Arcadia 2001 Multicart - 2011 version - any interest?

[+5-11under]

Hi,

 

I'm interested, too. Please keep me updated!

 

Thanks,

 

Simon

Will do. It's just going to take some time, that's all.

[Capndocky]

I too am very interested. Just let me know when I can order one. Thanks!

[Hyperboy]

I would like one when available or pre-order,

 

Thanks \m/

[83skillz]

I'll take one for sure as soon as they are ready! Just message me when complete and i will be ready to pay. Awesome project, thanks!

[+5-11under]

Just a quick update... I'll be able to start working on these again within about a week. I'll keep you posted on the status as I get going again. Thanks for your patience.

[+Darrin9999]

Just a quick update... I'll be able to start working on these again within about a week. I'll keep you posted on the status as I get going again. Thanks for your patience.

 

Cool! Thanks for the update! and I still want one...

[killersquirel]

Just a quick update... I'll be able to start working on these again within about a week. I'll keep you posted on the status as I get going again. Thanks for your patience.

 

Awesome! I can't wait to get one of these.

 

Thanks for the update and thanks for making these.

 

-mike

[83skillz]

Just a quick update... I'll be able to start working on these again within about a week. I'll keep you posted on the status as I get going again. Thanks for your patience.

Awesome! Can't wait, thanks so much for keeping this project alive. I'm still ready whenever you are.

[ozma wars]

hi there

which price shipped Milano, Italy ?

[+5-11under]

hi there

which price shipped Milano, Italy ?

Not too much. No more than $10 extra, and based on actual price.

[+5-11under]

Update: working on this now (finally)! Finalizing the ROM list/sequence, then finalizing the labels.

[+5-11under]

Update: re-sequencing the 4K and 8K ROM files into one big ROM file.

 

File list:

Main Games 3D Bowling 3D Soccer Alien Invaders American Football Astro Invader Auto Race Baseball Basketball Battle Blackjack & Poker Boxing Brain Quiz Breakaway Capture Cat Trax Circus Combat Crazy Climber Crazy Gobbler Doraemon Dr. Slump Escape Frogger Funky Fish Golf Grand Slam Tennis Hobo

Horse Racing

Jtron Jump Bug A Jungler Missile War Mobile Soldier Gundam Monaco Grand Prix Nibblemen Ocean Battle Parashooter Pleiades R2D Tank Red Clash Robot Killer Route 16 Soccer Space Attack Space Mission Space Raiders Space Squadron Space Vultures Spiders Star Chess Superbug Superbug 2 Super Dimension Fortress Macross Tanks a Lot The End

Turtles

 

Enhanced Versions of Games 3D Soccer Alien Invaders 1 Alien Invaders 2 Alien Invaders 3

Alien Invaders 4

Gridiron Hobo Space Squadron Star Chess

The End

Alternate Versions of Games 3D Soccer JTron Jtron v1.1

Jump Bug B

Space Attack B Space Attack C

Super Gobbler

 

Demos 8k.bin Colours Hscroll Multiplx Scroller Sound Stub Tester1 Tester2 Tester3 Vscroll Mothship Chartest Hello

Sprite

 

4sprites 4udc Animate Bootinit Boxboy Charshow Music Readbutn Readpadl Showtext 8sprites Sync_example Target1

Target2

[+5-11under]

Has anyone tried Frogger 1.25 on a real Arcadia (as opposed to in emulation)? On the real thing, my frog dies within a second of landing on a log or lily pad.

[+5-11under]

Has anyone tried Frogger 1.25 on a real Arcadia (as opposed to in emulation)? On the real thing, my frog dies within a second of landing on a log or lily pad.

I spent some time modifying an Arcadia PCB to accept an EEPROM. I wanted to make sure the multicart wasn't somehow affecting the results (stranger things have happened). Anyway, the results were the same, so unfortunately, it looks like Frogger 1.25 doesn't work on a real machine. I'll keep the game on the multicart as an extra.

[+5-11under]

Current (final?) ROM list. I need to do a final check of the switch positions for each game (today hopefully), then I can finalize the labels (this weekend hopefully)

 

Main Games 0000 0010 3D Bowling 0100 1101 Jump Bug A 0000 0101 3D Soccer 0101 0001 Jungler 0000 1000 Alien Invaders 0101 0100 Missile War 0000 1101 American Football 0101 1001 Mobile Soldier Gundam 0000 1010 Astro Invader 0101 0110 Monaco Grand Prix 0001 0000 Auto Race 0101 1100 Nibblemen 0001 0010 Baseball 0101 1110 Ocean Battle 0001 0100 Basketball 0110 0000 Parashooter 0001 0110 Battle 0110 0101 Pleiades 0001 1000 Blackjack & Poker 0110 0010 R2D Tank 0001 1010 Boxing 0110 1000 Red Clash 0001 1100 Brain Quiz 0110 1010 Robot Killer 0001 1110 Breakaway 0110 1101 Route 16 0010 0000 Capture 0111 0000 Soccer 0010 0010 Cat Trax 0111 0010 Space Attack 0010 0100 Circus 0111 0100 Space Mission 0010 0110 Combat 0111 0110 Space Raiders 0010 1000 Crazy Climber 0111 1000 Space Squadron 0010 1010 Crazy Gobbler 0111 1101 Space Vultures 0010 1101 Doraemon 0111 1010 Spiders 0011 0001 Dr. Slump 1000 0000 Star Chess 0011 0100 Escape 1000 0010 Superbug 0011 1001 Funky Fish 1000 0100 Superbug 2 0011 1101 Golf 1000 1001 Super Dimension Fortress Macross 0100 0001 Grand Slam Tennis 1000 0110 Tanks a Lot 0100 0101 Hobo 1000 1100 The End 0100 1000 Horse Racing 1001 0001 Turtles 0100 1010 Jtron Enhanced Versions of Games 1001 0101 3D Soccer 1010 1001 Gridiron 1001 1001 Alien Invaders 1 1010 1101 Hobo 1001 1101 Alien Invaders 2 1011 0001 Space Squadron 1010 0001 Alien Invaders 3 1000 1110 Star Chess 1010 0101 Alien Invaders 4 1011 0101 The End Alternate Versions of Games 1011 1001 3D Soccer 1100 0010 Space Attack C 1011 1101 Jump Bug B 1100 0100 Super Gobbler 1100 0000 Space Attack B Demos 1100 1001 8k 1110 0010 4sprites 1100 0110 Colours 1110 0100 4udc 1100 1100 Hscroll 1110 0110 Animate 1100 1110 Multiplx 1110 1000 Bootinit 1101 0000 Scroller 1110 1101 Boxboy 1101 0010 Sound 1110 1010 Charshow 0000 0000 Stub 1111 0000 Music 1101 0100 Tester1 1111 0010 Readbutn 1101 0110 Tester2 1111 0100 Readpadl 1101 1000 Tester3 1111 0110 Showtext 1101 1010 Vscroll 1101 1100 8sprites 1111 1000 Mothship 1101 1110 Target1 1111 1010 Chartest 1110 0000 Target2 1111 1100 Hello 1111 1110 Sprite 0011 0110 Frogger 1.25

 

edit: well, that doesn't look exactly how I wanted... but at least the data is there... and it doesn' take too much space.

Edited June 22, 2012 by 5-11under

[ubersaurus]

Awesome! I am definitely looking forward to this An excuse to bust out the Leisurevision!

[+5-11under]

It looks like I may need some additional donor cartridges. I may not need them right away, but it would be nice to have them, to be able to offer choice between long and short cartridges.

 

If anyone has a few (the more the better to save on overall shipping costs), I'd be interested in purchasing them for $5 US each, shipped to Canada (shipping costs are negotiable, especially if you have a large quantity). Any common loose carts (short or long) are fine, as long as the condition of the cartridge is fine (label condition doesn't matter as long as it doesn't affect the cartridge).

 

Thanks!

[lucifershalo]

great that you are back on the project!

[onmode-ky]

Mobile Soldier Gundam

 

I'm not actually in the market for the multicart, but this title caught my eye--specifically, the wording. Based on a Google search, it looks like this is the accepted English title for the game (which, being a Japan-exclusive release, by Bandai, had no official English title). While "Mobile Soldier Gundam" is a literal translation of the Japanese title, "Kidou Senshi Gundam," it is not the official English title for the Gundam property, which is "Mobile Suit Gundam" and has been so for decades (the English phrase "mobile suit" actually occurs in the Japanese dialogue of the original anime). Is there a particular reason that the Arcadia game is known as "Mobile Soldier Gundam" to the English-speaking Arcadia community? Is it just that, well, in the 30 years since the game's release, no English-speaking Arcadia owner has known what Gundam is (or at least cared enough to suggest changing the commonly held translation)?

 

onmode-ky

[toymailman]

It looks like I may need some additional donor cartridges. I may not need them right away, but it would be nice to have them, to be able to offer choice between long and short cartridges.

 

If anyone has a few (the more the better to save on overall shipping costs), I'd be interested in purchasing them for $5 US each, shipped to Canada (shipping costs are negotiable, especially if you have a large quantity). Any common loose carts (short or long) are fine, as long as the condition of the cartridge is fine (label condition doesn't matter as long as it doesn't affect the cartridge).

 

Thanks!

I think I might have a couple shells. I look around and let ya know.

[+5-11under]

Mobile Soldier Gundam

 

I'm not actually in the market for the multicart, but this title caught my eye--specifically, the wording. Based on a Google search, it looks like this is the accepted English title for the game (which, being a Japan-exclusive release, by Bandai, had no official English title). While "Mobile Soldier Gundam" is a literal translation of the Japanese title, "Kidou Senshi Gundam," it is not the official English title for the Gundam property, which is "Mobile Suit Gundam" and has been so for decades (the English phrase "mobile suit" actually occurs in the Japanese dialogue of the original anime). Is there a particular reason that the Arcadia game is known as "Mobile Soldier Gundam" to the English-speaking Arcadia community? Is it just that, well, in the 30 years since the game's release, no English-speaking Arcadia owner has known what Gundam is (or at least cared enough to suggest changing the commonly held translation)?

 

onmode-ky

 

A couple of updates:

 

After a few minutes of research I'm going with Mobile Suit Gundam. I'm sending the files to the printer today to get the labels printed.

 

I decided it would be wise to add sockets for the EPROM, so it could be updated/replaced in the future if necessary. The sockets should be here tomorrow, and won't take too long to install. This entails a bit of grinding work to be done to the inside of the cartridge casings, but not too much.

 

The ROM list is pretty much 100% completed. There's a couple of demos that I need to check again, where results on a real machine don't match results in an emulator, so I just need to make sure that at least the files I'm using are the correct ones.

 

I'm upping the bounty for common cartridges to $8 US each, including shipping to postal code L0R 2C0 in Canada, paid via PayPal. So, if you have 1, 5, or 20 available, I'll pay you $8, $40, or $160 respectively (or I'll give credit towards the purchase of a multicart). Ideally, I'd like to purchase about 20 more in total.

 

I won't have a chance to do any work on these next week, but I should have these ready to go by July 13. I'm anticipating sending out a bunch of PMs on about July 9 to those who have expressed interest. Hopefully I'll have pictures of the first units by the end of this week.

[+5-11under]

By the way, I'm not just looking for 1, 5, or 20. Those are examples. I'll take what you've got to offer.

[toymailman]

Alas, I do not have any extra Arcadia shells. I have a few Channel F, APF, and Studio II shells, but nothing for this effort.

[+swlovinist]

I have an extra cart, pm sent.

[83skillz]

Mobile Soldier Gundam

 

I'm not actually in the market for the multicart, but this title caught my eye--specifically, the wording. Based on a Google search, it looks like this is the accepted English title for the game (which, being a Japan-exclusive release, by Bandai, had no official English title). While "Mobile Soldier Gundam" is a literal translation of the Japanese title, "Kidou Senshi Gundam," it is not the official English title for the Gundam property, which is "Mobile Suit Gundam" and has been so for decades (the English phrase "mobile suit" actually occurs in the Japanese dialogue of the original anime). Is there a particular reason that the Arcadia game is known as "Mobile Soldier Gundam" to the English-speaking Arcadia community? Is it just that, well, in the 30 years since the game's release, no English-speaking Arcadia owner has known what Gundam is (or at least cared enough to suggest changing the commonly held translation)?

 

onmode-ky

 

A couple of updates:

 

After a few minutes of research I'm going with Mobile Suit Gundam. I'm sending the files to the printer today to get the labels printed.

 

I decided it would be wise to add sockets for the EPROM, so it could be updated/replaced in the future if necessary. The sockets should be here tomorrow, and won't take too long to install. This entails a bit of grinding work to be done to the inside of the cartridge casings, but not too much.

 

The ROM list is pretty much 100% completed. There's a couple of demos that I need to check again, where results on a real machine don't match results in an emulator, so I just need to make sure that at least the files I'm using are the correct ones.

 

I'm upping the bounty for common cartridges to $8 US each, including shipping to postal code L0R 2C0 in Canada, paid via PayPal. So, if you have 1, 5, or 20 available, I'll pay you $8, $40, or $160 respectively (or I'll give credit towards the purchase of a multicart). Ideally, I'd like to purchase about 20 more in total.

 

I won't have a chance to do any work on these next week, but I should have these ready to go by July 13. I'm anticipating sending out a bunch of PMs on about July 9 to those who have expressed interest. Hopefully I'll have pictures of the first units by the end of this week.

Awesome, i'm glad i checked back. Very excited to hear this is coming along so great! Looking forward to that pm. Bravo on a sweet project!