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This is pretty cool! But why does the bowler start out with the ball in the left hand and then switch to the right?

Well, I got that completely wrong. I switched around the 10 and 40 in my head. And I must have replaced the board in my CX-10 with a CX-40 at some point because my CX-40 has a bubble board like the 40

The packing tape over the domes fix on the CX-10 has worked for me for years. There must have been some hybrids in this design, though. I know I've had CX-40's with the white plastic sticks and bubble switches that say TOP on the face and have the retaining ring.

Not tryin to be a weirdo here but why would you need a repair kit on a brand new, working joystick?

Pac-Man on the 2600 was the worst game ever, or at least the most disappointing. It was all downhill from there. ET just got in the way of the trainwreck.

I bought a Harmony cart in December of 2021 and got tired of the blank end so I made these for the end and the SD card. The gray bars are for the SD slot and USB. They seem to be more centered on my cart - I don't know if this is the standard now or not, but here's the .svg files as well - in case you want to move them around. The .png files are blown up x4 for better resolution but the .svg's are actual size. Harmony Label.svg SD card label.svg

Many more thanks for engineering this Harmony Encore cart. I ordered around the 1st of December and it came within a week and works flawlessly. I am in classic gaming heaven right now.

It's android based and can be sideloaded to your android device. Good luck configuring any keys on a phone, though. I loaded this onto my Ouya and, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to configure it to work with the controller. There's no documentation on the syntax for or how to write a kbd file for this app. I can't even navigate the menus properly. Link to .apk android-a7800-v1.1.0-apk.zip

The old adage, "if you don't have anything nice, then don't say anything at all," seems applicable here. Most of the posters have used it as argument against the OP since he has nothing nice to say about this homebrew game. However, that same argument can be used to support his opinion. The spirit of the original post was that most good homebrew games have a majority of effort in the programming, or design of the game itself regardless of the publishing costs. Publishing costs are the same no matter how good or bad the homebrew software is. So, just because a game costs $50 to produce and you sell it for $70, doesn't mean your game is worth $70 if it sucks. It doesn't even mean it's worth $50 because it cost $50 to produce. Chicken Shoot for the Wii cost $30 when it came out, and it definitely wasn't worth that, right? A re-skin of an old game that was never good in the first place does not add anything to the conversation and is better left unsaid. Let's be honest, the Smurf game for Colecovision had to be, possibly, one of the worst games ever made, period. Re-skinning it, reproducing carts and charging money for it amounts to not much more than a money grab for a little money above the effort for the publishing of the material. Profit which you are absolutely entitled to. But, don't expect to re-program ET with a new hat, call it Indiana Jones, and not get a lot of negative opinions on your "creativity". In 2014, we've come to expect a modicum of quality and innovation in the homebrew community. Original IP's, innovative programming and original titles add value to the library of existing titles and compliment the library of original classic games, not just add to the mediocrity that made up most of the libraries' hundreds of titles. Good, new titles are worth premium prices, the rest belong in a landfill.

That's quite harsh. I'm usually and old cranky curmudgeon, but I've had imeasurable fun with my Ouya. It's my go-to emulator console becuase of it's ease of use with the Nostalgia front end app. You say nothing good has been released in 6 months, but there are STILL more good games available for it than for my almost year-old, dust gathering PS4 right now. The convenience of being a tiny, little cube hooked up to a TV instead of another computer for a second media center is also invaluable. I don't need another $100 Roku box or anything else that streams Netflix when the Ouya streams fine and also plays games. And I can take it anywhere, quickly. It came in very handy on vacation where there was, god forbid, no internet available. And since streaming play has been introduced, along with local PC streaming, I'm not seeing this as a negative experience. Although it didn't start out that way, it has become well worth the $99 price I paid for it on Kickstarter.

My Ouya is now my permanent emulator console. I use Nostalgia, a pseudo-launcher for $1, for almost everything. I've also side-loaded the a5200, Vetrex, and a7800 apk's and while they are semi-functional, I don't seem to be smart enough to customize the controls for full functionality yet. The best classic games on the Ouya store are by Locomalito", and they're all free. http://www.locomalito.com/index.php Maldita Castilla, Gaurodan, and Verminian Trap have all been ripped from the 80's into a time warp and thrust onto my Ouya. Absolutely brilliant.