ColecoGemini
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That's awesome! Now if we could get the PS3 RetroARCH team to port it like they did for MAME, I'd be in 7800 emu heaven.
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Am I the only one who doubts he actually showed this thread, or even this site to his wife?
Nice cover, but I don't buy that for second.
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Put me on the list, thanks!
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Try game tech us. Jason dose a great job and i see coleco gemini is one of his options.
I'd be a bit concerned about this site's accuracy, because the example screenshot they show for the Coleco Gemini page is a screencap of Pole Position II for the Atari 7800, an entirely different console/mod.
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I have a pair of the IR-remote Sega 6-button pads. I might have to try to see if I can get them to work with the 7800.
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Tattoos are great if you want to live out your days as a Starbucks barista. Even if it has a "deep personal meaning", most people will regard it as a poor life choice, and dismiss you before you even open your mouth to speak. Some people who like or support tattoos might think that is too critical, or discriminatory, but in the end a tattoo is a choice, not an affliction or something genetic that you can't change.
If you want it, get it. Be prepared for negative consequences. That said, if you get tattoos on your neck or face, you should probably get therapy for whatever is causing you to be so self destructive.
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So when can I buy one, and what is the price point?
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Is the latest version of this the attachment on the first page, or elsewhere in the thread? 33 pages is a lot to thumb through.
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The CIA should contract out Curt for his under the radar stealth technology.
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In order to hear it in stereo, the video/audio mod needs to be wired as such, but I dont know which pins on the TIA to tap in order to facilitate this, plus you would need to mix it with the mono pokey sound, which could be confusing.
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So it's pretty much unanimous that Sega cables work everytime. Cool. And wow at the abundance of yellow on that page. Silly question time...is that a reputable seller? I'm a little bit leary because of the "old school-ness" of the website.
PNT?
I'm amazed Genesis extension cables would work. After all, the controllers themselves have to be rewired to use the 7800's 2nd fire button.
A straight through DB9 cable is a straight through DB9 cable. It has nothing to do with "Genesis" pads or any other pads. It's just an extension cord for all 9 pins of a DB9 cable. They just happened to be sold when the Genesis was most popular at the time. The wiring that would make a Genesis pad not work right wiht the 7800 is in the pad itself, not the cable.
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I've never seen the Best mod in action, but I have several 7800 consoles, one with the Longhorn/Electronic sentimentalities board and one with a homegrown/slightly modified version of the "Easier 7800 Composite mod".
The S-video from a properly installed Longhorn/ES mod is spectacular, as Trebor noted. Problem with that is that almost all newer TVs don't have S-Video ports. Even lots of older still good CRTs don't have it. It was universally dropped as the default legacy port type in favor of composite (presumably due to cost) by most CE manufacturers years ago when HD began taking over. If you have a good CRT with an available S-Video port, the Electronic Sentimentalities board is the way to go.
As for Compostie, it's a bit of a toss up. The ES/Longhorn composite signal is good - but you can't tinker with it, without affecting the S-video signal. It still has lots of color smear and artifacting, not just normal NTSC artifacts, by what appears to be poorly converged color signal artifacts.
The Easier Composite mod, though lacking S-Video, is far more felxible in making adjustments to get the picture nearly as clean as the Longhorn S-Video signal, but without all the de-soldering work of putting in a Longhorn board, and no need for the TIA 9 switch, either.
One thing I discovered recently is that adjusting the value of the 7800 Chroma resistor up from 4.3k to somewhere between 7k and 8k tightens up the 7800 signal immensely. Gone is all of the blue and red color smearing and ghosting, and the thin blue lines in Pac-Man Collection are tight and solid, on both CRT and LCD/HD displays.
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Same here.ProSystem 1.3 works AOK with Win 8 for me.
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it doesn't include any copyrighted code or other material Atari could sue over them using. Emulators that are built on their own original code are completely legal.Surprised "Atari" hasn't sued Microsoft for hosting this...
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They aren't bad at all, actually. Especially if you have a lightly used or new/unused pair. They are decent enough. But the popularity of jumping on the ProLine hatewagon on this site is pretty strong.
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Still have my 25" Sanyo, as I am not yet ready to completely forego Sega Master System light gun and 3-D games. But yeah, it's too heavy to move.
Though, it's still lighter and easier to deal with than my 65" Mitsubishi DLP 1080p set.
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Digital audio isn't terribly relevant in the discussion of any sound chips from this era, since they could ALL do it, at the price of throwing gobs of memory and nearly 100% of your CPU time at it. Hell, even computers with 1-bit speakers can do digital audio.
The TIA's greatest shortcoming is its frequency resolution-- only 32 different note values for each distortion setting (compared to 256 for POKEY, and 65536 for SID). This is weird when you consider that they gave each channel 16 volume levels. Seems like taking a bit from volume and giving it to frequency would have been a better tradeoff.
possibly the volume levels were some lingering design idea from when they were going to release the VCS with built-in speakers, and they just never altered the spec to give more channels?
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Interesting quote. I really don't want to get another flame war started, but GB stating (in a PM or otherwise) that he's not focusing on XM games at the moment because "nobody could play them right now anyway", when the biggest reason for this is because he himself abandoned the project before the hardware was finished is kind of potato.
Hopefully all, or at least the finished XM game he developed see the light of day at some point. Kind of hard to tell what will happen though, given the virtual "radio silence" on it publicly from him.
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Hmm... you know, other than Bentley and a bit about DK, we haven't heard a LOT about the XM's game lineup in quite awhile. I didn't even know Dungeon was on that list....
It was the WIP title for Grooveybee's Gauntlet clone. Which probably explains why you haven't heard much about it since presumably all of his games are permanently shelved at this point.
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I have one like that. I also have one that works fine.I have a 7800 console that doesnt let you use paddles and it is modded . Anyone else ever hear of a 7800 not recognizing paddles ?
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Why does every post read like Yoda wrote it on acid?
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I am half kidding too, I just did it to see if I could make it work.
I think the only thing cool for something like this, would be someone with a 3D printer (who knows how to use it), to make some custom cart cases. I can see them sliding into the bottom of cartridges. But I am bored with this now, I need to experiment with my secret MegaCart+ feature, to see if my theory is correct. 
More optimized and more features, like better control of the chip select line. Maybe I'll run a proto one of these days.
I would buy one of these while waiting to get the chance to order an XM.
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Any chance of posting a basic wiring schematic for adding a pokey to a stock 7800?
I'm not one of thd lucky who gig in on the XM and I'd like to hear Beef Drop with pokey. Also DK XM if I get my hands on it eventually.
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Would anybody be interested in this? (30th Anniversary Multi) ENDED
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I would have been interested in this if some if the more difficult to obtain commercial games like Ninja Golf, Midnight Mutants, Water Ski, and Rampage were included. I already have all these games, most of them several times over.