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  3. Posted

    One other thought on the Activision Anthology for DS - the bottom screen can be a touch-screen-enabled picture of a video game console, even while the game is active on the top screen, with game select, reset, a/b difficulty, and color/bw switches. The power off switch can take you right to the main selection menu.

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    My best ideas:

     

    A Xevious inspired game where the bottom screen shows the land straight below and the top screen shows the sky straight ahead, and you have to shoot/avoid the enemies in front of you while you are bombing/avoiding targets on the ground.

     

    A 2 player simultaneous racing game on one DS -- one person uses the left joypad and the L button, the other uses the right 4 buttons and the R button - with each player's first person perspective on a separate screen

     

    Activision Anthology on the DS with 2 player simultaneous action - the left player uses the left joypad and the L button to fire, and the right player uses the 4 buttons for movement and the R button to fire. Touchscreen controls can be used to select games and set switches, etc. before gameplay starts.

     

    Battleship would be a natural with the 2 screens (play either against the computer, play Advance Wars-style turn-based (pass your DS back and forth to the other player and the screens flip each time) or wirelessly with another DS)

     

    Some other ideas:

     

    I agree with others' ideas of a pinball game where the action is on the bottom screen and the scoreboard is on the top screen

     

    Galaga with running statistics on the bottom screen (shot percentage, etc.)

     

    Ports of 2600 games with maps (Starmaster, Ghostbusters, Solaris) where you could see the maps on the bottom screen and the action on the top screen

  5. Posted

    128bytes, is that card formatted correctly? Looks nice, but I'm not sure I know how to format one, and I'd be afraid of erasing something important.

     

    What's this cable that was included? Does this travel from the CC2 to the card reader/writer?

     

    It came pre-formatted in FAT, and was 100% ready to go without any formatting. Formatting them is easy, though, but I won't get into the how-to here.

     

    The cable is only used if you want to do hack/homebrew development. You should use a cheap card reader/writer to transfer your ROM images to the MMC.

  7. Posted

    Just set the snipe for 61 seconds  

     

    Free shipping for bidding early, doesn't seem like much, but it could possibly increase the amount of bids, and that's always a good thing when selling. :)

     

     

     

     

    The variable shipping price depending on bid time policy should be a violation of eBay's shipping rules, because the winning bidder, via a proxy bid higher than someone's snipe, could unwittingly end up being the winning bidder with less than 60 seconds to go! I can't find anything specifically prohibiting it, I just don't think it passes the "reasonable" test. Someone should challenge this with eBay -- I'm sure they would win.

     

     

    But hey, if this is legal (and I don't think it is), and the seller doesn't want his items sniped, it will just keep his prices lower. Too bad for him/her. ;)

  8. Posted

    Firefox 1.02 on XP is working perfectly for me.

     

    RT - isn't it easier to just type the square bracket, b, square bracket, stuff you are bolding, square bracket, slash, b, square bracket? Much faster than clicking, even though it's harder to explain

  9. Posted

    I'm equally amazed at how bent out of shape some folks get over a parady review piece on a parody website..

    Quoted for truth.

    Oh, so they are fake reviews that are supposed to be bad on purpose. Now I get it.

    It's THE ONION. Did you expect something different?

     

    The Onion's main page is all satire, but The Onion A.V. Club is quite serious. There are some great interviews in the archives, including Henry Rollins, XTC, and Lemmy from Motorhead.

  11. Posted

    They are time-consuming games! I'm just now doing my first Zelda game, Link to the Past on the GBA, and I'm stuck around the East Castle looking for a "big key". I've been all around the place looking for it. I'm trying very hard to get through the game without any help! I still am a bigger fan of shorter "classic" games, though, and may try to pick up a used Wario Ware as a reward for completing my first Zelda.

  12. Posted

    I'm also concerned about pocketablity. The original GBA is just (barely) front pocketable, and the SP is perfect in that regard. And unlike RT, I travel sans man-purse.

     

    How do people plan to carry their PSP and keep it scratch-free?

  13. Posted

    Question: What format do the 7800 roms need to be in to get them to work?  The ones I got from AtariAge don't seem to work,  am I donig something wrong?

     

    Binary format, you need to strip off the first 128 bytes from the A78 files.

     

     

     

    There are other places on the net that have 7800 games in .bin format if you're not into stripping 128 bytes.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Hey, stop peeking at me! ;) :P

  14. Posted

    My pet peeve with stores like this (and I worked at EB a long time ago) is how they take one game out of the box, so they can put the empty box out on display.

    Yes, very annoying. Of course, as a GameCube owner, I've gotten used to the fact that they usually ONLY have one copy of any game I want, so I will ALWAYS end up with the stickered-up box. (But at least with the Cube games, I can take Goo Gone to the case without worry; I don't think I would EVER buy a GBA game there.)

     

    The Mall of America had more than one Gamestop?

    Yes, there used to be two. There are a few other stores that have multiple locations in the mall, although several of those have consolidated. There are also a lot of low-end closeout/99 cent type stores in the mall now. It's huge, but it's pretty crappy. I don't go there because it's the biggest mall in the country; I only go because it's the closest mall to my house.

     

    Although the last time I was at the Houston Galleria I noticed it has more than one Starbucks.

    I counted at least FOUR Caribou Coffees at the mall tonight. Those things are spreading like weeds at the place. I used to think that bit on the one Simpsons episode where every space in the mall turned into a Starbucks was absurd, but these days it seems plausible.

     

    My favorite article in "The Onion" was titled "NEW STARBUCKS OPENS IN REST ROOM OF EXISTING STARBUCKS". Hilarious and prophetic! I have it printed out somewhere - it's not available on The Onion's site anymore.

  18. Posted

    Hey, I disagree with Wil's review, but I give him a lot of credit for reviewing 2600 games on The Onion AV Club, which gets a huge number of hits, I'm sure. The hyperlinks to AtariAge are a nice touch, too. I also give the Onion AV Club a lot of credit for giving major front page space (even more than the wildly popular "Savage Love") to classic video games every week. You can tell Wil really likes the 2600.

     

    His review of 2600 Alien was enjoyable to read, for example. I really think his reviews need game screenshots, though -- not just cover box art.

     

    I better stop now before I sound too much like Paula Abdul on American Idol...

  19. Posted

    The sports genre is the only reason I bought a PS2 when I bought it.  At the time, I wasn't into modern videogames at all with the exception of Madden Football.

     

     

    The sports genre is the only reason I bought a GBA when I bought it. At the time, I wasn't into modern videogames at all with the exception of wanting to try Madden Football. Madden 2005 on the GBA is a good game. It also helped me with my Fantasy Football thinking this year, and I did really well in the AtariAge league.

     

    BTW, RT, I also like the simplistic controls of Super Challenge Football on the 2600. It reminds me a lot of real backyard Nerf football games.

  20. Posted

    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....

     

    Don't forget that Chad wrote the whole operating system and kernel for the CC2, and that has value beyond the price of the components themselves. It's a great product and I'm glad I bought one. It is, I believe, the only device on which you can play every 2600 or 7800 game, including homebrews, hacks, and prototypes, on original hardware, stored in memory all at once (yes, except for Pitfall 2, but I own that cart anyway).

     

    The only negative for me is that I'm not actually playing the games on my trusty old Atari 2600, which I now have temporarily stored next to all my 2600 carts. I also am painfully reminded that I have to solder in a new reset button on my 7800 one of these days...

     

    I am looking forward to having a lot of new members of the CC2 user community coming on board!

  21. Posted

    I wrote a letter to the local paper in defense of the company president and it actually got printed. I just feel people made TOO MUCH of a big deal over something like this. There are far more serious issues that warrant that kind of attention and those issues were ignored in favor of condemning someone.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Good timing selling it now, Kepone. I'm impressed that you wrote a letter to the editor, too.

  22. Posted · Edited by 128bytes

    Here's the link

     

    One comment -- hey, XTC were the initials I always used in the arcade, because XTC was/is my favorite band!

     

    Wil kind of trashes Midnight Magic in this review, and once again credits atariage.com for the images.

     

    His synopsis: It's just like pinball, but without any of that annoying "fun" that so often distracts us from getting the important things in life done.

     

    I disagree - I like Midnight Magic.

  23. Posted

    As for the landfill, if there is hardly any rain, or possibly no rain at all,the carts may still be in real nice condition. Especially if they are still in the mailer boxes and shrinkwrapped. I wish I could get in there. :)

    Phil

     

    Miss the part about being crushed with cement poured on top? :D

     

    A few may have survived but it sure would'nt be worth the effort.

     

    You know, a cement-crushed E.T. cart from the actual New Mexico landfill would probably be more valuable than a common E.T. cart...

  24. Posted

    Am I the only one who never even turns the sound up on his GBA?  The first time I play a game, I listen to the sounds but usually after that, I just always turn the volume down.  I never even noticed my GBA had a headphone jack :D

     

    Same with me (except for the not noticing there was a headphone jack part). I like to play my GBA in silence. I find myself agreeing with you way too much, Joeybastard...

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