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He's listing it as a DVD-ROM. My Atari 2600 folder with all the roms is only 80 mb. He's got a starting bid of $15, that's just shitty. And that's because I've added stuff to my Atari 2600 folder, like Atari commercials and stuff. All the roms only total to JUST 3mb. You can almost fit ALL the Atari 2600 roms onto one 1.5 mb floppy disk. This guy is using a DVD-ROM!!?? Fuck.

I'm looking for a really good Final Fantasy 7 image to decorate a cd of mine with. I'm ideally looking for a really cool looking summon monster, perhaps Bahamut. I'm looking for a screen shot type pic, and an good artistic type pic. I've been to several ff7 sites already, and they have alot of pics of the characters, but not many of the summon monsters. Also, does anyone know if I could access the summon attacks from the game from my CD? I've found several .str and other movie type files, but I don't know how to rip either music or the summon monsters from it. On other cds I can rip .xa files, and get music. FF7 is tough to access these things. Thanks

I agree with you, Atari Master, one of my favorite activities is actually going to thrift stores looking for classic stuff. Usually there is nothing, but there is always a chance something will come along. I wonder if it is theoretically possible to have a complete Atari 2600 collection. Is there some sort of official Atari (Infogrames) site that officially lists all games that were released. If you got all the games off of a list such as this, would you then have a complete collection? What is the precise total number of Atari 2600 games? Label variations don't count imo, even tho they are neat to collect also.

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Buy it now is: $7495 divided by 890 games: Cost of each game: $8.42 Interesting considering some would likely be rare, and would sell individually for even $50 or more. It would take 10 years to sell it all off individually tho, so I don't know...

Thanks for the info. I don't got a Dreamcast...but I was wondering if you have to have some sort of special boot disk, and modded Dreamcast and all that garbage... Or does Dreamcast just allow cd-r's, and doesn't have the boot protection?

This is one of the fun goals I'm working towards. This stuff is fairly complicated. First off, does anyone have a "plugmodchip"...and how well does it work? I want to play a Nintendo emulator on my Playstation, has anyone done this successfully? If you have, can you walk me through step by step, how to make a cd. I downloaded an emulator (It might be NES), and tried to burn the data to a disk. I then tried to run it on my Playstation Emulator, but it didn't work. It didn't come with a readme, and so it doesn't explain how to even make the cd... It has executable type files in it like: buildcd makeisoUSA nes.cue nes psx rombank stripiso and this file that says: System I have no idea how to make a cd. I clicked on rombank and added some roms, and made some sort of output. I'm just confused, and don't know where to look for help in doing this. It would be crazy fun to play Mike Tyson's Punchout with a Playstation controller. Having one disk with all the nes games is pretty neat too.

So I walk in, and was amazed to find some Atari 2600 cartridges on a shelf at the front of the store. Combat: $5.99 Pacman: $5.99 Hmm, who the hell prices these things? So I'm like, where's the console that goes with this? I find this box, it had some paperwork in it, a power adapter to the 2600, and some ratty controllers (one had the rubber part missing). So I grab the four pieces of paperwork...a combat manual, a catalog (I now have 5,000 of these), a pretty neat warranty thing, and the manual to the Vader Atari 2600. I took them to the front, and offered to pay $1. The guy actually had the nerve to try to get 69 cents for each manual. I would not have gone with that scenario, and I think he could tell that. So he let me have the stuff for a buck. The vader manual was a neat find, and the buck I spent on it was relatively painless-and it goes to charity or something. I was at Unique thrift store again, and the stack of Super Mario/Duck Hunts increased to like 8. I saw some other 8 bit games, all selling for $2.80. Way too much. Genesis consoles always sell for $20. Again, I think this is too much. I like how they write on the cartridges with permanent marker. It would give my goo-gone a workout if I ever did buy them. Since they use permanent marker on every single cartridge, they should price them at like 30 cents, since defacing them reduces their value. Irritating to me, and I don't know why.

This is a great article. It explains all the techincal aspects of the hardware in simple terms. I love reading articles like this. The conclusion I drew from this article was that the 5200 was a more "powerful" machine. It seemed to imply that 5200 was better, except where games are concerned. Myself, I sometimes think that the graphics on the CV are somehow more crisp. Like if you compare the 7800 to Nintendo (uh oh), it seems to me that Nintendo has crisper graphics. Like something to do with resolution or something. But the 7800 might kill the Nintendo in sheer machine strength. I think this same phenomenon is at work between the 5200 and CV. I love these debates too, they are really interesting. I am biased towards Atari, but it doesn't mean that the CV or Intellivision is not cool. They will end up in my collection very soon. Super Nintendo, to me, was the peak of cartridge based consoles... I know I'm intentionally leaving out N64, but sometimes I think they do the job TOO WELL. The graphics are simply TOO good I sometimes like the simplicity of SNES, yet it has enough power to get the job done-and the games are mega fun. Then I'd still rather play Mike Tyson's Punchout than Super Punchout on the SNES...so some games are just like that. I even own both too.

This is how I feel about it too... I'm not currently collecting Nintendo 8-bit, but probably will some time in the future. Seeing Super Mario/Duck Hunt selling for $2.80 irritates me. They should sell it for like 30 cents. When I see an extra dirty, and lonely 2600 cartridge, my heart breaks. Plus, it gives me an opportunity to use my cleaning supplies, and try to REVIVE it from oblivion. I still have two games that are offically dead... It is a poor Night Driver and Q-bert for Atari 2600. They certainly are clean inside now. Sometimes I think that I want to test out a cart that I get from Goodwill in my Atari to see if it would work before cleaning it...but then I figure that I'm not really wanting to mess up my console with gunk. So I sometimes don't know if the cleaning I did had any effect. I still try to wonder how often I should re-check the same thrift store. Once about every 3 days seems about right...except when I want to analyze how long games stay around. There has to be someone who picks up even the Super Mario carts.

Maybe some of you could help answer some questions I have... What does ISO stand for...as in Playstation ISO? Why is an ISO so much bigger in size than an equivalent Mame rom? Like for example: Mortal Kombat 4 ISO for Playstation will be like: 500 mb Mortal Kombat 1 ROM for mame is: 5 mb Street Fighter 2 Collection for Playstation ISO: about 500 mb Street Fighter 2 ROM for mame: 3.39 mb And yet I'd say that Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 2 ROMS for mame, look better than Playstation. Is it because Mame is taking advantage of a more powerful computer, so the size of the file doesn't have to be so big? I don't know how to think about this, so could someone help my confusion? Thanks

This sounds like alot of fun. You don't ever know what you could find when you go to thrift stores. That's the appeal of it I'd imagine.

Romping is simply the way I want to describe it...it just fits So I've been casing a certain Unique thrift store, and a goodwill for a couple weeks. I just cannot understand a pattern. I found a whole box of Atari 2600 games and manuals about 2 months ago at Goodwill, and nothing since. At Unique I picked up one very nice Atari 2600 controller, and two other third party Atari 2600 controllers. I have never came across even one Atari 2600 game at this Unique store. It is huge too! I've come across 1 billion Super Mario/Duck Hunt games, and a good amount of Genesis and Super Nintendo cartridges-all priced at $6.80, or sometimes priced at $2.80. 2600 games supposedly used to be sold at this store for just 80 cents. Is there any strategy for thrift store looking? Like being at the store right when it opens, or being there exactly 1 hour after it opens. Does anyone have any patterns they've discovered? I've noticed that SOMEONE picks up these games scattered around the store, since I go there one day, and then go there two days from the last day, and notice several carts that were there are not any longer.

Games won't ever be made "low res" again. They will just get "better and better". The homebrew scene, therefore, is really really cool. I just try to imagine a Super Dig Dug, or Super Kangaroo being made sometime, where there would be like 1000 stages, but the graphics and sounds would stay exactly the same. But this doesn't seem possible, for that would require a new console that would somehow have high memory, but retain graphics and sounds. Technology like the cuttle cart and stuff is what I like to see. Enhancing the memory abilities of a system where low res graphics make the games fun to play.

I got over 7,000 just now, which seemed ok to me. It is tough on those later stages, you really have to be quick. But I agree about the comparison to Kaboom!

Oh, I just read the manual online, that was egg on the floor, I thought the bear was drowning in water or something. I can't bear the puns I keep reading in that manual either. The cart is a rarity of 4, and it is quite unique. I might pick it up sometime, after that song is outa my head and I can concentrate.

What a nightmare. I was just scrolling down my roms for z26, and decided to try this game. The music sticks in my head like a plague now. The game is kinda amusing, and it kinda "eggs" you on into playing it, and making puns. Then I played Dukes of Hazzard, thinking it would wipe the song out of my head, but no such luck. The car jumping over that bridge is a nice feature tho.

I'm really confused...why is this game so hard to find in stores? Did Konami release it in very limited quantities? Or only in a different country? I'm having a really hard time locating it in any store like Best Buy or Circuit City. I found it available on a UK site, and on Half.com, and on Ebay. Or is there something "wrong" with the game, that the company released it, and then retracted it? Thanks

Someone's got a time machine, can I use it for a sec? I'll give it right back.

So I was over playing Atari with a friend off and on for a whole weekend. We had to plug and unplug the Atari each time we wanted to watch movies. All of a sudden, the Atari wasn't working. I thought it was the TV connection or something. I never suspected it was my switchbox. I looked at the switchbox. For some reason I had crushed that metal pin thing. It was all squished into the bottom of the housing. I thought it was permanently wreaked. But I thought I'd try fixing it anyway. I first tried a paper clip...but that didn't do much. Plus it made a spark since I had the power off but it was still plugged in. So I took a pliers, and bent down the sides of the housing. After about 10 minutes, I straightened that metal thing so it was upright, and wondered if it would still work. I bent the housing part back where it was originally, and although it loosely attached to the tv, it actually WORKED. So now I have a rather funny switchbox. Those things are kinda delicate. The end. Oh yeah, I scored 130,000 in Atari 5200 Defender on Easy mode. Got past the last fruit on Dig Dug (8000 points). Ms. Pacman is nasty hard for the 5200 also. On the pear stage, those ghosts just nail you if you even try to munch on a couple dots when they are anywhere near you. Certainly not the way the arcade does those stages, but I still like the 5200 rendition.

And it will be funny when someone sends you their "hopelessly" broken Atari 5200, to provide you the necessary part you require to repair the first, only to see you fix THAT one also.

I didn't realize that about Paypal, that the seller pays a fee. I agree that I can't really be mad at the people who did this auction. They stated clearly the payment methods they use. So then an auction becomes more "enticing" to a buyer if it accepts Paypal, because there is less cost involved.

I ask seller if they'd accept Paypal, and they responded: "Hello again, no PayPal and never will..." So instead they accept: Payingfast or Bidpay. These both have fees on them, Paypal does not. Do I have a right to be irritated that this seller won't accept a paying method that won't cost me even more than the auction? I COULD send cash in the mail, and I might consider this option. They are from Canada, and don't accept US money orders either. Is there something messed up about this? Do they get some sort of bonus for selling, and "advertising" these fee based paying systems? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&item=911010830 The seller is a power seller, do they get some sort of profit from Payingfast or Bidpay? Like 30 cents everytime they refer someone to use these services? Or am I just being paranoid, jaded, and skeptical? The answer I'm looking for is: perhaps, but also keep in mind <insert witty remark followed by a PITHY anecdote>

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I don't know what I did, but I got it working now. How cool! I have more to figure out about this whole thing, but I'm off to a good start. My ff7 and Tempest X worked fairly well. I was impressed!