+intvsteve Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 19 hours ago, Lathe26 said: Oops, I just realized that I mixed up 2 games. I mixed up Magic Carousel with Game Factory. The latter one has bugs. Apologies for the confusion. I know there was an issue with the RAM on the carts so they didn't work correctly on 2609 / 3504 units. I think fixed boards were made at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 23 hours ago, intvsteve said: I know there was an issue with the RAM on the carts so they didn't work correctly on 2609 / 3504 units. I think fixed boards were made at some point. Game Factory on physical board sold some years ago (2015, iirc) has issues on PAL consoles. I heard the problem was identified and solved but I believe that the fixed version hasn't been put for sale yet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zendocon Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 15 hours ago, BSRSteve said: Well, I can definitively say that we don't have the rights to Scarfinger, Spina the Bee, Choplifter or Yogi's Frustration Spina the Bee is licensed? Voochko I know about, but not Spina. I thought maybe it was the name given the large bee in the Buzz Bombers cutscenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zendocon Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 On 6/1/2020 at 4:44 PM, Intymike said: Are there bugs? I played it once from Revs cart version and it worked fine. My copy of Magic Carousel makes a loud hissing noise when the voice tries to say the name of an animal. I just assumed my Intellivoice is the wrong version. My ROM of World Series Major League Baseball was doing the same thing when the crowd started to boo after a foul ball, until I fixed the memory map in the .cfg file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSRSteve Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Zendocon said: Spina the Bee is licensed? Voochko I know about, but not Spina. I thought maybe it was the name given the large bee in the Buzz Bombers cutscenes. Not licensed. Rights to unfinished games programmed by Mattel Electronics France went to Nice Ideas as part of the process of disbanding the French subsidiary. (Spina the Bee, Scarfinger, Illusions, etc) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 So maybe super nfl, would get another release. That would be cool ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSRSteve Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 So, unless I have been talking to you otherwise, you should have received an invoice if you ordered. If you paid your invoice, it should have shipped in the last three days. The remaining stock has been put up on eBay (at the same price) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 On 6/2/2020 at 8:55 PM, Lathe26 said: Oops, I just realized that I mixed up 2 games. I mixed up Magic Carousel with Game Factory. The latter one has bugs. Apologies for the confusion. I remember there was a hardware bug with the board design used for that release. The RAM didn't work properly on Intellivision I systems, but worked on Intellivision II, due to differences in bus skew on BC1, BC2, and BDIR. (The Intellivision 1 has some discrete logic to remap the INTAK bus cycle to BAR, consisting of some XOR gates fed by some NAND/NOR to flip BC1/BC2. On the Intellivision II this got absorbed into the Mattel LAD custom chip.) That causes BC1, BC2 to be unstable for about 3 74LS TTL gate delays (around 30-35ns, IIRC). I did provide a little help to 5-11under while he debugged his RAM logic design—I just pointed out where the glitches would come from, what was likely failing, and what to look for. He did all the work. The fix involved time-delaying some signals to create a glitch filter. Were there any software bugs as well? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 7 hours ago, intvnut said: I remember there was a hardware bug with the board design used for that release. The RAM didn't work properly on Intellivision I systems, but worked on Intellivision II, due to differences in bus skew on BC1, BC2, and BDIR. (The Intellivision 1 has some discrete logic to remap the INTAK bus cycle to BAR, consisting of some XOR gates fed by some NAND/NOR to flip BC1/BC2. On the Intellivision II this got absorbed into the Mattel LAD custom chip.) That causes BC1, BC2 to be unstable for about 3 74LS TTL gate delays (around 30-35ns, IIRC). I did provide a little help to 5-11under while he debugged his RAM logic design—I just pointed out where the glitches would come from, what was likely failing, and what to look for. He did all the work. The fix involved time-delaying some signals to create a glitch filter. Were there any software bugs as well? I was only aware that Game Factory didn't work on the Intellivision I (and that a fixed version was "coming" that never did). A software issue was assumed. This is the first I heard that it was a hardware issue. Interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSRSteve Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 Forgot to mention. I put one cartridge label sticker on upside down on one copy of Takeover. I thought I had set it aside as my personal copy, but apparently not. I did order a replacement sticker and will gladly send it to whoever got the upside down one (whether or not you intend to fix it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Steve Jones Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 ooh, now it's a variation, a one of a kind too, cmart304 did you hear this? whoever gets it just won the lottery haha 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 14 minutes ago, Steve Jones said: ooh, now it's a variation, a one of a kind too, cmart304 did you hear this? whoever gets it just won the lottery haha That's what I was thinking too!? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinjinhawke Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 11 minutes ago, wolfy62 said: That's what I was thinking too!? Same but I already teased CMART today and didn't want to invoke his famed wrath. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 44 minutes ago, Steve Jones said: ooh, now it's a variation, a one of a kind too, cmart304 did you hear this? whoever gets it just won the lottery haha Not quite an Inverted Jenny... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinjinhawke Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 28 minutes ago, intvnut said: Not quite an Inverted Jenny... That plane makes sense for landing in Australian airports. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, Sinjinhawke said: That plane makes sense for landing in Australian airports. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 47 minutes ago, intvnut said: Not quite an Inverted Jenny... It just does a looping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stupus Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Got my bsr games today! Will be checking soon to see if i got the rare takeover jenny! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gunoz Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Now there's a piece of history. *squeee* 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, gunoz said: Now there's a piece of history. *squeee* Great picture,you beat me to it!? I got mine today as well and I was surprised and very happy to see the running man imprinted on the cart! Super awesome!!!? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMBerzerk Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Got my copy of Land Battle today Steve! The quality is fantastic! Thanks for offering them for purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Received some blue carts today! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KylJoy Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 On 6/11/2020 at 12:00 PM, BSRSteve said: Forgot to mention. I put one cartridge label sticker on upside down on one copy of Takeover. I thought I had set it aside as my personal copy, but apparently not. I did order a replacement sticker and will gladly send it to whoever got the upside down one (whether or not you intend to fix it). Hey, I may have a variant box! The BSR label on the side of my "Blow Out" box is inverted. I'm putting it on Ebay immediately and setting the "buy it now" price for $4,000. This may cause a rash of "faked" upside-down stickers to show up on Ebay soon. But mine is the original! 2 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humblejack Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Now I'm wondering who stuck these on, Karen or Steve. Your's is Blow Out, mine Hard Hat??? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Calling on @JasonlikesINTV - this looks like a subcollection! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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