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You may find the Easy 6502 tutorial helpful with the addressing modes.

Choice of joystick is very personal. If the feel of the old controllers is important to you, you should get an adaptor like the 2600-daptor. Otherwise, you have a world of choices. My personal USB controller is a Logitech Dual Action, a DualShock lookalike with twelve assignable buttons including the buttons under the joysticks. It lets me navigate Stella's UI, run and close games, control all the console switches remotely, open the debugger, play twin-stick games, and other cool stuff. The response is pretty good, at least as quick as a keyboard to my perception. Quality will obviously vary by manufacturer.

The lingering uncertainty about bus stuffing has to do with warm-up latency, right? I know in my particular case that stuffing took different amounts of time to start working when starting from different room temperatures.

Fast Food - 4848 Fast Eddie - 21,090

S.BAZ, you left out my Wall Jump Ninja score. I got 56 (which would put me in 13th place for that game) and also posted a picture.

Fast Food - 4390 Fast Eddie - 7000

I can max out Chopper Command and get into the zone with Bell Hopper (with a Genesis pad, not a paddle).

Oystron - 5900 Fun game, very unforgiving. I might be done with Lead for this week. It's just too stressful without continues.

Oystron - 1480 I'm gonna need to work on this one. Lead - 2617 Wall Jump Ninja - 56 Bonus: I actually have done some work toward making a homebrew VCS game. I want it to be an electronic warfare-themed game where opposing players try to jam and destroy each other's numbers stations. The action will take place along one or two (depending on game variation) one-dimensional representations of a radio link, and players will have to dodge and maneuver around the random binary symbols of encrypted messages. Getting from one end of the screen to the other will advance the progress of your jamming, but your opponent can counteract this, so the gameplay in two-player variations is sort of a mix between Freeway and tug-of-war.

I'll probably have a hell of a time trying to break through the brick walls I run into on Lead and Wall Jump Ninja. Never actually played a full level of Oystron. Should be fun.

Crystal Castles - 78,039

Crystal Castles - 65,110 Chase the Chuck Wagon - 1065 What an awful game.

Popeye - 11,950

Liquid Candy misbehaves too.

Haven't posted scores before now because these games kinda frustrate me. This is only the second or third time I've ever played Popeye. Anyway, He-Man - 15,200 I also found a score glitch after getting a game over. Popeye - 8600 Smurfs - 30,500 Bonus: My favorite cartoon is currently Sailor Moon, mainly because of how cute it is. I tried reading the original comic once and just couldn't get over how bratty Usagi was, but the show combines the character designs so well with the voice acting and soundtrack that the story actually grabs me and keeps me interested.

1774 I don't like the death ships.

I was thinking the same thing.

I love the lightning bolt effect here!

I don't have any non-jittery paddles right now, so I'll have to use Stella this week.

This topic would be better suited for the batari Basic forum.

Jawbreaker - 22,500 Tooth Protectors - 139,800

Jawbreaker - 12,000 Tooth Protectors - 106,200

Jawbreaker - 9270 Tooth Protectors - 80,800 Plaque Attack - 37,595

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