Danno

power supply...your lifeforce is running out.

man, you guys are worse than heroin dealers.

actually, I would. I don't care much for the "obscure" games or label variations or whatever it is that is the big draw for serious collectors. I just want to get back all the games I had as a kid, or maybe a few that I couldn't afford back then. I never had any rare ones. Never really wanted them, either. I had a few semi-rare ones, but what I've found is that most of the "obscure" games suck, as far as playing. I've played them all in Emulators, and would have absolutely no desire to spend some ungodly amount of money on a game that sucks just because some collectors consider it rare. I wouldn't even bother if they were affordable, like you said for $5.00 or so. Especially since it would deprive someone else of being able to get it for $5.00 and then turn around and rip someone off by selling it on Ebay for some ridiculous price based on someone's warped perception of value. Yeah Capitalism!!! I just feel bad for the poor schlub who think's he's getting a bargain after just barely inching out 2 ebay shills(friends of the seller) and a compulsive shopper nutjob in an auction where suddenly a $5.00 cart is being sold for $125.00. [/end rant] I just want to recapture all the games I lost. I promise, I'll leave all the weirdo games alone.

I'm not looking for the rare carts, just commons. I'm just starting my collection.

Yes, I've seen the NECG list. 1/2 of those places don't exist anymore. I'll have to check out the place in Malden. I've been to the "Big Scary". It's been pretty lame every time I go there.

Does anyone know a good place to get 2600 & 7800 games within reasonable driving distance from Boston? I'm getting kind of tired of goig to flea markets that have nothing.

I'm not talking out the outside panel buttons, but the actualy toggle buttons they operate that are soldered to the motherboard. My Reset and Select buttons on my newly acquired 7800 don't work, and the power switch is testy, but the soldered contact points on the motherboard are fine. I'm assuming the contacts on the inside of the buttons are just worn out. Does anyone know wher I can find replacements fo these, other than buying a junked 7800 console and ripping them off the mobo? Thanks all for your help.

Ahhh. Now I get it. I didn't realize the difference between 2600 and 7800 output. I learn something new everytime I come here.

There aren't? What are the CuttleCart 2's using then?

i understand that the signal needs to be amplified for a standard composite video input, it's just a matter or how much. I just thought removing the RF unti also give you a pre-cut spot for a jack on the console's shell. I figured that would be more convenient.

They'd be fine if you just put Armor All on them.

Ok here's a dumb question: I see all these AV and Svideo mods starting from soldering points off of various ICs or diodes...now bear with me as I don't know how to read schematics, and am just hazarding a guess.... But would it make more sense to try and find a point to tap into if you removed the RF unit? I mean - somewhere, just before the audio and video is combined and converted to RF in the RF unit, there should be a point where separate pure audio and video signals can be found - right? Since the point of these mods is to replace the inferior RF connection with superior separate composite video and line level audio - wouldn't it make more sense to use a source from the MOBO just before these signals are converted to RF and eliminate the RF unit altogether? Does this make any sense to anyone but me?

Hey - I have a question. I just bought a 7800, but it's a "newer" one with no expansion port - but upon closer inspection(aka ripping her open) I noticed that the cutout on the metal sheilding is still there, and there are solder points on the mobo labeled Jumper 12. Can I just solder to these points and get the same thing? As much as I may want to look at 8-bit's video mod, I'm not to keen on ripping IC's off of the mobo and doing so much work. getting a decent AV mod for the 7800 should be much easier than all that.

You could build a video mod that doesn't require soldering. Now that would be nice. Too bad my newly purchased 7800 is one of the "newer" ones with no expansion port.

Bump, Ken - I'm sure you're busy - but can we butter this toast yet? I'm itchin to have cart in hand....

The first rule about fight club is: you do not talk about fight club. I was really just curious if the parts are expensive or if it's the labor, simply because if it's the labor, I'd be willing to buy the parts from 8-bit and assemble it myself if it were cost effective enough. sku_u - you owed me that one. LOL. p.s. all my questions in the falshback 2.0 thread were for not...I gave in and bought ont of these....

Just one question: Why is the CC2 so expensive? are the parts really that expensive, or is it mostly due to the labor involved? I only ask this because the Kroko is nearly the same thing (minus 7800 games ability) and it's $100 cheaper. I'd love to get one, but at the current asking price - I can buy an entire 7800 collection of carts, one by one off of ebay or other sources. In fact - if you know where to shop, you can get 50 of the 57 commercially released games for the 7800 for less than 2 bucks each. I'm not saying it's not worth it - especially if you're a developer. It's a handy dandy tool for that stuff.

Thanks, I'll be here at the Mirage all week....

*tap* *tap* *tap* is this thing on?

*Note to self, Sku_u doesn't like jokes made at her expense.* I wasn't questioning your knowledge or abilites. I was making a joke. Lighten up. Man, you guys are a touchy lot.

I did read it. You said your knowledge of solid state allowed you to be able to tinker with a real VCS. This much we know is true. That also seems to make the point that to tinker with a Flashback, you would need knowledge of something OTHER THAN solid state. So I made a joke about vaccuum tubes, you misinterpreted it, and well...now I have to go through the labor of explaining it to you.

I wondered about that too. Even with a scrappily attached cart port - will it really run all 2600 games? My first tests would be Pitfall 2 and Robot Tank. If they won't play on it - it isn't worth buying.

NES on a stick and whatever it is going to be in the next Flashback is Solid State. the Original VCS was solid State as well. Solid State refers to printed electronic circuitry technology that doesn't utilize gas-filled vaccuum tubes. from www.answers.com: solid state Pertaining to circuits where signals pass through solid semiconductor material such as transistors and diodes as opposed to vacuum tubes where signals pass through a vacuum.

The Flashback uses Vaccuum Tubes? Talk about retro. [/b]

Didn't you say it's powered by a NES chip? As fas as I know, a NES can't run 7800 games. How would they do that? The games on the Flashback are NOT the original games. They were ported/reprogrammed to work on the NES on a chip thingie. That is PRECISELY how it was marketed, advertised, and SOLD however. Manual - your sarcasm is duely noted.