SuperCharger

[J-DEE]

Is the supercharger a worth while purchase? I was looking at one on Ebay. Anyone have one?

[Joel D. Park]

It's a very cool item. Once you get it, you can play many 4K or 2K games from Rom Images that can be converted into WAV files and played out of your PC to the super charger...

 

Also there are CD's available and stuff..

[J-DEE]

Joel,

 

Is there a website where I can get more info about it and what's available for it?

[The Night Phantom]

Joel's answers are good but unfairly overlook the original purpose of the SuperCharger, which is to serve as a conduit for games never published in cart form at all but instead on audiocassette. The thirteen titles originally created for the SuperCharger vary in quality but do contain some gems—in particular I enjoy Frogger (not to be confused with Parker Brothers' cart version, the SuperCharger edition is practically arcade-perfect) and Fireball (variations on the Breakout concept). As the Frogger redux attests, the SuperCharger format permits a complexity, especially noticeable in the graphics department, that is difficult to achieve with ordinary VCS carts. In addition, some SuperCharger games are "multi-loaders"; i.e., they can be loaded and played one segment at a time, such as the first-person maze game Escape From the Mindmaster and the RPG Dragonstomper.

 

Cyberpunks Entertainment has produced an officially licensed CD-ROM which contains all the original SuperCharger games (accessible via an ordinary audio CD player), plus ROM images for later homebrews and lots of other goodies. The CD-ROM is called Stella Gets a New Brain and can be ordered directly from the Cyberpunks Web site. Well worth picking up, in my opinion.

[Joel D. Park]

Hehe,

 

Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut. Can any of you guys help out here??

 

I believe the program was called MakeWav or something like that. You just pass the program a Atari.BIN file and it makes a wave out of it. Then you can plug the Super Charger into the sound out in your PC Sound card and load the game into the Atari 2600.

 

You can also record to tape or CD and play into the super charger that way.

 

It's been a long while ago..

[Joel D. Park]

Hey,

 

Here's some info on MakeWav.

http://members.home.net/rcolbert1/

[Joel D. Park]

Yes, this is true

I didn't want someone spending alot of money on my account..

 

But...

Escape from the mindmaster is an incredible scrolling 3-D maze, really amazing for the 2600. All the games look really good.

 

Also, I'm not 100% sure, but I dont' think anyone has learned how to emulate the games made just for Supercharger, so they are all games you can't play any other way, without the super charger.

 

Later,

Joel D. Park

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Actually...

 

If you can find the supercharger games as .bin files. They will play in z26. I have played Frogger this way...and also got started on DragonStomper.

 

In other words...z26 can do it all.

[MattyXB]

Yes, there are all Supercharger games as ROMs avaible. And the most are playable. On StellaX too.

 

There is an other programm with this you can make Bin files. Makebin???? maybe. I think must be found on the same site as the programm Makewav. With this you can make from your Supercharger tapes the bin files.

 

Matthias

[Joel D. Park]

Awesome!! Thanks for filling me in. I'll have to check out the Starpath roms.

 

I've never had a chance to play all 5 (or howmany) Party Mix games there are.. I always loose my place on the tape when I get around game 3... My tape player SuX.

 

Thanks and Forgive me for my Incorrect or Outdated information.

Joel D. Park