BenjaminStevens

Hey... I checked out that site and noticed that somebody found a YouTube video showing a fool-proof way to kill a PSP, and one doesn't even have to have a special cartridge or program to do it! I am sure that this method would also work on a Lynx I or Lynx II:

You are not the only person who concludes that rygar is the source of this prank. I am willing to bet that he was also the one who made the new account just to post the file anonymously. It sure seems like more than a coincidence that he was very soon following the thread as the only person who both had access to the file that had been removed and who was also claiming that the program "worked." Well, at least each person who purchased a cart from him can claim that they have one of a very limited number of prank carts made by the prankster.

If the sole purpose of that message was to prove that it could properly identify your Lynx system, then it would have made much more sese for the message to say "I can tell that your console is a LYNX I" or "I can tell that your console is a LYNX II" or something similar. There would have been no need for the message to say to put the cartridge in the other system and then see that it was not telling a lie.

Wait... does the cart always tell the person using the system to switch from a Lynx I to a Lynx II or from a Lynx II to a Lynx I? If so, what purpose is that supposed to serve? Is the user supposed to let the counter run down to zero on a Lynx I or Lynx II and then remove the cartridge and put it in the other Lynx system, and then it is supposed to break the second Lynx system? Here are my thoughts on this: First of all, I wrote down all of the messages that appear in the program. I’ve corrected grammatical errors for clarification purposes. Here are the messages given by the Death program: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Message 1: Some things are pointless. Some things are dangerous. Message 2: Curiosity killed the cat Message 3: This program will kill your system. It activates a bad line command that will destroy Suzy. Message 4: This bug is called “!OZ Bug!” Message 5: A hardware bug that is triggered using the dual statement #defin BUT_OUTER 0X1 #defin BUT_PAUSE 0X1 and which causes the destruction of the processor Message 6: Proof that I don’t lie? Message 7: (If you are running the program in a Lynx I, it will read:) Your console is a LYNX I. Put the cartridge in a Lynx II and see that I do not lie. (If you are running the program in a Lynx II, it will read:) Your console is a LYNX II. Put the cartridge in a Lynx I and see that I do not lie. Message 8: Now you know. Message 9: Every man is the architect of his own fate. Make your choice and have the patience of Job. Be brave but never mad. Message 10: The !OZ Bug! starts when the counter reaches 00. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now, message 7 above does not make much sense at all. First, the program tells you that it is a program that will kill your Lynx system and that it will do so by activating a bad line command that will destroy Suzy. It then describes the activating of the bad line command as a bug named the !OZ Bug! Then, the program asks you if you want proof that it is not lying, and if so, then you need to put the cartridge in a Lynx II if you are using a Lynx I, or you need to put the cartridge in a Lynx I if you are using a Lynx II. The confusing part is that the program does not tell you when you are supposed to do this. If you turn off the system at the screen that tells you to switch Lynx systems and then switch the cart, what is that going to prove? It certainly won’t prove that the bug will destroy your Lynx system, since the program says that the bug won’t even be activated until the counter reaches 00. Thus, it seems that the program is telling you to switch from a Lynx I to a Lynx II or from a Lynx II to a Lynx I after you have already let the counter run down to zero on the first Lynx system. It does, indeed, all sound like bull crap to me, but if a person really wants to test it to the fullest, I would say that you need to let the counter run down to zero on a Lynx I and then turn off the system and load up the program in a Lynx II and then let the counter run down to zero on the second system and see if that breaks the second system.

I am highly confident that all human-enemies in the game can be eaten. If you cannot reach them by simply hanging on the side of a building and punching them, then you will have to leap off of the side of a building and punch them while flying through the air in front of the building in order to eat them. Chances are, if a person is dying often, then the person is not focusing on eating everything as fast as possible and always staying in motion. That is the winning strategy for this game.

The smoothness of the scrolling is very impressive for the Lynx.

Here is a longplay video of Double Dragon on the Lynx: You can see from skimming through the video that there is no Mountain level in the Lynx version.

I found a couple YouTube videos which show different versions of a Wolf 3D Demo for the Lynx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKCj1drkkag Looks like the Lynx would have the ability to handle a finished version of the game rather well.

Telegames must randomly decide what kind of cart goes in their boxes, because I ordered a complete in box copy of Double Dragon from Telegames just a couple of months ago, and the cart is the usual black, curved lip cart. The box also looks just like the official box that the game originally came in back when it was originally selling. The instruction manual, however, looks like a very cheap printout. It seems that they took a scan of one of the original manuals and just printed images of the pages on a single large sheet of paper that folds out almost like a poster. Video 61 sells "brand new" copies of Double Dragon for $99.95. http://members.tcq.net/video61/lynx.html If you want to order from them, I would first ask what exactly the cart, manual, and box will look like before paying.

The link that MrBland gave above, so this one: http://d.hatena.ne.j...=*[ATARI LYNX]/, shows two screenshots of "Poker 110," which is also called "Homebrew Poker" if you download it from the site in MrBland's list, and which is also called "Manga Poker" if you buy it from the aforementioned website. So they are all the same game. The game that looks very similar to it in MegaPak 1 is not a poker game but rather is Blackjack. Blackjack has the same solid green background and cute little manga character that deals you the cards in Poker 110 = Homebrew Poker = Manga Poker, but you play the Blackjack card game in MegaPak 1 instead of a poker card game. EDIT: Actually, the youtube video given at the above site shows some nice gameplay footage of Poker 110 = Homebrew Poker = Manga Poker:

The "Manga Poker" game arrived to me yesterday. Yes, it is definitely the same game as "Poker 110."

I don't think anyone has been able to confirm yet that any poker game exists in MegaPak 1. No poker game appears in the main list of games, and karri said that only 1 adventure game was hidden in the game. I also can't conclude that "Manga Poker" is the Homebrew Poker or Poker 110 talked about in the other thread. The main picture on the Manga Poker box certainly doesn't portray anything in Homebrew Poker/Poker 110.

Okay. I'll try to do that. I see that the seller on that website has added some new titles to his list of Lynx games, including "Gotballs Demo" and "Kistenschieben." I contacted the seller and spoke with him a little. It turns out that "Dynalynx" is sage's prototype game and, therefore, is a different game than "Dynablaster." It is also true that "Teenage" is "Teen Dance." *EDIT: Well, he had "Gotballs Demo" listed for about a day, but now it appears that it has been removed from the list.

Is the "Manga Poker" game in Mega Pak 1 a game that must be unlocked? If so, do you know how one can unlock it?

I’m guessing that the games in the list on the above site, which you are not real sure about, are Dynalynx, Manga Poker, and Teenage. I think “Dynalynx” is a misspelling and should actually be “Dynablaster.” I am fairly confident that this seller is the one who has sold copies of that game in the past, and I know that Atari Smeghead has a cart that was likely made by the same seller (since the packaging seems to give the seller away), as well as a cart for Marble Madness and Rapid Racer = Rapide Race! (http://www.atariage....n/#entry1554046) Perhaps “Teenage” is also a misspelling of “Teen Dance”?

I went ahead and bought "Manga Poker" today on Ebay, since I like collecting stand-alone carts of all Lynx games, plus I like the packaging that he makes for the games. I've never heard of the game before but figured there is probably a ROM of it floating around out there somewhere, but if so, I have no idea where I would find it. I thought that maybe whoever made it simply altered one of the already existing poker games for Lynx and added manga characters to it, but I won't know what it actually is until the game arrives, unless someone else who knows more can give more details about the game.

How about the game "Manga Poker"?

Well, if you ever decide to play it again, just focus on getting to edible people in the buildings as quickly as you can and eating them. That's about all that you have to do for the whole game. Even if you don't worry about dodging all of the gunfire and so on that is coming at you, it doesn't matter, you can just eat and eat and eat people and keep your health very high while still getting hit by everything. And if you don't focus on punching down the buildings, that doesn't matter either, because they eventually get knocked down by other things, and then you're on to the next level. So it's basically just an eating fest.

Heh... I can well imagine how boring that must have been. I once played the game for a total of about 15 straight levels, and then I got to the point of just thinking to myself "does this game ever end?" It's fun for about 10 levels or so and then I just start to lose patience with it, especially since the challenge doesn't seem to increase much as the levels increase. It's a pretty easy game, unless the later levels do start to get challenging. I don't think I could ever play all 61 levels straight through in one evening, so I'd have to skip levels to see what the later levels have to offer.

I usually just take a dry cloth and rub the contacts very hard to remove any crud that might have collected on them, in order to get a game card to work. However, there is one game that I have, namely an extra copy of Steel Talons, where the contacts themselves look very clean but the game still won't start up, and no matter how hard I try to rub them with the cloth, which usually gets my games to work, the game still won't start up, so I guess it must be permanently broken.

I'm planning to list a nice, clean cart only of Lemmings on Ebay soon. It will likely be a 5-day auction with a starting bid of 20 U.S. Dollars.

Thanks. That was the main thing that I wanted to know.