jfmateos Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I have developed a card able to hold up to 16 Videopac games. This card must be used in combination with my USB burner, that is also compatible with Vectrex, Watara/Supervision and Atari Lynx rewritable cartridges. You can find more information in my website: http://www.vectrex.hackermesh.org You can play all official games (including 59+ Helicopter Rescue and 60+ Trans American Rally) except 31 and 40. 12kb games (55 and 58) must be prepended with 4kb of data to make them 16kb (you can do it using any Hex editor, like HxD). Although the burner can detect the size of the rom (exactly 2k, 4K, 8K or 16k) to apply the proper bankswitching scheme, you can also force a bankswitching scheme through the file extension of the rom (this can be useful for homebrew developers): vp0 - 2k vp1 - 4k vp2 - 8k vp3 - 16k Vectrex Roli has published a nice YouTube review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Is there something special about games 31 and 40? I could see 31 Musician having added ROM or RAM for piano samples, but 40 is just a "4 in a row" game? Anyway Musician kinda need the piano overlay, and 40 is a common game so it's not a big deal. But I'm curious about what make those two special, compared to all other games. Edited December 16, 2015 by CatPix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Interesting project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfmateos Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Is there something special about games 31 and 40? I could see 31 Musician having added ROM or RAM for piano samples, but 40 is just a "4 in a row" game? Anyway Musician kinda need the piano overlay, and 40 is a common game so it's not a big deal. But I'm curious about what make those two special, compared to all other games. They use the A10 address line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 They use the A10 address line. Is this going to be Europe only if you produce it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 There isn't any kind of region locking on the O2/Videopac. I can play Voice games (that are US only games) on my Videopac. I think JFMateos will ship to the US as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 There isn't any kind of region locking on the O2/Videopac. I can play Voice games (that are US only games) on my Videopac. I think JFMateos will ship to the US as well. My concern was shipping. So I can buy PAL Videopac games and they will work like US games too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Mostly. The Videopac/O2 display is unlike most consoles, but there is still a 50/60 htz issue. My US games usually have odd graphical glitches at the low end of the screen but remain playable (and from what I've seen, play at the same speed) My guess is that the Videopac expect a larger programmed playfield (euro consoles always have a slightly taller display field) so with an US game, it fill the low end of the screen with garbage as it doesn't know what to do of it. I have no idea about how a PAL game will behave on an US console. Edited December 16, 2015 by CatPix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Cool Deal!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartoondonkey Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I ordered one of these weeks ago, and now I'm not hearing back with any tracking number or anything. In fact after some brief correspondence and having sent my payment... total radio silence. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I ordered one of these weeks ago, and now I'm not hearing back with any tracking number or anything. In fact after some brief correspondence and having sent my payment... total radio silence. :-( I bought a Supervision one from him awhile back, it took alil while to finally arrive but it did come, Im sure yours will too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfmateos Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Dear Cartoondonkey, I am having a lot of troubles getting mails through my mail server because it is in a shared hosting that has been black listed as spammer. I have sent you a private message through this forum with another mail address. Sorry for the inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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