Bones Brigade

Seriously, is this user supposed to be some kind of parody persona?

This is that PAC man fan guy who is like 9 years old and kept starting bizzare nonsensical threads before getting banned, right?

I don't know who "we" is that you're referring to, since this very site we're all posting on hosts all the ROMs for Atari games they don't own the rights to. 3DO games are long since abandonware now. No one is trying to enforce the copyrights on them. I understand wanting to own the original disc and packaging for the games you really want, that's cool.

1. Buy a working 3DO 2. download every 3DO Iso file from the internet from a simple google search. 3. Burn them to CD with any commercial CD/DVD burner. (3DO didn't have copy protection) 4. PROFIT!!!

A note - with the BIOS enabled in Prosystem, this game doesn't load. I don't know if this has an impact on real hardware, but figured I'd put it out there.

Crystal Castles

WOW!!! That came out fantastic. I'm in, add me to the list.

Which is kind of like saying you're the king of badminton in Alaska.

Doesn't Colecovision PAC-man collection require the expanded memory module or something? PAC man collection for the 7800 is flat out fantastic. I believ it has more game modes that coleco as well.

Ok, never mind if it's that complicated. Next question - does anyone around here still make or sell stock of the xboard? I want to play this as soon as I get it, but it sounds like this will arrive way before the XM begins shipping, and I haven't even pre-ordered an XM yet, which means if I do, I'm at the bottom of the list. I dont' want to wait until next June to play this if you're able to ship them out this year.

So in theory, if someone buys the cart as is, and has a spare Pokey chip around (like say from an extra ballblazer cart) they could reasonably hack it in there themselves if they had a proper schematic for wiring it up and decent soldering skills?

You said that it can be played without the XM if you have the xboard. Is that only for pokey, or does it need the xboard ram as well?

Arcade games as early as the late 70's had higher than standard 480i resolution monitors and so did the computers that programmers used, so to try and claim VCS game programmers were limited to 320 240 monitors is a straight up lie.

The CRT effects in emulators ate mainly for nostalgia purposes. They look nice if you want your brand new LCD tv to look like old and dated technology, but not because they look "better". When you take the raw data of a VCS game and run it through M emulator, you don't get rounded softer images. You get EXACTLY what the programmers came up with. That is what they intended users to see, and any rounding or smoothing that happened as a consequence of running it through a cRT was completely unintentional.

Yes, There are CRT computer monitors that can display those HD and higher resolutions - but that's NOT what we're talking about. With a few rare, extremely expensive, no longer manufactured exceptions, NONE of those HD CRT monitors have native 480i composite or S-Video inputs which nearly every retro gaming system require. Standard CRT Television resolution is 480i. If you're going to shift the discussion to be that retro gaming on a 22" CRT Computer monitor wiht some kind of input scaler to take your retro game system's native resolution and upscale it - that's an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT conversation tahn Retro Gaming on a standard def. television CRT vs. a modern LCD or DLP TV. You're comparing a $1900+ used computer monitor that almost no one here owns (except you, apparently) to $499 Televisions as if they are of the same class. Stop it. You sound ridiculous at this point.

I don't know where this idea that CRTs display a resolution so good it's as clear as the human eye can see. That's just bananas. You can take the same DVD or Blu-Ray media and display it side by side on a CRT at 480i which is maximum cRT standard and on a 1080p LCD or equivalent hd tv and there will be absolutely no contest which looks better or more natural to the human eye. As for video games it's simply a matter of preference. Either you prefer soft, flickering, poorly defined images, or you prefer crisp, well defined pixels.

I didnt address those comments because they simply are not facts, even though you claim them to be. There is not one single credible source that states anything about 16KHz as the de facto average hearing range you keep repeating. Not one single credible source to back that up. You seem pretty quick to declare yourself the winner here. Given that you're outright lying and greatly exaggerating things to suit your argument, I feel the conversation is pointless. Enjoy your ill gotten "winnings". http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/ChrisDAmbrose.shtml http://www.gsu.edu/images/AuxiliaryImages/Frequency_Range_of_Human_Hearing.pdf

Hilarious. Did you actually click on the tagged source link for that quote? http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/crt/failWhine-c.html The Wikipedia quote, and subsequently your own repeated statement of FACT that "most people can't hear it" is actually disregarded by the associated quote as linked on the wikipedia page.

Theres nothing nutcase about being able to hear CRT cycles at 15KHz when human hearing is measured all the way up to 20KHz. I don't believe all the "dangers" keatah here might be frightened if, but there is absolutely no denying that CRT cycles fall well inside the average human hearing range. Its not opinion or conjecture, but well documented scientific fact. The fact that some people may not recognize or pay attention to it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

H.E.R.O. for the 2600 is hard(er) to find, especially complete, and is flat out awesome.

The average Human hearing range is between 20Hz and 20KHz. CRT's output at 15,734 Hz falls nearly 25% short of peak hearing range. Unless you're suggesting that "Normal" hearing is less than the 75 percentile of ALL humans, you might want to think about NOT cutting and pasting baseless conjecture quotes from Wikipedia as *ahem* Facts.

The Gold Rush and City Lights are both fantastic.

There ABSOLUTELY, without a single doubt, IS an audible high pitched whine/hiss related to CRT Television tubes and componentry when they are powered on. I've been a musician in load rock bands for the last 25 years, and my hearing is definitely less than perfect these days because of it, but I can still tell without even looking whether a CRT Television has been left on in a given room, provided there's not much other loud noise. As for the popularity comment - I'll take a cue from your typical knee-jerk responses - Is this a joke? Until the Mid 1990's, CRTs were the ONLY format, period. It wasn't a matter of popularity, but availability. What happened when LCD, Plasma, and DLP became available and affordable? CRTs all but dissappeared. I guess they weren't too popular once there was actual competition, were they? I understand your affinity for CRTs as by your stated opinions. But you need to realize that's all they are. Opinions. You can throw all the technical mumbo-jumbo about refresh rates, and anti-aliasing, and "natural" looking pixels around all you want, but he fact is, the performance aspect of Telelvision viewing is still just a personally subjective opinion, and nothing more. The eye of the beyholder, etc. (great D&D game by the way) You prefer CRT televisions, specifically for Retro Gaming. There's nothing wrong with maintaining that opinion. But it doesn't constitute a fact, and your continued attemptes to present it as such makes it difficult to carry on an adult, well mannered conversation on the subject. Never mind your apparent desire to drown out everyone else on the thread by hammering everyone who might dare to disagree with you. This makes it difficult to take your opinion on the subject seriously.

Pot, meet kettle.

What kind of forum about frickin video gams requires members prove their relevance? Something tells md that forum us absolutely no fun.