Vectrex screen takes 5 minutes to come up

[Vectrex screen takes 5 minutes to come up]

I alway find tutorials about the "dot" appearing on the screen or how to calibrate the video... but for the life of me I cannot find one where they address the issue of a slow warm up.

 

At start I can hear the music and sound but the sreen stays black, then after 5 minutes or so it plays just fine...

 

I come up thinking of spraying some WD 40 into the power-volume knob... do you think it will work?

 

Thanks a lot in advance knowledgable people of the Vectrex

[EPOCH/YENO SUPER CASSETTE VISION]

I would consider the extra chips in a cart to be like the Nintendo mappers and special chips added to SNES games like the FX chip. I would welcome new games that extend this interesting console.

Let's start with multi-rom cart!

It shouldn't heard to manifacture right? (I have no clue)

[EPOCH/YENO SUPER CASSETTE VISION]

Paging Dr. Stupus...

Sorry this entirely eludes me...

[EPOCH/YENO SUPER CASSETTE VISION]

So I'm very happy because I finally managed to acquire a Super Cassette Vision!

European yeno version, vith SCART video cable by default!

 

With 3 games, no less:

astro wars

battle in galaxy

elevator fight.

 

As a neophite I'm enthusiastic about it. I wish it had a bit more of luck in its days, but nintendo's famicom apparently blew it away in 1984...

Look at those bright colors; lots of sprites; nice design... too bad had only 33 games...

 

It definitely deserves more love nowadays, like a "multi-rom cart" - hey! even the Arcadia 2001 has one!!! :)

I wish I had th technical skill to produce one - but I think there could be market for one ?!?

 

Anyway here's some pics:

 

Cheers from happy me.

[My first R9 finds!]

Yes It says P...

Oh Well...

I Will change title to my First R5 finds....

[My first R9 finds!]

Are these NTSC?

 

If PAL then R5.

 

Ahahahah. How Can you tell?

[My first R9 finds!]

It feels nice to find two rarity 9 carts out in the wild in my sorroundings!

Enjoy the pic.

 

 

[Sony monitor PVM 20n5e]

Thank you all.

Your inputs are precious to me.

I think I'll try to make the seller come down a little.... or just let it go.

[Sony monitor PVM 20n5e]

I have the chance -maybe less than 50 euros/dollars/pounds- to acquire one sony pvm crt monitor 20n5e, just for playing.

 

Does anyboy have experience plugging a old console to this model? is it worth it?

 

I do guess I'll need special cables for it to start with.

 

Thank you

[emerson arcadia 2001 multicart]

Thanks for your reply, it's much appreciated.

I found it fishy too... Nobody knows anything and the maker makes no publicity about it ...

I contacted him and he says that he"has sold them all..." except for the last one which he would sell to me for 100 euros...

[emerson arcadia 2001 multicart]

Surfing the web i found this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bHLzCvebRc

 

It's peculiar that nobody knows anything about it...

It seems interesting but...i find it strange there are no news about it...

 

 

[Arcade video game machine found in old italian movie 1975]

Thanks, you guys a re amazing...didn't know the word "ricochet" or maybe i would have guessed it...

 

Anyway... so far I found this:

 

http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.it/2016/06/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of-nutting_21.html

 

and this:

 

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13131

[Arcade video game machine found in old italian movie 1975]

Lol I read rik-o-chess

[Arcade video game machine found in old italian movie 1975]

Watching an old movie from 1975 (amici miei) i just noticed an arcade machine set in a bar... Being this set in Italy i find it very peculiar... Does anyone know anything about it?

[Ultimate Cart (SD multicart) - Technical thread]

I'm going to use an old standard VHS black box to protect my ultimate sd multicart...

Has anybody a nice cover to print out?

Thanks

[Bobby is Going Home]

I think I'll just leave this here...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc517DXJiSo

 

enjoy!

[New AtGames Joysticks and Paddles are back in stock]

Why no Driving Controller?

[Ultimate SD Cart run, US source, Nov 30 ship date, 25 in run]

I think my cart has arrived in the UK

 

Problem is now UK customs wants £21.70 before they will pass it over (not happy at all with Customs)

 

arrgghhhhh

 

Same here in italy... "Processing through customs" in Milan.... let's all hope italian customs are more easy...

[10 Most fun 2600 games?]

beamrider

fast food

turmoil

solar fox

enduro

pac man 4k

scramble

barnstorming

megamania

ram it

[LTO Flash! - Intellivision Flash Cartridge Information]

I recently got mine from retrogamesshop and I'm completely satisfied with it, the piece of hardware and the service! cheers!

[YOUR top 10 favorite intellivision games]

My personal list:

 

beamrider

burger time

lady bug

utopia

truckin'

dracula

beauty and the beast

astrosmash

ad&d

skiing

[Vectrex and Tempest....]

I think its actually Abyss from Vecmania rather than Chris Tumber's Tsunami.

The Multicart i'm referring to is the 72 game multicart v.1, inserted with the vectrex on and the reset button pressed....

 

I dind't know about it, and was a very fun find!

 

I usually never find "secrets" in these kind of things.

 

Too bad it seems never-ending and without score....

[Vectrex and Tempest....]

tsunami!!! that's the word!!!

thanks roli.

Actually i find out that inserting the vectrex multi cart keeping the reset button pressed starts tsunami

...but without score...

[Vectrex and Tempest....]

...does anybody knows if there is a homebrew "tempest" game for the vectrex ...?

thanks for any info....

 

 

[[OT] What did scare you as a child?]

Planet of Vampires, saw it when age 8 and it scared the shit out of me, never could take out from my mind the final scene of the movie. Almost 20 years!

 

And now I've read this movie practically inspired Alien. So I saw the masterpiece too young !

 

BTW this trailer doesn't look cool.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-PcyyDlytM

 

Prometheus-style trailer.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu__16YxV3k

wow planet of the vampires aka "terrore nello spazio" mario bava as director... a sci-fi flick cult of mine good taste!!!