theoakwoody

I’d say Robotron is very impressive with the number of sprites it was pushing but unfortunately didn’t make it into his video.

I play console games on an old ibm vga monitor and it’s fantastic. It’s not cheap but if you pick up a retrotink you can go rgb or svideo to hdmi and then vga convertors are very cheap but reliable. Everything looks great with minimal lag. It’s as close to a PVM setup as I’ll ever have.

I owned both as a kid. My grandma had got us a Sears arcade ii with 30+ 2600 games from a garage sale around 1986 or so. I remember watching my dad be able to beat pitfall ii and it seemed impossible. The system broke so we got a 7800 thinking it was just a replacement and had no clue it played better games as pole position ii never really made me think it was that much different. The only new games we bought were 2600 games (Pac-Man jr, skateboardin’, Mario’s bros, realsports football). My brother got an NES for his bday in 1988 and I pretty much never played the 7800 for years. We didn’t get Super Mario with the system but we picked up castlevania and mighty bomb jack with Zelda being our 3rd game I think. if I would have known better as a 7 year old I would have picked up robotron and found a way to bolt down both controllers for some dual shooter action.

Everyone talks about the NES in the US but it was released in Japan in 1983 and nothing could touch it for years. The sega master system came out in 1985 but no one in Japan cares about its amazing graphics because the famicom was already established as the dominant player. Nintendos foresight to allow mappers to be easily implemented through cartridges kept the console relevant for a long time. My first system was the 7800 but I was 6 and had no clue that I did anything but play 2600 games. I almost think the backwards compatibility hurt the 7800 because it confuses kids as to what games played on it. I bought Mario bros, Pac-Man jr, skateboardin’, real sports football at toys r us and loved them in 1986 even though they were 2600 games. Once I got the NES I put the 7800 for a while.

I know that coleco had the rights back in 82 and made the Gemini and 2600 add on for the colecovision so they were basically designing games for systems they produced. The 7800 versions didn’t come out until 1988 so by then the 5200 had been discontinued for a long time. I think Atari somehow used their rights to the computer versions to be able to publish the 7800 versions.

Thanks! I loaded the 3 rom files (including the updated boot1.rom) into the games/coco3 folder and Istill just get a purple screen with “@“ signs full screen. I have the 128 meg expansion so not sure why it won’t load ip.

I was about 6 or 7 when we bought the 7800 in 1986 to replace the sears arcade ii that no longer worked. I was too young to understand the difference between the 2600 and 7800 especially because the packaging looked so similar so I only had Pole Position II for the 7800. I bought Mario Bros, Realsports football, pacman jr, and skate boardin' for 2600 thinking these were new games for the 7800 and had a lot of fun with them. I got the NES the next year so never picked up another 7800 game during its retail life. If I could have gone back and done it all over again I would have bought Robotron and played the hell out of it with twin sticks. Food Fight and Galaga probably would have been the other early games I would have loved as a 7 year old.

I haven’t gotten this to work yet. I’m guessing the issue is the boot i doe loaded isn’t correct as I get a black screen.

I’d like to be added to the list.

I saw the swap joysticks option. I wonder why you would use that option?

Great to hear I remember pitfall ii not running on the 2600 core. Super excited to try different palettes with the 7800.

I just played this again this morning and it’s such an amazing port. With the sprite limits turned off this game is so close to the original. Has the member who created this done any other Tate mode projects? Also, Simone mentioned that there was a Tate port of Pac-Man for the nes as well. Does anyone know where the rom may be available for that?

Thanks for posting. I couldnt get it to work on my dragonfly.

Even after watching his video I still struggled a bit to figure out the setup. I ended up ordering the power adapter off of digikey and then everything ran smooth. I’ve only had a chance to play a few games including scrapyard dog, which id never played before, but so far this thing is totally worth the price to have the entire library plus home brews.

+1 (Pokey&YM)