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  3. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by StanJr:

    Alex!

    You played the 2600 versions of AD&D? How were they? And why can't somebody give up the ROMS?

     

    Yes, Intellivision Productions had the proto carts at the show and they were allowing people to play them. They were actually very good, and quite complete. I should have taken more screenshots though! The ROMs are owned by Intellivision Productions and I doubt they will ever release them due to licensing issues with Wizards of the Coast (TSR). It's a little different issue for them to release something like that since they're a profit company and they could get in trouble. Since they've released several other games, I bet they would like to do it but can't. But if they can't sell them, I wish there were some way to release them freely. Unfortunately, when you mention the word "free" most companies suddenly become busy with other things.

     

    Hopefully they'll have them at next year's CGE, and we'll see if we can get permission to temporarily dump them so that we can get some clean screen shots (with all the stages) through an emulator. But unless more copies turn up, don't hold your breath for an actual ROM release.

  5. Posted

    Atari 2600: Dragonstomper

     

    Atari 5200: Quest for Qunitana Roo

     

    Atari 7800: Dark Chambers

     

    Atari Lynx: Distant Lands (hopefully coming in 2002 from Songbird)

     

    Atari Jaguar: Towers II

     

    The 2600 and 5200 were pretty limited in their ability to play RPG's as we know them today. The 7800 had a lot of potential that was never tapped, we all saw what the NES could do and it was similar in capability. Jag and Lynx weren't exactly RPG heavy. Now, if you get into Atari computers, you'll find more awesome RPG's than you can shake a stick at, but they're generally not on cartridge.

     

    [ 10-05-2001: Message edited by: Alex ]

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    This raises a good point. I think it's high time someone makes a very detailed, very clear tutorial on modding a 2600 for composite output. Made for newbies, not other engineers. Other engineers don't need a guide. With lots of nice, high quality pictures. Anyone looking for a useful project?

  8. Posted

    We've recieved items from about 10 people so far, some very nice pieces indeed, and we've sent out confirmation emails to those people. Collectors have been very generous. We'll give people another week or two to get the items in, then we'll make some announcements about the auctions getting underway.

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    [img' target='_blank'>/images/news/Splashdown.jpg[/img]FGN Online Splashdown and MX Rider, are scheduled to be released before Christmas. Infogrames CEO Bruno Bonnell said "We're thrilled to introduce our reinvented Atari brand on PlayStation 2 and are confident that PS2 fans will be riveted by these new games." If you're itching to get your hands on these titles, you can pre-order Splashdown at EBgames.com and pre-order MX Rider at Amazon.com.

     

    [ 10-03-2001: Message edited by: Alex ]

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    Thanks Rhindle! We'll make these changes in the database and they will be updated next week. I appreciate your attention to detail. Some of the titles with subtitles may be updated a bit later as we'll need to figure out a better way to display long titles gracefully, but they'll be fixed.

  15. Posted

    It is my understanding that only the ROM is being released at Eurocon, no cartridge is being produced. I'm sure the ROM will show up on various web sites later that day.

     

    Why is nobody complaining now about an immediate release? I have no idea. It doesn't bother me, and it's a nice boost for Eurocon I'm sure. More power to them, I'm just glad it's finally being released.

  21. Posted

    I've been lurking on this thread, and I'm certainly not tired of discussing ROM releases. I understood that this ROM was no different from the Starpath version so was somewhat less interesting to me. Although the whole situation was kind of vague to me in the first place, thanks for bringing all this info to light to help clear things up. It will certainly be on our news page when you're ready to release it, and we'll have a new entry for the cartridge version in our database.

  23. Posted

    By finding them boxed. If you just find a loose cart, sometimes it's impossible to determine which company produced it, since they used the same carts with different packaging. I'm not necessarily speaking about those four companies (there may be subtle differences in their particular carts), but certain European and Taiwanese companies.

  24. Posted

    I have a number of carts in that style, and I don't know who to attribute them to. It seems to be an unknown, unlicensed Taiwanese company.

     

    Also, I wouldn't call them Cooper Black. That was a descriptive term someone came up with to describe the color of the end label. However, there are many games that use that same generic end label that I don't think should be lumped together (incorporating many different companies). In many cases, the only way to tell exactly what company it came from is if you have the box. Although in this case, even that doesn't completely answer the question.

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