ApolloBoy

If talking about Atariage... indeed.

I'd say 2/5 of the broken things I buy just needs cleaning or a proper hookup. Nothing beats getting a working 2600 shipped to you for $18.

Had a watch on them, but when I saw the bids climbing I bailed.  Honestly a bit surprised they fetched that much - they look to be pilot run controllers, not actual prototypes.

interesting auction. I don't remember if my system x has proto controllers or not. 

Neato!

I was mostly surprised as it was the only auction on eBay of 5200 controllers that left out the word "Untested" and didn't say "For Parts/Repair"  😛

Here's a little overview of how I did it, just a couple of wires!

And for anyone curious, here's what the (unmodified) insides of a Masterplay look like...

That's pretty slick!

I tried this on another 5200 yesterday and I can confirm that it comfortably fits within the bottom shielding.

I've also written a procedure on the Consolemods.org wiki for the whole shebang: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Atari_5200:VCS_Cartridge_Adaptor_Modification

I've only ever sent checks or PayPal (which I understand he no longer accepts?), but are you able to leave a message on an answering machine? If not, have you tried e-mailing him with your order and phone number, asking him to call you back? 

I'm gonna have to email him as I actually left a couple of voicemails over the week.

Got an email back, apparently Brad doesn't really check voicemails much because of spam calls and people confusing him with Best Buy. Looks like I'll be getting my order filled soon...

Sweden's finest!

Here's how it looked when I received it. One entire corner on the top half was smashed and the corner on the rear left also had a huge hairline crack. Both screw bosses on the left side were also broken off from the impact and the bottom half on the right front corner also took a hit.

And the after! I was able to reconstruct the smashed corner as best as I could with super glue, and also repaired the hairline crack to prevent the rear top half from coming apart. The case also got a good cleaning beforehand, and then after the repairs were done, I slathered the case with cream peroxide developer and placed it in my UV box for whitening. Less than a day later, the case came out an acceptable shade and I reassembled the drive.

Oh and the best part? Despite all the damage and everything this drive has been through, it still worked perfectly fine! I was able to play several games for a few hours with the drive powered on the entire time and it worked like a champ.

This motivates me to glue together my Mac 512ke's front bezel.

Do you go through composite or S-Video? I'm not an expert on various revisions but generally S-Video tends to look decent.

This is through S-video, the VIC-II2 has Lumafix built-in but I'm still getting some jailbars. Output on the NTSC side still looks pretty good but I'm wondering if replacing the RF box with a bypass board would help...

Oh, the 32 is a quad OR gate, I use that on my VersaBoard for address decoding.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjh5ejSuOPsAhU5IDQIHdDNDRMQFjAOegQIARAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fee-classes.usc.edu%2Fee459%2Flibrary%2Fdatasheets%2FDM74LS32.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1_VDLiBk8nCLU2xNxZmhnZ

Yes, that board doesn't need extra logic, and in theory it should work just by replacing the rom with a pin compatible eprom. Sorry for the confusion.

Hey @CPUWIZ I think I'll take you up on that offer. Really don't feel like messing with it anymore and I'd like to get it done soon. Thanks!

Got it for about $15 + $7 shipping, not bad considering it's been sitting at triple digits for years.

Maybe "unbelievable" was a bit hyperbolic LOL

Got it in the mail today, it’s an original copy and it works fine!

I did too...it was on the Turbgrafx Classic Mini ?

@ApolloBoy  Great Deal!!

@Rick Dangerous Me too!  (Another way to play)  Haha...

I would like to play it on original hardware someday....TG16-CD are pretty hard to come by though..I mean it was the very first CD system. 

Underwhelming sounds good with that kind of voltage.  ?

Real men discharge CRTs with their tongues.

Mostly laziness and resistance to learning new things.

Hey.

Yeah this is a thing. But don't actually tell people just to 'Google It' as a reply.

Nothing really makes me wanna punch someone after I spent basically two days trying to find an answer to a thing on Google, etc and when I ask get told 'Lol Google It Lazy F**k'. :-/. Either answer it, or move on. 

That's got to be the slickest web based spreadsheet program I've ever seen! Nice and organized, easy to read and navigate too.  

I also replaced the reset button (which was working intermittently) and most of the caps. Just need to order more 47 uF caps to finish the job and maybe put in a Triple Bypass board. Seeing as how I have a Japanese Mega Drive 2 in shipping limbo, I might sell this Genesis off later...

Awesome!

I did this on my otherwise untouched 1984 7800, and I wound up doing a very simple mod with a standard 3.5" jack, outputting just video and mono audio. It really pained me to drill a hole in this particular console, but it was a very clean job and I made the entire mod as unobtrusive as possible. That's more than I can say for my LHE-modded 7800 which acted as a "guinea pig" system for years.

Very nice. I did a UAV on my daily-driver 7800 a few months back. I left my AT-84 unit untouched for now. Here it is via composite to my RetroTink 2X-Pro. 

Aaaand pics of my handiwork. The soldering was a bit touch and go on a couple of points (thanks migraine!), but it all holds up and I can always touch it up later.