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Cosmic Ark - Game 5 B/B 254 Played on: 'Vader' (Batari S-Video mod) / cx40 / PAL cart. Still stuck on busy shift work . Found 5 mins b4 work to throw down some Game 5 participation points. Oh well. Dr Vocelli. I think you may have missed my participation score, for Game 1, on page 3 Ta.

Cosmic Ark - Game 1 B/B 10,170 Played on: 'Vader' (Batari S-Video mod) / cx40 / PAL cart. Found me 15mins to throw up my 1st try. Love my 2600 twitch games, but I struggle on the 1st screen on this title for what ever reason. Oh well

Sweet. I have the 8bitdo NS30 pro, which does not have a rumble pack, hence no idea on that feature. Gr8 quality gamepads.

With the latest firmware, you should just have to hold START only, to turn on the controller. That should set it to default mode, which is SWITCH. When mapping your controller buttons, the Left and Right TRIGGER buttons may not register initially. I found I just skipped them and mapped the rest. When I completed the mapping and got to the bottom, I went back up to the TRIGGER buttons and was able to map them without issues. A mate had the same problem, but rectified the same way.

Woo Hoo! She arrived. PAL version Have never seen one in the wild in my part of the woods and have been searching for some time. Plus, Aussies seem to advertise the word "Rare" on any popular titled 2600 carts and attach drug induced wacky prices!! Got this one from my 2600 contact in the UK for a decent price.

Dude, you've actually posted on someones (AtariBrian) personal 'For Sale' thread. You need to start your own thread. Put on as much information as you can and shots of your cart if possible.

Why do people actively LOVE "Pre-NES" consoles? Why do people actively start ENTER CONSOLE HERE Vs ENTER CONSOLE HERE troll wars? Why does my 16 year old son give me jovial shit about my beloved 2600's simplicity & graphical abilities, yet on occasion, leaves his Gaming PC or PS4 to sit in the bean bag and try to beat my score on H.E.R.O marked up on the chalkboard? Why are Tacos better than Toast? Exposure inducing Opinion! The 'Vader' was my 1st love .. then C64 .. then MegaDrive .. then PS1 .. yadda yadda. Friends never had NES/SNES, hence no personal exposure. So, when I got older and arguably wiser, I gave up the hours of grinding on modern games and went backwards until I hit the 2600. I now have a modern opinion on an old era console that I had past personal exposure. Based on certain gaming personal elements and reasons, the 2600 is now my current gaming console. Now, at any time during that timeline from '82 to the present, a single element change could change my exposure and hence my opinion. Make my 1st console the Colecovision. Maybe I would have regressed to that. Maybe my 2600 was a lemon and caused nothing but issues bitd. Would I have gone back to it? In relation to my boy. He was exposed to our pinball and arcade machines, older consoles like the aforementioned and obviously my 2600 obsession whilst growing up. He saw me playing Yars Revenge as a teenager and wanted a game, just to have a taste. Rough quote: "Now I know what you mean Dad when you say easy to learn hard to master. The graphics didn't bother me once I was in the zone." Exposure inducing Opinion. Maybe when he is older, he'll fall back to my collection for the same reasons. With so many exposure and opinion variables at play, ... No answer is right or wrong!

Here here! Plus without beans, the Dutch most likely would not have invented their "Ovens".

On shift work, so spewin' I haven't been able to spend more time on this little gem of a game. Some impressive scores being layed down. Completely out of my league!

#Edit# Oops. Posted in wrong thread! Nothing to see here.

I'll just make a quick few points if I may, that will answer some questions HSC players may have. Why randomized selection in each final bracket? After chatting with King Vocelli, we decided that because of all the different ways to play in HSC .. ie Emulation vs Real Hardware, PAL vs NTSC, different Controllers etc ... and past discussions about said matters, that this is the best way to balance these ellements and still rewarding the relevant bracketed players in some manner. How will you randomize the selection? I'll simply use the old 'name out of hat' method. Reflects the consoles low tech era I'll get the missus to choose. What else? IF! .. I happen to have made the bracket, my name will NOT be in the hat. Obvious really. Well. Game on and good luck to all for Season 8. Spriggy

The least I could do for Vocelli's hard work and a good way to support AA. I'll just make a quick few points if I may, that will answer some questions HSC players may have. Why randomized selection in each final bracket? After chatting with King Vocelli, we decided that because of all the different ways to play in HSC .. ie Emulation vs Real Hardware, PAL vs NTSC, different Controllers etc ... and past discussions about said matters, that this is the best way to balance these ellements and still rewarding the relevant bracketed players in some manner. How will you randomize the selection? I'll simply use the old 'name out of hat' method. Reflects the consoles low tech era I'll get the missus to choose. What else? IF! .. I happen to have made the bracket, my name will NOT be in the hat. Obvious really. Lastly, Vocelli doesn't know this, until now of course, but if he makes one of the final brackets ... I think he fully deserves to be placed in the hat! Sure he knows the games prior to the rest of us ... but I don't see any real usable advantage or issue in that, especially when we have over a week to play each title. Plus, I don't see Dr Vocelli sitting in front of his tv, rubbing his hands together, hatching an evil plot to beat all and sundry! I think you would all agree. Well. Game on and good luck to all for Season 8. Spriggy

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Nice work!

Dragonfire - Game 1 B/B 10,310 Played on: 'Vader' (Batari S-Video mod). PAL cart. 1st chance to have another frolic. Woo Hoo! Got into the 10's. Now to keep calm, get used to the pattern and improve.

I totally understand Jin's and Capitan's points. I'm an aussie on real PAL Vader hardware .. and with over 200 carts, the likelihood of me playing a real PAL cart are quite high. I have honestly thought of this dilemma as well, feeling a bit dirty at times However I do prefer to play on my real hardware. Either way .. if the rules ever changed, you wouldn't see me going anywhere. HSC is too much fun, with almost zero bitchyness and flaming on the HSC threads. I'd just happily play away, with NTSC roms, on my Retropie! But we digress ...

Kwik hijack .. Yeh. "Golden Throat Charmer" (ie Beer), is a quote taken from some of the old Paul Hogan "Fosters" beer adverts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLMbB3QftqE

I think someone dropped something other than liquid cheese in their Pacos !?

Damn. So f#%king cool! They still work their magic even today. Makes me want to knock off work early, grab a golden throat charmer and flick that reset switch with my big toe See ya .....

Lock 'N Chase (2600) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (PC) Dragonfire (2600)

Nice. Activision seemed to run that same advert ideal through their other 2600 titles, at that time. Another link with a few cool adverts. https://www.vintag.es/2015/07/old-video-game-ads-from-late-1970s.html