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I believe it's a small GE color TV... EDIT: Oh man, that is it! Two posts up.

I have collected carts from thrift stores and other places for a couple decades now. As I am getting older, kids growing up, and wanting to move to smaller home, I have started to go through all of it. Are these prototype Donkey Kong cartridges? Promotional copies? Just an odd label variation? They don't look like anything I have found on eBay searches...

I had a stack of them 4-5 years ago and I couldn't even give them away...

They don't show up too often on eBay because they were next to worthless (not worth the time to sell). Schools dumped them by the thousands in the late 90's, so they are all in the landfill now. However, the good news is you can run the Basilisk emulator and do everything you need. I know that exists for Windows, not sure about Mac OS.

Whichever side of the auction I am on, is the one that gets screwed. Lately, since it seems eBay really doesn't care, I get bidders who win the auction and then decide that's when they want to ask questions and negotiate a new price, and then just disappear. WTH... Another alternative is to file non-paying bidder. Fees are returned, fake buyer and seller are happy. I doubt they do anything about it, although you can "filter" your auctions not to see non-paying bidders (some large amount, though- you can't filter anyone with less than 4 or something). It's really crappy as a seller anymore. Even if you do succesfully get paid and they are happy, eBay and Paypal take 13-14% of the sale (*and* shipping). They have no right to take a percentage of shipping costs.

No, they just file to cancel the transaction at the end. The buyer agrees, fees are returned, positive feedback is left. Ebay does not care.

I think the only way you could use this is to do a composite mod (for a PAL Atari) and then either hook it to a video converter that supports PAL, or a monitor that supports PAL signals directly.

That is a PAL connector- you have a PAL 2600. It will not work on a North American TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug

Isn't that the guy featured in the Time article with the impossibly high DK score? I would assume all the scores are lies... EDIT: My mistake, that was Steve Sanders...

You could also try increasing the spring tension. I think in the past I have carefully bent the metal arm of the spring to accomplish this.

If the drive is left disengaged for years, the thin metal strip that attaches the top head becomes warped and doesn't align properly with the lower head, which makes it not apply the right pressure in the right place to read the disk. You can try to bend it back, but it's difficult to ever get it just right again.

Is it possible to make a cartridge for the 5200 that contained the missing ROMs (reworked) and could boot from a disk drive and run games that way? It seems that you could, since the serial port signals exist on the expansion connector.

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You are a soldering artist.

I can virtually gaurantee that it's fake... Production rom, non-period label. No way it's real.

Yeah, someone is just having a little "fun"

Is there a PacManPlus downloadable collection?

Did you have a problem where this mod has the video kind of dark and the color contrast a bit off? I did this and many games look great, but Pac-Man, for example, has contrast issues.

Very slim chance, but you'll want the right cable anyway.

It happens from fumbling with the cables while swapping them around to figure out which is which. If you short that ring to tip, it's blown. Sure, it's possible this didn't happen. Get a C64 video cable and try it out.

Yeah, fortunately (unfortunately for you) one of those pins is an unprotected input into the analog portion of the chip. This can be used to run filters and other effects on the signal. Hooking it to a TV (escpecially while 64 is powered on) can blow it.

The Master System AV cable has a different pinout than the C64 one, even though the plug may fit. You likely have blown the SID/sound chip by plugging it in this way.

They are 119.96 EUR (including shipping) which is $160 USD. You will have to wait until the next batch is built.

Really more like $160, but yes.

No, those are nice and work well, but don't handle disk images with special loaders, which is a LOT of them. That device emulates something like a CMD hard disk, while the 1541U emulates a floppy drive.