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  1. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    I know, and has been so over a week. Just my personal luck with getting that damn rare game from the only European seller I have found ;)

  2. Posted

    A lot of items on their site are no longer available

    That´s the little problem I am having, too; however, after asking what and ho wlong "Order:Pending" means I received a very kind and detailed email so all is fine with me even if waiting for "up to 10-12 weeks until we´ll have it back in stock" is kind of hard.

  3. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    A nice little game :) I like it. Any plans for a Yastuna 3 release maybe, together with your "A Bug´s Lynx"? (Recognized the music from Lynxopoly BTW :D).

     

    First, the lyx-file doesn´t work on the card unfortunately. Maybe because it doesn´t follow the 128/256/512 format? Don´t bother now because it works fine with Handy.

    EDIT ha! I got it working on the FC now :) forgot to change its options to ".LYX" So typical! Looks great now!

     

    The music track plays lovely, nice upbeat tempo with a humalong quality.

     

    You can move on all the bricks already fallen

    This is important to realize, otherwise you´ll die far away from the 500 points mark.

    You can shoot faster when you move up the wall rather than from below all the time. You move around more than on Space Invaders, horizontally and vertically.

     

    Interesting. After having played it on Handy I´ve gotten it on the FC and it plays MUCH EASIER this way :D

     

    Thanks for a fun game :)

  7. Posted

    Yes, sorry to hear this. These things are bloodily annoying and you feel so damn helpless then.

     

    May the thief be incarcerated in a slime world...kidnapped by a hand from out off space (Toki)...A.P.B. Officer Bill will find him! Smack a folded newspaper into his windows! May his ostriches all be pterodactylized!

    Any other metaphors available? ;)

  9. Posted

    Gordo is indeed pretty good and about my favourite platformer for the Lynx. Plus, great music.

    I have never made it through more than 30% of it though...

     

    Thanks for the guide! Bookmarked :)

  12. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    @ geoanas, it has the manuals (German and English), which are downloadable from Lynxman´s AtariAge blog, I think. This is what I did weeks before I considered buying the card :)

    The CD-ROM also contains a Lynxopoly-Demo and an announcement 1-page-pdf-"Flyer" about an ongoing Yastuna-PCB-project (no further details given there, only a picture of the well-known Yastuna PCBs).

    How did you manage to get Rygar on it without knowing the installation link to the small data-uploading programme that´s given in the manual? Or did you have that on your PC before already?

  13. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    Received mine yesterday. Thank you, Bernd :) it is absolutely stunning.

     

    Needed a little while until I found out how to use it. Your screenshots in your manual helped a lot but for someone like me who is unfamiliar with setting up half a dozen parameters on both the card and the transfer programme, like format types, ROM sizes, Baud rates and "how to make the programme know that it uses exactly the same values as the flashcard and how to make the latter know the same", I needed a little while to find it all out by trial and error and by reading the manual more than twice :).

     

    Mainly, I have overlooked that the flashcard´s own little menu, which is accessed by pushing one button, can not be read on the PC transfer programme UNLESS both have the same Baud rate setup.

    Plus, the chip needs to be erased before uploading anything.

     

    Let me post a little dummies´ guide:

     

    first : correct USB COM-port! (i.e. the transfer programme needs to know)

    second: change a few default parametres in transfer programme (see manual screenshot). press "connect"!

    third: start with 9600 baud. otherwise, no flashcard settings menu will appear

    forth: change baud rate to faster (on both the FC and the programme)

    fifth: give type of file (.lyx etc) (on both the FC and the programme)

    sixth: enter correct file size (on both the FC and the programme)

    seventh: erase chip before uploading (didn´t know that but it´s so logical, isn´t it?)

    eighth : upload file

    nineth: verify

     

    Once one has learnt this it´s a matter of less than 3 minutes now. Thanks for your fast delivery, Lynxman :) It´s a great tool!

  16. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    After having played the text adventure three times, I still find myself too stupid to access any hidden game! :(

    I have now printed your above hints^^ and will do it again. Maybe it´s clearer in the French version (had only 3 distant very distant years of French in school...)

    Never mind, I like a challenge! :D

    EDIT Read the spoiler! Thought I could do without...Thanks :)

  17. Posted · Edited by Atari_afternoon

    Definitely the GBA version, even at one point of Nintendo desinterest I gave it away to a relative (bought it back again in th emeantime. Close second the DS version, which was the original reason why I had gotten a DS at all.

     

    EDIT Just seen that, like in politics, I always vote the loser .D

  18. Posted

    Hi and welcome :)

     

    Oh I bet you´ll love your new toy. Half a year ago I started a very similar thread here (now down on page 2 or 3 maybe).

     

    Favourite games? Depends on the genre. IMHO Checkered Flag (racing), Lynxopoly, Shanghai (board games), Rampage, Xenophobe, Ms Pac-Man, Joust (Arcade), Slimeworld, Rygar (platformer) and Steel Talons, Battlezone and BattlwWheels are all a blast to play on this system.

     

    And this console is still being actively supported, so expect some new stuff in regular intervals :)

  21. Posted

    Got mine today (from Lynxman)! Plays fine, I like it. Good and very colourful levels, and the long "press option 1" message that was originally mentioned for the testers in 199x has, among other things, the content that actually, 35 levels and more and greater enemies had been planned...*sigh*. I think it´s a pity it wasn´t finished as planned back then and laid on ice. That one more month missing wasn´t in Atari´s budget any more? :( Could have become a Lynx Sonic.

    Nevertheless, thanks to you we can play it now! I spent a good time of this afternoon with it.

  25. Posted

    Well I can now confirm that disassembling the Lynx (II) is indeed as easy as it has been described several times on this board and elsewhere, also with photographic help (thanks!).

    You need an ordinary screwdriver and 10 minutes - maybe no more than 5 minutes all in all the next time to loose the 5 screws and to clean the screen from dust with the very same piece opf cloth you use for your glasses and to reassemble the Lynx back to its original (cleaner) working condition :)

    There is no "hurdle" like when you deal with Nintendos or the Sega Game Gear because there an ordinarily equipped household all of a sudden is hindered by a screw of an unusual format or something else like this. No. The Lynx is extremely userfriendly in this respect, too.

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