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  1. Posted

       Hello,

     

       I was wondering if there´s a composite mod for the Cassete Vision since it´s HELL to get an image due to NTSC-J.  Google didn´t help at all!

     

       The only way I managed to get a (terribly shaky) picture was by using the X68000 monitor that have a (really clunky) TV tuner build-in.

     

       Any ideas? Anyone managed to mod it? Any tips on tuning that beast that does not involve importing a TV or VCR from Japan? :-D

     

       Thank you in advance!

  3. Posted

       Hello,

     

       I´m looking for a few specific carts to cross my checklist. Looking for CIB ONLY games, please.

     

       Thank you!

     

    M Network

     

    - Bump´n´ Jump

    - Masters of the Universe

    - Star Strike

     

    US Games

     

    - Raft Rider

     

    Sunrise

     

    - Quest for Quintana Roo

     

    Apollo

     

    - Final Approach

  4. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I’ve stumbled upon the attached 4-Switxh woody and I was wondering if the package is original or if it’s a Frankentari of sorts.

     

    I know the Paddles are missing. The Joystick box seems off.

     

     I’ve tried to Google around and saw a huge variation so I’m quite lost. 🤔

     

    Could this joystick box be original? What kind of paddles should I hunt down?

     

    Is here any paperwork missing? Like a catalog for instance?

     

    Thank you! 😉

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  5. Posted

    1 minute ago, Albert said:

    Yes, there are still tasks running (slowly) in the background rebuilding all the post content.  This includes images, attachments, quote boxes, and other elements.  Once everything's rebuilt (which will take several days), this missing/malformed content will all be back. 

     

     ..Al

       Thank you! Things are looking great! 😉

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  7. Posted

    Hi there,

     

    I´m at the final steps of testing and listing my entire Brazilian VCS collection. There´s probably another 40 or so recent purchases. Also I haven´t touched my CCE Thematic and CCE Supergame collections, so we can add about 100 games there, maybe 40 of them boxed.

     

    Anyway... There´s already some 700+ games all individually photographed and sorted by manufacturer. I guess you guys might find it interesting.

     

    Enjoy: http://www.lazzeri.online/vg/Atari_2600_BR/Atari_2600_BR.html

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  10. Posted

    Hi Wiz!

     

    I still have a bunch of original CCE carts left, that are pretty rare, including Star War, Q*Bert (white), Pizza Chef, Stone Age. What are you missing? :)

     

    Actually three of them. Nothing extraordinarily rare but some hard catch. *Sigh*

     

    C-804 Open, Sesame!

    C-808 Phantom Tank

    C-837 Pizza Chef

     

  11. Posted

    Nice one BTW. Great label. ;-)

     

    That´s the only CCE set I still haven´t completed (we call it "CCE Supergame series"), still missing four of them IIRC. That´s on my bucket list for this year. :-)

     

    So here´s the four CCE series in chronological order:

     

    - CCE Color - the 1st 9 games, the ones that started it all. Each one have a unique-colored label;

    - CCE Supergame - both in white and black casings, all with the same label above (CCE was a mess). 40 games total;

    - CCE Golden - looks like Supergame but with golden-ish labels; 9 unique games, never released on the other series.

    - CCE Thematic - the ones with those lovely drawings that are unique for each game (or almost). 57 games total.

  12. Posted · Edited by lazzeri

    Oh and FIY, a heads-up for everyone looking for Brazilian games, specially CCE: There´s A LOT of counterfeiting going on right now. I mean, *A LOT*. :-(

     

    There´s relabeling all around (and some sh*tty labels that don´t look like the originals at all) and, far worse, complete counterfeiting - a recently burned ROM placed inside an original shell with a homemade label. And that´s going on specially for CCE carts (notably the Color series), Onyx Jr carts, Tron and some less valuable.

     

    So if that´s of any worth: If a brazilian cart looks too good to be true, it probably ain´t.

     

    (I just hate the MFs doing that right now. They seems to be everywere - Facebook, auction sites, whatsapp groups... Damn them.)

  13. Posted · Edited by lazzeri

    Yes.

     

     

    Yes, Star War is the rarest of them all.

     

     

    These other people happen to be hardcore Brazilian VCS cart collectors like Sr. Ferraz, Leandro and TomBrazil, so I trust their opinion more then any other collector outside Brazil.

     

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    Wow, now this is a nice necrobump. :-)

     

    ROM, I know this is a 9-year old thread necrobumped but I think I must say something. Star War is *DEFINITELY* not the rarest of the CCE "Thematic" label. That honor belongs to Fast Eddie, no doubt about it.

     

    (And Leandro agrees with me on that :-) ).

     

    I don´t even believe Star War is the second one. There´s a fuzzy line between him and Beany Bopper, and I tend to believe BB is a little harder to find.

     

    I mean, that doesn´t make SW common, not by a mile. It is clearly one of the 3 rarest "CCE Thematic". If we should use AtariAge rarity guide I´ll probably say Fast Eddie is a R10, SW and BB a R9 (and probably Condor Attack too) and Q*Bert an equivalent to R8. That would be my top-5 rarity for that series.

     

    And OmegaMatrix is right, Dancing Plate (from the CCE Color series) is the rarest of all CCE carts, hands down.

  15. Posted

    Getting replacement flex circuits will help with the button issues on the controllers. But you could always go the route I go and just use foil tape like what is used on HVAC systems. Refer to this video here on the process I go through to refurbish 5200 controllers. I still use this method even today:

     

     

    Now as for the vertical issue...

     

    I've not done a video on this yet because it varies from controller to controller and can take a long time to dial it in just right. But if other controllers are working just fine in all directions, then it would mean that the actual vertical pot arm on that controller needs to be adjusted or calibrated. The 5200 service manual has an official method of doing this using a multimeter and measuring the resistance with the pot arms at specific positions. But basically the actual little white plastic arm is just press fit onto the pot. As such you can move them to re-align them better. Basically if you move the arm to one position until it doesn't go any further, then you can keep applying pressure to the arm and it will slip and move further. So basically small adjustments to this is what is needed to get the down direction working better on your other controller.

     

    Now if all controllers have issues with moving in a certain direction, then there is a pokey adjustment pot inside the console to the lower left of the power switch section. Be sure you only use small turns and only adjust the smaller pot. There is another larger pot on the lower right a bit higher but that is the color adjustment.

     

    Thank you! Great idea with the pots, will try that! :-)

  16. Posted · Edited by lazzeri

    Hello,

     

    I guess you guys are sick and tired of seeing this. I´ve done my research and got kind of confused. So, I´m sorry but I have to ask. :-)

     

    I currently own four standard A5200 joystick. They were all defective once, unfortunately.

     

    I was lucky enough to grab a replacement kit and managed to change it in one controller that is now just fine. Hurray! :-D

     

    I still have two that changing the flat might solve, only the fire buttons are bad. I also have one that is having a vertical pot problem: stick goes down but not THAT much, I can control the chopper on Choplifter but NOT Pac-man. Tried to open it and it didn´t seem to be anything obvious.

     

    So I´ll probably buy more replacement kits and fix those with trigger problems. Not sure about what to do with the one with the vertical problem though.

     

    Any other thing I might try? Clear pots? Anything not very obvious? I´m lousy in soldering but managed to close the controller I opened so I´m confident now. ;-)

     

    Also... Is there ANY commercialy available modern-day joystick solution? I´ve seen some homemade boards with Arduino but I am phisically unable to do that, I´ll set my house ablaze.

     

    BITD solutions seems to be obscene priced today so a modern product might just hit the spot.

     

    Thank you all for your pacience! ;-)

  17. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I´ve just acquired a boxed A5200, 4-port model. Everything works, it is pretty neat, box is in great shape (and since I´m in Brazil that´s a HUGE step forward, bringing a boxed system alone would cost me a fortune)

     

    Anyway... Nothing´s perfect, right? Most of the paperwork is absent. It does have a catalog and a "switch install instructions", and that´s it.

     

    So... my question is - what´s the original paperwork that came with the system? I guess I´m missing at least a manual and perharps a warranty?

     

    Apparently there´s two different manuals around, right? Wich one´s the correct for an early 4-port?

     

    Do any of you have a spare paperwork for sale by chance? :-D

     

    Thank you!

  19. Posted

    Ricardo,

     


    the Funvision Karate cartridge is not on the rarities guide, only Ultravision Karate. My intention is to know if there is a way for Atariage to put the Funvision in the rarities guide and to whom should I ask for it?
    I would also like to know how many of these cartridges are globally known?

     

    The Rarities guide hasn´t been updated for some time now. There´s a few well-known carts discovered on the last 5-or-so years that are yet unlisted, like Extra Terrestrials or Red Sea Crossing, for example.

    I don´t think this one´s gonna be added any time soon.

     

    You managed to find most of the info we know about it by now. It seems that yours is the 2nd known copy after the one owned by Marco "Dino". So it is indeed extremely rare.

  22. Posted · Edited by lazzeri

    2) there is a lot of confusion regarding Bit Corp games released by CCE in Brazil.

     

    The first 9 games released by CCE using what we call Color labels were LEGALLY LICENSED by CCE from Bit Corp. - and, most important, they do NOT use EPROM but indeed MASK ROM manufacfured by Bit Corp in Taiwan.

     

    And as you all probably know Brazilian PAL-M is NOT a PAL system at all. It is a modified NTSC with a different Color Carrier. Most important, brazilian Atari games have NTSC binaries in them - a brazilian cart works on USA atari and vice-versa.

     

    So, to sum it all, the original 9 CCE games are NOT BOOTLEGGED, but TRUE NTSC RELEASES OF BIT CORP GAMES, REBRANDED.

     

    Of course they dont belong on a North America / USA master list. But they should belong on any officially released NTSC list.

     

    Im not sure about later CCE releases like Pizza Chef or Immies. We might have to crack one open to check if thats EPROM or MASK ROM based.

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  23. Posted

    May I share two thoughts?

     

    1) Since Canada and USA have a *very* porous border and share a lot of characteristics (including NTSC Color system); and since there are so few Canadian only games (five of them?), would you by any chance consider a north america NTSC master list, very close to what RandomTerrain made? It would probably be easier to accept by the general public and became a de facto list.

     

    You might even add a * primarily released only in Canada for clarification.

     

    Ill add the 2nd one below right now. :-)

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