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My Retron 77 arrived today in an inside out UPS box shipped USPS covered in packaging tape. There was no packing materials for it. Thankfully it arrived without damage. It just looked like a n00b eBay seller packed it. Based on that and the long trail of tears Ive read on this topic I honestly expected my experience to be a dumpster fire burning with regret. I unboxed it. Removed the SD card. Copied the small handful of hombrew games I sometimes play and grabbed a physical copy of my wifes favorite Lost Luggage. I downloaded the community version of Stella 3.9.3 from the Retron 77 page. Updated my SD card. Plugged in Lost Luggage and played until I got a score my wife could not beat. (took about 5 minutes). Pulled the cartridge out with the game running. The game selection menu does honestly need some work. My feeling is get rid of the icons and just show us the list of our games. I powered off the console at this point. Powered it back on. My homebrews loaded and played fine. Panky the Panda Donkey Kong 2014 Pac Man (the good one with the arcade layout, cut scenes, etc). Popped in Kaboom and plugged in my one plug 2 player paddles. Even not touching the dial the input is twitchy (like some others have mentioned). But it was playable. It doesnt seem to remember the aspect ratio setting between power cycles, but I can live with that and surprisingly I find that I dont mind 16:9. I dont have a game to test my racing controller with. I popped in Star Raiders and plugged in my Video Touch Pad. The game plays but does not recognize the touchpad. Graphics and sound are wonderful. This is a great way to play Panky. My original 7800 joystick works. I did not sense any lag with this connected to my 4K Roku TV in Game Mode. Overall I am happy with my purchase. Wishlist items: - Fix the paddle sensitivity - Add Video Touchpad Support - Get rid of the icons, just show the game list - Add 7800 game support

It's been a while, but landed myself a thrift find I'm pretty happy about! Found this guy hanging out in the wild at my local thrift store. $2.99 sealed!!! Gex for 3DO!!!

It was fun for sure. I found his story about the fund raiser they did for for research on pediatric AIDS to be especially touching. If any homebrewers or indie devs here on Atari Age wanna be a guest sometime just hit me up in a pm.

Most folks don't know, because I don't typically advertise it on here, but I co-host a weekly live show about retro gaming. Last month it was my privilege to interview Tom Kalinske the CEO of SEGA from 1990-1996! He talks Genesis v.s. Nintendo, why the SEGA CD was not a mistake, raising money to fight aids, how many cease and desist notices he got from Nintendo during his tenure. We even talked hoverboards! (Tom also used to be CEO of Mattel). If you like SEGA you should definitely check it out! Towards the end he gives his impressions on the Playstation VR!

Sending a pm for the multipas!!!!

Holy cow, that is the exact motherboard I had in my first home computer. We started out with a TI 486 DLC CPU. I used to joke that it stood for "Da Low Cost" because it didn't have a math co-processor. Later we upgraded to a Cyrix 486 DX/2 processor so I could use Autocad in Windows 3.11. Wow. At one point we tried to put in an evergreen 133mhz CPU but it was just too much for the board to handle. Talk about a blast from my past. I'm heading down to the basement now to see if I've still got it.

$30 for a 500gb super slim is an absolute steal. congrats!

The entire Truama series is pretty good!

looking forward to hearing more about this and throwing some money at you when it's ready.

I only issue I have with the WiiU game pad is battery life. Currently playing Child of Light. It's a pretty good Metriodvania style RPG. Fantastic graphics. I hate to say it but buy it on another platform because (I recently learned) the developers have decided not to release any of the DLC on the WiiU.

Can hardly wait for this. Still need to find a pokey though.

There is an option to set the entire os menu to English.

I shall check it out today!

Although I haven't posted I have been creating more levels. Follow me on Super Mario Maker to see my latest creations.

Hook a brother up?

How much? I am not going but a friend of mine is. I'm gonna ask him to try to grab one of those 30 for me.

Congrats! I too (as of today) have my very own and very first Atari 7800. It came with the 7800 versions of Donkey Kong, Pole Position II, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Xevious, and Robotron! I'm gonna hafta check out the homebrew!

FU Kung Fury! Now nothing can stop RVGS and its army of carts!

Thanks for the insights. Coming back could not have been easy. +100 balls of steel Giving an authentic and personal apology also not easy. +1,000,000 respect It's great that you stepped forward like this. Some would argue you didn't have to, but the fact that you did says a lot both about you and the project.

Made a love letter to Dr. Mario. Some might find this difficult. I promise there is an easy path. 50A1-0000-008E-3142

He could be Spocks Spokesperson!

Actually I was gonna say the rest of the forums are a lot like this thread. That said the absence of Shatner gifs is kinda of unusual and alarming...

Thanks for the update! Glad I got it working again. For a little while there I was a sad panda.

The second sd card didn't make a difference. For the hell of it I reflashed it once more and put hbios_106_NTSC_official_beta.bin on it and it works again. Except the file names appear to be truncated when they are displayed.