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  1. erode your 2600+, NEVER mix old and new, but whatever), I watch @famicommander make posts like this and consistently see responses such as "sad" or "confused". I appreciate that he says the things that are tough to say, the truth. The truth is, all of this hardware they release through At Games, My Arcade even the 2600+ itself are in fact all just....emulators. This is a fact. This is objective, these are emulators, rom dumpers. Emulators can be downloaded for free and you can use an original Atari joystick for everything, saving yourself the money. Emulators on a Windows-based PC with a higher end processor and graphics card is in fact MORE accurate and less lag (Retroarch has run-ahead for CRT like response time!) So you are paying $80 (Gamestation Pro for an emulator with bad joysticks) or $140 (Atari 2600+) to remove and plug in cartridges. Oh, and to use.....dip switches. which I never saw back then. Manufactured nostalgia, hook, line and sinker....for a lot of you.. Now, if some of you love having it sit there in your living room or gaming room and appreciate that it runs all the old loose cartridges (which could eventually erode your 2600+, NEVER mix old and new but whatever) then fine. But I think it was a big miss to not go down the FPGA route with this or anything else. Or not at least offer an SD card slot. Or allow multi-carts.
  2. It’s funny because I wanted the Atari 2600+ to have USB or SD card capability, and it would have been nice if the Atari 400 mini had cartridge support. It looks like it’s too costly to do both.
  3. This I agree with. The C64 has unacceptable input lag because they used Vice, which is terrible. Vice wasn't even designed with gaming in mind. I am hoping the 400 mini has better results and I assume so because the "Atari 800" emulator being used in it from my experience has minimal lag. Also the Atari joystick included looks amazing. If you can use this as an "Xbox controller" on your PC as well you can have the feel of the classic Atari joysticks with the usefulness of multiple button configurations for use with other emulators.
  4. So you created a post to say you aren't getting the Atari 400 mini? Okay...
  5. We are a couple of weeks away, and it is starting to get exciting! I assume @Albert will get his hands on a 400 Mini before we do so I would like to create this thread with some questions for myself and anyone else that wants to join in. I did see the recent review, but lately, I have been starving for information. Input Lag Some of us are VERY sensitive when it comes to input lag. When you ask this question, many will say, “It’s fine”. When I asked Retro Recipes in chat during the live video, he replied, “What lag”? This is a good sign, but I would like to know more. Declaimer: I often receive the standard "Make sure your TV is on game mode" or whatever. I will say I have a 2ms $300 27” gaming monitor that has such a fast reaction time for latency, and that is WHY I notice latency on subpar machines. My monitor and setup are finely tuned to be as latency-free as possible. The C64 mini and Maxi were released several years ago and the input lag on those was terrible (I still don’t get why Vice 64 is the default emulator for C64 stuff when Denise 64 has run ahead!) It may have been fixed later but it all seems hit and miss. The Atari 2600 + was very solid regarding lag, and I was impressed. Atari 5200 So, I assume the Atari 400 Mini will use the "Atari 800" emulator. A lot of the Atari 800 emulators are interchangeable and run Atari 5200 games. It would be nice to see if this is possible. Can the Carousel be edited? The million-dollar question. On this forum, there was talk about it not being editable. However, the C64 carousel has been edited. I wonder if this is because the 400 Mini uses the Amiga mini carousel which is harder to edit. Controllers Can we assume almost any “Xbox-like" controllers be used? Here is the review video below if anyone is interested, although it is a prototype (black) unit.
  6. I asked this a few questions up, these guys are into their own thing right now.
  7. high-end LCD monitor for gaming; it has 2ms and is fine-tunedI've asked for this before but can't quite get a solid answer. I am curious about input lag. I might start a new thread on this. Can anyone who has played this (wired, not wireless) tell me if there is any input delay? I need someone sensitive to this like me, and has played Atari etc on a CRT and possibly also has the Atari 2600+ which has almost no lag at all. I know there were issues with paddles but I am talking about regular games using the joystick. Please do not respond with "game mode" or it "depends on my tv" etc. I have a high end LCD monitor for gaming, it has 2ms and is fine tuned for no lag at all. If there is any, I will notice.
  8. Imagine if you could rotate the main knob for driving and breakout-type games? But Atari 8 bit does not really have that many of those, I guess.
  9. DO NOT sell that for 2k. The buyer will flip it for 10k or more. You could list it on Ebay for a really high amount, and see how may people make offer or "follow" your listing. That's a good way to see interest and get somewhere towards a value. See if you could email or send a tweet to any old Coleco developers to see how rare this thing is.
  10. Back when EA meant something. From Lords of Conquest, Bards Tale series, Archon, MULE, Wasteland, even in the early 90's with Madden and NHL on Sega Genesis. They lost sight of things over time, perhaps greed, when they started eating smaller good companies like Bullfrog, Westwood Studios and Origin.
  11. Here is the C64 music. Not to start a computer war lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1vyB7xyco
  12. I don't have a "situation". We are fine. Its all good.
  13. I preordered at Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/THE400-Mini-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B0CS3VD9TJ
  14. Actually he responded to my final point. The "Yes. And?" part really pissed me off, I need to take a break. I was using reflective listening to help people make their point and PROVE MYSELF WRONG, and I get a "Yes, And"? Sorry, I'm pissed.
  15. Yes. And? This was me admitting I am wrong. But no one ever does that right? I wonder why...
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