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  4. Posted

    I haven't received mine yet and I'm wondering if there are others. Mine were ordered in Jan. and it seems like no one has said anything for awhile. I'm trying to be patient but would like an update of some kind..............

     

    I ordered in November and still haven't gotten mine, so I'm afraid you're looking at another year or two before yours will arrive.

  6. Posted

    I found this ps2 on the streets and decided to take it with me in order to check if its working or not. The power supply seems to work, so I tried turning it on. And here's the problem, if I try to turn it on, it will fall back into standby mode (thus, red light turns green for a moment and becomes red again). Any idea if this can be fixed? My thoughts are if I can manage to overcome this problem it will be a working system again.

     

    Pop it open and have at that beast with the multimeter. Check the fuses as well. I've never had a PS2 open but apparently there's a couple.

  8. Posted

    I regret that I purchased my copy used, disc only, lest I could enjoy this nasal pleasure of which you speak. (It was $9.99, which is a pretty fantastic deal. I printed out the cover art.) Interestingly, though, my cat just walked over near the 360 and sneezed.

  10. Posted

    I've had good luck with the 360. Still on my first one.

     

    I don't know if this ever got fixed, but I once accidentally ruined a friend's game disc by very gently nudging the 360 console while it was in the vertical orientation. We're now careful to always keep ours on its side, which I'm sure causes the bottom side to get poor ventilation and will probably lead to the system's earlier demise. :(

     

    Anyway, how's this for a car analogy:

    the 360 is a cheap car but it runs on all the fuels you want to use

    the PS3 is a much more expensive car but it requires scarce diesel

    the Wii is an extremely inexpensive car but it's covered in sparkles and rainbows and makes you drive it via goofy arm-swinging motions instead of a steering wheel

    :D

  12. Posted · Edited by kaishaku

    We had a crappy RCA from the early 90s where basically the very first time you would try to press any of the buttons on the TV, they would get stuck in. Eventually they all just snapped off and I would just stick a pen in and press the microswitch behind where the button would have been manually.

     

    The remote always worked -- but the remote on that TV was a pile as well. I would have to squeeze hard on the top of it in order to get it to work. Of course we got a universal remote to replace it, but that TV was unique in that it had "menu" and also "settings" (or something like that), and in order to program the channels you'd need to go into *settings*, but every universal remote in the world only had "menu," so we had to keep the POS remote around as well for every time the power went off and it forgot what the channels were.

     

    Here's the other fun thing: during the entire course of its life that TV would never tune any channels between 10 and 24. Eventually its tuner stopped working entirely so we plugged a VCR into the component jacks and used the VCR as a tuner.

     

    I was happy to finally throw that thing in the dumpster.

     

    Apparently I didn't learn my lesson because I later bought a 12" RCA to play video games on in my room and that thing broke just over a year after I got it, right as soon as it knew its warranty was up.

  13. Posted

    I'm not much of a gamer but they're both frustrating to me in their own ways. It took me a long time to get used to dual-stick controls in FPS even though I was always pretty good at Doom or Wolfenstein 3D, but I've never caught up. I wouldn't dare play online with others because I'd be a handicap to whichever team I was on. "Who the heck is shooting me?!" (looking around 360 degrees) "Oh, I'm dead now."

     

    Then there's the frustrating technical aspects, like not having an HDTV sometimes means I either can't see a detail, or I can't read the tiny 6 point text telling me something important. (Capcom is notorious for this in titles like Dead Rising.)

  14. Posted

    Heh...one of my coworkers had to deal with someone at Domino's headquarters to facilitate huge pizza orders (long story that I don't want to go into now), and let me just say...it's not just the food that sucks at Domino's, but EVERYTHING -- their record keeping, their delivery schedules, their invoicing, you name it.

     

    The lady friend used to work at Pizza Hut and remembers it lovingly and nostalgically so that's our place of choice. After reading the stories on tipthepizzaguy.com whenever we get delivery I make sure to tip propitiously.

     

    Anyway...my coworker, as calmly as possible and very professionally and courteously, asked to speak to this woman's supervisor. She told him that there's nobody above her...despite the fact that her title actually was "assistant" something-or-other. :roll:

     

    Sadly, that's actually quite possible. I worked for a place that would often filibuster on promoting someone indefinitely (like, months or years) to avoid paying benefits and full time salary.

  18. Posted

    My experience is the same as yours. No response after I supplied my Google purchase information. All I can do is wait.

     

    Same. I never knew this would be such a long-term investment. I've e-mailed saying that I imagine it'd be easier to refund me than go to the trouble of shipping mine, but it would appear my message has gone unread.

  19. Posted

    Some more music, programmed last night while my Internet was out:

     

    castlevania_level1_07.bascastlevania_level1_07.bas.bin

    The drums haven't been added yet, but it's a reasonable approximation. I've deliberately coded it very inefficiently, to make the raw data as clear as possible. I'll have to think about how I'd like to add drums.

     

    Hi, you did an awesome job on this so I certainly don't mean to upset you with this suggestion:

     

    There's 4 places where you use pitch 24 on distortion 1 for an E, but it's way sharp. Changing it to 25 gives you a really flat E, but it sounds better to me because all of the notes around it are also really flat.

    4,1,24

    =>

    4,1,25

     

    I've attached updated versions that reflect this suggestion. There's still one more note that really bugs me in the ascending chords at the very end, but I haven't pinned that one down yet.

     

    castlevania_level1.bas.bin

    castlevania_level1.bas

  20. Posted

    Is it a splitter or a switch? Splitters are for dividing output, not switching between inputs.

     

    Also, check to see if your cable box has a "through" input and try just plugging the Atari into that. You'll have to fiddle with the cable box to see how to get it to send that signal through though.

  24. Posted

    For what it's worth, I've been e-mailing over the past few months trying to get a refund as Curt suggested above but my messages have gone unanswered. I keep forgetting about it for a month or two and then realizing that I still never got a response. Hope I do at some point.

  25. Posted

    Guys, give me till the end of the month and I will try to have it done (or something functional ready) for you guys to test out. FYI, I know most all the basic and a bit more of the programing world of the 2600 but lack some experience so if the code can be streamlined, please feel free to help me streamline the code or if there are better ways to do the task, please share if you will. thank for the patience.

     

    You could just keep posting sprites and designs and I'd be excited :cool:

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