ColecoDan
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My original Q-Bert is in a one piece box from whenever I got it probably 83 or 84. So the ones you are looking at could be fake but coleco did create one piece boxes.
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After checking my archive, my multicart and even asked Toby to check his own archive
It appear that we both don't have REV-B and REV-C
Wich lead me to think they were never been made at all
I'm really wondering why though....
I think we just confirmed that J-F doesn't know his alphabet too well and thought it went A, D.
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For someone jumping in today without any electronic skills, would you buy a console and get it modded and repaired, buy an already modded console or wait for one the clones that are possibly going to be on the market next year. I have yet to see one in the wild and haven't had any luck on Facebook or Craigslist either. I'm seeing 75-125 for a working unit plus 25-50 shipping on eBay unless it is boxed or has a ton of games. I've seen modded systems in the 250-300 range and haven't heard a price on the clones yet.
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It is hard to say, working ones could fail soon if they don't say that they fully restored them. The fully restored ones are nice and work great if you don't want to wait for the new systems that are coming out.
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Yeah I did wonder if this was the case - small community, achievable number of games, all collectors pretty much satisfied apart from the oddities that don't make it to eBay often anyway.
You have a complete CIB set? Or you still chasing some? Personally I'm aiming at just carts, for reasons of space and my mental health, but boxes seem very common for a machine of this age. Already got 3, and a couple of carts that came with a bonus manual. Which is kind of why I asked this in the first place, seems like a cheap way to get a shelf full of retro cardboard.
Only CIBs I am missing are The Bit Corp Originals of which I have only seen NIAD with 3 not sure if 4th exists , (I have the repos from Collectorvision for them though) , and I only have 2 CIB of the 6 Xonox Double enders. I say six because the Europe and the Canadian versions are so different that I wanted all of them. I have one European one and one Canadian one.
Skiing and Amazing Bumpman from Telegames didn't come in boxes but I have the original plastic with stapled hanging cardboard that they came in.
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I think you just were late to the show. Back in 2009 - 2011 maybe even more year span than that a lot of us were on ebay all the time trying to get our collections complete and fighting making the prices high. I believe all of us have a full compliment of complete games now with nothing left to buy except the game you never see.
So the ones that were really collectors have their collections full now.
If you don't try to get a CIB collection like mine and just get all the games in their carts then it is rather cheap to get a full collection.
If you want them CIB then it gets very expensive for some games and some games are just down right impossible to get.
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How many people are running into this issue? Is it only affecting a particular type of modification? If the developer is unwilling to share a binary without the "security protocol", then hopefully they would offer a refund for those unable to run the game. In my opinion, nobody is OWED an unprotected binary of a game, or even a publicly shared ROM dump. That developers have often provided them is a nicety and may be the norm in this community, but that doesn't mean you should feel entitled to a dump of the game just because you bought a physical copy.
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I guess I was more concerned about one of their posts that even shielding or other tiny things could cause the game not to work as we have definitely seen that one of the revisions of the coleco boards didn't have shielding. I was more scared about how temperamental they made the game sound when they started replying to people.
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It's not their problem. You bought a game cartridge that works on the original ColecoVision. There's no way any homebrew author can accommodate variations in modded systems. I run into this myself with Atari 2600 and 7800 games sold in the AtariAge Store. Sometimes a mod, for whatever reason, causes an incompatibility problem with a specific game someone tries. There's not really much I can do about that.
And just because you have the ability to dump the cartridge and play it using a flash-based cartridge doesn't mean the publisher needs to support your ability to do so. To state that the publisher is engaging in "very misleading sales practices", give me a break. They sold you a game that works fine as sold and as intended--playing the cartridge you purchased on a stock ColecoVision system.
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I agree 100% unless the actual problem people are seeing is that the games security is keeping them from reaching level 2. That isn't really a we can't make it work for every modded system. That is more like we are paranoid that everyone is stealing and your game would have worked if we weren't so paranoid.
Now granted no one has come out and admitted to it being the security protocol, so if it truly is a bug do to the system and timing being different then I guess that sucks but from everything I read it would seem it is the security keeping it in demo mode.
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Btw, despite the attention given to the final product, minor bugs can happen, i would be sad and apologize to learn that.
Not bug, it is an undocumented feature 😎
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Mine was wet, thank god they at least put one of those plastic bags around the box. I second the must ship in boxes in the future.
However more concerning to me is this idea that we must have an exact unmodded colecovision for a 35 year old system in which hardly anyone has a colecovison that was not modded. Seems like poor planning. I would say this needs a fix. Unfortunately I have been too busy to play the game. Will have to do that soon.
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Businesses definitely get special rates do to all the business they give the shipper. Everything they mail will be cheaper than you can mail it unless it is a small company that is not doing a lot of business with them.
They definitely charge more if they have to use a bigger box as well because then that screws up their container when they are shipping it they lose out on an extra box they could have fit that your box is taking up space.
The costs also could differ by ins, signed, and other factors which you haven't mentioned as being all the same or different with these shipments.
Yes shipping is expensive though and will probably only get worse until the teleporters get created.
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Will the new one be playable on a CV without the SGM?
no there are tons of old copies and i think the rom is out there too if you want to play without the SGM. The new one is only better supposedly because of the sound chip that he can use in the SGM.
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You will found more information here: http://www.arcadevision.net
The website is online. It is now allowed to book the Risky Rick Standard Edition. (no payement required)
Thank you.
I sent email to the mailto since the button on the screen doesn't do anything but show a mailto address.
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It wouldn't have been, you would have been given no time to accomplish such complicated work.
Also some A$$ would have come down from marketing and said we want to change this , this , and this
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How do you play it? When I press the left fire button, the car speeds up, but it is soon taken over by the other cars. How do you change gear? And by the way, I'm talking about the hacked version, not the original.
I think he put the steering wheel movements on controller 1. So if you were using the steering wheel controller 2 would be your shifter. I am assuming you still need to use controller 2 to shift.
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There are tons of copies out there so I would think only the yellow cart would be expensive since that was the first release. The others hopefully wouldn't be too expensive.
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Except he's selling stolen and/or freely available games, where someone soldered an EPROM into a cheap overstock Activision board and shell, which is worth about $5 maximum, added a 5 cent label, and says they're potentially valuable and/or prototypes, and trying to sell them for $50 US.
It is called mail fraud which is a federal offense if he sent it in the USPS mail. These days though nobody usually prosecutes unless it is some big player that they want to take down.
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No Way, look at the other games he is selling. Cosmo fighter 2, winky trap, kill barney. If he is truly clueless then he bought these from someone that made their own carts from roms and he should be told that he should make sure to declare that these are not authentic and that they are re created from rom. If he didn't buy these from someone else then he is outright lying to you and made them himself.
Daniel never gave his games out with just a white sticker on them and the stickers look similar to other games which are all done by different people.
half those stickers are not even in the sticker location and are at the top of the cart which no homebrewer would. I have these homebrews they are all beautifully labeled.
Look at his common games he is selling that he calls rare, the parker brothers games are in coleco carts. These are basically all fakes. He either got screwed from a seller that made all these games or his is making them himself. Tomarc the barbarian is in a coleco cart. Give me a break. All his auctions are crap.
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I paid big bucks for the arcade cabinet adam games and not only do I not own an Adam, I have absolutely no intention to ever own one. NIAD even tried to get me to get one when he had his extras around souped up with all the games and everything. NOPE!
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If you are really as cheap (deal oriented) as you sound, I doubt you are going to get one in a box because that is what makes it the most expensive.
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if you have the Atarimax the rom was given away freely for Daniels conversion. Not sure if it is in the clipped topics above but if you do a search it is somewhere.
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I always played Conan: Hall of Volta on the Apple II.
I don't know though it might have only been hard and fun because you had to use the keyboard. It might be too easy on coleco with a controller.
There are more screens but no need to see all pictures.
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They should fix the misspell in the url though, arkaniod ?!?
What's a pre-order page with a backorder note ... did they run out of the pre-order already?
It always says backorder for all the games they setup as preorder because they are not done yet and ready to ship. They usually get rid of the backorder when the game is finished and they can ship when you order it. If they are shipping then I assume someone just didn't get rid of the backorder line yet.
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Yay!! I am in the third group!
Um, yeh, we are going to have to take your stuff and move you to the 4th group.
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Nice was able to buy one.
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That looks like a response you get from company proxy servers when you are trying to go to a page they have not authorized.
Based on the companies policy settings they read the incoming http stream and anything that breaks policy gets that policy page. Only someone who setup the companies policy settings would know what flagged it. In my assumption they probably catch things related to gaming and that set off the company blocking of the site. Has noting to do with the actual web page.