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You're so welcome, any time! Love the game!! It's WAAAY better now and hardly noticeable! There's just a tiny jump here and there when it goes to 263 but it will look good for tonight. There's a small issue with the sound when you have the music turned off or turn it off. If you turn off the music while it's playing it will hold those notes on both channels until another sound is played on that channel, like the jumping sound. Also, with the sound off and you switch weapons it will have the same effect where the sound will stay held until another sound is triggered on that channel, like the jumping sound. - James

Updated WIP Binary: Galaxian (Port) by Bob DeCrescenzo @PacManPlus / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Design) | WIP Binary (20210330) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 30, 2021 Galaxian (Port) by Bob DeCrescenzo @PacManPlus / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Design) | WIP Binary (20210330) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 30, 2021 Space Peril by Karl Garrison @Karl G | WIP Binary (20210330) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 30, 2021

Added to Completed: Pitkat (16K Port) by Marco Johannes @MarcoJ and Dyfed Hitchings @Jamtex | Final Binary (20210330) ZIP FILE NOT SUPPORTED ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 30, 2021 | Note: Previously Completed in 2020 Updated Completed Binary: Hellway (4K) by Octavio Pinho Bokel @Octavio Pinho Bokel | Final Binary (20210330) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 30, 2021 Updated WIP Binary: Paint the City (8K Port) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut | WIP Binary (20210330) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 30, 2021

It's tempting to have the first full length film officially released on Atari cartridge! - James

Just did some tests on my RGB light-sixer with an UnoCart* and there's noticeable screen jitter whenever the screen scrolls but it doesn't affect gameplay. In terms of using Genesis controller, the first time the game starts acts as if the second button (shooting button) is being held down 100% of the time. Your character shoots once as soon as he comes on the screen and then holds his gun out for the rest of the game until you die, pressing up doesn't shoot. The SECOND time you play, and every time after, the second button does nothing and pressing up DOES shoot! Hope this helps! - James * Note: The game "works" with my Harmony Encore but there's issues with some modded 2600s and games that need the Encore. batari is working on it and has a console that has the issue to do troubleshooting with. So for now I'm disregarding any issues with games I have to run on the Harmony Encore and run them on the UnoCart instead.

WOW, we have a huge show tomorrow with some ground breaking technology!! We have the EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE of the FIRST FULL LENGTH FILMS able to be played on an Atari 2600! The new MovieCart system for your VCS has all your favourites from late 1970's like Star Wars, The Jerk and Kramer vs Kramer! We also have the EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE of Doom 2600! Yes, the first person shooter Doom on your 2600! We'll also catch up with the latest builds of Paint The City and Robot Zed and check out the new, and very timely, game Immunity! Will we get infected or be able to survive? Watch ZeroPage Homebrew tomorrow (Tue Mar 30, 2021) LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: MovieCart (2021 Exclusive World Premiere) by lodefmode (FULL LENGTH MOVIES ON YOUR 2600!!) Doom 2600 (2021 Exclusive WIP Premiere) by Brock Keaghey @TheMajorHavoc Paint The City (2021 WIP) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut Immunity (2021 WIP) by Mike Losh @Sohl Robot Zed (2021 WIP Update) by Chris Spry @Sprybug

Thanks so much @Sprybug! I thought I'd mention that I noticed the scan line count bounce in the range of 262-265, but only while the screen is scrolling while jumping. I don't know if this would be something you have time to look into as it can cause dropped signals on digital displays and possible screen jumps on CRTs. - James

That is HIGHLY unlikely at this point based on the lead time needed to prepare for it. - James

I think that's a good decision, that way you can also ramp up the difficulty accordingly and have a confined number of levels to do the risk reward balancing. Although we played on 'Normal' level on ZPH I rarely felt in any danger through the first four levels, having the game end at the 4th level I can see the difficulty going WAY up to make it more of a challenge. Looking forward to it! - James

Added to WIP: Robot Zed (64K) by Chris Spry @Sprybug | WIP Binary (20210328) BINARY NOT SUPPORTED ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 29, 2021

ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Robot Zed on tomorrow's (Tue Mar 30, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: MovieCart (2021 Exclusive World Premiere) by lodefmode (FULL LENGTH MOVIES ON YOUR 2600!!) Doom 2600 (2021 Exclusive WIP Premiere) by Brock Keaghey @TheMajorHavoc Paint The City (2021 WIP) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut Immunity (2021 WIP) by Mike Losh @Sohl Robot Zed (2021 WIP Update) by Chris Spry @Sprybug (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY)

ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Paint The City on tomorrow's (Tue Mar 30, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: MovieCart (2021 Exclusive World Premiere) by lodefmode (FULL LENGTH MOVIES ON YOUR 2600!!) Doom 2600 (2021 Exclusive WIP Premiere) by Brock Keaghey @TheMajorHavoc Paint The City (2021 WIP) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut Immunity (2021 WIP) by Mike Losh @Sohl Robot Zed (2021 WIP Update) by Chris Spry @Sprybug (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY)

ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Immunity on tomorrow's (Tue Mar 30, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: MovieCart (2021 Exclusive World Premiere) by lodefmode (FULL LENGTH MOVIES ON YOUR 2600!!) Doom 2600 (2021 Exclusive WIP Premiere) by Brock Keaghey @TheMajorHavoc Paint The City (2021 WIP) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut Immunity (2021 WIP) by Mike Losh @Sohl Robot Zed (2021 WIP Update) by Chris Spry @Sprybug (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY)

I'll make sure to play on both difficulties on Tuesday. 🙂 I love challenging myself on the hard difficulties in games, especially if it helps out game mechanic balancing for the developers. See you in the chat! - James

Here's the posted video of our exclusive world premiere playthrough of Untitled Space Adventure Game (was SpaceVenture) on Friday's ZeroPage Homebrew stream. It was a ton of FUN and is a great puzzle/action game, thank you so much @Karl G for making it! I'm really looking forward to seeing it progress. 🙂 - James (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY)

Here's the link to the posted video (sorry, unable to edit previous post). - James (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY)

The game is a ton of fun, what a great concept. I'll be playing it on the next ZeroPage Homebrew! - James

Expert level is no joke, for sure! - James

Added to WIP: Immunity! (8K) by Mike Losh @Sohl | WIP Binary (20210328) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 28, 2021 WIP Binary Update: Paint the City (8K Port) by Philip Blackman @splendidnut | WIP Binary (20210327) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 28, 2021 Uncle Hairy's Nosehair (2K) by Chris Read @atari2600land | WIP Binary (20210328) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 28, 2021

Added to WIP: Untitled Space Adventure Game (was SpaceVenture) by Karl Garrison @Karl G | WIP Binary (20210328) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 28, 2021 WIP Binary Update: Galaxian (Port) by Bob DeCrescenzo @PacManPlus / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Design) | WIP Binary (20210328) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 28, 2021 Wizard's Dungeon by BydoEmpire @BydoEmpire | WIP Binary (20210328) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 28, 2021

WIP Binary Update: Mr. Yo-Yo (8K) by David Marli @DaveM | WIP Binary (20210327) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 27, 2021 Uncle Hairy's Nosehair (2K) by Chris Read @atari2600land | WIP Binary (20210327) PLAY ON JAVATARI | Updated: Mar 27, 2021

Thank you so much for watching and I'm glad our gameplay was able to give you some ideas! Thanks for the updated manual with all the item information, very helpful! - James

WIP Binary Update: Galaxian (Port) by Bob DeCrescenzo @PacManPlus / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Design) | WIP Binary (20210327) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 27, 2021 Into the Void by Steve & Jeff Fulton @fultonbot | WIP Binary (20210326) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 27, 2021

You get another spin!!! - James

Added to WIP: Into the Void by Steve & Jeff Fulton @fultonbot | WIP Binary (20210326) PLAY ON JS7800 | Updated: Mar 26, 2021