nd2003grad
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The reason you're not hearing anybody damaging their console with it, is because nobody is doing that on a routine basis. The CD mechanism is a tiny motor and plastic cogs, what do you think will happen eventually you keep using your hand as a sudden brake to moving plastic parts?
Mod chips have been available for the system for the better part of 20 years now. Seriously, just get a Pseudo Saturn cart. You can save games directly to system memory, and then just back the saves up on an official memory card from the system menu.
On second thought, please just sell your Saturn to a responsible party. Saturn emulators are pretty decent now.
Rather rude way to welcome someone to the Saturn world, don't you think? I can't find modchips for sale any more, which would be my preferred way to do this if it were a reasonable cost. I think it's pretty responsible of me to ask experienced users about their personal trial and error with said console. I'm probably going with the Pseudo-Saturn suggestion most are saying here eventually, Despite talk to the contrary, I haven't seen that Pseudo Saturn allows for saves and based on what I know so far (totally new to this unusual console), it doesn't seem that either relying on the internal memory or swapping carts is a good idea....we'll just see what happens.
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Due to cost—I almost sold the Saturn— I think I’m limited to the swap trick for now. As I kind of expected I’m not hearing anybody saying they damage their equipment with it, and I like the idea of the cartridge but I don’t understand how you are supposed to save your games if that capability is taken away. It doesn’t help that I’ve never used a cartridge! Now there is somewhere where I actually have heard of people damaging things is with the cartridge slot.
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I'm still learning the ropes of the whole thing. Compared to, say, a Dreamcast, Saturn has a lot of drama!!!!
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OK, I see all sorts of info about this trick "burning out" the motor for the Saturn. Despite seeing all of that info, I never see anyone saying this has actually happened. That being said...has anyone ACTUALLY seen this happen?
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Mods, please delete--item found!
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I'd also be looking for reasonably priced commons, I already own two games only--Mario and Pole Pos. II
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I'm looking to probably end my collection (unless I ever get my hands on the holy Vectrex) with a 7800. I've noticed ebay prices are outlandish these days, and collectorscardsandgames used to sell for $50, but he says he no longer has any/not sure he can still do that kind of price. Anyone have anything they want to sell? My budget isn't huge...
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^^^^Really excited about this person's new posts^^^^
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I’m having some trouble finding a G3, is there any reason a G4 would not work for this?
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Thank you for the input, yes I think this is going to be my solution it seems to cover a lot.
On a Mac G3 you can use Bernie2TheRescue, which is still the most accurate IIGS emulator to date.
A IIGS can run 99% of all Apple II/IIe software as well as all IIGS software.
On the Mac side, the G3 can play pretty much any game that was created for a 68030 and up, and has at least 16 shades of gray or colors.
"The Mac Garden" has quite a few cd based games for older Macs, and what is nice about the G3, it can be suped up pretty good.
I have mine suped up to 1 Ghz, usb card, cd writer, 384 Mb of memory, 128 GB hard drive and it includes ethernet and can still be connected to the internet for game downloads.
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...I've been toying with the idea of having an Apple IIGS for some time, and I did have a II/C briefly. It is the glaring and terrible void in my classic computer collection. However, peripherals, accelerators, mass storage solutions, etc are far more expensive and painful for the system than, let's say, my Amiga 500. And that's been a pain enough.
The IIGS is so unique, and that is its attraction...in addition to the dual mode. However, when I was in college in 1999 era I used a G3 Power PC quite a bit (there were never lines for Mac's at the computer labs vs. PC's). My question is this: If I were to acquire said G3, are there emulation solutions to play II, IIGS, and vintage Mac games? I'm not sure how backwards compatibility worked on these machines, but I'm making a wild assumption that it's possible with correct software. In that way, I could get my Apple fix from one "mid-era" machine instead of the fully empty feeling I get from emulation on a modern non-Apple. Thoughts?
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I use an Amiga 500 power supply on my 1200 so don't limit yourself to looking just for an exact Amiga 1200 PS in the US.
The US Amiga 500 PSU provides more current than the original 1200 supply, if I'm not mistaken.
There is always the Ray Carlsen version as well, but it's about $80 + shipping: http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/custom%20ps.html
Aw, Ray is the best. I still owe him one for straightening out a C64 problem! Yeah, mainly just wondering what y'all would do for euro plug. I am a dummy when it comes to electricity. Seems like 1200s are going for like 500 bucks these days...
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Yeah, just trying to figure out how difficult/expensive it would be to import one vs. waiting for the (pretty rare) opportunity to get one for any kind of reasonable price in the US.
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Does anyone know if a A1200 PSU is ok to use in the USA if it's from the UK? I see it's much easier to acquire a PAL 1200 from the UK than anything remotely related to it here. I know there would need to be at least a plug adapter...but I'm just curious.
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If it's a corner raised on the outer side of the card (away from the contacts) then it's nothing to worry about.
If it's on the contact side and on the face of the contacts, you might like to smooth it. Everything white on the Hu-card/Turbochip is plastic. you can't damage the game altering it.
I get that white or pink screen with some games. cleaning the contacts usually helps, but also fiddling with the card helps too, like slide it all the way into your system, and pull it back one millimeter.
The only important part is the black, white doesn't matter (don't put that out of context).
[email protected], well yeah it's on the contact side. What exact action do you recommend? Would you disassemble it?
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I've done quite a bit of transfer from SD2IEC to real media on 1541. For the vast majority of transfers, games not functioning on card function fine when transferred to disk. Recommend Epyx Fastload--a must at the very least.
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Question--I've found SOME info about this, but I need expert help. Recently acquired a "Bonk's Revenge" HU card. White screen with it. I also had this with a Keith Courage cart, but remedied with contact cleaner. One corner of the BR card is the tiniest bit raised (so minor a photo won't really show it well). Any suggestions? New to TG16...
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Thanks for the compliment! The C64 version was quite difficult for me to get going, and I ended up having to do some tech gymnastics and play it from a real 5 1/4 disk!
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I forgot to add mine was all played on real hardware.
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I did not get to play in this game until the last day, but what a last day it has been. I played several versions of the game. I'm pretty terrible at it, but still really like it. I played the Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 800 XL, Coleco vision, and Commodore 64 versions of this game. I had some issues run in the amiga version due to it being pal. I found that version to be pretty lousy for what the system is capable of, but I think it was kind of a homebrew release. The Coleco version of it was by far the easiest, and I found the Atari eight bit version of it to be very challenging. I sure Adam's opinion about the Commodore 64 version been kind of goofy. If I had played the Coleco version on a higher difficulty level I think that probably would have been the best one. I tried to play the nuclear game, but my Bally just wasn't having it. Picture attached.
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. I wish. Nope I'm in Iowa.Are you near NJ? I have a spare.
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Are you near NJ? I have a spare.
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That's impossible. The IIGS 3.5" floppy drive requires Double Density (DD) diskettes. High Density (HD) will not work.
ADTPro is used to transfer disk images from a Windows machine. The Windows machine acts as a server through a serial connection. The IIGS has serial built-in, but requires a cable with specific characteristics (http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html#MiniDIN8). I have used a IIGS printer cable (also MiniDIN8) for this using a couple cable adapters on the PC side -- one being a null modem adapter.
Believe it or not, I do have DD disks as well. That was what I thought, that serial was the only way to go with this--but net info is often out-dated.
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Does anyone know how difficult it is to make 3.5 floppies with Windows? With my current setup, believe it or not, that would be a cheaper/better solution. I have access to a horde of NOS floppies.
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Sega Saturn--Swap trick question
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Here's another question that factors into my decision...will game saves remain on a system as long as you don't turn the system OFF (e.g., replacing battery with power on)? I'd hate to lose saves all the time!