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Watched the video, looks pretty cool! The music itself is pretty impressive to say nothing of the graphical effects on display.

What a nice surprise! Looks cool!

Agreed. So thinking about similar adapters, the super gameboy comes to mind and the retrogen play genesis games on snes adapter comes to mind. The super gameboy is literally gameboy hardware inside a cartridge. It would be cool to be able to shrink down the lynx hardware, but the lynx had many proprietary chips and to recreate and shrink down the lynx hardware would probably be a bigger challenge than if someone went the same route retrogen did with the genesis "adapter". I believe the genesis adapter is simply a genesis emulator, perhaps running on an android cpu inside the cartridge. It takes controller inputs from the snes controllers plugged into the snes system, but the cartridge has its own video output and the snes processors/ram etc aren't really doing anything to emulate or process the genesis game. So basically, what we need to do is put a simple computer inside a jaguar cartridge that will fit inside the jag's cartridge slot, that would have a compatible lynx emulator running on it, and then clean it up with some nice looking plastic and optimize that cartridge computer to boot and load a lynx emulator as quickly as possible and be able to receive the jaguar controller commands via the jag's cartridge slot and process them as inputs for the lynx emulation. It would of course also be nice to have a lynx cartridge slot on this cartridge computer so it could load the rom from the lynx cartridge into the lynx emulator and play it that way. Of course you could simply wire up some small computer with a lynx emulator to your tv and play with xbox 360 controllers with much less cost and hassle, but we need to think of style over substance here

Cool news. I'm Interested in hot dog and avp.

FYI in case it is confusing - this is NowThereAreNoLimits' video. I posted it under a different title in a separate thread. The thread's are now merged and I've wound up as the first post but with NowThereAreNoLimits' thread title referencing that it is his jag collection, this is not me and my family in the video Wow, you got quite the haul with that Jag all at once. Your collection there is larger than my current one although i've had the jag for a few years now.

Cute home video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS-S6HsT-pY

This was a good April fools.

So it seems the issue could be one of many different things. 😅 before I plunk down for a tested and working model, how reliable are these 30 year old machines? I would have assumed they were pretty bullet proof since they don't really have moving parts but all this talk of various components breaking is spooking me. I know it'snot the 80s anymore andall the hardware is decades old. Would it be unusual that I could expect a working model to continue working for another 3 to 5 years? Are a Large number of 7800s subject to issues at this point?

So it seems the issue could be one of many different things. 😅 before I plunk down for a tested and working model, how reliable are these 30 year old machines? I would have assumed they were pretty bullet proof since they don't really have moving parts but all this talk of various components breaking is spooking me. I know it'snot the 80s anymore andall the hardware is decades old. Would it be unusual that I could expect a working model to continue working for another 3 to 5 years? Are a Large number of 7800s subject to issues at this point?

I gave the cartridge slot and some cartridges a very thorough cleaning. I even took apart the 7800 to get the plastic cartridge slot piece out for better access, that shielding piece is a pain in the neck to remove lol. At anyrate, the symptoms are still the same so I dunno. I'll test it with a VCR and some other tvs at friend's houses, but I might just plunk down for an AV modded 7800 and sell this one on so I can have a reliably useable system with my setup.

Console and carts were very dusty when I got them. I did a quick surface clean but didn't use any alcohol on the cart slot or carts yet. It's worth a try tonight.

Yeah I tried the different channel options on the console and tv and tried coax set to cable and antenna. No dice. I'll need to bring it over to a friend's and try it on more tvs to see if the tv is at fault or the system.

I just got a used 7800 on ebay. I have it hooked up to my 21st century flat screen toshiba TV since that's the only TV I have. I've got an RF cable going to a an RF to coax converter that I got on ebay for about $5. And that's of course plugged into my tv's antenna input. Not like it should matter to much, but the RF to coax converter advertised that it was for use with 7800s, so I'd imagine many other folks bought this item and it worked for them. The console powers on (red LED lights up) and the display kinda does stuff but it certainly doesn't look game-like. For combat I just get a green screen that does nothing, for pitfall I get rolling brown and black bars, and for Food Fight, a 7800 game, I get a white screen. No game sounds can be heard and the display doesn't change if I press buttons on the joystick/console to start a game. I had heard before that the 2600 hardware inside a 7800 can break while the 7800 hardware still works, so it actually makes me feel better that my 7800 game is doing essentially the same thing in terms of not displaying correctly. i checked my TV's input options in the TV menus but did not see any particular settings that I could change for the coax input. Any ideas on what is the matter? Is it probably weak signal output by the 7800 that can't be interpreted correctly by my TV? If that's the case, I guess my options might be to have an AV mod done to the system, or buy a VCR to use as a passthrough for the AV signal... If weak video signal does not seem to be consistent with what my symptoms are, are there any simple ways I can check whether my 7800 might be damaged in some regard? Thanks for your help, I have a ton of games from my childhood that haven't been played in over 15 years!

I prefer the straight grey/black stock. It looks the most like a game system and matches the cartridges. The white case is a novelty, but I can't imagine actually using it, it lacks personality.

Thanks guys. It looks like I just won one on eBay. Looking forward to being able to play my old Atari carts that I kept from when I sold my system.

I used to have a 7800 that I got from a yard sale in the 90s and foolishly got rid of in the 2000s so I could get more money to buy dreamcast games. I had a substantial yard sale based atari 2600 collection and that was most of what I played on the 7800. I remember imagic games literally not fitting in the cart slot - which is a bummer b/c imagic made some fantastic games. Am I remembering this about the cart slot correctly? And if so, is there some easy way to mod/file the cart slot so they will fit, without making the plastic look all rough and crummy? (Bonus question, does the Atari 2600 jr suffer from this issue as well?) Separate from that issue, I see a fair amount of 7800 systems for sale without hook ups and AC adapters. I kinda forget how the 7800 hooks up, I assume it takes some kind of external co-axial video cable, is it hard to find this part or is it relatively common/used among multiple devices? I also remember people saying there as no good aftermarket AC adapter for the 7800 due to its unconventional plug... Well back in the day, my yardsale 7800 did not come with an ac adapter and I basically attached it to a universal adapter by jamming some alligator clips onto the power connection. Sometimes the power would cut out because the alligator clips were frankly too big to cram in side by side on the console side and would periodically come undone from the connection - is there a better solution these days? Are there any aftermarket AC adapters that would be suitable? Finally, the system is pretty dang old in the scheme of things now a days. Are 7800s coming into issues with leaking or dried out capacitors, or do the systems seem to be holding up alright these days assuming they were kept in a decent environment and not mishandled in some way?

Zarlor Mercenary, good difficulty curve, solid gameplay, interesting graphics and its even mutiplayer. I think the game is colorful, has fantastic graphics and smooth gameplay for the lynx and is all around a AAA title. Would like to one day see more of the prototype other than the one picture used in a promotional ad for the lynx. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/cc/0e/e0cc0ed09ce39efd4335c8c3cc1ec397.jpg Ted, did you know D. Scott Williamson while at Atari? I guess he programmed Stun Runner, Roadblasters and maybe other lynx titles. He was posting here semi-regularly for a short while. He had some interesting stories and adventures trying to recover some of his old lynx work off of dead harddrives and decayed disks. Here were some of the interesting topics he was part of: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/194231-lynx-stun-runner-3d-techniques/ http://atariage.com/forums/topic/212245-new-old-lynx-technology-demos-with-source-and-tools/ http://atariage.com/forums/topic/188836-some-pretty-awesome-graphics-for-the-lynx/page-2?&&do=findComment&comment=2413123

Don't LCDs have liquid in them? Maybe the liquid interacts differently when it gets hot and you get the ghosting. I'm just making things up here but it sounds plausible

Yeah that doesn't sound too great. You could always keep the broken lynxes for spare parts, never know when you might need a replacement screen or rubber grip or speaker or something. You could also give a try at gutting one of the lynxes and using the case to house a raspberry pi. I've seen some cool mods along those lines even hooking up the original lynx buttons and speaker to make a substantial portable emulation machine.

I have noticed a big spike in lynx console values in just the last year. Where it was relatively common to be able to find a working lynx for about $40-$50 a year or two ago, now I have seen used lynxes in good shape sell for $100. Best electronics has significantly raised their prices for refurbished lynxes as well accordingly. I'd say LX.NET is on the money, you could probably get around $1000 if you sold it all together as a collection. You could probably several hundred dollars more if you parted it out and sold certain rarer/high value items separately.

But it's on a sonic the hedgehog game? With the techno remix of Skylar this is like some hazy 90s hallucinogenic video game binge daydream.

I don't know what this is but its trippy and related to Jaguar!

Don't give up the genesis! I own both Jaguar and genesis, and while I love the quirkiness of Jaguar and I love owning one, I find myself playing the genesis/32x more and feeling like (due to the wider variety and quantity of high budget titles) that it is a more polished and altogether more enjoyable experience than Jaguar. At one point, I owned a 3DO and decided to give it up for the Jaguar because, in my thinking, "at least the Jaguar would have real games with sprites/polygons rather than limited interaction FMV stuff due to the cartridge medium." I really wasn't quite prepared for how poor some of the clunkers in the Jaguar's library are - the documented reality is that many Jaguar developers were on very tight deadlines with very limited budgets, having to come up with custom tools to develop for a console that had hardware errors! These developers worked miracles and there is enough cool stuff here to make the Jag a fun and novel experience, but some of the bad games in the library are shockingly bland, unfair and unenjoyable and make many genesis/32x titles look like polished AAA gameplay masterpieces by comparison.

If the lcd ribbon cable were the main problem I would think you would still be getting sound. Since you get neither with the 5v trick I have to think you have bad caps which is a somewhat uncommon issue on lynxes or damage to the custom chips/motherboard components due to unregulated 9v being supplied in the past Did you try connecting headphone ground to battery minus terminal http://www.retroisle.com/atari/lynx/Technical/Hardware/lynx_repair.php .

I have this exact system. Sega sports system with the region free bios with the naomi dev kit animation on startup instead of the typical dreamcast bios animation. Not really looking to sell unless you gave me a ludicrous offer - it would probably be easiest and most cost effective for you to buy a stock sega sports system and then pay a competent guy to do the region free bios mod, which involves some tricky soldering.