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  1. Posted

    Just noticed that they have added Mario Kart to the list of $19;99 players' choice games.

     

    As a reward for finishing Wario Ware, Inc. I finally bought Mario Kart for the GBA this week to play on my GBA Micro. What have I been waiting for all these years? Wow!

     

    I also found Mario Tennis, Dr. Mario/Puzzle League, and Drill Dozer on clearance - each under $10. Who cares if I'm behind the times - the cool thing about the GBA is that it is a modern gaming system and a retrogaming system all at the same time. I'm going to take full advantage of the end of the GBA lifecycle! I'm still hoping that once the DS Lite is in full supply that Nintendo will clearance the GBA SP2 - I might like to have one of those for the great screen plus the full backwards compatibilty (I do have an original GBA though which really works just fine for the old stuff)

  2. Posted

    the worst game, it is hard to say for this system, id have 2 say any sports game for this system for the most part blows fuck, ...

     

    Compared to today's games maybe but the M Network Baseball and Football were really good back in the day. Hell, I still have fun with them now when I can find somebody to play against.

     

    M Network Football is a blast. It's the closest simulation of real backyard football I have ever played, and you can explain how it works in less than 30 seconds, unlike any other video football game on the planet. OK - you go out for a pass, you stay in for pass protection, you block to the left, and you go out as a decoy! Hike!

     

    I have posted many times on the awesomeness of Bowling, Activision Ice Hockey, Activision Tennis, Activision Skiing, California Games, etc. etc., so I won't get into them here - but there are many great sports games on the system. People were brainwashed by the George Plympton Intellivision ads back in the day that sports games couldn't be done with justice on the VCS - that's just plain wrong. I love sports games on modern handhelds, but I love them on the VCS just as much.

  3. Posted

    Erm... There are really two things Sony would have to do to make the PSP popular. Drop the price about $100 and get some GOOD games for the thing. :ponder:

     

    Have you ever tried sports games on the PSP? I just bought MLB 07: The Show for my PSP (you should check it out, Gregory DG) and it's very impressive - a visual tour de force and the gameplay (including online) is really good too, as with Madden 07 for the PSP. Also, the newest Atari 2600 and 7800 emulators that came out in 2007 (thanks for doing your part, Danno) are super terrific. For gameplay outside of the sports or emulation genre, I'm sticking with my Game Boy Micro for the best combination of great gameplay, small size, and great cartridges.

     

    Also, $199 for the base PSP, considering it has built in wifi, an incredible screen, and a truly usable web browser with rss and flash support is pretty impressive. I use the thing as a handheld newspaper quite a bit. I have no desire to watch movies on it so I can't comment about its charms as a UMD player.

     

    Sony's general strategy (with the PS2, PS3, and PSP) is to build hardware so advanced that it can stay in the marketplace for several years and still be technologically current. It certainly helps to look at a Sony videogame product in its third year - that's when the sweet spot really starts to hit, and it's why I bought my PSP in September '06. The PSP's hardware is still phenomenal compared to any handheld device (including phones, PDA's, and game machines), and any update at this time would be to address fashion or ergonomics - there is certainly no technological need to change the hardware.

  5. Posted

    To me, the actual worst VCS games are the ones that were highly anticipated and didn't live up to our expectations.

     

    In that regard, I believe that the worst VCS game was Pac-Man, with ET a close second.

     

     

    ps - today I actually *like* playing ET - I just believe it wasn't well targeted to the audience. If Game 1 was actually Game 3 (the easiest level where you can't get dragged back to the lab, etc.), and pit levitation was made a bit easier (though I no longer have a problem with it), I think the game would have been much more successful!

  7. Posted · Edited by 128bytes

    Albert, how about setting up an AtariAge Wiki to replace or enhance the current product pages? We would all be happy to fill Wiki entries out, including reviews right inside the wiki, for every single Atari release known to mankind (including homebrews and hacks of course), and it would decrease the amount of work you would have to do to keep it up to date.

     

    Here's a wiki connected to a very popular message board. Even though it's about the Red Sox, take a look and I'm sure you will have an idea of what I was thinking about. That wiki is a work in progress (of course), but it is 100% filled out by members of the message board!

     

    My favorite part of that wiki - the New York Yankees' history page

    Franchise History:

     

    - 1903-2003: Nothing noteworthy

    - 2004: Became the first team in baseball history to lose a best-of-seven series after leading 3-0

    - 2005-present: Nothing noteworthy

     

    :lol:

  8. Posted

    The Game Boy Advance:

    Golden Sun series

    Boktai series

    Final Fantasy series

    Pokemon series

    Riviera

    Mario and Luigi

    Kingdom Hearts

    Mega Man BN series

    Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II

    Shining Soul 2

    Breath Of Fire I and II

    Mother 3

     

     

    And you can play GB games on it, so it's more FF, Pokemon and, if you consider it RPG, Zelda.

     

    +1 for me. I also consider Mario Golf and Mario Tennis for the GBA to be RPG's :o

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    I'm using it with a FB2 CX40 style joystick... and it absolutely kicks ass. I haven't really tried it with my USUAL 2600/7800 joystick, which is a converted Radica Space Invaders TV pNp unit. I hadn't really realized that with the Stelladaptor, I can now use that lovely stick on my PC, as well.

     

    But there again, is the beauty of the Stelladaptor. I'd like to see the market support both the Stelladaptor and the Speedlink Pro USB, simply because I think overall the market needs a PC USB *joystick* that is ready to PnP right out of the box without needed anything additional. Not just for emulation, but for any game that benefits from an arcade style joystick. But, for the money, I think the Stelladaptor is the better purchase. If you can afford both, that is the way to go.

     

    You know... it seems like Atari corp probably has the contacts/contracts to make the FB2 joysticks in mass, Al...

     

    You should talk to someone and see if you can get a partnership between Atari and Pixles Past going to sell a commercially/retail packaged Stelladaptor with a FB2 joystick. Get the economy of scale going there, and I bet you could include the disk you sent out with the Christmas packages, 2 Stelladaptors and 2 FB2 joysticks for under $50.

     

    I like your thinking, Paranoid. I think the FB2 CX40 is *superior* to the original CX-40! Even if the FB2 style can't be sourced, I think it would be great if quality modern versions of Atari joysticks or paddles could be purchased today.

     

    That reminds me, I have 2 unmodified RSI sticks sitting in their boxes. I really need to open them up and convert them!

  13. Posted

    This is actually one of my most favorite games of all time. It's a 3d platformer collectathon but it does it right, unlike DK64, which did it all wrong. :)

     

    I am also a big fan of banjo kazooie

     

    I have only played it on a friend's N64. Great 4 player simultaneous action!

  15. Posted

    I have one, love it, and hope it becomes available again so others can share in the absolute, uncontrollable joy of owning one. Seriously.

     

     

    The part in question is, IIRC, the MMC slot. Perhaps another type of memory slot - or even on-board soldered in flash memory -- would do the trick.

  17. Posted

    I dont know...maybe next to the picture of the 7800 sticks covered with dust because they're so stiff and unplayable most people use thier 2600 sticks or an alternative?

     

    (raising his hand to be counted among these) I've got DIY RSI SI sticks for both my 5200 and my 7800... so as far as I can tell, the controllers are the same on both consoles. :)

     

    Gregory DC is right... the 5200 proto of 5200 (or the 8 bit PC version) shouldn't even be counted as Xevious. The 7800 version is a good one. Tower Toppler is a gem in the 7800 crown (which is, altogether, based on it's native library alone, a rather rusty crown without a lot of jewels).

     

    Joust... the graphics are far better than the 5200 version, but the gameplay itself has that lackluster feeling, IMO.

     

    There is an active homebrew community for it. Which is good. There are a lot of "Age of Cheesy 80s Crap" era games. Skate games... stuff that reeks of the "Fat Boys, Cindy Lauper on WWF", etc... marketing of that time. Which is, to me... bad.

     

    But yeah... the CC2... Supercharger, High Score Cart, every 2600 and 7800 game ever, downloaded off the net, on one cartridge, on one console, goodness. It is the 24k gold electroplating for the 7800. :)

     

    Amen. I agree 100% and own a CC2 :) I typically ignore any of the 7800 games except for the original (and amazing) round of initial Atari arcade ports and the new homebrews (Beef Drop and the Pac-Man variants)

     

    Without a CC2, it's still a keeper for Food Fight, 2 player simultaneous Centipede, and 2 player simultaneous Asteroids alone.

     

    2 player "team mode" 7800 centipede is the best way to introduce a newbie to classic games, by the way. Even if the new player runs out of lives, if the other player gets enough points extra life, it brings the new player back to life! Brilliant!

  18. Posted

    ok man I tried it out... it's cherry! :D Sound is right on. Graphics are right on. Speed is good. It's what 2600 emulation on the PSP needs to be! :)

     

    I got to really try it out this weekend and agree 100% with NE146. This is a huge moment in portable 2600 emulation history :) . Thanks again to everyone involved - it had looked like the PSP emulation scene was slowing down, but now it has really picked up. Now I am thinking of giving long file names to a lot of my ROM's so they will be easier to navigate.

  19. Posted

    I hope it will allow simultaneous analog stick and directional button use.

    I think it's either/or, unfortunately. I'll try it shortly after I'm done updating my firmware to 3.03 OE-C. BTW it shouldn't be long before ALL PSP's are able to be downgraded, since another exploit was found.

     

    My ROMset is sorted alphabetically and split into folders. I guess the GoodTools could help me reorganize them by company, right? I think I'd find that easier to navigate.

     

    I tried PSP2600 version 1.0.3 last night and it is either the d-pad or the analog stick, but not both simultaneously. The sound seems to be much better with this release, too. :)

  22. Posted

    Been a little too busy for a little while there, but I hope to try out the new version of the psp 2600 emulator later tonight. And yeah, I'll just pop in Space Invaders and check it out :D

    This one is a big improvement. Space Invaders and Pac-Man are playable now IF you set the speed limiter at 60FPS. Bugs I noticed:

     

    - I don't know why the speed limiter was set to 40FPS, but if you turn it up to 60FPS (and save it as default for next time) you can see the enemy shots in Space invaders.

     

    - Crashes on exit if you use the HOME key to quit. Hit SELECT and EXIT from inside the emulator, instead.

     

    - The toggle for "analog/cursor" controls doesn't seem to work. I dislike the analog control on the PSP and prefer to use the D-pad. PSP2600 v.2 doesn't let me. The "keyboard" configuration is too confusing for me at the moment. I can read, but I shouldn't have to think. ;)

     

    Otherwise, this is very close to a perfect VCS emulator.

     

    I tried it last night and found the same "crash on exit" bug. Looks really really promising but I need more air time with it. I will load 1.0.3 - I hope it will allow simultaneous analog stick and directional button use.

     

    By the way, those "slots" are just left over artifacts from other emulators and are irrelevant to PSP2600, right?

     

    Thanks, Danno, for your help in getting this going, and thanks, NE146, for pointing out to use a newer Stella code base.

  23. Posted

    Alright, since this thread is mostly filled with nonsense about re-sellers and nobody gave Kepone any kind of indicators about why they sold so low, here it goes (free of charge to everyone):

     

    A.) Working condition not specified.

    B.) Picture too far away from product.

    C.) Cart, manual and inserts not shown or mentioned.

    D.) Priority mail cost $3.85 a looong time ago, makes the seller look incompetent.

    E.) Rarest title not mentioned in auction subject.

    F.) Bad ending time.

     

    I could probably come up with more, but then I would have to charge for the information, sorry. :P

     

    That's excellent advice, CPUWIZ. Thanks (and I say this selfishly :) ). Does anyone else have more good advice to add?

     

    I have one more thing to add - Kepone, your reputation on eBay is perfect, but you hadn't sold anything since 2004, which could have scared some people off.

     

    With no sales for three years, would it be good advice for Kepone (or for anyone else who hasn't sold anything in a while) to start off selling some smaller basic stuff individually just to get a feel for the current conditions and to get a selling reputation established again?

  24. Posted

    Tons. Activision Anthology has all the Atari 2600 games by Activision plus some homebrew. There are classic collections for Konami, Namco, and lots more. Wario Ware (the original one is WarioWare Inc. Mini Microgames, the sequel is Wario Ware, Twisted, and they both rock hard) on the GBA may be the single best portable gaming experience ever (for a classic gaming fan) in my opinion.

  25. Posted

    Again I'm glad the emulation on your PDA is awesome. But again we're talking the PSP here. Going along the same line of thought, the 2600 emulation is nearly flawless on the PC, the Xbox, and the GP32 as well, but that aint enlightening anybody

     

    Well, I think the novelty of PSP emulation is that it allows you to take your Atari with you in a very convenient package. Not so true of your desktop, and even your notebook. The PDA though, offers an alternate platform that is well suited to portable gaming... if that is what you're after. That was all...

     

    Danno, I think with the NES fanboys, you just have to take their comments with a grain of salt. Clearly the PSP can run a variety of applications more efficiently than a DS. The people who expect a DS to be able to run the same things as a PSP just can't really understand the technology. There is a reason why NES products cost less. :)

     

    For me (and I'm a PSP, GBA, and smartphone owner, and have no desire to own a non-portable console higher than my 7800 with Cuttle Cart 2), the novelty of PSP emulation is that you can play on the mindblowingly best portable screen in the known universe, with high quality buttons (and analog stick) ergonomically designed for gaming.

     

    The screen on the PSP is so good that, if/when the emulator is nailed, my only remaining emulation dream will be to be able to play emulated 2600 games with others over wifi some day with my AtariAge friends as easily as someone *today* can play Mario Kart on the DS or Madden 07 on the PSP.

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