ColecoGemini

Two things: 1. I think, (and I could be wrong) the issue with selling SD cards full of ROMs in the Marketplace isn't a double standard, so much as it is a reflection of which particular intellectual properties are still being heavily protected by their IP owners and which ones aren't. Albert/CPUWIZ likely won't receive a C&D letter from Atari for these multicarts, because they aren't so gun ho about it. But Multicarts requiring SD Cards for systems such as the NES, SNES, SEGA, etc - that's a different story, to varying degrees, depending on the specific IP's in question. It's a nuanced issue, not black & white. 2. Double standards exist in life. Sorry.

Albert will also build anyone a custom 7800 cart one-off with any rom they choose from the store. http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=950 NARC!

which would require the user to replace their entire cart collection with PAL format carts. Not really easy.

and everything "hated" is based in legend more than fact as time goes on. The ET game isn't nearly as terrible as the bandwagon fanboy street preachers make it out to be. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle.

If it will also play commercial roms, and hacks thereof, sign me up. If it's strictly for original/new game development, I can understand the limited audience. I think I can count the number of people with elite 7800 programming skills who could use this on one hand. Maybe two.

a $250 joystick for the 7800? Yikes.

Well... sometimes. One of the things that bugs me about certain (not all) homebrew devs is that they shroud their games in secrecy, and don't release a demo or WIP version, and then expect people to plunk down $40+ based on shitty screenshots. At least with most commercial games, if the game sucks, I can return it for a refund. Try that with homebrewers.

"Collectors" enabling terrible home brewers? LOL. Makes sense since garbage games tend to be the most sought after collectors items.

Sometimes, games are just crap. Lots of commercially released games are total crap, so it's no surprise that some homebrew games are crappy to, regardless how much time, effort, and love are put into them. Finding a way to tell someone as much without becoming a public pariah is next to impossible. But yeah, you're not alone in thinking something is crap, but not understanding why many others praise it.

I would like a cart of this please.

Whenever this is ready, I will buy this.

I don't really understand the whole "chase people off the board" mentality for coming up with ideas to discuss. As it is, the 7800 subforum only gets about 2-3 new threads per week. It's not like the board is overrun with so-called idea peddlers. Such negative vibes. Booooo!

Ah, well duh...I was looking in the options for the device, and in versions way back you could choose present standard resolutions, or a custom setting where you set one you want. Didn't think of just stretching the window. I think that didn't work in some older versions.

Step 1: buy a PC.

The PowerBase Adapter for the Genesis was $30 retail originally. The PS3 originally had full PS1/PS2 backwards compatibility on board, and even thought they removed it to cut manufacturing costs later, the BC consoles are still the most sought-after models on the re-seller's market, as there's still a pretty sizeable demand for them. As for Hacks, yes - they are available, but there are also tons of legitimate release retro-emulation games, both od BD and for download on the PSN. and it's no secret that the COBRA-7 Custom Firmware variants are the most popular on the hacker/CFW scene, because of the bakcwards compatibility. Also - the PS2 had full PS1 backwards compatibility and it dominated that era. Adding a Pokey to the 7800 wouldn't have impacted it's ability to be 2600 compatible. IT woud have been nice for sound, but the cost of the Pokey Chips and then the added porgramming time required to make use of it was what drove the decision to leave it out, not 2600 BC. We really can't compare the NES to the 7800 fairly, since the NES had a stranglehold on 3rd party developers and essentially locked out Atari and Sega. Atari simply didn't have the financial means or delevopment house resources to keep up. It really had nothing to do with being backwards compatible with the 2600.

Yeah, I would go ahead and disagree with you wholeheartedly. I absolutely love that my 7800 has 2600 compatibility, that my Sega Genesis can play SMS games with a simple, cheap, easy to find adapter, and that my PS3 essentially plays every game in the Playstation Line I've ever owned (plus fantastic emulators of every system I've ever owned). This is also one of the reasons I've never owned a Nintendon't console, and have no desire to own a PS4 at this point or any X-Box consoles.

THIS is an awesome idea.

Since when did they take away the option of using a custom video size/resolution when running in windowed mode? I can now only choose full screen or tiny 320x240 postage stamp size? Weak Sauce.

sounds like he's trying to learn how to do this, not trying to steal anyone's business away.

I'd only ever played it in tiny amounts at friends houses. I never owned a NES. I had a 7800 and the SMS. Never really liked the NES. The games mostly were cheap looking/ playing. And the thing was always dead/ not working any time I visited friends houses. Sorry, not much of a NES fan.

locate the 7800 Chroma and 2600 Chroma Resistors on the resistor ladder and double the current values - 4.7k to 9k and 4.3 k to 8.5k or there abouts. It punches the color right up and cuts down on the blue blur/ghosting as well, tightens it up nicely. looks especially good on PAc MAn Collection and Pole Position II where there are very thin lines/lettering.

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Maybe back in the day, but not from what I've seen. I know there's a big nasty-no-no thread about it in the homebrew section, but these kinds of conversations over here in the 7800 forum tend to be civil and positive. Maybe we should keep it that way.

I can't wrap my head around this statement. The arcade version was way ahead of it's time, the graphics and sound are top notch, and the (re)playability is off the charts. The NES version is a low rent, corny-looking, midget player character-vs.-poorly drawn boxer graphics slopfest. The only reason people liked it was because of the cheat codes.

The Frequency/signal that the 7800 outputs isn't "standard". Although CRT's tolerate these analog signal variances as a rule, LCD and other modern TV platforms aren't always as tolerant. It varys by brand, and by TV Type. What you are seeing is not uncommon.