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11 minutes ago, Mattroid said:
Someone recently gave me an Astrocade as a gift (!!). I'm familiar with all the usual heat issues, etc, and opened it up the other day to check on the data custom (I'd been seeing some freezing after running the thing for 10 minutes or so). Turns out the heatsink had separated from the data custom which is basically what I'd expected. I plan to replace it with one of the recommended heatsinks from console5. The odd part is the glue/paste left behind - from the photos I've seen here and elsewhere, I'd expect normal looking thermal paste and clean that up in the usual fashion. In this case, there's a layer of something blue - it's unlike any thermal paste I've ever had to deal with so I'm not really sure what it is or how to clean it up. I've tried IPA, Arcticlean, even some mild scraping hoping it might just pop off but it just won't have it. Before I do anything too rash or look for other products that may end up not working, has anyone ever seen this and know what might help safely remove it? Was this common from the factory at any point or could this have been the result of a repair? Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks!
Same as Adam stated, I've never seen that before. Could be some type of epoxy that was used, maybe not in house but maybe a previous owner. I'm used to seeing what passed as thermal past from back in the day, a grey, metallic colored substance that they used at that time ('77, '78 ish). I wasn't into computers back then so I don't know what it was made of. That being said, I know epoxy has been used to attach heatsinks before and I think still is, and not even the metallic type. Maybe its something like this:
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18 minutes ago, fiddlepaddle said:
One more (in a corollary universe); I bought a VCR to record Star Trek the Next Generation off the air.
I still have "All Good Things..." on tape from when it first aired 🖖
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GameCube to play the Resident Evil games...
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On 12/15/2022 at 1:27 AM, Charlie Cat said:
Now personally Keatah, this happens to be my favorite game for the Neo-Geo. In fact, it was the title that introduce me to the Neo-Geo 32 years ago. I've been a buff ever since and never a dull moment playing it.
Anthony...
Magician Lord is what hooked me on the Neo Geo as well, having first played it a MVS 4 slot cab. The same mall had an Electronics Boutique which happened to have the AES for sale on the wall, and that was all it took to make me utter "it shall be mine"... 🤣
What a lot of people don't take into account when they compare the Neo Geo to the Genesis and Super Nintendo is that first and foremost SNK made Neo Geo games for the Arcade, that was their money maker. So whatever was making them money and arcade operators money, that's what they went for. I can't really see any of their titles being made with the AES in mind as opposed to the MVS. Maybe if the console had been more widespread, things would have been different. Although you have to give props to SNK for continuing to release MVS titles for the AES years after they stopped making the console...
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4 hours ago, uczmeg said:
Here we go again, someone obviously needs so Christmas cash. Starting at £250...
That's actually a nice package, haven't seen a box for either the vecfever or robot arena (assuming 3rd party) plus he's got the 3d printed horizontal stand + an overlay. Also unless I'm mistaken that's a vecfever II (going by the vecfever 128 mb label).
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Ah, thanks for the video man, wasn't sure if they had included voices or not, glad to see they did!
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10 hours ago, negative1 said:
no, i mean like the casino games, that make millions more than arcade games ever will.
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Right, but people are "playing" these games for money, and nobody is going to be making money off these so not sure what the draw is going to be. Unless 1Up is going to enable online gambling on these somehow...
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1 hour ago, x=usr(1536) said:
Don't forget a dash of sweat and desperation for the full effect!
...or a urine soaked seat, can't forget that either!
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28 minutes ago, negative1 said:
they will make a ton of money from qvc and hsn from older people and adults that like the casino games.
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You mean like phone games people can play for free?
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Fake slot machines? They've jumped the shark now...
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Oh, I thought you were referring to CollectorVision titles, yeah I have no idea about missing Coleco titles.
Announced and actually released? Cause there's 31 Coleco titles there now, and I'm not including CollectorVision titles.
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On 10/13/2022 at 7:53 AM, SoulforSale said:
Why were the Colecovision games dropped from the iiRcade library
They're still there:
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1 hour ago, Toaddio said:
I have the old Asteroids with a modded spinner but this new cabinet design is brilliant.
...except for the Missile Command button placement...
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6 hours ago, Mayhem said:
When I bought mine direct from Thomas, it cost me 99 Euros.
Yeah, Thomas didn't charge much for the VecFever, but the VecFever Mark II cart was double the cost of the original. Had I known he was going to stop making them altogether, I would have picked up one of the Mark II SD card based models as well.
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52 minutes ago, cjherr said:
One of my favorites! (Along with Kangaroo). Please, please, please include dual stick control!
I second that motion! The roller controller would make this a no-brainer 👍
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20 minutes ago, sixersfan105 said:
Wouldn't it make sense for it to have been directly tied to the licensing deal? After the clock ran out on Astrovision's right to use the Bally name, they had to rebrand the console and cover up all Bally references, including on the boxes. Though that was certainly a very, very tacky decision imo. The stickers look awful on the front of the game boxes in particular.
The fact that Astrovision then Astrocade basically went and threw whatever stock they had in a box to get it out the door lends more to someone saying let's print some stickers and slap them on the Incredible Wizard boxes to get some cash rolling in! Hence why we've seen so many console variations in the wrong box, wrong labels and wrong controllers just thrown together at times, and I'm confident they went out the door that way. Not to mention where things went sideways when they went bankrupt 🤣 But these are all hypotheses on our parts, the history after Bally is so crazy its not even funny.
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24 minutes ago, sixersfan105 said:
I had read somewhere a while back that Astrovision/Astrocade was permitted to use the Bally name for one year as part of the deal with Bally. So the same reason why you see Astrocade game boxes with stickers across the top replacing the Bally references is the reason why the latter-produced controllers omitted the Bally branding.
Well really, it's because Astrovision wanted to save money and use existing stock 😉 I doubt the box sticker had anything to do with the license agreement but boxes cost money and they wanted to use up the existing inventory 😁
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On 7/15/2022 at 9:29 PM, Ataribud56 said:
Does concerto work with an av (composite) modded 7800? Mine has the pokey mod as well to go with the av mod. Thanks!
There's a pokey mod for the 7800 itself?
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Did you try reaching out to Steve via his website?
https://www.atarimax.com/colecosd/documentation/index.html
Thread dedicated to firmware:
https://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=974
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Nice looking Professional Arcade model, enjoy!
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1 hour ago, CapitanClassic said:
The keyboard/cart cover is home made. Contemporary pictures of the system have never shown such a cover. Additionally, I doubt (difficult to tell from the pics) the keyboard cover has the same smoked-plexiglass color as the game-holder on the back of the system. The controllers without "bally" are likely from when AstroVision acquired the rights to it, and needed to remove the Bally trademark.
Completely agree with your assessments; the Astrocade controllers were no longer labelled "Bally" at some point, most likely a change was made to the controller mold. At what point they were introduced is unclear, as we know Astrovision and then Astrocade sold the remaining stock acquired in the purchase from Bally before changing over to the Astrocade - The Professional Arcade branded systems.
The 4 Astrocade branded consoles I own have the blank control handles.
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1Up's support was great for the first six months, and they even had phones 😉 Went all down hill from there. Heard they got better but it seems I heard wrong.
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3 hours ago, negative1 said:
not worth it for tron,
tron $399 : https://www.rcwilley.com/Electronics/Gaming/Arcade1Up/112281907/Arcade-1Up-Tron-Arcade-Machine-View
simpsons $299 : https://www.rcwilley.com/Electronics/Gaming/Arcade1Up/112282172/Arcade-1Up-The-Simpsons-Arcade-Machine-with-Stool-View
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Well RC charges $100 to ship + tax so really about the same price for Tron, plus with Target they have discounts etc. that can be applied sometimes.
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32 minutes ago, opcode said:
I guess we can now close this thread. The wait is officially over. ????
Landing on Mars is next! ?
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