The Rook

Okay, so technically it is not a 7800 cartridge. It's a 2600 cartridge that either has a green label for the 2600 or a yellow label for the 7800. But either way, it's a 2600 cartridge that will play in either a 2600 or a 7800 regardless of the label.

I recently bought a 32-in-1 cartridge for the 7800 from eBay from an Australian seller. It arrived today and looking at it, I can see a green label underneath the yellow 7800 label. This made me suspicious and worried that this was a fake. Or someone was trying to pass off a 2600 version for a 7800 version. So looking on here one post I found talked about how the 2600 32-in-1 carts were reused for the 7800 in Australia. Is this true? Are there other versions of this 32-in-1 cart from Europe that did not do this? https://atariage.com/forums/topic/27994-questions-about-32-in-1/

This is all it does when I plug it in:

Sorry, pressing power, menu, and EXIT at the same time to do a factory reset. It just freezes and says: Factory default Please wait...|

I just bought a used DVDO iScan Duo on eBay and it arrived Monday. I planned on connecting 2 consoles that use component (PS2 and my CMVS) and all of my HDMI modded consoles to it for convenience. Tried it out for the first time yesterday and I can't seem to get it to work. It has a red light and just says "iScan Duo DVDO" on the front screen. None of the buttons on the front of the device do anything. It didn't come with a remote so I programmed my Logitech Harmony remote for the DVDO iScan Duo and that doesn't seem to do anything either. I connected several devices to multiple HDMI ports and nothing. I found online how to do a factory reset by pressing the power, menu, and enter buttons at the same time for several seconds. That did kick it into factory reset but it just froze on that and never seems to have finished. Does anyone have any experience with the DVDO iScan Duo or any information that could help? I paid over $200 for it and if I can't get it to work soon, I'm going to have to return it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Yeah, it would be cool to participate in testing this if it is still going to be made.

They are out. I checked several months ago. The CRT for MAME is out of stock and no longer in production. It was expensive too.

I believe one of the videos I saw online about Launchbox was yours! I don't remember, are you only using it for arcade games or do you have other systems on there as well? Maybe I'll have to rewatch your video...

Okay, I don't really want to be forced to run older versions of MAME. Seems like Windows is definitely the way to go.

Is anyone using a Raspberry Pi 3 for a MAME cabinet? I think because of the difficulty with obtaining a CRT I'm going to go with an LCD in horizontal orientation. Then maybe down the road I could look into have a dedicated horizontal and dedicated vertical. But I think I first need to build one, see how much use I get out of it.

Also, there's another frontend for Windows named Launch Box that has a BigBox mode for TVs and cabinets. I've only seen a few videos showing it. I have no experience with GameEx or Hyperspin. I have used Maximus Arcade, and while it was nice, it uses Flash and hasn't been updated in years at this point. Anyone have any experience with Launch Box with BigBox mode? I'm curious how these frontends would look with a vertically oriented monitor.

So it sounds like Windows will be fine and boot screens can be hidden. I did a little digging this afternoon and found a video were one guy hid pretty much everything, boot screen, windows welcome screen, windows login, so I should be able to do something similar. LCD seems to be the way I'll be going. CRTs are proving difficult to find and it seems that the best commercial CRT was being sold at X-Arcade is no longer being produced. Now, as far as orientation and what games I'd like to play, ideally, all of them, but that might be asking too much. I found a list of vertical arcade games but couldn't find a list of horizontal games. I'd like to make a 2-player cabinet with 2 sets of joysticks and buttons and a trackball in the middle. As far as what games I'd like to play, definitely the classics: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mr. Do, Lady Bug, Galaga, Galaxian, Q-Bert, etc. But also some 2 player games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, Simpsons, etc. And definitely Street Fighter 2.

I'm in the planning stages of building my own MAME cabinet. I have some parts picked out (controls, speakers, motherboard, etc.) and can manage putting together a lower to mid-range PC capable of emulating the games. But before I start buying stuff a few questions popped into my head: 1) What is the best OS and MAME frontend to use? I'd like the machine to turn on and not show the Windows startup screen or boot screens or anything like that. I'd like it to boot as seamlessly as possible into the frontend. I'm not sure what the best frontend is either. I know there is GameEX, Hyperspin, Maximus Arcade all of which are Windows only frontends. 2) What is the best monitor to use? With CRTs pretty difficult to come by, especially larger monitors, it seems an LCD or LED monitor is what I will end up with. Is there one that people favor over others or is there something specific to look for with an LCD/LED monitor? 3) Monitor orientation: portrait or landscape? Since the monitor will most likely be an LCD or LED monitor it will be 16:9 aspect ratio. How should the monitor be oriented? Are there more games that benefit from a portrait or landscape orientation? This also got me thinking about Punch Out for the arcade. It had 2 screens. How will that be handled with a single screen? Any help answering these questions would be appreciated. And if this is not an appropriate place for these questions please let me know where the best place would be. Thank you.

Am I too late to get on the list?

Didn't know about this until today. I love the 7800, a flash cart would be great!!! I'll definitely get one when they become available!!!