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  4. Posted

    He said revamped, not reinvigorated... it was a complete revamp & gamer memory doesn't figure into that.

    Now I've never played the jaguar port of Doom, but the two games really are too different to compare this way. One is Doom... the other is Doom 64. It'd be like asking how Super Mario Bros 3 "holds up against" Super Mario Galaxy. They're both great, they're both different games too.

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    ... Hmm, well I haven't actually tried using a Nintendo RF switch yet. What exactly happens if you use one? The picture doesn't come up?

     

    That's the word. Apparently systems that were designed for these switchboxes output some extra voltage along with the video signal to "throw" the switch; systems like the 7800 designed for direct connections don't give this extra voltage and won't "switch" the switchbox.

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    I've got two 7800s and a 46" LCD TV. When I used their standard RF signal, I'd hook them up with some nice RG-6 coax cable and they looked pretty nice, very little interference. Modded both for composite video and they're about as sharp as playing the same games emulated on my Wii and its component connection. One has snow on the upper third of the screen for some reason, but that's a fault of the specific console or my soldering.

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    There was another one we had, and I can't recall the name. It was similar to the Boss, maybe not quite as bad, but it had a black base, a gradually tapered red handle (shaped kind of like the barrel of a baseball bat), with a small white fire button on the top of the stick and a big red fire button in the usual spot. Anyone?

     

     

    The Wico sticks are pretty popular around here, but have about as many haters as fans.

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    One of the unfortunate results of the '80s popularity of the grossly overrated NES -- besides the subsequent inundation of cutesy platform games -- is that these little push-button controllers are now ubiquitous.

     

    Hey, they made plenty of shooters for the NES, too... most even SCROLL, if you can imagine that.

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    7800 was a console of potential. It's MARIA chip that could handle "infinite" number of sprites while the other systems suffered from tremendous slowdowns would be just one of many possibilities for 7800 to compete. Then they should have ditched the RF module entirely and just put in AV and S-Video connections to the console. Built a better soundchip that would make it possible for games to have music without the requirement of a POKEY chip in the cartridge

     

    I never understood the corporate drive to shave off a few pennies by dumping cheap & useful features such as connectors or nickel ICs. Sure, those pennies add up to big bucks, but lost sales of entire consoles add up to bigger bucks.

     

    Nintendo had developer restrictions that prevented both the 7800 and the Sega Master System from building a library of third-party games so they could compete on fair ground with the NES.

     

    When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do. One of the key clauses was that companies who made Nintendo games were not allowed to make that game on a competing system for a period of two years. Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years. The software libraries of the Atari 7800 and Sega Master System suffered tremendously as a result.

     

    Eh, all they had to do was pull a Namcot.

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