The FireCore Dev-Team has released a new version of their popular aTV Flash (black) tool for the Apple TV 2G. The last update was released last month and now there’s a new one with some new features and improvements. If you didn’t already know, aTV Flash (black) is a software package that offers a lot of extra features for your Apple TV!

The aTV Flash (black) 1.3 gets a whole new set of translations, bug-fixes, a new firmware backup option, improvements in playback among many others. With the new Backup Firmware feature, you can create a full backup of the current firmware of your Apple TV 2G automatically. Also, this feature is integrated with the new version of Seas0nPass, which means restoring from an older firmware will be super easy.

Below is the full changelog for aTV Flash (black) 1.3:

  • Added automated firmware signature backups
  • Added Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish translations
  • Added support for advanced (learned) remote commands
  • Added support for multiple external subtitles (movie.en.srt, movie.de.srt, etc…)
  • Added support for folder based organization/playback
  • Added support for embedded DVD chapters
  • Added chapters section heading to Playback Menu
  • Added global zoom setting
  • Improved playback performance for movies with invalid timestamps
  • Improved appearance of VobSub subtitles
  • Improved metadata fetching for localized file names
  • Improved audio track filtering
  • Improved playback bar to match native player
  • Improved metadata and bulk folder fetching stability
  • Improved Media > Settings menu layout
  • Resolved issues with folder name changing on metadata fetching
  • Resolved issues with buffering
  • Resolved rare DVD related crash
  • Resolved floating AFP issue that was causing connection issues
  • Resolved floating buffer overflow in software decoder
  • Minor changes to Grid View appearance
  • Minor UI improvements
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes

If you haven’t already installed aTV Flash (black) then you can try it over here, it’s only $29.95. Current users can update to the latest version by navigating to Maintenance –> Manage Extras menu. Enjoy!