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Thanks. I'm curious if they added any mountains to the game, or made the existing ones accessible. just me but I'm a little uncomfortable paying someone money for someone else's property. I understand there is little or no money being made there.

Ok. thanks. And a question about the version of "King of the Mountain" that comes on the Intellivision Lives CD. I think that version has a known bug that keeps you from advancing to the next level after completing a mountain, or starting the game on a mountain other than one or six. But I thought I'd ask if it's something that can be addressed with a cfg file? (and the ECS and Intellivoice games came on the Intellivision Rocks CD)

I was having trouble with World Series Baseball and the "1.cfg" file. It plays but eventually has sound problems. The attached cfg file (mappings from Nostalgia) seems to work better. World Series Major League Baseball (1983) (Mattel) !.zip

This is a good collection of scans. http://kentrepairs.com/General/Intellivision.asp

The Commodore 64 cartridges seem to be about the same size as Intellivision cartridges. And Activision labels do not say what system the game is for on their cartridges. This lot on ebay of Intellivision cartridges has a few Commodore 64 cartridges (courtesy of JasonLikesINTV). http://www.ebay.com/itm/331777059036?rmvSB=true

Jzintv does allow for combo button inputs but unfortunately it works with keyboard buttons and not joystick buttons. The syntax would be like this. ADD_COMBO 0 F1 F2 COMBO0 QUIT One workaround would be to modify the snes usb adapter firmware to create an extra button from the combo input. Another workaround would be to use a utility that maps joystick buttons to keyboard buttons. I use one called Joytokey for Windows PC but I don't know of a similar utility for the Raspberry PI.

I don't have any games to offer you but I have some suggestions if that's okay. I tried to put the games in order of increasing value. Tron Deadly Discs Utopia Treasure of Tarmin (Mattel version) Intellivoice B-17 Bomber Space Spartans World Championship Baseball Shark Shark Bump N Jump The Dreadnaught Factor If you go for any INTV games (eg Thin Ice, Thunder Castle), unless you really want to collect boxes, save some money and get carts only.

I think Auto Racing, PBA Bowling, PGA Golf, US Ski Team are good one player games, it is a matter of personal preference. Chip Shot Golf is probably a better (more advanced) game but there is nothing wrong with PGA Golf. I can do without Slap Shot Hockey and World Cup Soccer. Slap Shot has bugs that makes it unplayable for me. In World Cup Soccer, I don't like the fact that you don't assume control of the ball carrier, and I don't like having to use both left and right side buttons. NHL Hockey and NASL Soccer were good two player only games. Yes beware of any two player only games, that goes without saying, but I would not put Sea Battle on this list.

You should use a real controller. You can get a USB adapter for under $25. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Universal-DB9-to-USB-joystick-adapter-/181514462569?hash=item2a431ae569:g:KmEAAOSwPcVV0T6t

Maybe its similar to this RO-3-9504. http://console5.com/wiki/RO-3-9504

Tropical Trouble and Shootin Gallery (unreleased)

My understanding is that they are 10-bit ROM chips made by General Instrument. The early games would have had 4K chips (maybe 2K chips). I don't think there were ever 10-bit eproms. The prototype cartridges (T-cards) that Mattel used with eproms had two 8-bit chips to store what one 10-bit rom chip would have. A similar chip would be General Instrument RO-3-9500 which was an early 28 pin 2K ROM chip.

According to this web site ( http://www.videogamehouse.net/zerozapgv.html), Zero Zap was programmed by Herb Schmitz and released 3Q/1979. MicroVision games were released from 1979 to 1982. Couldn't find any other programming credits for this programmer. The other interesting I found out at that site was that Milton Bradley was developing a game system based on a TI 16-bit processor. Milton Bradley lost the rights to the system to Texas Instruments who released the MB system as the TI-99/4.

Was that Cogeco, Mountain Cablevision, or Source Cable?

What if one or more voters voted for ms pac-man only because of post #160.

The Hive Multicart was released back in October 2014, according to this article. http://www.retrocollect.com/News/upcoming-intellivision-microsd-flash-cartridge-hive-due-for-release.html

Robot Rubble and League of Light were unreleased Activision games from 1983. They were first released on the Intellivision Rocks CD in 2001. Rom files are out there if you want to try them out.

I guess there are no programmable ROM chips available that are compatible with the old Mattel cartridge circuit boards. They would have to be 10-bit compatible?

You can have your SNES controller connected and have both Intellivision controllers work. But you may have to rewrite your Jzintv hackfile file to match the joystick numbers. For example your Jzintv hackfile may be using JS0 and JS1 but it can be modified to use JS2 (lots of lines have to be modified so find and replace helps). Or you can change the ordering of the USB game controllers so to the Intellivision controllers are first. I think you can change the order on the Raspberry Pi by just swapping USB ports. If someone knows how to change game controller ordering on Windows 7, please let me know.

Do you have any other game controllers plugged in?

Have a look at the Jzintv text window. It will tell you if jzintv recognises two joysticks. You might need a keyboard/mouse to minimise the game window (F9). If Jzintv does not recognise two joysticks than the hackfile won't help.

The best thing to do with an Intellivision Flashback is buy controller/usb adapters and use the Flashback controllers with a PC or Raspberry Pi.

I wasn't sure if PlayCable was available in Canada although I do remember seeing it on television. Then I came across the Intellivisionairies Podcast Episode 6. Where there's a few PlayCable clips; one that was recorded in Canada. I tried to find the source but the link was dead. I did find this posting from someone who vaguely remembers PlayCable in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1982 http://www.cgcc.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1421&p=12696&hilit=playcable#p12696. Like I said there's a few different clips on the podcast at the noted time (2:07:17). One sounds like someone demonstrating baseball and football (could it be Leonard Nimoy?). Another sounds like a PlayCable commercial. Another sounds like a live seminar on PlayCable. And another sounds like a generic Intellivision commercial. So I am asking the Intellivisionairies, what exactly are all those clips in the podcast? Which one is the Canadian clip? And if anyone knows anything about PlayCable in Canada please comment.

I have two cartridges that only work at the very slightest, minimum insertion. The shell is sealed and I've tried cleaning the contacts with Isopropyl alcohol on a qtip. Any suggestions.

I believe the Intellivision II has a single Exec chip and doesn't have an RO-3-9502 Not sure where I got this photo but according to it I see the following U1 CPU U2 16-bit RAM RA-3-9600A U3 Exec RO-3-9506 U6 Sound AY-3-8916 U5 grom RO-3-9503 U7,U8 gram U4 STIC U10 color processor AY-3-8915 U12, U13 scratchpad ram Where is U9? Edit: U9 is right next to the CPU. In this photo its labelled "Mattel-LAD 2609-0011". LAD is Linaear Analog Digital and feeds the RF modulator (according to the Service Manual http://console5.com/wiki/File:Intellivision_II_Service_Manual,_Model_5872.pdf ). I'm guessing its a custom mattel chip and may be the reason INTV didn't use this design.