Spirantho Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 Isn't it funny how so much smugness can be fitted into such a small smiley face? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 I see you have the Qb Xmas special cart listed as a 9 for PAL. Any idea how many of the ones made (it was about 180 odd wasn't it?!) were in PAL then for it to warrant this rating? To be honest I have no idea how to rate it - but it's going to be bloomin' hard to get hold of if you haven't already. I just like having another '9'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvb Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 I've updated the rarity list a little. We now have a button which lists all the carts which don't have pictures! Ain't that useful? 941723[/snapback] Nice feature, thanks! Only the sorting by name seems to have some slight difficulties. Are there carts in the DB with leading spaces perhaps? Geert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Here are a couple missing Red labels: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 A few more I have. Why is there a Spectravideo & a Spectravision listed? All the carts have Spectravideo on them. How do you know which is which if they all say Spectravideo on cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Why is there a Spectravideo & a Spectravision listed? All the carts have Spectravideo on them. How do you know which is which if they all say Spectravideo on cart? These games exist with Spectravision and Spectravideo label: The Challenge of.... Nexar China Syndrome Cross Force Gangster Alley Planet Patrol All the others exist only with Spectravideo label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 Nice feature, thanks! Only the sorting by name seems to have some slight difficulties. Are there carts in the DB with leading spaces perhaps? Hmm... can you be a little more specific? An example? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Why is there a Spectravideo & a Spectravision listed? All the carts have Spectravideo on them. How do you know which is which if they all say Spectravideo on cart? These games exist with Spectravision and Spectravideo label: The Challenge of.... Nexar China Syndrome Cross Force Gangster Alley Planet Patrol All the others exist only with Spectravideo label. 942756[/snapback] I only clicked on a couple of them, Bumper Bash & Cross Force are both listed as Spectravision, but the cart scans say Spectravideo I see now all the others were correct. The Challenge of.... Nexar is only listed as Spectravideo Tape Worm is listed & pictured under both. Mangia is also listed under Spectravision but no picture exists yet. I wonder if this really does exist? All copies I have seen have been of the Spectravideo label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 I only clicked on a couple of them, Bumper Bash & Cross Force are both listed as Spectravision, but the cart scans say Spectravideo I see now all the others were correct. Hey, you're right! Can someone upload proper pictures, please? I've flagged those entries as not having pictures for now, but if someone has them... Mangia is also listed under Spectravision but no picture exists yet. I wonder if this really does exist? All copies I have seen have been of the Spectravideo label. You'd best ask Raymond about that... Interesting point though: Master Builder and Cross Fire are called Super-Baumeister and Kreuzfeuer in German. It seems they exist labeled that only with Spectravision. However, I have in front of me both of those titles CIB, Spectravideo - except despite the box having the German names, both the carts have English labels! So they presumably exist with German label, German box in Spectravision flavour, and English label, German box with Spectravideo. Useless bit of information, but interesting nonetheless.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 You'd best ask Raymond about that... 942790[/snapback] Unfortunately i can't check since my carts in are in storage really, really far away. But according to the info, DeV0 seems to own both a Spectravideo and Spectravision Mangia Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 (edited) These games exist with Spectravision and Spectravideo label: The Challenge of.... Nexar China Syndrome Cross Force Gangster Alley Planet Patrol Sorry, I forgot to mention Tape Worm. Unfortunately i can't check since my carts in are in storage really, really far away. But according to the info, DeV0 seems to own both a Spectravideo and Spectravision Mangia I don't think a Spectravision Mangia' (or Bumper Bash) exists. But please proof me wrong and show me a scan. Edited October 5, 2005 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvb Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Nice feature, thanks! Only the sorting by name seems to have some slight difficulties. Are there carts in the DB with leading spaces perhaps? Hmm... can you be a little more specific? An example? 942764[/snapback] Sure: I log in to the main maintenance screen, the listbox next to button "Carts missing a label ?" has "name" selected. I hit the button, half expecting a list of carts sorted by name. The first 5 items are: - Boxing - Yars' Revenge - Vanguard - Adventures on GX-12 - Armor Ambush in that order.. Now either: 1. my browser handles the JavaScript form incorrectly, or messes up the POST or GET form variables 2. or the sortation is not correct 3. or I have to play Alpha Beam with Ernie some more The sortation on rarity is off also, missed that yesterday. Geert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 BTW, here's a red label Vanguard box. No idea what's inside: http://cgi.ebay.nl/Atari-2600-VANGUARD-Ata...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 7, 2005 Author Share Posted October 7, 2005 Sure: I log in to the main maintenance screen, the listbox next to button "Carts missing a label ?" has "name" selected. I hit the button, half expecting a list of carts sorted by name. The first 5 items are: - Boxing - Yars' Revenge - Vanguard - Adventures on GX-12 - Armor Ambush in that order.. /quote] Ah... you - er... - spotted my hidden flaw. Just making sure you were paying attention. Gold Star. I missed out a %s in the SELECT string. Oops. Fixed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 (edited) What's this Comes from Australia so should be PAL... Edited October 9, 2005 by YOK-dfa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchysuperman Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 I dunno, I bought a small lot from the UK a few weeks ago and one of the carts turned out NTSC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 I only clicked on a couple of them, Bumper Bash & Cross Force are both listed as Spectravision, but the cart scans say Spectravideo I see now all the others were correct. Hey, you're right! Can someone upload proper pictures, please? I've flagged those entries as not having pictures for now, but if someone has them... Mangia is also listed under Spectravision but no picture exists yet. I wonder if this really does exist? All copies I have seen have been of the Spectravideo label. You'd best ask Raymond about that... Interesting point though: Master Builder and Cross Fire are called Super-Baumeister and Kreuzfeuer in German. It seems they exist labeled that only with Spectravision. However, I have in front of me both of those titles CIB, Spectravideo - except despite the box having the German names, both the carts have English labels! So they presumably exist with German label, German box in Spectravision flavour, and English label, German box with Spectravideo. Useless bit of information, but interesting nonetheless.... 942790[/snapback] Out of curiosity Spirantho, how common are those german boxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 11, 2005 Author Share Posted October 11, 2005 Out of curiosity Spirantho, how common are those german boxes? A good question.... I don't really know but I don't see them very often. Maybe someone in Germany can enlighten us! Should you be interested they're gold in colour, not silver... so they're quite distinctive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Here's a boxed Kreuzfeuer (Cross Force): http://cgi.ebay.nl/Atari-2600-Konsole-5-Sp...1QQcmdZViewItem My guess is that these are not extremely rare, but it might take some time to get them all (maybe rarity 5-7 or something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 (edited) Here are all known Quelle distributed Spectravision - Spectravideo games: Kreuzfeuer (AKA Cross Force) (413.223 9): http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=8574 Gangster Ruine (AKA Gangster Alley) (412.783 3): http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=8575 Piraten Schiff (AKA Gas Hog) (413.723 8 ): http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=8573 Super Baumeister (AKA Master Builder) (413.582 8 ): http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=8117 Planeten Patrouilie (AKA Planet Patrol) (412.851 8 ): Spirantho, Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that there are German labeled Spectravision - Spectravideo carts? AFAIK these German boxes only contained English labeled carts. Edited October 11, 2005 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Does the German boxes actually say Spectravision anywhere on them? I'm wondering why they are not just listed under Spectravideo if all the carts inside them say Spectravideo? There was a boxed Piraten Schiff on ebay a few weeks back also. I didn't even realize the box was gold though, I thought it was still a silver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sly Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Added my auctions to Ebay. I am not sure if you have have these variations yet in your database. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8229868644 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 30, 2005 Author Share Posted October 30, 2005 Added my auctions to Ebay. I am not sure if you have have these variations yet in your database. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8229868644 For the benefit of those reading this in a few months time or more when eBay will have deleted the auctions (Hi! Future me! Hope things are just peachy! ), the two auctions he's listed are Subterranea and Galaxy Defender. The Subterranea is the usual label it only exists PAL with a white label AFAIK (and it's the version I own to be sure!). As for the other, it's mentioned in another thread somewhere, but yes it is quite scarce! Ta for the heads-up and well done on such a subtle plug for your auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongbeat Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Any idea of the rarity...i miss it for 5 seconds ! http://cgi.ebay.fr/ATARI-2600-Spiel-Condor...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted November 21, 2005 Author Share Posted November 21, 2005 A thought on Spectra-thingy carts.... Someone mentioned over in the '2600 forum a Bumper Bash and I looked on the guide and saw it was a 7 - which it definitely isn't! I've taken it down to 5 as it comes up a heck of a lot (particularly in Australia) and Mangia was a 9 (which it no way is) so I've taken that down to 8, though I think it should be a 7. So, what are people's opinions? What rarity should we give to these two carts? I'd be happiest with 5 and 7, but I could cope with 8. Definitely not 9 though. Remember, a rarity 8 should be as rare as an NTSC Guardian or something, and Mangia comes up quite frequently down under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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