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  4. Posted

    I must be in the minority that likes blue LED. But it can't be so bright I get question from FAA and FBI investigating possible illegal laser pointing at planes. If I am going to mod older consoles, it will be using red and green LED. Older, low brightness LED aren't easily found these day but with modern high efficiency (and eye-blinding bright) LED it can be tamed by increasing resistor value a lot. For example, a typical hi-e red LED may do best with 220 ohms resistor on 5v rail but a 1k resistor will bring that down to almost the same as old 1980's era LED. (not to mention usually they last a long time on lower voltage/current)

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    I checked, there doesn't appear to be an option for seller to block bidder who had xx bid retractions within the last yy months. We can block buyer who had NPB strike (2 or more in 1 year is the best) but nothing on retractions.

     

    If eBay were to implement that and make it default on all existing seller accounts, he would suddenly find himself all alone, and rolling a new account to get around blocks can result in suspensions.

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    FYI B&W TV were still available through 90's. Usually it's just those $20 portable 4" TV. My grandmother still used black and white TV through mid 80's and early 90's

     

     

    Taken from the '83 Sears catalog, just noticed the screenshot of what is supposed to be 2600 Burgertime… :rolling:

     

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    I remember seeing a store demo of Burger Time (back when Sears had a hands on console and a few game carts left in the open, chained like bank pens, so people could play) and I remember how awful it looked.

     

    Is it too late to sue for false advertising? Picture shows very nice arcade like game for 2600 but actual looks like seizure inducing mess.

  12. Posted

    What I liked the best back then were the crowd who cheered on and all and the sheer number of cabs (easily over 100). Last time I was in arcade shop, most people looked at you evily if you lasted too long or if you fed more quarters rather than taking turns.

     

    Also home consoles and portable games probably made arcade less popular. Now day most people just stays home playing games or computers alone or via internet for multi player.

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    Looks like I'd need to get caught up on a few games I don't have that actually looks good with the LCD mod. I am only short 2 very rare commercial Lynx games (Desert Strikes and Super Off Road) plus a few common games and some later/homemade games. I do have Eric's EotB (second hand, not original owner)

     

    Lynxolopy and Lode Runner, maybe Zaku... what else is/are must-get?

  14. Posted

    The seller is an idiot for offering you video of his other modded consoles. Of course it'd "work", he wouldn't film a flaky console. It's useless if he didn't film the exact same 7800 before he sent it to you. There's always that small chance the transistor he used is bad or something that can't be seen.

     

    I can't see at a glance anything wrong. But I haven't seen a daughtboard in the middle before, Atari fix?

  17. Posted

    I have a PS2 Slim, silver model 77001 date code 7A I don't think the firmware was ever touched since factory. Can anyone point me to a guide for this? The guide I keep finding refers to using hard drive and network adapter, but this has built in network and no hard drive support.

  19. Posted

    I noticed a few of you trying to use a controller rather than Lynx itself to play on a monitor. And you mentioned some games need the display rotated. I found someone's hack that could do the trick: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/211209-using-psx-or-snes-controller-on-other-consoles-cheaply/?p=2736622

     

    By rotating the control pad via code, one can use regular controller with both horizontal and vertical games without rotating controller. Looking at the code, Select button on PSX switches between H and V mode. I'm sure the code can be modified to use other controller rather than PSX used by the original author.

  20. Posted

    Yeah I'd go for a new one. In retrospect those tube lit Game Gear and Lynx screens really are terrible...

     

     

    LCD technology improved a lot since the early color LCD displays. Take a look at PSOne LCD display that was released only about 7 years later, Thinner, better light distribution, better color display. Take a look at LCD of today, even a cheap portable TV looks better than PSOne LCD display. Even early laptop looks awful next to a modern tablet.

  21. Posted

    Saw a CIB used copy at a now defunct video rental Cheetahmen2. Looked like good game since I loved cats. Couldn't stand playing it for more than a minute, it was so awful. Some months later while looking at random video game tidbits, I came across the bit that this game were actually unplayable due to a bug. Ended up selling it on eBay. The only good thing this game was that I earned more than what I paid for.

     

    I did kind of wish I kept the game, the cart shell looked cool. Just fricking awful to play. Maybe seal the whole cart into lexan as a display sculpture to be looked at but not played with.

  22. Posted

    Built one, made a few minor improvement. The official instruction used grey 2x4 tile and 2 grey 1x2 panels for the front of cart tray but real NES is all black on the cart tray. Black 2x4 tile and black panels are available.

     

    PS avoid eBay, they are stupidly expensive for a few pieces. Bricklink is a better price by a long shot. I also made a few more NES carts including one that is yellow with tan label (gold part didn't exists, yellow was close to gold anyway and tan plate for Zelda label)

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    Dusted off my 7800 a couple months ago, got the AV mod done and 2600 games are working fine. But I can't find my 7800 games and I wanted to be able to check the 7800 mode to be sure the mod is 100% done.

     

    Doesn't matter which 7800 games, just needs to work. Will pay via Paypal, ship to address Michigan

  24. Posted

    For example, Dreamcast had anti-piracy protection but due to an oversight, it only checks if GD-ROM is genuine or not. It did not check CD-R or CD-ROM so people who were able to rip the original GD-ROM could play illegal burned games on CD-ROM. Larger games were hacked to fit smaller CD-Rs.

     

    Commodore 64's slow disk transfer were also the result of a bug and a bone headed mistake. Originally it was to have a burst speed transfer like 128 has but when designing the board, an important high speed line was accidentally deleted, along with an interrupt bug mean Commodore was forced to bit-bang data communication with disk drive at SLOWER rate than V-20. (on top of serial port design because of last minute switch from parallel to serial interface with V-20 because IEEE-488 cables were expensive and hard to find) Source: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=628303&sid=447dcca1ad181f4b3dac08935a2041e7#628303

     

    We there other hardware design idiosyncrasies that wasn't discovered until too late that proved a problem later or a benefit for hackers?

  25. Posted

    Be nice to the monitors. Older LCD were a little less fragile as well, being made of thick glass. Today's LCD are made very thin to be light and cheap and thin plastic sheets (not sure what type of plastic, probably acrylic) can crack if it's exposed to excessive force like your hand or a Wii-mote with broken strap.

     

    OTOH I am glad CRT is mostly extinct. The last time someone tried to sell a portable computer with a CRT, it was tiny and still frickin' heavy. I can't imagine a laptop with 17" CRT being comfortable on your lap after an hour.

     

    Now if only modern LCD TV were friendly with ancient 240i video standard of the video game consoles. Many that I checked tried badly to upscale it to 480p but with alternating black lines like a giant comb over the screen. I would keep a decent sized older CRT TV for older games but it means giving up 5 or 6 game consoles to make room for one TV :(

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