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I had a dream that I was in a bar, and the bartender is walking around giving away atari games. At the end, he had 2 left, gauntlet and stronghold crusader. He was going to give me stronghold and the guy next to me gauntlet. I told the bartender that I would give him 10 dollars for gauntlet. He gave it to me instead and the guy next to me got stronghold(weird dream, this is a pc game). Then I woke up

The ps1 you can burn a copy of the bad disc and play it, you need to buy something that plugs in to the back of the ps1. The ps2 is a bit harder to play burned copies. The ps3 is a lot harder than the ps2 at playing burned copies, but it reads games that neither my ps1 or ps2 could read, and the ps3 reads them perfectly. The dreamcast, can play burned games without needing to mod it or anything, just burn it, put it in the system, and play it. If you don't want to buy a ps3 or play burned games, you can take the disc to a hollywood video(are these only in florida?), and they usually have an industrial disc cleaner that they use on their discs. They will throw your games in it if the manager isn't around usually.

fun with numbers?

Whew, a few years ago when I got my first computer, it was made by hand by a guy who used to own a computer business. So it wasn't any name brand, it was just random parts thrown together. I opened it up and found a 34-pin female edge connector that connected a 1.44mb floppy to the motherboard. It has 3 ends. One is the 34 pin edge connector, and the other 2 are black and have really close holes, both female. The 2 that aren't the edge connector were connecting the floppy to the motherboard. I want to know if i can use this for the mod? Here is a picture to show you what I am talking about. Something in the picture that you can not see, is that at the edge connector, 2 ribbon cables come from it. One goes to one of the black parts, and the other ribbon cable to the other black parts. It looks like the bottom row of pins goes to one cable, and the top row goes to the other. Will this be a problem when soldering it so to my flashback?

I have an intellivision 25-in-1 plug and play controller type thing. I read online that it has a Nes On A Chip inside of it. I have 2 original nes's, and works and one doesn't. Is there a guide that says how to put the cartridge slot from the non working one on to the Nes On A Chip?

I know what a DPDT switch is but not how it works, and the cartridge fits in to the pins on that connector, I don't think that it works though.

OK, I have one DPDT switch and I'm saving it for my good flashback 2, after I try to mod this one. I have a new soldering iron, new solder, a thing of flux, and im getting an old 5.25" floppy drive tommorow. I have everything that I will need for this. On this flashback, I don't want to use a switch, I want it to be just for cartridges. With the DIP connector I have (i doubt it works), I have it all wired in to the flashback, all 24 pins. The thing is, without the switch, I don't know how to wire the system up to play the cartridges. I've killed the resistor at J9, and I've tried connected one J9 pad to the other J9 pad, that didn't work(I think) I tried wiring one J3 pad to the other J3 pad, which didn't work (I think) and I've tried wiring one J9 to one J3. That didn't work either(I think) If you don't want to use a switch, what do you wire with these?

I bought something called "Rosin Soldering Flux", in paste form. Before I open it i want to know if I should use it for this, so that I can return it if i need to.

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do you mean one of the 5.25" floppy drives? if you mean a 3 1/3, can you tell me how?

have you guys used flux for the atari mod?

That must be why my food started tasting better after washing the atari.

Hmm, Ill look in to that, thanks.

Ok first time i've ever tried to solder. It would help if I had a good soldering iron, mine doesn't heat up all the way except on one side. I used a floppy ribbon cable like in a lot of the atari mods you see, prepared the same way. I tried for over 3 hours to get all of them on the right spot on the "cartridge connector' that I made. No luck. So I tried to solder them to the motherboard. I got to #6 or 7, and then one of the wires ripped. So I desoldered them all and came to a conclusion that i'm just going to let a professional handle this. Will anyone mod it for me? I will pay for all shipping, all parts needed(I don't have any of the parts anymore), and pay you for your troubles. If so, I will send my good flashback thats never been opened, and I would want a switch so I could select between the internal rom or a cartridge. If anyone would do this for me, about how much do you think it would all cost for you to do it, I need to know so I can get all the money.

Yeah, one that automatically switches when you put in a cartridge. I don't have a switch and the built in games don't work anyway, so I just want it to be only play cartridges. I've searched through these forums for a cartridge only flashback and have found none. If you know of one, a link would be appreciated.

Is there a way to completely take out the switch and rom, and use the flashback just for cartridges? How would I have to wire it then? This flashback 2's internal game rom was faulty when I bought it and most of the games don't work.

I have a rev. b board(really rev. c), and all the guides to putting a cartridge port on to it says to take off the 0 ohm resistor(capacitor?) at J13. How do I do this? Just melt it with a soldering iron? Also, all the guides I see don't show how to hook up the switch to change from games to the internal rom. Is there a guide with pictures and an explanation for that? Another question, when you connect the cartridge connector and you solder a wire to pin 1, 2, etc, do you solder the wire that goes from pin 1 to the pin 1 on the cartridge port, 2 to the pin 2 on the cartridge port, etc? This is what im using as a cartridge port, its a part from an old floppy drive. I don't know if it will work, im trying it on a spare flashback 2.

Is there a guide online on how to do this?

I knew my atari was dirty, but I didn't think it was too dirty. After I put it in the dishwasher, I realized how dirty it was. Except for faded paint, it looks brand new. Even the ribs feel different.

I ended up having to wash it with other dishes, but it turned out perfect! Looks brand new

Is there something else you can use as a connector for atari 2600 cartridges, besides the official ones? Something that you may find around the house, like an old floppy drive ribbon cable? If that would work, would it be easy to move around the pins? Sorry, I seem to be asking a lot of stupid questions.

Thanks, it's in, I cant wait till its out

Im about to throw my atari's plastic case in the dishwasher(only the plastic don't worry), and I want to know, will it mess up the paint on the plastic? Also, my atari didn't have stickers on it when i got it, so I don't have to worry about that. Last thing, inside of my atari is a piece of old paper taped to a metal box, it's a light sixer with a channel select switch, does this mean anything? (the paper says "99 01100570" then has a blue mark) Sorry for asking so many questions, but using the search feature I have found many people that wash their systems in the dishwasher. No one, though, says if they dry it in one, if it messes up the paint, or if I should wash it by itself or with dishes. You don't have to answer all of these questions, but answering any would help.

Wow, not only is E.T. one of the worst games ever, it made last place on the worst games list. Does that mean it sucks at sucking, too?