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  1. Multicarts with an OS/Booting on-screen menus do not work with the Atari 2600+. The Harmony cart will work in developer mode for 2600 games, which basically removes the Harmony menu system and flashes a single game rom to the card, thus it's no longer a multicast until you put the Harmony OS back on it. The Dragonfly cart will work for 7800 games because it loads the ROM from an on-cart screen menu and then you turn on the 7800 the 2600+ dumps the ROM. Unfortunately this was a limited run Cart that is no long available.
  2. So are we watching "A Perfect 14" on the 2600 on the show tomorrow night? 😉
  3. I would love to add this box variation to my collection. Was it primarily distributed in EUR PAL?
  4. Don’t tell him that. Now he is gonna go cry in a corner. 🤣😂
  5. Nice, thanks for the update. I have expressed interest here and added my name to the unofficial list here but also added my email to your store today. Very excited to try this crazy thing that everyone wants and no one really needs.
  6. I think that option ended long ago. When did @juansolo do the build your own option. I thought that tep quit offering them mainly because of supply and sourcing reasons. 🤷🏻
  7. Nearly all of these have NTSC conversions already. They are in the Rom Hunters ROM Archive. World End doesn't But most of the others already do. You just haven't looked very hard. They have been available for years in his ROM archive. --- Actually, I just checked and there is a ROM named - The End Of The World in the collection so I think all of them have been done. Just download the 19.0 version for AtariMania.
  8. I don’t know. It just looks like someone who didn’t take care of their stuff. Mine is very clean. No price tag in sight.
  9. I just had ANOTHER successful transaction with @eightbit. I bought a new 2600 game. It was packed well, shipped promptly, and arrived safe and sound. Thanks again.
  10. They should also show a picture of the manual in the product picture. Atari's last two standard releases, Berzerk and Mr. Run and Jump don't include manuals so I think people will just assume these other releases are not going to come with manuals when they are not listed in the product description or shown in the pictures unlike the "Limited Edition" versions of Mr. Run and Jump, Fatal Run 2600, Outlaw, etc.
  11. Well, they should probably update their product listing because all of their standard editions state that they only come with box and cart. The limited edition offerings the product details say Game Cartridge and Instructions. 🤷🏻
  12. I still don't understand the philosophy of not including manuals in these re-releases.
  13. I entered this community in 2016. And immediately started buying homebrews from Al in the AA Store. The homebrew scene has exploded since then. With the advent of multiple 7800 multicarts the 7800 scene really took off. I am thankful that I had been buying “ports” here a little and there a little all along the way. Every year I noticed the orders taking a little longer to ship. Which I had no problem with. From early on I understood that the AA Store was a one man show. Many people had no clue that something so big as the AA Store was a one man show. So I would constantly see people on the AA FB group that basically were complaining after a two week wait. I always replied that in the instant gratification world of Amazon Prime we have become very impatient. My first reply to these complaints were that it was a one man show and not Prime. Literally every game was built to order for the most part. When the Last Chance Sale was announced I didn’t have to make hard choices. There were basically 6 ports that I had passed on originally because of other games that I wanted more. I basically ordered about the same of games that I usually ordered each year. I knew this announcement was going to bring people out of the woodwork. People who had never ordered for whatever reason were having to make difficult decisions to be able to pay for large orders. I remember a particular person stating that he was not going to pay his rent on time and was going to be subject to some serious service charges because he just had to have all these games that he had just always assumed would be there. This kind of choice was inconceivable to me. But even more new people entered the scene with the Last Chance Sale announcement. Again, this was primarily people who didn’t understand how the AA Store operated. Even with Al’s multiple email updates some of these people had no concept of the sheer amount of games that Al was going to have to deal with for the Last Chance sale and this was on top of the upcoming new PRGE releases that he also needed to focus on and build. I can’t imagine the stress and pressure that this placed on him. In the end everyone is gonna get their Last Chance games. People just need to be patient. The other problematic situation that this delay creates is all of the even more NEW people that the 2600+ has brought to the scene. As those of us who ordered games in June and July start getting our orders and post our mail calls all of these newbies don’t understand what that have missed out on from discovering these games way to late and make posts complaining that they can’t get these new/old games. It’s a very frustrating situation.
  14. It might be Shark Attack which is essentially the same game with the bug fix that CPUWIZ mentioned above, but there is no way that it is Lochjaw with the green PCB and masked rom.
  15. I think you have a LATE version of Shark Attack and not Loch Jaw. Apollo used Eproms in their early releases. It wasn't until later on that they used masked ROMs. Loch Jaw was recalled and discontinued very quickly and renamed Shark Attack after the Universal Studios lawsuit. That is why it is so rare.
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