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Got a 99 not too long ago myself, diving into the library has been pretty great. I'll second the recommendations for Slymoids and Henhouse, both are great. Henhouse takes a little time to really get going but once it does it's frantic and awesome. I'd also suggest Treasure Island, Moon Mine, Ambulance, Meteor Belt, Bigfoot, Fathom, Picnic Paranoia and Space Bandits. Tunnels of Doom is great if you have a means to load the dungeons. It's a good bet that Parsec was in that initial batch of games you tried, but it's worth snagging a copy if it wasn't.

Thank you so much! Going to give this a shot.

Anyone know how to open up a TI-99 cart? Specifically the later beige ones with the plastic post instead of a screw; my copy of space bandits has a weird video error which I suspect is due to a cold solder joint.

Yeah I grabbed 7 tapes and 5 of them loaded and played just fine, they maybe played a little faster than intended but not to the point of being unplayable. The ones that worked were antimatter splatter, rockman, space snake, R.I.P. the game and multitron; no issues with any of those.

Thanks for the info carlsson, appreciate you being willing to spell the issue out for someone uneducated on this stuff like myself Sounds like I'm just gonna need to test games out on an emulator before going and buying tapes - thankfully most of the games I bought work just fine. I'm curious if there's any sort of documentation anywhere detailing which games were programmed solely for PAL, a lot of really interesting Vic games seem to have only been released in Europe on tape. I suppose I could just to the SD2IEC route and not have to worry about it but I really like having the physical media.

Noob question, hoping I can pick someone's brain here. I recently got a Vic and I'm quite interested in games on cassette from the UK. I bought a handful of tapes and booted them up and they play just fine, but two of them (Arcadia and Crazy Cavey) are off-center on my NTSC machine. I know this is because they were developed for PAL machines, and I'm wondering if there are any simple solutions to get this displaying properly without having to identify and poke the screen values for each game. I've been using the Vic through composite on an LCD TV and haven't tried it on a CRT yet, would this possibly make any difference? Or alternatively would one of those cheap Chinese NTSC to PAL converters potentially fix the issue?

Thanks carlsson. I'm curious, I have an adapter to use Genesis controllers on my TI-99\4a which doesn't even carry a signal from the A and C buttons, you think this would be safe to use?

How about for the Vic-20 specifically? I can't seem to find any concrete info on whether or not the Vic has the same issues with Genesis pads as the C64.