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    Shoot, I love PayPal. Y'all remember the first posts I made? Some scumbag bilked my wife out of a hundred dollars for what he claimed was an Ewok Adventure prototype. Not only was it not a proto but a repro, but it didn't even work. He threw a hissy fit because the first thing I did was file a dispute with PayPal, but it turns out this guy had scammed dozens before and because they were too "polite" to use PayPal's buyer's protection fast enough, he successfully scammed them all. Eventually PayPal froze his account and kicked him entirely off their service.

     

    If it weren;t for having used PayPal rather than a money order, the best we could have done was filed a negative feedback.

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    I just want to double check here. The summary is some guy made a homebrew, and wants to charge megabucks or it because he's afraid of piracy... and he's not even the rights holder to star castle in the first place?

     

    Basically, this guy is hopping up on a moral high ground and whining about people pirating his piracy?

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    One of my complaints about the CC2 community was that there should have been more of a COMMUNITY effort to support the thing, rather than people either hording their ROM collections and lording them over other CC2 owners heads ("Well, of course *I* have every ROM ever released for the 2600 and 7800 on my CC2, but it would be irresponsible of *me* to give *you* those files, being that some of them are not freely distributable... I may be breaking the law, but it would be wrong for me to help *you* to do the same..." ) or being far less helpful than they could be, ("Dude, I got that game working... but I'm not going to tell you HOW... figure it out yourself, lamer... the bankswitching profiles are OBVIOUS, unless you're a total loser who doesn't deserve a CC2 in the first place!")

     

     

    I realize this is an ancient post, but I remember getting the same treatment when I stuck my head out into 5200 emulation. Can;t get any straight answers on what emulator is decent, and a lot of really smug attitudes.

     

    "What do you MEAN you don't want to use a commandline interface? You must be stupid or incredibly lazy." to which I replied, "GUIs have been the standard for almost TWENTY YEARS NOW. It's not an unreasonable expectation to not want to type something and a bunch of switches that require you to know what memory pattern every rom uses every time you want to play a game."

     

    I never went back to the thread. And I haven't tried to emulate a 5200 since; as well as lost all interest in actually owning one.

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  6. Posted

    As awesome as that Joystick looks, i'm not a Joystick kind of person. Never have been. I'll take the Intellivision Disc any day of of the week. I'm a D-pad person. I use Sega Genesis controllers when using my Atari 2600. I have owned a PS1, Genesis, and Nes arcade sticks and i could never get used to them.

     

    I'd prefer to see someone make something similar but with a D-Pad. Whatever happened to that one post where someone was going to attempt to use a Atari Jaguar controller and do some serious modding to it. I'll go look for it

     

    Agreed. Joystick=nogo. We're not playing Street Fighter here.

  9. Posted

    Delicately put, you'll find that Football Manager will sorta be a nogo for most folks. the primary collection audience seems to be the US, and we find soccer boring enough without not being able to actually PLAY.

     

    Right... what about a Ice Hockey Manager game then? :grin:

     

    Actually, making a simple old school RPG might be possible too...

     

    See now I could get on board Ice Hockey Manager.

  11. Posted · Edited by townparkradio

    Considering that "technique" is "go sideways out of the pit" it's not hard to master in the first place.

     

    That works for most wells, but it's not always the best thing to do:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh4U3BwlTcY&list

     

    You are correct good sir. I would better sum my technique up as "Make sure there's no well edges under your feet when you leave". But still point is it's not that hard. Hopping the guys at the end of Jungle Hunt is harder. Getting through the marshmellow man's legs is harder. There's a lot of things on the 2600 that are way harder than the pits, lol.

  13. Posted

    It's weird how the internet will take an idea and turn it into the truth. I guess if you get enough people to say and think something it becomes true. Heck even the programmer that wrote the game now thinks its bad. I don't think he would have said that in the pre-internet days.

     

    We make our own reality. If I were to say the sky is gray and get enough people to say the same thing it becomes true even though you can clearly see it is not the case.

     

    E.T. is a fantastic game. When I was a kid, I would play that thing for hours. I got so good at it that I would have speed runs on the hardest level and get the highest score I could by constantly giving Elliot my reeses pieces. Kids today can't play the game without gettting fustrated at falling in the pits. Getting out of the pits is easy if you master the technique. It's too simple for them that they lack the skills to play the game.

     

    Check out the Wikipedia page's comments. They can't find a single source from the time saying the game sucked, or even that it sold poorly (it didn't, it was just overproduced) but everyone is SURE it was awful. And I don't think HSW believes it was bad at all, he just decided it's better to go with it than go down the path which would eventually lead to being angry about it.

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