5-11under

March 26

I should mention that my store e-mail system doesn't work well. I'll reply manually, but as long as you get your own receipt for payment (PayPal, etc.), your order has been received.

March 26

I've added 100 of these to my online store: https://videogamepcbs.com/products/20-MV-LCD.html

I have 100 more that I haven't added to the store yet, so there's no rush in buying these... in case you want to wait for future products to be put on sale (restock of other items, hopefully some INTV and/or CV games, hopefully MV Barrage at some point). If I do run out for some very weird reason, I'll plan to order another batch.

March 25

Perhaps Dino should send a new message to Albert.

Edit: I like the filtering/nominations that has taken place. It weeds out the games that definitely wouldn't win in a category anyway, and simplifies the decision making from 30+ games to 5 or 10. If enough people complain about a game missing from a category, I'm sure something could be done about it. I'm guessing that would be very rare, because I'm sure the organizers have thought a lot about the nominations.

March 25

Sorry for the delay. I'm working on a couple of other things over the next day or two, and then I can start working on getting these in the store.

March 24

2 minutes ago, Lathe26 said:

I call shenanigans on this version of Ghostbusters! It doesn't even have the original gorilla in it!

I didn't know you were an actor.

March 19

Data sheet: https://peacockmedia.software/tms/TMS9918datasheet.pdf

There's a flag - Fifth Sprite Flag (5S) - that tells you if there's more than 4 sprites on a row. Could be useful.

More conjecture... I haven't used this either... I've only either ignored it in "fast" cases, or I've made sure only a few sprites are on the same row, by design. Anyway, personally, I'd cycle just a few of the sprites. For example, I'd keep sprites 0-2 or whatever as key sprites (player, main enemy, bullet, etc.), and cycle the remaining sprites (secondary enemies, extra colors, etc.) either all the time, or only depending on whether the sprites are vertically close to each other.

March 18

1 hour ago, scomandini said:

I would also be interested in one! Will they just show up as back in stock on the videogamepcbs store or are you just taking requests via the forum? Thanks!

I received them on Friday, and put each in their own bag. I need to test a few, and then I'll add them to my store. I'll post in this thread when they're ready.

March 17

7 minutes ago, Adamj91 said:

I'll buy one, backlit pls ty!

I don't have a backlit version.

March 15

1 hour ago, nanochess said:

BTW, talking about Japan, currently, the MSX games are limited to 16K because I have forgotten the bank switching code to enable the upper 16K for 32K games.

I think this is what you're looking for:

https://konamiman.github.io/MSX2-Technical-Handbook/md/Chapter5b.html

https://www.msx.org/wiki/Develop_a_program_in_cartridge_ROM

March 14

I love Pi.

March 14

5 hours ago, Atari8man2004 said:

Im not giving anyone a hard time just stating the fact that the LTO fiasco that has been playing out for years now in hurting the Intellivision community by having the small group hanging on in hopes of one day getting a LTO cart . Anyone that wants the LTO can find them on ebay anywhere from $350. and up. I have given up on the LTO and bought the better backbit and it was easy just place the order and pay with paypal and had it in my hands in 2 short weeks. Backbit better? yep works great and I order the c64 card edge and works great there to. People should not make excuses for a defunct company.

Maybe someday someone will buy the rights to the LTO and make them available but till then look elsewhere.

I misunderstood your earlier point. The good news is that there weren't any pre-orders for the LTO, and yes, there's plenty of other ways to play most Intellivision games.

March 14

These are scheduled to arrive early next week.

March 14

4 hours ago, atari2600land said:

Did I miss out or something?

No, you haven't missed out. I'm working with the 3D supplier to make sure the parts are the correct size... .

March 14

1 hour ago, Atari8man2004 said:

Gee thanks for clearing that up now wheres the rest of ? Ever herd of Monkey Business.

Don't give someone a hard time if they're only trying to honestly help. I'm sure many people don't know the latest known status of the current LTO batch.

March 13

19 minutes ago, Atari8man2004 said:

Has anyone got any of the LTO carts from this new batch? The US postal service picks up mail from Thailand has anyone carry them to the post office?

Games For You Intellivision was only talking about the cardboard boxes.

March 7

11 minutes ago, Crash7 said:

Very good.

Was that so hard? No.

You should do that for your next one also.

Dude, I don't think anyone ever asked for videos before today, and stop being sarcastic, or whatever that is.

11 minutes ago, Crash7 said:

Like I've told people here, I know about backdoor, underworld of providing content for customers.

I know how the game works.

It's not a crime to be upfront and honest with people, there should be no need for the continued song and dance.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about here, nor do I care.

Bye. I won't be able to see any more of your posts.

March 7

5 minutes ago, Gemintronic said:

Please continue. I'd love for a very nice, communicative maker of classic game products to get disgruntled and leave. I didn't want to develop new physical Atari, Intellivision or Coleco games anyway.

No worries, I'm here for you. I and my products surely aren't perfect, but we both try.

March 7

@wolfy62, for you I'll upload a video. All was working great until the MicroSD card went flying out of the spring-loaded socket.

March 7

25 minutes ago, Crash7 said:

Like I said.....

One video. Of this cart working on YOUR system.

One.

You owe that to the people on this board who are potential customers after your last failed venture.

It (the original RTO I sold) failed because a) it took me too long to get started on the first batch, b) it took too long to assemble the batches, c) the PiRTO came out after only two batches were made (probably that's a good thing, though), and d) some expected it to work on every system, even though it was never advertised that way. It did not fail because of lack of a video. A video would only tell someone that one cart worked at one point in time.

March 7

11 minutes ago, Crash7 said:

If anything I'm trying to save you the embarrassment of going through what you already did.

Okay, thanks for your concern, then.

March 7

1 hour ago, Crash7 said:

But YOU'RE building them.

No one else.

So that responsibility falls on YOU.

You didn't even show us a video of your last cartridge working on YOUR systems.

I'm sure you own a cell phone right?

It only takes about 20 seconds to make a video showing demonstration of a functional product.

The fact that you didn't even do that for your perspective customers? Speaks volumes.

"Experimental stage" IMO is a fancy term for, "I may or may not know what the fuck I'm doing, and I'm not going to do the proper testing to find out, but go ahead and send me $130 and hope that I'm not ripping you off by selling you something that doesn't work"

If you want to continue to half-ass things by thinking that fancy designs on a cartridge covers up for a faulty product?

Again, that's on you.

If you're going to try to profit off of aotta's hard work? You should at least do the proper due diligence there Cleo McDowell.

That way you won't look foolish.

Again.

Sorry, I don't have too much time for this conversation with you, especially because you seem to be trying to make fun of me.

The original RTOs I sold had a disclaimer on the sales site, for the prospective buyer to investigate the product to see if it's right for them. The new PiRTOs I sell will have a stronger disclaimer (because, as already discussed, it's not my design). The original RTOs I made were not half-assed - a lot of time and money was spent in getting it to look good and to work well (within the limitations of the original product/design). Trust me (or don't, I don't care, and it doesn't really matter), there was no profit from the original RTO I sold. I don't blame anyone for that except myself, but I am definitely decreasing my risk for the PiRTO.

March 7

1 minute ago, Crash7 said:

Remember.....

Testing on the various INTV systems is key before release.

Nope.

IF it was my design, AND IF I wanted it to go beyond the experimental stage, THEN I would perform testing on more types of Intellivision systems. However, this is not my design.

Therefore, I'll only be testing each cartridge I assemble on the systems that I have at home, to ensure the circuitry is connected with no shorts or opens, i.e. matching aotta's schematic. At that point I'll declare that the individual cartridge functions as a PiRTO cartridge.

Beyond that, it will be buyer beware - it's an experimental device that may or may not work on all systems. This will all be made clear on the eventual sales page. The risks will be known, and people can make their decision based on that.

There are of course other options, including making your own PiRTO, or buying a BackBit Pro.

March 6

36 minutes ago, Dwarfboysim said:

Do they work on a PAL system. if so I am interested PRICE please

It's a PiRTO. I'll be advertising it as experimental.

March 6

5 minutes ago, aotta said:

Nice case! and your version is for NTSC Inty, I presume?

I've received and tested the SMD version i published on my Github, with SMD IC assembled by Jlcpcb, and they worked fine, but not with the "purple" chinese Pico clone, so i suggest to use only original Raspberry PI Pico.

Thanks. You can open the shell, reprogram the board with PAL or NTSC versions as per your github site, and screw the shell back together again.

For some stupid reason, I also tried a cheap Chinese Pico (a USB-C version), and it didn't work.

March 6

I'm making a batch of these for anyone who wants to try this out without having to make one themselves. I made a new board layout so it fits inside an injection molded case, and added a light pipe to see the status LED (it's near the middle of the television on the label). The schematic, though, is the aotta design.

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