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You're correct it is which explains greatly why with the Arcade Classics mini cabinets from The Bridge Direct company for #3 (Centipede) and #4 (Q-Bert) use the NES style copies of the game. The 7800 Centipede was converted to the NOAC format for the original Flashback and they just straight ported it tweaking basically the title screen ownership info. Q-Bert did that too but also replaced a temporary screen with a nerd and a NES controller explaining the wonky control setup with just Loading... but otherwise leaving it as is. The little systems use a NOAC setup with a gloptop on the board holding the game and all that within.

If I remember right I started posting in early october and I think that was before DF came out with it's big early article where they kept using the word 'assume' around almost every point they made. I'd really rather not have this crater into some argument so can we just put a stop on this before it gets started? As it stands now it is clearly some form of souped up custom current Tegra Nvidia Shield console (not tablet version chipset) level of hardware and until DF or someone gets one, tears it down, checks all the stuff, or some developer can rat out the differences once the NDAs drop no one is really going to know much of anything for certain.

As fiddly as it is with a kickstarter, the more that is shown here, even if it's all pretty much smoke and mock up so far, it does show some promise if it can be developed as described and isn't some chameleon in the end.

I remember my brother unlocking that in the game. I never was huge on BK as I don't care largely for overkill collect-a-thon runs. I did end up a few months back actually finding one of those games in a bundle and ended up keeping it at no cost so maybe one day eh?

Years ago I had considered one of these but never found some solid info, being here now I figured I'd ask. Has anyone actually gone to the effort of soldering in a 2600 cartridge port on one of these 100% VCS compatible Flashback 2 devices and is it really worth the effort? How about price, is it worth it on those grounds either vs a RCA modded original? I doubt I have the skill to do it myself, nor could I even do a semi-presentable carving of the system shell either to slot the games into it.

I did not lie. Bojay is a straight up fucking stalker. I got tired of his harassing me over at the other site so I stopped engaging him so he brought it here. I'd like this harassment to be shut down a it's getting really old that I can't even go to another forum without being followed. He'll love this, but the short of it is my brother works for 505 Games as a producer which is a licensee and has kits for the system. Last October (not 2 months ago as he said) he told me what he had at the time found out about the Switch and he was (not having kit access then not being on that team) was led to believe it had power upwards of the potential of the One/PS4. When Nintendo finally had some of that info out and it didn't line up, he got into personally attacking me calling me a liar and all sorts of shit and demanding that I apologize which I refused to do because I did not lie. I was misinformed based on info at the time which didn't pan out. I did not ever lie or intend to mislead at the time and he's too dense to get that, so he keeps berating me about it like a child instead of dropping it. I engaged in personal attacks because I was called a liar, insulted my intelligence, and harassed about it repeatedly as he would not fucking drop it, that's a fact. You're damn right I got nasty about it as it wouldn't quit. The posts that I erased I did it out of sheer spite as bojay was pissing me off and I admitted as much while laughing about the fact almost all of it was retained in quote boxes anyway. Go to hell bojay. I'm sick of your stalker garbage. I do not have intolerant views other than not being tolerant of those who can't think for themselves. I also was not laughed out of DP either. I just don't post much but I still read there. The fact the site is mostly a graveyard with few posts a day so I don't post much as like when it was more active a couple years ago. Edit: This is a format request to CPUWIZ, Albert, whoever. Stop this before it gets started. Hateful baggage from one site shouldn't spill over into a public fight on another. I don't with to engage in a fight but I also will not get walked all over either.

Wow I would love to get my hands on that if it was dumped just to try it out and see what direction they were going with it.

Correct. What got me wondering was that someone pointing out the atari flaskback 1 which had 5-6 7800 titles on it, one being Centipede, is the same rom in that 2 week old release of the Arcade Classics tabletop game of Centipede (the other was the NES game Q-Bert.) Further notes from that company in an email (the bridge direct) pointed to Asteroids being an upcoming game and I wanted to dig around and find that specific ROM to check it out. But as you can't request ROMS here, I figured I'd try and dig it up and had no luck. I finally did find a package on mega, but it had all the 4 other games, just not Asteroids which was odd. I did run Centipede though and other than a title hack it's that game alright.

Listening to that sonic game I think it probably does. If the core in retroarch supports save games, it does, and if the SVP (Virtua Racing) is in there, sauce for the goose.

No I'm pointing out you're following me from one site to another to pick on my posts and it's really childish. Should anyone be surprised Nintendo would do that, they didn't launch their last console they made and its predecessor with such features either adding them after the fact. They love to cry how they're a gaming company and be all minimalist, then stuff seems to trickle out later. adamchevy: How would you figure Nintendo could control that? I think the real idea is that you'd need to find ways for major second hand sales sites to ban the behavior entirely. They won't do it as it's easy money for them and they don't care if someone gets screwed. If ebay and amazon 1 minute into this Monday going forward limited 1 a customer per address, account, and payment method, plus banned all private sellers without a business license from second hand selling new product and only allowed major distributors it would cause a serious crimp in the will of resellers to play those games. Sure they'd run to craigslist and other smaller avenues, and maybe it would dissuade some of the abusers but it wouldn't make it go away unfortunately. Until people stop feeding the scumbags on a level where the risk isn't worth the reward things sadly won't change.

It hasn't aged too badly, at least compared to Goldeneye which is downright wooden now. Sad kind of but of all thing Turok seems to control better but no one would have said that back then.

That does look nice. I did a similar kind of image with my very large early 80s DK plush and the Coleco tabletop game for joke value some years ago.

I tried it manually and using the scan feature. It's just like they're not even there. Except one, the CD to MVS conversion by razoola of Crossed Swords 2, that one crashed the entire program back to windows without even a note why.

Trolling me at a second site now eh? It's fine to criticize the Switch, stop making up stuff. He never said it would or wouldn't have one, just not one out of the box, that's it. Seems like something people are just finding a reason to complain about is all. I agree even it would be nice it should be on there, but it also doesn't have to be. Shame to see Daniels go, what drove him away?

Some days I think I'd dig a pi, but then I look into the setup involved and I hate to say but it kind of spooks me. I have had enough trouble failing repeatedly to mess around using ADK packages and junk with my android tablet trying to do stuff and screwing it up I just let it go and just it unbroken and just side load stuff. I was thinking maybe if I figured out retroarch PI might be alright for setting up some games with it so I put that on the other day. Got a mix of a boost and annoyance as I could get the console/handheld systems I tried to work with no issue -- but it is impossible to get neo-geo to work, it just will not. I have the bios in both /system and with the games to be safe. The sets work with Final Burn Alpha which is what the retroarch core is, yet won't work in that. It's idiotic. I'd hate to invest like $70 into the parts/kit for a pi3 then get screwed and stuck.

I tried, I think I probably wasn't using the right terms. Then again throwing Nintendo or NES plus anything will get the wrong results since it's so popular as it'll just assume you're looking for one of its games. I'll have to keep poking away at it.

Wow that's the one I forgot, I feel bad. Starcraft. I know it will seem strange, but it is the definitive release of the original game which may seem odd being on N64. If and only if you have the 4MB expansion memory pack you're in for a treat. Stock you get Starcraft, expansion brings in both Brood War, and a brand new 'final' campaign that exists nowhere else at the time (has anyone remade it since for the fans on PC?) And I do agree C&C is solid on there too, westwood and blizzard put their period best on N64 and in style.

Retropie is kind of an offshoot of RetroArch isn't it? I really don't follow as I just don't care to spend the cash on it. I've been having trouble with retroarch, it absolutely will not fire up my Neo-Geo stuff and I can't find any help specific to my issue as of yet. Only throwing it out there since your post above there brings up FBAlpha which is what runs Neo Geo in its cores.

Why? Because it's Nintendo. They'd like you to believe one thing and not the other. It's easier and cheaper for them to say it won't work than publish a how to guide. Also if they did put it there, given the steps and the general population being too stupid to actually follow instructions would lead to many bricked systems they'd have to deal with. Imagine all the entitled whining and moaning tying up their phones with people doing returns and warranty repairs. I do agree it would be nice if they did it, even if it was a closed (so called) setup where they sold USB dongles with a Vol2 of more games you pop in, it detects the system, and throws the goods on there. Since it would need to be powered it would have to be some bypass style adapter to go between it and the power supply in back. Atariboy: Maybe but at the same time I think they'd probably feel some pressure about looking cheap skate even if they do peddle SNES games at a higher price on their virtual console. Perhaps they'd bump the price $10 and level it out that way and try justifying the more parts/buttons in the SNES pad to skate around that.

When I used cheaper I mean it as price unless the entire context of what was being said was picking on something for a cheaper quality piece of garbage. Famicom games in general I'd say the boards have same if not better integrity with the superior special chips, but also the plastic shells I think suck and are cheaper. They're snap clips and with age they brittle, it's not fun trying to open one as odds are you're going to crack a clip off, so cleaning just gets annoying if you want to really get into it. Again I think we should setup a Famicom topic and discuss some solid games most people won't recognize as being as such, and if someone wants to throw the WHY in there all the better.

I know there are subjects in various reddits and in google about this on various platforms. I can't find a solution. I just put Retroarch on my Windows PC. So far the various Nintendo systems I've thrown at it work. Neo-Geo does not. I have installed the FBA core. I have put the neogeo.zip (bios) both in the game folder itself and also in /cores to be certain. I go in, do load content, go to the ROMS area, bstars.zip (tried many games). Then a browse archive or Load Archive option pops up, and I click Load Archive. Askes me to pick a core, I use FBA 2012 Neo Geo). Flickers, dumps back to 'No Items' and says 'Failed to Load Content' in yellow. What's the deal? I know the ROM set and the BIOS is valid, runs in the same identical core in stand alone FBA. Also as a side, where can I set individual control settings by emulator? I know you have to (and have) toggled delinking using a shared button setup. Most my stuff is fine, but I do use N64 which is a differing type of controller that needs a remap. Thanks.

Pays to have a working Honeybee like I do, or a retrofreak/retron 5 with a working famicom slot on board. And that is true, the SFC is very easy to crack into because you just snap off 2 cheap pieces of plastic on the US system and you're done. Why pay $100 for a US release when you can get it for $20 or so with a Japanese label that works all the same? As long as you're not into some RPG/ARPG with lots of babbling going on you're good to go. SFC stuff has gone up, some more than others, oddly some that are accessible really have not too bad (only from my looking loose now = CIB of the late 90s when I bought the stuff originally.) Like you can get a loose Parodius for $20, back then you got it for CIB that. But others seem to have fallen fairly flat as SDF Macross was like a $70 complete game and it's not too much worse so it kind of varies. Famicom though mostly cheap, if you consider a bulk lot of a $2-3/avg cheap or much of it individually can be had for $5-20 as a single. There's not too much that pops over to the higher numbers, but there are some and it's a shame but they usually are the best titles so they're more sought after, at least the best people know are 'best.' If you go reading on the outskirts or take advice from others and find something few knew what the hell it was you can get some really good stuff for peanuts. I never heard of that Legend of Valkyrie game in this thread before but I watched a video on it and that's a decent little challenge and kind of cool. Or if you want to go my route, buy BONK Famicom for $20 instead of $300 US. No harm there! I can't figure that one because Lickle(Samson) is up and BUbble BObble 2 is almost as bad as buying the US release as it's just weird. It's like people pick and choose what to screw up almost.

Yeah I agree with brett there, I don't really think Nintendo gives too much of a crap about it. They love historically to do stupid stuff with their devices to block people from various functions. Different pinouts (FC-NES), cart/slot molding (SNES, N64, etc), asinine region lockout DSI through 3DS(dropped on Switch thankfully), screwball media sizes (mini-dvd on GC), and so on. I doubt they didn't know it could be done, I truly feel they don't give a crap. As long as someone buys the thing for $60 they're happy. I would not be surprised if they didn't have some device on their end that just some line worker doesn't pop a plug into the back of a finished unit and it just dumps the kernel w/30 games on there, and then they bag it, box it and ship it. It's clearly a two way transmission port, no doubt about it and with no security what so ever. if they cared, as anal as they get about sketchy no detailed 'stability updates' on their devices over the last decade they'd have enabled a way to block it. SNES mini definitely -- it's another $60 in their pocket to peddle a cute micro-original model SNES to people with another 30 games with a 60/40 split of 1st/3rd party awesomeness. Just use the same identical core, tweak the menu for SNES font and coloring, and throw 30 epic titles on there. Take basically the equals of the NES library that got 'Super'd up some ...Super Mario World 1 and 2, Super Castlevania, Mega Man X, F-Zero, Starfox, Super GnG, TMNT4(if they get a license), Goemon, Gradius III, Contra 3, Final Fantasy II, and so on. Instant pay day and like it or not, far more aurally and visually pleasing since modern download games come out around that aspect of quality. ...and why do it? Because people want to know if they can, and then when they can, how far they can push it learning more about the hardware. Same question was made 20 years ago about early emulators for late DOS/Win95/98 era stuff...can I do it? iNES, Pasofami, VGB, and the other pioneers said yes!

The thing that was most mind blowing about Resident Evil 2 on N64, is that it is on there and not compromised really. That's a 2 or 3 CD game and they got all the video and audio on there too, it's just blocky as it moves as it's highly compressed. Actual areas though look even better, game runs in 640x480, higher texture quality on the moving object, and you choice of blood colors too (red green and blue.) Still controls like garbage, but it's still a fine game. Capcom also carried over Mega Man 64(Legends) and it too had compressed (a little tinny) audio for all the talking parts. They expanded the walking areas a bit, cleaned up others that caused PS1 version camera wonkiness, so in a screwball way it's more of a definitively repaired release.

You're (belated) welcome. Removed quite a few items, added a few DC games