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  1. Atari actually owns this game now, so I imagine it will get a release at some point in the near future... With regards to power ups, off the top of my head: - 'N' Gives the player a net which saves the player from one miss. - 'P' Awards the player with an additional life. The other power ups (I don't remember the initials I used at the moment), are ones that clear either the top, middle, or bottom row of balloons... ones that either speed up or slow down the balloons... one that is equivalent to Breakout's 'Breakthrough' option, and possibly one or two others... Hope this helps!
  2. Thank you @Giles N... I kind of did something like that for Super Circus AtariAge with the power-ups, and even a 'Boss Balloon' with the right settings.
  3. I can attest to this - it was a PAIN getting mine running again. Aside from the pinball section which was a LOT of web searching and buying parts, one of the things was the monitor; I ended up committing blasphemy and replacing the 13" CRT with a 17" LCD panel as I couldn't get a working CRT at the time. I probably could now, but I actually like how the LCD looks... Edit - just saw the compliment in the post above - thank you
  4. I'm calling dibs on Sinistar if Atari ever gets the license for it.
  5. Hey! Sort of... I turned off HOLEY DMA and used the ROM areas above and below to get what I needed. Thanks Bob
  6. That is correct; I've relaxed the collision detection somewhat.
  7. Ok - Thanks again guys; I'll figure out something else.
  8. Whoa... Thanks for the help guys! Actually what I wanted to do was make a menu option that launches the 7800 into a 2600 mode game (because if I recall correctly you can't 'come back' from 2600 mode once locked in). I'm going to try and keep as a 4K game, so I imagine it has to be in $F000-$FFFF (not sure if that's a requirement or not). I'd like to run it natively somehow if possible. Regarding KiloParsec, @ZackAttack I will PM you the bin for the BIOS.
  9. I can't think of any way, but someone here may know more. I know they did something like that with Save Mary, but if someone wanted to put a 2600 version and a 7800 version on the same cart via a menu option (i.e. the cart would switch to 2600 mode to run the 2600 game), how feasible is that? I'd like to try something. Thanks! Bob
  10. That's not possible. It is still an (emulated) 7800 that was made in 1984, and the system itself can only handle 4:3 ratios, as that's all that was available then.
  11. Frenzy for the 7800 is more like the arcade version, and less like the Colecovision version.
  12. Yep - the size of the game is 48K with Pokey at $450. So that's the reason. The one thing I didn't try is padding the game. If I have a second before I leave for Portland I'll give it a try. Also, we are actually under a Hurricane / Tornado Watch for Helene... So I might not be going anywhere ... although they haven't canceled the flight yet from Orlando airport (It's departing later on today), which I find surprising. UPDATE: All flights have been cancelled. Looks like we aren't going.
  13. Get Trebor - Thank you for the information. I've tried all different combinations of the header - Cart Type of "$00,$00", "$00,$40", and "$00,$01" - combined with both 'Expansion Module' settings of $00 and $01... and I either got no sound at all or it crashed the game. I also tried both firmware images Hopefully Pokey at $450 will be something supported in the future 🤞 Thanks again!
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