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  4. Posted

    Gunstar wrote:
    ... most of the "k" series have an internal ADC circuit (analog to digital converter), which is usless for anything but one game; Battlesphere ...

    Thats VERY interesting Gunstar. Do you have any other info on this? On how it 'could' be used with BS/BS:G? My imagination is starting to go into overdrive!

     

    There is a code for BS/BSG to activate that allows an analog controller to be used through port two to play the games. Of course you have to have an analog controller that's modified to work with the Jaguar ports of course. There was one released years ago for a short time, but the company went under and they had stopped making them anyway after it was realised that there were wo different versions of the Jaguar and so the controllers would only work with earlier "K" series Jaguars. JaySmith 2000 has one of these controllers I believe. They wer made by the infamous 'Dark Knight Games' company I think they were called. it is possible to modify PC or other analog controllers to work though, that's all they did. Some point in the future maybe we'll have another choice... ;)

     

    I actually got to use one of these controllers once. Somehow a guy at a local game store where I purchased all my Jag stuff from was friends with the Dark Knight Games guy and he had one of these joysticks. (The guy was a big Jag fan and because of that they even were selling the new Telegames releases just like any other major release from Sony or Nintendo at the time). He had the CDR version of IS2 there and the joystick and let me play around with it for a while. I had thought that the stick would have been made available to all shortly afterwards but that didn't happen of course. It's too bad that I don't know where he is now, I'd buy it off him. 8)

  5. Posted

    I'm chiming in a little late on this, but I got the Anthology for Christmas and I have to say that I've enjoyed it a lot so far. I really like the interface, I think it's much better than what they had on the PC version. The only thing that I have found slightly annoying is that there are a few vector games where it seems like the graphics are too small. But even still I've found everything to be playable and I really enjoy the challenge modes, especially where you have to play the challenge modes on the arcade games to unlock the modes for the 2600 ones. I thought that such an approach was a good idea and helps the replay value of the package as a whole. I do agree that the paddle games are just strange to play on the Xbox controller, but short of releasing a rotorary controller for the Xbox it can't be perfect. Overall, thumbs up on this compilation. :thumbsup:

  9. Posted

    Wow, that is great to see. The way it looks, you could probably do something like a simplified Cybercon 3 (the control scheme is too complex for a joystick though...maybe if it had video pad support). But I hope that you'll be able to continue to develop this. :wink:

  12. Posted

    Well I got to play SD for the first time today thanks to this sweet catch I got off eBay that arrived today.

     

    Well after playing the game for over a half hour or so I have to agree with the general consensus that this is among the best games for the 5200. The gameplay is very addicting, and my controls work pretty well for the game scheme. It's hard to imagine that it has 99 levels, you could really spend a lot of time on this game if you explored every level all the way through. Now I just need to get Robotron for the 5200 to also use my new handle with. 8)

  13. Posted

    The 7800 seems to be the first "arcade home console."

     

    It certainly was very close to it(being the first). Atari did call the 5200 the "Personal Arcade Machine" at one time though, even though the graphics weren't up to par with the arcade machines of the time...but it sounded cool nevertheless. :D

     

    Still, I think the 7800 has the best arcade conversions available for it on a classic home console. With Beef Drop that will become even more of a fact. ;)

  14. Posted

    Wow, and I thought I was the only person who was thinking that perhaps it could happen again.

     

    It most likely won't with all the money involved in the industry, but there is too much shovelware out there. There are so many clones and sequel games that I've become slightly uninterested in 'modern' games. Granted there are a few that catch my attention and I buy and play them, but there have been some disappointments in games I thought would be better than they turned out to be (like with Fable). I guess that's why I mostly play classic games these days. They are always cool. 8)

     

    I'm mostly sad to see the arcade go away...it would be great to see a revival in the arcades

  18. Posted

    I just received my order in the mail (thanks BTW!), I have #58. I sat down and played the game for a few minutes and it turned out to be more addictive than I imagined it could be. I'm glad I was able to pick this one up. :)

     

    I also got Marble Craze...after playing I now will demand that all Atari 2600 games has music like that, but that's not realistic of course. Very cool game! I didn't have a chance to play Skeleton+ yet (it's a present I'm giving to a friend anyways), but the clear cartridge housing looks cool 8)

  19. Posted

    The card I was using was the same one mentioned (Hauppauge PVR 250MCE) but the delays I was getting out of it seemed to be longer. I haven't had a chance to make those adjustments yet, hopefully I can do that sometime this week. I had wondered if it was MCE that was causing the delay, since it seemed tobe recording what I was doing at the same time, but when I set it up again I'll double check that.

  24. Posted

    It would be great to have a sort of converter that on one end it's the Atari 7800 PS adapter and on the other end it's a regular VDC adapter so you can easily plug in a regular power adapter to the 7800 without having to hack the 7800 PS (which I'm no good at). I imagine that such a tiny device would be simple to make...perhaps I should give it a shot.

  25. Posted

    I would love to see any type of networking brought to the 7800, whether it be a ComLynx module or built-in ComLynx port to the 7800 ROM boards. Then we could add

     

    Slime World

    BattleWheels

    Super Skweek

    Double Dragon (the 7800 can do better than what showed up on it, right?)

    Robo-Squash

     

    And then (non-comlynxable)

     

    Kung Food

    Pounce (haven't played it, but it looks like a decent platformer)

    Any RPG that was supposed to be released for the Lynx, whether it be Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Slayer, Distant Lands, they would be good to have.

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