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Man, the only one I own is Jinks. Anybody have any tips on making this mess of a game playable?

Are you the same guy that wanted to make Donkey Kong 3 have arkanoid controls? What is it with you and that game? Er... nope, not me.

OK, how would that work? You'd screw one end of the cable onto your TV or VCR, whichever has a screw-on coax input, screw the adapter onto the other end of the cable, and plug it into your 7800. There's a female RCA jack on the back of the 7800. Yes, any old RCA cable with male ends can plug into the back of the 7800, but a thin unshielded cable will give you a crappy picture. Yes, that would work. Wasn't that the whole point of the article you pasted in your original post? Also, you can use a switchbox if the coax on your TV's being used. Yes, you can plug a coax cable into a coax jack. You plug RCA cables into RCA jacks. Coax into coax. There's a pattern beginning here. I think the 7800 can display to channels 3 and 4. There's a switch on the back. You can flip it left, or you can flip it right. Carts go in the top. Controllers plug in the front.

Internalize that sucker! Put it inside the system's case.

Honestly, you're better off with some heavy RG-6 coax cable and the appropriate adapter.

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As you should... for being a tard, not a nerd. On-Topic: Atari Pong Shirt is pretty funny when you consider the British meaning of "pong" (stench).

Maaan... if I ever have kids, I'm just giving them a modded Xbox with the games and emulators built-in. No discs to scratch, carts to break/lose.

Because 99% of the time, that's not how 2600 coding works. Yeah, but surely there are times when a second pair of eyes proofreading your code could yield a "hey, this bit is crap, why don't you try ______ instead", right? I figure Atari didn't do this because if you put two guys working on Pac-Man, you're wasting precious man-hours that the second guy could spend churning out E.T.

If all you're doing is searching yahoo for "free roms", I guess that might be correct... but who does that?

Neat. Care to name some examples?

Hypothetically, that sounds like Advanced and Basic modes to me.

I wonder if I can get that as a forum title or something..

I sure wouldn't mind seeing an updated version of the game... maybe throw in some arkanoid-style power-ups, could even spice up the graphics with some high-res (but simple, maybe vector) 2D art or even 3D. 3D would allow for some funky stuff like wrapping the playfield around, tempest-like...

Do those Y-adapters accept any sort of 2600 keypad, or does it have to be one designed with the 5200 in mind?

It's not really "Yar's Revenge", it's some on-rails 3d shooter that happens to have the same name. ...and... I don't think a d-pad would be the proper input for this game, and the 360's pretty bitchin' anyways. It's too bad that your religion forbids you from liking it.

Oh yeah, one of the few games on the system that my wife enjoys playing with me. It's also the one I pull out most to test paddles with since it's easy to get both players displaying quickly.

Man, I'll have to try that... I've got the emu set up but didn't consider configuring it that way. Neato.

I know that nobody asked, but I find that playing Robotron with a sega gamepad in my left hand and the megadrive/genesis arcade stick in my right hand makes it really playable. I plan on building a dual-joystick controller for Virtual On on the Xbox 360 and maybe I'll make it atari-compatible now that I own one.

Er... what's the creature on the left?

...and then promptly got disappointed again, since Nintendo horribly butchered all the "good games" and made them an awful, flickery, green brown and vomit pink nightmare. Hahah, yeah. The 7800 flopped because the NES had bad games. Makes sense.

I didn't say "anything where levels had to be cleared". Imagine this: Pac-Man, only you can hop over the maze walls, and instead of releasing ghosts, the ghost-home thing periodically shoots at you if you're hopping. Sounds like a neat twist. Sounds like I, Robot. It doesn't sound much like Donkey Kong or River Raid. While I wouldn't personally consider Dig Dug to be a knockoff of Pac-Man, it was marketed to arcade owners as "Pac-Man where you create the maze". And back on topic, a 7800 version would be interesting... would the 5200 or 7800 hardware handle this game better, though?

Yer missing the fact that famiclones use that plug too.

I imagine you'd just replace the cord with a 2600 stick's cord & solder the wires to the corresponding pads on the PCB...

I regularly use a sega 3-button arcade stick with my 7800, so I imagine it works the same with your 2600. Turbo fire is automatically enabled when you plug the stick in & power the system on... just disable the turbo for each button and you're ready to play.