bobotech

What kind of a8 stuff are you looking for?

Well all of my other 8bit systems work great on this tv. Its an early LCD, 15 inch non-widescreen, no HDMI/DVI inputs, only has RF, composite, s-video inputs, so its more like a CRT than a modern LCD/Plasma. And the last time I worked on this 130xe was about 8-9 years ago when I only had CRTs and it wasn't working back then but got boxed up and stored until last week

Well I can swap the chips out, that is easy enough to do.

okay, my LCD tv shows a blue screen with no signal. When I turn it on, the screen blinks/flashes for a millisecond and then the blue screen is still there. Nothing else appears on the screen, no backgrounds, etc. I'm giong to try to see if I hear the speaker click, I haven't looked for that. I will also take it apart and count the cihps, I bet there are 4 and I just forgot.

Well he still has the case to the cart, is it possible to put a repro board into the cart case and call it refubed or restored? When people restore a car, they might replace almost all the sheetmetal and drivetrain short of the actual unibody so its no longer original but its still considered real, just restored. Maybe refubished isn't a fair word, sicne its closer to restored than refurbed. I don't know if its possible to do a repro of BBSB though.

Well the thing is that I'm rather poor (read: unemployed) so I would like to try to fix it myself if possible. I was just wondering where I should start.

Ultrafine snadpaper. I'm talking 1500-2000 grit. Maybe even some jeweler's rouge and a dremel with a buffing wheel.

I was chatting with Sloopy the other night and mentioned that I had a non-working 130xe. I was wondering if I should bother trying to get it working. It appears to have suffered some rust damage in the past, the shields seem to have rust on them but the board seems clean. When I plug the power on and turn it on, the power light on the keyboard does light up but nothing appears on the screen. The screen does flicker for a millisecond when it is powered up but other than that, nothing. I have take the shields off including the RF section. The RF section appears to have damage of some sort. Can I safely just desolder the entire RF section and remove it (i would never use that anyway) and should the standard composite video out jack still work fine? Just wondering if I should bother fixing this unit up. it is not a 4 chip NTSC model. 3 of the chips are socketed.

Indeed, congrats to both! Its a shame that Everhart never took the offer of a grand early on. (snicker)

And they came out swinging!

One minut

Hey, even if no one snipes, 2400 is still NOTHING to shake a stick at.

Almost done!

I just can't wait for the heavy hitting snipers to come out and play! Sniiiinpppers, come out and play-a!! (remember the Warriors movie?)

I just hated those sound effects so much. I never got the 2600 version myself. I had gotten an Atari 400 and bought the game (on tape) Ghost Hunter for and thought it was much better than the 2600 version that came out. When the 400 version of Pacman came out, that just sealed the deal and I really never played my 2600 much after that. I sold it soon thereafter. But for me, it was those horrid sound effects that really turned me off to the game when I played it at friend's houses.

I would be very careful of accepting bids from anyone with like less than 5 or 10 feedback or who is a new user.

If its not one way, its another. If its back to the old way, then a few sellers will do the same kinds of extortion. Just saying that when it was the old way, buyers used to bitch and moan like crazy that sellers were jerks and unethical and stuff like that. There really isn't a fool proof method for making feedback truly honest and reasonable for the idiots out there. Either you will have buyers like yours who try to pull crap and hold feedback hostage or we revert to the old ways and buyers who receive items that weren't as stated in the auctions will have their feedback held hostage by the sellers.

I'm with VertigoProcess, I would buy it for the lynx stuff and the couple of games besides Tempest. I would then sell then Jag and Tempest 2000 to my buddy for around 35 dollars. I already have Tempest. I just need my money for my mortgage.

Can someone PLEASE edit the thread title and correct the spelling of "which"? It makes my OCD do backflips.

Oh wow, sweet! Seeing that baggie brings back memories for me. I remember flying to DC to be with my dad for a couple of weeks. I went to the computer store near him that had all sorts of cool things. I played Protector there and bought Ghost Hunter. I haven't seen the instructions since I was a kid, so seeing them is sort of surreal. I bought it on tape though.

You have to realize though, to MOST people today, those games are not known as "arcade games" but rather as classic NES or SNES games. During the '80s when those games came out in the arcade, I didn't know that they were Nintendo branded games vs Stern or Exidy or whomever? The only companies that really exploited their company name in the arcades were Atari and possibly Bally and Midway. Maybe even Williams. All that said, Nintendo's biggest legacy is their NES and SNES, not the arcade per-se. People today don't look at Donkey Kong and Mario and think "ohh, classic arcade game characters", they think "oh wow, sweet, those are the characters from my NES or SNES gaming days". My step-daughter is 27 and LOVES Donkey Kong because of Donkey Kong COuntry for the SNES, she didn't even know that it was an '80s arcade game. That is why the Virtual Console caters to the NES/SNES/etc, and not so much to the arcade.

Nintendo the company was never really "known" for arcade games. Sure, they made arcade games but I never really knew that Nintendo put out Donkey Kong back in the '80s. They weren't a well known company until after the NES came out and even then, they were known as the NES company, not the "arcade game company". Unlike Atari which was known for their arcade games and capitalized on it for a short period. Which arcade games do you think Nintendo should exactly capitalize on? Mario Bros. evolved into Super Mario Brothers and has been a staple ever since and its recent version has been a smash hit. Donkey Kong? Well is quite simplistic compared to modern games. I guess you could make a modern version ala Super Mario Wii that might appeal to more people but still, I think the way the Donkey Kong series has gone has been good for the company. High scores as a goal for a game has been long left behind. Even the original Super Mario Brothers games on the NES downplayed scoring. I never heard anyone caring much about their SMB3 score but on the other hand, they talk about beating the game, seeing all the secrets, etc The old arcade games were about beating scores, that isn't important anymore. The only modern game that I have played that my buddy and I actively try to get high scores on is the Pac Man version in the Xbox 360 arcade pack. We like playing the 5 minute game and try to get the highest possible score. I just think us old people who are so nostalgic about old games have rose colored glasses on compared to what the real market demands out of games. We want our old Pac Man, the market demands Battlefield 3.

How in the world are they ignoring their heritage? They have been regurgitating their characters ever since the early '80s starting with Donkey Kong. A lot of their non-Pokemon popular characters started in the early '80s. The vast majority of the rest of them were NES/SNES characters. The game play might not be the same but you give the consumers what they demand and want.

What a bunch of baloney. What you call NES-era characters are Nintendo characters. They're NES-era, SNES-era, N64-era... see how it work? So how are they ignoring their 2D legacy? They feature the same characters constantly in their new products. Donkey Kong Country Returns, for example. If by "force-feeding the market" you mean "releasing new games", I guess some people just can't be pleased. You want new games with 80's characters, but you don't want new games with 80's characters? Gee, okay. If you want to play Donkey Kong, play Donkey Kong. It still exists. But DK's not going to sell if Nintendo were to bother coming up with a Wii version of an emulator for it & put it up on Virtual Console. I'm sorry, but that's how it is. they ignore it by taking nearly 20 years to release a proper console super mario bros game. they ignore it by taking samus aran and turning her in a whino they ignore it by taking an action/adventure like legend of zelda and turning into a series of stupid minigames, fetch quests, and obtuse puzzles the people at nintendo incorrectly assume their characters sold their games in the NES and SNES eras. that is not the case. the games sold themselves, the characters were only a peripheral reason for their success. sticking mario into a game does not guarantee success, otherwise mario's time machine and yoshis island would be as highly successful as the super mario bros trilogy. this extends to the 3D mario games. Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy have never been the hits 2D super mario bros games have been. the 3D gameplay is completely different and foreign to anyone outside of nintendos core market. but then nintendo throws "the casuals" (read: retarded, game companies hate catering to these people) a bone and releases a throwaway effort called new super mario bros wii, and it tears up the sales chart. youd think anyone with half a brain would take that que and try to bring back the gameplay of their other 2D hits, but instead they focus on 3D mario despite its lukewarm success, focus on puzzle zelda, and once again trying to entice the mook crowd on xbox live to buy a wiiu with more "hardcore" (read: teenage boy) games. nintendo does not embrace their arcade gaming past, and it will eventually kill the company I'm kind of confused by your thread redirection. The original post was why doesn't Nintendo release arcade perfect ports on something like the Wii Virtual Console, what does this post really have to do with that? And in regards to Legend of Zelda, their Ocarina of Time game is still considered to be one of the best all time video games ever and sold like wildfire. I still see the modern incarnations being quite a bit like Ocarina of Time.

My Demon Attack cart annoys me. It won't play on my 800xl or my 130xe but that was one of my favorites back in the day.