Lendorien
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Hey Chris,
Is this listing still up to date?
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Lovely lot there. I've always been curious about the SG-1000.
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The nice thing is because it's a direct drive unit, I didn't have to replace any belts. Its not outside of my abilities, but meh. It was a $10 purchase at Goodwill of all places and was in nearly perfect condition. I was pleasntly surprised. The Goodwill by me are usually heavily picked over.Nice, one of the best decks of any era! Have a couple myself as well as a few D-811's. Sankyo/Nakamichi/Kyocera of the 70's & 80's... people who think cassettes suck, clearly have never heard them through nicer decks.
I picked up a few cassettes as well... nothing great tho. And yes, tapes do sound surprisingly good if you're expecting only hiss and warble sound. My experience with them is limited to a cheap tape player I had as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s. We didn't have good stereo equipment in my house as a kid.
I've been getting into vintage stereo gear as of late.
I also picked up a pair of Koss Pro 4/AAs at the same Goodwill a week earlier. A couple bucks but they were broken. A call to Koss and they replaced the things. Wonderful headset. Great company.
Probably the best two thrift finds I've had all year.
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I bought a kyocera D-611 cassette deck from 1985. Then listened to a tape I found in my stuff that was recorded by my mom in 1984. Trippy.
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I can totally see this happening. If a cat has to puke, they're going to do it. Oddly enough, my two cats have never puked on anything but my hardwood floors. No carpet. No couch, or furniture. Maybe I've trained mine better than yours? Or maybe I'm just darned lucky. They generally aren't allowed to stand on or even be next to my electronics. They also completely ignore wires. Good for the longevity of my vintage gaming gear!
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This looks really slick. I'm surprised at how nice it looks.
On a side note, I did a search for atari's made of wood and shock of shocks, no-one has done it yet!
This is the next best thing if you ask me!
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No one was talking about this for the last 20 days. So, naturally, the logical thing is to post a message taking a side and telling everyone else to "chill."
Honestly, I didn't actually notice the dates. >_<
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Blarg. Look, the money was paid so long ago, what does it matter? It's not like it's real money any more.
I've wasted hundreds of dollars on even less worthwhile crap since then (Butterfinger candy-bars and sugary soft drinks, I'm looking at you! >_<). Why bitch about this? $100 six years ago is the least of most of our worries right now. I believe Curt started the project in good faith. I think most of us do.
Is the wait ridiculous? Sure. Ill conceived and poorly planned out. Should be done by now. It's the principle of the thing. A thousand other complaints and arguments repeated ad infinitum for six year. Blah blah blah.
Still... This is a hobby. Put it into perspective.
As vintage gamers and collectors, many of us waste hundreds of man hours (not to mention loads of gas money) every year going to thrift stores and garage sales and searching craigslist ads hoping to score a big one and not finding anything. Not to mention the tens of thousands of hours spent playing games that earn us nothing but wasting time. (Or how about time wasted bitching on forums. Does that count too?) Translate all that time (and gas) into money and all of us have wasted insanely more than what was paid for this project.
People put up money hoping to get something cool. We all do that any time we spend time and resources on our hobby.
So it's not out yet. Maybe it'll never come out. Maybe it will. If it does, we just found the big thrift shop score. If not, well, there be other finds on other days. Either way, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the crap we waste our resources on. Looking at it from that direction, after six years, is it really worth getting upset about any more?
Seriously.
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I'm away for a couple weeks and this pops up! Maybe I need to take breaks more often if it results in great news! This sounds like a really interesting project and definitely unique in a lot of ways. I look forward to seeing how it develops.
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Recapping a Game Gear is not hard for a novice overall, but the sound board is a real pain if you're new to soldering. Mainly because it's layout provides some pretty tight spaces to work in.
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So, we should post serial numbers here then so they're in one place. You already have mine though.
This is a great bit of research. Definitely was worth the time. Stuff like this is valuable when trying to understand design changes and the life cycle of the product.
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Wow. It's amazing how all those little tweaks really improve the overall appearance of the game. A little polishing of the graphics changes the tone and makes to feel deeper and richer in tone and experience.
I agree with others that revamping the music would be a great addition. The TIA music really is a little meh.
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Best is a good company. I've bought from them and have been pleased with the outcome. I will say though, that it'd be nice if they spent a couple dollars on web development. Having a proper shop page would make it easier to buy from them and make their lives easier too with proper inventory and purchase order tools. The current website is practically unusable.
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When I was a kid, my cousins had a 5200. They had more money than my family. I didn't own a video game console until I was in college. I got my 5200 at a thrift store about 4 years ago.
What I remember from back in the day was Joust. I'd never seen the game before and I was enamored with it. To this day, Joust is one of my all time favorite arcade games, but it was the 5200 that got me hooked on it.
When I got my system, following fixing the controllers, one of the first things I did was pick up Joust. But to be honest, the game I play most often on it is Moon Patrol. Lame, I know.
Seems like a lot of people loved Space Dungeon. I recently picked that one up. I'll have to try it again. I will admit that graphics are sometimes a roadblock for me. Arcade games are fine, but when you get slightly more cerebral with old school systems I find it hard to get into them.
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Wow. This looks really amazing. I'm gonna have to load this on my Harmony and give it a go when I get home tonight.
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Oh man. I wish I could afford this. It looks awesome!
Good Golly they've raised 165,000 pounds. That's Insane!
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What an utterly fun concept. Chiptunes have been done, but this is the first time I've heard of someone doing a "game" soley to make a "movie."I'll have to download these and take a look on my harmony!
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Sorry my mistake. I was browsing the forum and clicked a link in another current thread and didn't bother to check the date before posting. Carry on...
Meh. Who cares about the necrobumping?
Necrobumps are fun because they sometimes revive old discussions or bring forward threads that people missed the last time. Don't sweat it. I had fun reading an article I missed last time.
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I love how silly legal discussions intended to rile people up somehow descend into silly clips from youtube. How can you go wrong with the Andy Griffith Show?
Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy
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I've never seen one of these before. I love the Nintendo Splash Screen. Does it let you play continuously or does it have a timed gameplay limit?
It's great you got it working again. I love it when people fix up old Store displays. I would kill to own a few.
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I'm not saying this to justify, defend or excuse ... but I do find that sometimes homebrewers have to deal with a lot of crap. At the root of what they do is a love for the console they're working on, not because they're getting paid a 150K salary to make Atari projects. They donate unbelievable amounts of time because it's something they love to do.
Despite this, I've seen homebewers get raked over the coals - why are you charging this much? Why hasn't there been an updated version of this game? When will this be done? Why is it not done now? Why are you making this? That idea sucks ... you shouldn't make it! Your programming skills suck - I'm better etc.
I've also seen it become draining for homebrewers where they simply burn out, drop the system, abandon projects etc. Sometimes its real life taking over. Sometimes its burning out on a project. Sometimes its the crap they take in forums.
As I said above, Curt and GroovyBee took a lot of crap for this project, even at its inception before pre-orders. I mean, geez, there were working prototypes of systems at shows and roms of some of the games around and people were calling the hardware and software photoshop and trying to rally philosophically against even making something like an XM.
That's got to be draining after a while.
Again, I don't know why GroovyBee stopped communicating and have no involvement with a lot of the history. But I do know he made a lot more programs (at varying stages of completion) than he is often given credit for
While I will agree with you on homebrewers taking crap, and how the acts of crappy people can burn people out,this project was on again off again for five years. You had promises to keep people up to date, then long stretches of silence followed by promises to try and get it out by this date and that date. I know Mr. Vendel has health issues, but five years is an awful long time when you shelled out a hundred dollars for it. Yes, it's got to be draining to get criticism. But in this case, some of it was self inflicted. Perhaps that was a sticking point with Groovybee. I don't know. I just hesitate to agree with anyone who is willing to ignore the amazingly long wait we've had.
As someone said a few pages back, if many of the people who paid for the XM had known they'd have to wait 5+ years, they probably would't have spent the money.
I'm thrilled that others are trying to get things done so it can finally be sent out. I don't know what Groovybee's issue is, but I really do wish he'd be kind to the community and be generous with the work he's already done on the project and share it with them. Seems odd to me that he'd ignore people he's had positive relationships with in the past. Perhaps you're right and he really did get burned out by it all. Still no contact, not even a, "hey, this burned me out and I really just can't be involved in it any more?" That sorta blows.
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I'll agree that it's unethical given that he made a commitment when he agreed to help with the project. Refusing to share the work after doing so much and then leaving others in the lurch is an unethical thing to do, and a dick move. But he has a right to do it. He wasn't being paid. In no way was I saying that such behavior was right. If you read the rest of the post, I basically say it wasn't.I couldn't disagree more. Whether or not he owns the code is ONLY meaningful in court, which is somewhere this should NEVER go. When he VOLUNTEERED to work on the BIOS and CPLD portions of the project he made a commitment to the group. Understanding that this is a hobby, I don't blame someone for dropping out if there are real life issues that prevent completion of the work. But he has an ethical obligation to provide his work in progress back to the project for it to be continued on. His holding the files hostage is not just a dick move, it's totally unethical. He's wasted many hours of Curts time due to all of this and hurt the community greatly.
I also want to point out that the reason I brought this up was not to start arguments but to let people know what is going on behind the scene so they don't automatically start blaming Curt when this project is further delay'd.
There are a lot of things in the world that are permissable and in our rights to do, but are detestable actions when we do them. This situation is among them.
Even so, minor semantic differences aside, I think we agree on the basic thrust of things. You have more invested than I do since you're actually doing the work and have to deal with the real consequences of his behavior, so I'll defer to you.
And I really don't see any arguing going on here!
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This information about Groovybee and how he's behaved is demoralizing. No-where have I ever seen it articulated what his exact problem was that made him go incommunicado. Perhaps there was an issue or a disagreement. I couldn't say.
I will say that it does not speak well of his character that he refuses to communicate with people (who stepped in where he left off) trying to pick up where he left off. That said, he owes no-one his work. It's a dick move, but if he wrote the code, it belongs to him and he doesn't have any obligation to give it away. It might be the "gentlemanly" thing to do, but he has a right not to.
Still, given that he was part of the project and so instrumental to it, him just blowing Curt off and acting this way hurts not only Curt, but the community as a whole. Meanwhile, Curt has gotten no end of vitriol from some members of the community regarding the vaporware status of the project, while a big part of the problem has been the behavior of someone who both Curt and project backers were relying on to see it to completion. I think that's the saddest thing about this whole situation - that Curt has had to feel all of the community's angst and criticism by himself, whena good share of the blame should go to a guy who just up and quit and left Curt high and dry.
That Curt has not publicly said a word about Groovybee's behavior shows a real level of class on his part.
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How much power do NES joystick ports output anyway? I can't imagine it'd be a lot.
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Honestly, would you even need to have a mod verify? The buyer can look at the image themselves and see if the number matches, right? If it doesn't, well, the buyer knows to avoid it. Or you could have a report button so THEN a mod can look at it.
A thought.