Bixler

I am so pumped. Insta-buy.

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Hmmm. I think I'll start poking around the Marketplace forum in the near future and try to get my hands on a couple of these instead of the CX40s from Best. No harm in trying them at the very least! I checked out the Tac-2s on eBay but they're going for $35 a pop; a little too rich for my blood.

Hmm, I was going to get Best Electronics's CX40s upgraded with their lifetime gold PCB boards, but now I'm not sure whether I should go with these Tac-2 controllers instead for roughly the same price...

Saw this on /r/retrogaming, great vid!

I fired up this game recently. It's pretty fun, and I really dig the aesthetic. Wouldn't pay more than ~$5 for it now, though; luckily I nabbed it for free from a retro game shop owner who just handed it to me.

I really appreciate all of the info you've given me, and to those who've reassured me all is well lol. Cheers!

Man that score is crazy impressive, grats! I played Asteroids for pretty much the first time last night for about half an hour; even hitting 100k sounds unbelievable to me!

http://imgur.com/a/KGXgs There is an album I made of a few games - Asteroids, Adventure, Keystone Kapers, River Raid, and the Harmony Encore main screen. Some have that odd bend in the corner (esp. keystone) and others nearly fill up the entire screen; it looks like it varies from game to game...? Not sure why that would be. I did lower the brightness to a more normal level (chopped it in half) but that didn't do anything to alter the picture in the ways I described. Thank you to all who have provided their input! I'll just live with what I have and be happy with what I've got. All the best.

Looks like it's fully functional, just could use some tiny amounts of polish around the edges. I'll give it a whirl tonight and see how it goes; if for some reason shit goes down, I'll revert to 1.05, which is what I'm on right now (it shipped with it, got mine about a year ago).

This is all really interesting, thanks for posting! I figured I'd learn something new in this thread. I'll adjust the brightness after I'm done working today. I had to turn it up quite a bit when I was playing GTA III on it a ways back; I had trouble making out anything happening in Liberty City.

Hmmm, interesting. Thanks for your input; I'll see if I can figure out what the issue is. I tried composite video, and ran into the same problem as I described above.

I am not using any sort of a switch box. Just white/red audio cables, and an s-video cable. I'm unsure if there is any sort of way to adjust for these kind of settings; I grabbed this TV for free from someone I know. I'll definitely be picking up a much better CRT in the future when I'm out of college. I can try testing it on my dinky HDTV later! Thanks for the insight! Yeah, I don't think I want to try to adjust for those sort of settings (even if I could) for fear of going down a path I couldn't undo and really screwing things up. I mean I barely notice these imperfections as it is, so aiming to go from 95% to 100% might drop me down to 50% satisfaction, or worse. I'll definitely be picking up a rounded CRT in the future, but for now, alas, this is what I've got. I'll check the brightness and see if that helps at all. Thanks everyone, appreciate the advice as always!

I apologize for making another thread so soon about yet another inane question. I'm using s-video to display my 2600's picture on a flat-screen Toshiba CRT TV. As you can see in this picture,http://imgur.com/bA1At5L, the picture does not fill up the entire screen, and the tiniest bit of it is curved around the upper right-hand corner. Is this normal? Just curious. I realize that the 2600 was not made natively for this kind of TV, so I guess I shouldn't expect anything more. Thanks so much for any help or info you can provide! I love this thing and AA.

Good ideas, thanks. I'll grab some soon!

Have fun getting your collection rolling!

I'll be playing some Berserk and Chopper Command tonight! Looking forward to it after a long day of work.

Excellent, thanks!

I have my Sears Sixer on top of an original Xbox console due to limited space. Is it safe up there? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Picture for reference: http://imgur.com/X8eQkpp

Thank you so much! Time to update my Harmony Encore SD card...

I feel like this is going to be forgotten before it is even released outside of a smattering of niche retro gaming forums and perhaps 1-2 reddit posts.