Andromeda Stardust

I stand corrected.

Dude this would be one impressive tech demo if you can get it off the ground. Another idea. Create a GUI to allow the user to "doodle" on the screen. I often find it more fascinating to watch doodles come to life than pure random seeds. CX-22, CX-80, trackball or Amiga mouse would be ideally suited for this. Select switch could start/pause the simulation. Doodle onscreen with joystick or trackball while holding fire when paused. Reset could clear the slate. Color/BW to shift colors. I would love to own a cart of this if you ever get it working on hardware.

Tons of apps for your Harmony Cart. But it's more fun when you've got the cart to go with it.

Not enough to go around...

If I had a Vectrex, I would be all over this! Someday I'll get one... :thumbsup:

I don't see a "Moderator" badge underneath your user icon.

My old one (PRO 3.3) died, and the two (2.2 and 3.0 non-PRO) I picked up at GameXChange last year appear to be DOA. Probably goes without saying there are likely a lot more failed Gamesharks out there than working ones. Any Game Shark that's seen a fair amount of use is probably dead by now. I also have no idea the flash retention of those devices over a decade or longer.

This is amazing, thanks. If you PM me the ROM I would be glad to test it on my Harmony for you. I have an older model Harmony so I'm limited to 32kbyte ROMs though. I've been fascinated on and off by the organic organism like formations that have been discovered thus far, some highly complex. How did you get your program to work with with the memory and CPU limitations of the VCS?

Sorry to hear that. I can still hear to 16khz and at nearly 35, I can still hear those tones that teens are supposed to hear but adults can't. Maybe I'm blessed because the majority of the millenials and iPod generation may have permanently ruined hearing later in life. I do have a very slight tinnitus in my right ear, but my hearing has always been super sensitive nd I try to protect it by listening at sane levels. I have on more than one occasion gone to a club and made earplugs out of spitwads from a bar napkin because the music was deafening. As a child I had a phobia of fireworks and other loud noises. Especially balloons because they could go off with a bang at any moment. 7800fan, sorry for your loss. That's a lot of audio spectrum you're missing. Cymbals. The crinkle of leaves in the fall. The constants "S" and "Z" It has been my experience that once I've gotten accustomed to listening to a properly balanced quality sound system (quality does not have to mean $1000+ expensive) in a home environment, tinny speakers, and especially the ipod booster variety or the embedded "full range" tweeters they cram into flat panel TVs, just grate my ears.

I think it would be badass if they updated Windows 3.1 for IPv6.

I'll prolley have a nerdgasm and need to change my pants if Dintar remakes Ms Pacman.

I gots to go check mine. Is there any chance that the label variant could just be ink batch or fading?

Dude, you need retractable teeth on that thing. Then someone can Macgyver a lever to select the Harmony BIOS when the pins are retracted and have it work on both consoles!

$99 is hellalot to pay for a repro box. Good thing the cart itself is hard to repro...

Knock yourself out. I just scored a sweet "Best Offer" on a CX-80 on the 'Bay!

Not if the exchange was in person. Isn't this guy a shopowner?

Forgive me if this was off topic but I consider myself an audiophile who firmly believes you don't need to spend thousands to get decent sound... Living room setup: $150 Sony Stereo Amplifier, $120 on sale at Best Buy. $300 Polk Monitor 40s (per pair) - phased out - $120 clearance at NewEgg. My old Sony sub sits disconnected and I don't even miss it. Don't miss the former 5.1 surround system with tinny satallites we got rid of either. The 10" sub massively overcompensated for the 2.5" satallites' complete lack of bass resulting in a rather wide hole in the midbass region. Bedroom Setup: Early 2000s RCA 3-piece CD AM/FM Cassette Stereo (I've had it for years) Upgraded with $20 pair of old Jensen JP500s from the pawn shop - sound perfect with flat EQ Audio Technica LP120 Direct Drive Turntable - $220 Hookups: Shielded RCA cables from Radio Shack $6-7 per set. (don't buy cheap unshielded Walmart crap - don't buy overpriced Monster crap from Best Buy either) Lowes 14-guage bulk spool of speaker wire - $30 Enjoying old vinyl on well balanced speakers without expensive "placebos" - priceless...

He was a phool to accept the backdoor offer when a quick Google search would have clued him in.

You guys just might have convinced me to buy a CX-22 trackball.

Part of the problem is the flash ROM in the N64 Game Shark is a lot like the original battery backed RAM on the NES Action Replay, meaning it saves data to the boot ROM. To cut costs, the flash chip with the boot ROM also contains the code database. So you are essentially reflashing the firmware every time you input and save codes. I earnestly believe it overwrites the entire chip every time. Given the lack of shielding and the fact it wobbles and is notorious for randomly crashing, if it crashes during a flash operation, or you bump it, or the planets and stars have bad alignment while you are saving data to the Gameshark, it will corrupt the boot rom and you will permanently brick the device. There is a method for reflashing the Game Shark which requires three things of which I have none: (1) a PC with a parallel port and an older version of windows, (2) Game Shark trainer software, and (3) a working Game Shark Pro v3.3. You place the working Game Shark Pro into the N64, place the dead Game Shark on top of the good one, and a standard game on top of that. Flash the latest firmware to the bottom Game Shark using the PC software and it will update the top one as well. This will also give the top Game Shark full Pro v3.3 functionality sans the parallel port, regardless of it's original version. But the Game Sharks were so flakey to begin with, there's noguarantee they won't fail again. The software trainer was awesome, but the hardware itself was an unreliable P.O.S. Mine barely lasted a year before I corrupted it. There were some guys on the Internet offering a Game Shark reflashing service circa mid-2000s but they appear to be gone now...

I don't bet.

Why is that test lead clamped to the heatsink? But then it wouldn't be ready-to-go, would it?

Banana plugs and 14 guage bulk stranded wire from the hardware store. Anyone claiming that $1000 per meter speaker cable sounds better is selling snake oil. Some people will pay huge sums of money to experience the placebo effect.

Wow, man. Seller got burned hard. Had he left it up, he'd of gotten some big moolah for it. Well they say Karma's a b!tch so when someone from Victoria tries to unload it on eBay, we'll know the guy who ripped him off. Also threads need to be merged: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245300-air-raid-boxed-atari-2600-sells-for-500/

I think he knows... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245299-boxed-air-raid-sells-for-500/?p=3360383