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    This website & their Atari 7800 T-shirt. Thoughts??

    in Atari 7800

    Posted

    https://lemonsdesign.com/product/official-atari-7800-shirt/

     

    They claim it's an "official" Atari 7800 shirt which correct me if I'm wrong, but I highly doubt.  Bootleg or not, I'm still kinda sketched out about ordering from sites like this. Anyone possibly have any experience with them? 

     

    And I know we are a niche little bunch, but still always found it frustrating that despite the seemingly endless options out there to order clothing/merch for pretty much every game & console you can think of (Licensed & unlicensed), there has always been virtually NOTHING out there 7800 wise as far as I could tell

    BupSystem

    in Atari 7800 Programming

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    On 5/27/2021 at 9:44 AM, TailChao said:

    Oh hey, it's BupSystem v0.9.6.4

     

    Oh hey, it's been a year already... wait.... wait, what? WHAT?! WHEN?!

     

    • Added
      • Support for launching in Full Screen Mode, this is enabled by setting full=y in the [display] section of BupSystem.ini.
      • More robust Atari 7800 File (*.a78) parser.
      • Upgraded to JoyFish v0.8.6.2.
    • Cleanup
      • Color Dialog didn’t restore its previous settings when canceled.
      • Palette wasn’t recalculated on a console region change.
      • Direct3D 9 display texture is now padded vertically, this corrects some filtering issues.
      • Restored the behavior of rendering whether or not a cartridge is loaded.
      • Using the menu in Full Screen Mode now shifts the display downward instead of resizing it.
      • Screen Saver and Monitor Power Down are now allowed while execution is paused.
      • Recent cartridges menu was broken in Windows 95.
         

    The more robust *.a78 parser just means it won't vehemently refuse to load a cartridge if it's surprised by any new type flags - it'll guess slightly harder. Support has also been added for loading SOUPER cartridges in the *.a78 format, albeit without BupChip support.

     

    Food Fight Remake??

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    Was browsing Arcade Heroes list of upcoming arcade games & saw a "Food Fight Frenzy - Retro Arcade Remakes/Atari (2024)"

     

    Intrigued, I did a search & found nothing about an upcoming arcade title, but a few articles about a new Food Fight game for The VCS by "Mega Cat Studios" followed by a PC & multiplatform home console release. The thing is all these articles are from around 2021 & mention a "early 2022" release, yet here it's almost early 2024. Guessing maybe it was scrapped?

     

    Anyone have any info? My first time hearing about this. Would love to see this happen & so curious as to where they might take a Food Fight for The 2020's. Don't wanna get my hopes up though. Here is one of the articles I came across. Alot copy & paste the same wording

     

    https://screenrant.com/atari-food-fight-game-remake-online-multiplayer/

     

    Is collecting a full set still doable?

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    If you already have 34 I'd say go for it.  I feel extremely fortunate I was able to jumpstart my 7800 collection in the late 90's with 20-30 games NEW, all for 80 cents a piece from a liquidation website at the time!

     

    Over time & especially during the 2010's I gradually filled it up until I acquired a complete NTSC library EXCEPT Tank Command. 6-7 years later I still can't bring myself to wait for it to turn up & go through with it 😞 But still hope to one day before I die

     

    I own the Super Pac-Man homebrew & I do need to pick up some more of those, Bentley Bear is LONG overdue 

     

    Also gotta say glad I took the plunge with most of the rarer games in the previous decade, the prices already seem significantly higher already, less then 10 years after

     

     

    Been firing up my 7800 a bit this week after a little hiatus & broke 2 of my personal records today

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside
    grammar

    Came here to post, bcuz yeaaa I don't know a whole lot of people IRL who can relate to my nerdy excitement 😜

     

    Hopefully ONE day before I die I'll get a perfect Choplifter score. I was amazed I even pulled this off honestly, after 100s & 100s of times playing throughout my life I barely ever made it into the 60's. I have such a love/hate relationship with this game I swear. Can be brutal, but I just can't stay away. 

     

    Anyway would like to hear some of your best scores + see screenshots on these if any & maybe try some 7800 high score competitions in general 

     

     

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    Top 5 games for 7800

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    18 hours ago, Giles N said:

    Scrapyard Dog has 3 main-flaws:

    - not very charming hero-grfx and too dull backdrop palette (the Scrapyard Dog Hack fixes that, either as Scraps or Louie)

    - platforms you just need to know by trial and error to be there, actually out of view, and to be hit upon by memorizing jumps. (I think particulary 3 or 4 places are notorius)

    - the silly ‘boss’: a puzzle, no fight.

     

    Yet, in the responsive 60 fps ntsc-version, I just find it lots of fun; also to explore a bit - find extra life and shield shops, collecting cans to swap for cash.

    Love some of the later Scrapyard-levels even though I think they’d make for lousy busninesses (Cloud-Scrapyard…?) 

    Guess, I love platformers and the responsive ntsc-version is just fun to run-through, despite it flaws.

     

     

    As Ninja Golf, I diasgree, I think it gets everything right as to gameplay (ok, not perfect, but nothing wrong, certainly very good and rewarding action).

    What do I miss? To be able to throw 2 or 3 shurikens at the dragon. That the later levels would have a few things not seen by level 5… that the last hole was guarded by a bigger dragon or the same dragon but in new attack mode… That is: a bit turn-of that after level 5 you’ve seen all elements used in the game.

     

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    Yes, if you think Scrapyard Dog could be considered and like Ninja Golf, I’d really get a copy of Crystal Quest.

    It can be very difficult, but builds up very evenly, and even though I haven’t gotten through it yet, really seems to be a 7800 game that has it all: fantastic graphics, well-made arcadey’ music and sound, polished gameplay, lots of levels with a typical ‘gets more dramatic towards the end’, even an additional secret world, and you can complete it.

    My only complaint is somewhat stiff enemy-AI.

    Yea, the last time I really put the time in to beat Scrapyard Dog & got to that boss was the late 90's & I think the only way I managed to get to the end was to draw a map on notebook paper of what sewer pipes to jump through. I remember that part being incredibly frustrating. I see alot of complaints about the main character, but IDK just never rly bothered me, came off as an average joe wanting to rescue his beloved dog lol I tried one of those hacks on an emulator for a bit & thought it was hilarious, the role reversal where you play as "Scraps" & rescue your owner instead

     

    Stacked up against your typical NES side scrolling action game, I still think Ninja Golf's controls feel awkward a bit. I have alot of respect for it though & play it occasionally. Agree on the dragons also, very lazy & it was a big letdown when I got to the end only to realize it was the same boss AGAIN

     

    Gonna have to pick up Crystal Quest at some point

    Top 5 games for 7800

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    Posted

    On 9/14/2023 at 5:08 PM, Giles N said:

    My top 5, by combined standards of what I play + sheer quality of production:

     

    1.Commando

    2.Scrapyard Dog

    3.Sirius

    4.Crystal Quest

    5.Ninja Golf

     

     

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    It was hard to be so selective.

     

    Ahhhhh I'm so conflicted about Scrapyard Dog. It was one that immediately came to mind when thinking about a Top 5, but I just can't forgive that final boss decision. I will say that game along with Ninja Golf were the 2 main later releases I had no idea existed in the 80's that blew my mind as far as what my 7800 could have actually done. I almost put Ninja Golf on my list as well, but had to be honest with myself: the controls are a bit wonky although it is still pretty impressive, creative & fun

     

    I really need to pick up Crystal Quest already, speaking of The 7800's true capabilities

     

     

    Top 5 games for 7800

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    16 minutes ago, Giles N said:

    I like the graphics, and think of it more of a mediocre/simplistic game than a outright bad game.

     

    Main problem is lack of light-gun-compatibility/gamepkay: that would’ve made the aim smoother.

    As it is now, the aim is a bit un-smooth…

    … but the cartoony graphics aren’t that bad - even if the concepts are crazily all-over-the-place.

    Yea it's one of those simple old school arcade type games that I can play for relatively short periods of time to try & top my high score. Some intense moments when you're down to just a couple eggs, frantically trying to survive lol

     

    I also think it shoulda been a light gun title. Can't remember if the official light gun or Best Electronics had a second button either, but that would kinda be necessary. Nowadays I only have a flat screen, so can't make use of a light gun anyways (Nor play Barnyard Blaster at all, but apparently I'm not missing much) 

     

    The accuracy definitely isn't perfect, but I found the more I stuck with it the more I adapted to it. It was originally an Atari ST game I believe, that used the mouse & has even better graphics :mad:

     

    The quirkiness of it all is one reason it appeals to me too, it is kind of out there haha 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Top 5 games for 7800

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    TOP 5:

    1.Food Fight

    2.Mario Bros

    3.Choplifter

    4.Commando

    5.Crack'ed (Yea I know, I'm like the one guy on the planet that really enjoys this game :ponder::D)

     

    3 HONORABLE MENTIONS:

    -Alien Brigade

    -Joust

    -Xevious

     

    *ALSO:

    -Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest would probably be on there if I hadn't been putting off ordering it for so long. Hopefully someday I will before it's too late

    -Scrapyard Dog would make The Top 5 if it wasn't for that ridiculous disappointment of a final boss which ruins it

     

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    What commercially released 7800 games deserved a sequel?

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    6 hours ago, GoldenWheels said:

    I gotta admit....I really do not love it BUT I think it could be made a much better game (as was the original) on the 7800.

     

     

    Yeaaa, it was a rough game. I never actually played it until MAME in the 2000's, but when I first saw it at the arcade my Mom took me to I was like "WOAAAH Joust TWO?!! This looks so cool, I bet it'll come out for my 7800 since we have the original" lol Someone else was playing it that day & I never got to spend much time in arcades when I was with her.  

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    Retroarch Intellivision emulation setup

    in Intellivision / Aquarius

    Posted

    On 1/9/2023 at 5:41 PM, patbb said:

    I've been using it for about a year. I like it. 

     

    I don't use it as a frontend to launch the games.

    I use Launchbox for that, it's easier to obtain all the boxes, screenshots and videos.

    In launchbox I used a builtin function to install RetroArch and everything was automatically setup.

    Then you import the roms and you're all set ... with retroarch as your emulator.

     

    The most useful functionality with the FreeIntv Core for me is the keypad mapping using the xbox controller.

    The right thumb stick is emulating all the numbers +  The right thumb stick button is 5, the left thumb stick button is 0 and the triggers for # and *.

    So when entering the number of players and skill level you don't need a keyboard.

    Also, it makes games such as Night Stalker (keypad to fire) very easy to play.

     

    Can you tell me which button is used to start games? I've never played an Intellivision & just trying it out on Retroarch. I figured out the keypad controls & setting the amount of players, but both games I've tried so far : Diner & Dracula I swear I've hit every button on my Xbox One Controller & they won't start. I wind up just randomly mashing all buttons & can sometimes get a game to load though. IDK out of all console configs, this seems to be the least straightforward

    Interest in Atari 7800 game boxes ?

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    Hello, 

     

    Planning to move & have been downsizing things. I have an almost complete 7800 NTSC game collection (all besides Tank Command), but never focused on keeping boxes when I started collecting in the late 90's. 

     

    Anyway, I still have a few boxes up in my closet from some games I ordered 7-8 years ago & I'm most likely going to try selling them to save space. Before I started taking pictures and/or list them on Ebay or the marketplace here I figured I'd make a post to see if anyone who collects boxes as well might be needing some of these & would want to work something out with me

     

    Here is what I have:

    Alien Brigade

    Barnyard Blaster

    Ikari Warriors

    Mean 18 Golf (Kinda pains me to get rid of this one, but lol)

    Meltdown

     

    Most are in pretty good shape considering their age, a couple might have a dent or 2 but nothing too major. Some still have a portion of the plastic seal attached; Mean 18 is one of them

     

    Stevie

     

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    Superman Hack?

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    I always wished for the ability to put the helicopter in jail. Especially since when I was little, my Aunt (who passed away a couple years ago) mistakenly told me you could & I used to try to do it... with no success obviously:D

    Just testing: Karnov 7800

    in Atari 7800

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    Very cool to see, regardless if you decide to go through with it or not.  Karnov is one of those games that stuck with me over the decades. Just unforgettable, surreal enemies & stages, it was quite a trip & really captured my imagination as a child lol My arcade had it & we rented it couple times for the NES. I have owned the NES cart in my collection for ages, but just could not beat that final boss for the life of me

    Selling my Coco 3 w 2 deluxe joysticks & 7' extension cables I had made for them + a lot of 6 games & 2 manuals

    in Tandy Computers

    Posted

    $399 OBO for the Coco3 w joysticks & cables :
     
    $100 OBO for 6 games: (Predator, Rad Warrior, Downland with manual, Clowns & Balloons,Dungeons of Daggorath & Roman Checkers with manual)
     
    Thanks for looking. Being the Coco is a pretty niche part of retrogaming, hope some of you might be interested here.

    Super Pitfall No Music

    in Tandy Computers

    Posted · Edited by Stevaside

    I've tried 3 different Super Pitfall roms so far on VCC & all have the music missing. Can anyone possibly point me in the right direction? Has to be one out there because gameplay video I saw on Youtube had the music intact (OG Stevie Strowe's channel)

     

     

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