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  1. Posted

    I bent my pins cause I've been burned too many times by trixters on the net who dont ship your goods to you. And I doubt I'll need to bend them again for a long time (meaning at least 10 years)

     

    You don't have to buy them from eBay... you can always buy them direct from the source if you wish.... shipping will be a little high since I think they only ship with UPS though. http://http://www.mcmelectronics.com/

    http://mcm.newark.com/NewarkWebCommerce/mc...SKU=83-3785&N=4

     

    They require registering an account to make purchases. Registration is free.

  3. Posted

    I just bent the pins back to place in my 72 pin connector...on all 3 of my NES systems...they work like new now. There was no need to shell out money(granted, a really small amount) for something I can fix myself just as easily..

     

    Except for that fun time when pins break... that and it wears out quicker the second time around since they're allready fatigued. I've bent pins in the past just to just to have the connector still not work very well. Personally I think the replacement parts are cheap enough that it's not worth the bother to bend the pins. :|

  6. Posted

    Hey,

     

    A few months ago I was in Tacoma when I found this store called "Video Game Fantasy" I bought a bunch of NES games at $5 each... I spent $100 there.....

     

    Anyway about a week ago I went back to get more $5 NES games and all I found was a sign and an empty store front. This Sucks, I finally find a used game store locally with good prices on NES games and it dissapears!

  9. Posted

    the screen is cracked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    Ah man, that sucks!

     

    Will the screen from the GameGrear work with the Nomad? It would be really awsome if it did!

     

    Unfortunantly, you can't do that.

     

    I'm not familiar with their usual going price and I'm not sure where to get parts for it.

     

    I've seen working Nomads go for anywhere between $40 and $80 online.

     

    If anyone knows anything that will help I'd really appreciate any help!

     

    If you can't get help here, you might want to try over at GamesX.com or something.

     

    And if anyone has a system they will sell to me I'd be happy too!!!!

     

    I have a Nomad, but I'm not going to sell it. :P

  10. Posted

    The first Game I ever got with the Acclaim logo was a used NES game that looked like it might be cool.... when I got it it was almost unplayable and no fun at all....

     

    May I ask what that game was?

     

    It was Big Foot, a monster truck game. It had two different modes... part of the game was birds eye view and part of it was side scrolling. The birds eye view part of the game was ok, but the controlls for the side scrolling part made no sence.

  11. Posted

    I usually use sniping software so I can cancel my bid if something else comes up that I'd like to spend my money on more. That and I always seem to be at work when the auctions I'm following end.

     

    As far as the few times where I've bid on an auction early rather than sniping I have gone back over it and over it wondering if I should have bid.... but usually I never bid a second time because I always set the Proxy bid to what I felt it was worth to me the first time.

  12. Posted

    The first Game I ever got with the Acclaim logo was a used NES game that looked like it might be cool.... when I got it it was almost unplayable and no fun at all.... After that, every other acclaim game I've gotten has either been a present or been part of a large lot of games.... only once have I played an acclaim game and not felt it sucked. I won't be missing Acclaim.

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    Personally, I'd avoid 3.5" Apple II stuff.  The Apple II is 5 1/4"!!!!!

     

    If god had meant any 8bit to use 3.5" disks, he wouldn't have given us disk notchers!!!!  :-)

     

    What 3.5" stuff is he going to be able to use? I could swear most 8 bit Apple II games were on 5.25" anyway..... Mostly it's only 16 bit IIgs stuff that used 3.5" floppies.

     

    Personally I only use real 5.25" floppies for multidisk/side games. other than that I just run them from disk images on the hard drive using a special loader program on my IIgs. :)

     

    I hate notching disks. It's a big pain because I have to use a regular hole puncher and I hurt my hands well before the hole puncher actually managed to go all the way through the disk(and I've had hole punchers that broke instead of going through the disk). If I had an actual notcher that might be a different... Eventually one of these days I'm going to install switches in my 5.25 drives to manually dissable write protection so I never have to notch another disk again.... eventually. :P

  17. Posted

    dont know aht a keen is

     

     

    same here........ :?

     

    could sumone please explain?

     

    Methinks they be ignoring the non-keeners. :ponder: :sad:

     

    WTF is a friggin keen?

     

    is

     

    Commander Keen was a side scrolling platformer. The First ones were all MS DOS games. My mom used to play Commander Keen a lot back when we had the 486.

  20. Posted

    Well, the most difficult part in making disks would be finding the right format of 5.25" floppy. I have forty or more 5.25" floppies, but they're all 1.2MB, useless to all my older (amiga, apple) systems. Hell, even the ones with 3.5" diskette drives can't read 1.44 or even 7hundred-xKB diskettes. >_<

     

    Maybe you should check out http://www.floppydisk.com. They sell blank floppies in bulk. I've been meaning to give them a ring and buy some 3.5" DS/DD floppies from them for a while now.

  21. Posted

    Well, I'd suggest starting with the CSA2 FAQs and links page when you need Apple II info... it's been a very usefull resource when I've needed to figure something out with my IIgs.

     

    Anyway, the easiest way to get software on an Apple II involves an older Mac (just old enough to have a built in floppy drive) and an Apple IIgs with both 3.5 and 5.25 drives... of cource, my IIgs has a hard drive and an ethernet card so I just download stuff on the IIgs and put it to disk that way instead. :)

     

    There are other ways that I'm not really familiar with, but I can tell you up front that you can't write an Apple II disk in a PC's 5.25" drive. Older Macs can write 3.5" ProDOS floppies which is why they make a nice Apple II accessory.

  24. Posted

    All the button shafsts are the same lengh.... and when you have the top half of the case off, the buttons shafts can be pressed down a lot farther than they can when the top half of the case is on....

     

    After looking at it a little I noticed that while the button shafts in the top half of the case are all in a straight row, the buttons on the PCB in the 7800 are not... the power button is about 1mm farther from the front of the PCB than the Pause button is... so if the pause button gets dead on in the center by the shaft for it, then the power button gets pressed off center on the edge by its shaft....

     

    After noting this I tried pressing near the edge of the power button inside the system with my fingernail.... the button clicked but would not turn the system on or off when I did this.

  25. Posted

    Ok... I can click and click and click all I want but if I don't hold the button down it wont turn on.... but, if I take the top of the case off and press the button inside directly with my finger it turns on with one click. and off with one click.... but if I put the top of the case back on it's a pain to turn on.

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