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anyone who would do that to Bob is a douchebag. However, that doesn't change the fact that Bob has already released the rom for free as he has with every other game he has created, and the only thing holding it up from being released as a cart is the lack of XM existence, as I understand it. Maybe you should cook up a few hundred of your custom boards and release BBCQ for Bob since it looks like the XM is likely going to be finished after the Concerto. That way, everybody wins.

Two things: Vaporware is the wrong term here. The Concerto cart exists. 30ish of them were sold at PRGE. It simply isn't finished yet. Even if Fred eventually decided to abandon it officially, it's still not Vaporware. I don't know that I'd call an sd cart for a 40 year old game console from a company no longer in the console business, where none of the original games are still commercially available except from resellers of used and old stock, a "pirate" cart. Piracy implies theft of intellectual property and sales dollars from the original artists/programmers. Yet there is no vehicle to provide sales proceeds to former Atari or 3rd party programmers, since the company no longer sells those products. Yes, I realize companies like Activision and Atari do try to protect their IPs from being resold, but they aren't providing sales proceeds to the original programmers like ASCAP and SAG do for entertainers when their IPs are sold/performed. This is less a piracy tool, than it is a preservation device.

It's pretty simple really. Fred, and similarly Chad Schell, made Atari multicarts/ad carts as a labor of love. They genuinely love these systems, and wanted to create an easy way to preserve playing every rom on real hardware. They had little expectation of turning huge profits, and mostly just hoped to make their costs back and a bit more. Krikzz is in the multicart/SD cart business to make money. He's sold thousands of mega everdrives, etc. realistically, the 7800 sdcart market has a ceiling of about 300 people, +/-. That's a really low margin, considering the cost and time involved in developing and building such a cart. Never mind the fact that the 7800 is a fickle bitch, with many revisions and lots of compatibility issues between them. We should be thankful that Fred is making this, on his own dime, and be patient.

igor isn't anti Atari. He isn't familiar enough with them, and they don't represent a large enough market to bother with. I love my 2600 and 7800, but let's face it- this is a tiny community compared to the other 8-bit and g 16 bit eras.

Well that's pretty awesome!

Will this work with the 6 button official Sega Wireless pads and receiver?

well, that sucks. Maybe this sounds crazy, but I don't remember anywhere near this many incompatibility reports with the CC2 when it came out, or thoughout it's lifecycle. Was it because that was custom chip/programming based vs. FPGA?

Is there an easier way to identify potentially incompatible consoles, besides the serial number on the bottom (which is apparently not reliable)? Is it a matter of if your 7800 is incompatible with: Robot Tank, Decathlon, Space Shuttle, as some are, then it will be incompatible with the Concerto, or is it not that cut and clear?

The main differences here between the Concerto and "other" 7800 homebrew projects is that Fred hasn't taken a penny from anyone in pre-order money, hasn't made and then missed dozens of promised delivery dates, and has actually sole about 30 test units a while back at prge. As much as I'd be willing to take a chance on it being partially incompatible with my own 7800s for purely selfish reasons, comparing this project to "other" 7800 projects is both unfair, and inaccurate.

I would prefer this too, but if it comes at the cost of hampering final production of a 7800 SD Cart like the Concerto, to the point of being permanently stalled in production limbo, I'm ok without that feature. Especially since I already own a Harmony cart, and they are plentiful and available (and cheap) for anyone who doesn't.

No current ones in production/for sale currently that take SD cards full of roms or similar, no.

The 7800 version of DK is MUCH better than the Colecovision one. Also - Nintendo has been offering up graphical updated versions of the same titles for 30 years now. How many versions of MArio KArt do we really need?

It's interesting to see these dates, because back in the day during the 7800's initial run, I remember being thoroughly frustrated by seeing these games advertised in things like the Sears Wishbook, and Kay-Bee, and Toys R Us catalogs, but then no local stores ever having them in stock, and the clerks not having heard anything about them. I remember Choplifter and One on One took WAY longer to surface at Kay Bee Toys, and never arrived anywhere else.

He's asking what the max size MMC card the CC2 can use. I believe it was 1gb.

Funny, I've never had to do any kind of interior console cleaning or parts replacement on my 2600, 7800, SMS, Sega Genesis, or 32x.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/158374-harmony-cart-7800/?view=findpost&p=3335348 I was off by 20, if this was correct.

here. I was off by 20.

It already has. The beta version was sold to 10ish people at the PRGE months ago.

some ladies are into that, or so my internet research suggests.

There are two people working on the Hardware side. Curt, and Perry. Software side - there's Perry and Bob. I'd l0ve to hear if Ken Siders or Propane13 are working on anything - but I don't remember hearing anything like that. This is assuming grooveybee is still in an incommunicado/abandoned all XM projects mode that he's been in for 2-3? years now. At this point, I don't know that keeping said "killer apps" in some shroud of mystery is good marketing, seeing how overdue this project is - provided these killer apps aren't just the ones we already know about.

coming from the guy who claimed Nintendo invented the dpad, this is hilarious.

No, it's not "better" Anything shown at the wrong aspect ratio, with the sound offspeed by 1/25th is not "better". The vast majority of film content is filmed at 720x480 (16x9), and then needs to have it's aspect ratio altered (stretched) or the frame is chopped to fit the default PAL DVD standard of 720x576. What you get is an inferior, altered version. You don't benefit from the additional vertical lines because the aspect or frame is altered from it's original. Altered sources are not "better". as or the sound - pal defaults to 25fps, but the fast majority of film content is show at 24pfs, so when show in PAL territories, the speed is incorrect because it is sped up to conform to the PAL standard. Voices are higher pitched. Music tempos are faster. Incorrect sound is not better.

A hunk of crap?

Intellivision had a pad-based controller, and Suncom released Atari- Compatible pad controllers long before NES was even an idea. Atari created the business model for consoles. Nintendo monopolized it using shady extortion tactics.

im not a collector. And you're dead wrong about VHS tapes. The life expectancy of VHS under normal conditions is 10-25 years. Most commercially released VHS tapes are well past that time now, and have already degraded or become nearly unplayable, brittle, and prone to snagging and tearing in yourVCR. Optical media, however has a life expectancy of 100+ years or more, based on normal storage conditions.