MadZiontist

Yeah I hear ya. I have an NES and an Everdrive. It would be nice. But hey, at least they're freely distributed for emulation use. Sadly way too many devs/pubs of homebrews/hacks won't freely distribute their ROMs, despite their cart runs selling out. Anywho, speaking of RetroUSB, they don't like to restock often, huh? I'm really wanting a CopyNES. I have a cart I've been wanting dumped for years. This Kazzo I bought is about as helpful to me as trying to dump the cart with my Keurig.

Description: +Includes: °Patched ROM °Proper Checksum Value Base ROM °IPS Patch + Notes https://www.mediafire.com/download/x9hk7a16k7ll1d1

The last update (from about a year ago) Super Mario All-Stars NES (SMB3 Mod_infidelity) [v10-23-2017] Description +Includes °Patched ROMs ("CRT" Version for MMC5 Capable Carts & "EMU" Version for Emulators) °Original Proper Checksum Base ROM °IPS Patch + Notes https://www.mediafire.com/download/4629by5l07d1442

If I could only pick 2, well not too tough for me... Halo 2600 and Princess Rescue. While the novelty of them makes them interesting enough, it's really the gameplay. Both are just flat out fun games with a ton of replay value.

My gut reaction was along the same lines [as MrMaddog's]. I don't think that the age the writer/s were born into is much to blame. Revisionist bias plays a role for sure. Atari's place in video game, cultural, and consumer media history is more of a well cemented fact than an opinion. I point the blame at a culture of irresponsible and lazy journalism more than anything. Credibilty and integrity takes a backseat on the part of those up the ladder, from the writers to the editors to the publisher.

The missing ROMs are listed in a .txt file included with the download. It's not really my list. This is a Cowering Good Set. These tend to be ROMs that exist but are unavailable at the time. They may be available now, but whoever compiled the set couldn't find them at the time.

Thanks [emoji16]. I just decided to post what I had in one of my file hosts. I'll have to continue with more. Not sure why that NonGood set has the date text with the link embedded in it. I tried everything I could think of to fix it, but no dice. I don't know if it's a Tapatalk formatting thing or what. Oh well. Good2600 [v3. 14] (missing 12 of 7216): https://www.mediafire.com/file/ibau09f88497ab1/

Wow I've been horrible with throwing down some links. Hopefully this is good start. All Atari 2600 Hacks, Homebrews, Conversions ROMs [v2] https://www.mediafire.com/download/5xk7swv6a95mi36/ Atari 2600 Hacks & Hombrews [v1. 21b-sorted] https://www.mediafire.com/download/d8f1obno7iz3ynu/ Flappo Bird [v1. 0], Crazy Bird [v1. 0], Flappy: [140218h] https://www.mediafire.com/download/ltkkzdm724d6xv0/ Halo 2600 ROMs https://www.mediafire.com/download/19ke6jv3npz43za/ E. T. - The Extra-Terrestrial Fixed-Final https://www.mediafire.com/download/65xfceb93v8ne55/ NonGood 2600 12-21-2013 https://www.mediafire.com/download/1afpui5bh89fthh/

Sending a PM to Al would probably be the best way to handle it. Hopefully he'll be able to hook it up for you.

I remember on release day of the game I wasn't able to procure a CIB. So sad lol. Over the last number of years I would regularly check the store to see if the box option was available. It never was when I looked, until recently. I ordered 2 CIBs. Today I walked with my daughter up to the mailbox and was naturally geeked to see the AA box in there. I explained a bit what it was. She's 12. She knows Sonic. She knows what an Atari 2600 is. But not really what Zippy is all about. I explained the best I could. But she was most interested in messing around with the styrofoam "peanuts". She was still excited about the game, and I was pretty sure there would be a ROM code download in there. Nope. Arghh!!! No Zippy. I have a 6-switcher, but I don't have a CRT anymore (I'm feeling sorta regretful for getting rid of my Sony KD-34XBR960 lol), or a Framemeister. I don't roll with the VCS on the plasma. I really HATE it when there's no ROM available!! I buy the carts as collectibles pretty much. Anyways, so I log onto here to check the Zippy threads to find out what's up with the ROMs, Pretty strange coincidence (or whatever) that the ROMs were just posted up! Thanks Al and Chris. It took awhile but you did it!

I was pretty late to this game's party (like most others :/) but fortunate to not be to late, as to be able to be able to get in on a color and black cart set, brand new in the box. I was fortunate to catch GoodDealGames when they had a couple of black carts sets in stock. I was also able to procure a set from the dev himself, Kiwi...who I really can't say enough good things about. I've personally been going through a lot of various shit lately, and he handled some "hiccups" with the transaction/product, with class that is rarely seen today, anywhere. This guy sold me one of his personal color cart sets (5!), brand new, charged me less than retail price, handled all of the issues, and gets an A++ score from me. As far as the set is concerned. Again pure class here. The choice of cart colors, and the black set, along with the packaging was nicely enough done. The graphics and print look great, but the box/es are a little to on the flimsy side (especially at the $150 MSRP). But it's good enough and would be fine if taken good care of and stored right. The color carts look amazing with PONG having the yellow casing, and Computer Space is in a dark blue. Really cool carts. As far as what you'd want out of Computer Space and PONG? I think that def here. Both games look and play like the finest crafted faithful simulations of the arcade originals as one could really hope for.

@atarilovesyou, nice, looks neat! Only 21 games?! Kinda weak considering the number of classics on that machine. I'm not so sure that it will be so much of a debacle as the first go out though. Ninty sold 2.3 million NES Classics, which is far than they would have, if they had handled keeping retailers stocked (and not discontinuing the thing so soon). The first one was possibly discontinued because it was hacked, you can have a whole ROM set on it, and Ninty got butthurt (as usual) over something so benign. I'm thinking there will be far more stock of the SNES classic, it will probably more of an issue to hack, and it might not end up discontinued so soon. @Tanooki, I hear ya on that hoarding business. My wife and I are in the middle of clearing out our 15 years of hoarding business. It gets to be sorta amusing when it's time to make a decision whether to toss something or not. The irrational pleas, attempts at justification to keep junk, etc. lol.

I'm the same way. Obsessive when it comes to media I'm into. I received the Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary Deluxe box set. Wow is that super nice too. As far as communities, I don't know that there are many of them in number. But what is out there seems good to me so far. There's a subreddit community, nesclassicmods, that seems to be the most popular online group: https://www.reddit.com/r/nesclassicmods/ There are other emulators being coded for it. It has Genesis, SNES, GBA and another 1 or 2 emulators coded for it. Though I'm not interested in anything but having NES games on mine. I'd like to get a second one for doing more toying around with. I would really hate to brick my only one! There are other mods developed too (such as being able to setup "down+select" to return to the main menu, instead of having to hit the reset button). As far as the audio lag, it may be the TVs some people are using, and they're attributing it to the NES Classic. Idk. It's situations like this that make me regret getting rid of my Sony KD-34XBR960. I still wouldn't have the room for it right now though, and it'd be more of a liability than an asset. Those things are a nightmare to move too. I might buy one again, once I have room. For now it'd be cool if there was an audio latency fix mod (to fix whatever might be the cause of that issue that many have reported).

So I FINALLY got one of these! I could afford one, and got the blessing from my wife to buy one for Father's Day. I got scammed on my first attempt at owning one about a month ago. I had come across one at a low and appealing price recently (which was still 2x retail), and I took a chance on a new seller. I only took the chance because of Amazon's A-Z guarantee. So I got scammed, but the money was back on my card within a short number of minutes after placing the complaint call to Amazon. They refunded it without blinking, especially as the seller's email was ghost when I tried to contact him or her. It was a safe risk to take, and I was half expecting it anyways. Anyways, this time I chose a seller with 100% feedback and over 10,000 ratings. So I paid a bit more than I intended to, but it was worth the peace of mind. It fortunately arrived in perfect condition the day before Father's Day, so I only had to wait a day before I was allowed to open it . By the time I did open the box, and started to see how classy and high quality this thing was, I was pretty surprised. It was really well done in pretty much all of the most important areas...from packaging (the box design, the retro poster included, etc.), to the controller looking and feeling exactly like the original, to the sturdy build of the controller and console, as as well as each's design. I would have designed it differently in some areas, but it's just fine the way it is. This thing gets quite a bit of unfair heat imo. It's probably often from people who simply weren't/aren't willing, or able to do what was/is/will only get wor$e, is (unfortunately) necessary to own one. I'd shrug the console off too, if I wasn't willing or able to own one, but ideally would like to. The only valid complaint, I can see, is the audio latency issue. That doesn't really matter much to me. It's not likely to be my primary NES gaming device. The fact that there's a Nintendo coded emulator to be dumped from this thing and bugs fixed, features added, etc., along with a strong and healthy dev/modding community. It's hacked. This allows the audio lag issue to possibly be be fixed...along with being able to easily put a full N/A ROM set, or whatever variety of over 7,000 games you want on it. I consider this thing to be more than the sum of it's parts. The fact that there were only 2 million produced, with a demand that far exceeds that number, really make this a rarity. Nostalgia and novelty really make for a strong layer of extra appeal. Yeah I chose one over a PS4. *shrug* I have an Xbox One, and zillion other platforms, along with a physical and digital library that I will probably never be able to even just sample in my lifetime. There have just been SOOO many video games developed over the last 50 years. I'm fine with buying a PS4 later on. I really am much happier to own a $60 MSRP "flashback device", than another "similar to an Xbone" modern day console powerhouse. The NES Classic Edition is a rare and unique device in so many ways as far as I'm concerned. Oh and some icing on the cake. I had recently bought two different 8bitdo NES wireless controllers (the regular and Pro), and had ordered the wireless receivers about a month ago, so wireless is good to go. And sorry if anybody is reading this, wants one, is having issues with getting one, and this was yet another painful read. They can easily be found, brand new, on Amazon and eBay for $200-$250. Probably cheaper if you hunt long enough, but it's only going up in price. If you want one, and can afford one, but despise paying more than MSRP (which I can relate to)...just fucking pay the money and get one. Is (whatever amount of) happiness that it will bring worth some silly "principle". Stop being a stubborn @$$73R!$K about it, and go have some fun. Life is too short.

I've had a PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox, Gamecube, and I think maybe one other gaming box hooked up to the same TV. *I guess this fact will be an asterisk notation, but this PS3 was a 60GB launch model, which had the actual PS2 hardware built into it, along with PS1 (emulation I think, but it was almost perfect)...along with having upscaling options for both PS1 and PS2 games, it played blu-rays, CDs, DVDs (and upscaled them), SACDs, had 1 or 2? memory stick slot/s, 4 USB ports, could run Linux and run custom firmware if you stopped updating by a certain system software version, etc.. I didn't care that I had to pay $600 for it. I wish all console manufacturers would included an appropriately priced "Beast Model, that offers "fully loaded" features. I'm fine with paying an extra $200 or whatever.

I have 2 sets of the Computer Space/PONG release by CollectorVision. One colored carts and one black carts set. They're impressively done arcade simulations, of the arcade originals by Kiwi.

For what it's capable when hacked, I cant see why a gamer wouldn't want it. It can run Vita VPKs (Vita ROMs), PSP ISOs, all the emulation classics (some now, some I'm sure in the future. A hack achieved the capability to use its USB port for external drives. I got one at launch. I think they're only like $35-$40 now.

I went to a Best Buy last Saturday. I asked about this console, and the dude there told me that Ninty wasn't going to be shipping them any stock 'til May! I'm starting to suspect that Nintendo might be patching it to stop the hacking, which without-I wouldn't have NEARLY as much interest in it. I did end up walking outta Best Buy with one of the new Nvidia Shield controllers. Looks like they've modeled it after the Xbox One controller, which was wise. It's really nice.

Mike and Ben sharing some wholesome family time together playing the NES on Growing Pains:

It plays nicely, and as far as I can tell is very true to the DOS version. It's scaled down, but done so well for being the Genesis, that it's tough to complain.

I'd so love to see this thing's emulator dumped and ported to the various platforms.

Lol. I had no clue what I even had!. yeah I didn't dig into it and play through the whole thing. I just played around on the first level. I had no idea he had more content than just the original game.

Did he release it with the shareware episode? I really hope he's able to finish it up with the additional episodes. As it stands it's great that it's at least "complete". He did an amazing job with this.

I have no idea why simple arcade ports of PONG are such a rarity. This is right along the lines of what I want out of PONG. My main issue with this is the lack of a single player mode. I had no idea that 2 players were required for the original arcade PONG. Arcade accuracy is what I want, but I need a single player mode. Couldn't we bend the rules just a bit to allow the option for those of us with no friends lol. It'd be nice if that paddle issue could get fixed on a code level too. By NO means am I complaining. Goodonya for this. It's just a small wish list. As it stands, the most BOSS port of PONG I've played is Kiwi's for the ColecoVision. It's not 100% arcade accurate, but it is essentially. It has a slick custom title screen, and a single player mode. Unfortunately for the masses, the ROM isn't publicly available. But it would be awesome to see this with a single player mode, with the paddle fix for the 2600. It feels more at home on an Atari platform, and I'd love to own it on cart. I don't feel entitled to it. Just a small wish. Thanks for making this open source btw. You've laid some great groundwork.

Console modding and emulation pretty much brought me back.