Andromeda Stardust
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Someone on NintendoAge found some actual 72-pin vertical cart connectors. If the pin spacing is right, you could attach one 72-pin connecor to the NES motherboard, and another 72-pin connector to the cartridge slot. Two 40-pin parallel cables could be used to connect them, however the parallel cables would need to have 40 pin holes and not have the key pin missing like most computer cables. Also, i'm really not sure if the cables are completely strait-connected or not. Supposedly the master and slave plugs connect differently.
If you just want a more secure cart connection, you could munt the second strait 72-pin connector to the cart loader. This would allow the cart to slide into the socket and stick out of the NES sideways without detracting from the look of the console, but the connection would now be just as reliable as any top-loading console from Atari to N64.
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There are two certainties:
Texas = Red
California = Blue
Rest of the country = random shades of purple (who knows?)
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Bacon and Duct Tape. Funny thing is, unnamed celebrities have been know to make dresses out of both..
As far as posting an auction you are trying to win before it's ended, I believe that is a bad idea. Even if 100% of the active forum members was respectful and chose not to bid out of principal, on most forums there are like 10 lurkers to every member, and I am sure any one of the many lurkers out there would take great satisfaction in sniping the auction. In fact, there is another forum that I am a member of where it's against policy to list active auctions unless it is your own goods that you are advertising. The reasoning for this is that someone may be watching an item hoping to score a hidden gem, and an auction listing which exposes the item will ruin their chances of winning.
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Sounds like your RF cable is bad. You'll need a Phillips screwdriver to open the Atari. You should find an RCA jack mounted directly on the motherboard that you can plug a replacement cable into. I recommend a 6 foot premium shielded high-speed "digital" coax RCA cable, and you might need to pick up an RCA right angle "elbow" adapter to reduce strain on the cable neck inside the Atari. You may also need to grind down the RCA tip a little to get a secure connection.Never mind. It is working again. My sister messed with the video cord.
I went a step further and completely stripped the stock cable out of my Atari and replaced it with an internal 1 foot coax and a gold RF jack mounted directly on the console. The signal is now 100% coax all the way from the motherboard to the TV set! I also placed a big fat ferrite choke block inside the console on the internal coax to prevent interference. The Atari picture looks pristine on my TV properly tuned to NTSC channel 2/3 and is about as clean as you can get for an RF modulated signal without a pre-emphasis filter.
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So Air Raid was assembled by drug dealers? Ah, that explains the funky 290 scanlines. They probably tweaked the timings until it stopped rolling on their TV set and called it a done deal. It rolls slowly on my Symphonic CRT. By the way, Air-Raid is not just merely a hack of Space Jockey. Sure the audio and graphics were ripped from Space Jockey, but the scrolling and mechanics are completely different.
< 8 hours left on the auction! Currently at $17,100 - hopefully, we get some last minute snipes to jack the price up, though the $30k target price is still pretty far off...
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I don't know, but back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for stuff to see release in Japan months or even years ahead of the US and PAL Land. I mean, Famicom came out in 1983! I think starting with the modern game consoles (2000+) launches have pretty much concurrent worldwide releases within the span of about a month or so. Back before the days of Internet, nobody really knew what people across the pond or in the Land of the Rising Sun had, so nobody ever felt left out if they didn't have the same stuff the rest of the world did.That makes me wonder. Since Nintendo of America's always been based in Redmond, WA I wonder if us in Seattle or Redmond also got to share in that early access.
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It would be awesome if we could find contact info for one of the original persons involved with this company, or their relatives. It's a shame these revalations didn't occur sooner, otherwise Retro Rougue could have mentioned the Men-a-Vision story in his Atari Book if it weren't already submitted to the press for publication.
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Aren't both the Deluxe and Standard Harmony essentially the same functionality aside from the packaging? I've got the "standard" version and I don't see why it would be any less capable than the deluxe version aside from a pretty box and USB cable/adapter. I already had plenty of cables and adapters/readers for USB, so I didn't see the need for the deluxe packaging.
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Yeah, and there was no official date for a US-wide NES launch like with other consoles. A lot of people outside of New York and other select cities didn't see the NES in stores for the first time until well late into 1986.Ha, so sounds like the Wikipedia/allgame.com date appears to be a delayed street date from X store that didn't receive it till just over a week later. Shipment delays can do this. This is exactly what I was talking about on digitpress. For some reason different people are remembering different close-together months of game releases for the Genesis. And I had to remind them that some stores in some states or cities would get the games a little bit sooner than others because it does take time for the items to get there, and some stores with special contracts get to carry certain items sooner. Some places might wait till a certain date to put the items on the shelves while others would do it immediately. Especially back then.
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I'm definitely planning on hacking my Wii to experience the joys of homebrew, after I transfer all my VC/Wiiware stuff to Wii-U. I've got well over $300 worth of software downloaded, so I wouldn't dare tamper with my Wii until after I get all my games transferred. Also, my Wii is kind of starting to go on the fritz now, possibly due to years of having sat overheating with WiiConnect24 running, so I've avoided gaming on it the last few months until Wii-U comes out. I had a hard time booting it up, but once I disabled Wiiconnect, it seems to have run stable since. Netflix and Internet Browser still crash it though. I'll feel a lot better about my Wii once all that expensive software is transferred. After the transfer process is complete, it will become strictly a homebrew console with no risk of losing my purchases, so who cares if it goes kaput or I brick it by accident?Im sticking to the Original Wii may get one when Homebrew channel and emulators
are hacked on it
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There is no "mobile" link next to the RSS icon and "themes". I went to a web site that identifies my browser handle; this is what it reported:
Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo 3DS; U; ; en) Version/1.7498.US
The Wii browser defaults to the mobile site on a ton of different websites; so do PSPs and iPads and a host of other stuff. I've noticed there are a ton of websites that revert to mobile automatically with Wii and PSP, but most of those said mobile sites are impossible to access with 3DS web browser. I'm starting to notice a pattern here. Does the 3DS not properly identify itself as a "Mobile" device? It causes a lot of headaches surfing the net, and many websites don't have a manual link to switch. The afformentioned "mobile" link at the bottom of the AA website is non-existant on my 3DS.
EDIT: I just changed the theme to deflection on my PC. AtariAge looks wicked sweet now!
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4 worlds total. Each world is 4 levels (one land, one underground, one sky, and a castle) and each level is two sections. The final section of each castle is a Jr battle. Princess is rescued at the end of world 4-4. Then you unlock hard mode, just like the original game.
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This.I think Tengen brought a couple Sega games to the NES though xD;
There were actually quite a few 7800 and SMS exclusives that got unofficially released on the NES under the Tengen label, which was owned by Atari. Shinobi and Fantasy Zone were two great SMS titles that got ported to NES. Atari still had the Pacman license in the United States, so Pacman and Ms Pacman got released on the Tengen label long before Namco reissued them in 1993. We also got two dramatically different versions of Tetris and Ms Pacman as a result of Tengen. Unlike a lot of other unlicensed game companies, I usually consider Tengen games on par quality wise to most 3rd party developers. In fact, Tengen was originally a Nintendo licensee, and managed to release three games, Pacman, Gauntlet, and RBI Baseball, before their contract was revoked due to breach of exclusivity agreements.
Another thing to note, people find it odd that several Nintendo arcade ports are available on the 2600, namely Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong Jr, Popeye, and others, but during the time frame these games were licensed, Nintendo didn't have a home console distribution in the United States. As a result, many of these games appeared on the 2600/5200/7800, and the licenses were still valid for a while after the NES arrived.
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I'm not cancelling my Wii-U deluxe preorder. I have large man hands, and even the Supaboy handheld SNES (which is quite bulky) feels comfortable for me to hold. GBA-SP, on the other hand, unbearably painful to play for more than a few minutes. I imagine the Pad will feel awesome to game on. On issue I see with gamepad gaming for competitive multiplayer, is that the player with the gamepad can also see his buddy's movement on the TV screen, but his buddy may not be able to view the gamepad. That would be a huge tactile advantage for FPS games like Halo. My friend used to wonder how I kept besting him in Mariokart battle on my N64, because I was always lurking around every corner with a red shell. Truth was, I was using the split-screen info as well as the radar tracker to keep tabs on his movements. I'm just saying, the guy with the pad will always have the upper hand during competitive play. Gaming for me is mostly a single player affair, so I'm not concerned.
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You can download the latest version of the Adobe reader for free. I'm assuming you can keep your original paid version if you install the updated free reader into a different Program Files folder. I've simultaneously installed multiple versions of software before.I use an old version of Acrobat (because I refuse to PURCHASE a newer complete version, expensive and bloated):
But I get this:
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Yeah, none of my other Homebrews have the official Atari logos on them. Atari might not like that. You could maybe keep the silver stripe and just say "for play on the 2600" like most unlicensed games back in the day did. I love the artwork, however. The 3D perspective is gold. It makes it look almost like 3D Land.
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Sorry to hear about your family's loss, dude. It's definitely possible the bidder could have been affected somehow by the storm. I know if I had come home to find my prized collection floating about and water logged, I'd be in no condition to spend $17,000 just to add a missing piece.
I recently aquired a rather large sum of money from some timber sales, so technically I could afford to bid on it, but my mother recently retired and depleated her savings remodeling our house, so we are treating the income as a blessing and saving it up. I would never spend such a large sum on a video game related item out of principal, whether I had tons of money to spend or not. It's just fun to watch an auction like this take place.
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Epic post, LOL!"This comic book is in mint condition, compared to ground zero of a nuclear detonation."
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Rare is a relative term. Atari 5200 Pacman is probably pretty rare compared to Budweiser cans, for instance. In the universe, life of any kind is pretty scarce too. It just so happens the Earth is crawling with it.
No more guns in the hands of criminals / drug dealers would be a nice promise for society.
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Well, I never played Atari games as a child, but this screen freaked me out when I played Halo 2600 on my Harmony cart:
But the freakiest scene I've ever seen in a video game was Ledgend of Zelda: Majora's Mask when you wait around too long in the game and get to watch the moon crash into the Earth. Now that's spooky!
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What type of price were you planning on getting for it? I for one would love to own a Vectrex, but the prices they sell for on eBay are atrocious. Also, if you're going to sell, we need pics as proof you own said goods.
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You simply are remembering wrong. Mario DX definitely wasn't a launch title. It didn't come out until mid 1999, and was one of the first major GBC games to ONLY work with the GBC and not the GB or SGB.
In fact, from PocketGamer magazine:
SMB DX:
US/CAN release date: May 01, 1999
Europe: June 10, 1999
Japan: March 01, 2000
So there's no way you played it in 1998.
You may have a point. I actually attended a boarding school, meaning I attended high school away from home. I do remember playing the crap out of Tetris DX in my boarding school dorm room, and I have fond memories of Christmas time at home with my best friend dualing on Super Mario with the Game Boy link cable. I thought about it hard last night, and I don't ever recall playing Mario DX in my dorm room. My friend got his Game Boy well after I did, so it may have been Christmas of '99 when he got his instead of '98. If it did come out in May 01, 1999, then my mom probably picked it up for me after I graduated ~2 weeks later.
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Chiptune music can be awesome if you know what you're doing. Brad Smith made an 8-bit cover album to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in 2010. Then in 2012, he crammed it into an NES cart for playback on real hardware. I have one of his carts and it's awesome. I believe one of the problems that arises is most programmers aren't good composers and most composers aren't good programmers. It's a right brain / left brain balance between creating and solving problems. A three-man team with one programmer, one sprite artist, and one musician would be great. The sprite artist and musician won't have as much work to do as the programmer, so they could help out across multiple projects. Best case senario, you've got programmer A who needs a music track for his homebrew, and composer B who's looking for an outlet for his chiptunes. Then they both meet on a forum somewhere and hopefully can collaborate on something fantastic!
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Sweet! I discovered 8-bit Weapon a few years back. They are one of the better chiptunes bands out there, creating original compilations by combining classic synth samples with real drums and bass. Top notch stuff.
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10-17-2012 Found Air Raid with original box
in Atari 2600
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