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I am not Vinnie, but it is speculation right now. He found this information on Lance Blog. Lance of Video 61 has been cleaning out his warehouse has discovered that he has Atari 7800 EMPROMS that he didn't know that he had according to his blog. One of EPROMS has a handwritten label that looks to say “Riot”. This is an EPROM and not a RIOT chip for the Atari 2600 according Lance. That EMPROM label has a date of 7-20-93 and has the number 2 circled like in the game needs 2 chips in order to test the game. https://forums.atari.io/blogs/entry/536-i-may-have-found-road-riot-4wd-for-atari-7800-along-with-more-interesting-atari-7800-eproms/ I do know there is supposed a update 7800 EMPROM findings tomorrow from Lance.
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Nope. My younger brother is one of the people that pre-orders the cart adaptors for the pocket and he still didn't get his cart adaptor yet.
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I can tell you that the percentage is likely higher for not active on the forum. My younger brother buys games from the Atariage store, but never signed up to be a member of the forums to my knowledge.
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ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream
8th lutz replied to ZeroPage Homebrew's topic in Homebrew Discussion
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Too bad the 7800 never got a port of Rainbow Islands
8th lutz replied to KrunchyTC's topic in Atari 7800
The Atari 7800 not having a port of Rainbow Islands makes perfect sense. The timing wasn't there for the 7800 getting Rainbow Islands during its commercial life considering Taito was publishing games for NES, Pc Engine, Sega Genesis and I believe SMS at the time. As far as Rainbow Islands not having a homebrew port, there is a lot of explanations of why not. Atari 7800 homebrew cartridges from the Atariage Store couldn't go higher than 48k for many years before there was a board that is able to do 128k,144k and 256k Atari 7800 cartridge sized homebrew games. I think it was around 2014 to 2017 time frame when Atariage store first was able to sell Atari 7800 homebrew games that were 128k or higher in cartridge size. This is a key fact because I feel Rainbow Islands is one of those games needs to be a cartridge higher than a 48k cartridge size to do the game justice. The Atariage store for many years had issues getting Pokey sound chips for 7800 games. The 3rd thing with the 7800 homebrew scene is the scene does not have a lot of homebrew authors that do arcade ports compare to the amount of Arcade games that do not a have a port of the 7800. You might as well attempt a 7800 homebrew port as a result. The 4th thing with the homebrew scene is homebrew authors usually don't take requests for homebrew arcade ports. The 5th thing is Arkanoid and Tetris are the only 2 arcade game homebrew authors to my knowledge that have been attempted that came out in the arcade after 1984. The final thing is I know based on posts on this forum that there are people want Bubble Bobble on the 7800 and that likely means Rainbow Island is not high on priority considering Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands are part of the same series. -
Analogue Duo is something I consider. I am a Tg-16 owner with an adapter to play to play Pc engine cards. I became a Tg-16 owner around 2005 or 2006. I stayed from the CD side of the system for a reason. I read Turbo duo has a history of durability issues. I read in the past the pc engine Duo R systems are the best in durability, but the demand has affected the price.
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Dates for next years Midwest Gaming Classic got announced. It is April 5th through April 7th. https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/attend/
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I am not surprised with the 2 Collections being announced. I remembered Blazing mentioned a 2nd C64 collection last year and I recalled the same with Toaplan collection 2. Going into this year, C64 collection 2, Toaplan Collection 2, and Amiga Collection 1 were basically automatics for this year for Evercade collections with the only question was when in 2023. I mentioned Amiga because in October of last year, Blaze announced a partnership with Amiga.
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I doubt Atariage would do a custom cartridge. What happened is the homebrew author only wants it as a rom only release and did not ask for Capcom's permission. The 2nd thing is the game uses a YM2151 sound chip for music. Game sound for the game is TIA. The only way by cartridge is Flash Cartridge, but not all can do the game due to the YM2151 sound chip. I know Dragonfly Flash cart is able to. I know Retro HQ's 7800 GD Cartridge will be able to handle the game when the 7800 GD comes out.
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I would expect a TG-16/Pc Engine cartridge to be much different than the games on the TG-16 Mini. I think Blaze getting an agreement with Konami is not going to be easy without certain stuff in an agreement like what happened with Namco and Capcom. Konami owns Hudson Soft. A Tg-16/Pc Engine game cartridge would have games from Telenet, Data East, and Irem. I mentioned Telenet because the company that has rights to Renovation IP games also has rights games that Telenet published in Japan.
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I know Perry was working with Curt when he died. I know Tep had problems with Mark also with the 7800 XM also. I do have proof of Curt claiming Mark was working on the 7800 XM in 2020 although that is odd. Curt Mentioned Mark aka Groovybee working on the User end bios on March 11, 2020 post: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/300377-xm-has-shipped/?do=findComment&comment=4479375 If Mark aka Groovybee wasn't working on the user end bios according March 11th, 2020, why would Curt claimed Mark was working on it? Also this is a link that showed Curt mentioned he emailed Mark about the bios on July 18th, 2020 post: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/300377-xm-has-shipped/?do=findComment&comment=4588420
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Mark was involved with Atariage members past July of 2018. He was still was one of the Volunteers of the Atari 7800 XM past July of 2018. Curt Vendel mentioned his involvement as late as July of 2020. I was under the impression Mark was still involved with the project based what Curt mentioned at the time with him used terms like email. A month after Curt sent an Email to Mark, Curt past away. I don't know if anyone for the 7800 XM team contacted Mark after Curt's death. I know the project was on hold due to Curt's death and is assumed canceled. I am sure the need to contact Mark for the 7800 XM is not there since the project almost vaporware. I know a small amount of people got the 7800 XM that worked on the project including Mark himself I believe. The other thing is he's not a well liked person due to his past actions and him not being contacted does make sense. As far as the Intellivision scene goes with him, he was not completely honest with those people. The fact is Mark was working on the 7800 XM at times despite taking money for the 2 Intellivision games. Mark also was doing other Intellivision projects after accepting money for the 2 pre-order games.
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Evercade EXP release date is delayed till December 15th.
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Sega is not like Nintendo with IPS. Sonic is not a problem to my knowledge. Atariage Store does have Sega IP games and Albert never received a C & D from Sega unlike Nintendo.