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  3. Posted

    perhaps the guy behind this amazing 2600 DK could help adding regular sound

     

    http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/204414-new-dk-for-vcs/page__hl__%20donkey%20%20kong

    Me? Thanks, but no. :) That was my first attempt at adding sound plus it is in batari Basic using other programmers code of loops within loops. I barely understand the code, and it was HARD just to do the simple notes that I did put in.

    POKEY is normal sound for some 7800 games.

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  6. Posted

    Great work on Donkey Kong! It just keeps getting better!

    You are following the way of the best programmers if you are studying arcade ROM code for your games. Wow. That is something only a rare few could do.

    I have already purchased it. I had just joined AtariAge when 7800 Pokey Kong was first talked about.

     

    At the start you can run left past the barrel and back, no problem, but if you jump - even though the barrel isn't lit yet - you die!

    Just pointing out something I noticed, take it as a bug or just the way it works...

  7. Posted

    I just noticed something really great with CDWs Star Castle!

    When played on a widescreen TV and stretched to 16:9 full screen, the rings are perfectly circular.

    Originally I had thought that it was just the aspect of the tube TV making the rings a bit taller and not wide enough.

    Actually I have adjusted the tube TV to appear circular rings, and there is about 1 1/2 inches of black on the top and bottom.

    I'm calling this game the first widescreen Atari 2600 game!

     

    Looking forward to buying some finished cartridges, it really is that good!

  9. Posted

    If you have never opened a Vectrex before, it is the Red / Blue / yellow wire bundle that goes from the back bottom logic board (1 connector) to the side power board (2 connectors).

    Ground the high voltage wire under the suction cup shaped connector by shoving a flat screwdriver or chisel under it while holding the insulated handle and using a second screwdriver to bridge the first screwdriver metal to the ground metal that runs around the tube. If you just unplugged it you will get a small spark. If it has been a while there may be no visible spark. Most times I see no spark, but I have no idea what the amps are when there is a spark, so always consider an open Vectrex deadly until grounded.

  10. Posted

    Just tonight I worked on one and the problem turned out to be the X Y Z connection wire. It was causing all kinds of display problems, from no picture, to just a line, to okay, to showing only half the screen because it was so "zoomed in."

    I broke the red wire that goes to the logic board trying to get the metal piece out of the white plastic connector. It was exactly the same as the wire to a CD Rom drive so I used one of those. Half an inch from the metal piece that slides into the plastic connector gets soldered to the larger red wire that goes to the power board. There is woven metal wires just under the red coating like coax wire. That was shorting with the connection to the logic board and gave me problems until I trimmed it back more.

     

    I tend to go on and on but I would check the wiring first and clean or sand the pins that the connectors connect to, and make sure there are no breaks or shorts in the wire connections.

  14. Posted

    Problem with my NTSC Heavy Sixer may be the same. It had a back and forth shift in the red. Then It was unknowingly left on for a day or so and now there is no green!

    If searching doesn't bring any suggestions, I will start with the voltage regulator and capacitors. those fixed a 2600A where the picture would start out good and then go snowy.

  16. Posted

    Funny how it is called "Classic Game Console" (Sega Genesis), and "Ultimate Portable Game Player" (Portable Sega Genesis), but yeah, they use emulation and could be better. Still the Console can play carts, and the Portable can play ROMs on SD card, and both can connected to a TV.

  19. Posted

    I guess if you didn't get one before Black Friday, you are stuck paying full price.

     

    My Godson's special needs adopted brother loves Sonic and I watched him beat Sonic 3 this summer at the Delaware shore on vacation. The credits start to roll when the game was beat, and he turned to me and I said, "You beat the game! That's it, good job!" He replied, "I guess there's no Level 9?" Priceless.

     

    At Games own website shows OUT OF STOCK on Flashback 4, Flashback 4 with paddles, Classic Game Console (Sega Genesis), and Ultimate Portable Game Player (Portable Sega Genesis), by the way, terrible naming on those last two!

     

    I did find 6 Flashback 4's at a Family Dollar for full price, but no Ultimate Portable Game Player.

     

    If you took the time to read all this and like the poster that comes with Flashback 4, on at games.com there are a Set of Posters Atari related. Not out of stock on those, yet.

    post-29575-0-80021800-1355291347_thumb.jpg

  21. Posted

    So are you saying that these colors are more correct? Should I change the colors on this page to match:

     

    www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-tia-color-charts.html

     

     

    Thanks.

     

    You might want to consider it.

    When designing "Kong" I used the brown F color. On some TVs it matched Stella, but on other TVs and a DLP chip projector and an LCD Kong was green unless you severely adjusted the tint.

    So a pallet showing the F color line shifted towards green I think would be a good idea.

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  22. Posted · Edited by iesposta

    I did it recently. Very happy with the S-Video output. There is, however, slight jailbars (vertical lines), but the composite cable was unplayable before.

    Mine is this first Genesis model, with the desirable "no DRM" (Non-TMSS something), with the "undesirable" non-Motorola chip, but had 100% success.

    There are images in my gallery:

    http://www.atariage....a-genesis-mods/

    I was going to make a detailed how-to post, but just didn't get to it.

    I also added an overclock chip with "select overclock / select original clock switch" to reduce slowdowns, and changed the LED color. I have since changed the blue LED to a bright orange.

     

    EDIT: I have in my gallery, the circuit for the easier to find 2N 3904 Transistor.

    Note: The capacitor can be wired either way, I know it is polarized, but there are designs showing connection both ways and in my tests there is no difference. The jailbars may be reduced by different values of resistors, but I used what I found in my scrap and it doesn't bother me.

     

    EDIT EDIT: Oh, duh, this is the 32x Mod.

    I did that too. With the same parts 2N3904 (probably a bit different resistor values, but close). I don't have pictures of that, it was a bit harder to solder the wires to the tiny points of the surface mount chips of the 32X, and removing that zero ohm resistor jumper. Actually the picture out of this mod is even nicer than the Genesis S-video mod, I would guess because the parts are newer and the design is newer (not like the first run original Genesis hardware).

  24. Posted

    See also Post 268, this thread.

    In vbB, choose New Item, DPC+ Kernel, and open the project.

    You get a template.

    It ends with:

    ; *****************************************************

    ; * BANK 6

    ; *****************************************************

    bank 6

    rem temp1 = temp1 not required here as this bank is for graphics only

    rem However I have placed my TitleScreen here with no apparent consequences

     

    I am pointing out this is wrong.

    temp1 = temp1 is required here, and it is a full bank.

     

    It is not just for graphics only.

    The graphics bank is after bank 6's 4K bank.

  25. Posted

    Doesn't work on my iPhone 4s or iPad 3, both jailbroken.

    First time I have had a problem with something not running due to jailbreaking.

    I'll just continue to play the real Vectrex.

    I am not giving up things like iPad uploading, writing ROMs to SD cards, file browsing, MAME, Stella with Wii Remotes with gamepad, Sega, Colecovision, NES, PC Engine turbografx, tethering, bluetooth browsing, mobile safari downloading, custom sounds and themes, etc.!

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