sirlynxalot

Sorry, I really wasn't trying to be insulting. I guess I misunderstood a post on page 11 in the homemade 5200 controller thread where you responded to a question about price and said it would be $50 to build a new modern controller. In retrospect, I take it that was a price for assembling the components on the circuit board and not a price for a complete controller.

I love Zarlor Mercenary, which is why I would like to hold this score competition for it. The rules are simple: -beat the entire game and then post evidence of your score -if you play via emulation, I request on your honor that you do not use save states -entries must be submitted in this thread before December 16 What makes this an interesting challenge and different from previous hi score challenges we've done for just the first level of the game, is that in this game you can sell items and weapons between levels to increase your score (or reduce your score by buying powerups), yet you often want to have good weapons and supplies in order to make it through the final levels, especially the final boss. This presents an interesting dynamic - do you need to heavily reduce your score in order to buy 20 megabombs to defeat the final boss easily? Or do you sell a bunch of stuff to greatly increase your score, but risk dying in the final level? In any case, I think this concept of risking your survivability for score could make for a very interesting competition. I believe the entire game takes about 25 minutes to beat. If you die before finishing the game, I encourage you to post that score as well for us to see how well you have done up to that point It won't count toward the competition though. The winner of the competition will receive the coveted Zarlor championship belt! Current scores for completed game: Sirlynxalot - 2,545,271 agradeneu - 2,864,128

Ah darn, I thought the price point for these was going to be around $50. I appreciate the engineering and manufacturing effort put into the controllers, but for me personally, I'll have to wait and think about buying rather than having these as a must buy now.

Adding mine, though it's not as good as several of the existing times. I feel like this was just about a perfect run for this time, I don't know how much else I can trim it, let alone by 6-7 entire seconds I'll see about giving it some more tries later this month, but until then, here's my best.

Bump. Still interested in buying these games.

I just saw this on a different forum - an FPGA based pocket style system is coming out soon with support to play the actual cartridges for basically every portable game system of the 1990s. Lynx carts are supported as well via a cart adapter. Here's the link to the device's page. https://www.analogue.co/pocket/

Looking for cartridge only for the following: -beamrider -megamania -atlantis (homebrew cart of 8 bit port) -laser gates (homebrew cart of 8 bit port)

It seems especially fitting to play this game on 5200 given that the system is practically the dreadnaught of game systems based on its imposing size.

When I destroy the first dreadnaught, the screen explodes and it tallies my score and the dreadnaught counter in the top left of the screen says 1. Then none of the buttons on my joystick seem to do anything, but after 20 seconds, pressing start sends me out to destroy a dreadnaught again, but my counter goes back to 0, so I guess I'm starting a new game instead of going out to destroy dreadnaught 2? Am I doing something wrong? How do I launch out to shoot down dreadnaughts sequentially? (ps I just got an atari 5200 tonight and this is my first time playing the game) (pps the atari 5200 is really cool!) (ppps the atari lynx will not fit inside the controller holding area of the 5200)

Bought a modded 5200 console from him! Great experience! Everything is in great shape and was packed very well!

Great experience buying some 5200 games from CVGA. Good prices and fast free shipping!

It could have been successful only if the jaguar were successful, which there are myriad reasons for why the jag base system wasn't a raging success, but many can be boiled down into lack of impressive looking games early on in the system's life and Atari's lack of money and other resources for software development Dream games: probably anything 3d with texture mapping released in the PS1 launch lineup. More realistically for the hardware? Maybe Need for Speed 1, Mortal Kombat 3, Road Rash I think that would be a cool idea, but probably only of interest to current jaguar owners and fans, of which there might be hundreds... that's probably not enough for a product like this to be viable, so I guess the answer is "no, there is no room for a JagDuo Mini".

Free stuff, you pay shipping. I'm located on the east coast USA. -box for dreamcast VMU memory unit -atari 2600 gemstick joystick -gameport to USB cable (I couldn't get it to work with any of my old 1990s joysticks / gravis gamepad, it didn't come with any driver cd or link to a website for support) -2 arcade button microswitches and about 6 cables to connect microswitches to a USB interface (leftover from an arcade1up project) -Kinter MH170 amplifier, brand new/unused -Radio shack zipzaps tiny radio control cars. 27mhz and 49 mhz cars and controllers so you can race against each other. One car is missing its shell, these haven't been used in years and are untested There's a can of pogs in the picture that I was going to give away but I've decided to hang onto those for a little while longer purely out of nostalgia

These look amazing, I'll be eagerly following the availability of pre-built controllers.

Silly question. Will an Atari lynx fit in the controller storage compartment?

Here's another person recently interested in the 5200. Some questions by me. Is the numeric keypad widely used for games or is it really only required for a handful of titles? If I had a third party joystick I assume those are digital. Does that mean it won't work at all with games that I assume are analogue like missile command breakout and kaboom? Rubber tends to atrophy and break down with age. Is that a problem with the 5200 stock joystick that would make the joystick unusable? I'd assume so but don't see this mentioned as an issue. Is there any special challenge to picking up the 5200s rf signal on eg tvs made in the last 15 years that have cable jacks? If other systems can be picked up such as nes could I expect the 5200 would as well? I mostly ask bc I've heard the 7800s signal is not always picked up. Do 5200s often need cap replacements at this point? What would be a good price for a working system these days? Things seem to have shot up significantly on eBay. Is 70 bucks plus shipping about the going rate? Thank you!

I'll just join the chorus, as a seller I dislike the new ebay bin rules. My personal preference was to do 7 day BINs. That was a quick way for me to find out if my price was too high or not as I could read into the number of views / watchers an item got and decide whether the price is right for the market or not. Reviewing the price and/or relisting every 7 days also helped the item jump up in the listings if there were a lot of listings for the same item. I feel like it was easier to sell stuff compared to now and it was convenient to review the statistics in 7 day intervals. A lot of my stuff sells for $15 to the right buyer, but would sell for maybe $5 in an auction, at which point I'd lose a lot of money. Every time I have put something out to auction over the years it has gone for much less than I expected and/or what I felt like I could get by sitting around with a BIN for 2-3 weeks...

I'd like to sell some stuff I don't play anymore. I have a bunch of auctions going on ebay, but happy to sell to folks here as well. In general, items are in very good condition. Here is what I have listed at the moment. I'd like to keep this to USA buyers only for now. I will cover the cost of shipping. PM me if you'd like pics of a specific thing. SNES - cart only with replica cardboard box -Super Street Fighter 2 - 19 -Super Metroid - 45 -Arkanoid Doh It Again - 19 -Pilotwings - 15 -Stunt Race FX - 13 -Ryukonoken 2 / Art of Fighting 2 - 20 (super famicom port of neogeo fighting game) NES -Contra Force - 100 (cart only) -Road Fighter pcb from famicom cart inside a donor NES cartridge - 20 Genesis -Kid Chameleon - 19 (cart and OG case only) -Puggsy - 18 (CIB) -Socket - 30 (cart and OG case only) -Ecco the Dolphin - 12 (CIB) -Ecco the Dolphin 2 - 12 (CIB) -Streets of Rage 1 - 20 (cart only) -Streets of Rage 2 - 22 (cart only) -Zaxxon for sega 32x - 32 (cart only) Sega Saturn US games -Off World Interceptor - 17 (CIB) -Sky Target - 35 (CIB) -Galactic Attack (68) (CIB) -Tempest 2000 (40) (CIB but the full manual and artwork are reproductions printed on photopaper) Playstation 1 -Xenogears - 69 (CIB - blacklabel) -Final Fantasy IX - 20 (CIB blacklabel, literally never played) -Twisted Metal 1 - 35 (CIB, longbox) -Cybersled - 12 (CIB longbox) -Warhawk - 12 (CIB longbox) -ESPN Extreme Games - 12 (CIB longbox) -Air Combat - 12 (CIB longbox) -Mortal Kombat 3 longbox case and manual (everything but the game disc) - 20 Atari Lynx -Roadblasters 31 (CIB) PS2 -Neogeo Battle Coliseum - 15 (CIB) Gamecube -beach spikers - $14 (CIB) -monkey ball adventure case and manual only - $10 Atari 2600 jr short rainbow console not working/doesn't turn on - $25 Sega GameGear -Galaga 91 japanese cart only, works fine on US gamegear - 31 -Sega Gamegear Collection lot -includes original sega game gear with capacitors replaced and original screen. Includes 10 games (GP Rider, Winter Olympics, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Chaos, Space Invaders, G Lock, Virtua Fighter, Sonic Labyrinth) $100 Sega Nomad collection lot -includes an original sega nomad with no known mods to it and an AC adapter, no battery holder. Original screen looks good, no significant screen burn. If you jostle the nomad around while playing it can disrupt the power connection from the AC adapter and reset the system, this is a very common issue with unmodded nomads. It will come with the following games (The Ooze cartridge only, Flashback CIB with comic book, Race Drivin' CIB, Jurassic Park CIB, Sonic Spinball CIB) $195

Cool idea. Reminds me a little of black ice white noise

No slowdown on zarlor. I think it's the same with pc emulation too.

They actually came with a kit I bought to install the pi, but I'm going to be switching them out for some more normal buttons I just got later this weekend. I think there is no slowdown, but I'll have to double check next time I play Zarlor. In general, every lynx game I tested ran at full speed, the pi is at least powerful enough for that

Recently got lynx games working on my arcade machine, which has a raspberry pi inside it. Quality of emulation is very good, including sound. The games also play very well with the arcade controls, which isn't a huge surprise, since many are arcade ports or in the arcade style . If I had more money and space in my house, I'd consider making a dedicated lynx arcade cabinet with some lynx themed graphics for the sides and bezel Just a couple fun pics to show how the games look displayed on the cabinet.

But then the case wouldn't be the jag duos case, which doesn't seem to curve toward the front the same way the jag case does. That would then mean the top shell needs to be reconfigured - and between reconfiguring the shape of the plastic shell and the board to be a custom design, would it really be a recreation of atari's plans for the jag duo at that point?

What are the dimensions of a jag duo anyway? Is it larger or smaller than a jag?

Genesis controllers don't have select buttons. Can confirm the start button doesn't fry an Atari. I've used both the 3 and 6 button genesis controller on 2600s for years with no bad effect.