PacManPlus

Hi guys... please understand, it takes an entire day to print one complete shell. I have about 6 now.

Thanks, guys. The cost will most likely be $30 each + postage (as I usually do). DracIsBack took the Red Sparkle version. So that color will be out as well as Silver. Ever since I got my first 3D printer 3 years ago, along the way I bought quite a few different colors of PLA filament, all from different manufacturers. Just advice to anyone looking into a 3D printer: try to get filament from the same manufacturer. Otherwise you will be constantly tweaking settings when you switch from one filament to the next. Just my experience. 3D printers are still a little bit of a pain to work with.

If I knew how to do that, I would have... I'd like to make a version of the BIOS that starts up, say Meteor Shower instead of Asteroids when no cart is inserted. I suspect that whatever game I would use, I will need about 4K free for the actual BIOS?

Ok, as promised, here is the pic of the entire board. I took the video mod out of the socket as to get more of the board showing up. Hope this helps. It figures that I have a version of a board that nobody has worked with before. :-/ EDIT: My apologies, I didn't mean to derail the thread. If we should split this into another thread, please by all means, do it, or just let me know and I'll start another one.

Thanks. Ok, guys - a little change of plans: Being that these prints are coming out in varying states of acceptability, I'm not going to take requests for colors. I'm going to keep making carts in different colors until I reach 20 acceptable cases, and let people pick from the lot. I will number them in the picture and state which colors they are so there's no mistaking. It will be first come first serve, after I've posted the picture, by post only (i.e. no PMs). This way, everyone sees exactly who gets what. The only exception is that I will make no more silver w/yellow logo ones (Crossbow will have the only silver one) and whatever color DracIsBack wants (DracIsBack will have the only one of that color). I'm having too many issues getting consistent prints, so I'll find the ones that come out good, in the colors that work. Thanks, guys Bob

Sorry I didn't see this sooner... I'll post a pic when I get home.

Here's a close up of the section I was talking about. Notice the 'W3', 'W4', 'W5, & 'W6' jumpers left & above the color wheel. Haven't seen a picture with this one in it...

Kind of, but still different. Mine has W3, W4, and W5 jumpers above and to the left of the color wheels. Give me a minute, I'll open it up again and take a picture.

Damn. If I was closer, I'd pick that up in a heartbeat. Someone already replaced the 'innards' of a BMP machine with a PC and PinMAME, and it works...

*does searches, looks at pictures of installation instructions... I may attempt this, but my 7800 board looks NOTHING like the pictures I've seen, especially the one above.

Is there an NTSC version of the BIOS that contains Asteroids... and doesn't do the initial check?

If you find the .STL files and are willing to post them, I'd like to try and print one of those, just to see how it comes out. If not, completely understood.

Ha. I looked quick and read that as, "CPUWIZ and Pac Man Plus have both been HUGE asses to the Atari community at large." Thank you for what it *actually* reads... BTW, awesome eggs CPUWIZ! (somehow, that doesn't sound right)

Thanks, guys...

It *was* done for the NES. I'm just not allowed to share it. Believe me, I wanted to. ...but if all goes well, you may be able to play it at some point soon... in miniaturized form... That's all I can say.

Ok. For anyone thinking of replacing the MMC slot on their CCII with an SD or micro SD or RS-MMC slot, it won't work: https://www.diffen.com/difference/MMC_vs_SD_Card SD/MMC slots can read MMC cards, but MMC (only) slots cannot read SD cards.

I missed this post yesterday... Thank you too, very kind. @save2600: I appreciate the compliments, thank you so much

Thank you for saying that. That's very kind of you.

Again, I just have to stress how awesome Crossbow is. Please, anyone who has 7800/2600 issues can rely on him. This the work he ended up doing: ...and it works great! It looks like the MMC shrouds that were used don't hold up very well to repeated re-inserts (mine cracked, and I still have to fool with it to find the 'sweet spot' where the card works) but it still works! I'm glad he talked me into keeping it. I was going to toss it. Thank you!

Ah crap. Wow, what a place for a typo... and I can't even fix it now.

Finally got carts going. Ok, so I did some research on line, and found that the Simply 3D application / slicer had a good 'driver' for the Creality CR-X. Only problem, you have to pay for the program. I finally did, and I am glad - I should have done this a while ago, as it would have saved me quite a bit of headaches. Prints came out perfectly. Please ignore the label indentation area of the blue cart, that was my fault. Here are pictures: As you can see, two color prints are working wonderfully as well. I'm about to try the 'Glow In The Dark' one for myself, and see how well the PacManPlus logo shows up when the rest of the cart is Blow In The Dark. ... almost ready here.

I will have some pictures soon...

If I were to do this, I would remove the shroud (and give it to someone who needed it, as those are hard to come by) and have the micro sd slot *take the place of* the MMC slot. It would get glued in place: The idea was to desolder the pins, and glue this micro SD slot in place, and solder the pins to the correct hole: But looking at it now, I don't think there's enough real estate... so this all may be moot. I guess I'll just try to find more MMC cards. Anyway, thanks guys

Thanks guys... Short of having an adapter, my idea was to permanently add a micro sd slot (as the MMC cards get harder to find)... Like this: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/SparkFun/DEV-13743?qs=WyAARYrbSna7AKzdOk0X8g%3D%3D&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhuvlBRCeARIsAM720HqmOgZYddEyheFZbyUHUM1I3k6jAXjY_mK_cwEZaK07iP2KZmV2WuUaAkxYEALw_wcB or this: https://www.newark.com/molex/503398-1892/connector-micro-sd-8pos/dp/09X1353?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhuvlBRCeARIsAM720Ho1Bd3akCBZgOwka6I1ckNomwaj46KJVw6xGNaQ69wnMGJFWBLYxSkaAkffEALw_wcB&gross_price=true&mckv=slDMAkpdW_dc|pcrid|81515568741|plid||kword||match||slid||product|09X1353|pgrid|20376566901|ptaid|pla-325659265361|&CAWELAID=120185550002947588&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=20376566901&CMP=KNC-GUSA-GEN-SHOPPING&CATCI=pla-325659265361 I can then remove the original shroud and solder directly to the lines (something I would have to try without making any permanent connections first, obviously, as I do NOT want to damage this cart again) Glue the slot to the board where the original one was, and just use that from now on.