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That's exactly what it was. I got missile command and followed what you and crossbow said, everything works perfectly now! Thanks guys!

I would like to know what new stuff programmers have learned about the Jaguar after 30 years. Has it been determined how close the Jag can get to PS1's 3D capabilities yet? I know the Jag can do absolutely stunningly beautiful 2D graphics, there is no denying that!

Make sure you check the output of the voltage regulators prior to installing any cards. I've had bad, brand new, voltage regulators.

I’d be game for a 2600 and 7800 when they’re both ready if you’re still building a list.

That’s absolutely true. The end of the cable that connects to the controller can be removed and opened up, exposing the wires. And you can remove the entire cable from the console and the controller pretty easily as well. But if your goal is to REPLACE the original coiled cable with a straight / longer cable (and re-use the connectors at both ends of the original coiled cable), you should be OK with the controller end, although it takes patience and some ability with tools, and wire cutters / strippers if you are planning to thread all 9 wires of a new cable into the connector and reassemble it. But yes, no soldering is required. The end of the cable with the motherboard SIP connector will be more of a challenge. In my experience, there are a few variations of that connector. Some can be pulled apart, but some are sealed / molded plastic. You will likely destroy those when attempting to get them apart. Some can’t be taken apart at all, you would have to cut the wires, then try to push the pins out with an extractor tool. If you’re lucky, you might even be able to reuse those pins. Most likely you’ll need new ones, which will also require a crimping tool and a pin insertion tool. But yes, no soldering required.

It's been almost a month. Any updates on this?

Call of Duty Ghoost Colors: 23 plus src * Rastaconverter beta10 * output.xex

This is one of my favorite games on the Atari 8-bit computer.

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Yea, I searched a few days ago without finding anything, that is why I am going this route.

I thought I would share another one of my favorite SMS OSTs: I wonder how many Master System/Mark III games had parallax scrolling? (Sagaia was one of them.)

@ColecoGamer Were you inspired by the latest episode of Neo Geo Generation to pick it back up?

Thank you very much for mentioning this!! It is great that we can finally buy a replacement 7800 power supply. 😀

Got my old vbxe working in my 1088xld ntsc. Game looks great! Wish my trackball worked better. Need to see if I can find my ps2 mouse, or perhaps try my wireless mouse with the unijoystickle.

I must be a glutton for punishment, because I started Tomb Raider 3. So far I finished the first 3 (of 4) India levels. I got stuck 2 or 3 times so referenced Stella's TR guide. Some of the switches, buttons, and even movable blocks are difficult to spot. One puzzle would have wasted a lot of time without the guide, you push a block about 4 times forward and enter a chamber with a double rolling boulders trap. The thing is, if you don't notice you passed other pushable blocks, which eventually reveal a room-water-filling switch, you can go round and round trying to to figure out what to do. I found I was more annoyed by these India levels than anything I've played so far. At least Lara gets to battle a few 6-armed sword bearing statues. But mostly you kill giant snakes and little monkeys, ho hum. I don't like the additional mechanism of Lara getting poisoned by snakes or darts, which means you need to waste a medpack. The devs also added Lara's crouch and crawl, and the speed dash. I didn't know about the speed dash until I checked the guide, and you need to use it to get past spike wall challenges. There is a gruesome scene showing the fate of 2 earlier explorers. The game does not explain how they got into the death positions in which Lara finds them. I am the least familiar with this game, compared to the first 2. I know I did not beat TR3 ever, I probably grew tired of it and gave up. But it is cool to revisit it finally after all these years, with the remastered visuals.

Yeah, it is quite different. I mean, there are elements of the classic game play, but with a lot of newer stuff added too. I can definitely understand being hesitant. If you game on PC at all, the Steam version has a free demo. That might be worth a look before you spend your hard earned money on it.

Far be it from me to do as magnificent a job as Ed Fries did in incredibly porting Arcade Rally-X within the system's standard 4kb limits, without using switching tricks or extra resources, but I think we can do new and creative things using which is already recognized by many, uniting the classic with something new, of the type that is currently occurring with Pacman, which broke free from the classic maze for new challenges, created by the creative minds of the developers. Rally_Duel_01.bas Rally_Duel_01.bas.bin

I wonder if anyone ever made a tiny PCboard adapter to convert a uson to sop. I only seen uson to dip adapters and sop to dip ones.

I updated the first post with Part 2. Soon, I will post the XB GPL source code for RND accompanied by a translation to ALC. ...lee

I know there's no way to convert Game Gear Games to Master System without decoding in C, even today with like Level Editers

The include joy is crap. I'm unterly disappointed in it. I also have the Atari VCS controller and can't get it to work at all. first thing I tried. Edit: I used the reset hole and was able to get the joy to work; but can't start breakout with it.

It is pretty simple. The code does not clear the decimal and carry flag initially. Usually these are clear on real hardware, but not always. E.g. when you use flash carts or an emulator (in Stella you can disable randomizing the PS register in the developer settings). Then it checksums its code (also) using additions. With the decimal flag set, this results into a completely different result. Also a set carry flag will result into a wrong result. The game then jumps to a random address and sooner or later crashes.

oh I love viewpoint! The music in that game is so JAMMIN'! idky but my favorite is actually the Genesis port. Something about all that sprite flicker pushing the hardware to the MAX, haha. Third level music is best and yeah, boss battles are tough!

Well, after reading all of two sentences about the matter, I believe the guy skipped a very important step by not securing the intellectual property rights to Leisure Suit Larry prior to developing a derivative product based on it, made from scratch or otherwise. There could be other mitigating circumstances beyond your two sentences that may color my view, but I doubt by much. Why did he skip that step? I have no problem with this guy developing an unauthorized game for his own personal amusement. Or even uploading the .bin file -- for free -- for others to enjoy the fruits of his hard work via emulation. It's when he begins financially profiting from his unauthorized game that I object to. If he lives in a country where U.S. copyright laws cannot be enforced, that still does not matter very much to me. By neglecting to secure the IP rights to the original game CONCEPT and to its CHARACTERS, and then selling his game based on it, he has crossed a serious ethical line. He has made the conscious decision to profit from IP theft. This is just flat out wrong. Theft should never be rewarded, regardless of whether you live in a country where IP theft is legally enforceable or not. And if this guy finds himself getting sued by Sierra Entertainment (or whoever the legal copyright holders of LSL may now be), I gotta say he has it coming to him. Intellectual property rights theft may not matter much to you, but it does to me. If this guy intends to sell his game for any amount greater than the cost of materials to manufacture it, I surely won't be one of his customers. I cannot condone software piracy (which this is clearly not), nor can I condone or support unethical profiteering (which this clearly is). As a member of the human race, I feel an obligation to be better than that. If I sound a little "preachy," may I remind you that you did ask me how I felt about projects such as this. Oh, and I think Infocom created a similar game in The Leather Goddesses of Phobos, except they did it much better. I love that game! -Ben

54000 A bit better. Thanks for the info playvectrex.