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Hello. I am looking for a Dreamcast copy of Sonic Adventure 2. In good condition with the box and instruction manual. No fakes. Reply if you have one. Have a good day!

This is so great. Apparently they're unrelated to the SpectraVision responsible for the Atari 2600 games and MSX computers. Was this thing only available in the US? Imagine the feel of staying at an hotel in the early 80's, with this contraption in your room. Any testimonies? Does anyone here own one of these or has memories of seeing one?

I purchased another pickup for my Wii, installed it and now the console works again. We'll never know if the previous one was dead on arrival or if I broke it. The ESD preventive measures I took were to remove my socks, sit on a wooden chair and touch the chassis of the console before handling the pickup.

Hi. I used to own a bunch of dedicated video game consoles, but over the years I've lost all of them. I know the identity of most of them, one I'm uncertain about and one remains totally unidentified. The one I'm uncertain about is the Adventure Racing Set by 200 Toy. The reason is that some of the games and colour palettes don't seem familiar, but perhaps I'm simply remembering wrong. I saw it in a Sears catalog and got it for Christmas in 2005 IIRC. But this topic is about the totally unidentified console. I don't recall anything about its design, other than it was powered with AA batteries and had two RCA plugs. It was made in the mid 2000's. And, I recently learned that the games on it were made by JungleTac for the VTxx platform, which is a series of souped-up NES computers. I've watched a lot of videos on youtube of consoles containing JungleTac games, and sometimes the game selection comes really close to the one that was on mine, but there's always a difference here and there... So, I'd like to have a list of all the games JungleTac made for VTxx hardware, with pictures or better yet, videos. I'd only keep the games that look familiar, and then I'd use that information to identify the console I had. There were about 42 games on it IIRC.

The graphics are really good, they remind me of the intro in the Sega Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast.

Sorry for the late response. I think that Project64's save files are literally a dump of what would be written to the memory of the cartridge. The confusion with the bytes occurred because google's data converter does not respect the power of two convention.

Hello. I'd like to know how the Nintendo 64 emulator Project64 save games. When I saved in the game Super Mario 64 it created a 512 bytes EEP file for it. Super Mario 64 uses a 4 KBit EEPROM to save, which in bytes is 500. But Project64's save file is 512 bytes in size, not 500.. So if it is simple, I'm guessing that it has a 12-byte header, and the rest is a dump of what would be written in the EEPROM. If it is complex however, then the content of the file has nothing in common with what would be written in the EEPROM.

Hello. Online can be found fragments of concept art, footage, animations and screenshots of Metroid Prime before its release. I'd like to know where I could find all of the pre-release content grouped together. Or, is this game so obscure that it has never been done? Metroid Prime is one of my favourite video games of all time. My first contact with the Metroid series was with Samus Aran in Super Smash Bros Melee, at a restaurant in the mid 2000's. I got a Gamecube in 2006. Later, I got Super Smash Bros Melee and later I got Metroid Prime because of that game.

Well guys I put a new laser in my Wii, I don't remember when, maybe last year. But the console still does not work. The console acts similarly, but seems even less functional with this new laser in it. I wonder if I bought a defective laser, or if I broke it while installing it, or if the problem isn't even the laser. But if it wasn't the laser, why would the two act a bit differently, make different sounds? I read that laser diodes are very sensitive to static electricity, so I wonder if I fried the new one while installing it. What do you guys think? What do I need to invest in to protect electronic devices from static electricity? Is one of those wristband thingy all I need?

I know this is a long shot. But my Wii now has trouble reading many games, especially Gamecube games it seems. Maybe because they are more worn-out. The only "out-of-the-ordinary" thing I did with it was leave it constantly on with Super Mario Galaxy 2 inside for almost an entire year. But to be honest I don't see how that could've damaged it in a way that it is now extremely picky about which games will work. I don't know anything about how optical drives work. Does the laser become weaker with use? What I am asking is what is wrong with my Wii (and why) and how can it be fixed?

Of course, why do you ask? Yes they all appear pitch-black to me if that's what you were trying to get at.

Well the cartridge I found was very clearly brown, not a hint of black. So it was an Arcadia 2001 cartridge. However I wonder if its true mystery will ever be solved...

W-what d-do you mean they're all brown? Is my monitor or are my eyes defective? The only Arcadia 2001 cartridges I can find are black!

So you are saying that there were brown Arcadia 2001 cartridges made? Uhmmm yes I am pretty sure that it was a yellow label on the back.

Bonjour. A few years ago I went to the flea market and I found a really really strange cartridge. It was extremely big and brown in color. It had a label on the front with a title in rainbow colors and it had a picture of a car (not a real picture of course, a drawing). On the back there was another label (I think it was yellow in color?) and it appeared to be a list of things... Games maybe? So yeah unfortunately I did not grab the cart, which I really regret... Thinking about it I think it might've been an Arcadia 2001 multicart. Some Arcadia 2001 cartridges are the same size as the cartridge I saw and they also all have this identical rainbow text as the title. And the label on the back with a list looked like it could've been a list of the games on the cart. Strange thing is I have never seen a brown Arcadia 2001 cartridge online... Sooo what do you guys think? Has anyone ever seen something like this before or know what it was?

Hello. I am looking for a NIB or complete Star Raiders for the Atari 2600. I've looked on eBay and saw that they aren't even worth anything but the shipping from the US gets problematic. I am hoping someone from Canada here has what I'm looking for. Like I've said it doesn't have to be NIB still factory sealed but I want it to have everything it would come with if it was new.

Yes, the Wico is a simple joystick with a DE9 connector that will work on a 2600 console. My idea was to remove the cable from a busted PointMaster joystick (but even if it's busted all of its buttons still work) and put it on the Wico... I'd use the ohmmeter on the PointMaster joystick to determine what wire goes to what pin, and what it does, to then be able to know where to put it in the Wico joystick...

Uhmmm an ohmmeter huh... I do have one of those. Where do I put the two probes to test each buttons?

Hello. The problem with using the cable from an old controller or from an extension cable is that there's no way to know what wire goes to what pin...

Hello. I have a Wico Command Control joystick with a broken cable. I thought I fixed it by replacing almost the entire cable with new wires but it broke again after a few minutes of use directly where the connector starts. So I was wondering if it was possible to buy replacement cables for them online. Hopefully it is, 'cause it was the best joystick I had ever used...

Yeah that's what I plan to do. I already have some NexXtech contact cleaner. The stuff was really hard to get, as Amazon won't ship any contact cleaner to Canada. It seems like the only place you can find contact cleaner here is at The Source....

You don't understand. I have two Journey Escape cartridges. One is glitched, the other isn't. I can play the glitched one just fine, but it behaves weird when turned on and when I push reset to start a game. I'm not intentionally frying it, it already is. Why did I bring this up? Because Ranthulfr said that if the game boots up and runs it shouldn't be defective... So I brought up an example of a game that boots up and runs but is defective. Whatever. Turns out my right difficulty switch is very finicky and it likes to "switch back" to the A position after a while even if it appears to be set to B (which is why it appeared to be working in Astroblast, as I didn't play it for long. Only played it to test the switches)... So if you didn't come here, misunderstood me, and wasted your time writing a whole bunch of nothingness then I would've probably bought another Venture strongly thinking that my old one was broken... Life can be weird sometimes eh?

Uhmmm this is weird because both of my difficulty switches are working... I think my cartridge might be defective. Yes the game runs but that doesn't mean it's in perfect working order. I have a Journey Escape cartridge that boots up and runs but has a glitch where if you hold down the reset switch you can get the game to start with 100000$ instead of 50000, 1:10 time instead of 1:00, and you can even start as a glitched character... My other cart doesn't have that glitch. So this tells me that a cartridge can be defective even if it's working... I guess I'll buy another one.

Hello. Before, I was able to beat the second world (the blue world) in Venture. Now I can't anymore because the monsters are too fast. I watched some videos of the game on youtube and I saw that it's not me who got worse at the game, it's my game that got harder. Because in the youtube videos that I saw the monsters in the second world are as slow as the ones in the first world, but on my game they're way faster. Which is weird because I have the difficulty Set to 1 (the easiest). And I know my difficulty switches are working 'cause I just tested them with Astroblast. So is my game broken? Do I need to buy another one?

I don't know what you guys are talking about. The sexiest computer is obviously the Olivetti M380-40! MAN that's a good-looking computer! Everything about it is fantastic! Sure it's a bit yellowed in this picture but imagine it wasn't!