faster board than the pandora's box 4.
It has a 16 gb micro sd card, and on board nand storage.
The stock software is android based. It has a working favorites menu, and a scanline filter option.
The games do run better than pandora , such as NBA jam and mk1 .
I started trying to hack the board. It uses 3 different versions of mame and it uses final burn alpha.
The roms list and game names are stored in a database file. I have been able to successfully add some games however they encrypted the game names so I can not add names to the new games I added.
Some games are missing sound samples so I am trying to figure out where to add the samples folder.

I have also successfully booted retrorangepi on the board, but the joysticks and buttons do not work. But the usb ports work so it is playable with usb gamepads.
Been trying to figure out how to get the joystick and buttons working.

[zanac]

Very interesting... it's nice see someone that start hacking a new board! But it work on 15khz?
About joystick it sure use gpio, you must discover the addressed (this is the most difficult thing of course )

[Akira84]

Hi zanac,
Unfortunately I believe it's only vga/hdmi no cga/15hz.
In the stock software it uses suni-gpio.ko which I am guessing is to control gpio for the buttons and joysticks.
The board also has a built in usb encoder so you can plug it into a pc/ps3 to use as a usb controller.
So I tried using a male to male usb cord to plug that usb port into another on the board.
Retrorangepi recognized it as one game pad but not all the buttons would work. And up and left on the joysticks would not work.
The up/left and single controller issue is a common issue with xinmo type usb controllers.
So I recompiled the kernel with the xinmo patch with the proper Id numbers and it fixed the up/left issue and recognized it as 2 controllers but still would not recognize all the buttons.
I plugged the board into my windows pc and windows recognizes it as 2 controllers but still does not register all the buttons. So I think it's a hardware issue.
So I'm back to trying to figure out how to use the gpio to make the buttons and joysticks work.
I'm trying to figure out how to access the on board nand storage to see if there is a script.bin file that might tell me the pin names for the gpio pins.

[zanac]

Hint... There are good Assembly to C "decompiler" that try to translate the kernel module into the original code

[Akira84]

Great, thanks for the hint. I'll give it a try

[zanac]

Anyway i'm pretty sure that gpio is the same (40 pin?) of OrangePi that use h2, so if you use a small python script that write gpio state just try to print all pins with and without a Button of joystick pressed.. When you grab all pinout you can modify for example the driver gpio for pandora that i publish on github

[zanac]

Hi zanac,
Unfortunately I believe it's only vga/hdmi no cga/15hz.

For now the only solution with a new chipset and cga seems the 3a that i describe here:
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=31216

I really trust that someone will buy and start hacking!

[nasoftz]

Hi,
Has anyone tried the heroes of the storm 5 2020 in 1 arcade game board?
It has a h2+ processor and 512 mb ram. So it is a faster board than the pandora's box 4.
It has a 16 gb micro sd card, and on board nand storage.
The stock software is android based. It has a working favorites menu, and a scanline filter option.
The games do run better than pandora , such as NBA jam and mk1 .
I started trying to hack the board. It uses 3 different versions of mame and it uses final burn alpha.
The roms list and game names are stored in a database file. I have been able to successfully add some games however they encrypted the game names so I can not add names to the new games I added.
Some games are missing sound samples so I am trying to figure out where to add the samples folder.

I have also successfully booted retrorangepi on the board, but the joysticks and buttons do not work. But the usb ports work so it is playable with usb gamepads.
Been trying to figure out how to get the joystick and buttons working.

hi, mine it is labeled as “6s” , pcb “gb2000s” ,it has one unused sdcard slot ,all android emu and roms are stored into the 16gb nand, I was able to mount its emmc.
I have a question .....I already found the game.db sql file you are talking about, all dir & roms are under a media subdirectory called “moorechip” encrypted, where did you manage to upload the new roms? could you share with me where they must be placed? many thanks

[Akira84]

Hi,
This is all from memory as I have not messed with it in a couple months.
There are three different versions of mame and 1 version of fba. You need to add the appropriate version of roms to the appropriate folder. Example a mame .37 rom needs to go in the mame .37 folder.
Follow the folder and naming structure of the other games.
Then you need to edit the games.dB file.
One section of the dB file has a bunch of different columns with the headings in latin, I figured out what most of them meant.
First column? is the rom zip file name, there is one named aemulator or something like that which corresponds to which emulator/mame version to use for that zip file.
I'll have to check my notes to give you more details.
But make a new entry, fill out all the columns appropriately.
Then another section of the dB file has the display name, make a new entry here as well. On my board the display names are encrypted and just show random numbers and symbols. Let me know if yours is the same, as this is what's stopping me from adding more games.
I was able to add more roms, and movies, they were playable and the movies showed up , but the display name was blank.
Let me know if this helped at all. When I have time I'll check my notes and give you more specfic details and examples.
How did you mount the emmc? I want to mount mine to see if there is anything stored on it, as mine came with an sd card.

[nasoftz]

many thanks for sharing this info!
I have already managed to add roms to game.db like you did and I'm able to select them from heroes menu but due to the encryption applied under "moorechip" dir I can't read rom dir names/mame version where to fit movies and game, isn't in yours? if not ....... could you upload your sdcard dump for us? I will really appreciate this or anything other tips on how to add new roms to the respective dirs.
About emmc , I was able to mount it on armbian installing retrorangepi image for h2+/h3, for sure, integrated joystick controller doesn't work, usb ext joy needed.
PCB has not network interface.. however I was able to configure a wifi usb dongle for remote connection via ssh and sftp
the most important volume partition inside emmc is Volume14G
my rom dir :
/media/pi/57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b/media/0/moorechip (every dir/file showed like FWYduRomfDFSHFDHSFH._gfgeg etc..)
directory sql3 database
/media/pi/57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b/data/com.moorechip.gamemenu/databases (not encrypted dir/names here, only inside the db file and latin names row like in your)
changed chown for added roms : sudo chown 1023.1023 rom.zip
changed chown for modded game.db : sudo chown 10001.10001 game.db
I found android apk used for menu and other emu things.... I see a hidden "install game" fuction inside menu.apk, still trying to investigate more...
about your system ...Probably your emmc is empty?

[Akira84]

Hi,
I'll upload a copy of my sd card later today or tomorrow.
I think it the boot order is sd card first then emmc. So if you put my image on an sd card I think it will boot up.
None of the directories are encrypted on my sd card.
Only encryption I found is in the dB file for the display names of the games.
I think my emmc is empty, as it does not boot without the sd card.
But I will try your method to mount it to see if there is anything on there.

For getting buttons and joysticks to work in retrorangepi I assume the original software uses the gpio pins , if we could figure out the gpio pin names we might be able to modify the gpio drivers for retrorangepi and make the work.
For the built in usb encoder, if you use a male to male usb cable retrorangepi will read it as one joystick but not all buttons work, if you recompile the kernel you can get it to recognize it as 2 controllers but still does not register all the buttons. I think it's a hardware issue since if I plug the board into my computer it reads it as two controllers but still does not register all the buttons
.
When I have time I'll start playing with all of it again now I have have you working on it too. My knowledge of all of this is fairly limited but maybe together we can make some progress

[nasoftz]

happy to know there is a not encrypted version around... many thanks to upload it! It ll makes a lot of things much easier!
I agree about empty emmc, probably you got one of the early releases, the pcb show the “gb2000s” label like mine?

[nasoftz]

forgot to mension the easiest way is to boot retrorangepi pc plus from sdcard ,at Ropi menu press F4 to exit on command shell , than launch armbian gui with startx command than click on file manager to see your emmc content

[Akira84]

Great, thanks for the info on how to mount the emmc.
here is a link to my sd image
https://mega.nz/#!HVpUhC7b!7IcZnchpVZif ... bASQbYRigA
my pcb label: SG.GB2000.Rev2.22

[nasoftz]

many thanks, downloading..!
I ll try to find a way to add roms name into db, about Ropi ...maybe I found a proper way to find gpio use&pinout...
Merry Xmas to you and your family!
Auguri di Buon Natale a tutti gli utenti di questo forum !
Maurizio

[nasoftz]

ps. I see you asked around for 1388in1 dump,I suppose that 1760in1 image will be a good alternative,too.
They have both unlocked android menu apk for adding android app and emu and kodi!

[Akira84]

Hi nasoftz, were you able to download the image from my board? Did it work in your board? Did you make any progress with it?

[nasoftz]

I was able to boot your dump in my system, the main problem is that it does not recognize the two integrated joystick controller... just trying to find a way to get them work..if possible!
about game.db seems that the names are encoded (not encrypted) than decoded from the menu apk to allow multilanguage support (showing correct chinese or english chars), similar to base64 encoding, still trying to find the correct one...

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[Akira84]

Weird that your joysticks do not work. I shared the image dump with someone else who has the same board, there board is branded as a Pandora's box 6 with 2020 games , with no SD card, and he said my image dump worked for him and his controls worked.
Sorry I meant to say the game names were encoded not encrypted, if you enter a regular game name in the games database, it will even say decode failed, and no name will show up in the games list. But you can add roms, and movies and they will play properly.