nonner242 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Dam, not even got to my payment request yet! Im in the same fish tank as you mimo!...I will wait....Im OK...I not that I'll Die! Nice job on the cart Clu...I was tyhinking the same thing..I hate have'n open boards..I think maybe my battlesphere gold case would look awesome for it tho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Dam, not even got to my payment request yet! Im in the same fish tank as you mimo!...I will wait....Im OK...I not that I'll Die! Nice job on the cart Clu...I was tyhinking the same thing..I hate have'n open boards..I think maybe my battlesphere gold case would look awesome for it tho... Sounds great, send us pictures of that. And you know, when that Battlesphere Gold cart boards gets in your way, before throwing it out, let me know and I'll pay for shipping. I'll give it a good home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 So are you folks who received your Skunkboards enjoying them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Dam, not even got to my payment request yet! Im in the same fish tank as you mimo!...I will wait....Im OK...I not that I'll Die! Nice job on the cart Clu...I was tyhinking the same thing..I hate have'n open boards..I think maybe my battlesphere gold case would look awesome for it tho... Sounds great, send us pictures of that. And you know, when that Battlesphere Gold cart boards gets in your way, before throwing it out, let me know and I'll pay for shipping. I'll give it a good home. right on. That would be pretty sweet looking tho.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) So are you folks who received your Skunkboards enjoying them? I'm a Mac user with a spare XP machine around here somewhere. I will be hooking it up soon. But I thought about Nonner242's idea and said "You know I learned a lot from the Cybermorph cart trial run for the Skunkboard" and applied what I knew with the Battlesphere Gold shell since that game has not received too much use lately. And here's the results of a morning's work... BTW, there is an official Skunkboard support forum that I have joined and I would love to see more people on. It can be found here... http://www.harmlesslion.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12 Edited April 26, 2009 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Excellent job ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) I'm a Mac user with a spare XP machine around here somewhere. I will be hooking it up soon. But I thought about Nonner242's idea and said "You know I learned a lot from the Cybermorph cart trial run for the Skunkboard" and applied what I knew with the Battlesphere Gold shell since that game has not received too much use lately. And here's the results of a morning's work... You tore up a Battlespehere Gold cart to do that? Are you aware of how much more valuable the cart you tore up is than the skunkboard? You can get cart shells from myatari for a couple bucks: http://www.myatari.com/atarijag.txt Edited April 26, 2009 by Hyper_Eye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Well I tried out my skunkboard and it worked fine. I was able to load some things in. It was only transferring at 7KB/sec which was painfully slow. After looking at the faq on the harmlesslion.com forum I saw that using a powered usb hub can solve that issue. I used the powered hub provided with the Rock Band bundle and it made a massive difference. My transfer after that was more than 150KB/sec. I am going to mess with it some more later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) You tore up a Battlespehere Gold cart to do that? Are you aware of how much more valuable the cart you tore up is than the skunkboard? You can get cart shells from myatari for a couple bucks: http://www.myatari.com/atarijag.txt Hmmm... JAGSHE Jaguar Empty Cartridge case/shell 4.00 Pulls Do they sell clear carts or other colors? Edited April 26, 2009 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 You tore up a Battlespehere Gold cart to do that? Are you aware of how much more valuable the cart you tore up is than the skunkboard? You can get cart shells from myatari for a couple bucks: http://www.myatari.com/atarijag.txt Hmmm... JAGSHE Jaguar Empty Cartridge case/shell 4.00 Pulls Do they sell clear carts or other colors? I'm pretty sure they only have black shells. But it still isn't worth tearing up a BSG for a skunk with a clear shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 So are you folks who received your Skunkboards enjoying them? I'm a Mac user with a spare XP machine around here somewhere. I will be hooking it up soon. But I thought about Nonner242's idea and said "You know I learned a lot from the Cybermorph cart trial run for the Skunkboard" and applied what I knew with the Battlesphere Gold shell since that game has not received too much use lately. And here's the results of a morning's work... BTW, there is an official Skunkboard support forum that I have joined and I would love to see more people on. It can be found here... http://www.harmlesslion.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12 Did you really take a BSG cart apart? What happened to the label? Man I really think that is the most insane think a collector can do. You don't even see the skunkboard although the cart is clear. I really do think you did a great job with the shell as far as the cutting is concerned and I think about doing something like that aswell when my skunkboard arrives but never ever with my bsg game. Wow...that really is unusual... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I think it looks just like I thought it would...I LIKE IT! See Im not the only crazy one here. I guess I'll have to practice on one or two first before I cut mine up too. Unless I can make a mold of something else.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 That looks pretty good in the clear shell! (Though I'm surprised as well that you'd tweak up a Battlesphere shell for it!) I wondered if enough of the board showed through that it wouldn't need the label? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddyBuddies Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 what happened to the Battlesphere label... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Look I know you guys own the BSG carts and can do what you want with them but with the limited number available I think it is a shame anybody would consider tearing up a BSG cart for anything. There are longtime collectors who don't even have a regular Battlesphere cart. I have been building my collection for 14 years, and it is an impressive collection, but it doesn't have a Battlesphere in it let alone BSG. I hope that collectors of rare Jaguar items will be responsible enough to take care of them. On top of all that it doesn't make any financial sense whatsoever. That cart is worth probably 8 or more Skunkboards (referring to monetary value as opposed to the utility of the item.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Look I know you guys own the BSG carts and can do what you want with them but with the limited number available I think it is a shame anybody would consider tearing up a BSG cart for anything. There are longtime collectors who don't even have a regular Battlesphere cart. I have been building my collection for 14 years, and it is an impressive collection, but it doesn't have a Battlesphere in it let alone BSG. I hope that collectors of rare Jaguar items will be responsible enough to take care of them. On top of all that it doesn't make any financial sense whatsoever. That cart is worth probably 8 or more Skunkboards (referring to monetary value as opposed to the utility of the item.) BSG have dropped in value since they found over 5000 of them in Al's old building in Cleveland Ohio. I picked up my 4 extra copies at a Goodwill here for $5.00 a peice on half price Thursday special. So dont worry about it, it not that big of a deal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Look I know you guys own the BSG carts and can do what you want with them but with the limited number available I think it is a shame anybody would consider tearing up a BSG cart for anything. ... I hope that collectors of rare Jaguar items will be responsible enough to take care of them. On top of all that it doesn't make any financial sense whatsoever. ... LOL!!! Ok, I've gotten a few good laughs on this, but before this derails this thread completely I'll talk about the BSG shell images. To put a lot of your minds at ease, I worked on the PHOTOSHOP of what the clear cart would look like all morning. I mean I really worked on the details too. And based on the reactions I've seen I'm getting better at my photoshop faking skills. BSG is a great game and I would not chop it up, and for those curious that pondered about this, this gives you a rough idea on what it might look like. (And really, I would not think you crazy if you DID modify the clear shell. If I modified the shell, I would just move the label and cart board to new (regular) cartridge shell) When Nonner mentioned the idea of the clear cart I thought "Man that would be an interesting photoshop exercise" And indeed, working on a transparent cart was challenging. I did take the images at the beginning of this thread and adjust them so that they looked like they were being seen through the shell. I worked to reduce the image till the green on the Skunkboard matched the hue of the green in the BSG case. I think it shows through pretty well through the front. And the back would show through about as much as you saw too. (You'd see more actually, but to save time I put the sticker across the back like I do on my REAL cased Skunkboard.) The Skunkboard label would look the color it did as you see in the back picture... kinda a dindgy white. I got that hue by taking the real label, applying a layer of plastic over it similar to the BSG cart, and taking an image of it and using that as a the sample. So again, the BSG cart was a simulation, but I led some to believe I really did do it for a laugh. Tempted to keep the joke going longer, but didn't want to derail the thread. I'll be back with another picture soon to answer Tursi's question about how the clear case would look without the label put over the front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 BSG have dropped in value since they found over 5000 of them in Al's old building in Cleveland Ohio. I picked up my 4 extra copies at a Goodwill here for $5.00 a peice on half price Thursday special. So dont worry about it, it not that big of a deal. LOL!! Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Haha - that's awesome Clu. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Disclaimer: No Battlesphere Gold carts were harmed in the production of these photoshop pictures. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Hmmm... call it a lack of a sense of humor but I don't find misleading people into thinking you made something you didn't funny. If you didn't want to derail the thread you would have disclosed the fact that you photoshopped the image in the first place. The thing is you didn't even have to do that. You already had props for the original work you did which was very good. I don't think anyone was trying to look at the image close enough to figure out if it was photoshopped or not. I didn't see any reason to question your honesty. I won't make that mistake again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) ... The thing is you didn't even have to do that. I put out my hand to have it slapped. Yes yes... I was bad. Hey getting back on topic, you know I was reading the pdf of the manual and I saw how the Skunkboard has a really low profile. I'm starting to think if I seriously did do another cartridge case, I might attempt something that would be short, stubbier, and matched the profile of the Jaguar's top a bit better. Started thinking you know, for the idea of matching the top profile better, the half cartridge shell might also have some merit. Edited April 26, 2009 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) Congratulations on your Photoshop skills, then And to those who where offended by it : lighten up, it's only a game. And since doctorclu bought it, he's free to do whatever he likes with the cartridge. Besides, it's not as if he pretended to have broken the cartridge in two pieces, or used the shell to house a Bubsy PCB Edited April 26, 2009 by Zerosquare 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 ... The thing is you didn't even have to do that. I put out my hand to have it slapped. Yes yes... I was bad. Hey getting back on topic, you know I was reading the pdf of the manual and I saw how the Skunkboard has a really low profile. I'm starting to think if I seriously did do another cartridge case, I might attempt something that would be short, stubbier, and matched the profile of the Jaguar's top a bit better. Started thinking you know, for the idea of matching the top profile better, the half cartridge shell might also have some merit. I knew it was PS'd soon as I saw the front label edges & back of the cart..fuzzy cut edges....Still think its funny...come on guys dont like your legs pulled alittle? But I would really like to try a mold or something different with color or a clear cart. And YES I promiss not to photoshop what Ive done... I'll have to wait till mines in my hands before I start anything tho....But the custom box I can start now..heheh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Touchy touchy - I thought it was quite funny. It's not like Clu announced he was working on a game and wasn't. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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