PickAxePete

I printed the disassembly page and it was really helpful, but I foolishly spent way too much time trying to unscrew the screws for the fire button manually, when I should've taken my electric drill out for it right away. After removing the fire plate, I noticed the coil spring had just popped out of place. So I put it back in place, tested it, and it seems fine. So I'm about to test it so I switch the power on and it doesn't go on. Apparently the black battery wire disconnected during my tedious disassembly. My problem is, I can't figure out where to solder it back. I've tried touching possible locations but nosign of life. Now I'm bummed.

thanks, I'll print the thread and check it out when I get home.

there are none. I looked in and about the battery port and around the entire unit. Nothing. There are four little rubber feet that were glued to the bottom. I thought about screws possibly being under them, but I know someone here did rip open his Joystick and I would like to confirm they are under the rubber feet b/4 I go ripping them off. I peeled one back a bit and did not see anything, but I may just have to rip the whole foot off to tell.

Has anyone taken apart their Namco Joystick? My action button "popped" and the response isn't that effective anymore. There are no screws and I'm afraid of breaking the plastic.

I've been playing Bosconian almost religiously and I think I just broke it. The firing button isn't properly responding after I heard a "click" inside. I should probably see if I could return it but I never sent in the warrenty. Oh well. The best bet would be to do surgery on the thing. I'm bummed b/c I was doing well last night and then after the fire button sort of popped, I couldn't get passed the board I was on. My highest score so far is Round 24 - 433,500 pts

I miss playing Omega Race, Gorf & Demon Attack on my Vic-20. My system broke b/c my brother thought it would interesting to see what would happen if he plugged a cassette decks 9v chord into the 120v Vic-20, since they happen to have IDENTICAL ports. There went the fuse. So I went out and bought a new fuse, identical to the one that blew and nothing. Never to work again. I did walk by a school that was throwing out a bunch of old TI's & Commodores and I snatched one (it was a bit dirty) and walked it 5 1/2 Avenue Blocks to my apartment (i'm in manhattan, NYC - if you know how long avenues are as to streets). I transported the unit to my parents house and left it there with all the rest of my commodore stuff I still have. I called my brother and he says he plugged it in and it works. I should bring all that into the City and check it out.

I'll agree with you on that. The one thing that gets my goat is that when you die, it's game over. There's also the 2-player games that don't have a 1-player option. But still, they can be fun games.

I just checked the titles of a few threads and didn't see this anywhere, so excuse me if this is old news. I found it to be exciting, yet very sad. http://www.deviantart.com/view/5142652/

I just got the 128-1 multi-cart today and was checking out the games I don't have. I have to say, I'm glad I didn't bid on the Parker Bros. games, because I'm not that happy with Popeye. All in all though, it's great to play the games that would otherwise be difficult to get a hold of. I'm a bit perplexed with the Pong game. All I'm getting is Squash and no other pong like game. Anyone know if there are others?

I did well last night. Got to Round 15, I believe and was over 230,000. The best I've done since 2/15. I am starting to get sick of the game though. And it actually slows down b/c of too much memory. It's weird. The whole screen moves in slow motion when there is too much memory used. I think I may venture to Rally X next.

Agreed. I love pong. It's fun. but the version on the 10-1 joystick is biased. I can only move up and down so fast and my computerized counterpart seems to have the abiity to move faster than me. Hmmmm.? BTW, I got home on 2/15 from my girlfriends apt and immediately played a game of Bosconian. I got to Round.... I don't know 20?? and got a score of 381,050!!! I have since been over 200.000 once. I'll probably play a game in a few minutes.

I got the AMOK! cart and I was going to order the multicard today but decided to wait a bit. I may Paypal him tomorrow. I've been keeping my eyes open on games at eBay but I'm taking a trip to Barcelona in May and I can't be spending my money on all these carts. And one cart would make life a lot easier. So I think I'll do the multicart tomorrow.

I've found out that you can go diagonal in Bosconian on the Namco joystick. It's just a matter of playing around with the stick. I think the problem is that it is a four way stick and getting the ship to go in a diagonal is difficult. I can imagine that if you are able to remove the board inside the Namco casing and insert it in the Atari casing, you'll get the 8 way directional function. The does program have it.

The 2600 version, I stay in the middle and hyperspace when I'm in danger. Then, when I reappear, I thrust back to the middle again. There's no ufo ship so you can play from the middle virtually the entire time.

Overpriced would fit quite nicely in the area. I'll have to look into them more. I just caught the website, but since i'm at work, i didn't really read up on it. Maybe I should be in on when the lawyers go over the lease detail. I should insert a "classic" gaming clause with regards to Atari/Mattel and Coleco.