Esper Wizard

And I thought my memory card was small. I went to a friend of mine, who has many SD cards, and I asked him for the smallest capacity SD card that he had. He was surprised, and eventually found a 512 MB card. It has more than 100 Atari 2600 games and it's mostly empty.

I have never played that version. Thanks! The only bug I noticed is that Pac-Man moves faster vertically than horizontally. Is there any way he could move as slow vertically as he does horizontally? By the way, I'm playing this game on a Harmony and an Atari 2600 Jr. Maybe that bug only appears on original hardware. For now, I'm keeping both versions: with slow and fast monsters. If it were not for that bug I would only keep the fast version. It is more challenging and the monsters' AI is closer to the arcade version.

Hello: I just finished a series of posters of different Atari 2600 games. One poster has Imagic games, one poster has Activision games, one poster has what I call "old" Atari games (with their first box design), and one poster has the "new" Atari games (with all the other box designs they had after the first one). I got all the box scans from AtariAge. I hope they don't mind. Thank you AtariAge! I did the posters originally on InDesign, although the copies I share are pdfs. So everybody should be able to open them. They are on Tabloid size (11 by 17 inches). When you print them you can either choose "shrink to fit" or "actual size". I chose "actual size" and it didn't cut off any of the logos or the pictures of the boxes on the laser printers that I used. Objects were mostly within the "safe zone". Feel free to use them for anything you want. Print them, save them, share them. And by the way, the posters don't contain all the games. They contain what I call a "representative sample". A few games were omitted in order for the game boxes to fit well within the page. With the Activision games, I only included the "rainbow" design they used throughout most of their Atari 2600 era. It made for a more consistent look. That means I did not include some of their best games, like H.E.R.O., Beamrider, and Pitfall II. Here are the links to the files below. I hope you like them: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vd0338ephbk39hf/Activision_games.pdf http://www.mediafire.com/file/l3ahfk7d9oaa94g/Imagic_games.pdf http://www.mediafire.com/file/xar7m1kmarygyge/new_Atari_games.pdf http://www.mediafire.com/file/cpah17o9bhcmnig/old_Atari_games.pdf

I received my Harmony Cart today. Since I had to go to work, I could only play two games: Quadrun and Demon Attack. Thank God I already prepared an SD card for it. Both games ran very well. It takes games about a second to load, which I don't have a problem with. It is still more convenient than walking back to the bookcase and getting the individual cartridges from there. The user interface is very well done. The fact that you can move the joystick left and right to change screens save you a lot of time. Thank you to all the developers for making such a great product. My SD card has 512 MB, about 160 games, and it's mostly empty. :-)

The Atari 2600 Jr arrived yesterday. I tested it yesterday and today with several cartridges. It works very well and the image looks very beautiful. The image is not as sharp as if it were a VGA image, although compared with the image from an RF cable the difference is like night and day. I also don't have to set it up to the right channel, like before. I was also impressed with how little that console was. The original (Woodgrain) Atari 2600 was as big as the original XBox. This model is a little bit smaller than the Genesis Model 1 I also have. This is now my favorite 2600 model by far. You guys can keep all your Heavy Sixers. :-) I should've bought it a long time ago, although it is my experience that I do things when I am ready. Anyway, I'm sure I will greatly enjoy my console (the first console I ever had, revisited) and will play with it a lot more often than I did before. Once my Harmony Cart arrives I will post about it on a thread inside the "Harmony Cartridge" subforum here.

After waiting for more than a month and not receiving an answer, I went ahead and bought from eBay an Atari 2600 Jr with only S-Video (no composite). I also ordered a Harmony Cartridge. The console should arrive a lot sooner than the Harmony since they only ship the Harmony once a week and I placed the order right after the day Harmonies are usually shipped. That's alright; that's a good excuse to test the individual cartridges I already have. I will see how it goes.

Hello: I'm tired of passing the signal from my Atari 2600 through a VCR, setting the monitor to the correct channel, and then enduring the lousy image from the RF cable. I would like to buy an Atari 2600 Jr console with the S-Video and Composite video mod, like the one Electronic Sentimentalities sells. I sent him an email on December 20, 2015, and he hasn't answered yet. The email didn't bounce, so he got it. Would he be able to see my message here? Or would somebody else be able to provide the same service? I want to buy specifically the Atari 2600 Jr because it is the smallest fully compatible console. I presume I will be able to use the Harmony Cart with the modded console without problems. I will buy that after I buy the console. Thank you.

I got my Wiz two days ago from the gp2xstore. Here are my first impressions: It is a little bigger than I expected. I can carry it in my pocket, but with the leather carrying case it feels as bulky as my first iPod. Even though the surface is glossy, it has a slight texture on it, so it doesn't attract fingerprints much. The red on the console looks metallic, which did not look like that on any of the photos. It's cool, though. I made a mistake while installing the screen protector, so the bottom of the screen is not covered. Once I start a game I don't notice it, though. The screen is very bright. I have seen the diagonal line a few times, but it doesn't bother me that much. The touchscreen was way off until I calibrated the screen. Now it's way better (still not perfect). The d-pad doesn't feel as good as the one on my Game Boy Micro. I'm having trouble changing directions in games like Ms Pac-Man. The buttons are a little too close to each other, but I can get used to it. I like the fact that I can rotate the "portrait" games like Ms Pac-Man and Burger Time so they take up the entire screen. That alone justifies the purchase of the console. Of course, that makes the controllers harder to use, but who cares. I cannot judge how easy are the diagonals to perform, because as far as I know, you cannot reconfigure the button configuration in MAME4ALL, and I'm used to the Neo Geo CD controller. So I cannot do the special moves in games like Fatal Fury Special. If anybody knows if the buttons can be reconfigured, please let me know. Speaking about Neo Geo games, the Wiz does not have enough RAM to load some of my favorite Neo Geo games, like King of Fighters 98 and Last Blade. A shame. You also have to overclock the Wiz so there is no slowdown on Neo Geo games, but that doesn't bother me. At 700 MHz Neo Geo games don't have much slowdown. Some games have too much detail to be really "viewable" in such a small screen without hurting your eyes. Metal Slug is almost like that. Money Puzzle Exchanger is definitely hard to see in such a small screen. But there is no way in hell I would like a larger screen. This is my first GPH console; one of the main reasons why I never had a GP32 or GP2X was because I thought they were too big. The strongest feeling I have about the Wiz is that it feels like a PC, not like a console. I stayed until 3 am the first night after I got it configuring the games in MAME so they ran properly, and I'm not done. Some games like Gradius, Gradius II, Moonwalker, and Mortal Kombat don't run properly or at all, even though the package I got is supposedly complete. But what I lose in plug-and-play I gain in customability. Once I finish tweaking it, I will only have games I like there. I am happy with it and see myself taking it with me for years.

I would buy one only if it had three, or even better, six buttons, arranged the way they were on the original Genesis controllers: three horizontal buttons, and probably three horizontal buttons above them. Four "diagonal" buttons, plus two shoulder buttons are not acceptable. This is not a Super Nintendo.

Thank you or the video. I *will* buy it as soon as it comes out, even though its price has gone up (from $40 to $75).

I've had this website for years. It was my first website. But only last night I added my favorite games for the Atari 2600 to it. Feel free to visit it if you get bored. I hope you like it. http://www.althena.com

Even though I have a Flashback 2 already, I would definitely buy a portable Flashback 2. It would be better if it were more compatible with games than the "standard" Flashback 2, but I would buy it even if it's "only" as compatible as the original. I love the fact that you can upload your own games, and on a Mac too!

As you can see on my thread How To Connect a Heavy Sixer my Atari 2600 works, so it's time I add its serial number to this list: 49868F I am proud to be an owner of an Atari 2600, and a Heavey Sixer to boot!

The 2600 works! My coworker game me a second (Sears Heavy Sixer) 2600. My roommate let me borrow his VCR he no longer uses, and I could connect it. It was a pain to program the VCR, since you can only set it to channel 3 or 4 with the remote control. The power supply for the first 2600 didn't work very well, (it stops giving power for a fraction of a second after a while and crashes the games) but the one from the second one works fine. I will take take the Sears 2600 to work so we can play after work (one of my coworkers asked for it). Thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread; you have been a big help. Here I include a picture of my setup. In case you are wondering how I can find all these 2600s, the coworker who gave them to me is doing an art internship at the San Francisco dump, and people leave "all sorts of cool stuff" there. I spent several hours playing with the 2600 already. Look at the time this post was made. :-)

Thanks to everybody who answered. Last night we tried to connect the 2600 to two different TV sets and it didn't work. First I bought the Coaxial Female to RCA adapter at Radio Shack. You can see that part here: http://www.atariage.com/howto/connect.html The first TV spent a long time searching for a channel, and we got tired of this. With the second TV, nothing happened when we turned it on with a cartridge. My co-workers complained that the 2600 made no noise when we turned it on, but as far as I remember the one I had when I was little made no noise either. I did notice the power supply cable fit kind of loose on the back's port. The video cable seemed also loose. As soon as I came home I opened it up. All the connections seemed very well soldered and firmly in place. It seemed like it was "built like a tank." Next I will try with a different power supply and will also try to find a cheap or free VCR locally (San Francisco). I'm not giving up yet.