Guitari Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 It would be great to see a review of this on YouTube by Metal Jesus in the states. I really like his retro gaming reviews. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluto63 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Please add me for a cased one, thank you 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 It would be great to see a review of this on YouTube by Metal Jesus in the states. I really like his retro gaming reviews. I'm not familiar with him, I'll take a look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krip316 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I'm not familiar with him, I'll take a look. He's pretty popular. He did a review of McWills screen mod and McWill got a huge rush of orders. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GadgetUK Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 He's pretty popular. He did a review of McWills screen mod and McWill got a huge rush of orders.. You're thinking of VectrexRoli - he gets good exposure! Also worth talking to Lairds Lair, he has lots of Atari subscribers and he writes for RetroGamer magazine - it's the sort of thing that would make a good magazine article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 How could I forget.. lynx lounge.. I expect to see a review from BTB! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krip316 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) . You're thinking of VectrexRoli - he gets good exposure! Also worth talking to Lairds Lair, he has lots of Atari subscribers and he writes for RetroGamer magazine - it's the sort of thing that would make a good magazine article. Nope. I am talking about Metaljesusrocks. McWill has one of my Game Gears for his tests and he told me he had to put it aside because he got slammed with orders after the review. Here's the link: https://youtu.be/insQ4HcY55M Edited May 25, 2016 by Krip316 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GadgetUK Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Nope. I am talking about Metaljesusrocks. McWill has one of my Game Gears for his tests and he told me he had to put it aside because he got slammed with orders after the review. Here's the link: I totally missed that video =O Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Also worth talking to Lairds Lair, he has lots of Atari subscribers and he writes for RetroGamer magazine - it's the sort of thing that would make a good magazine article. Ugh, the less anyone has anything to do with him the better. Check into his awful history.. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cieplik Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 please add me for two cased carts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Love it how MetalJesus often boosts views by having gamer girls as guests. ^^ About the Laird, I am sure he will be getting a flashcard anyway. Not sure if it is the best advertisement (meaning how many of the people really would know of his past), but he will surely talk about it no matter what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannesmutlu Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 The gamegear puts the gameboy into shame because the gamegear is backlighted color and is compatible with SMS games in mind,even 1bit digital sound & paralax scrolling can be simulated on this handheld by using programming tricks,yes it involves more proccesing power but it's worth it. The gameboy has been somany times replaced with an updated gameboy so no one is ever gonne use the first model gameboy anymore,however the gamegear NEVER dit had an updated version,so it's still NOT obsolete,that's why people still love the gamegear. I rather keep the original screen for what it is because it makes it so retro,but the modern screen is a nice treath for the eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Ugh, the less anyone has anything to do with him the better. Check into his awful history.. Yes - I don't want to shit on this thread, but PLEASE stay away. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 . You're thinking of VectrexRoli - he gets good exposure! Also worth talking to Lairds Lair, he has lots of Atari subscribers and he writes for RetroGamer magazine - it's the sort of thing that would make a good magazine article. I love his accent. Also, because of his videos, I see that my next purchase after this will be the 7800 SD card! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 The gamegear puts the gameboy into shame because the gamegear is backlighted color and is compatible with SMS games in mind,even 1bit digital sound & paralax scrolling can be simulated on this handheld by using programming tricks,yes it involves more proccesing power but it's worth it. The gameboy has been somany times replaced with an updated gameboy so no one is ever gonne use the first model gameboy anymore,however the gamegear NEVER dit had an updated version,so it's still NOT obsolete,that's why people still love the gamegear. I rather keep the original screen for what it is because it makes it so retro,but the modern screen is a nice treath for the eyes. You can update the DMG Gameboy. I did a backlight mod on mine. unfortunately one of the LEDs went out in mine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Please put me down for a cart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Love it how MetalJesus often boosts views by having gamer girls as guests. ^^ About the Laird, I am sure he will be getting a flashcard anyway. Not sure if it is the best advertisement (meaning how many of the people really would know of his past), but he will surely talk about it no matter what. Yep, he'll talk about it. None of it will be based on anything remotely close to the truth though. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GadgetUK Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I will release the 1.3 menu tomorrow - it's almost perfect now. I've taken some of the ideas from SainT there - .lsd extension for the image, they will all sit in a folder on the SD card (separate from the .lnx files, just to keep tidy). Images are full screen rather than icons - it looks a lot better and it avoids nightmare palette issues. The utility to convert images is a bit of a pain but can be improved I think. Basic process is - take a screen shot in Handy at native 1:1 resolution, then open in Paint Shop Pro, convert to 16 colour. Save bitmap and run it through utility, which uses the sprite packer and then produces a .lsd file. This is the part of the process which we can improve with more time - ie. the idea would be nice to load an image straight from emulator into my utility. I think the source for the sprite packer is knocking around and its not that difficult to work it out anyway, just needs me to focus more time on that to make it more standalone. To start with i will release images for all the games I have anyway, so there won't be many gaps. The .LSD files can then just go into the folder on the SD card and if the main part of the filename matches the .lnx file it will just display the image. The images are full screen, so no small icons. With a preview delay to stop it slowing down navigation on the SD card. Hard to explain but basically you can go up and down the list of your ROMs, stop on one of them for a second and it goes full screen with a preview of that game. SainT, are you happy for me to release updates on this thread, or would you rather I separated it out into another thread? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlangeUG Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 If possibe I also would like to order one of these. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannesmutlu Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 If peoples are still updating the os software for the lynx software,well i was thinking how about a cheat option for games? Yes i know the lynx ram bus is NOT straight connected to the cart rom BUT what if the microcontroller chip does have over an whopping 4MB of space inside it, it can just load the whole entire rom in it's own ram be decrypting it, then it can manipulate that ram with your invulved code,then re-encrypt it again and then load into into the lynx ram,why would i think it's in theory possible,that's because a lynx emulator for the first xbox allows you to put cheat codes in lynx games. But even if it becomes possible,let's just first focus us on getting our lynx sd card adaptor some day and then we can alway's focus on this idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sow-gin Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 This product sounds amazing, please add me to the preorder list with the case. Much appreciated 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GadgetUK Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I've updated the menu again! The next update will probably to try and support some of the oddly formatted .lnx files out there. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Pretty amazing stuff, Gadget. I love the idea of having screenshot previews for the games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 My cart arrived today and I only had time to load up commercial titles alongside the preloaded caligames before rushing off to work. What I'd really like tomorrow (my day off) is to spend time putting the files into alpha folders - which looks possible from Gadget's vid - and I already have my homebrews in a separate folder so hopefully this'll be acceptable to the SD card too. I noticed not all of the file name can be represented on-screen; can this be updated at all? Do I need to wait for your final menu gadget before uploading all this to the card or does it make no odds? Many thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) On 5/26/2016 at 7:44 PM, GadgetUK said: I've updated the menu again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7k1kER8Fc The next update will probably to try and support some of the oddly formatted .lnx files out there. Very very nice as ever, Gadget! To get around the 8.3 file format issue it is possible to take the name of the ROM from the LNX header, although you have to make sure they are correct. It would be handy if there was just a utility to replace this info in the header with the long filename (minus extension) to be honest. Again something I want to get onto. Annoyingly long filename support requires quite a lot more additional RAM on the microcontroller, and just wasn't feasible with the other chip features I wanted. Edit: speed wise reading from the cartridge (and hence memory card) there is actually a fair bit of scope for improving this. At the moment I am extremely careful to check if data is ready before reading each byte. For fast reads where you know the length of the data you should be able to get away with constant nop based delay to maximise throughput. The may be some caveats about delays when moving across sector boundaries, but there's definitely room for improvement. Edited October 23, 2019 by SainT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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