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Spies have been know to help spies, even on the opposing team, and let's not forget those double and triple agents... 😮

I found this post and wondered how to do it myself. I used a Dremel cutting disk and cut horizontally about a quarter inch into the plastic, which won’t hit any vital, unseen transformer parts. I cut around the cords because I didn’t know the bottom part of that section is not glued to the bottom. Next time, I’ll just cut horizontally around the 3 sides and cut just a little deeper near the corners by the cords. I used a thin screwdriver to pry the plastic apart. I’d recommend a fan since the cutting of this plastic produces smoke and fumes that probably aren’t healthy.

are you sure of your pin out understanding, as plug and jack are reversed when mating?

It's based on the Colecovision, but includes instructions to run the programs on MSX and SG1000. So yes, the book is multi-system because the programs are highly portable.

I got the copy of Nam-1975 in the mail yesterday and WOW that is not what I was expecting. haha. I don't know what I was thinking the gameplay would be but it wasn't that. I didn't have much time to play or get used to it because I got home later than intended last night but I wanted to spend a few minutes checking out the gracious gift from @ColecoGamer. It was great! Different, but awesome for sure. I didn't want to look up the gameplay on videos or anything because I wanted to be surprised. And I was pleasantly surprised. It also worked great on my top loader. No issues at all. It seemed like the normal excessive loading times. 🤣 Thanks again so much for this wonderful opportunity!

I placed it on the input 9v side. The 5v is the output pin. So it was installed with the + lead on the 9v and the - lead on the center ground.

Really ? Wow, that's great. I was also under the assumption the arm chip made it impossible to run. Well, I'll have a copy of Turbo Arcade ready just in case.... y'all need any beta testers 😄

I did swap to the DC-DC switching regulator. I can certainly try another cap. When you say to put a cap on the 'input' do you mean the 9V Input (pin 1) or the 5V to the system (Pin 3).

I read that https://burn-osx.sourceforge.io/Pages/English/home.html can be still used. You should be able to just open the .cue files with it (many dumps are in cue/bin format). For the DC you need to burn dreamshell4 (same as above) and that allows you access to the SDreader, that you attach to the serial port. I can’t remember if “teh romz” have to be in a specific format for the sd … way back when you were able to find many DC games downgraded to fit a MIL-CD usually by removing or heavily compress any and all animations, so that’s another way too (make sure your DC can boot MIL-CD … if it can boot dreamshell you are good, va0/va1 mb can do it while va2 not so much [sticker bottom of DC tells you that]).

The main issue for me is it looks like a game that has very little to do with classic Lunar Landar at all- it just uses the name. And whatever the game is, I can't tell from the trailers whether I'd enjoy it at all. So $30 is too much for a game that is a complete risk for me.

Well you're in the middle of being wrong and right. There are plenty of boots that aren't worth much, but also because maybe that game even when legit isn't either, but he's also right there are a great number that command some serious money from $50-500+ but you need to know what you're going after in that case. But well you lose all credibility and I'd say there's not much mind in your mindset if you feel that way about these old bootlegs. A pretty shallow pool there if you think these at this rate are contributing to piracy or cheating any legal copyright holders in a vast majority of the titles. They're no longer sold, you can't buy them from the makers, so whether it's a $5 boot of a game or a $15 legit copy fo the game, they're still used, the seller isn't going to grow a conscience and mail a check or paypal Nintendo or whoever a few bucks one each sale either -- they don't get crap for it. There is no cheated revenue outside of the slim amount that are still sold on some store front or included in a streaming service and that's really that. Authorized 100% is NOT garbage, what is wrong with you? Maybe when they were being made/sold when the games were on the market at the same time you would most definitely have a truthful case, but now it's just being petty and short sighted. Also arguing with fcgamer there probably isn't best, both because he doesn't know when to quit, but also he probably(I think does) has the worlds largest collection of bootleg famicom stuff and has been writing books about it for some time now too. it's rare to come across something related to the subject he hasn't seen before or can confuse him.

I've done this via a simple rewire mod cable and I get no response from buttons nor stick. I've tried both pigtail wire (leaving wire 5 connected) and wiring pin7 to pin5 and abandoning their mates at the pins. Both power it up and the (3 different) controllers pair, but no response to any controls.

I misquoted Mr. Drover: “I hate asparagus, but I don't talk about it on the Asparagus.com message board."

I'm confused, the center paragraph above. Does that mean if you play as a guy, the game is constantly subtley if not outright having men hit on you? And if that's the case, and you know it and don't want it, so you basically in nice or less nice ways say piss off, you end up being punished for not being some digital glory hole by getting a disability roll?? That's, if I'm reading it right, complete crap and some social engineering bs being shoved down gamers throats in that case (pun intended.) I had a passing interest in this one, but was worried about a time commit on it vs just how crazy slow the movement and battles were in past decades entries. But even if this did move at a more brisk pace to keep it going (like BG Dark Alliance console did) punishing people for not playing into the trap is just despicable.

That's a known idiosyncrasy of Atari Corp. cartridges. They produced thicker cartridge shells than Atari Inc. did, and they used the same one for both 2600 and 7800 games. The Red Label titles and 1986-88 reprints are right at home in 2600jr. and 7800 systems, but a little snug in the previous woodgrain/vader consoles.

I'm in the same boat missing the classic controller support. I agree that it's probably the limited number of buttons, but it's still a little disappointing because the gameplay seems perfectly suited for the classic controller. That said, I had a good first impression of the game. So far, I've only played for a little bit (damn life getting in the way of more Atari time), but I like the graphics and I'm a fan of the general aesthetics (it's got a cool look to it). It also looks like their's a bit of depth to the game, and I see myself playing a lot of this in the future. Taking the good with the bad, I'm really glad Atari came through and ported this to the VCS.

So I know you wanted 2.06, but I can confirm this worked with EmuTos on my Mega ST https://www.tindie.com/products/ArcadeStuff/1mbit-mask-rom-adapter/ Which will let you use.... https://www.amazon.com/AM29F010B-70JC-AM29F010B-AM29F010-29F010-PLCC32/dp/B07ZZJ6MN4/ I can't say if it will work with 2.06 as I still think you'd need a decoder. But if you're just looking for something better than TOS 1.02/1.04 EmuTos isn't a bad way to go.

No worries. Take care and hope that you are feeling lots better now.

Yesterday's (4/24) totals: Android 1) Retro Bowl College - 10 minutes 2) Snood - 10 minutes

Funny enough that game also made it to the NES in the dumbest way by renaming it Kiwi Kraze and it largely flies under the radar, few really realize it exists let alone is The NewZealand Story. I hadn't seen a copy in probably 10-15 years and a few weeks ago I came across a copy, snapped it up. Despite the few lesser colors, it was the 8bit console home port of choice as it was the most intact compared to the arcade original, fair, but a hard game, quite well done.

The Upmonsters hit two RBIs in the 4th inning and one more in the 8th as they shoot down the Bombers today 3-0.

I am working on a game that I would like to use custom voices on. This topic has been swirling around lately and it seems like I need to contact many people to try and figure things out. Perhaps a dedicated thread might help Currently, we can just use the native voice which sounds robotic. Custom voices can be created by recording a person's voice, resampling the voice in Audacity software. Then it needs to be run through a special software that only a chosen few have access to. Mike's Gaming Gala did a video here on how to resample. Also The Intellivision Gamer had a live show discussing the topic with Mike and William here My first question is do I need to use JLP Bank Switching? or can a game contain custom voices without it? Anyone Know?

I think one of the problems with a lot of AAA games are the scummy practices of the studios who make them. Releasing incomplete and buggy games with huge downloads, followed by huge updates to fix the bugs (some of which never get fixed) and then paid DLC to complete the games. Plus, some of them include online stores where you can pay real money to buy stuff, and borderline gambling with things like loot boxes. By comparison, a lot of smaller games are released complete and with as few bugs as possible, because they're made by studios who actually still care, and who also know they won't have a guaranteed sale on the name of their studio alone. And, they will sell the game, which costs way less to produce than a AAA title, at a fair price to recoup production costs and usually not include things like paid DLC, online stores or loot boxes. It's just a more authentic game experience, especially for those of us who grew up in pre-internet days of gaming.

Note that your screen data should be aligned to memory pages. In particular, a 4K boundary should not be in the middle of a screen data. If so, you also need a special display list that points to the start of the second "half" past the boundary.

Well, that definitely makes you an expert on the system, that's for sure!