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  1. Posted

    13 hours ago, DrVenkman said:

    Spent some time this afternoon with DEFENDER using one of these. Yeah, they certainly do make this game a lot more playable for me. "Normal" difficulty, set a personal record tonight! :) 

     

    We should have controllers ready for sale in about 2 weeks. 

     

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       Why are you torturing our poor souls? :-D

  3. Posted

    So just to clear my thoughts, I´ve made a very rough spreadsheet just sorting the original, BITD games by manufacturer (Telegames originals included), and adding the non-USA exclusive releases by Coleco Canada and BitCorp.

     

    Please note that I haven´t even starter doing anything fancy, I´ve just starter sorting them apart.

     

    That´s just so I can understand the size of the task & see if there´s interest.

     

    Any comments are appreciated. 🙂

     

     

    Checklist_Colecovision_pre.xlsx

  4. Posted

       Yeah, mixed feelings about it.

     

       AFAIK Sentinel was PAL only BIDT and the NTSC version was a limited release homebrew, that´s why I haven´t added it. But I don´t know if that´s entirely true.

     

       Can someone shed some light? 🙂

     

      

  7. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Ikrananka said:

    This type of thing has already been covered by my Excel version of NIADs ColecoVision & ADAM Collectors List.  This includes all known non-US variants as well.  I guess the only aspect of what you decsribe that I haven't included is a collection summary sheet.

     

     

    While I haven't publicly released an updated version since Nov 2015 I have been keeping it up to date with all of the new homebrew releases as well as corrections and other additions as I discover them.  To release this publicly I just need to strip out my own collection details from the spreadsheet which just needs me to write a VB macro to automate as it's too tedious to do it manually.  I plan on doing this very soon.  Here's a screen shot showing an example of how I have it in use for my collection:

     

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       Thank you for sharing! Somehow I missed that.

     

       Yours is really much more complete with a lot of variants and releases. Mine was supposed to be way simpler that that.

     

       Thank you once again. Maybe I`ll come back to INTV after all. :-D

     

  9. Posted

       Hello,

     

       I´ve been doing some spreadsheets with visual clues for some videogames, latest one can be found here:

     

       I am planning to make one of those for the mighty Coleco. Problem is,  I don´t know much about it and would love some suggestions.

     

      I´m doing my research on NIAD rarity list. It seems that there´s 130 USA released Coleco games from the classic era, right?

     

      What about European / Canadian / Telegames UK? Should I add separate lists for those? Is it too much to keep track - or too uninteresting?

     

       I´ve started doing something similar for INTV but there were so many versions, variants and international versions that I got lost and lost interest. 😞

     

       So I was trying to do it right this time, starting by knowing exactly what to do. 🙂

     

       Any help is greatly appreciated.

     

  10. Posted · Edited by lazzeri

    So here´s something I´ve being playing with for some time now: Excel spreadsheets to control my collection with ease and some visual clues. Already done it for A2600 & A5200, now I´ve made something similar for the A7800.
     
    Main points:
     
    • Games are divided by companies, with an Index linking to each individual company. Index also sums everything.
    • There are checkbox for marking if you have a cart, box, manual and if your copy is sealed. Also some blank spaces for comments and to write down occasional extras.
    • If you check having a cart, that cart name will be marked in light green; If you have a complete game (cart, manual, box) the game name will change color to dark green. And if you check as a sealed copy, it will become "Golden" (actually yellow 😀). Everything´s fully automatic.
    • When checking any of the checkboxes, the spreadsheet automatically sums everything everywhere, including in the Index page.
     
    Hope that´s usefull for anybody else. If you have suggestions or find errors (typos, wrong info, whatever) please let me know.
     
    Please note that it works on Excel. Apparently checkboxes don´t work on Google Docs. Haven´t tried in OpenOffice.
     
    - Index page showing a summary of everything:
     
    7800_Index.thumb.jpg.10ac34ca72829e974aae5f29ad34a81a.jpg
     
     
    - Example showing some marked games and the changed colors that act as visual clues.
     
    7800_Example.thumb.jpg.55973dca66e649209af34d8efbeb4c55.jpg

     

    Checklist_A7800_v1.xlsx

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  11. Posted

    I am unable to edit first post. 😞

     

    So here´s how´s looking so far:

     

    - Index page, with all companies and all autofilled data:

     

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    - A company page showing some possibilities, some checkboxes marked to show how it looks. Please note all color tags automatically filled.

     

    5200_Example.thumb.jpg.9d9c9d6bc50a56502f2f7cb4faa53985.jpg

     

     

  13. Posted

    30 minutes ago, MrMaddog said:

    Here's another suggestion, adding a field that shows if the game is trackball compatible or not...or even if the game can be play with a digital joystick (via Mastertronic) or needs the full 360 degree analog controller.  Trust me it feels like a different system with each game having their own control scheme.

     

     

       Does this info exists already? If so I can try adding that somewhere!

  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, rayik said:

    Also not all games had overlays.  Might want to have Overlay column to help you note which games are complete

    Already planned! Thank you!

     

    When no overlay exists it will be written “N/A”, just like in the Sega picture. When available there will be a checkbox like the rest.

  15. Posted

    6 hours ago, kiwilove said:

    If you're not a purist - you could add all of the homebrew titles released for the 5200?  Should be around adding another 25 titles? maybe?

    400/800 conversions to 5200 would be another 25?

     

    Harvey

       Would love to! Is there a complete list somewhere?

  16. Posted

       Hello,

     

       Since I´m a control freak I´ve being using for a while now an Excel spreadsheet tailored to catalog & control my A2600 collection (You can check it in this AA thread.)

     

       Now I´m finally sorting my (pretty small, actually) 5200 collection so I decided to make a similar spreadsheet for my personal use. I plan to add it here when ready in case someone want to give it a try. 🙂

     

       SO, what does it do?

     

    - Separate companies, all 69 games listed;

    - Checkbox to mark if you own a cart, box, manual, overlays (when apply) and a field for "extras" like catalogs and pamphlets. Also a "comments" field for noting a torn manual or sealed box, for example;

    - It automatically counts how many games you have for each company and how many of those are complete;

    - Also, on each company it automatically colors the game in light green if you own a cart or in dark green if your copy is complete.

     

         Here´s the main page, listing all companies, how many released games, how many you own and how many are complete (everything is autofilled)

     

    Main.jpg.a5d3d7f33df15203fcb921c59c3bcb44.jpg

     

    Here´s an example, Sega.

     

    Note the light green for the uncomplete games that you own and the dark green for the complete games you have. All you have to do is click the checkboxes, everything else is automatic.

     

    Sega.thumb.jpg.a9cdfd598eb05f03280bc993c30178e3.jpg

     

    I plan to finish it later this week. And I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions, something you´d like to add or something I oversaw.

     

       Thank you in advance! :)

     

     

     

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  17. Posted

    On 10/5/2019 at 8:25 PM, DrVenkman said:

    My partner and I built our first pair today, programmed and tested them, then enjoyed a beer afterward and called it an afternoon. :P More tomorrow! 

     

    Hope to have the first set ready to go on sale sooner rather than later. We’re not specifically keeping a pre-order list. We’re getting a turnkey e-commerce thing setup that will handle billing, shipping address management, etc. That should be ready to go live when we’ve got the first batch completed and ready, cases printed, etc.

     

    We *will* be offering builds and matching cases with the thumbstick on either left or right as you specify, plus several options of case colors and button colors. :D

      

       Great news!

     

       Should I assume that someday, eventually, I´ll able to buy a fully built, 3D-printed case A5200 controller? I´m just too incompetent to even try doing it. 😞

     

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  24. Posted

    On 8/7/2019 at 6:07 AM, carlsson said:

    As you know, each game contains not only ROM code but also its own CPU, graphics and audio. Most (all?) of them use the uPD777 video game processor which supposedly on its pinout has signals for R-Y, B-Y, Chroma, Video and Sound, possibly even R and G but not B. Assuming this info is reasonably adequate, it should be possible that from inside the console trace the pins for those signals and tap them, just like the built-in circuitry must do to generate the NTSC-J RF signal. However I know nothing about if this is practically doable. I think @slydc has been diving into the Cassette Vision before and may have something to add.

     

    https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14568#p176030

       Apparently the connector pinout is already detailed. You can extract audio (A17) and video (A13) straight from the cart port.

     

       I´m a complete idiot on electronic (and in some other things too 🙂  ) but I guess is not just as simple as soldering a wire over there, probably you must add a small circuit with diodes and resistors and stuff, right?

     

       Might be an easy thing to do?

     

     

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