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This. The item was likely in USA before ivory became illegal. Currently you can keep item with ivory that was collected before the law but you can't move it cross border anymore.

Found another rant on eBay forum. Seems a seller sold a vintage musical instrument for a large amount but it never got through GSP facility. Seems it was confiscated and destroyed because it contained possible ivory inserts. Real ivory has been banned for decades so anyone who doesn't know, their musical instrument can be confiscated if it's going to cross international border. Seller didn't lose any money, buyer got his refund. But to destroy something about 300 years rather than to refuse and return it to the seller and warn seller not to sell it outside USA. That's like melting Statue of Liberty on purpose.

Pay up. Then leave him a neutral or neg with low shipping rating so he really earns that aggravation pay.

Dang nice paint jobs!!! I may need to do something. How about purple Adventurevision? Or Tutorvision and its icky light blue cart to better match brown and black? I know the feeling. PSX/PSOne turns up very often at local Goodwill and Salvation Army for under $5 (I pay up to 10 with original AV cable and controller) and 9 out of 10 times it has bad laser. $5 on eBay and it's working but now I have around 30 working PSX and 6 PSOne. I'll probably sit on these for 20 years when PSX/PSOne becomes rare then maybe it'd be worthwhile to sell. Like how I used to find many Atari 2600 consoles everywhere cheap but now it's rare and eBay seems to go around $50.

There's a sticky you probably missed: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/211456-lynx-ii-disassembly-guide/ Nice detailed picture on removing all the screws.

Too bad the 128 is much smaller than 128D. USA got the metal case 128D and not the all plastic version with carry handle. I'd also like a clear shell but the keyboard would block the front portion of the motherboard (assuming you toss the rf shield away).

I have seen many 2600 games back in the old day and I have never seen Atari branded 2600 game with shrinkwrap. They were usually glued shut.

See if the OP can get someone's camera for better pictures. Maybe with a local major newspaper showing the date as proof the picture wasn't downloaded.

There's a number of threads on eBay community forum, nearly all of the negative. Buyer often get shafted harder on taxes and duties because it's always collected. When seller ships direct to buyer, there's a chance it can get through without any taxes tacked on. With GSP, it becomes 100% guarrantee it will be taxed. Packages are usually repacked to make it smaller and lighter to save on shipping. At the expense of protection. I've read some horror stories including: CIB virtualboy game getting repacked and buyer gets only the cart, GSP threw away valuable mint box and manual several mint 32X boxes arrived crushed like they drove a steamroller over the lot to shrink it. Sealed games arriving unsealed or even cart only, the idiot at GSP does need to be sure the main item is included. Set of very old porcelain dolls arrived in small box with no protection, you guessed it, now as 10,000 piece porcelain puzzle set. One item arrived in UK very wet and musty If there's one good thing, when buyer files complaint GSP eats the loss and seller is spared. So you are safe sending that extremely rare sealed 2600 Air Raid knowing well it will end up either crushed badly, soaking wet, or missing the box. The buyer usually gets to keep the good. From the seller's view it seems easy and quick, no custom form to fill out or anything. But seller can get negged for damaged or incomplete goods because of GSP. I try avoid them as much as I can, even though eBay keeps turning on allow GSP in my preference and in my listing. Clearly eBay doesn't understand any part of "NO" and going by other seller's complaint, I think eBay is just being idiot trying to shove GSP onto everyone in hope of making more money from higher FVF. In the end they are probably losing more to lost or damaged goods. So far this year I've had zero international sale. Since eBay keeps ignoring my preference and shoving GSP onto me, I've made my listing USA only instead just to spite them. The only benefit to seller who doesn't care that valuable and irreplaceable items are getting damaged is the seller won't lose a penny when buyer complains.

In keeping with tradition of consolized computer systems of the 80s and 90s, you should call it AmigaGS Just like C64GS and Atari XEGS, etc.

One of my relative got me hooked onto Intellivision way back in early 80's and he's nearing ripe retirement age so he might be interested in my Intellivision lot if I pass away before he does. My little brother may want my NES lot. If both do pass away before I go, there is no one else in my family that has any real interest in Intellivision or anything else that looks like they should be in Video Game Museum. Odds are the Intellivision and just about everything else will end up at estate auction and probably bought out by Sumguy who will flip it on eBay I should get the little label maker so I can mark the modded game consoles. 7800 with AV mod, Lynx with LCD mod, SNES mini with S-Video fix, TG-16 with S-Video mod, PSOne with mm3 mod, etc.

Space Tactic? A Space Invader clone by Sega, one of the early 3D-esque game. If it was made on 3DS with 3D support, it'd probably do well along Space Invader fans.

Because of odd design. For some reason the engineers at R&D choose to put the power switch *after* the transformer so the transformer is always running, always leeching power, and always warm. Putting the power switch on the main side would have helped some. That still leaves the chip creep. No matter how much glue they used, the chip will creep out of the sockets. And those chips do run warmer than the chips in 2600. Maybe because Intellivision runs on 56 different voltage as opposed to a single 5v that most game console uses.

Update: woke up feeling refreshed, decided I can spare a few hours before I go back to sleep for the morning sap run. The project took me about 1 hour from initial disassembly to removing unneeded parts to wiring to checking it twice to reassembly. It was a pain in the butt to reassemble it with 2 LCDs inside. The first time I turned it on, I got no picture. Sound worked as normal, and some glow from the seam around Lynx shell but no image on the front. Was I supposed to remove the old LCD first? The instruction made no mention of removing the old LCD first. Kidding aside, I did remove the old LCD first and set it aside. The Lynx worked on the first try. So one hour work time if one's fairly experienced with soldering and has decent solder iron and good desoldering tool. I could probably do it in 45 minutes if I turned off the TV and kept my cats out.

From a magazine review? Chances are it's a later prototype so maybe small variations like bug fixes? It should be dumped so someone can compare with good ROM to see if it's the same or not. old DOS command compare can do that quickly.

I got my first SMS, a 3D bundle with the light gun, 3D glasses, and Missile Defense 3D. The controllers had a cover hiding the screw hole but I never saw any screw in thumbstick. I didn't even know it was an option back then until I noticed much later on the internet that there were a few variations of SMS controllers, early one with plug cover, later one with fake bump, and much later that was all flat.

Just got mine today. It came at a bad time though. No my Lynx didn't catch on fire or something. It's the start of maple syrup season. So I would be quite busy in the woods most of the time for the week or 2 and I would be too tired by the time I get back in the house to do anything that requires concentration like soldering in new LCD.

Even with massive bankswitching to handle monster sized memory, is it even practical to have really huge game? How long would it take to flip one "page" via bankswitching to reach data that's about 2Mb away from the start? A few second of blank video? From what I understand of 2600 bankswitching, it advances only, doesn't go backward so if you needed some new data from 2 or 3 pages backward, you'd need to flip through almost entire 4MB to reach the desired page. Keeping track of which page while retaining game variable would quickly run through the tiny 128 byte RAM (yes, bytes, not Kb or anything) so added RAM would be required just to keep track of page #

I got an old universal AC adapter from 80's that has 4 tips and 9v plug. From when many of the early LED handhelds used 9v battery. That works for the meter I have, never have a run down battery. It's dang near impossible to find an universal AC adapter today with 9v plug.

Populous is the only Hucard with built in save battery. But some Hucard can use save feature of Turbobooster Plus or Turbo CD system. I can't find the list at all and Google-fu is failing for me. Is there a list somewhere at all? Just the Hucard list that supports save banks.

500k is .5 M. K for kilo, M for mega. Mega = 1000 kilo.

Sill got the pinout? I got quite a lot of spare NES controllers, assuming they have same data protocol as Famiclones

The mini 7800 model is not 2600/7800 compatible, it is a bit different due to extra buttons on the controller. Is there a pinout info?

So the 2600 cart Ram It will fit and work for sure?

I got something similar, very similar to this one: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 151608720074 and works good for me. Stick an object in 2 or 3 of the holes and push button. It tested for capacitor rating and its ESR, resistors, transistors, and inductors. Most of them go for under $15 for bare board model with common 2x16 character display. I haven't seen one with graphic display as shown above