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    Just discovered this thread recently.  I'm very excited by the idea and glad to see many great games already patched to use more than one button.

     

    Lately, I have been using my two CX78 Europads on my 8-bit.  Seems like I've really gotten used to d-pads, and tend to prefer them now.  I prefer to keep my 8-bit as "Atari" as possible so have been using the CX78s instead of modded Genesis or SMS pads.  

     

    I know that the two buttons of the 7800 controllers won't register separately on the 8-bit.  Is it possible to modify them so that they would be compatible with the 2 button modded games?  That would make the CX78s even more useful on my 8-bit.

     

    If it's possible, what would I need to do to modify them?  

     

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    FWIW, I went through a similar process with my own cart designs, and I did that in the past helping Chad with the Intellicart and CC3. I write automated tests that loop for hours to try to identify any issues. They are pretty boring, but necessary.

     

    Development-wise I've been fairly lucky. (I could say skillful, but I acknowledge there's a big element of luck, too.) For the most part, things either worked, or they didn't, so I didn't need to spend much time chasing things that were flaky or marginal. Only a couple things fell into the category of "flaky / marginal", so I beat those to death early so they were rock solid. I suppose my original prototype board was a bit flaky, but that was a physical flakiness issue owing to all the cables everywhere, and the fact that my desk was a disaster area. Some pics from 2007: http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/jlp/

     

    I suppose it worked. Out of the literally thousands of JLP carts out there, I haven't had any reports of JLP hardware issues that weren't actually issues with the Intellivision itself. (That's not counting the boards that come back from the fab non-functional; we don't ship those.)

     

    Interesting. How long did you test the LTO Flash Multicart?

  21. Posted · Edited by doomguy

    Solaris would be a nightmare I would imagine.

     

    Yars' Revenge or Adventure would be lovely. Or any of the imagic titles that never made it to the Atari computers.

     

    But in any case these Midnight Magic and Seaquest alone and amazing enough, and I'm grateful. I'm astounded at how quickly this second one was done.

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