+rbairos Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 So after a full day of prepping 55 packages, and discovering two tindie fees I didn't account for, I had to adjust the price from $24.99 to $29.99 Hope that doesn't put anybody out, I'm just kind of learning as I go. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 1 hour ago, rbairos said: So after a full day of prepping 55 packages, and discovering two tindie fees I didn't account for, I had to adjust the price from $24.99 to $29.99 Hope that doesn't put anybody out, I'm just kind of learning as I go. It was cheap at $24.99 relative to any other homebrew cartridge I've bought in the past 5 years, and still less than pretty much anything else I've seen other than repro carts made in China. So no big deal. How do we pay you the additional $5? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rbairos Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 No need thank you. Happy to have gotten some out already. Just planning on how to make things more sustainable moving forward. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 I was able to place an order this time around. I got the tracking information already! Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 $30 is fine, looking forward to getting in on one of these ordered in the coming weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Yes, the price point is more than fair, no issues with that. My only gripe is with the randomness or blind luck element involved with trying to purchase one. And that’s not impatience talking on my part either, as I don’t care if I missed the first batch, or end up missing the second, or even the third, etc. Just worried that this becomes an item that is always sold out for months on end and is never easily available to buy as I absolutely MUST have one of them by this November for a yearly video game show that I participate in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sfish Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Mine is out for delivery today - 5 days earlier than originally expected. 🙌 So exciting! 🙌 Planning to try out a collection of 70s and 80s Atari 2600 ads as my first video as the .mvc is encoded, tested, and ready to go. Can't wait!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Mine was just delivered! I'm going to have to find a game to sacrifice to put it into a shell, but I'm looking forward to playing with this thing as soon as I do that! Thank you! @rbairos and everyone who helped with testing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 I wanna try to make the Dragons Lair Trilogy... :😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rbairos Posted May 10 Author Share Posted May 10 I'm nervous! Please let me know if they work as soon as you can. Should be plug+play. I mean, I don't have any reason to think they suddenly won't work, as its been tested on a bunch of different machines, but eeks.. Thanks!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sfish Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 4 hours ago, rbairos said: I'm nervous! Please let me know if they work as soon as you can. Should be plug+play. I mean, I don't have any reason to think they suddenly won't work, as its been tested on a bunch of different machines, but eeks.. Thanks!! Worry not! My Movie Cart arrived in perfect condition and works beautifully on my ColecoVision using the Expansion Module 1. Thank you for all your work on this and for producing such a cool cart. Well done! 👏👏👏 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Neon Wraith Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Just ordered! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I got a notification about an hour earlier than I expected. ORDERED. Now I guess I need to pick something to watch and figure out how to get it encoded. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sfish Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 2 minutes ago, groundtrooper said: Now I guess I need to pick something to watch and figure out how to get it encoded. The documentation link on the Tindie order page links to a series of videos by rbairos that walk you through the setup and encoding of your own movies. There are other helpful videos there too. Definitely worth watching them all. The process of encoding is pretty simple since most of the preparation has already been done for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rbairos Posted May 11 Author Share Posted May 11 Hey Everyone. The next batch sold out in 10 minutes again. Very humbling! Thank you so much. Downside is this sucks for people who need to put themselves on the waiting list each time. I suspect the number of times people are willing to do that shrinks each round. That being said, how would people feel about a much longer turn around time (a few weeks vs a few days), but a guaranteed order? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbitwhit Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) Quote That being said, how would people feel about a much longer turn around time (a few weeks vs a few days), but a guaranteed order? Personally speaking - order turnaround time is of less importance to me than knowing I have an order in and I can cross this off the list of things to track and have to try to purchase. Having to "beat the Tindie clock" (unsuccessfully) each time is frustrating and not knowing when an in-stock event will happen next, only to miss it again due to such a short window of availability is 2x frustrating on top again. I'd just rather have the order in, wait however long and be done with it. I've been waiting on my AA "last chance" order for almost a year now, so this wait shouldn't be an issue. Edited May 11 by eightbitwhit 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 39 minutes ago, rbairos said: Hey Everyone. The next batch sold out in 10 minutes again. Very humbling! Thank you so much. Downside is this sucks for people who need to put themselves on the waiting list each time. I suspect the number of times people are willing to do that shrinks each round. That being said, how would people feel about a much longer turn around time (a few weeks vs a few days), but a guaranteed order? I got in literally in the last second. Placed the order, came back and sold out. Makes up for how PO'ed I was when I missed it last time around This is going to be fun to tinker with. Thanks for making it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rbairos Posted May 11 Author Share Posted May 11 Tindie's got a 2 week shipping policy, so I think what I'll have to do is prepare larger batch sizes before putting anything up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger75 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 As I live in Europe the mail from Tindie arrived during the night. For the 2nd time I arrived too late. I hope that next time will be the good one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rbairos Posted May 11 Author Share Posted May 11 2 hours ago, Avenger75 said: As I live in Europe the mail from Tindie arrived during the night. For the 2nd time I arrived too late. I hope that next time will be the good one. Oh thats frustrating. I'm trying to remain very consistent if that helps. Thanks so much for your patience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I missed again. I’ll try getting added to the next list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I'll glady send you $60 paypal to lock in on 2 of these. I'll even paypal as a gift. Will you please start a pre- paid list? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Climber Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Yeah, I went on a wild chase to the middle of nowhere last night trying to find the northern lights. Bad cellphone service in the woods and wasn't really keeping track of time so I missed out. I'm not mad though, I'm happy for you that they are this popular! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 Well, now comes the hardest part. Waiting for the hardware to arrive. I have encoded a Dragon's Lair play-through and a Star Wars Ep4 that was ripped from an old Cinemax recording. It was easier than I thought it would be with rbairos' video tutorials. Although I wish I had watched them all the way through first before starting. My Star Wars recording had the typical Cinemax Feature presentation promo at the beginning and I wanted to trim that part out and get right to the 20th Century Fox fanfare and didn't realize that I could have done it with TouchDesigner. So I did it the simplest way I could find with a quick google which was to use the Windows Photo App crazy enough, but I had to totally re-encode it after the trim. It would have been easier to do it in TD. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks again Rob for this amazing little project. I will probably buy a second cart after some time has passed and other people have got their shot at acquiring one. ----Edit I had one more spare SD card. I am gonna do TRON also. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Mine arrived while I was in New Orleans. I'm going to get a 3D printed cart case for it but I'm going to have to make a hole on the one side for the micro SD card so I can change the movie files. I would otherwise have to damage the label to open and close it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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