Uzumaki

Nice find, the 5.25 is technically mini disk because they are smaller than its cousin 8" disks. The 3.5 is micro disks. They are rarely called that way as most people of the time seems to prefer the number rather than the word when referring to size.

The foam looks like it suffered from the plastic melts. Like what I had: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/210153-do-certain-plastic-react-w-each-other-controller-cord-melted-on-psx-case/

Ok forget golden era, I'd go back a little further back. Something like 15,000 years, pick up a few live saber toothed cats, bring em today, raise them for pets. They would make better anti-burglar than the meanest pit bull or doberman.

What about Super Mario Bros-esque game? There's one just released for 2600, why not Intellivision? Stick with the classic running man logo for Mario (and green colored for Luigi in 2 players mode), and I'm sure it'd sell decently if it can be done.

Speaking of Apple, I'd like to buy a few Apple 1 at $666 and sell them today. If opened and working Apple 1 goes for $666,000, imagine what sealed box would go for.

My, my... The master of Prototype missing a prototype ROM??? Shame...

I can offer pictures of JVC X'Eye as I have 2 (one works, one won't spin CD) and I modded one to have S-Video port. As far as repairing, a lot that works for Genesis and CD system can also be applied to X'Eye provided someone figures where all the important part has moved on X'Eye mobo.

Got an oscilloscope? You could poke and sniff out the signal, and compare to NTSC standard waveform. If it looks like Luma signal, it may be luma. Also have you tried searching Google for schematic or something? Once in a while there's free schematic that is for real.

Go back in time Order Air Raid, lots of them. Also pick up Rubik and SQ:Water World (lots of them) Write a time delayed letter to FBI and CIA to be opened in Summer 2001 warning about the attack. Include photo from the future as proof Return to future Sell a case of sealed Air Raid and other rare games, retire Sell individual extra as needed

pretty sure I posted but just in case, posting here for one

I can't believe I missed this one. Got sick from bad food, crawled in bed at about 2 pm EDT, didn't wake up until 7 AM EDT today

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/vgm/3827484405.html Dang huge lot of game consoles and rather cheap too. Sadly I would probably snap it if it wasn't in Hawaii. Shipping all those would be expensive. Anyone in Hawaii willing to make that lot his/her "find"?

Personally I wouldn't worry about the hatch breaking off if someone tries to take it off. There hasn't been any upgrade for 30 years and I bet many never knew that the framed logo is actually a cover for expansion. I didn't know either until I took apart one to clean it some years ago. If there is a plug in expansion, odd are it'd be too big to hide under the cover and would stick out. I mean you can't burn a G1 ROM at all and fabbing your own G1 compliant ROM is expensive as heck for just one small run. EPROM with either logic chip or CPLD to deal with address muxing would still be a lot cheaper and still be bigger than the little space under the cover.

When did Suikoden go back to being overpriced? When I got mine a few years ago, they were in around $20 CIB and under $10 disc only. One option to consider is installing a chip, this will bypass region and let you play games from any region. PSX/PSOne is 20 years ago and hasn't been supported for years so I doubt Sony is going to come after us for playing import.

http://www.gamnesia.com/news/wii-u-sales-skyrocketed-in-uk-after-xbox-one-reveal Sounds like XBox One is sinking before it's even released. I'd like to see Microsoft try to blame the loss of sale to "software piracy" Not bashing XBox One (just the name is dumb) but I thought it was funny that competing system that hadn't been selling well suddenly became hot so quickly.

What TV? Some newer TV aren't forgiving of 2600's loose video standard. Check Channel 2/3/4 (depending on version, earlier is 2/3, later is 3/4) Also if you're using splitter and antenna or other devices for RF on your TV, remove it and try for direct connection.

Wouldn't a toaster oven work for small stuff? If it can go to about 400F, it should be enough for wide variety of solder alloy (60/40 is something like 375F) Look for a cheap one in Salvation Army or Goodwill so you won't have to explain to your spouse why you bought a $150 oven that can't be used for food.

PSOne has loads of great RPG games. You can probably find loose Suikoden for a reasonable price.

Better skip on internal mod. It would limit future games to just a handful who has the skill to do internal mod. OTOH if you could build a pass-through cart like Game Genie style that has extra RAM, it could be used by anyone, including those who are banned from touching screwdrivers, to have expanded RAM for future games. The only problem is finding source of connector to mate with the cart, maybe use something different so that cart can't be used in Lynx without RAM board? 40 pin IDC connector is dirt common and cheap, they have been used in PATA hard drive for many years and would probably work, the RAM board that plugs into Lynx has one side of IDC connector, and the game cart that requires has the mating connector to plug in. It might present problem with Lynx 1's side loading design but Lynx 2 is more common anyway RAM cart wouldn't interfere with normal gameplay.

Try using Terminal font, it was in my Windows 7 and made that text file readable in WordPad. I don't like Notepad because it doesn't handle line wrapping very well and messes up some text files.

No OEM fixed font on my computer (Windows 7) but Google search suggested another font name: Terminal Open with WordPad, Microsoft Word (not sure I don't have this) or something, and use Terminal or OEM font on whole doc. OpenOffice doesn't list Terminal or OEM under font and if I copy and paste, it loses monospacing for some reason.

Sweet looking piece!

The only one I know of for EPROM cart is http://atariage.com/forums/topic/165658-making-an-intellivision-cartridge/#entry2046297 (requires old style DOS text viewer to view ASCII arts) I don't know how to convert that to something for CPLD since I haven't used it before. PAL/CPLD/FPGA learning is on my future to-do list.

C64 used Atari standard pinout so their joystick used only 1 button. Second button is probably something else like F1 key for starting games.

eBay also shows many new Hakko (probably all clones) with variety of features from plain one temp iron to multi-temp with analog or digital display, and even a rework station with hot air blower and soldering iron set. Wellers is another good brand to look at. I used them in school over a decade ago FWIW I'm still using a $20 Radio Shack junk. In the long run I average maybe 10 hours per month on soldering iron (plus maybe 2 hours a month with Radio Shack desoldering tool), I'd need to do a lot more to justify spending $80+ on a quality set.