Uzumaki

DVD-recorder for $15, haven't tested it yet. It's about 1/4 eBay average price before shipping (seems like shipping has to be about $20 for any DVD player or recorder??)

Last post of my experiment: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/211622-adapting-jaguar-controller-to-use-on-intellivision-for-about-5/page__st__25?do=findComment&comment=2767318 If you want to make it yourself, the info's all in there. All you'd need is something that can program ATmega328 or 168 like an UNO board. Eagle file includes schematic and PCB layout. In theory if you had everything on hand, it'd only be about $5 to make one yourself. I have some available and I can sell it the following: PCB only: $2 programmed chip: $5 Everything for a kit: $17 It includes a 16MHz clock, 3 capacitors, HD-15 female port, 9 pin cable to connect Intellivision motherboard to PCB, and pins. The only thing is to add wire connecting the female port to the board and mount them on your case. $17 is bare minimum and covers expenses on this project, I'm not making much profit. I can also offer fully assembled and tested board for $25 each. I can add an LED with 18" lead and in line resistor that you can install (like Intellivision 3 has) at no additional cost. You will need to drill (max 5mm or English #8, a hair smaller than 13/64") and mount, I suggest hot glue to secure the LED. Choice of LED is red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. At the moment I have 8 of the rev 2 proto and 6 of beta proto. beta has 3 mislabeled spot, no spot for coupling cap for the chip, and not enough pad for ground and power but it works fine. I have enough of other parts to fill all except I only got 4 clocks left, I'd need to order more soon. I don't have screw or nut to mount the controller port, my local hardware store doesn't carry anything smaller than 6-32 or 4mm and it's too big to fit the controller port mounting hole. As far as mounting the controller port, I found it looked better if I mounted the port on the outside of the shell. Unless you're very good with cutting and can make clean looking cut for behind shell mounting, outside mounting seems better as it can cover imperfections. It connects one controller and you can keep original controller in place without any issue. Second board can be added for 2 controllers. I may redo PCB and have 2 controller version at another time (Eagle allows about 2x5 max in free edition) I mounted it under the controller panel using double sided foam tape. Plenty of room for second controller adapter! (ps this must have been very early model 1, the controller wire are very thin. About AWG-30 thin. All of later models have thicker wires that looks closer to 26. Video: I had a bit of trouble holding the controller as I wasn't used to having a tripod-mounted camera in front of me. It's a lot easier to play some games but the video should show it working quite well. Pro: no more hard to use side buttons. Button A is lower right side, button B is both upper buttons, and button C is lower left side. Last longer than stock Intellivision controller Longer cord Certain games like Burgertime seems easier with 8 direction pad than 16 direction disc pad One button pause, no need to hold 2 buttons Con: Certain game that really uses 16 direction like Vectron will be hard to play if not unplayable. Overlay will not fit. You could redesign overlay to fit Jaguar standard and print it out. Most games are fine without overlay anyway. Still suffers from confused signals if you used disc and keypad or used multiple buttons at the same time, I can only blame Mattel for this one. This would be good to go with someone's video mod (VGA, S-Video, etc, if it takes off) and with recapping as the old caps are old. I'd need help on making a list of games that will not work with 8 direction controller.

Adventure (2600) first game with easter egg

The 2 Dungeon & Dragons we have are probably the closest we can get to an RPG game.

You're probably missing orange Pikachu system. Also do you have the clear-black system?

Somewhere between not enough and too many. What I do know I don't have are Odyssey 1, Fairchild Channel F Coleco Tristar, Colecovision that works, Vectrex, Microvision, Pippin, NUON, 3DO, CDi, XBox 360, PS3 that works, Wii U, PSP, and Vita.

How about just for us first in line buyer who don't back out: the box has EL strips to make things glow.

And let us who put our names in early laugh at those who missed this.

Not much of hoarder. At one time I had well over a thousand carts but it's been whittled down a lot. I prefer to play for fun than to collect and when I got Harmony, Mega Everdrive, and PowerPak, I got rid of most of my 2600, Genesis, and NES lots. I kept a few but not much. Right now I'm going through my SNES lot to see what stays and what goes. I've also cut down on not too old games (Gamecubes and XBox) by removing those that I very rarely play or didn't like and left myself with about 20 GC games left and just a few XBox games. (I might get rid of XBox completely though)

Is that blatantly misleading? Does the game even work or is it strictly magnet only? AFAIK no actual Air World proto has surfaced and the only homemade version are for 5200 or did I miss a 2600 version of Air World game?

Looks like extra socket. Could mean custom wiring between the board and EPROM itself? Or maybe the pin got damaged and someone added socket to EPROM so it can still be removed and reinstalled. I'd leave it alone for whoever takes up the repair and dumping job to check out.

Do you have decent quality flat bed scanner? Maybe you could scan in both side of the PCB at higher res (say around 300?) then we can start working on what chip are what and how they connected to EPROM. Cheap scanner may get out of focus image if the object isn't flat on glass, and getting clear scan of PCB with chips on it will be tricky with cheap scanner.

Dang good score. I sold cart only copy for a whole lot more than $4.95 (almost $100 cart only). Your CIB will definitely be worth double what I got easy. PS is there iPad app that rotates images 180° so it'd post "right" side up? Probably a homemade EPROM cart. Easy to make. Going by the switches on top, it could be a 4-in-1 EPROM cart. Nice piece to have but not really valuable unless there are game that differs from known released games. Also like other said, cover the window in the middle of each chips.

Depends on how it plays game. If Retron 5 is something of Linux with emulator and physical cart slot, it might do better. Many of the Nintendo-On-A-Chip (NOAC) are rarely correctly wired for all of the uncommon and almost never used lines, which causes a few games to not work. Fixing it is very hard because the fix would have to be done on a die itself which are usually sealed under a black blob. There's also design flaw with NOAC that can glitch games and is well known for incorrect sound form as well.

Or chinese counterfeit of old stock? Hope it goes well, I've heard of bad things about ordering NOS chips that are discontinued by the original manufacturer. One story had chinese claiming it was sent, must have gotten "lost", etc while trying to hold onto your money until it's past any chance of chargeback. Fingers crossed that you have legit source and trouble free shipment. With schematics on the internet, someone could probably redesign Inty to be better, uses better output than RF, etc like that Super 8 someone did.

King's Quest 1 and 5. Seems CIB but no way to test it for sure. KQ1 has 3x 3.5" floppy disk for PC and Tandy, and KQ5 has both 5.25" and 3.5" disks. 25 cents each.

We can figure it out when it gets dumped and can compare the good bits with known games that were similar like Strategy X. Some programmer may even leave hint such as name or initial in unused portion of the ROM

I used to be hard core EQ player until about 2007 when most of the people started leaving. Some got family and job to deal with, some jumped to fresh mmorpg, etc. I did remember to turn the lights off at the guild hall I was the last active player in my guild to quit EQ. FWIW the guild is MIA now as I was not guilded and they don't show up in search anywhere. Someone may have come on, maybe took GM control, kicked everyone out, cleaned the bank (not much from what I remember), and disbanded it. I tried EQ last fall to find that Maelin no longer existed and most of my characters have 'X' in their name. I tried to play around a bit but after being away for so long it was like an all new world to me. Like this comic: http://www.gucomics....?cdate=20080523 I checked around and decided not to stick around. It's almost impossible to get group with other players level >60 for quicker leveling and for fun. If you're not raid capable, forget about getting group. Yes they have merc now but it's no fun. Merc can't do "Train to SH from B2!!" For that you'd need about a dozen players in the same zone, near the same general area. Just about everything below level 60 is dead. The social atmosphere were essentially dead. It's like I landed on the Planet of Zombie that has run out of fresh brain. I tried to give away my plat since I decided for sure not to come back, 6M total. Announced them in /ooc in Guild Lobby where about 100 players were. No response for about 5 minutes. Another announce. Had a response from a player with rare bright green name. Chatted with the GM for a bit (I guess they wanted to be sure I was legit) then logged off with 6M still in the bank. Lesson learned: zombie has no use for currency if there are no fresh brain to buy with.

They probably won't last long. If the used market starts to dry up because of DRM on newer consoles, obviously there won't be much they can buy price to resell. Even if they were to go online only service, they won't get much business with used market. eBay is a real big competitor and buyer can be more picky about game condition. Plus any thieves who stole games won't want to wait 2-4 weeks to ship them in and get money when they really need marijuana or cocaine. They'd go somewhere else to sell for quick cash. If they start closing local stores, they are probably doomed anyway. Last time I was there, I didn't find any good games to get. I did get free Club Nintendo points, the fool employee was throwing them out when they were opening new games to put on the shelf and took the disc out to prevent theft. I asked, they said go ahead. Got me a gold Nunchuk for free after spending time entering codes online.

yeah get it dumped ASAP. The data may have become damaged and the longer you wait, the harder it'd be for expert programmer to repair and salvage it.

$40 is a lot cheaper than driving 4 hours. I checked, almost $90 to drive from Michigan to Ohio with gas price at ulcer-inducing $4.30 a gallon I'd be tempted but I got no place to set it up beside I have a few already (Mac Plus with 20MB Profile Drive, Centris 610, Duo 280c, and PowerPC 9100) Useless trivia: iMac wasn't the first Mac to go floppy-less. Powerbook Duo were sold only without internal floppy drive.

So TL;DR version: buy only if you want to display, not worth trying to play For playing, get EverDrive or PowerPak and run FDS image from there.

Not eBay but stupid anyway: It's not unusual to find NEW going for less than USED. Buy new HxH DVD set 4, rip wrap off, sell as used, make $50 profit?

It's probably a common 74 series chip used for bankswitching but I dunno since the EPROM is 32k bit or 4k byte, which 2600 can address directly without any bankswitching chip, only a single inverter gate needed for the enable. I think it's the chip directly above the EPROM. Do have it dumped if possible and whoever takes up the task of replacing broken chip can reverse engineer it for schematic.

I can see this neg by the winning bidder: pictured bug wasn't included, seller refused refund