The Funk vs. Rikki & Vikki

[Cousin Vinnie]

I've heard a lot of jabrones, tricks, pimps, skeezers, furries, bad guys, gnomes and dorks say that Rikki & Vikki was one of the most impressive games ever made for the Atari 7800.

 

As a guy that has reviewed 100+ games for the 7800, I'm not easily impressed. Let's see what the Funk thought on his weekend excursion to Misery Land. 

https://www.atari7800forever.com/rikkiandvikkir.html

[Trebor]

Thought it may be worth a mention on your review page for those playing, the left difficulty switch impacts how loud/or low the sound effects are within the game. 

 

While all music is courtesy of the BupChip, sound effects are all TIA.  Especially in light of system mods and how the audio portion of the mod was handled, the difference between the loudness of sound effects relatively to the music could be quite significant.

 

Moving the Left Difficulty Switch to left position will play sound effect at full volume, moving it right will play sound effects at half volume.

 

Also, having the difficulty switches set so Left Difficulty Switch is to the left, and Right Difficulty Switch is to the right, a checksum test can be performed on the cartridge ROM.

 

Hold down Pause, Select, and Reset while turning the console.  After it gets past the Rainbow screen, there should be multiple rainbow striped flashes seen across the entire screen. Release the console buttons and wait for it to finish.

 

It will complete with the word "FoxSum" followed by a 16-bit hexadecimal value:

 

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[+Karl G]

15 hours ago, Cousin Vinnie said:

I've heard a lot of jabrones, tricks, pimps, skeezers, furries, bad guys, gnomes and dorks say that Rikki & Vikki was one of the most impressive games ever made for the Atari 7800.

Did anyone else read this and wonder which one of these descriptors applied to them? 

[Jinks]

13 hours ago, Karl G said:

Did anyone else read this and wonder which one of these descriptors applied to them? 

Me too.... I am a dork. Maybe Vinnie can review all the atariage 7800 fans?? 

[Cousin Vinnie]

On 3/15/2021 at 9:46 AM, Trebor said:

Thought it may be worth a mention on your review page for those playing, the left difficulty switch impacts how loud/or low the sound effects are within the game. 

 

While all music is courtesy of the BupChip, sound effects are all TIA.  Especially in light of system mods and how the audio portion of the mod was handled, the difference between the loudness of sound effects relatively to the music could be quite significant.

 

Moving the Left Difficulty Switch to left position will play sound effect at full volume, moving it right will play sound effects at half volume.

 

Also, having the difficulty switches set so Left Difficulty Switch is to the left, and Right Difficulty Switch is to the right, a checksum test can be performed on the cartridge ROM.

 

Hold down Pause, Select, and Reset while turning the console.  After it gets past the Rainbow screen, there should be multiple rainbow striped flashes seen across the entire screen. Release the console buttons and wait for it to finish.

 

It will complete with the word "FoxSum" followed by a 16-bit hexadecimal value:

 

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Whack

[+-^CrossBow^-]

22 minutes ago, Cousin Vinnie said:

Whack

To be fair Vinnie I believe that is mentioned in the manual.

[Cousin Vinnie]

38 minutes ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

To be fair Vinnie I believe that is mentioned in the manual.

Reading is for noids!!!!!!!

 

 

[+DrVenkman]

On 3/15/2021 at 8:46 AM, Trebor said:

Hold down Pause, Select, and Reset while turning the console.  After it gets past the Rainbow screen, there should be multiple rainbow striped flashes seen across the entire screen. Release the console buttons and wait for it to finish.

 

It will complete with the word "FoxSum" followed by a 16-bit hexadecimal value:

 

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You know, I don’t remember seeing this in the manual but it’s been a couple years now.