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  1. Hello Lucas, I am definitely interested in purchasing one of these. Great design. Looking forward to updates on when they will be available on ebay. Good luck, thanks!
  2. I am very interested in purchasing 2 of these controllers (right handed) can i please be put on the list? thanks!
  3. Ok tested with the track ball, and with moon patrol. yes its definetly the analog controller- nothing new for the 5200!
  4. Correct i did mean the Bottom fire button (not the keypad). The vintage controller contacts were replaced a few years ago with gold contacts and a new mylar, so that is kind of a suprise. The Maker-matrix is probably going to be my default from now on anyway.
  5. I was recently playing Choplifter on a native rebuilt best electronics controller and noticed the bottom fire buttons did not work. I tried my second controller and same story- could not turn the helicopter around with the bottom button. Then i plugged in my Maker Matrix Dpad and lo and behold no problem, the button mapped to the bottom button worked fine. My current theory is that the issue is with the port and not the controllers. However i struggle to understand why the bottom button would work with a one controller (i beleive it is digital) but not the analog controller. Does any one more technical than me understand why? Another thing- i wanted to try to test another game but i am having a hard time finding a game in my collection that uses the bottom button if anyone knows of one off the top of their head. Thanks in advance
  6. Forgive me if this is posted elsewhere, but as I searched i could not find a printable checklist of the original 69 Atari 5200 games anywhere. I could not find a checklist on Digital Press while the one on RF Generation was missing a bunch of the original release titles for some reason. Anyway, i have no programming skills of any kind, so this PDF checklist of the original 69 games I attached is my humble contribution to the Community for my much beloved Atari 5200. Atari 5200 Original 69 Checklist.pdfIf anyone has a link to a better one that fits the bill. please feel free to post it. Thank you!
  7. As far as the interest check is concerned- count me interested!
  8. It looks like i am quite late to the party. Is anyone still selling or making these Atari Joystick Adapters for the INTV?
  9. FROSTBITE- absolute perfection on the 2600. I beat last summer's score!
  10. Back in Acti-plaque! I want to start out with an easy one to get back into Atari 2600 shape! Get to tha Choppaaa!
  11. No complaints here about my refurbished controller 6 months in. I thought I remembered Edladdin was considering making 5200 controllers. I wonder if he still has one in the works- here's hoping.
  12. Thanks for the repies: Bohoki- good suggestion, River Raid is good for testing the keypad. In fact, I used River Raid to test out the controller in the second port. As I suspected, the number inputs work correctly in the other port. Its too bad that you cant just play games as player 1 in the second port. I heard you could do that on the intellivision. The most sophisticated repair i have ever performed is fixing jittery Atari 2600 paddles by disassembling and cleaning the contacts. I have never soldered and don't own a soldering iron. But it seems be a big plus to be handy at repairs if you own a 5200. The way Zylon described it makes it sound like it is a pretty straightforward repair. Just open up the casing access the ports and solder the pins so they are straighted out? However what confused me was if the pins were bad, wouldnt they just not fire? Why would they output the opposite number accross the keypad? does anyone know what that would indicate and if soldering would help that? I wonder if i should just try to secure a new cheap 5200 on ebay from someone who has given up on it because their controllers dont work
  13. I have a refurb, controller and a 2nd controller that works relatively well and noticed the other day while playing Rescue on Fractulus for the first time that my Number 6 button did not work. I put in River raid and noticed that pressing the 3 button picks level 1, the 6 button picks level 4 and the 9 picks the 7. This is the case with both of the controllers, so I think it is not a controller issue, but a problem with the (super) system. Has any one had this issue and successfully fixed it? Thanks in advance!
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