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  3. Posted

    The "up" direction on my joystick stopped working today. I opened it up and took a look and to my untrained and non-technically savvy eye seemed like the trace near the contact point was simply worn out. It looks like very thinly printed foil on a clear plastic film. (sort of reminded me of a partially warn off lottery scratcher. would some carefully placed solder be able to fix this?

  8. Posted · Edited by G-type

    Stupidity obviously accounts for a ton here. No doubt about that. But that toy fair crap was both stupid and dishonest. I don't care how stupid you are, after that damning evidence, if you'Re not willing to open that up and see what's inside you're guilty. Period. That was wilful deception, even if the said guy was who made this prototype. If mike had opened that SNES that first night, and appologised, then I'd consider him innocent, and scammed by this guy. But as it played out? If he really was scammed, it was while trying to scam others.

     

    Every single step of the way in this "project", even being the nicest possible and trying to see the best case scenario, Mike still comes off as very incompetent and deceiving.

     

    Its very plausible that Sean Robinson scammed Mike Kennedy, but then Mike payed it forward by trying to cover it up and take down the facebook photos. I agree Mike could have easily averted this crisis by opening up the toyfair unit, getting input from a knowledgeable 3rd party such as Piko, and coming clean right away. The only explanation that makes any sense for why he wouldn't do that is either a) he was in on it with Sean or b) he thought he could get away with it and then produce a REAL prototype down the road and then claim that's what they had been using all along.

     

    I think it was A & B. When the AtariAge sleuths proved to be far better at proving the SNES mini than he anticipated, he knew that option B was not going to work and asked Sean to give him pictures of a the prototype he claimed to have been working on from earlier

     

    [dramatization]

    Mike:"Well shit, they figured out that its a SNES mini inside. We need to do some damage control.. You know that prototype you had been working on earlier? The one from last January that you were going to run Neo-Geo games on? Just throw that in the clear shell.. oh and make sure there's an LED so people see it powers on. We got a lot of shit for that last fake photo that didn't have an LED"

     

    Sean: Um, yea I can do that.... but its not working anymore."

     

    Mike:"Don't worry, it doesn't have to be working yet because it'll just be a still photo, we just need them to see the board is not a SNES"

     

    Except that Sean had been bullshitting about having been working on a prototype and sent the CCTV pics... At that point he is in too deep to come clean. He missed his chance to come clean during Toyfair. And if he was in on it, as I suspect he was, he couldn't just throw Sean under the bus and get back on track because Sean would speak out to defend himself.

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  9. Posted

    I can't wait until someone turns this thing into a documentary. Hell, turn it into a reality show! There's more drama here than Real Housewives, Big Brother, and the Kardashians combined. He said, she said, rumours, accusations, speculations, podcasts, blog posts, forum topics, detective work, investigations, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, feuds, beefs, more rumours, more speculations, money lost, money gained, oh my! It's the never-was project that will now seemingly never-die, kept alive through healthy circular discussions for all time.

     

    I would turn it into the feature film with the main character being the Jaguar shell itself... it would be sort of like that film The Red Violin.

    Follow its storyline from its time as the the Atari Jaguar, becoming a dental camera, Retro VGS, Coleco Chameleon, Albert's AtariAge store.... and who knows where it goes next.

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  10. Posted

    Wolfenstein 3d

    Hexen,

    Space Quest 3-4

    Leisure suit Larry 3

    Monkey Island

    F-19 Stealth Fighter

    Rick Dangerous

    Captain Comic

    Ba’al

    Aldo’s adventures

    Commander Keen 1-4

    Cosmo’s Adventure

    Duke Nuke’m

    Prince of Persia

    Thexder

    Silpheed

    Stargoose

    Robocop

    ZZT

    Islands of Danger

    Bubble Ghost

    Worms 2

    Lemmings

    Scorched Earth

    VGA Sharks

    joust

    Syndicate

    Death track

    Archon

    Boulder Dash

    Space Station

    Tetris

    Neuromancer

    Eye of the Beholder

    Indiana Jones Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis

    Simcity

    Last Half of Darkness

    Veil of Darkness

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    The Janus Syndicate.

     

    Janus = Mr. Lee, confirmed.

     

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    Eli, time to check that 'phone bill and see if those mystery Mr. Lee calls are listed with a number. If not, but if it's at all possible to be traced via your provider, it would be good if you could. Even if there is a cost involved, I'm sure someone can help with that :lolblue:

     

    What Eli could do is listen to a podcast with Mark Kaminski on it such as this one: http://famicomdojo.tv/podcast/110 and see if Mark's voice sounds like "Mr. Lee"

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  16. Posted

     

    Sorry you have a hard time to follow the story, and sorry the story I told is not up to your standards; is hard to remember everything, I am sure there are details I forgot to mention etc. Also, English is my second language, so usually that happens when you are bilingual.

     

    I didn't intend for my comment to be taken as a critique on your language skills. (What I meant was how you would go onto different tangents and then say "I'll get back to that part later" and it was hard to keep track.) I was genuinely just interested in understanding the story. I apologize if I offended you.

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  17. Posted · Edited by G-type

    Listened to the Piko interview on Retro Gaming Roundup:

    Some of the details about the Eli's interaction with Lee don't make much sense.

     

    1) If Lee was merely an independent contractor (or an employee of a big contracting firm depending on which version you believe) why would he be acting as an agent of the CC on behalf of Mike Kennedy and trying to persuade Piko to stick with the project? That is not his job and didn't make sense.

     

    2) Why is Lee sharing all this non-relevant information with Eli about how wonderful his engineering firm is? Out of the blue? Did it come up organically in the conversation? Was it relevant to questions or comments Eli had made?

     

    (Honestly I had a hard time following how the conversation between Lee and Eli developed, due in part to the disjointed way Eli retold it. I could tell that the Retro gaming roundup interviewers were having difficulty following him too when they asked for clarification on what he meant by "he kept saying he was part of a company".)

     

    3) Eli theorized that the deceitfulness was perpetrated by Lee, and that Mike Kennedy may have been unknowingly duped, at least in regard to Toy Fair. I don't see how that could possibly be accurate based on how the CC team has handled everything subsequently. If they were the victim of some terrible engineering firm scamming them, they wouldn't have tried to take down facebook photos, coverup what had happened, and maintain radio silence... they would have been just as outraged as anyone and taking legal action.

  20. Posted · Edited by G-type

    I'm thinking that a documentary telling the story and the drama involved in the RetroVGS/Chameleon would probably net a lot more money than the Chameleon itself. Maybe Mike should just hop on that. Since it's an actual real thing.

     

    I hope StopDrop&Retro does one. He already has a pretty good start with his "Mike Kennedy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Retro VGS" video.. Just expand it, add a couple talking head interviews, add some music...

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  24. Posted

    It will eventually drop like a rock, but you will have missed out on playing with any community at all if you wait forever. I would shop around for a bundle with the games you want to play. The NX won't be out for a while. Play now!

     

    Everytime I think about getting a Wii U, I see a comment like this that makes me think twice. I am not an online gamer. So any system that depends on online community interaction is enough to scare me off.

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