yarjr Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 (edited) Now mind you I have only been collecting for a little while now and have a relatively modest collection of about 80 working Atari 2600 games but I find my few Telesys games come broken. Not that they don't work, chips fine and all unlike some of my intellivision 2600 titles, but the case parts inside that keep the board in place seem to always be broken. Ive fixed mine but in a very crude way, fixing a copy of Coconuts right now with epoxy, and its kind of annoying. Ive read ,probably on this forum, that Telesys was a budget publisher and thats why they have such low quality cases but interesting thing is I find that they have metal shields over their chips that the few other publishers Ive opened up don't have. What I would have done is nixed the shield and spent a few more pennies on the plastic housing. Then again I'm still a noob so who knows. Maybe those were necessary? Anyway you got any Telesys games still intact? Edited July 20, 2013 by yarjr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOliver Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Metal shields were used to reduce electromagnetic interference which could mess up the TV picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarjr Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 This I know but Ive opened other publishers games and they didn't have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I made the Bouncing Baby Bunnies run, around 25% of the donors I received, were broken. Those shells are crap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOliver Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 This I know but Ive opened other publishers games and they didn't have them. It's purely a call each manufacturer made, even depending on the cart. For example Games by Apollo used shields because they saw other carts had them, so they just did the same. The shield isn't strictly something that's required for the cart to work. It only reduces risk of interference on the TV screen. Like maybe 10% of TV sets might be prone to EMI problems for many reasons and the shield could reduce that risk. EMI can be dealt with many ways. For example I believe the TV switch box that came with the 2600 has a ferrite core inside used to reduce EMI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightybeanz1999 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Just looked at my 3 games of them Fast Food is the only one not broken. So they're out there just uncommon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarjr Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Yeah I thought as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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