OldAtarian
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You're a lot more lenient than I would be. It's not your fault he can't tell the difference between Mario Brothers and SUPER Mario Brothers. I hope you explained the difference to him and told him that SUPER Mario Brothers was never released for any Atari system.
Just the fact that Luigi is on the label should have been a big tip off that it wasn't the same game. Luigi is not in SUPER Mario Brothers.
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Had less than a day left...With 0 bids on it. Since you didn't bid before the auction ended, why are you so stressed about it?
Do you really think a listing with a Quadrun cart had zero bids? The bids were cancelled by the seller before the listing was ended. That happened to me before.
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You have to look at completed listings in green, not red, to determine the going rate. BIN's, reserve auctions or auctions with a high opening bid are bad indicators to use. I could list one for $100 but that doesn't mean I am going to get it or that they are all suddenly worth $100.
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I salvaged the RF cable from my Darth Vader for another project that was missing one (a 400, I think, can't remember now). Is it possible to get RF cables that are like the originals without having to take one from another 2600? The RCA cables you get today aren't the same as they are thinly shielded and the pin is too long.
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Slot Racers is a horrible game with a horrible name. Real slot cars race on tracks, they don't navigate mazes and they don't shoot at each other. The name is very deceiving if you bought it expecting it to be anything like slot car racing. I do real slot car racing on the big tracks and it's nothing at all like it.
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Here's one that got miscategorized as Colecovision
eBay Auction -- Item Number: 190475129676
Take special notice in the photos of the Congo Bongo and Diner. Those two make the price alone.
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So if I peel it, will I end up with an "ultra rare, super valuable Black Label Society variety" Yars' Revenge?
Or will I end up with a piece of junk...
I think I'll just leave it alone and play it.
Yar's isn't particularly valuable in either red or black and peeling it might cause irreparable damage to both labels leaving you with a label-less or damaged label cart that will definitely be worth less than a cart with either label intact.
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So I was looking at this recently
http://www.amazon.com/Retron-Genesis-Triple-System-Nintendo-Entertainment/dp/B003O3EFY2
Plays NES/SNES and Genesis carts in a single console and it got me to thinking if it would be possible to make one of these with 2600/7800, 5200 and Jaguar slots to play all four.
It even has ports for NES/SNES and Genesis controllers. So having ports for 2600/7800 joysticks, 5200 joysticks and Jaguar controllers would be required.
Can it be done?
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Baseball Stars and Baseball Stars II
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Is it possible to burn ROM images from carts that weren't released as CD's so they work in the Neo Geo CD?
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The Sega Saturn always did the 2-D fighting games way better than the PS1. Many times back in the day.....the Saturn got the better review score on games like the Street Fighter Alpha's, Marvel Superheroes, Xmen vs Street Fighter....etc.etc.
The Neo Geo did 2D fighting games better than ANY 32-bit system and even the N64. You had to move up into Dreamcast/PS2/XBOX/Gamecube territory before you could find a system that looked as good. King of Fighters probably looks even better in some ways on the NG than the Dreamcast.
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A couple months ago, while I was looking for a SNES, I left my name/number with the "rich" Goodwill in my town. I got a call from them yesterday that they had just received a SNES. So I called them back today. The "tech" guy there explained that he couldn't get it to work, and thought I wouldn't want it, so went ahead and shipped it off to NeverNever land (the dump?).
I explained that even non-working, I might still be interested in taking stuff off their hands. I also inquired if they receive CVs, Ataris and IntVs, and he said they do all the time. I told him I'm interested in collecting whatever they get, working or not.
Depending on prices they ask, and the condition of the equipment, this could be a good thing for me, and for the collecting community. I can build up my collections, and try to repair the broken stuff. Whatever I am able to fix may become available to you guys in the future.
What do you think about this? Has anyone here used this strategy with a company like Goodwill?
I've tried it with old Macs. The problem comes in when Goodwill has a contract with a recycler to take everything electronic off their hands and they can't break the contract. Once they have the contract, the recycler drops off a locking bin and the employees have to put ALL electronics donations into it. Once the items are in the bin, only the recycler's driver can take them out when he makes his pickup because the employees don't have the key. Another thing, even if they don't have a contract, they take out all the hard drives and if you know anything about old Macs, those hard drives are very difficult to replace because they are Apple specific drives. Once the original hard drive is gone, I won't pay more for it than I would if it was non-functional because stripping it for parts is practically all I can do with it. It costs too much money to buy those drives separately for it to be worth paying full price for them except for some of the really rare models like a IIfx or Color Classic.
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The Intellivision is dominating my Atari's now. I wish I could stop, but building a huge collection is so cheap except for a handful of ultra rares that are CIB/NIB. You can assemble a fairly complete Inty collection for next to nothing.
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"You may be able to find an Atari unit-but you can never find any games for it! (Especially a collection like this)"
Is that a fact?
There's some guy near my area who's been trying to sell an Atari 7800 collection (pretty nice one, actually) all year for $500+ because he "knows what this stuff is worth."
Sometimes, all you can do is shake your head and hope nobody falls for it.
Hehe, the retro store near me just got in a 7800 unit that they're selling for $129.00
Knowing I'm a big Atari collector he asks if I'm interested because he knows they're really rare and that even I, the mighty atari collector, wouldn't have one of these and at this amazing price I should get it now before its quickly gone.
I just shook my head, said no thanks, and told him I already had 6 of them, including a boxed one and never paid more than $25 or $30 for a bare unit. His reaction and the way he said "Really?" made my day
PS - This was a month ago, this "buy it quick before its gone" unit is still there at $129.00
At that point I would have pulled out a photograph of the 6-7800's you already own and say "Oh, you mean these?" I just corrected one guy on ebay selling a Sears light sixer as a heavy and he was also saying that they only came from Sunnyvale. I expect a profanity laden email any minute now.
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It's very probable that Atari had a lot of older, loose carts leftover in the warehouse when the red boxes were printed so they slapped red labels on top of the older ones and put them in the newer red boxes. It would have taken too much time and people would have had to have been paid to peel off the old labels from each one before applying the new ones so just covering up the old labels was best. What would be interesting would be to discover that something really rare, like Gravitar with a silver label is hiding under some of the dirt common red label versions of that game and all you have to do is separate the top red label from the silver one underneath to increase the value of your cart.
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From the Atari Forum Wiki....
TOS 1.4
Most common version of TOS; last version to run on pre-STe machines; most compatible with games. More bug fixes (e.g. archive attribute works); improved hard-disk handling and performance. Faster disk copy; file move function; copy preserves date/time stamps; folder renaming; auto-run of GEM apps at startup; larger screen support; file "fastload" flag for faster startup; improved file selector; DOS-compatible disk format; keyboard reset. AKA "Rainbow TOS" because of animated colour Atari "Fuji" logo in desktop "About" dialog box.
I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. I know for a fact that I can run TOS 3.06 on my 1040STf, at least from floppy, and can't you use the TOS 2.06 chips in any ST prior to the Falcon and TT?
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Apart from Stadium Mud Buggies, are there any games harder to find than Congo Bongo or is it the #2 holy grail?
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Just grabbed a PC card adapter for the Portfolio. I don't know how much longer these things are going to be available so if I ever want to do anything with the Portfolio at all at this point I am going to need some way to transfer files to it.
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I can confirm this is the same example I discovered in Miami, Florida around 2007 and then sold to Crunchy. It's a legit NTSC cartridge. While in the Atari2600.com store it carried a 8/10 Very Fine condition grade due to the label mottling.
The funny story about this cartridge was the trouble it caused me at Miami International Airport. Due to it's value I decided to carry the cartridge with me onto the airplane home. I made it to security and emptied my pockets including the Karate cartridge. I was flagged over to the glass room. In came two or three large armed officers. They wanted to know about the Karate video game. I couldn't believe it. It triggered something while passing through security scanners. This very large officer was pawing the cartridge, turning it over and over and I'm thinking he's gonna tear the label or try to open the thing. I finally made it through and caught my flight. During the flight the cartridge fell out of my jacket pocket onto the floor of the airplane while I slept. Upon arrival in Phoenix I checked for the cartridge in my pocket and it was gone. Found it soon after. That cartridge caused me plenty of trouble.
A super nice and authentic example. It's selling price will help determine the strength of the Atari 2600 market.
JC
Atari2600.com
I think they will stop anybody bringing high value collectibles through security, particularly if it's an international flight. Have you ever noticed those signs they have that say all cash over a certain amount must be declared? It applies to collectibles or other objects of value, too. I can go through airport security with a $100,000 rare coin in my pocket and if the security people don't notice it when I turn out my pockets for the metal detector, I have just broken the law because it's the equivalent of smuggling cash out in plastic bags stuffed up your bum. I can sell that coin at my destination and it will be the same as cash. There are several very serious Federal laws that you will be breaking not to mention the laws you will be breaking in the destination country for not declaring the item.
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4 Atari 5200s in one box would weigh 50 pounds...how does eBay's calculator know that?
Do you have to use the calculator? Can't you just send it priority for $5 bucks? Isn't it flat rate fir anything under 70 lbs.?
This is actually one of the major flaws in Ebay's new system where you can't designate a standard shipping rate. For example, in the whole sale lots category you are maxed at $9.00. That is less than what a large flat rate box costs to ship, which I like to use. So, even when you check large flat rate box, you can still only charge $9.00. You actually have to but the games in a box, weigh them and then list them. In some cases it costs more to ship Parcel Post than Priority mail. This is one thing about Ebay's shipping policy that drives me nuts.
This is why you have to start your listings with a minimum bid or a reserve so you can be sure you don't end up eating the bulk of the shipping charge. So if it costs $19 to ship something but ebay will only allow you to charge $9, then you need to set a minimum bid or reserve that covers the $10 you would end up eating and then add on what the minimum amount that you would be willing to accept for your item.
I would like to know what happens to those sellers who say they charge for shipping AND handling. They want the buyer to pay for the packing materials and their time wrapping it all up, doing the paperwork, and driving to the post office or UPS/FedEx depot. That's not unreasonable as it is a legit expense in processing your order. For a company paying employees to do those things, it can add considerably to the cost. Real businesses include these expenses in their prices so why shouldn't ebay sellers be able to?
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I had a seller use calculated shipping for a big Intellivision lot that I won and the actual shipping came out $16 higher than what ebay calculated it at. I got the lot for a really low price so the seller would have been losing money if he had shipped me the item with that shipping charge. As it was he only asked me for another $10 to cover some of the costs so he wouldn't be paying me to take his stuff away. I didn't care, though, because the price was still low enough even with the additional shipping that I felt I was getting a good deal. I had another one years ago where I won a small lot of 2600 carts for $3 and the seller put free shipping in the listing and the carts cost over $6 to ship so I took pity on him, too, and paid the shipping. That last one was the sellers fault for not realizing that shipping may be more than the auction ended at but that ebay shipping calculator needs to be fixed or done away with. It really sucks.
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That guy m*****h who is in the lead must be a dealer. He bids on everything and is willing to pay high prices for everything.
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Why do people think you are a thief if something is a few days late?
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Don't wait too much longer. You only have a limited amount of time to open a claim. Sometimes they give you some slack, but most of the time once the deadline passes, that's it. You lose.