Raijin Z

Yeah, the 2600 sticks are terribly constructed. Actually, I suggest using a Genesis controller. Less damaging to your hands. Rebuilding the PCB would give the controller at LEAST 15 more years of use. That would require a sacraficial controller, or one of those controller repair kits they made back in the day.

Rebuild the board in the stick, and replace the pot in the paddle. The latter will be the easier of the two.

Hmm... I'm not sure. The Genesis 3 is smaller, and the cart slot isn't too far away from the back end of the system (the problem the Genesis 2 had with the Powerbase), but the bios is different. I'm not sure if Majesco's rebuilds support extra hardware add-ons. You can try it. Genesis 1 and 2 systems aren't terribly rare, if the G3 rejects it.

In hindsight, I should have used the old Blockbuster tactic. Take the game you want, hide it behind the case nobody would look behind. Back in the day, we'd put Mario Kart behind The First Samurai or Bubsy.

Thanks for the info. I never realised that. Heheh... Yeah, a Powerbase Converter is a worthy buy, because they're not too common nowadays. I got mine because The last 3 Master Systems I had were dead. Too bad I lost about 25lbs of games in a forced move. u_u I could actually play them now.

They fit in regular Genesis cases just fine... The tabs lock into the cart seam. I just keep mine in a cardboard box with all the other games I don't have systems for. I have a Powerbase Converter, but I have a Genesis 2. It won't fit unless I take the converter out of the case, but then it becomes three flimsy IC boards and a broken magnetite band. Bleah.

I have four or five top loaders, all with their own stupid problems. The latest one won't display in color. The oldest one is just plain -dead-. I really need a top loader.... >_< Of course if there were any documentation on repairind oldstyle NES systems, I'd be just about as pleased.

Mario Kart is crap unless you have 4 copies of it and as many GBAs to play it on. The rest are just more-or-less faithful ports of their SNES counterparts.

Provided it's a decent 3D platformer, sure.

I got a Macintosh LCII for $7 at a Goodwill store outside of Pittsburgh last week. The whole shebang, minus an external CD drive that I can get at a Youngstown area Goodwill. I missed out on some semi-rare NES games at the Goodwill in town because I couldn't get a ride there until a week after I first found them. -_-

I've been looking for a top loader for years.... -_- The AV mod is very simple, and a 10-minute soldering class from anyone who can solder worth a damn will teach you all you need to know.

I had a Saturn for a while... I burned it to death when its CD drive magically committed suicide.

Reiko Nagase. I'm only saying this because I haven;t drawn Samus yet.

I remember having a really hard time adapting to cross pad controllers. I had been playing the same Atari 2600 with the same sticks for 8 years before I played an NES.

Hmm... Best ever... PSX/PS2 Dual Shock. Undeniably the greatest gamepad ever made. Worst? Jaguar is way up there, and so is the original US Saturn pad, but I'd have to say the Gamecube controller. Sure, the NES pad was painful, but at least the buttons weren't haphazardly shat all about the surface of it. I'm hoping Madcats or someone makes a decent reform of it soon.

If it weren't for Mortal Kombat Advanced, I'd say Dexter's Lab is the WORST GBA game ever made. Actually, where would that leave PPG and the other Cartoon Network offal? I suggest both Megaman Battle Network games. Very fun, but I'm not sure about replay value.

Konami Pooyan at a local Goodwill. Yeah, it's not terribly rare. I just started doing this.

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