Underball

Analog and later digital recording mediums that preserve recorded music properly have existed for nearly a Century now. The music is the Art. The medium it is stored on is a transient delivery device. I never said I don't care. Just the opposite. The prices are already too high, and have been for years. Collectors are only partly to blame. It's the price gouging sellers and fee-happy services like ePay I take issue with. I'm not worried about whether people disagree with me or not. I'm here to talk about and enjoy the games themselves. I care not for the competitive rat race that is the collector one-upsmanship employed by many here. Often times, it's a far too elitist, old boy mentality that leads to favoritism and poor moderation of conversations because of someone's perceived "value to the community", simply because they happen to own a large collection of overpriced, outdated toys. I would argue that most people came here out of a nostalgic love for these games as a kid or young adult; and for some - it morphed into an obsessive need to collect all this stuff and ferret it away in hermetically sealed storage to preserve it for - what exactly? all of these games and their code and hardware layout/schematics are safely preserved for future generations, in 1,000 places on the internet - for free. The game code contained in these games is art, absolutely. The mass produced, plastic and paper packaging they came delivered in are no more artistic than the flower outline on Dixie brand paper plates, or a bulk-made, sweatshop generated generic American Flag lapel pin that has a "Made in China" sticker on the back of it, that you could buy at any postcard stand in NYC. Somebody asked the question "Are classic video game prices getting too high?" and I answered, and explained on why I believe they are. If someone takes offense to what I've said - that's on them. I made no direct or even indirect accusations at any one person on here.

The problem with MAME is that it's goal is to most accurately catalog proper hardware emulation, as opposed to maximizing the efficiency of the current hardware to make games run faster or smoother. They don't care about making games run faster on different hardware. They just want a means to preserve the original game's hardware accurately.

Wow, you really have an ax to grind against collectors. Nah. More like I have a problem with price gougers who prey on the addicitons of people with compulsive disorders, which in turn ruins the market for the average, non-obsessed consumer.

PSN is down for the count. OOF. Offline most likely until next week. I wonder how many kids are going to get PS3 games for Easter and be Pissed they can't play online this weekend.

The cartridges shouldn't get stuck. Some will be tighter than others, but they should not stick like that. You should check the cartridge guide cup around the connector to see if it's cracked and maybe grabbing on a corner of the carts or something. You can probably just file it down a bit. Video out options: 1 - the regular coaxial cable to switchbox the 7800 came with. 2 - a direct RCA to COAX adapter from Radio shack: 3 -Mod it and never look back. As far as opening the cart - there should be a screw hole under the label in the center of the cart. It's a Phillips head screw. You will have to ruin the label to remove it. The Expansion port was never used. There are rumors that at one point a LaserDisc adapter for Dragon's Lair type games would be made for it, but it never materialized. Currently, you can use some of the contacts of the expansion port in building a composite video mod on the cheap.

I have never, and will never pay more than the original retail asking price for any video game, regardless of age or rarity. I've played most of the "very rare" games people laud about here and elsewhere through emulation or multicart/roms. Ona pure enjoyment/gaming value, not a single one of them was worth the inflated ePay values they can fetch on occasion. None of them. There's a reason why most of these games weren't as heavily mass produced as more popular and well received titles, and mostly destroyed or thrown out. They suck.

The "shape" metric really should only be: Does it still work in a console? Yes? No? Done. Anything beyond that is superficial nuttiness. To a huge majority of the population they are trash. The only people who get all picky about the labels, or the condition of the case, or whether it has the box and manual, and the condition of those as well, etc. are people who've let their OCD and nostalgia compulsions create a self perceived "value". I don't care how rare a video game is to find in the wild. These are NOT art pieces. There's no intrinsic value in their uniqueness, or creative output. They're cheaply mass produced consumer products that have been mostly destroyed or trashed by uninterested people who've moved on in their lives to other, newer forms of entertainment. They're only rare to find because they're disposable to most people. This is why I love things like the Harmony cart, emulations software, and the Flashback consoles. Preserve the games of the past, without forcing normal consumers to have to compete with eBay addicts and rich nutballs with too much time and disposable cash on their hands.

Old, outdated, obsolete games that were mass produced to the tune of millions of copies should be worth next to nothing. The only people who disagree are those who have come to rely on the OCD impulse buyers to provide them income for nothing but reselling someone elses garbage to obsessive with no self control.

Leaving out the entire existing library of UMD games was a huge mistake.

Yes. They will function the same way in this circuit.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f190/stella-emulator-ps3-atari-2600-robo-hobo-85040/index3.html#post799910 Requires PS3 Custom Firmware 3.55 or a 3.41 jailbreak device. Release 3 works flawlessly. Credits to Robo Hobo at PSX-scene.com, and the original Stella team.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f190/stella-emulator-ps3-atari-2600-a-85040/ Requires Custom Firmware 3.55 or a 3.41 dongle jailbreak device.

Ok. Recommendations? My recommendation: Don't listen people who tell you the standard 7800 prolines suck. For two reasons: 1. They really aren't that bad, in fact they're pretty good. But people love to be overly dramatical about this subject. 2. All of the 7800's two button games require genuine 7800 controllers, or the ability to modify another controller with two buttons to work properly with the 7800. You can get teh 7800 euro pads, but they are more expensive, harder to find, and just as sucky as the Proline sticks in a different way.

The common misconception is that a burned disc will wear out the laser. Thats not really the case. The problem is that poorly burned inaccurately written discs will cause the drive to have to work harder to read the data, putting more strain on the drive gears and motors. Also the prolonged time required to read the bad discs will eventually shorten the life of the laser, but it needs to be a LONG time. The short answer - burned discs are fine provided you use good quality media, and the slowest (and most accurate) burning speed. Just because the drive can burn at 48x doesn't mean your 3DO can read a disc burned at 48x. It will be better off with a slower burn.

I'll bet you do, muchacho.

Exactly. He stopped accepting donations a while ago when he had enough to cover what the lawyers asked for. Also - in BIGGER Sony news - Mathieulh and a few others have added a shit ton of information to the PS3 Dev wiki, including the long sought after PRIVATE NPDRM keys. This essentially opens up every nook and cranny on the PS3, and should allow for effortless Homebrew development. http://ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page http://ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=Keys#Modules

This was Sony pulling back to save face. They got him to agree to not hack the PS3 anymore, and in turn, he doesn't have to pay them millions in losses he doesn't have. Two things are pretty clear here: Sony realized this wasn't good for PR and would ultimately cost them way more than they could ever hope to recoup from a penniless college student, and Anonymous rendering their PSN utterly useless was the final nail in the coffin. Sony didn't win. They called a truce.

1988 called. It wants it's terrible fashion ideas back. Sorry, I thought it was act like you're 12 years old day! :D :D AX for the benefit of those whom my sarcasm eludes: the legs, I pull them. Jokingly. Still though - pink paint spatter? ewww. It's like a Valley Girl puked Strawberry Pop Rocks on them.

1988 called. It wants it's terrible fashion ideas back. Not only do I get to make funnies on the internet about poor color choices when repainting controllers, but apparently the mods think nothing of editing people's posts to makes larfs. AWESOME.

1988 called. It wants it's terrible fashion ideas back.

Wonders never cease with you, do they? Perhaps the novelty of dumping on the 7800 Expansion Module has worn off, so dump on this thread. One of these days, one of you guys will stumble upon the word hyperbole in the dictionary, and some of my posts might take on an entirely different context.

The Gamestop closest to me (Hingham, MA) removed all PS2, GC, and GBA games about a year ago.

My God, those are positively hideous looking. It's bad enough you're raping an Atari console by plugging a Nintendouche controller into it, but you painted it 80's nightmare Neon Pink and put wrinkly, poorly cut foil tape on it too? Yeeeuuuccck.

About 3 years ago.

In lots of cases, yes. The 3DO does a much better job with 2D graphics and FMV/Cutscenes, and the games were overall more polished.