GuybrushThreepwood

@Der Luchs Thanks for your confirmation! As soon as I would have some spare funds, you would receive an order from me, I hope ASAP. All the best! For what concerns the talk about releases coming from developers from outside Europe, I know this is a slight off topic here but on the other hand I think it could be an interesting thing: if not here, maybe it should be discussed elsewhere...

First of all, congratulations for your second child! Just a bit after, thanks for your great effort in bringing such accurate releases for such great games available to every Lynx owner at reasonable prices, really a great work! I was looking forward to making an order including Alpine Games but I see it is on preorder. It's clear that you have other, much more important things, to attend to now so I will religiously wait for a reply, no matter how many weeks (or months) it would take but when do you plan to have it back, available to be dispatched? Also, I know this has already been discussed on this thread and it is also a slightly off topic but I'm looking forward to getting hold of some Songbird titles: I've already talked with Carl who has always been very available and kind but buying directly from him means high postage tariffs and customs charges too making it for me almost unaffordable though I'd really like... Isn't there any possibility to have titles from developers from the USA (I'm thinking even about Zaku which fortunately I own, bought directly from Super Figher Team, definitively worth the effort!) readily available for users from Europe? It would be great because it means reduced costs and much faster shipping...

After four months I've finally found some time to work on the issue with Fat Bobby. First of all, I need to say a great thank you to karri: he has helped me a lot and now I have all the necessary. I've modified my Lynx to disable cart detection I've bought a suitable serial interface and a comlynx cable I've built an adapter to connect everything to the Lynx following karri's advices in one of the previous posts I've tried to use mtty following all the advices that karri has kindly told me in private (mainly about how to set up the port for the connection: 9600, 8 bit, space parity, 2 stop bits, No Reading tick mark took away). By what I've understood, the loader built into championship rally should sense the connected interface by a magic cookie sent on the comlynx line and exit the game in favour of the loader then I should be able to send the dumper to the lynx by mtty but CHR starts normally and the loader doesn't take the control. The comlynx cable is new and fine, the interface has the right specs and my adapter is ok (apart from the fact that it's so easy to be impossible that there are issues with it, I've checked it with a multimeter and everything's fine). Do I fail at some point?

Hi and thanks for your detailed reply. Could the Silabs CP2102 bridge be fine or not? http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/cp2102.pdf If I remember well, I should have a cable based on that somewhere...

Hi and thanks for your reply! The modification needed to disable cart detection is very simple and I will do it ASAP. For what concerns the adapter needed to connect to the Lynx, please send me all the links and/or pinouts that you think may be necessary. I can't succeed in finding my comlynx cable anymore so it's better if possible to have a solution with a built-in jack to connect directly to the Lynx otherwise I would buy another comlynx cable. Have a good day!

I've done some digging around and I think that I've found almost everything that I need (even more than that, a lot of very interesting stuff: sad to have not enoguh time): http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/103968-transfearing-lynx-programs/page__p__1261237__hl__serial%20comlynx__fromsearch__1#entry1261237 http://www.monlynx.de/lynx/bll.html http://www.monlynx.de/lynx/tools.html http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/122455-i-am-the-new/page__hl__serial%20comlynx Now I need to find the time to sum things up...

I've found the Wookie adapter you're speaking of http://www.classicgamedev.com/File:Usblynx_board.png but I have no way of obtaining a pcb like that so I fear that I would be forced to look for something simpler, even with serial or parallel connection. I would search on the forum. Apart from that, I'm still waiting for some advices from you, karri. Thanks for your help and have a good day!

You're really tempting me... All of these things are very very interesting! I own Championship Rally and I'm ready to modify my Lynx to make possible the carts hot swap too but I'd like to be sure that I'm not going to take any risk of broking Championship Rally or my Lynx. In the meantime, I will make a search about Wookie's download cable... Thanks for everything!

Thanks for your replies! Unfortunately, the contacts aren't the culprits for sure: I've already done every effort to exclude that kind of issue though I was already confident that they were fine as they looked clean and shiny. For what concerns what karri has said, everyhing is very interesting (I'd really like to thank him for his advices) but I fear that these kind of things are beyond my knowledge... First of all, I don't have a flash cart nor I'm able to program an MD5 calculator for the Lynx nor anything else. Apart from this, I think that the only available alternative to make a dump of the cart is desoldering (if possible) the eeprom (I've missed an 'e' in my previous post! ) and mounting it inside an eeprom burner and I can't do that neither because I haven't an eeprom burner. I fear that I'm out of luck... Is there anything else that I could try? I don't believe it...

Hello to everyone! I've found a genuine copy of Fat Bobby from Telegames but unfortunately the game hangs on the startup screen or, to be more precise, it seems that it hangs after a period of time... If I leave it at the startup screen then after some seconds I can't even have a reaction to any key press while if I press A immediately after the startup screen shows up then it goes to a black screen like it's starting the game but it hangs there. Usually this kind of issues is due to dirty or oxidized cartridge contacts but unfortunately this isn't the case. I fear that the eprom could be corrupted. Is there anything that I could try? Has someone of you experienced the same issue with this or other games written on third party carts? I'm confident that under the white stickers there is an eprom and I'm tempted to check it out but this would mean ruining the cart for collection purposes and I'd like to have some advices before... Having found quite a rare game that seems unfortunately broken is a pity. I've found it in a lot (the Lynx and all the other games in the lot are working) so I have paid it more or less nothing but this doesn't meant that I don't like to sort this out. Thanks to everyone for your replies!

No, I'm quite sure it isn't a self made copy. If you carefully look at the photo, you'll see "H9913" engraved on the pcb and this means that it's a genuine green pcb 2. I know the guy you're talking about: he's from Poland and (even nowadays on Ebay) sells Lynx games on self made pcbs (especially Raiden, AVP and Marlboro Go!). I can say this for sure because in the past I bought a Lynx games lot and, among the other games, there was a copy of Raiden made by him and it's completely different (it's VERY VERY easy to say it's a self made copy, nothing to do with the copy of Desert Strike we're talking about). By the way, though I'm quite sure, I don't pretend to be right: I think the only one who could tell the final word is Songbird. Yes, you're right! It's a monster cartridge and I had difficulties in fitting it too!

Hello to everyone! I've taken a couple of photos for each game (FRONT and BACK)... Desert Strike - Green PCB 2 - FRONT: Desert Strike - Green PCB 2 - BACK Super Off Road - ??? PCB - FRONT Super Off Road - ??? PCB - BACK

Let's say it's similar (I own Alpine Games too and it has also an eeprom to save the high scores: that is a custom cart style). My copy of Desert Strike is on a green pcb 2 identical to the one shown on Atari Age Atari Lynx Cartridge Styles page. You're right when saying that finding Desert Strike on a curved lip cart is more common (I own a copy on curved lip too). By the way, if I would have some spare time, I would take a photo to both Desert Strike and Super Off Road and post it here. Have a good day!

Thanks for your reply! You're certainly right when you say that neither of them is an unauthorized repro and I was quite sure about that. I don't know if they're more valuable or not but, don't ask me why, when I saw them I was excited! Sure they're unusual to find and by the way I don't plan to sell them...

Hello to everyone! I've just bought a copy of Desert Strike by Telegames fully boxed and complete with manual and the Telegames brochure but its cart style is the green pcb 2 and not curved lip. It's definitively a genuine green pcb (has the number "9913" printed on it). Do you know of the existence of Desert Strike on green pcb 2? I was really surprised and I really don't know if it could value more or less than the curved lip version. p.s. Along with Desert Strike, I've bought a copy of Super Off Road either complete with box, manual and brochure and it uses a strange cartridge style not mentioned at: Atari Lynx Cartdridge Styles which is similar (but not identical) to green pcb 1 but in which the eprom is covered by a plastic cover both on the eprom and the solder side. What do you think of this? I'm rather certain it's genuine too but I don't know if I've found a real bargain or not...