Flatboy OS

Sit down. Play.

Turn it on and your games are there, ready, turned to whoever is sitting down. No accounts, no cables, no updates to wait for, and nothing anyone can do will break it.

The library

Find a game in seconds.

The game you played last is waiting up top. Everything you're in the middle of is one row down. Big covers, real names, a search that finds what you mean, and every screen faces whoever is playing.

The Flatboy library: a big banner for JATSI, then shelves of game covers

Your library

A game's page in the library: FLATCLASH with its cover, ratings, story and more like it

Read before you play

Turn the FLATBOY off? Everything made and got is kept

Off, nothing lost

One button

Never stuck in a game.

One button does the same thing in every game on the table, from the arcade classics to the pinball to the games your kids make. Press it and the game waits for you.

  • Pause anythingWhatever is on, from either end of the table.
  • Turn it downThe volume, right there, without leaving the game.
  • See how to playThe buttons for this game, shown on the buttons in front of you.
  • Go back to the libraryFrom any game, any time. Nobody gets stuck.
  • Switch offAnd everything is still there next time.
The Flatboy menu over a paused game: volume, continue, how to play, settings, to the lobby, turn off

Settings

Set it up once. Then forget it.

Every setting says what it does in plain words. Most people only ever need two of them.

Wi-Fi from your phone

The table shows a code, your phone does the typing. No keyboard, no fiddling with a stick to enter a password.

A volume nobody can beat

You choose the loudest it will ever be. Every game stays under it, late at night included.

Controls that fit

Test every button, set the stick the way you like it, add a Bluetooth pad or a phone for one more player.

A screen that sleeps

It dims when nobody is playing and wakes the moment someone touches a button.

Your language

English, Norsk, Deutsch, Français, Italiano or 日本語, for the whole table, games included.

Games from friends

Play what other Flatboy owners made, or take one and make it your own.

Flatboy settings: network, controllers, emulators, Flatlabs, services, market, display, sound, system

Settings

Controllers: sides, Bluetooth, test your controls, set up your buttons and stick

Controllers

Display: orientation, resolution, screen sleep, what it shows when it goes quiet

Display

System: language, the table's details, its health, power, updates and actions

System

Peace of mind

Kids, cats and power cuts welcome.

Pull the plug in the middle of a game, press every button at once, let the youngest loose on the settings. The table comes back the same.

It can't be broken

The heart of the table is locked away from everything that happens on it. A power cut, a crashed game or a curious child can't harm it.

Your saves are safe

Saves, high scores and everything you made are kept apart and backed up. One game can never touch another.

A way back, always

If it ever won't start the way it should, hold three buttons while it starts. You can step back to the last version that worked, or start fresh, keeping your games and saves.

Quick

Ready before you've sat down.

Switch it on and your library is up in seconds. Pick a game and you're playing. No loading bars, no sign-in, no "a new version is available".

Updates

It keeps itself up to date.

  • No waitingNew games and fixes arrive on their own, in the background.
  • Never mid-gameThey go in while the table rests, never while you play, never noisy at night.
  • Never a broken tableIf something goes wrong with an update, the table quietly goes back to the version that worked.

A table that just works.

The same system on every Flatboy and every Flatboy Slim, and it keeps getting better on its own.

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