7800fan

FYI B&W TV were still available through 90's. Usually it's just those $20 portable 4" TV. My grandmother still used black and white TV through mid 80's and early 90's I remember seeing a store demo of Burger Time (back when Sears had a hands on console and a few game carts left in the open, chained like bank pens, so people could play) and I remember how awful it looked. Is it too late to sue for false advertising? Picture shows very nice arcade like game for 2600 but actual looks like seizure inducing mess.

What I liked the best back then were the crowd who cheered on and all and the sheer number of cabs (easily over 100). Last time I was in arcade shop, most people looked at you evily if you lasted too long or if you fed more quarters rather than taking turns. Also home consoles and portable games probably made arcade less popular. Now day most people just stays home playing games or computers alone or via internet for multi player.

Looks like I'd need to get caught up on a few games I don't have that actually looks good with the LCD mod. I am only short 2 very rare commercial Lynx games (Desert Strikes and Super Off Road) plus a few common games and some later/homemade games. I do have Eric's EotB (second hand, not original owner) Lynxolopy and Lode Runner, maybe Zaku... what else is/are must-get?

The seller is an idiot for offering you video of his other modded consoles. Of course it'd "work", he wouldn't film a flaky console. It's useless if he didn't film the exact same 7800 before he sent it to you. There's always that small chance the transistor he used is bad or something that can't be seen. I can't see at a glance anything wrong. But I haven't seen a daughtboard in the middle before, Atari fix?

Anyone offer to "buy it" without asking for picture. But when it comes to arraigning meeting place, ask to meet in police station. Bet are they will clam up, ignore you, and wait for a different victim.

Wow sounds like custom box is very popular. I wonder what's the original EotB CIB is worth now?

I have a PS2 Slim, silver model 77001 date code 7A I don't think the firmware was ever touched since factory. Can anyone point me to a guide for this? The guide I keep finding refers to using hard drive and network adapter, but this has built in network and no hard drive support.

So if you have deep pocket and lots of time, you can drive the market up high by buying out everything cheap and forcing desperate buyer to bid higher or pay a very high buyout. Think someone can make Combat and ET cart worth average of $100 loose?

I noticed a few of you trying to use a controller rather than Lynx itself to play on a monitor. And you mentioned some games need the display rotated. I found someone's hack that could do the trick: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/211209-using-psx-or-snes-controller-on-other-consoles-cheaply/?p=2736622 By rotating the control pad via code, one can use regular controller with both horizontal and vertical games without rotating controller. Looking at the code, Select button on PSX switches between H and V mode. I'm sure the code can be modified to use other controller rather than PSX used by the original author.

LCD technology improved a lot since the early color LCD displays. Take a look at PSOne LCD display that was released only about 7 years later, Thinner, better light distribution, better color display. Take a look at LCD of today, even a cheap portable TV looks better than PSOne LCD display. Even early laptop looks awful next to a modern tablet.

Saw a CIB used copy at a now defunct video rental Cheetahmen2. Looked like good game since I loved cats. Couldn't stand playing it for more than a minute, it was so awful. Some months later while looking at random video game tidbits, I came across the bit that this game were actually unplayable due to a bug. Ended up selling it on eBay. The only good thing this game was that I earned more than what I paid for. I did kind of wish I kept the game, the cart shell looked cool. Just fricking awful to play. Maybe seal the whole cart into lexan as a display sculpture to be looked at but not played with.

Built one, made a few minor improvement. The official instruction used grey 2x4 tile and 2 grey 1x2 panels for the front of cart tray but real NES is all black on the cart tray. Black 2x4 tile and black panels are available. PS avoid eBay, they are stupidly expensive for a few pieces. Bricklink is a better price by a long shot. I also made a few more NES carts including one that is yellow with tan label (gold part didn't exists, yellow was close to gold anyway and tan plate for Zelda label)

Dusted off my 7800 a couple months ago, got the AV mod done and 2600 games are working fine. But I can't find my 7800 games and I wanted to be able to check the 7800 mode to be sure the mod is 100% done. Doesn't matter which 7800 games, just needs to work. Will pay via Paypal, ship to address Michigan

For example, Dreamcast had anti-piracy protection but due to an oversight, it only checks if GD-ROM is genuine or not. It did not check CD-R or CD-ROM so people who were able to rip the original GD-ROM could play illegal burned games on CD-ROM. Larger games were hacked to fit smaller CD-Rs. Commodore 64's slow disk transfer were also the result of a bug and a bone headed mistake. Originally it was to have a burst speed transfer like 128 has but when designing the board, an important high speed line was accidentally deleted, along with an interrupt bug mean Commodore was forced to bit-bang data communication with disk drive at SLOWER rate than V-20. (on top of serial port design because of last minute switch from parallel to serial interface with V-20 because IEEE-488 cables were expensive and hard to find) Source: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=628303&sid=447dcca1ad181f4b3dac08935a2041e7#628303 We there other hardware design idiosyncrasies that wasn't discovered until too late that proved a problem later or a benefit for hackers?

Be nice to the monitors. Older LCD were a little less fragile as well, being made of thick glass. Today's LCD are made very thin to be light and cheap and thin plastic sheets (not sure what type of plastic, probably acrylic) can crack if it's exposed to excessive force like your hand or a Wii-mote with broken strap. OTOH I am glad CRT is mostly extinct. The last time someone tried to sell a portable computer with a CRT, it was tiny and still frickin' heavy. I can't imagine a laptop with 17" CRT being comfortable on your lap after an hour. Now if only modern LCD TV were friendly with ancient 240i video standard of the video game consoles. Many that I checked tried badly to upscale it to 480p but with alternating black lines like a giant comb over the screen. I would keep a decent sized older CRT TV for older games but it means giving up 5 or 6 game consoles to make room for one TV

That 8 port box doesn't have S-Video :/

All color CRT uses RGB at the end to control the 3 color guns. If you have access to schematic and have some knowledge, you can find where the composite and separate video are broken apart into 3 individual RGB plus intensity and sync channels. They are usually on the main board, before being connected via wires to CRT board with RGB drivers. Then you should be able to hook up RGB devices directly there, bypassing composite and separate video completely. I don't know of a circuit to handle regular RGB signal to separate syncs and intensity, and it's possible pre-amp is also needed. You will most likely need to add a switch to separate the inputs if you wish to be able to use composite and S-Video for systems that can't do RGB. Otherwise just disconnect the unneeded video connection and make it permanent RGB monitor.

I wanted to tidy up my messy wire management. One thing that are in the way is the AV switch box. Currently I have 6 Pelican 5-ports switch box, 5 of them wired into one box and allowing me up to 25 systems to a single AV port. I have looked around and it seems very few were made over 6 ports and virtually none of them has S-Video support. And beyond 8, it seems like I am looking at pricey TV studio type hardware. Does any of you know if there is a switch box with at least 15 inputs. Of all the game consoles and other devices I have, only Intellivision, FB Coleco, and NES doesn't have S-Video support. Failing that I may have to build a custom switch box. .

I got 2 of em myself. Toss in S-Video to RCA adapter for that separate video ports and it'll work with almost any S-Video devices. Not 100% though as the monitor predated S-Video standard and not everything will play nice with older monitor. It's too bad the 1702 doesn't support RGB naively without hack or it would be used exclusively with my 128D. I don't like to hack CRT monitor, they can be hard to fix if something goes bad.

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 301426212761 Why does it look like some sap tried to open the console with a pry bar and large screwdriver? The screw holes are all messed and the edges are all messed. OTOH that TZD label is rare although it seems to be missing mid section, I can't tell if it's been cut off or covered in tape.

On the second thought, a newer version of PS3 is less likely to have problems and since I have nice working PSOne and PS2 there's almost no reason to get fat PS3 for BC.

I wouldn't recommend removing it. The black piece is there to keep the cart connector from breaking off if someone pushed in too hard. I have not experienced any trouble with mine, only that 2 CBS games I have won't work because of the firmware block. Physically all cart should fit all Inty models, nothing changed. Only the firmware prevented a few unlicensed cart (and by accident one of their own) from working on Inty2 and wasn't used in Inty3 Take a close look inside the cart shell, maybe there's slight warping that is preventing the cart from clearing the black guard piece? Try inserting the cart while your Inty 2 cover is off to see where the obstruction is.

Sneaky Star Trek reference in that post along with that number. I'd love to snap up a spare Intv FB (mostly for extra overlays as well) but the 2 nearby Sam's Club said they don't have it listed in their inventory so either they have it and clearance sale are not listed, they didn't spell flashback right, or they are out.

Guess I'll keep it for spare parts when I come across another PS3 that works. Fan, power supply, some components, and hard drive can be exchanged. BD drive seems to be tricky as the drive board seems to be married to PS3's mainboard.

Say for a custom made handheld system or something? With the VGA mod available I thought about converting one of my spare Lynx into a console with separate controller, probably a SMS controller for basic 2 button design. The problem is I don't have any experience in plastic forming and paying someone to do a one time shell won't be cheap. Also how about turning NES deck into one resembling Atari 2600? To poke at when Nintendo wanted Atari to distribute NES in USA. Faux wood grain, 2 switch, no power LED, and 100-feet long RF cable.