bobotech

You kind of missed my point. First of all, I agree with the post above this one where Twinchargers states that they hold on TOO tightly to their old hits. I agree with his points about the old hits being rehashed over and over again. As for my post, I was referring to the idea of why doesn't Nintendo release an arcade perfect emulation of Donkey Kong on their Wii or something. My point is that it doesn't matter to the grand masses of people who buy Nintendo games. There are probably only a few thousand fat mid-thirty year old and up men who salivate at the thought of perfect arcade emulations on their Wii consoles. For the millions of rest of people, those arcade games were either a distant childhood/teenhood happy memory and playing the NES/SNES versions of those games is absolutely acceptable to them. They probably wouldn't notice the difference if someone put a full sized Donkey Kong arcade game in front of them or the NES version. For people like us, we have the emulation scene (thank god!) and the ability to build arcade controllers for our personal use but we are the TINY TINY majority of consumers hence the ignoring of us by Nintendo and other big name game companies. The market is there for a few niche companies but its not enough for a heavy hitter. And heck, you can hack Wiis and I believe you can even drop MAME on them and actually play arcade perfect versions with your Wii (I think, I only have SNES/NES/Genesis emulators on mine).

Why should Nintendo bother? There is probably a couple thousand hard core gamer nuts like ourselves who want the original arcade perfect donkey kong. probably 99 percent the rest of people don't really care that it isn't the exact same thing as the original, the NES versions are just fine for them. I just don't see Nintendo caring much about a tiny hardcore fan base. For 9 out of 10 people, you could probably show them the NES version and the arcade version and they wouldn't even know the difference or more importantly care about the differences.

WTH? Look at his other auctions and sort by price, highest to lowest. He has some dumb DS game at like 1200 dollars. Lets Ride?

Totally off the subject but about your avatar. I read all about the story and its quite cool but every time I see your avatar, I think Extra Testicles !

Well if the Turbovision has an external antenna input plug on the tuner, then conceivably you could use one of those DTA (digital tuner adapters) and plug it into the Turbovision and tune it to channel 3 or 4 or whatever and get OTA digital broadcasts.

What does "just no filed ver." mean?

You can't possibly have only 1 basic cart, can you? I think its a rule that all 8bitters are required to have like at least 3 Basic carts in their collection. Maybe 4 of them along with the requisite 3 Star Raiders, 3 Pac Man, 2 Space Invaders, and 2 Donkey Kong carts?

I did just that, with a stick I bought from Deal Extreme ( http://www.dealextre...-assorted-41227 comes already wired) plus a button ( http://www.dealextre...-assorted-37487 ) Stuck them both in a cheap plastic box from EBay, added a 9-pin female connector, and hook it up via a joystick extension cable. Looks like this (photo taken to hide the duct tape holding the connector in place!) : I have been thinking about stripping down a pair of Topmax Dreamcast fighting sticks for that same reason. I only paid 10 dollars a peice I think for them but I would just like to use the stick assembly itself and put them into a project box. I have 4 of those Topmax Dreamcast sticks and from reading reviews, they aren't very good, the plastic shell is supposed to be garbage. I have plenty of arcade buttons so I don't need any there. The buttons on the dreamcast stick are built onto the motherboard, they aren't discrete buttons ala most other high quality fighting sticks.

I got my 2600 early on. I got it probably in 78-79, thinking 79. I do not remember having to unwrap the console, the sides were just glued shut. As for games, I don't remember them being sealed and what seals that memory is that I received Super Breakout for xmas. What happened was that I found the Super Breakout in my parents closet. It was already wrapped. So I went and very carefully undid the tape for it and unwrapped the wrapping paper at the top of it. I was able to open the top of the box because it was NOT sealed with shrinkwrap. I must have played it a bunch of times before I got it offically for xmas.

When I built my fighting stick for Street Fighter 4 on the 360, I used a wooden box that was originally used for a Hickory Farms sausage and cheese assortment and a piece of aluminum that I bought at my local metal supply shop in town.

30 bux (including shipping). Not bad. I'm tempted.

I have a special spot for Ghost Hunter in my heart as well for the same exact reason. I bought Ghost Hunter on tape when it first came out for my 400 and LOVED it to death. Came in a plastic baggie. I don't think that PacMan by Atari had been released yet. Just awesome to see another who bought it new back in the day.

Can that be something as simple as dirty contacts on the 400's cart slot? Not the cart but the slot itself? Do you have Atariwriter cart you could try? And I'm not sure how it works (don't have a working 400/800 setup ) but if you boot to a floppy with DOS on it with no cart, can you access the menus and perform commands and stuff?

Actually if it was truly emulated, it would be good, the problem is that the NOAC is NOT emulation but rather recreations inspired by the original. They might play somewhat the same but you will still notice a strong difference if you are used to the original. I hated my FB1 so I threw it away.

Except he already said that he doesn't want a VCR or another TV. Are you sure what you found weren't the standard old RF modulators that let you hook up an AV source (like a DVD player) to an older TV? Those are cheap and everywhere. What he wants is totally different. Missed that he said he didn't want a tv / vcr. Mine is almost exactly like this one, maybe a little larger and has internal power supply. Note that it only has one audio out jack, maybe the stereo can't be split back out of the composite signal? No biggie. That was a sweet Goodwill find then, I imagine most folks would have no idea what that was ever for. I wonder why MCM stopped selling those? That is exactly what I'm looking for. Something simple and easy to use. But i was hoping for cheap. just seems odd that those devices are so pricy compared to the common RF Modulators.

I have often read about how the Jag isn't a powerhouse 3d machine and was a great 2d machine. What I wonder about is what would have happen if Atari decided to market the Jag as a super Neo Geo. SNK never tried to get into the 3d market because they knew their hardware was NEVER suited for 3d. So SNK just made bigger and better 2d games. I imagine that the Jag could have made bigger and better looking games than the Neo Geo if pushed. What I'm driving at is that I think that if Atari didn't try to push the 3d angle of the system so much and instead capitalized on its other hardware specs that were quite good (its 2d capabilities?), would it have survived longer? Look at how long of a lifespan the Neo Geo ended up having because it never pretended to be anything other than what it was. It never tried to put any real 3d games on it (viewpoint wasn't a real 3d game, it was like Zaxxon on steroids).

Exactly. I don't have that kind of money right now. 20 bux is one thing but 80 is another. And with shipping, its actually around 100 dollars. Eeek. That is what I was hoping for, was a way of isolating the circuit used in VCRs or something like that. And I really don't want to deal with another tv even if its a small one. My 7 inch lcd is tiny and works perfectly for composite inputs, just has no tuner/rf inputs.

I will look when I get home. Can you get me a list of disks that are missing?

I have never seen a demodulator. Only modulators. A rf modulator is the commonly available device (target/best buy/frys/etc) that takes composite INPUT and outputs RF that is connected to the antenna input on older TVs that don't have composite inputs. Those are cheap and I have several but they are the opposite of what I want. I want to take RF input and convert it to composite output.

I would like to get an RF demodulator. Think of it as a reverse switch box. You plug in your RF cord such as off your 2600 into it and it has composite and audio out. Of course the quality will still be just as bad as RF only and possibly worse but I would want one for testing purposes. Too much of a pain to mod every single non-composite system especially if you just want to test that they work. Its not like a modern LCD would even have RF input anymore. I know that I use a little 7 inch LCD with composite only inputs but I can't use them with old systems. You can use a VCR but that is just way too much work. I just want a little box about the size of a RF modulator. Suggestions for something cheap?

Will do. Might be a while, but I will do that.

No i do not. I sold it to my typing teacher that I had the hots for in 1984. I think I sold it and the cartridges for around 70 dollars? Maybe 60? Had 5 commons, asteroids, space invaders, combat, air-sea battle, and I think canyon bomber. I had moved onto an Atari 400 and rarely ever played the 2600 anymore since the games for the 400 were so much better than the 2600 versions.

So this game is definitely worth playing then? I have played it a little bit but never bothered to read the instructions on how to actually really play it.

Well in a nutshell, because they bore me. If I saw a PCjr, I just might grab that but as far as the common IBM compatibles from the mid '80s up through the '90s, I don't usually bother. I like my hardware to be weird, funky, esoteric, nostaligic, different, etc. THat is why I like all non-MS-DOS based systems and will collect for them even if I don't use them. I have slowed my collecting way down though, I don't actively collect nearly as much as I used to plus I'm trying to condense my collections. A while back i did buy an IBM PS/2 P70 luggable that intrigued me. It was one of those lunchbox sized computers that had this awesome orange gas plasma screens. That one appealed to me because it was different.

I'm curious, are there easily available (read: cheap) floppy drives for the Coco? It is one of the systems that i was highly intrigued by as a young teen but never could afford. However I got a really nice Coco 2 a couple of years ago but got just the computer, nothing else. I never have had the urge to do anything with it since I had nothing else. Never saw any floppy drives for it ever in the wild.