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Although I haven't posted I have been creating more levels. Follow me on Super Mario Maker to see my latest creations.

Hook a brother up?

How much? I am not going but a friend of mine is. I'm gonna ask him to try to grab one of those 30 for me.

Congrats! I too (as of today) have my very own and very first Atari 7800. It came with the 7800 versions of Donkey Kong, Pole Position II, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Xevious, and Robotron! I'm gonna hafta check out the homebrew!

FU Kung Fury! Now nothing can stop RVGS and its army of carts!

Thanks for the insights. Coming back could not have been easy. +100 balls of steel Giving an authentic and personal apology also not easy. +1,000,000 respect It's great that you stepped forward like this. Some would argue you didn't have to, but the fact that you did says a lot both about you and the project.

Made a love letter to Dr. Mario. Some might find this difficult. I promise there is an easy path. 50A1-0000-008E-3142

He could be Spocks Spokesperson!

Actually I was gonna say the rest of the forums are a lot like this thread. That said the absence of Shatner gifs is kinda of unusual and alarming...

Thanks for the update! Glad I got it working again. For a little while there I was a sad panda.

The second sd card didn't make a difference. For the hell of it I reflashed it once more and put hbios_106_NTSC_official_beta.bin on it and it works again. Except the file names appear to be truncated when they are displayed.

Made another "new Nintendo feeling" level Head in the Clouds 8A46-0000-008A-BA4B

Ouch.

Heya, Love my Harmony cart. Only used it a few times. I recently got back from a week long vacation fired up my 2600 and my harmony cart now only shows a black screen. Before I left for vacation I had played some games from it fine. Left it plugged in the entire time I was gone. Came back. Black screen. I tried a regular game in the same Atari. Pitfall II works just fine. I tried cleaning the harmony cart as described in the manual. It was a little dirty. But cleaning the contacts has not helped. I also tried reflashing it on my pc via the micro usb. (1.05) My pc detects it and connects to it just fine. reflashing however did not get me past the black screen. I verified the SD card I am using still seems good (my pc can read/write to it just fine.) I am trying another sd card right now. Anything else I can try?

I don't pay too much attention to clear rate. Without being able to see play through it's pretty useless. A lot of my levels have low completion rates but I know they are not hard by any means. My only level that has a clear rate over 90% is one where I put the flag pole right next to the start point.

http://youtu.be/eKgPY1adc0A

Ya know... If the auto tune the news guys got their hands on this... The RVGS folks could probably raise their 2 million with the resultant iTunes single. That said, I honestly feel bad now for John. Videos like the one above are an introverts worst nightmare.

I know doing that bit on the show was borderline trolling. (For folks that don't want to watch the whole thing it's at 12:50 in my video) But I thought they seriously needed to see how ridiculous their prototype demonstration video looks to those of us outside of their project. Anyone can stuff boards under a case and wave a window on a screen with a mouse. Took me all of 5 minutes to slap together pre-show. Show me a ColecoVision game or Gunlord running from a cart and maybe I'll say "shut up and take my money."

Really wasn't happy with how blah my Blaster Master level was. So I took a page from snakeboy's playbook and kept it faithful while making it my own. I'm much happier with the new version. 9381-0000-0083-20B8

I gotcha. It was more of a nit pick than a criticism. I thought you captured the Donkey Kong theme very well while making it your own at the same time.

For those coming in late and having trouble keeping up with this forum thread I have a second video summing up the latest developments and attempting to show the RVGS folks the communities point of view without coming off as trolling or beating a dead horse.

Something else I wondered about was whether or not their platform would support flash carts like the Harmony and Everdrives. As a developer it'd seem like a very desirable feature and feasible if you were reading the carts like the original systems and executing the code using specialized FPGA cores. But if they went the arm/emulation route it'd be more like the Retron 5 right? Dump contents and emulate. So no flash card support.

True leaders make public apologies when there was public defamation. You don't make right in private (exclusively) that which was a public wrong. At least that's the way I've always rolled. I know this is the age of "never apologize. Never show signs of weakness." But I think it's also what's making this the age of "Be bold and don't worry about the consequences. No one can hold you accountable." It's partly about respect and partly about being appropriately humble.

We all make mistakes. But not all of us own up to it. Don't beat yourself up too much. Just learn from it play some Atari and move forward.