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    Unfortunately Hover Strike on cart is quite a bit inferior to the CD version in graphic FX and FPS and playability options. And...Cybermorph is ok, but it's no substitute for Battlemorph in my book. Hoverstrike cart is at least a poor substitute for the CD since they aren't sequels but just original and totally improved and expanded version. I can say that IF you like Cybermorph and HoverStrike cart, then you'll love Battlemorph and HS CD. All the more reason (among many; new games, home-brews, VLM, etc.) to get a JagCD. So in my book the only GOOD substitute is IS2 cart for the Cd version.

     

    Of course with me, there are 5 Jag CD games that are in my top 10 for the whole system and my top 4 favorites of the entire system are on the Jag CD. The Jaguar without the JagCD would take away half my favorite games on the system.

    Yeah, I'd love to get a Jaguar CD unit, but I would have no idea (other then eBay) where to look for one.

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    I have this game, cartridge, instructions, and original box, and it's all in excellent condition. I also have the Jag-Ads CD that came with it, still completely sealed up. I am looking to trade Protector SE for any one of the following Atari Jaguar games, which are listed in order of their importance to me:

     

    Breakout 2000-I really want this game!

    Power Drive Rally

    Doom

    Skyhammer

     

    Cartridge-only is OK, but I'm really looking a game that has the cartridge, instructions, and original box. Please let me know if you're interested in a trade!

     

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    Nope you only need an MSX 1 to play the majority of the MSX games released. MSX 2 and MSX 2+ games only account for about 20% of the games released. Granted they are Master System+ level type of games though, so well worth experiencing, but it is not a cheap way to go.

    The best place to get a MSX machine (MSX 1 or 2) is from the Netherlands, but for non 220/240v users you will need get a voltage converter and of course the output is at 50Hz so you need a screen capable of displaying that.

     

    Thank you for all that advice! I wonder how many Compile games require an MSX 2? I did search for "MSX" and "Zanac" on Ebay, and found a copy for $600.00USD! That's WAY more then I'm willing to pay for any video game. I could purchase at least one arcade cabinet for that amount of money.

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    If it were made, I don't think it would have an analog joystick. All the built in games would probably be converted to use digital. OR they can just use slightly modified 400/800 games for it. :)

     

    The joystick would probably be smaller and simplified as well.

     

    Reason being is because it's probably cheaper for them to make digital components, otherwise I'd love for them to use this opportunity to improve on the analog stick. This way we can also use it for the real 5200. :) Two birds, one stone.

     

    And hopefully, they'd use clicky buttons on the side and keypad, instead of the mushy buttons that you get even with a re-built 5200 controller. As many people as there are on here that do all manner of mods, I'm surprised someone hasn't made a homemade 5200 joystick controller. Maybe it'd be possible to use an analog stick from an old PS1 or PS2 controller?

  23. Posted · Edited by newataridave

     

    First of all, MSX2 is way above the hardware capabilities of the CV. That's NES territory. Secondly, maybe I'm a stickler but if you build in MSX compatibility then it ceases to become a Colecovision. This is not like emulating NES on the Everdrive 64, converting atari 8-bit games to 5200, or playing SG-1000 on a SMS Master Everdrive. You're taking a non-Coleco console and mixing it into a Colecovision. To me that's a Frankenstein that shouldn't be.

     

    For MSX fans, the 1-chip-MSX was great, but it wasn't officially exported from Japan and they stopped making them way too soon. A clone of that system is what I think is needed much more, that way you get the full MSX/MSX2 experience.

     

    OK, I gotcha. Good points. Yeah, I would love to see any MSX clone at this point, given the prices of MSX hardware. Off-topic, do you have to have an MSX 2 to play most MSX games? (Cartridge games, that is.) Because I just checked Ebay, and the prices for an MSX from Japan are a LOT lower then they are for an MSX 2.

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    I really don't see the allure of MSX2, given that pretty much everything is available, at least in rom form, on Famicom/NES. Famicom/NES is superior in nearly every way (hardware) to MSX2 as well. Then again, it's likely most of the MSX library also found its way onto better systems (NES or SMS).

     

    I believe the allure of a CV2 motherboard replacement was that it could deliver RGB, and operate with a standard AC adapter, etc. Solve many of the CV's annoying hardware faults. If it's cheap/easy enough, add in MSX support. But then it ceases to be a Colecovision, and for that matter is just a clone system.

     

    I do. I LOVE Compile shmups, and there were a least several of them that were MSX-only. Plus, living in the United States, the cheapest MSX 2 model that I've been able to find is one for $500.00 on Ebay. It comes with some games, but still; that's getting into Neo Geo AES pricing territory.

     

    And I would love to see another Colecovision Flashback; look at how many Atari 2600 Flashback consoles there have been. As long as the developers can get some games on it that weren't on the first one, I'm already on board.

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