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I didn't want to suggest an issue between 2600daptor and Stella. I was speculating about hyperkin needing to work out separate licensing with 2600dator's firmware patent and Stella's use restrictions. If that was clear, then I applaud your support of Stella and totally love using your products.

Could it be something like the 2600-daptor II firmware needs to be licensed or restrictions on profiting from Stella open-source software?

Wanted a 7800 metal name strip for a 7800 I got in a bundle that is missing it, but works fine otherwise. Best Electronics is sold out of them as well as the plastic shell (top or both). Looked around the internet in vain. Anyone know how I could find one without just cannibalizing another system? Unfortunately the "broken" 7800's usually look pretty beat up, but that may be my only avenue. I don't know who are the 7800 parts & repair folks around here who might have a spare name strip or plastic console case top. Saw a decent broken 7800 on eBay, but the $45 tag seemed a bit steep for something broken. Thanks.

Wanted a 7800 metal name strip for a 7800 I got in a bundle that is missing it, but works fine otherwise. Best Electronics is sold out of them as well as the plastic shell (top or both). Looked around the internet in vain. Anyone know how I could find one without just cannibalizing another system? Unfortunately the "broken" 7800's usually look pretty beat up, but that may be my only avenue. I don't know who are the 7800 parts & repair heavys around here who might have a spare name strip or plastic console case top. Thanks.

How about children wearing barrels, because they are poor homeless orphans, like in the cartoons.

I wonder how much influence there was by the media frenzy on how the 2nd gen video games and arcades would make kids grow up overweight and unskilled and video games are like drugs. I don't think it did much considering the Nintendo saturation a few years later. I'm sure kids didn't listen to it but parents might consider it. Although i often hear people in their twenties referred to as the Nintendo generation in a way on par with "no child left behind" condescension. When my nephew was ten and would go to my moms house he would bring his Nintendo along and would play my old Atari, but when he went to his other grandparent's house they would make him go outside rather than play video games. I know he preferred my mom's house , so maybe that's why the parents never fell for the media frenzy. Whatever the case, video games are at least more interactive and social than the typical 15 hours of tv a week people watch. Or maybe the parents liked them as much as the kids ... probably, LOL.

I think the heat seeking missiles should have shadows, if possible, and the altitude bar would be a nice addition. Are we not supposed to be able to shoot the missile silos? Otherwise it is a fun game and looks good. I like that we have the shadow for our ship.

So just after saying I was curbing my gaming spending, an item I've wanted for like a year shows up on ebay. No box, but the first one I've seen with the battery cover in a year. At least it was not a big investment. Perhaps just one of my interests, since it is rare but not expensive after 20 years. Wonder if I will ever find a good box. looks like the last one in box was Nov 2014 https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/radica-buckmaster-rifle-huntin-1559382183

Would anybody pay $200 for this? https://www.ebay.com/rpp/professor-einstein?_trkparms=%26clkid%3D6319733551207593218

What. you mean you didn't like hopping and batting around to the Kinect versions of WipeOut? (Did she just call the pilot Solar Fox, LOL?)

I remember being in the Columbia House Atari 2600 Video Game Club. Basically like one of those record clubs that offer you a decent deal in the beginning and then send you mini-catalogs with a selection of the month you have to opt out of or they send it to you. Anyhow. I remember the crash as them sending me a letter saying it was becoming difficult to find video games anymore, so they were ending the club and selling their games aand including a clearance sale mini-catalog. I also remember several months before that my cousins getting an Atari 2600 for $25 about htree years after my mom paid $179 for one on sale. I remember when we got the atari, my mom asking one of the KMart workers if they thought it might be available cheaper in the future and the worker said that it probably would not because that was the cheapest they'd seen it selling for. I also remember my sister and I arguing over what game to get. I think I wanted space invaders and she wanted pac-man and we ended up compromising with Asteroids. Then a few weeks later my sister borrowed Pitfall from her boyfriend and we knew we were living the dream.

I think MAME is the only place on the 2600-daptor site it mentions that the paddle and the driving controller can't be used for spinning games like Arkanoid or Tempest, although they don't mention Atari800WinPlus, but it seems like chances are good these controller would work for the intended paddle and controller games. I imagine the paddle would never work well for Arkanoid and Tempest if spinning was intended, since it has a limited turning angle. It should work well for typical paddle games. Driving controller does not work in Stella for 2600 tempest prototype rom. I think it only works for Indy 500 and maybe a couple homebrews. I don't think there is an Arkanoid for the 2600 through 8-bit, unless its a homebrew. Paddle worked fine in Superbreakout, but in tempest prototype it just moved non-stop to which ever end you turned the paddle towards, no stopping in between ends. It worked somewhat better with my trakball mouse, so it may have been being designed for the Atari trackball and possibly joystick. Although, oddly, the 2600 Tempest prototype by design only moves from one side of the screen to the other, it does not spin round like the arcade.

In online selling, like online dating, there's the view that if you are specific, people will use it to exclude your item or use it against you, if you are vague, some people will fill in the missing information with wishful thinking and only have themselves to blame.

Cool. Eleven is back. Figured there was a 90% chance, but always the possibilty they would skip her this season ... although could be they wait until the last couple episodes. Now we play the waiting game (The waiting game sucks, Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippo. - Homer Simpson).

Won't be too long, but if I don't budget myself, I'll find myself buying things like that $2000 Starpath Supercharger.collection on ebay just for its hallowed glow.

So ordered an AV Famicon that comes with a new US compatible adapter (100 - 240V AC, 10V DC, high enough amps), new AV cable, and the controllers and a couple games to test. Also have two each of the power pads and family trainers on the way and a couple cheap Famicom games to test out the FC powerpad and an NES zapper I have. It will take a while to get here from Japan, so I can have some time to work on a control adapter. Budget-wise, I think I'll post-pone the Everdrive for a short while. I think that Everdrive FC N8 is the most expensive sd cart I've seen, including the protos I've bought,

Sorry, I meant would the adapter Kosmic Stardust described be able to have both player 3 and player 4, versus only player 3 on the amazon adapter.

I never noticed this in Stella, but it did happen on my 2600. I also would occasionally see cars in the cave lane for a brief time accompanied by flicker, so it was like the sprites alignment was off from the collision detection by a lane. At first I thought maybe I ran out of time, because sometimes you lose track of time hunting for flies, but then I saw the cars in the cave lane.

Thank you both for all of your help. Do you know if the homemade FC Expansion port adapters allow both player 3 and 4 support? The amazon one seems odd to allow two inputs and connect them both to player 1 leads unless they figured some games would allow 2 players in this configuration, or maybe just to make it look better, or possibly it works better on the Twin FC it appears to be targeting.

They also sell an expansion port adapter, $30 total, but reviews seem uncertain about whether it will allow one or two players and seems to not work for all games. One reviewer said both inputs were pigtailed together. All kinda strange. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NHATUTW/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Even after all these years, there is really a small amount of info on Famicoms in English. Probably, related to my finding that almost all used Famicoms are being sold from Japan.

I read by people who tried it on a couple boards that it works, sort of, but not really. This of course is after days of famicom vs nes investigation with mostly vague blog and forum entries. There does appear to be a common belief around that they are electronically the same. The zappers are the same according to those who have used them interchangeably.

This seems unlikely, but does Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio have English as an option or do I hear the voice samples in Japanese only? I have my doubts I would buy a cart adapter for one NES aerobics game, although I suppose I will eventually find enough games like this to buy one. P.S. I've read several reports of the analogue nt mini crashing or freezing, so, considering the lower cost as well, AV FC is probably best.

Okay. Thanks. Its making a lot more sense as far as the differences between the two. I think the AVS is out since the HDMI output leaves zapper games out unless you have a very rare HDMI CRT. Will most likely get an AV Famicom and do the jumper mod or sacrifice large wad of cash for an Analogue NT mini, although $450+ feels like way too much to spend.

I hate when you hit the zoom on a picture and it doesn't get any bigger.