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    It's part of the ramping up difficulty of the original game. Some of the pads would change color before disappearing, snakes appear in the grass, lady frogs appear that can be jumped on for bonuses etc.

     

    To give your game longevity you'll need to include features such as those.

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    What interests me here is I bought some jag games off Gumtree last week from someone in Derby. I drove to pick them up and we ended up having a nice long discussion about all the games he's selling for various consoles.

     

    He mentioned that he'd sold a lot of his stuff, including Jaguar, to a local guy called John (who was picking up about 200 gameboy carts that afternoon).

     

    Probably coincidence but due to the nearness of the locations, and looking at the background showing the other consoles, makes it a bit curious.

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    I will say Hyperspin, which is a multi emulator frontend, does a lot of the stuff already. I've got it set up on my MAME machine in the garage to produce a display similar to this video -

     

    The ability to link to manuals during game would be good, but as you are running on a PC you could always tab between the manual and VJ. I'm not trying to be negative - I'm just trying to see it's unique selling point.

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    Think of it this way: high level language like basic needs a few lines of code to get things on the screen and moving. Assembly code (which one were they suggesting as each variant has it's nuances - was it the DSP or 68k ?) Needs hundreds. One mistake in code will make it not work as expected, if at all. Do you want to be finding errors in tens of lines or hundreds? Do the math :)

     

    Performance wise you would not be noticing much difference comparing a high speed library/development language like the raptor package to C or untuned assembler.

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  10. Posted · Edited by Welshworrier

    Read the description.

    Not all the games/discs are original e.g. karts., the boxes are all empty with the carts out in the other pictures - some games such as defender and towers 2 not included, copy of doom 2 included, CD drive doesn't work properly etc.

     

    In probably most hypocritical act, includes a copy of the star wars port by reboot.

     

    Says he's sold collections like this before so not likely to be disappearing.

  15. Posted · Edited by Welshworrier

    Soft mod is incredibly easy to do as long as you've got the memory card/stick. You just copy the save file to the card, run the game (splinter cell is usually the easiest to get hold of). Just Google for "aid Xbox" for the auto installer files you need. I believe version 4.6 was the last release and if you search for that release it will have the guide for how to add ROM sets to the DVD image as well as the latest emulator releases.

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    I think you'll find that Jeffrey is part of the eBay scuzzbucket selling fraternity which may color his views somewhat.

     

    I'm sure he'll give you permission to copy and sell his atariage beating game "neon centipede" when that comes out.

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  21. Posted · Edited by Welshworrier

    I pity you mere mortals that don't have to use the whackety-whack printers on an almost daily basis.

     

    The pleasure of shouting "bugger" as the fanfold paper decides to no longer make it's way out of the top and instead to concerteener like an origami rendering of Weird Als' accordion. The ecstacy of realising you've offset the paper and are now going to be printing over the page tear for the next 100 pages with no way to abandon due to the printer buffer already being filled.

     

    Of course I still reminisce about the Atari 7 pin printer for the 400/800 series that they produced when everyone else was making 9 pin ones, meaning you couldn't do descenders.

     

    I do, however, give you this to remind you of the beauty they can create https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pX4tBIwhOqY

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