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I will admit, this is the only podcast that gives any coverage to coin-op games & pinball machines. It's like there's almost zero discussion of coin-op games around, with the only traces of it being "hey, wanna buy my arcade cab?" I do however propose reviewing & using this piece of hardware.

You know what I miss? I used to have an RS232 25-pin cable that you could easily dismantle the plastic shell around the plug & rearrange the wires. That made for an easy modem cable, etc for my TI back then. The only cables I could find are fully enclosed not unlike power supplies.

Yes I shall. I bought a light blue jumpsuit from the company that makes the Dharma jumpsuits for $20. Printed off some pics from the Fallout Wiki & sent it to my mom to sew up together(I can't sew). That's a considerable savings since I saw one place sell already-made 101 jumpsuits for $200. There's a roller derby Halloween party at a local bar on the 31st. I expect to hear a lot of "My boyfriend plays that"s. I originally wanted to go as the heavy weapons guy from Team Fortress 2, but couldn't afford to make the minigun.

It fits alright. If I take a felt belt I had from an old robe, wrap that around my arm, it fits snugly. Here's the inside of it, showing the wiring harness and AA battery box. I took the LED cable from an old PC case, split the connector, and used those to fit the 2 distant pins in the battery box. The box is secured to the can via 3 zip ties, going through the battery box on the leftmost side. The pill box is held to the bubble gum box via 2 screws. (4th LED not shown. It just dangles inside). The 3 lights(probably not LEDs) are held on by 3 small zip ties. Not the best design, but it holds them on as I have no other hook. The rather 1950s-looking switch needed some investigation to see which terminals did what.

Got this when I bought my TI setup. Can't for the life of me think of anything that goes from the A/V port to a 25-pin RS-232-like port, but here it is. Any ideas?

Made this for my Halloween costume. Made from junk, mainly. The wrist part is from a Folgers coffee can. Box is a box of bubble gum from target. Rest of the items are from Axman(a junk store in the twin cities). Held together with zip ties. The switch turns on the 3 bottom lights, and a green LED underneath. Sadly, the LED underneath really doesn't illuminate the printout of the pip display even with holes poked through. Initial assembly was going great until I almost melted the battery box inside(2 AAs) after wrongly wiring everything in parallel to the switch. Boy do those batteries get hot. Doesn't look 100% like a Pip Boy, for I took some liberties in the interpretation.

I'm actually watching their videos. They could use some work, like direct-video recording(ie not record the tv).

I actually made several trips to Walgreens to collect the Constructicon knock-offs. Now I have my very own colorful Pride parade ready Devastator.

It reminds me too much of Spelunker, where your character dies if you look at it wrong. This seems to be within the line of ports of classic, loved franchises ported to Nintendo, but with exceptionally hard gameplay.

Getting a small HDTV seems to be more and more of an option. I can get one at any store, and I can use modern consoles on it, or just watch TV.

The game looks terrible.

If I wanted to run my TI-99/4A with a regular plain VGA monitor that has composite out, how much would an adaptor cost me? I know probably I could get a color TV cheap at a thrift store, but I don't want yet another CRT laying around the house for just 1 purpose. I have spare VGA monitors available, so I would rather use one of those. If not composite(all VCRs aside), how much would some sort of adaptor from RF(coaxial) to standard VGA be?

I remember an article in MicroPendium that made the speech synthesizer do bizarre noises. You could do like 100 variations of each word in the XB vocab. I remember doing trial and error trying to find cool sounds with different words.

It would be fun to hook up the gameline to a regular system, have it dial the system a fake gameline service. You would have a Rube Goldberg-esque cuttle cart.

No. What would we talk with them about? Maybe a few on here contacted Walgreens asking if they have them in stock at their particular store.

Thanks. Good thing I asked, since I was about to plug in the wrong one.

I can't find my power supply for my FB2, but one I found might be the one. However, I want to make absolutely sure as not to risk frying my FB2. So, anyone have a picture of the proper power supply? I've too many power supplies! Thankfully, I found a few power supplies that work great for USB hubs.

I think one or two did, but the speech sounded rather different than the original. Maybe MESS?

I've only heard of Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Sonic the Hedgehog & "Kart Fighter" existing in pirate cart form only for the NES. I highly doubt there was an original to "repro" from, at least in the case of Sonic the Hedgehog.

I'm surprised Sony didn't make a standalone UMD drive for the movies & TV shows. Heck, you could even make a tiny console that replicates the PSP, but for the living room.

WOW. Why aren't we having the next retro gamin' party at YOUR house?

I'm curious about the S-video to the dual-RCA jack adaptor thing. What does it do? Does one rca output give you a different output than the other RCA jack?

I had the Intelly x-in-1 controller setup, and was disappointed. The selection of games wasn't that great, and the newish RPG they included had some weird flaws. I also have the Intelly comp for PS2, and I swear it's slower than the real thing. Would rather play the D&D games on either, but those are in license limbo. Avoid the "coleco" one at all costs. I can't believe that was put to market. It was a glorified LCD game.

For 10 bucks, it's worth it. I will probably spend more casual time playing this $10 unit than $60 on a new game I would get bored with in 3 hours.

I have not gotten to those games yet. So "warpman" is not "Warp warp" that weird b/w top-view arcade shooter game?