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The Game Box and picture label cart in the auction and wallet have been married together. The wallet era predated the pic carts by 2+ years and the wallet boxes were unique and mentioned the wallet. The booklet is also wrong for the wallet edition, it's white not red and it's the later larger size.
Yeah wallet in the auction looks to be in "decent" shape, hopefully who ever wins is doing it for the wallet and is aware that is nowhere near an authentic Superman w/Wallet CIB. As for a WATA rating mentioned as possible in the auction description; based on the box only Haspel* would be able to get an 8.0+, all others will be very lucky to score a 7.0. *=those in the know, know
Now if the listing mentioned it was CIB picture cart era, thus NON-wallet version, Superman plus a loose wallet from the wallet edition included as an extra in the auction that might be correct.
I do wonder if the listing represents honest lack of knowledge on the seller's part or forethought of malice?
Correct booklet, box and Cart for the version distributed with the wallet:
P.S. Remember the wallet needs the box and lid to be consider complete
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The auction hammered at $735 ! - who knows, could have approached 1k if the wallet box and clear cover were included in the listing.?
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On 3/1/2022 at 4:06 PM, fabman99 said:
The wallet came in it's own box with a clear cover.
Winner!
Before obtaining one a few years back, I searched over 2 decades for the wallet complete with the wallet box+clear cover in nice condition before I found one. The wallet itself is very hard to find, the box w/clear cover in anything more than cat toy condition might as well be hens tooth rare. Along the way I did acquire some in lesser condition.
Difficult to tell from my not so good pics but the wallet is unused and condition is close to Mint. Paint has nice original shine/sheen to it and the zipper and zipper handle are shiny perfect. All imperfections appears to be part of the manufacturing, it's a faux leather wallet after all.
The clear cover has no bends or dings, the printed letters are mint, corners are squared and sharp. Overall I'd rate the clear cover as NM/M. The white box is NM+.
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I'm sure a bunch here know what this auction may be missing? Figured I'd throw the question out there as trivia challenge.
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Both systems had their strengths and weaknesses. Colecovision if the coding was there could produce excellent Arcade ports that in at least in one case, Ladybug, exceeded the arcade.
My best memories reside with Colecovision playing Venture and especially Ladybug with my siblings - I still recall our amazement the when we first "discovered" the Vegetable Harvest.
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Asteroids - sucked at it then and after 20 years of playing via MAME on cabinet and on highly customized arcade panel I still suck at it.
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Wow only seeing this today - Kickman, aka Kick really brings back some memories and retro-memories for me. Thanks!
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18 hours ago, Nathan Strum said:
You can do this now - with a little extra hardware:
- One OTG USB cable
- Two 2600-daptors, each with an A-B USB cable
- One USB hub (bus-powered works fine)
I just tested this (I happened to have an extra 2600-daptor at the moment), and it works great!
Connect as follows:
- Plug the RetroN 77's power cord into the OTG cable.
- Plug the OTG cable into the RetroN 77.
- Plug the USB hub into the other connector on the OTG cable.
- Plug the two 2600-daptors into their USB cables, and plug those into the USB hub.
- Plug your driving controllers into the 2600-daptors.
- Fire it up, and play! I didn't need to configure anything. I just had to start a game and move each controller to figure out which was which.
I kept a joystick plugged into the front of the console to navigate the menus.
Nice ,Thanks man! I believe I already have everything that is needed. Will give it a go soon.
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2 hours ago, unixdude said:
I know I'm asking for the world here, but are there any plans to have Indy 500 and the driving controllers work with Stella 6 on the R77?
That would be incredible and perhaps bring tears to my eyes - seriously
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Hi - for SSH in Developer mode I am seeking a recommendation for working USB ethernet adapter. Thanks
Thank you to all the folks that made Stella 6 possible on the unit! After seeing this thread today I ordered the R77
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My Cab is still running .106
On my PC's I stopped updating at mameuifx .175, when mamesick was forced out by haters . Still I'm glad to see the MAME + MESS efforts continue.
Back in the day MAME gave me great enjoyment. Being able to play in effect bit-perfect Phoenix at home in the late 1990's is something for which I'm an eternally grateful to Nicola and the MAME folks back then who made that possible.
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Looking forward to this being integrated into 2600.emu (Android).
Related to that, I have a bug/feature request...
If you write files from a Mac to an SD card/thumb drive that you then use with an Android device (such as NVIDIA Shield Pro), the Mac places meta-data files on the drive of the form "._FILENAME"
It would be great if 2600.emu did not show these in the list of available files.
Is the filter that determines which files in a directory get displayed a function of Stella, or of the GUI on top of it? (ie, for the Android Stella port to address?)
Hi, I may be wrong but I do not think Stephen has any involvement with 2600.emu, which is still based on Stella 4.7.3 . I do like Robert's 2600.emu app but its updates now are usually a year or more apart so I'm not getting my hopes up. Serves me right for purchasing it :sigh
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The trailing '\' shouldn't be necessary; that may be a bug that we should look into.
Related to this, I'm considering removing 'basedir.txt' and simply having a commandline argument to do the same thing. So in Windows you'd just have the modify the icon to pass it the required information (this will be fully documented, of course).
I think this is a cleaner way of doing it? Comments, feedback, etc?
So for example, instead of creating a file basedir.txt and having it contain, say, "C:\stella", you would right click and edit the icon, and put -basedir "C:\stella". Would that make more sense?
Hi Stephen,
Prior to 6 , the trailing \ was not required for me. When I started 6 the first time all items required proper basedir did not show up.
When I looked at the Stella system log I saw; "e:\emu\Atari\2600\Stellastella.ini"
the \ was missing after 2600\Stella
I then changed my basedir.txt
from:
e:\emu\Atari\2600\Stella
to:
e:\emu\Atari\2600\Stella\
then all looked good when Stella started. The Stella system log displayed e:\emu\Atari\2600\Stella\stella.ini
As for commandline arg of -basedir as you mentioned - seems like a perfect idea to me!
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Stephen, many thanks for your time and efforts with Stella and also a special thanks for continuing basedir.txt support. For those using basedir.txt with Windows ensure your entry has a trailing \
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Yes curious as well.
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I've been a MAME user since Summer 1997. Congrats to them on their efforts and milestone even if I still use .106 in my cab.
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As long as you do a "get" you are OK in the US. Distribution [let say sharing] or intent to distribute is a no no. So if you grab via link click [wget] or usenet download there are no issues. Torrents would be a rather bad idea as inherent to them is sharing. So unlike what you parents taught you as a child sharing or intents thereof is bad
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Do you know the
Do you know the person that found this game, or where I can find a rom (if one exists)?
A google search will easily find you the rom and I'm not talking about the fake "brick" one. IMHO the game is not worth the time I found the youtube video actually more satisfying.
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My usage of Stella on Linux 64-bit and Win7 64 usage are about equal. I chose Linux since it has a few less votes.
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The 4th edition came out in Oct 2016. It's a massive 800 or so pages. IMHO the most encompassing word on Home Video Game History. Amazing that near double the history has occurred since I first read the 1997 edition back in the day. The 70's and 80's material has been rewritten [and corrected where needed] so it's all fresh and about as accurate as is possible given the scope.
Folks this is history book in effect, while excellent and highly interesting it is not light fun reading.
http://www.rolentapress.com/Form/thank_you2.html
and for those who would rather not support the author directly:
The Color Edition is out since July. While it's a bit pricey it's also is a Hardcover and includes a new 2016 chapter which is rather long. My guess is the print run of this edition was tiny. Still it costs less than a pedestrian dinner at a mediocre restaurant [not fast food] for three. For those like me that are classic video game "historians" this is a must have on the shelf. Don't regret not getting it in the near future when the only copies available are from price gouging Amazon sellers.
https://www.facebook.com/Phoenix-IV-The-History-of-the-Videogame-Industry-115031441861051/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/phoenix-iv-leonard-herman/1125082055?ean=9780964384804
It's a very heavy book but can be had at Barnes&Noble and Amazon with free shipping.
Leonard @Rolenta , if you see this post; I don't do kindle for many reasons but I will gladly pay for a copy in ePub, mobi or PDF format.
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Been asleep the past 3 weeks not realizing this was out. Huge thanks for all your time and effort on Stella 5 !
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No. It's been very slow-going. Taking a lot longer than anticipated.
The 4th edition came out in Oct 2016. It's a massive 800 or so pages. IMHO the most encompassing word on Home Video Game History. Amazing that near double the history has occurred since I first read the 1997 edition back in the day. The 70's and 80's material has been rewritten [and corrected where needed] so it's all fresh and about as accurate as is possible given the scope.
Folks this is history book in effect, while excellent and highly interesting it is not light fun reading.
http://www.rolentapress.com/Form/thank_you2.html
and for those who would rather not support the author directly:
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